Quotes on Religion, Christianity & How it fits in with Abe's Teachings

[spiritualcookie]

We want you to understand that you are a powerful creator and you have the ability to be or do or have anything that you desire. But, you have got to begin by creating a vibrational atmosphere or vibrational climate or vibrational nucleus. Make yourself the vibrational starting point.

When you start in a gentle place of non-resistance… (Jesus called it meek. “The meek shall inherit the earth.”) When you are in this place of soft non-resisted vibrational Well-being, everything that you desire will come into your experience.

Excerpted from Phoenix, AZ on 2/1/14; Daily Quote – December 31, 2023

[spiritualcookie]

You can be chuck full up to the brim with beliefs that do not serve you well
and not one of them will affect you unless it is activated.
And when it is activated, you'll have a feeling response to it.

When a belief that is not in harmony with your Source Energy is activated,
you'll get that funny feeling in your stomach.
And as you get that funny feeling in your stomach, what it is telling you is:
This thought in this moment does not match who you are
and what you are wanting.

And so, you have a simple choice.
You can go with it,
you can try to beat it to death,
you can get people together,
you can try to isolate it,
you can add to it and get it bigger and bigger,
or you can, as Jesus said, turn the other cheek, and allow that vibration to become inactive again,
while you are tuning your vibration to that which feels better.

And so, you see, it's all about choices.
Which feels better?


- Abraham

[spiritualcookie]

It doesn’t really matter what religion anybody believes.
If their life is working (and there are many different approaches to life that are working very well)
then why not let them believe whatever they want to believe?
It’s all working in the way that it is supposed to be.

There are religions that you wouldn’t want anything to do with,
that are perfect mechanisms for the people who are involved in them.
And therefore, they are a very good thing.

Excerpted from Asheville, NC on 4/25/04; Official Abraham Hicks Daily Quote – January 1, 2024

[Paradise-on-Earth]

I think, this fits in here, too...



You've come here to manifest the vibration of Source!

Abraham

[Paradise-on-Earth]

Do Demons, Devils and Fallen Angels exist?
"Rivers of fearful thoughts", that are attractive to those of a fearful point of attraction


HS:
I decided to review my own life. What I was taught at various stages, and first of all, I was taught about demons. That's where it started. Demons are fallen angels, like they're real powerful, independent etc. Then the next stage, another group... I live in a commune, they use the phrase "lower astral entities". So, that's not quite as bad as a demon, but... so I like the term thought-form. And I just wondered, so... We think thoughts, they coagulate, and they sort of keep thinking...? I guess the follow-up question is, how much personality is there? Or, intention, or independence, or power... I mean, there's life there, but how much are they individual powers, that can DO things?

Abe:
They have no power of assertion. They can be invited!
In other words... we hesitate to put so much conversation into this, that we actually pose them as creatures of the night- that you may meet around the corner, because: It's not like that, AT ALL.

It is, that it is a coalescing of thought. In other words, if you are fearful or aggravated about something, and you are offering those thoughts, those thoughts are emanating from you. And have vibrational characteristic. And by law of attraction, other thoughts like them join your thought, and so the vibration can become stronger and stronger, until there are rivers or currents that carry these thoughts.

So, they are fearful thoughts. It's why it's relatively easy to get the population of the planet worried about an epidemic of swine flu- because there is a vulnerable vibration, that is somewhat active in a lot of people. Maybe most people to some regard! So, worldwide that attention to something therefore is activated in many people at once, can get a stronger foothold. But this stream of men's spin-off, of men's conscious thought; that consciousness that exists, amounts to like a very small flea on the back of a very big dog- in relationship to this vortex of well-being that is the result of what you all are living!

In other words, it works like this. And we're happy that you have shined a light on it, in a little stronger way for us here! So, as you're experiencing contrast,
knowing what you don't want and therefore asking what you do want- when you ask for what you do want, we are not kidding you- that requests springs
forward in a rocket-light fashion! A vibrational rocket. And the larger part of you, who knows full well that no one would know better to ask for an improvement for you, than you... so, when that rocket emanates from you, your inner being and that which is source, gives undivided attention to that new found request! And the universe expands: Because Source Energy is on that request now! That's really a big thing to understand!!

