In this spiritual development teaching from Aquarius, Hafed answers Circle members questions. Topics covered include:
- Did Jesus come to be crucified for the sins of the world?
- Why souls are rescued from the darkness?
- How sinners make spiritual progression?
- Does Satan exist?
- Is there ever a time when abortion is allowable?
- Where does disease originate?
- What types of soul are chosen to enter disabled and handicapped babies?
- What is the purpose of this life?
Hafed opens this spiritual development session:
Good afternoon and God bless you, my children. It is a very pleasant day, is it not?
I thought that this afternoon we would change our usual procedure, where I come to address you, for surely there must be many questions that have arisen in your minds over the last few months. I realise that I have not given full attention to them, therefore, I think it would be a good thing if we had an open discussion where you might ask questions that have formed in your minds and I will do my best to answer them.
Question:
Jesus came to save mankind, to take upon His shoulders the sins of the world and was crucified, on behalf of the world, or that is my interpretation. Could you please explain and clarify that for me.
Hafed:
This has always been a talking point in the church between those who believe in Christ being the Son of God and those who believe that Jesus was just a man. Now it is obvious from the works that Jesus did, that He was more than a man. For what man in your world has performed such works before or since? There is none. The authority that He took with Him into the world was clear to see in the teachings that He gave, for they were spoken as from one with authority. Nonetheless, there are still those who cannot see where the truth lies, even though His coming was the fulfilment of the prophecies made by God’s holy men, from thousands of years back. His name was declared as one who was to come.
In His coming, His works were so designed as to change the thinking and the ways of mankind. By doing this, those who followed in that way were freed from the sins that would have come to them, had they gone in another direction. For in man there is always that selfish spark, that greed, that ambition, which is prepared to do all things in order to gratify their desires. To do that brings upon themselves that which man calls sin, for sin is the pollution of his soul, his mind and his heart with the evil power of life.
You have heard that thoughts are living things and so they are, they do exist as living things. When a man uses his thoughts in a deceitful, spiteful or evil way, do not imagine that is the end of it, for it is not, far from it. For the thing that you cannot see is evolving, by the law, that he has brought into being. That law is found in the thoughts that he has submitted into the ethers, for they are clothed in very tiny particles of Earthly substance and a life form is brought into being. That life form is Germs. Now, because they were created from wrongful thinking and had that destructive nature within, it attacks to destroy the bodies of man. It was the beginning of disease. This linked with other various germs, which had been established from the essence of the Earth itself, creating various forms of illnesses.
This is why I say that everyone has within them that power of creation. Just as acts of hatred and violence are born on the wings of thoughts into the ethers around you, so those thoughts can indeed form germs of a similar destructive nature. Now you can see how the world becomes polluted through the mind of man.
Imagine then what kind of a world it could be if the thoughts of man were of love, kindness and sincerity. For the same process of creation would come into being. Born out of those same thoughts would be the very antibodies to the evil germ, which would attack the very nature of their existence and subdue them to nothing, that love might reign supreme. Just as the evil thought produces the germ that destroys and creates disease upon entering into the Earth, so the love germ can enter into the world and into the Earth and bless it with that power of creation. It would embody that very spiritual essence that you can see but cannot touch, when you look upon a flower. For that noble child of Mother Nature has been created by God.
Now I know that I appear to be going away from the question that was asked, but unless you have a full background then you cannot see the true picture. For in those days when the Lord Jesus entered into the world there was much disease abroad. Therefore, you must see, because of what I have just told you about the germs which arise from hatred and evil thought, that they were very evident in that time. These illnesses caused blindness, crippling ailments and all kinds of other attacks on the body. Imagine the extent of the power of evil that existed at the time when the Lord came. Had the Lord not come, mankind would not have made it through to the present time, because the fullness of evil would have already been complete. It would have corrupted and killed off life as you know it.
Your body needs that creative energy that comes from good and from God in order to be sustained. The very fruits of Earth need that same light and energy of a creative nature to supply you with food. The water that you drink also needs that same life-giving energy force to keep it pure and clean for you to drink. Can you not see then, how had there been no intervention by Christ Jesus, that evil would have multiplied over and over again, until it got to this point in your time where life as you know it could not exist.
