2 March 2003
Today we wish to delve into the realm of Spirit with regard to viewing the Quest from a practical point of view. We bring this up now because we feel that the Quest is something that seems to be disregarded with all of the Lightworkers today. You all seem to take heed of the Group and others advising that your contracts have expired and take that to mean that your Sacred Quest for your current lifetime has expired also. This is not so. Your Quest and your Contracts are two entirely different concepts.
The Quest is a concept of Purpose whilst your Contracts are pre-birth agreements made between persons or beings to do certain things in the current lifetime and usually involve karmic payback or other such agreements. A part of your quest but not the quest in itself
Your Quest is that of discovery, a set concept that provides a goal for each lifetime and has no limits because there is no such thing as the end of discovery on any subject whatsoever. Have you not always found that each discovery along the way on any subject always reveals more questions than the answers that discovery provides? This will always be so for this is why you have created your Universe. It is a giant puzzle for you to play explorer in, and have you not now discovered another layer of your Universe to explore, one that your normal senses afford you no penetration at all?
The Quest then, what is it?
Those of you delving in to this seemingly unfathomable Universe beyond the Universe of Normal Senses must surely see this as your quest. Why else would you be awakened to this New World of discovery? And now look at what you are discovering. What is it that you are discovering? Take a look at what your companions on the path are discovering and you will realise that they are not discovering exactly what you are discovering. They are heading in the same direction but travelling a completely different path are they not? What resonates with one person strikes discord with another yet the direction is the same. Why then is this so?
The answer to this simple question is also simple. The difference lies in the difference of Quests, and your individual quests differ because of your previous experience and the knowledge that you have acquired. As the author of "You Were Born Rich" (Bob Proctor) advises when speaking of knowledge, "You are the sum of the people you have met and the books you have read." I would now like to add the phrase, "and the experiences you have experienced". I would also like to say that this does not only apply to the current lifetime even though you personally can't recall your previous lifetimes.
Who then sets your Quest for each lifetime?
This is also simple. This is the responsibility of your Higher Self. It is the role of the Higher Self to ensure that you follow your quest at all times and that role also includes ensuring that scenes are set for you to be able to follow your quest without hindrance, once you have discovered your path. This is not to say that the path won't be without bumps, rocks or obstructions but that your path is the path of your quest. There may be diversions and detours but your path will always continue toward your chosen destination, although the destination is not really achievable on a path without end.
If your path has no destination then what is the point of the Quest? The answer to this once again is simple. If your only reason for physical existence is to gather knowledge and experience, then a destination is of no consequence. It is the journey that matters, and since it is the journey that is important, then we may as well get the most from it. How many times have you set out to an unknown destination only to find disappointment with the destination but enjoyment along the way?
Take a look back at the exploits of your explorers, those seemingly brave souls who set out to cross oceans to prove that the world wasn't flat after all, to go to far off exotic places, to discover new lands and people. Isn't that what you are doing right now? Sure you don't have magnificent wooden sailing ships but do you need them? You can talk with and discover new beings with equally exotic histories and stories as those you discovered a few centuries ago and this time the stories you gather are equally as exciting as those of your predecessors.
Yet you think this is not discovery? What is it then?
You read about the exploits of a Master you call Jesus and marvel at his powers yet you don't heed his words that say, "What I can do, you can do also." You all have these powers hidden away, just awaiting your discovery. Yes, a lot of what was written about Jesus was a metaphor and a lot was uninformed interpretation, but most of it was real. You take it upon yourselves to impose your own limitations and this is deliberate because of your Quest. There would be no point in the journey if the answers were known in advance. There would be no point in existence if all knowledge was known. There would be no point.
This all could be summed up with a short example.
Let us imagine that our Quest was to discover God and we didn't know where to start looking. Imagine also that the number of lifetimes this took was irrelevant because the number of lifetimes is limitless. Imagine now that we start looking for God in our very first lifetime after creation. Where would we look?
In this primitive world we only know of that we can sense with our physical senses of sight, smell, touch and hearing. We can't travel too far, yet we know God is somewhere to be found. We know God exists because something had to create us and all that we sense. So we look around to discover the hiding place or places. We look to the Earth and the plants and the animals but they don't seem to be God. We look to the heavens and see the power unleashed by storms and naturally we think, "This power must be from God, so therefore God must be in the heavens". A logical thought wouldn't you think? Yet as we discover more and more about the storms we come to realise that perhaps there is more to it than this, but we still hold on to the notion that God and the heavens must have something in common.
During this age we also discover that the storms can unleash some of their power in the form of fire, so we naturally conclude that this must be a gift from God and that God wishes us to use this gift, so we do. We use this gift to thank God for it because it makes our life so much more comfortable. We use this gift to provide sacrifices to God, to appease God because we see the power that God can unleash with the storms, and we don't want an angry God, do we?
Yet where is God? We see his power and we give thanks for his provisions, yet we are still no further toward finding him. We must look further afield. We seek him here, we seek him there .. yet like the Pimpernel he is not to be found.
Let us skip along now to the Age of the Sage. There comes a time when we must have clues because we have exhausted all of the obvious hiding places. We are paying homage and sacrifice now to many Gods because with what we have discovered so far, the job must be too big for just one God. We now look to those who are wise because that is what wisdom is, it is a storehouse of knowing held by individuals who have earned the right to counsel. We respect their counsel because they are more knowing than we are, and besides they have been visited by messengers from God to guide us to him. They must know the way, so they lead and we follow.
Yet they don't seem to be able to lead us to him either. They show us what they know but God is still hiding.
We expand our search throughout the world and discover many lands, many people and many things. We discover that the other people are also searching for God and that their sages have had messengers and that they have other messages about other Gods and that they also have developed rituals to appease their Gods, and most of all that they still haven't found God either. Not really "found" him. They have their rituals and sacraments but they really are no further along their path than we are, although we are at least looking for the "true" God because our sages and our messages have the right information. Oh well, let them be content searching for their own God. When we find ours we'll let them know and they will then believe us and then they will follow us.
Along the way the various messengers seem to have created quite a following. Maybe there is knowledge in numbers, so we join in and follow. We spend a lifetime or two trying out each of these new religions to find the one that will lead us to God. We pray and we kneel and we ritualise, yet we still seek. We can now "feel" something new when we pray to the messengers and we "know" we are on the right path because it feels right, but where is he?
Anyway, enough of the history. You can now imagine that you have discovered yourself, that you have awakened and that you now "know" where God resides. Now you must be thinking, "Surely this is the end of the road, I have found God. Why do I need to search further?"
The simple truth is that you have not yet found what you seek because what you set out to find was not just God but God's limitations. Your limitations and you are nowhere near even getting close to discovering these.
"Oh, Shit!", I hear you say. "You mean to say that we have spent all this time and effort only to find out that we are only just starting?"
I answer, "Yes, but what have you learned along the way? Do you think this has ALL been a waste of time?" "Have you not found your limitations in the Physicality of Human Form, at least to a high degree?" "Wasn't it a grand journey just to reach this far?" "Don't you think the next part of the journey will be just as exciting?"
Personally, even though I am not in physicality at this present time, I can't wait. I see the path unfolding in front of me and I just can't wait to see around the corner because from my vantage point the view is unreal, in all senses of the word. I see for you that this is also true and that the experience will be even greater than you imagine.
That experience, my friends, now that you have reached this gateway, is your Quest. You have had no other, and you will never have any other. Your Quest is to discover your limitations, knowing that you have none. A dichotomy I know, but I'm sure you know what I mean.
God speed on your journey.
I AM
Raphael
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