Now the next big thing to understand is, that as those in your current now-reality are sending those rockets forward, this vibrational reality is expanding. And is full of better and better and better requests! When someone's rude, you ask for them to be nicer. When someone's sick, you as for wellness. So, this vibrational vortex of well-being expands, and source gives undivided attention to it. Now, here's a really important thing to understand:

The new energies that are coming forth, who are the consciousness that are the new infants, that are being born now now now now now now now... they come from that vantage point of well-being! When someone croaks (we try to be as disrespectful as we can about the death experience. As there is no death!) -when someone releases their consciousness here in this physical body, and re-emerges into the non-physical,

they don't bring those worrysome, lackful force with them!

They become what life caused them to become! And it is from that vantage point that the new consciousness is born back into this physical experience. So, as a result of that- feel the power of that!- millions of people, billions of people, sifting through and asking for improvement; source holding the improvement, people are croaking and so forth and new ones coming in, are understanding the fresh new well-being perspectives, so now there's the other
side of that! When you know what you don't want, you know what you do want. -We just explain to you, what happens with the "what you do want part".

There is something that happens with the "you know what you don't want-part", too:
It goes into the thought-form bank in the sky.

...It doesn't matter what you call it. It remains in this physical realm, and

it doesn't have anything close to the power because source isn't behind.
It's there. There's NOT a source of evil. There's just the spinoff of man's lack for thought!
And so, if you could stop watching television, it would peter out pretty quick! It really would!

...If you weren't keeping it activated, with monuments and historical documents and all of that stuff, where you keep reliving the negative past -then it would eventually just peter out. In other words it'd peter out in the sense that, proportionately speaking, it wouldn't amount to nearly as much as the thoughts of well-being, that would predominate. So, the reason we put it to you in this way is, because we are not acknowledging that there is no existence of it, we just want you to understand what it is. And the power, that it doesn't have, and your choice of whether you are a match to it or not.

And so, that's why we're saying to all of you, who are so interested in finding the "reality" of things, and trying to find the rightness of reality, and sorting out alllll of the components of life on the planet, we say: Ooh what a big job you have, first of all! And what really a waste of time it is to try to sort it all out, and put it into good piles and bad piles, when what you really want to do, is let life cause you to expand. And then, do the only thing that is necessary, or that you can do, or that is a value to you, or that will help you fulfill your reason for being!

And that is: line up with who life has caused you to become.
Mind your own business, and don't try to sort out all of that outside-the-vortex-stuff!
But we think it is important, in the context of this conversation of demons and devils and all of that kind of stuff is, that

the worst that can be out there, is your lack for thought about things that are the opposite-of what you want!

And in combination, every lackful thought that has ever been thought -even if it is all gathered together, while it could give you an uncomfortable time in your bedroom, if you were in the vicinity of it, it has no power. It cannot assert itself into your experience! Can only come by invitation. And you are only an emotional movement on the emotional scale away from being out of vibration with it, anyway.

Helpful devil and demons and all things of that nature are figments of man's imagination.

But it doesn't mean that they aren't real! Because, the thoughts you think, ARE.

from the youtube- clip Abraham Hicks - Devils and Fallen Angels





Outtake:

We just explained to you, what happens with the "what-you-do-want-part":

There is something, that happens with the "you know what-you-don't-want-part", too:
It goes into the thought-form bank in the sky.

...It doesn't matter what you call it. It remains in this physical realm, and

it doesn't have anything close to the power because source isn't behind.
It's there. There's NOT a source of evil. There's just the spinoff of man's lack for thought!
And so, if you could stop watching television, it would peter out pretty quick! It really would!

...If you weren't keeping it activated, with monuments and historical documents and all of that stuff, where you keep reliving the negative past -then it would eventually just peter out. In other words it'd peter out in the sense that, proportionately speaking, it wouldn't amount to nearly as much as the thoughts of well-being, that would predominate. So, the reason we put it to you in this way is, because we are not acknowledging that there is no existence of it, we just want you to understand what it is. And the power, that it doesn't have, and your choice of whether you are a match to it or not.

