More Wisdom of Ramadahn by Ursula Roberts

CHAPTER FOUR

The Master Jesus

 Where is Jesus?

 The Master Jesus, as you understand Him, is immersed in the great love and light of the Christ Spirit, that Spirit which overshadowed and enfolded Him during His earthly ministry. After the time of his death He chose to retain the semblance of a body which is known as the form of the Master Jesus. He also chose to be very closely linked to the great source of love, known as the Christ centre or the Christ influence, where all is gentleness, all is tenderness and love, for this is that power which became infused into His being and which is still being infused into those who seek to follow Him in sincerity and in truth.

 So I would say it is right that you shall learn to see these two beautiful influences - as separate and yet as blended. As a man and a woman in the earthly life will be husband and wife and yet they are blended by love so that they become as one person, even so is the Master Jesus and the great Christ Spirit. Even as the mother and her babe are separate one from the other and yet they are blended because they are one in love, the infant is enfolded in the love of the mother and the mother feels love because she has the beauty of the infant. Even so is the similarity between the being of the Master Jesus and the enfolding of the great Christ Spirit of love.

 The Master Jesus dwells in the region of the Christ. Within this Christ region there is that which I would describe as a palpitant heart of glorious colour, rose-pink radiating in colours of beautiful healing and warmth unto all who may receive the blessing that is there. From time to time the Master retreats into this heart that He may be renewed in the spirit of tenderness, that He may be renewed in the spirit of love, and absorbing it unto Himself may come forth once more in a lovely ministry of love unto the children of the earth, and unto those who pray unto Him in sincere love and devotion for aid and the spiritual power which they need.

 It is true to say the Master Jesus is very close to your earthly world. He is very aware of the needs of those who suffer. He is conscious of the prayer which is made in sincere love and faith from the hearts of His children, and in that meaning He is often able to bring to the needy and the sufferer the encouraging touch of His presence, the vision of His face, the enfoldment of His power, the bringing through of His love in healing.

 What is your impression of Jesus?

 This is a difficult question to answer, because I have to translate into symbols which are understandable to you and also to me in spirit. But I would say that here in the regions of the spirit, from time to time I see this Being passing like a flash of brilliant light, and as this Being moves, so is the atmosphere imprinted, as it were, with a myriad of little sparkling lights. It is difficult to describe this to you, but perhaps it could be like when I have been with the medium as she gazed across a body of water and the light danced on the surface so that there were myriads of sparkling lights. As the spirit of your Master passes, all the air is imprinted with a myriad of sparkling lights which could be termed the impression of His love, or His thoughts, or His blessings, which He imparts to all who come within the circumference of His movements. So I would say to you. Jesus is the Spirit of light, the embodiment of light which is how you should visualise Him, instead of trying to fit Him into the embodiment of any living being whom you have seen - because whatever embodiment you may see will still be only a crystalised version of that which is indeed pure light. Sometimes, as I see the Spirit pass in this radiant beauty, there will gather behind Him groups of beautiful spirit children. And sometimes, as He comes closer to the earthly atmosphere, the animals within the great open planes of joy will feel His passing, will turn, and I will see all the creatures galloping joyously to follow in the aura of the Master who passes in this fashion, because the imprint is one of love, the impression one of glorious light. This is the manner in which I see the movement of your Master, going from plane to plane, from spirit to spirit, always engaged upon His missions of mercy.

 We are given to understand that one day Jesus will return.

 I would say to you, beloved one, the Master Jesus has already returned to your world, and has in many degrees manifested Himself to many people. Therefore, the thought that He has to come back again into a mortal body is not necessarily the true understanding of the spiritual truth. In his ethereal soul body the Master Jesus returns again and again to those who have some special need of His blessing, and has been seen bringing His blessing throughout the many years of your earth's history. I would also say that in His spiritual form He remains very close to your mortal world. The Christ spirit, the spirit of love which ensouled the Master Jesus, does indeed return in the shape of greater ensoulments, for these ensoulments, or over­shadowings, are a manifestation of the love aspect of the great Master Creator. So throughout your years of earth's history, you have from time to time teachers who appear and who become great lights in your earthly world, because they are ensouled by the Christly Spirit.

 I have been reading about early Christianity and it seems that while Jesus was on earth there were no writings or notes made of His sayings until a long time after His death.

 That is not true, for there lived in that land, in the time of Jesus the Master, many who were scribes or simple priests, who were trained in the teaching and the writing of their own particular form of language. These simple priests, within their own synagogues, did indeed keep a record of His words, because the truth became apparent to their understanding. It is also true that the Master Jesus lived in a city in which many Roman soldiers and citizens and traders came from all parts of the world, and not all of these were ignorant men and women.

 I think that the records that were kept have been lost under the many changes which have come to pass within your world, but of the books which are now in existence, many have been compiled from more ancient records, to which the first writers had access. Furthermore, I would say it is good for you to remember that these followers of the Master Jesus were good mediums, as were also their followers. Therefore, when it became known that a book or scrolls of teachings were to be inscribed, there drew near unto them sometimes the spirit of the Master Jesus Himself, sometimes the spirit of Peter, sometimes the spirit of John, who would overlook the work of the scribes, inspiring their thoughts or controlling their hands that the work might be well done.

 Was it true that Jesus brought Lazarus back to life?

