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THERE IS A

NEW MESSAGE FROM GOD IN THE WORLD

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THERE IS A

NEW MESSAGE FROM GOD IN THE WORLD

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Marshall Vian Summers

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Copyright © 2007 The Society for The Greater Community Way of Knowledge. Printed and bound in the United States of America. ISBN 978-1-884238-47-5 This volume serves as an introduction to The New Message from God. The New Message is presented in the books Greater Community Spirituality, Steps to Knowledge, Wisdom from the Greater Community: Volumes I & I, Living the Way of Knowledge and Relationships & Higher Purpose. We encourage you to share this important message with others. This introduction is available free online at www.newmessage.org or you can contact The Society to obtain copies of this book and the other books of the New Message. To learn more about The New Message from God, please visit www.newmessage.org.

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T/7/s represents the great revelation that is being presented to humanity, for the Creator would not leave humanity alone or unprepared for the great change that is coming. The Creator would not leave humanity without the means for living life according to the great purpose that has brought each person into the world. Receive this gift now. This is a gift to you. It is a gift to humanity. And it has come at just the right time.

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There is a New Message from God in the world. It is a gift from the Creator of all life. It has been translated into human language by the Angelic Presence who watch over the world. It honors the enduring truth in all the great Messages that the Creator has ever given to the world, yet it is unlike anything that has ever been revealed to humanity before. As the receiver of the New Message, it is my duty, my burden and my blessing to bring God's great gift to you who are destined to be amongst the first to receive it. It is for your eyes and ears, for your heart and mind to recognize and to receive the blessings and the protection that the Creator has provided. It will bring you to the deeper need of your soul and with it a far greater promise of happiness and fulfillment in your life. Is the New Message for you? Your mind may endlessly question this and be in doubt, but your heart will know. Such is the power of Knowledge within you, a power that is waiting to be discovered and lived. The New Message from God has been sent to alert, to bless and to prepare the entire human family. The New Message has been sent to alert humanity to an unseen peril, a Greater Darkness which now threatens the future and freedom of all the world's

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people. The New Message has been sent to bless, strengthen and redeem people everywhere through the power of Knowledge, the spiritual presence and intelligence that the Creator has bestowed upon the human family. The New Message has been sent to prepare people of all nations and faiths to end their ceaseless conflicts in order to cooperate and to unite in the face of diminishing resources, catastrophic climate change and increasing uncertainty, competition and the dangers of war. Finally, the New Message has been sent to prepare the human family as it faces the reality and the hazards of Contact with intelligent life from beyond our world. For over twenty years, the New Message has slowly been revealed to me. It has been a humbling experience to receive such a mysterious, compelling and immense gift and to take the journey that it required over such a long period of time without recognition or confirmation from the world around me. For this, I am especially grateful for the support and encouragement I have had from my wife, my son and the small group of courageous individuals who have been called to assist me in bringing the New Message from God into the world. As the result of my encounter with God's New Message, I know what it may mean for you to come upon such a new revelation for the first time. Disbelief, doubt and hesitation may certainly attend such a life-changing encounter. Yet for those who are willing to devote the time to explore the New

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Message, its deep and abiding truth will become self-evident. There is a New Message from God in the world. This small book is but an introduction, for the New Message is very great. It is an answer to the sincere prayers of people from all nations and faith traditions for peace, unity, redemption and deliverance at a time of great change and upheaval in the world. The answer is now here. It is now up to you, to me and to those who are its first recipients to have the courage, the trust and the vision to recognize the New Message from God, to receive its blessings and to realize that humanity is one people with one spirituality, living within a Greater Community of intelligent life in the Universe.

CONTENTS

A Message from MV Summers

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Comprehending God

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Why a new message from God?

