3-37. No one can Awaken another. You can only Save yourself. You are to be Saved from error, not sin. Only Love has the Power to Awaken you from your dream of separation from all that has always been Real.
There is a temptation, misguided at best but absolutely understandable, that will accompany the Awakening process for all but the most unempathic of individuals. It is a natural and innate desire to assist others to Awaken, for within discovering the vast Peace that dwells in the forgotten depths of your heart, you will remember a natural inclination to encourage others to Awaken as well. This is a noble goal, and deeply relatable, for what is known to you now, no matter how tangentially accepted, it a Truth that you will wish to share with others. Yet that tendency is misguided, simply because it is not possible. To subvert the free will of another is impossible, for all that is Given by God cannot be altered by another, no matter the nobility or selflessness of your intention. You did not descend into a world of form so seemingly opposed to Truth simply to preach to others of the Light that you found in the center of your heart. That is not the Way of God. God does not descend from upon high to influence the Children of God, attempting to direct them appropriately in a manner that runs counter to their own free will. The Will of God is Free, and so your will is as well. You are free to choose whatever it is that you believe to be best for you, no matter the unnecessary suffering that you will endure as a result. God will not interfere, for there is nothing that is lost when the ego is chosen over Truth, save for copious amounts of time that would have been invested within the process of Returning to God. But this is, at the end, of no matter at all, for you have been given all of the time you will ever require and so you are welcome to utilize that time as you see best, for to attempt to counter the processes that you choose, whether that election is made consciously or unconsciously, is of no value to you or to God. You can Save yourself from believing that you are an isolated, desperate and deluded aspect of Creation that has forgotten its Home, or you can continue within these presumptive practices of ego-centric perception until such a time as you have exhausted all of their utility. When you turn away from the ego and back towards Love is not of any particular importance, for you will turn the other cheek, even if you know it not. To turn away is simply to recognize that which is True and to abandon that which is illusion. However long you require to explore all of the vast reaches of darkness within the web of lies that the ego has so masterfully spun for you, ensnaring you within a structure that appears so stable but which is actually gossamer in its actual fortitude, is not a loss that you should concern yourself with, for nothing but time is lost at all. Enwrapped in lies, you spin them into a broadcloth that you elect to enrobe yourself with, believing that you are offered something of value when in Truth, you are simply obscuring your own ability to See that which has remained forever True. Yet can you yet accept that you cannot free another from their own prison of perception, for they will fight you at every turn, believing that you are arriving to torture them when in truth, it is freedom that your outstretched hand offers? They will not perceive your offer as such, for they are not yet willing to have any trust in their heart all, and so they create a world that most accurately reflects the lies of the ego, and they reside within it for the belief that there cannot possibly be any alternative to their own reality is an accepted and rarely challenged perception. What would you be rendering in service to another if you were to roust them from their slumber before they were ready to awake? Would they be appreciative of being presented with a world that they were unwilling and truly unable to See, or would they be filled with resentment and rage at your imposition upon them? It is not the Way of Peace to determine for another when it might be that they are ready to accept that which has been previously, to them, absolute impossibility. Acceptance reigns supreme over all that is believed to be of value to them, for they have their own Path to undertake and it is not Given unto you to force them even one minute step down that Path until they are ready to walk themselves Home to God and to Love. It is ego still, even in a bizarre and reversed form, that urges you to encourage them to See that which they are not yet ready to accept. To save them from themselves is to attempt to liberate them from a prison they have cast themselves into, and to become a savior for a Child of God that knows not that they are actually restricted at all. What can this be, but the ego now attempting to insert itself between your Awakening mind and your joyous heart, for you have begun to Remember Love, and so you wish to share your discovery with all that might listen. But it is not to your words that they would best hearken to, it is to their own hearts that they must entreat so that they can become integral and whole again. You can demonstrate to them through your example the manners in which an Awakening Child of God carries themselves within this world of form, but leadership in the guise of demand is not your role to play. No one can be forced to Awaken, for it is the most personal and intimate process that any soul can undergo, and as such it must be accomplished through absolute willingness and trustful surrender to God, not through a process of cleaving to your requirements and following your example, for what was the best Path for you is in no way guaranteed to be the most auspicious and valuable journey for any other Child of God to undertake. And so from this admonishment do we see the fatal error contained in pronouncements of requirements that so many have uttered, demands that only a certain set of prescriptions must be the sole method of, apparently, regaining the favor of God or transforming one’s self in a manner most accepted by God. All of these ideas are but rampant perversions of the ego, wrapped in pious duty but achieving nothing at all. Each and every Child of God has a Path that is innate and wholly personal. No other Child is given the requisite knowledge necessary to genuinely assist another to walk down their Path, for that is a journey that travels solely inwards, and all that is not unitary with their own hearts will not be able to guide them in the infallible manner that they already possess. It is simply error that befuddles you and all of your Sisters and Brothers - a simple error of perception that has created the necessity for time and for a place within which you can experiment with what a belief in separation might manifest, when it is taken to its most logical extreme. And because it was belief that created all of this error, it must be a belief in the possibility that error can be forgiven that will begin the process of leading you Home to Love. That is your belief to change, and you are not asked nor are you entrusted to change the beliefs of others, for in doing so, you would simply be substituting one error for another and no progression would be accomplished at all. To journey inwards is to release all that is outward influence, and that is a Path of the greatest bravery of all, for no one can join you and you must have absolute trust in your heart before the process of Awakening can begin. Ask not of others that they trust themselves to the degree that you now find yourself able to do. They may or not be ready, and there is no reliable manner in which you can effectively evaluate their own ability to be certain of their hearts. That is not what is asked of you, nor should you ask it of another. The only Path that is certain to be infallible is the one that is journeyed upon alone, devoid of influence, for that is the Path that cannot be known by another and so it must be constructed from the purity of one’s own heart alone. Within that Light, nothing can be obscured, for all that is error will eventually be relinquished and all that is Truth will be taken back up again. While you can perform this work for yourself, you cannot perform it for another and they cannot perform it for you, either. That is the sanctity of the heart, and it is absolute. Error will fall and Truth will be Remembered by all, eventually. When they will join you in Remembering Heaven is not relevant to when you can arrive back at the origin of your initial journey beyond the Unity of Love. That they will arrive, in due time and when they alone are ready, is the certainty that will allow you to leave them, in a sense, while you Return and while they remain. Knowing that they will follow when it is best for them, you know that nothing is lost and all is gained when you relinquish all that you believed to be true, seeing it now a simple error, so that Love might be the sole Light that illuminates all of the steps you have yet to take.