Gospel 5: From earth to earth
In Gospel 5, we will understand the true meaning of the Christian Sacraments: 1) Baptism, 2) Confirmation, 3) Confession, 4) Communion, 5) Holy Orders, 6) Anointing of the Sick, and 7) Marriage, and realize that they describe the human life cycle, from earth to earth, or from birth to rebirth.
Unless we can see how a human life is designed, we have no chance of mastering it and reaching paradise.
From the highest perspective, Baptism corresponds to the first twenty years of a person’s life, marked by the development of independent thinking; Confirmation to the ages 21-40, when a person receives financial support in exchange for a promise of a later Confession, meaning the delivery of their life mission around 41 to 60; Communion relates to the ages 61-80, when a person can withdraw and enjoy life; Holy Orders is about crossing over into the spiritual realms, while Anointing of the Sick relates to the preparation for the next incarnation.
1. Activating Your Ability to Experience Physical Life
Core energy: Masculine and feminine thinking
Years 1-10: Activating rational thinking through childcare
Years 11-20: Activating abstract thinking through education
The history of Activation
By pouring water on a child’s head – the center of masculine and feminine thinking energy – the Christian lineage unconsciously kicked off the first phase of earthly life, which, as always, can be divided into an inward/masculine and outward/feminine component, in this case related to childcare and education.
Learning to think rationally
Childcare is about helping a child think rationally, essentially to realize that they aren’t part of their mother but an independent aspect of God, responsible for their own happiness, although they need a lot of support at the very beginning.
Especially during the first two years, a newborn needs to live almost in symbiosis with the mother, after which they are ready to begin their journey toward gradually becoming more independent, until they are fully grown at the age of twenty.
Learning to think abstractly
Thinking abstractly, in contrast to thinking rationally, is about starting to see how life can be an opportunity for you to fulfill your dreams, which requires a bit of planning.
For example, if you dream of expressing yourself through music, it doesn’t make sense to play football three times a week while skipping music classes.
Likewise, if your dream is to learn everything about human history, it’s probably wise to prepare early for advanced academic studies by studying hard and earning good grades so that you can enter a niche university that offers the courses you are interested in.
In short, thinking abstractly in this context is about recognizing that something that doesn’t make complete sense right now can be a good decision over the long run.
Creating a society where children can become adults
In our societies, people are too focused on work to realize how special it is to have the opportunity to bring a rather evolved being into an earthly life once more.
They tend to spend as little time as possible with their newborns and put them in kindergarten far before they are ready for it.
And later, around the age of two, when a properly nurtured child should be ready to become much more independent, the adults are too impatient to teach the child independence, with the consequence that the child becomes much needier and sometimes entirely unable to support the family dynamic in a healthy way.
As with the Christian cross, things have been upside down, and the only way to change this is to heal ourselves and begin doing things differently.
As for education, it’s essential that children are given the opportunity to study what they feel drawn to. Some children will begin to read at the age of four, while others, depending on their overall interests, may want to wait until they are ten. This is just as natural as some babies starting to walk at eight months and others at close to two years.
2. Nurturing Your Grounding Process
Core energy: Masculine and feminine communication
Years 21-30: Grounding through self-expression
Years 31-40: Grounding by building a family
The history of Grounding
In the past, people on Earth were asked to confirm their religious beliefs, called the Sacrament of Confirmation, which points to the higher truth of preparing yourself for your life mission.
However, this doesn’t happen for a few months while you study the Bible, but rather over a few decades as you ground yourself in your life by learning everything you must for your mission and by creating a home and potentially a family, two things that require you to be given money upfront to be paid back when you deliver your mission.
The flow of money in a society
If people don’t align with their unique paths in life but instead live as if they were still animals, controlled by flock consciousness, a society experiences inflation, meaning that the forces of supply and demand make some products – those everyone wants – extremely expensive.
If, at the same time, the financial system is based on banks printing money, which they can easily do if the economy slows down, in a desperate attempt not to expose the weaknesses it’s built on, the problem gets even worse.
In the worst case, hyperinflation destroys all trust in a society, and in the best scenarios, inflation is relatively mild, meaning the financial system is only unfair, making it more difficult for younger generations to build a home and a family, while the older generations have seen their assets soar in value.
