A couple of weeks ago now, I read that Mother Teresa had passed another stage in the process of being declared a saint by the Catholic Church. Well, good for her... I think… kind of.
But really, so what?
During my (now many) years of channeling I have often come across individuals who find the impression they have of what is necessary in order to ascend to be both intimidating, and potentially unattainable. They are stressed by the idea that in order to be deemed worthy to progress on their pathway, they must achieve a state of being that is not unlike sainthood. And frankly, the image we have of what constitutes a ‘worthy’ person in our society still has a great deal to do with teachings and role models put forward by the church. This is unfortunate because in many respects it’s basically nonsense.
Let’s take the example of Mother Teresa's impending canonisation to illustrate the point.
It needs to be acknowledged that she did a huge amount to make a positive difference to a lot of people’s lives; and because of what she did, that good work still carries on today. Pretty much everybody would surely accept these facts I guess, and the easy assumption to make is that such goodliness must surely have stemmed from an old soul achieving a fabulous fulfillment of their service contracts.
Wrong.
Mother Teresa spent virtually her whole life devoted to the service of God. Her incarnate experience was typified by her piety, service, selflessness and overall ‘holiness’. The only problem being that this does not represent a life lived in balance. It does speak of an extremely strongly held and dogmatic belief that it was her ‘calling’ and that she acted as she did to glorify the name of God and do 'his works'; which is great were it not for the fact that they weren’t 'his works' per se. They were hers.
In other words, Mother Teresa was struggling to come to terms with and overcome the limiting beliefs that beleaguered her. She was in fact a mid-term soul.
Without detailing the whole process and stating it briefly, to be declared a saint the individual nominated must have lived their lives untarnished by any of the worldliness around them. They must have many followers who attest to their lifetime of devotion to God; and unless sainthood is accorded to them as a result of martyrdom (usually in God’s name), they must have been seen to perform miracles or have the miraculous attributed to them. Their status as sainthood nominees will be exhaustively researched by the church. The claims for their actions whilst alive be accepted by the Church as genuine, their miracles bona fide and their being worthy of such exalted elevation. After all, the consequent declaration that someone is worthy of beatification is a statement by the church of a dead person's entrance into heaven and their capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in his or her name.
Sounds good doesn’t it?
Now ask yourself the question “Why?” Why do we need saints? Why do we need to request the intercession of these terribly worthy ones on our behalf? Perhaps it was understandable several centuries ago when the church sought to control the behaviours of the masses by establishing role models to emulate in order that the common man/woman could find their way into heaven. But now?
I suppose it speaks volumes for the colossal numbers who are still immersed in the dogmas of their mid-term lifetimes that they need to appeal to those who they believe might offer a helping hand; although this particular form of prayer (despite claims that prayers have been answered) is particularly futile if you consider that all of these sainted beings will have reincarnated six months after they passed. Add to this the fact that whilst they were in the etheric, they would be only too aware of the need for their fellow incarnatees (I just made that word up) to pursue their own pathways and learning without a helping hand from a deceased mid-term, and you start to see the pointlessness.
OK, so sainty stuff is still harmless right? And it’s nice for those who do get deemed 'special' by the church, even though they don’t know about it (or still less, care); and maybe we do need role models to provide us with an aspirational goal and inspire us.
But it’s still problematic.
Progression upon the ascension pathway is achieved by living our lives in balance and using our discernment, based upon an accumulated knowledge acquired across many lifetimes and stored within our soul DNA, to make decisions and live our lives in a manner which is in accordance with what is for our own highest good and the highest good of all. We are not required to be flawless. We are not required to subjugate our experience of life. We are not expected to be devoid of ‘sin’. We are expected to be human (not superhuman), with all that that entails.
I think the effect of reading that Mother Teresa, or anyone else for that matter, has moved one step closer to being declared a saint has an oddly undermining effect. If anything, it makes us feel less worthy than we actually are, less perfect, less successful as human beings. Just… less. And what’s more it’s intended to be this way. However, that intention does not stem from the etheric. From their perspective, Mother Teresa did what she did because that was what she decided to do in that lifetime to experience not the sheer goodness of what she could achieve, but to help her recognise what she was misunderstanding whilst she journeyed through that lifetime. Undoubtedly she did good; she was a wonderful person; she made a difference; and that was fine for that lifetime. But to now be declared something special for it helps neither her nor, unfortunately, provides good direction for the rest of us.
So if you're one of those who doesn’t aspire to sainthood, or even to be wholly good and beneficent as you stumble through your life, know that you’re doing fine too.