Abraham Hicks

[Paradise-on-Earth]

Are there devils?

There is only a stream of well-being. And that that, which is non-physical, is of that stream.

But we also say to you, that every thought that has ever been thought still exists. And so, as the spin-off of men's conscious mind continues experience after experience, century after century, there's a lot of thought data, that is there in your lifetime. The movie industry has added dramatically to the way man spins his thoughts around the subject! The religions... the information that is coming from the pulpit, so much more information about the devil and evil, than about good and god.

And so, if you talk to little children who go to church often, they will tell you more about the devil than they will about god!
It gets their attention more. It is something more to worry about, you see! And so, what we notice is that in your environment where contrast helps you to identify what is wanted, sometimes humans get a little... uh, bent on pushing against the part they don't want. And they don't get tuned quick enough to the new idea that is coming out of the contrast!

And so, there is a lot of thought, but all of it coming from man's conscious mind.

Abraham

[Paradise-on-Earth]

There is NO "set of God-given right rules" to live by!

We want to say -as a basis of this-, that humans, through time, in their not-conscious alignment with who they are, are often looking for someone to establish a set of rules that they can follow, in their desire to be righteous or good.

And that set of rules does not exist from a non-physical perspective!

In other words, there is not a set of rules.
You have not been sent here into this physical environment, to identify the rules and to keep them.

And it's good for you that that isn't the case, because you have a real scrambled set of rules going on on your planet right now! In fact, you're killing each other in record numbers today, over your arguing about who's got the right set of rules!

When what you came forth understanding is, that you are pure positive energy.
And you came forth into this physical environment, wanting the variety to cause you to give birth to desires!
And you knew that your joy was only dependent upon your coming into alignment.

Abraham Hicks

[spiritualcookie]

What is real about the Jesus-story?
A young man tries to come to terms with his father, an Evangelist


HS:
Hello! ...Surreal... I found Abraham's teachings probably about five months ago... what's with the heart thing? (laughter) um, I found Abraham's teachings and I grew up in a Christian background, where my dad is evangelist. And so the subject of Jesus is very confusing to me now, that I know what I know.

Abe:
Why? He's a receiver of source energy!

HS:
That is what I understand now. What I was taught is, that Jesus was literally the Son of God, came to Earth, lived a perfect life as our substitute, Died in our place, so that we can have eternal life, if we perceive him to be our way.

Abe:
All right take it one step at a time and let's clarify it. He was... what?

HS:
The son of God, which which I believe we are, as well.

Abe:
-An extension of source energy. That's another way... did you realize how many times it was translated? It's a wonder any of it makes any sense! (HS: yes, yes!) ...and what else? What next?

HS:
That he came here, and his intention, or his mission from heaven, or from Source, was to -because we are all depraved, from the moment we are born into this sinful nature- world, we need saving. That's Christianity, uh, it's not me! I've been trying to figure it out my whole life.

Abe:
But if you, just a little bit, give them the benefit of the doubt! Because within that statement is also a scenario, that goes something like- he realized that there was not as much joy and love as is possible. Not so different from what we're talking about here, today- that life can be better. That there are laws of the universe, that- once understood, you can... in other words, it's not so different, isn't it? And what else?

HS:
I guess where I would lead to is...

Abe:
But we want to hear the rest of the... cuz, you gave quite a scenario. And we want to work the bugs out of it, just a little bit!

HS:
The thought process which I had been adopting was that... this is, who Jesus was. And that we were all Sinners, needing saving...

Abe:
Or: That, through meditation- and you know that's what happened!- he found relief, like our friend earlier when he got hit on the head, and wanted others to find the same relief. That's the saving part.

HS:
And that's not the confusing part to me. (Abe: And then?) The part that's confusing to me is, that he had to die in our place. And that, somehow he was dead for 3 days, was raised from the dead, and was living. People saw him. And then he ascended back into heaven...

Abe:
Well, he re-emerged into non-physical. And since life is eternal, and there is no death...

HS:
What were the... the reality, that he did come back from the dead? Did that happen? Was there a a human being named Jesus, that was here on planet Earth, that was so in alignment that defied the laws of physics?

