Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder)

This morning I got up to do my prayers per usual.  To my East is the living room bay window which gives a view of Manhattan, and a Catholic Church.  It's a church name that serves as a reminder from my childhood, but that's another story.

Every Sunday I see the parishioners come out (It's 11:11 right now), but this Sunday the song "Leaning on the Everlasting Arm" came to mind.  As I was singing while preparing my prayer rug and space, I hear them talking with the palms in their hands, just fellow-shipping outside.  Then I remember, oh it's Palm Sunday!

I kneeled to pray and could still hear them talking.  It felt warm and like home and like God.  I prayed for all of us.  That as a people we come together in fellowship as they were.  That it's not just on a Sunday or a holiday, that we acknowledge our forever connection and mission to serve each other.  That we are to be a light in the darkness for those that feel lost in this Earth.  I thanked God for Jesus (Isa) and the sign he represented for and in all of us now.  Then I was given this message:

Jesus, the trial, the Crucifixion, the Ascension was not merely a children's story.  Not a fairytale.  It was and still is a lesson and a path that we must all follow.  He didn't die for our sins as we were told, he came to show us how we should live and what we must do in order to follow our life's purpose.  He, like us, were created from the Source of all creation.  But his crucifixion is not to be upheld as if it's specially reserved for him, it must happen to us all.  What was betrayed was the Ego; that conscious self that guides all decisions based on limitations and physical constraints.  The Ego can only see what has happened in the past, and compare to what's happening now.  The Ego will stay boxed in and keep itself in the familiar.  The Ego is Fear.  The Ego is Frustration.  The Ego is the human, the body, the emotion.

What was betrayed and tried was the Ego.  Not just his, but those who sat in judgement.  Those who said they walked with him.  Those who said they believed.  But Jesus was an ascended master and had moved beyond his physical constraints even before that physcial body was finished trying to contain him.  That's why he had to go alone.

The crucifixion of Jesus was merely the death of the Ego.  As with him, we too have been called to put our false selves, external selves, our 3rd dimensional images in a position to die.  Not the human but the things that limit us to living in that limited view; that constricted way of thinking have to be extinguished so we can then be resurrected into the higher version of who we were created to be.  Only then can we too ascend to our essence and strengthen our connection with the Source.

I can hear it now "Amuri has gone hotep (which stop slandering that word)." Or  "Amuri has turned into <insert whatever confining thought here>, and think she's better."  I am better.  I am higher.  Not of another person or than another person, but an elevated level than the Ego version of me.  And that is what we are all called to be and do.  Stagnation causes disease.  Not only does it cause disease, it draws more infestation to it.  Why is that ever comfortable?  Why is that ever acceptable?  Why is that all we wish to achieve?  In truth it is not, but Ego is not comfortable with change and expansion, that's why it has to go.  That's why it has to die.  That's why it could not be merely tied but nailed to the cross.  It had to stay on that earthly plane level so the spirit, the energy, the God Consciousness that remained dormant and lulled to sleep could awaken and rise to take it's rightful place in us.  That is our essence, that is our purpose, that is our ascension.

For those that celebrate, Happy Holy Week.  For those that don't, let it be a sign of who we really are and meant to be. For all of us, study the story of Jesus and find him within your own lifeline.