12 March 2025

Belief Is Not Enough.

Some who choose a spiritual path are satisfied with merely acquiring a set of beliefs that appeal to their minds. Thereafter, they feel sure that their knowledge of these beliefs will bring them all the benefits they imagine are necessary for their future happiness.

Regardless of whether their specific beliefs are right or wrong, this approach often disregards the necessity for any deep change within one’s being. Leading a moral life and doing God’s work on earth brings its own rewards. But unless there is a deep remaking and rebirth of one’s being in God’s love, then any happiness that is experienced will be limited and not of the kind that God wants us to have. For those who choose to receive God’s divine love, what lies ahead is a magnificent transformation whereby the manufactured reality that we experience through our minds is, over time, entirely replaced by an ever-growing, God-given, divine consciousness. This love brings a profound joy to the soul.

Unfortunately, we have a strong, inbuilt tendency to cling to who we are and what we know. Even after all the suffering we undergo in a human life, it takes courage to be willing to step into a new version of ourselves. It’s easier to adopt spiritual beliefs that give us a safe path forward and don’t challenge our sense of who we are. All who choose this apparently safer path will eventually purify the natural love they were born with and, in time, will enjoy a great deal of contentment.

We are told that only a relatively small part of humanity will ever choose to go beyond the boundaries of perfected natural love. And that, in general, even the great spiritual leaders of the past have never ventured further in all the time that has elapsed since they were on earth. The first and most prominent exception is Jesus, who showed us the way to the highest realms of the afterlife, namely, the celestial kingdom. Only those who are wholly divine can enter these realms. The journey starts with the recognition that we need to be reborn in divine love and thereafter allow our growing soul consciousness to gradually replace that which we are familiar with.