Only Peace Persists | Steve Beckow

By Steve Beckow, July 23, 2022

(Golden Age of Gaia)

When I saw the Self at Xenia on Sept. 18, 2018, a large part of the experience was feeling its purity and innocence. (1)

I was so relieved. I’m not sure what else I expected to find, but to actually experience the quality of my essential nature and to find it to be so inspiringly clean was affirming and confidence-building.

In my essential form we are pure and innocent. Our common intention is to unveil that pure and innocent Self, not to burden it with fresh layers of resistance and revenge, “You did it” and “I gotcha.”

You realize the implications of this experience: In the Middle Ages I could be burnt at the stake for what I’m about to say.

The church doctrine of original sin is not correct. We are in truth originally innocent and pure.

Everything that follows from this incorrect teaching of the church is ill-founded and itself inaccurate.

As I write these words, I find myself saying, “Doctrinal errors pale before sexual abuse among the clergy.” And, in Canada, it pales before the murder of the abused and a massive cover-up for decades. Who cares about ideas in the face of murder?

Theoretical discussions are overruled and overtaken by factual revelations.

Really important, socially-relevant distinctions are being drawn but are drowned out by a thirst for victory by the Light and for defeat of the dark. The battle is still polarized.

When our impulses are egoic, they must be maintained. That takes ideas, energy, money, action. When people stop maintaining them, the impulse falls away and the structures and organizations dependent on them fall into disuse and disrepair.

The peace we return to is divine, is permanent, and needs no maintenance. If we wait for any program born of an egoic mind to fall away, it will eventually pass. Only peace persists.

Footnotes

(1) See “We Are, All of Us, Innocent and Pure,” April 7, 2020, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2020/04/07/307247/ and
“The Heart is ‘the Seat of the Soul’,” December 17, 2018, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2018/12/17/the-heart-is-the-seat-of-the-soul/.