Abe:
If he had been so in alignment, that he had defied the laws of physics, they wouldn't have put him on the cross! (HS: absolutely.) But he was not different than all of that, that you have said! He was not trying to live your life for you. He re-emerged in, into non-physical, showing you the way. We don't want you to go back 20 years! (HS: I'm only 30!) ...you can imagine how we feel about that whole scenario! But the reason that we wanted to chew with you about it just a little bit, is because what Esther has noticed... because Esther did not accept a religious basis, or background. Although, it was swirling around her.

But what she has noticed as she is now listening through the ears of Abraham, she can find pieces in all religions that she understands, that make perfect sense!

HS:
I see all the puzzles coming together when I look through the eyes of source. And these teachings back at what I know to be the distorted truth...

Abe:
And we think that the thing that is most discordant to you, is the idea that someone else was doing something for you, because you either couldn't do it for yourself, or shouldn't do it for yourself. That's the part that rubs you in the wrongest way! And the reason is, because there was nothing even close to that, that was happening! But man's distortion... here's the way that we like to, in a sort of fun and easy nutshell, explain so much of that conversation:

You join the group, the human race. And you have this natural (glitch) to have success! And the success that you're looking for is joy. And so, in talking with the people who surround you, you -either through asking questions, or them through assuming your questions, it is said to most of you in some form: "That if you want to join our group -meaning their religion- then you must keep these rules. You must do these things, and you must not do those things."

Because it sounds like a good idea, because you want to be part of a joyful group, and you want to do what's good, then you you start living your life within the confines of the group. And then you begin to notice, that some of them are thriving, who you know are breaking the rules! And you're not thriving, and you're keeping all of the rules. And then you say to them: "Wait a minute. What's going on?" ...and they have an answer already ready for you, that goes like this: "Oh, you can't tell what is right here! Because you have no guidance, that is worth anything. You have to either get it right or wrong, and find out later in the after life." And so?

HS:
So my discussion came up in my mind, because my dad is an evangelist, who believes and has built his whole life on Jesus. And that Jesus.

Abe:
That's not a bad foundation!

HS:
No, no, absolutely! But his foundation is built on the fact, that Jesus Christ believing in your conscious perception, that that is the true way to only have eternal life... his belief is a human will die and go to non-physical and be judged and either you go to heaven, if God sees the bloodshed of Christ Jesus on you, as your substitute for that sin, or (see) that bad stuff that you did. You are then merited eternal life. My questions are based on the fact, that my dad is who he is, and I want to relate. And I want to be a son who does not look back at him, and think less... yeah, I want to respect him, yes! And I want to, for the first time in my life, cultivate a relationship with my dad!

Abe:
Well, then find a way to let his story that he believes so much in, not rub you the wrong way!

HS:
Exactly. And that's what I'm...

Abe:
We know. We don't just believe in eternal life! We are living eternally. As are you. So, what part of what he believes is hard for you to accept?

HS:
It's hard for me to accept, that Christianity, or the Bible, is the only way to eternal life with God, period. He's not understanding that it's... it's the individual conscious perception of what you want! So in our conversations it always ends... it always ends by us both agreeing that we disagree, but we both respect each other. But then his last words are always: But but you can't blame me for being worried about you! And I'm just like, "well no! I'm NOT going to hell!"

Abe:
So, when he says that "you can't blame me for worrying about you", say: "I think that that's what human parents think their role is! And I think that we all came to live our lives, and to figure things out. And I appreciate that you got here first, and that you sorted some things out, and that you provided an Avenue for me! And I know that, what you want for me, is my well-being. And I have come, through my life experience -these are good words for him: and through your teachings! ...Through your example, I've come to care so much about the feeling of love in my heart. And I thank you so much for that! Because I know when it's there, and I know when it's not. and I've come to know, that when love is in my heart, that has to be that Christ Consciousness that you talk about. And when hate is in my heart, that has to be something else.