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A greater darkness upon the world

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Finding your purpose in the world

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Spiritual powers in the universe

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The Great Presence within you

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It is time now for a greater comprehension of God and an expanded understanding of God. God is the source and author of your life and of all life within this world and throughout the Greater Community of worlds in which you live. This new understanding is not to correct previous understandings as much as it is to expand them, to make them more complete and to leave the door open for a greater experience of the Divine will and presence in your life. In presenting a New Message from God, it is necessary then to renew this experience of the Divine — to freshen it, to separate it from all the things that have been added by human institutions and human inventions and to bring it into greater focus and clarity for you. Here it is important not to confuse God with religion, for many terrible things have been done in the name of religion and in the name of God. Yet God exists far beyond all of these things — far beyond human error, far beyond human imagination, far beyond human invention and far beyond human corruption. It is necessary now for you to consider God within the larger arena of intelligent life in which you live, which includes all life within this world and extends beyond it into the Greater Community of worlds. 11

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To have a pure experience of the Divine reality and the Divine will for your life, you must gain this Greater Community understanding of God. Otherwise, you will think of God as a projection of your own personality and human nature, as a projection of your own emotions, thoughts and feelings. You will project onto God your anger, your preferences, your judgments, your desire for revenge, your notions of justice and punishment and so forth. However, God exists beyond all of this — the real God, the pure God that has been shining like the sun upon you. Regardless of the clouds in the sky, regardless of the pollution in the atmosphere and regardless of the turbulence on the ground, God is like the sun shining upon you. Yet God is beyond the sun, beyond any definition that you can make. Beyond your histories, beyond the great teachers and the great messengers from God, beyond the great spiritual books and testimonies, there is God, the Creator and the author of your life and existence. What God has created in you lives within you now. It lives beyond your intellect, beyond your thoughts and understanding, beyond your concepts, beyond your ideas and beliefs. It exists in a deeper place within you, within a deeper mind, which in the New Message is called Knowledge. This deeper mind is a mind that knows. It is a mind that waits. It is a mind that sees clearly without distortion, without fear, without preference, without confusion and without speculation. It is a deeper mind within 12

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you. This is what God has created in you that is permanent, that will last forever. Beyond your temporary identity in this world, beyond all the events of this world and beyond the river of your experience in this life, there is Knowledge within you, and God is the author of this Knowledge. If you think of God within this greater context, you can begin to appreciate the power and magnificence of God's creation within the world and even within yourself. Your body, your mind and your personality are all temporary vehicles whose greater purpose is to express your relationship with God and the wisdom that God has given to you to communicate and to contribute to a world in need. Think then of your body, your mind and your intellect as vehicles of expression, valuable in and of themselves but not as valuable as that which they are meant to express and to serve. Then you will begin to see that God permeates all things, God lives within all things, and yet God is beyond all things. You can feel God's presence wherever you are, and you can find and follow Knowledge wherever you are. Therefore, to fully understand and experience God within your life, you must come to Knowledge within yourself, which is the greater intelligence, the permanence, that God has created within you and for you. It is who you really are. Beyond all concepts, ideas and illusions, it is your true nature. It is by gaining a connection to Knowledge and by 13

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learning to discern Knowledge and follow Knowledge that you learn to experience the presence, the power and the will of God in your life. Yet the totality of God remains forever beyond the concepts of the intellect, beyond all human inventions and beyond all individual and collective philosophies. For what set of ideas and concepts can contain a God of the Greater Community, God who is the author of countless races of beings in the Universe, all unique and different from one another in so many ways? To come to God then is to come to Knowledge within yourself, for Knowledge is what calls you to God. Perhaps you will be called to a certain place or to a certain person, but it is for this purpose — to experience God's presence within yourself. For you will need more than belief to appreciate, comprehend and follow what God has given you to see, to know and to do. Let this be the starting place for you, where you take the steps to Knowledge, where you take the steps to God. You do this whether you are a Christian, a Buddhist, a Muslim or whatever faith tradition you adhere to. Even if you do not have a faith tradition, there are still the steps to Knowledge. God is what created all the world's religions, and Knowledge is what unites them still, despite all of the separation and conflict that exist

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between them. For separation and conflict are a human invention and not a Divine invention. The calling reverberates within all of these traditions — within them and beyond them. It is a calling that sounds throughout the Universe to return to the power and presence of Knowledge, to discover what Knowledge has for you to do, to see and to know. This initiates the return to God — the calling, the listening, the responding and the return. Let this be your understanding.