I know this because an Archangel told me.
But really, so what?
During my (now many) years of channeling I have often come across individuals who find the impression they have of what is necessary in order to ascend to be both intimidating, and potentially unattainable. They are stressed by the idea that in order to be deemed worthy to progress on their pathway, they must achieve a state of being that is not unlike sainthood. And frankly, the image we have of what constitutes a ‘worthy’ person in our society still has a great deal to do with teachings and role models put forward by the church. This is unfortunate because in many respects it’s basically nonsense.
Let’s take the example of Mother Teresa's impending canonisation to illustrate the point.
It needs to be acknowledged that she did a huge amount to make a positive difference to a lot of people’s lives; and because of what she did, that good work still carries on today. Pretty much everybody would surely accept these facts I guess, and the easy assumption to make is that such goodliness must surely have stemmed from an old soul achieving a fabulous fulfillment of their service contracts.
Wrong.
Mother Teresa spent virtually her whole life devoted to the service of God. Her incarnate experience was typified by her piety, service, selflessness and overall ‘holiness’. The only problem being that this does not represent a life lived in balance. It does speak of an extremely strongly held and dogmatic belief that it was her ‘calling’ and that she acted as she did to glorify the name of God and do 'his works'; which is great were it not for the fact that they weren’t 'his works' per se. They were hers.
In other words, Mother Teresa was struggling to come to terms with and overcome the limiting beliefs that beleaguered her. She was in fact a mid-term soul.
Without detailing the whole process and stating it briefly, to be declared a saint the individual nominated must have lived their lives untarnished by any of the worldliness around them. They must have many followers who attest to their lifetime of devotion to God; and unless sainthood is accorded to them as a result of martyrdom (usually in God’s name), they must have been seen to perform miracles or have the miraculous attributed to them. Their status as sainthood nominees will be exhaustively researched by the church. The claims for their actions whilst alive be accepted by the Church as genuine, their miracles bona fide and their being worthy of such exalted elevation. After all, the consequent declaration that someone is worthy of beatification is a statement by the church of a dead person's entrance into heaven and their capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in his or her name.
Sounds good doesn’t it?
Now ask yourself the question “Why?” Why do we need saints? Why do we need to request the intercession of these terribly worthy ones on our behalf? Perhaps it was understandable several centuries ago when the church sought to control the behaviours of the masses by establishing role models to emulate in order that the common man/woman could find their way into heaven. But now?
I suppose it speaks volumes for the colossal numbers who are still immersed in the dogmas of their mid-term lifetimes that they need to appeal to those who they believe might offer a helping hand; although this particular form of prayer (despite claims that prayers have been answered) is particularly futile if you consider that all of these sainted beings will have reincarnated six months after they passed. Add to this the fact that whilst they were in the etheric, they would be only too aware of the need for their fellow incarnatees (I just made that word up) to pursue their own pathways and learning without a helping hand from a deceased mid-term, and you start to see the pointlessness.
OK, so sainty stuff is still harmless right? And it’s nice for those who do get deemed 'special' by the church, even though they don’t know about it (or still less, care); and maybe we do need role models to provide us with an aspirational goal and inspire us.
But it’s still problematic.
Progression upon the ascension pathway is achieved by living our lives in balance and using our discernment, based upon an accumulated knowledge acquired across many lifetimes and stored within our soul DNA, to make decisions and live our lives in a manner which is in accordance with what is for our own highest good and the highest good of all. We are not required to be flawless. We are not required to subjugate our experience of life. We are not expected to be devoid of ‘sin’. We are expected to be human (not superhuman), with all that that entails.
I think the effect of reading that Mother Teresa, or anyone else for that matter, has moved one step closer to being declared a saint has an oddly undermining effect. If anything, it makes us feel less worthy than we actually are, less perfect, less successful as human beings. Just… less. And what’s more it’s intended to be this way. However, that intention does not stem from the etheric. From their perspective, Mother Teresa did what she did because that was what she decided to do in that lifetime to experience not the sheer goodness of what she could achieve, but to help her recognise what she was misunderstanding whilst she journeyed through that lifetime. Undoubtedly she did good; she was a wonderful person; she made a difference; and that was fine for that lifetime. But to now be declared something special for it helps neither her nor, unfortunately, provides good direction for the rest of us.
So if you're one of those who doesn’t aspire to sainthood, or even to be wholly good and beneficent as you stumble through your life, know that you’re doing fine too.
I know this because an Archangel told me.