And when knowing is in my heart, that has to be that Christ Consciousness. And when doubt and confusion is in my heart, that has to be something else. And when stability and knowing and well-being are in our mind, that has to be the support of this loving God! And when something else is happening, that has to be something else. And so, Dad, I just want to thank you for pointing me in the direction of feeling my own heart, and knowing my own guidance, and understanding what Christ meant! And I have to say to you, that I believe that if we were witnessing that now, that we would both recognize it, as it is. And I think, that since it has been translated and mistranslated and there's so much confusion around it, that you and I, Dad, can stand in a place of absolute agreement about these things.

We are, like Jesus, sons of God. And we have come with great purpose, as did he. And I believe, Dad, mostly because you've taught me, that he's always watching. He's a part of what we are! And cares about how we're doing. And I do not believe, that he would -in this lifetime or in any other, ever abandon me. I do not believe from everything that I've read about him, that he could love me as I know he does, and then- because I'm confused about something, decide that I should be cast out, and ascend to hell for damnation! That makes no sense. And the reason that I know, Dad, that it makes no sense is because- when I think those thoughts, I lose the love of God. (HS: absolutely, absolutely!) Don't worry about me. Because I was born wanting good. I am living, finding good."

Esther was delighted the other day when she heard an advertisement for a recording of a Bible, that included all kinds of meditations. And Esther thought: That's really good! Because those meditations will lead them to alignment, and their own understanding of what it is, that they're getting!

HS:
And that's the thing I know: he's on his path. I'm not worried about that! I have no... he's, he's on his path! I'm not worried about that. I'm... all is well!

Abe:
You could say to him: "I also feel pretty good about this, Dad: You're going to make your transition quite a while for I do. And you're going to have uh, close conversations! And by the time it's time for me to make my transition, you won't be worried about me anymore!"

from the clip Abraham Hicks - Did Jesus came Alive after 3 days

[Paradise-on-Earth]

ALL religions are helpful to some.
ALL holy books have, one time, been channeled!
NO holy book can replace your NOW-connection to source.


HS:
I was raised in a very heavy judeo-christian background in education, and I was programmed to believe about God and about Jesus, and salvation and...

Abe:
What were you programmed to believe?

HS:
That if you don't accept Christ as your Savior, there is no salvation in the next life.

Abe:
Well now let's soften that so that it feels better to you!
-Interesting that in the room just now, Jerry pulled a Bible from the drawer, and just opened it, and Jesus said "ask and it will be given". And Jerry said: "this sounds very familiar!" And the next part said "as you see it and believe it, it will be." and Jerry said: "That, too, sounds familiar!"

In other words, do not take this whole clump of anything, and call it one thing or another. Sift through it and find that which resonates with the depths of that which you are.

We are talking earlier about symbols, and someone was talking about the mantra of Om. And we say, ALL religions and so many methodologies have found points of focus for you to focus upon. And so it was said, that this was someone who was connected so much so that... he, too, was a healer. So why not use a symbol like that, of someone tuned in tapped in turned on, as something that you, too, are wanting to achieve! And we agree, people do sort of get carried away with the rhetoric. It's true of every religion: Religions gravitate so far from where they started. But there isn't anything wrong with you, identifying the essence of that and holding unto it. We see many many people in many different religions closing their vibrational gap! In other words,

their life is causing them to want, and their religion causes them to believe.

And so there is nothing wrong with religion. And there is nothing wrong with that religion!
But guidance outside of you can never replace guidance within you.

And in fact, if you are really listening to what Jesus, and so many others, had to say, that was their dominant message that Kingdom of Heaven that you're seeking is within Now, we don't know how they got to the place that they're at... in other words, we agree that there are a whole lot of people who profess that as their religion, who are very far from being connected to Source Energy. You can tell that, because they don't feel good!

Anyone who is angry in their religion, isn't living it.

But we don't want you to describe yourself as a "recovering", because it gave you a platform. It gave you a basis, it gave you a place to start, it gave you an opportunity, it gave you a good basis, you see! And now you're expanding from it and that is good. And that is what all religions at the heart were teaching! It's an interesting thing to watch this movement of religions. Because someone like Esther gets into a vibration where she can interpret from source. And then, others hear it and like the sound of it, and begin to write it down. And all of that is fine- until they conclude that the religion can only go as far as those words were!