Seeing how those thoughts were created out of sinful ways, Jesus did indeed come and through the power of His truth and His love, manifested that greater wealth of well being within those who listened to Him. He didn’t quite put an end to the evil thoughts, the evil creator, but he created a gap (between good and evil – halted the decline by restoring the balance).
He lifted it up and ensured there were always those who would fight against evil, so that the good thought was always in equal proportion to the evil thought. Do you understand that, my children? I am not above you am I?
I want you to see that when evil ever becomes greater than good, it breaks out in the world as wars. That is why you have wars. If you were to turn and look at those past wars, even in the great Second World War, you would find evil at its root. By necessity, good had to rise up and overcome evil. Had it not happened – had there not been hearts that were stout and true to God, had that good not been there, then the evil would have again taken over the world. It would have crushed the very free will that you have and you could not have made any progression because you would have been under the heel of the oppressor. So, whenever that happens, the good must rise up and go into battle, to subdue the evil and push it back down again.
You must see that none of that would have been possible, if Christ had not come and said such things as “Love Ye one another” and “Forgiveness is better than judging and hating”. Had He not healed people by that wonderful power that came from God, so that He was seen among men as something far above them in Earthly terms. Yet I hear many people say “How can Jesus save you from your sins?”
He did it by the way I have described, but they cannot understand it; neither do they understand what they are to be saved from. This is the point. It was God who created man and it is He who is Father of us all. You are all His children, growing to become His sons and daughters.
When He gave you life forms here, so that you may expand your souls with the concept of spirit and love, it was to be for your good. It was always hoped that man would look kindly upon man, regardless of the colour of his skin, or his nationality, or his beliefs.
You belong to God, but you are tried by the ways of evil and by him from whom it springs forth. Evil strives to capture your soul, your mind and your heart and make you slaves to darkness. It robs you of your life here and throughout all eternity. My Children, this is something that you must desperately try to grasp, for Satan is a wily old bird and he has many ways of tempting you, even when you think he is not. But he is. So we warn you to always watch and pray, lest you become ensnared in his ways and are captured; finding yourself as one who has become his slave because you do his will. Are there any Questions?
Question:
Are you saying that Jesus came here to die for the sins we had already committed?
Hafed:
Of course He did, I thought I made that quite clear.
Question:
It appeared to me that you were saying that He came to save us from sins that we might commit?
Hafed:
… and have committed. By raising your thoughts and ideals, so that you change the pattern of your life and you break free from the chains that bind you to Earth and to him whose ways are of a destructive nature. That is what I meant.
Question:
But does that wipe out the sins that you have already committed?
Hafed:
That is so. God does not judge you.
Question:
If that had been us at that time; when we died and looked back on our lives, would we have been able to forgive ourselves for committing sin even though Jesus had come and forgiven us?
Hafed:
Yes, if you had raised yourselves to a level of thought that was in His teaching. If you followed Him and abided in His law and in His love, then yes. You would have no regrets to fall back on. However, if you chose to turn your back on His teachings and not to follow his ways, the answer would be no.
Question:
Then those who didn’t follow Him, would still have to answer for things they had done?
Hafed:
Yes, most assuredly. You cannot be something that you are not.
Question:
Why did He have to die on the cross?
Hafed:
He had to die in that way in order that man should remember. Had man not put Him to death, then I very much doubt whether He would have been remembered or that you would have heard any of His teachings.
Question:
You have said that Jesus came to create a gap between good and evil, because evil was about to override good. It is the same now, isn’t it?
Hafed:
That has been evident for a long time now.
Question:
So why has it been allowed to go this far, why hasn’t Jesus come before now, rather than later when we have practically destroyed ourselves?
Hafed:
God is wiser than me!
Question:
Don’t you know why?
Hafed :
No, I do not know why. I am like many who come to you with words of teaching, but we cannot answer for the mind of God.
Question:
So it is His decision and He hasn’t made it common knowledge, why?
Hafed:
He has not revealed that.
Comment from group member:
It strikes me that it is almost like a small child, who gets told off for doing wrong and you hope he will learn from that. But the second time he does the same wrong, the punishment must be harder because he didn’t get the message first time around. I think that is what God is doing to us.
Hafed:
There is a lot of truth in what you say.
Question:
Isn’t there also the knowledge of understanding? The sin is greater for the person who does something knowing it to be wrong, than someone who does not know he is doing wrong
Hafed:
You are right on that point. As I have often said, I have not done you any favours, for I have revealed the truth to you and now you have no escape or hiding place.