Creating a paradisical financial system
A financial system must be robust and fair, helping young people ground themselves in life so they have a fair chance to play their role in the cosmic drama we call earthly life.
Consequently, it cannot be inflated, which suggests that money cannot be something that is easy to multiply, like paper, scrap metal, or digital currencies. Neither should it be something that destroys nature to extract, such as gold and silver.
A financial system must also be credible, meaning it must be fully transparent and backed by an institution that can support it when it fails.
All of these things are premature to discuss at the beginning of the third millennium, as it will take hundreds of years before societies are ready for a healthy financial system on a grander scale. However, in closed economies, like small, largely self-sufficient communities, the following three principles can be adopted:
Don’t believe anyone’s skills are worth more or less than others’.
Strive to make money flow as much as possible rather than creating incentives to save for the future.
Provide financial benefits to young people upon a promise to pay back by delivering on their missions, whatever those may be.
3. Delivering Your Mission
Core energy: Masculine and feminine creativity
Years 41-50: Delivering tangible output
Years 51-60: Delivering wisdom to others
The history of Delivery
In the Sacrament of Confession, we find the embryo of the cosmic principle of coming to earth with something not to confess but something you are obliged to do, namely, delivering your mission.
Delivering your life mission
After activating your ability to express your full potential as a human being in the flesh during your childhood years, from birth to the age of twenty, and after grounding yourself in this particular life by studying, creating a home, building relationships, and so forth, you are ready for the peak of your life, namely to do what you came here to do.
This happens in two phases, between forty-one and fifty, and between fifty-one and sixty, with the first phase focused on producing content and the second on sharing it with a wider audience.
Of course, how this plays out depends on your life mission. Still, broadly speaking, the first phase is inward-oriented and the second phase is more outward-oriented.
4. Experiencing Your Dreams
Core energy: Masculine and feminine feeling
Years 61-70: Experiencing the result of your work
Years 71-80: Experiencing the wider implications of your work
The history of Experiencing
In the past, the experience of life was symbolized by the Sacrament of Communion, in which people ate Jesus’ body and drank his blood, a metaphor for feeling God as part of oneself.
Though this points toward a higher cosmic truth, the reality is that God is experienced most through the feelings of your work, which you connect with most after completing it.
Thriving in life
The secret to thriving in life is to do the things you truly love with your full heart and to enjoy the rewards afterward, in terms of inner satisfaction and others’ praise.
However, this can only be positive if you have achieved your mission rather than anything that people happen to appreciate at a given moment, meaning you can’t get used to or even addicted to too much praise, or you will go down the wrong path and miss the real reward.
The illusions of earthly life
In a patriarchy, people are guided in their lives by strict norms, a so-called consensus about right and wrong, as if the same principles applied to everyone.
More often than not, these norms originate in Christian values about being a good citizen who doesn’t violate the seven deadly sins of greed, pride, sloth, wrath, envy, gluttony, and lust.
Though these deadly sins point to higher truths, as explained in Gospel 3, focusing on them can easily wing-clip people’s freedom, turning them into obedient slaves rather than curious adventurers and conquerors of the unknown.
Toward the end of your life, when you have the time, the experience, and the financial means to truly thrive, it’s essential that you keep exploring; however, more for yourself than for others.
Believing that all phases of life are like this is an illusion. And so is the belief that getting here requires hard work.
The truth is that life is neither hard work nor an effortless stroll in the park, but something in between. If you walk that middle path successfully, the final years of your life will be the most rewarding and fulfilling.
5. Crossing Over
Core energy: Masculine and feminine intuition
Years 81-100+: Crossing over to the spiritual side of life
The history of Crossing over
The Sacrament of Holy Orders used to highlight a person who had come closer to God through their achievements on Earth, often in religious roles, thus pointing to this Sacrament’s true meaning of Crossing over, which means temporarily leaving the physical body to view things from a higher perspective, all to facilitate more learning.
The art of dying and taking care of the old
On Earth, the most challenging aspect of dying is especially difficult if you believe death is eternal.
However, even if you believe in the reincarnation process as presented in The Fourth Testament, it’s far from easy to let go of everything you’re attached to. That is, unless you’ve lived so much that you feel completely satisfied with your experience.