 The Master Jesus brought to the earthly world an understanding of life beyond the grave, when He brought back from the tomb the man who was “sleeping�?or said to be dead. He was trying to demonstrate this for the understanding of people, but the whole history has not been given to earth's people because He was trying to say that “the spirit of this man is away from his body - when I call the spirit back to the body, then he will rise, as it were, from the dead�? demonstrating that the spirit and the body have a separate existence, whereas previously it was thought that when the body died the spirit died with it.

 Do not hold the idea that the Master Jesus walked alone with His beautiful powers, but remember that always at his elbow there were one, two or three of His companions, in the knowledge that ‘where two or three gathered together�?there is the flowing interchange of spiritual energy from which all great and beautiful manifestations come into being. It is true that He brought certain things into manifestation, which have been known through your history  as  miracles,  but understanding the powers  of mediumship, you will see that they were not ‘miracles�?but mediumistic manifestations.

 It is recorded that Jesus in His earthly life at times forgave certain people He met. For instance, the man on the cross next to Him was told that he would be in heaven with Jesus. In view of such forgiveness, how does the law of retribution work?

 The forgiveness of the Master Jesus to the man on the cross near to Him was given because that man had not extended toward Him any special anger or hurt, also, his punishment was in accordance with the law of the earthly people, not with any consideration as to why the man did steal . . . In the view of spirit and in the view of the Master Jesus, there would be consideration of the circumstances which pressed that man to commit that act. If a man steals the possessions of another because his child is dying of hunger, although it is the law of the land that he should be punished, it is not in the law of love that he should be punished - because what he had undertaken was for the love of his child. That is the difference between the laws of the spirit and the laws of the earth.

 It would be good if, in your mortal world, this same understanding could be brought to the minds of men and women. I would say that, as your world is moving on into this newer time of its growth, there has been a gradual change in the vision of men and women, who no longer cut off the hand or the head of a person who has offended the law of the land. There is now a consideration by other men and women as to the degree of guilt, and the punishment is decided not by one man but by a group of men and women who will say: “These were the circumstances, therefore this man/woman is not necessarily needing such a dire punishment�?

 This, we would say, is the growth of a greater justice in the laws of your mortal world.

 Is the statement attributed to the Master Jesus: �?1 and my Father are one�?correct, because that statement has been used to substantiate the claim that the Master Jesus and God are one and the same.

 I think that there is not sufficient understanding in your earth as to the true meaning of this. It is not to my knowledge that the Master Jesus said that He and God were one. He said that “I and my father are one�? It is true that during the time of His earthly ministry the Master Jesus was very strongly and clearly overshadowed by the spirit who was indeed his father, and through whom a greater and more advanced power of light and love directed rays of beauty into the earth, and who was also the medium for forces of a very much higher degree of advancement.

 Do you mean Joseph?

 No, not Joseph, for Joseph was only the appointed parent of the child. He was begotten by another man who lived only for a brief period in the earthly life, who was translated to the spirit that he might continue his fatherhood-ministry from the spirit existence, but Joseph was the guardian in the earthly sense.

 You once said that during Christmas you moved to the regions of light to meet the Master Jesus; can you speak further on this please?

 We open ourselves during the Christmas season, because there is this release of love and light from the great heart of the Christ Centre, which flows as light and love throughout the spheres unto all who may receive it. I would describe it to you as similar to a great ladder, on which there are spirits in the high sphere linking to those in the next, linking to those in the next, linking to those in the next, until we come to the near earth plane of friends and family spirits who are linking to earth's dwellers, and from the highest the power is passed down, down and down, being distilled, until it can be received by the dwellers on earth.

 It is good to be open at this time?

 This is true, and it is for this reason that your priests in the earthly plane set aside a time, a mystic time, which they call the Christmas season, in which all may be receptive to that great inflow of light and of love. But all who have understanding, and all who have the desire for good, if they do but enter into a time of silence and of prayer around this season, then they channel into earth some of this beautiful blessing.

 Has Jesus had more than one earthly life?

 It would seem to me that people in your earthly world have too many imaginings about the being of the Master Jesus. It is sufficient for them to know that He still lives as a spirit and often draws close to earth to aid them; it is not essential that you should know how many lives or incarnations He had. It would seem to me that earth's dwellers are too filled with curiosity about the past, instead of taking hold upon the great opportunities of the present and realising that their gift of incarnation in this present time is a great treasure to them; therefore, always looking to the past is not making the best use of their present time. I do not hear them saying, “How will I have an incarnation in the future?�?Each day in your present incarnation is a treasure which has been given to you from the great treasure chest of eternity. You cannot regain what you have lived through this day -it is gone - it is past, and therefore the right way in which to live in your spiritual understanding is to fill each instant, each day, each hour, with that which is most noble and pure and creative.

 Could the Master Jesus have come direct from the Divine source and not through reincarnations?

 It is not to my knowledge to say that it was so, or that it was not so. All I am allowed to say is that He stands in His own beauty as His own particular revealer of the wisdom of the Master Love Aspect, which you know as the Christ. But I would say, just as equally, there have been other Masters and other Revealers. There was the Master Krishna who has left His influence in the mortal world, and we would not say what were His previous incarnations, because it is more important that the Master Krishna stands in His own revelation of joy and movement for the peoples who love Him; or the Master Buddha, who also in His own turn became a Revealer and revealed a way which others follow, and it is better that He too stands in His own light as His own revealer, instead of it being said that He was the reincarnation of this one, that one, or another, throughout the long-forgotten centuries of earth's history.