When the whole point of an experience like this, and everyone that was at the heart of every religion that you know of, was interpreting in some way! In the early days of Esther and Jerry doing this work, they did a radio show in San Antonio. That's when they learned the true meaning of the "Bible Belt", because the radio interviewer was not really having anything about them. How they ended up on the show is still a mystery to them! And the guest that was supposed to come before, and the guest that was supposed to come after, didn't show up. And so, they had a very long dialogue with this man, who really wasn't having any of them! And he had trained his audience for the most part, to think like he did. And so, the people who were calling in, were really not very enthusiastic about Esther professing, to be receiving from broader perspective.

And so, one woman was describing her outrage at what she was hearing. And when she stopped, we said to her: "And what is it that you use as your source of guidance?" and she said "I use the Bible." and we said: "We have heard that it is a very good book!" -which annoyed her. And then we said to her: "And how is it that that book has come to be?" and she said "It came from God!" and we said: "and in what way was it translated, or interpreted? In other words, how did it get from God to paper? How did it get from God to words? -Someone received it, and interpreted it!"

And do you know, that woman had never thought about that! She had never thought about that- it had never occurred to her to think about that all she knew for sure, was that nobody ought to be now speaking from non-physical energy. Nobody ought to be professing, that they speak from God! Because God stopped speaking the day that book was finished. [Laughter, Applause]

So now it turns out: Everybody's got a damn book and they're all professing that it's the book, and then they kill each other, because you've got the wrong book.

You've got the wrong book! You've got the wrong book! You've got the wrong book! And we say: Bury those books!!! Let them be. You all have access to Source Energy! And so, if those books or any book, inspires you to your understanding of who you really are- an extension of that which man calls God, and you let your life experience cause you to ask meaningful questions, which Source Energy will answer, every single time no exceptions, and you can somehow get yourself into vibrational alignment with with that, by working on your worthiness and working on your appreciation and working on your love, and moving yourself up the emotional scale- you'll get so tuned in with that energy, that you will never again question who you are- and those books, while they may be delightful, while they may inspire you, in this way and this way...

will never replace your true connection to source.

from the youtube clip Abraham Hicks Religions And Bible

[Paradise-on-Earth]

"Catholic Guilt" about being lucky?

HS:
My question is is this, that every time, or anything that I want, anything at all, um, I create it. Literally I feel like I'm one of the most lucky people out there! And I was just saying um, I tell people I literally go running off cliffs, and know that the net is going to appear- and it happens time and time and time again. And I feel so fortunate to have that! And I also know that... something really big is getting ready to happen to me. And something that I've wanted for for a long time, and... and I I feel like, uh, I grew up Catholic.

And so I have this Catholic guilt, or at least that's what I blame it on. And I want to be able to accept all of these gifts that keep coming! And accept that I know, this... this big thing is getting ready to happen to me. And that I'm ready for it and it's okay that it's going to happen! Does that make sense?

Abe:
It does indeed. We want to give you something here, that will help you a great deal, because as we hear you talk about coming from a Catholic
background and all of that guilt, we want to say to you, that everybody comes from some background. In other words, everybody that's standing
here in the powerful now came from something, that came before. And even though where you stand now- by all of the choices that you've been making, feels a whole lot better to you, than where you stood in some of those former places.

Condemning those former places only messes up your now!
What we're saying to you is: You came from a glorious background, that gave you stability at the time. It gave you a format to to move from.

In other words, you don't have to feel angry about it, or wish that it had been something different. It was the platform that led, that led, that led, that led, that led to where you are now. And so as you stand in your now, and you say: "I'm in such a good place and I feel appreciation for everything that came before, because all of it was part of it! Even the contrast that didn't please me shot off rockets, that are partly responsible for where I am now."
Can you feel the ease that comes through you?

In other words we would like you to proudly say: "I come from this Catholic background, and it served me so well at the time. And now I'm thinking thoughts that are along this (new) line, but there's still a basis." Because within every religion, within every basis of every background, there are powerful parts that are of enormous value, you see!

from the youtube clip "ABRAHAM HICKS | NO NEED TO FEEL GUILTY FOR HAVING MONEY WHILE OTHERS ARE STRUGGLING"