Question:
There is one thing that I think contradicts itself. We have been told in the Circle that God’s children went into the darkness and were given protection to get people out, in order to bring them to their Father so they may apologise for their sins. Now, I have always understood that if you live on this Earth and you do bad things, you are punished when you pass over, but these people seem to have it both ways. They do what they like on Earth, then they die and fair enough they do get punished for a while but they are let back into the flock. Why is this so?
Hafed:
Can God be any less than your judges who may send a man to prison for doing wrong. Yet when he comes out of prison, he is taken back into the community and is treated the same as someone who has committed no offence. Your Father God does not in any way punish you; the punishment is what you give to yourself. It is not Him who throws you into darkness; He is always pursuing you to come to the understanding of love.
Yes, that is why the children of light go into the darker realms and have been doing so for a long, long, long time. I have been there many times to help those who have reached that point where they are ready to understand, but the thing that is stopping them is mainly their shame when they come to that realization of what they have done. They cannot find forgiveness in their hearts for themselves.
When they come to that point, those who work among them in the lower realms, have much to do in unfolding the truth for them. By helping them realise that they cannot find their God by blaming themselves for the things that they have done, when they should have known better. And now is the time (to move out of the darkness), because they have come to the knowledge of God and to the full realisation that love is the only way. Now is not the time to say, “I am ashamed of myself, I cannot go into the light”, for by going into the light they see themselves and what they have made of themselves. No longer the shape and form that God made, for they have become as evil as sin and that sin changes them. They become as ugly as the state of being that they find themselves in, which they have created for themselves.
When they come into the light, or the twilight really, they are in that state of being and it is terribly difficult for them to progress. For the only way they can progress is to do good, but there is no opportunity there for them, so they take on roles in this world to try and help the needy. To try to change the ways of men who were very much like them when they were here. Or, they might try to help those who are contemplating suicide – they have a great fight on their hands in trying change and reshape them, before they make the change called death.
Little by little, because of their fight and their efforts, they change. That evilness that was there (as ugly as sin) gradually begins to fall away and the gentleness of their new nature begins to form and shine through. Do you understand? Because God forgives them, does not mean that they can immediately rise up and go to Heaven. They cannot, for they must be of the same spiritual worth as those who are there.
Question:
They are like living thoughts really: good and evil?
Hafed:
Yes, very powerful. That is why you must be careful of the way you live your life, do not imagine that you are avoiding evil all the time. There are those times when you are doing the work of Satan, not the work of God.
Question:
What is the definition of Satan? My own definition is that he is not a certain soul or person, but rather what is within oneself that becomes a Satan.
Hafed:
No, he exists; do not make any mistake on that score. As you have good, so you have evil. As you have a creator of good, so you have a creator of evil. So do not be misled and think to yourself that he doesn’t exist because I am quite sure he would love you to believe that.
Question:
Would he be the angel who fell to Earth, who disagreed with Jesus when talking to God?
Hafed:
I know what you are going to say. There are many different beliefs and stories, but none of them have any real substance to them. I cannot tell you any more, it is beyond my time, I am afraid.
Question:
Have you followed the case of the young girl in Ireland who was raped when she was just fourteen? Is there ever a time when abortion is allowed?
Hafed:
When you look at this situation, there is no use applying the moral laws of God to it. You must only apply the moral laws of the time to it, though they are totally out of step with moral laws of God.
God said, “You shall not bear children out of wedlock”. God also said “A man and a woman come together and they are as one, in marriage.” When you look at your world and you see the moral code that exists there, then you can only apply the law according to the standards that man has set himself. If man has degraded himself to this point, then he must live by the law that he has fallen to.
It cannot be seen as evil to allow this young girl to have her abortion, for the offence that was committed was against her will. Because there has been a child brought forth out of the action that took place, it is no fault of the child and no fault of the mother. It is the fault of him who committed the offence, because he lives by the moral standards that man has set. Although it is not lawful to rape a woman, lust has raised up within the minds of man, because of the lack of law according to God, and not the flesh that he follows.
