Jesus, the Cross, and What Came Afterwards

            Although my early church experiences attempted to teach me about Jesus and God, the greatest lessons that I ever learned came through visions from the Holy Spirit throughout my life.

             John 14:26

             26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

             Through moments of enlightenment, the Holy Spirit taught me that although other great spiritual leaders of the past have incarnated and been filled almost completely with the Christ energy of God's Love, Jesus is the ONLY 100% manifestation. Every incarnation of this Love energy, whether it exists within Buddha, or within Mohammad, was sent here for the same purpose, to offer another path of love back to Heaven.

             Jesus lived a sinless and perfect life. Some people have said, "If he was a man, then how could he have been perfect?" This confusion comes from the fact that the world has no real idea what sin is.

            Sin is an act of selfishness, an act devoid of love, and trespass is a sin that actually impacts another's life. As the only 100% incarnation of love, his entire perspective of life, his entire operating system, if you will, was based upon the energies of loving and being compassionate to all others. Where we choose to love or not, Jesus didn't have that defect of perception. He merely loved, period, at all times and under all circumstances.

             Jesus was a man in every way except that he never embraced the perspectives that all of the rest of us are infected with. We all believe in lack, and loss, and hatred, and judgment, and retribution, to name but a few, and these fears cause us all to sin and trespass against others. Jesus' mind and soul didn't possess these misleading and destructive illusions. Jesus could do what we cannot. He saw clearly, he heard clearly, he reasoned clearly, and he acted clearly, without tripping over his own or anyone else's personal, spiritual, or emotional baggage.

             Jesus had no ego.

            The ego tells us that we much be selfish because everyone else is. It also tells us that we must grab and hold on to things because if we don't, we'll end up with nothing. The ego is the small voice that tells us that no one can be trusted, that everyone is angling for their own benefit, and that preservation of the self at all costs is an acceptable life view.

            The ego is a training tool, and like training wheels, it will eventually have no purpose in a soul's journey back to God.

            Jesus, in every thought and action, interacted with the world motivated by love, preaching love, and eventually giving his life in an act of love.

             Christianity embraces his death on the cross as paying for the sins of the world. He did take our sins upon his shoulders when he died, but it wasn't metaphoric.

            People gloss over the darkness that fell over the world and the fact that God

 the Father, removed Himself from Jesus at that time of his crucifixion.

             Luke 23:44-45

             44And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.

            45And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

             The darkness was alive and virulent. All of the evil energies that would ever be created, past, present, and future, were funneled down upon Jesus and into his soul and he writhed in pain. It was not the physical pain of the nails and the scourging, but the soul pain of being drowned in spiritual stench and choking evil.

            People wonder why Jesus prayed in the garden for the cup to be taken from him if

 there was another way. Jesus was concerned about the moment when he would be separated from God. Jesus faced being completely immersed in the cesspool stench and spirit rot of the sins of this universe WITHOUT God the Father helping him survive in any way.

             This was the cosmic moment of conflict. This was when the power of love took on in one-to-one, hand-to-hand struggle, the power of selfishness and evil.

             Jesus accepted this load of evil into his soul and then left his body, his spirit traveling to the lowest energy dimension of all, the Abyss, the domain of Lucifer, the only place where the Spirit of God does not freely dwell.

            There he confronted Lucifer in his "garden". The Holy Spirit took me to visit Lucifer's "garden" and it was a truly horrific place. Christians believe that before Jesus died on the cross that stolen souls were held prisoner by Lucifer in the Abyss. This is true, but it also contained the inert bodies of the loyal angels who had valiantly pushed Lucifer and his mind-numbed minions far from Heaven during the time of the Book of Esther.

            The angels had fought valiantly for the cause, but Lucifer allowed the fight to draw them far from the divine light. As they fought on they grew weaker because they were far from the source of their energy. They refused to allow Lucifer to re-energize them with his polluted, malignant remnants of what had once been pure God energy, and so they became weak and eventually lifeless, incorruptible bodies. They were strewn about the grounds of the Abyss, much like the terrible pictures that one might have seen of the Nazi prison camps at the end of WWII.

            Jesus stood before Lucifer, among the lifeless bodies of his beloved companions, and accepted Lucifer's taunts. Lucifer, the Spirit of Selfishness and Evil, was certain that he'd won, that Jesus, the Spirit of God's Love, was actually succumbing to the immense weight bearing down upon his soul.

            Jesus humbly bowed his head, and when he looked back up, the universe was never to be the same again .

            The love light inside of Jesus flamed with a brilliance that would have made the sun seem like a candle. The sin weight of the world disintegrated instantly. The lifeless bodies of the children of light were returned to life. The prisons of the Abyss were blasted asunder and the forces of evil would never again be able to believe that they could ultimately overcome the powers of Heaven.

             That was the moment when Lucifer lost all of the souls that he had stolen and he had to change his tactics, but that's a story for another day.

            Jesus returned everyone back to Heaven, and humankind, through Christianity, got a very clear, but not the only, spiritual path back to Heaven.