Have you ever heard the expression 'In My Father's House Are
Many Mansions?' They were spoken by Jesus and are a familiar
sight to many people. The words can be interpreted in a variety
of ways, one of which we shall share with you now. You, as an
individual, are one of those mansions. Metaphorically speaking,
your body or your being houses one of those mansions. Within
your individual mansion, which is within yourself, is housed
many rooms. Each of these rooms contains the memory of a past
life experience. A mansion typically contains numerous rooms
spread across throughout its inner walls, to include a living
room, study, dining room, den, kitchen, bathrooms, workrooms,
recreational rooms, sitting rooms, closets and numerous bedrooms.
There are also a handful of floors, including a large and complex
basement that houses secret rooms and corridors. The entire
mansion represents a huge maze, your maze, that you must work
your way through to develop yourself spiritually. Within each
of these rooms houses many activities, pictures on the wall,
nick-nacks and most importantly, memories. Many things happened
in those rooms and many things are still going on. One of the
most important tasks of individual spiritual development is
the undertake the self-cleansing process. The task requires
that you re-visit each and everyone of your inner rooms. You
must bring with you a mop, bucket and whatever other supplies
you need to commence the cleaning process. The cleaning process
requires that you come face to face and re-experience those
memories of your past that caused pain, hurt, suffering, animosity,
jealousy, loneliness , all of which resulted in emotional turmoil
and mental anguish. It makes no difference whether these actions
were inflicted upon others or upon yourself, because what you
do to others you do to yourself. In short, you must come face
to face with yourself. Before commencing this rigorous process,
it is necessary to become acquainted with a room within your
mansion that is of great importance. The room is your living
room and it houses the fireplace. This is your fireplace and
it is representative of you heart. It is within this room from
where you must begin each day. You must live your life from
this room by regularly focusing your attention and awareness
on its warmth. The hearth of this room, your heart, contains
the pure light of God. When visiting your numerous other rooms,
you will carry with you a lighted torch, a portable or aspect,
if you will, of your main fire. This light purifies and cleanses
those memories that caused you pain and still pose as a barrier
to your achieving a higher, more loving state of spiritual being.
This light is the fire that burns but does not consume. Not
all of your rooms contain dark, negative experiential memories,
but many do. You may have went nearly an entire lifetime without
incident, however, it is the brief period in that life that
draws you back to confront whatever issue that plaques you.
The issues we speak of here are any words or actions that were
not carried out in accordance with the Universal Law of Love.
Such actions accumulate as negative, dark or tainted energies,
otherwise referred to as Karma. Under the Universal Law of Cause
and Effect, a derivative of the Universal Law of Love, you cannot
move to higher ground until these misappropriated energies are
cleansed and transformed. The cleansing process necessitates
the renovation of your entire mansion. All you need to do is
to ask to be led to your inner rooms. The Holy Spirit will then,
working in and through your heart, lead you slowly and gently
through the darkened corridors of your internal being, opening
your senses to understanding what you are really all about.
All of your rooms are locked and no one other than you holds
the key. The key you have always had, only yo haven’t
been cognizant of it. The key is your new found sense of expanding
awareness, open mindedness, receptiveness, and understanding,
acceptance and forgiveness. Your being is in fact a mansion
of not only past experience, but tremendous future potential.
In other words, as each of your rooms becomes cleansed with
the Light and Love of God, its characteristics change from that
of limited illusion to one of creative ideas that will move
you into the great being that you are.