When you see how some of your women live their lives and dress, it is not surprising that the lust that is there within that man rises to become the beast and comes upon an innocent soul and rapes her. Now the girl involved – it is her decision. Her decision is for abortion and that means that the child must forfeit its life. But she doesn’t know this and cannot understand. God would not blame her and no sin will be marked to her because of her tender years. So we are in this quandary, this indecision, this imperfect state of being that man has fallen to and created. Had he walked the path that Jesus laid down, it could never have happened. The darkness would never have been in the world to start with. Lust would never have been in the mind of that man and the women would never have been as they are. So you have a situation where there is neither right nor wrong, because in a sense, all outcomes are wrong.
No matter what action is taken now, another wrong is going to be done. In that quandary, the judgement has got to be made by the individual. It can never be the judgement of God neither can it be the judgement of Jesus. Only love will go towards him who created the child by forceful means, the young girl who has suffered this tremendous ordeal and the child, who can find no place in its mother’s heart, to be given life. What a terribly, terribly sad situation, it makes you want to cry. I have answered that question to the best of my ability.
Question:
Just a point of clarification, when does the child’s spirit enter the foetus? Is it at the moment of conception?
Hafed:
No, there is a time when the child first moves inside the woman and that is the point at which the life has been instilled. To that point, it has only the life of the body, which is not life in the spiritual essence, as you know it. When this happens the child’s spirit is there and it is the greatest damnation if the mother seeks abortion. If abortion can happen before then, then the child is not there anyway and it is only a foetus and there is no sin to any living person.
Question:
Is that what is known as the quickening, when the heart beats?
Hafed:
That is so, when the child quickens at about three months. Sometimes, they quicken faster than others, but that is when the child is a child. Before that time it is a foetus – a physical living entity but without the spirit. The body has a life of its own but the spirit is the true force that guides the vehicle through life.
Think about a child is conceived and known to be in an unhealthy state, because the parents take drugs, have AIDS, or have other forms of illness that are passed onto the child which prevent it from living a full, natural life. In these cases, the child is going to suffer and never have a complete life. There are souls on our side of life who are waiting to enter the womb of a woman to call her mother and to have a man they may call father. To give the foetus a life that will best bless it to the growth of spiritual truth and worth. But in this case it cannot be so, because the sin has already been committed, by the drug and the AIDS persons.
The sin would be greater if a soul, like I have described, should enter into that foetus and be trapped until the body gives up life. God in His love and mercy will not permit that to happen, either for the mother’s sake, the father’s sake, or the wrong doers sake, because the cross would then become too heavy for them to carry. But there are high souls on our side of life, who say, “Let me go, Father – send me – let me be the child”. They are born into those conditions and they take on that kind of life, some of them to a full age. Others come for weeks or only hours, but they take it on. Always trapped within that carcass is a very evolved soul and they can give you a great deal of love.
But do not think that it is the only time and only reason. For there are souls on our side of life whose want and urgent need is to be confined and suffer in a diseased body. You look upon it and see the suffering and perhaps you blame God and ask, “How could He allow that to happen.” But God, who loves His children, knows their needs and will willingly supply them. That is why many people in your world suffer from diseases and are never cured. Their pain is terrible, but you do not see their souls when they are risen up from those bodies of torment. You see others who are healed by God and you say, “Why has He chosen to heal this one and not heal another?” I know that this has been said; even by persons in this room, but now I have given you the reason.
Your mind and heart is centred upon the life that you have and you feel that your needs are to be happy here. Yet this is just a small insignificant speck of life compared to where you are going. If it means that you spend that miserable period of time suffering here, in order to be raised up into the full glory of your loving Father and a life that is vibrating with the true happiness of God, and the gifts He bestows upon you, so be it.
You do not know happiness here! Do not be silly! You will never know happiness here!
It is made and designed in that same way for you to grow in understanding, in kindness and in love. If you do not, then the price is there to be paid, but you will eventually, hopefully, rise up from that depth of degradation into the loving arms of your Father.
So now you can see. There will invariably come a time when things are going to change, as I have said before. Many of the evil ways that are here will be gone. For I have spoken to you about the sufferings of man through the diseases he contracts, which are there for his spiritual growth. But not all disease is of that calibre and comes with the blessing of God. For there are those diseases that man has created and we return now to that imperfect thought that sets in motion the chain of events that are of a destructive nature. That is not and can never be part of God’s will. But there are those illnesses that come to man and are there for his own spiritual progression.
I will leave you now. Farewell.
Hafed ends his spiritual development teaching.