Consequently, taking care of elderly people who are satisfied with their lives, which usually means they are healthy rather than in pain, is easy, while looking after those who are full of bitterness and resentment toward life is challenging.
Making the most of the last years
After eighty and before you cross over, you hopefully have many more rewarding years on Earth to share your vast wisdom and support younger generations in creating blissful lives.
If the years between sixty and eighty, broadly speaking, have the potential to be the most fulfilling for you, the years from eighty onward can often be the most rewarding in terms of serving as a lighthouse for others, especially your own family.
6. Devotion to Reaching Even Higher
Core energy: Masculine and feminine memory
Between two incarnations: Devotion to learn more
The history of Devotion
In the past, people spoke of the anointing of the sick as a final preparation for death. However, from a higher perspective, we don’t need to prepare for death, only for the rebirth that is soon to come, through the most devotional of all life’s processes.
Devotion to life
On Earth, we can only devote ourselves to life so much, limited by the drama we must endure to grow in the most ideal way, as assessed by more evolved beings.
However, after death, between two incarnations, when we can see things from a much higher perspective, we have the chance to devote ourselves to growing so much and to planning how to experience our next life.
The reason this process is called devotion is that it doesn’t involve any other pleasure than the knowing of bringing creation further, in contrast to an earthly life where you have so many things to indulge in.
Preparing for an upcoming incarnation
There are mainly three things to decide before you incarnate on Earth once more, according to the list below:
The exact point in time and space to begin building a physical body, which will influence your personality and enhance your learning.
The choice of family, which usually includes people who are part of your Monadic soul structure or of a nearby Monad.
The specific drama you will encounter to improve your weaknesses, such as being particularly suppressed in your childhood if you need to learn to stand up for yourself, or succeeding at work if you need to learn to become more humble.
The mechanisms for evolving
You don’t evolve by becoming rich if you need to learn about poverty and vice versa, and you don’t evolve by experiencing peace if you need to learn about war.
In other words, you grow in the same way in life as you grow muscles in the gym – by experiencing resistance.
So, if it’s difficult for you to appreciate peace, meaning you struggle to be peaceful within, the resistance you need is to live in an environment that isn’t peaceful, because if you did, it would be too easy for you to achieve inner peace.
Consequently, if you are highly imbalanced within, almost to the point that you can live from the primitive instincts of a very advanced animal rather than from the ability to feel subtle energies, you are likely to experience a lot of turbulence in your life and in the next ones, as evolution is a rather slow process.
However, keep in mind that life always gives you what you can handle, so having more challenges in your life doesn’t automatically mean you are less evolved than your friends, because it can be the complete opposite.
7. Creating Harmony
The history of Harmony
The ancient Sacrament of marriage pointed toward the cosmic truth that men and women need each other to create harmony in their lives; however, not necessarily in the form of a traditional marriage, which effectively blocks energies from flowing as needed to support true and lasting happiness.
Balancing the Cosmic Sacraments
Creating paradise on Earth requires people to align with the natural flow of life, which essentially means aligning with the cosmic heartbeat.
As an example, it isn’t possible to successfully deliver on your life mission when you are twenty-five, or to relax completely in life when you are fifty.
Of course, given how life on Earth looks right now, both of these things are possible, but that doesn’t mean they represent the highest way of living.
Furthermore, laws and societal foundations must be established to support the cosmically correct sacraments rather than behaviors that harm them. This is a monumental task that will take shape over hundreds of years, starting in relatively small communities at the beginning of the third millennium.
Progressing from here
It isn’t easy to begin living in a new way, even if you feel the desire to do so. However, there are small steps you can take in the right direction, including the following, from most to least critical:
Activate a higher understanding of how paradise can be created theoretically by reading a book that vibrates with cosmic truth, such as The Fourth Testament.
Ground your theories by discussing them with like-minded people.
Deliver your ideas as small communities, based on principles you resonate with.
Experience the results of your creations and draw conclusions to make them even better in the future.
Cross over, meaning start doing things differently to reach even higher.
Devotion, which, in this context, means spreading your knowledge to those who are still at step zero.
Harmony, meaning don’t evaluate your efforts by perfection but by whether they gradually bring more harmony to your life, thus contributing to fulfilling the prophecy of world peace.