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This new revelation is being presented very humbly and very simply. it does not conform to people's expectations, beliefs or traditions. god is not bound by these things and only gives humanity specifically what it needs to take the next step in order to meet the next challenge.

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Why a New Message from God? God watches over the world, overseeing humanity's development. Periodically, God must send into the world a New Message, a New Message in response to a greater need that humanity could not resolve or recognize on its own. These Messages by their very nature are infrequent, for a great deal has already been given to humanity to teach you how to live in cooperation, peace and with a greater sense of commitment and contribution to the world. Indeed, many people everywhere continue to struggle with these messages and revelations while many others are in denial of them altogether. Yet the reality remains that God oversees the world and through God's emissaries, God's Angels, the encouragement for humanity to reclaim its true spiritual identity and awareness goes on every moment of every day. At this period of time, as human evolution accelerates, aNew Message from God is being sent into the world. This New Message is being sent because humanity must have a new understanding of its situation in its relationship with intelligent life beyond the world. 17

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Indeed, it is accurate to say that humanity has arrived at a great turning point. It is not merely the culmination of past events. It is the beginning of an entirely new reality where humanity discovers that it is not alone within the Universe or even within its own world. It is at this great turning point where humanity's sense of pre-eminence in the world and sense of isolation in the Universe come to an end forever. From a greater perspective, this is a coming of age. This is entering a more mature state, for indeed you have always lived within a Greater Community of intelligent life in the Universe. Yours is but one young race amongst many others. The Universe is replete with life, which exists at every stage of development and evolution. Yet humanity has grown up in a state of relative isolation with only infrequent visitations to the world from others in the Greater Community around you. This isolation is now coming to an end. With this ending, an entirely new episode and chapter in humanity's great journey in the world begins. It is a turning point with great risks, great challenges and yet with immense opportunities. But how can humanity know of these things? How can humanity prepare itself adequately for the new events that it will be encountering? For even at this moment, the majority of people in the world are focused only on immediate events and are still struggling with conflicts from the past that have not been resolved.

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Humanity's emergence into the Greater Community and its contact with intelligent life from beyond the world are things that many people have considered to be possible. Yet who is aware of what this really means? How can humanity prepare itself without great assistance from the Creator? God is fully aware of these things and has sent a New Message into the world to prepare humanity for its new life in the Greater Community. This New Revelation is being presented very humbly and very simply. It does not conform to people's expectations, beliefs or traditions. God is not bound by these things and only gives humanity specifically what it needs to take the next step in order to meet a new challenge. Such revelations are rarely welcomed at the outset and are often greatly misunderstood by people who encounter them for the first time. God understands this. Nonetheless, each New Message that is given into the world is vitally important and must be received in a pure form and be communicated by very courageous people who have been entrusted with the New Message. Contrary to many people's expectations, the New Message is always given to one person. Many others are called to help this person to receive this Message and to communicate it effectively. This is how great revelations are presented both within your world and within all worlds in the Greater

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Community. This is done merely as a matter of efficiency. Ifthis one individual can respond and be prepared to receive such a great burden and responsibility, and if others can respond to assist this person, then the New Revelation can be presented in a pure form. If it were given to many people, there would be dissension and misunderstanding, and people would have different versions or interpretations of what they have received. It is for this reason that a New Revelation is given through one person. Of course, this will be contested, and many people will be upset, perhaps because they were not chosen to be the one to receive the New Revelation. They may believe that many people should be chosen, but this is not how things happen in life. This is not how God works in the world or in any world in the Universe. The Revelation, the New Message, must be given in a pure form. It must be given to someone who can receive it and who will not deny it or corrupt it in any way. It must be given to someone who was sent into the world for the purpose of receiving and communicating a New Message from God. Such a Revelation is far too important to entrust to someone who does not meet these qualifications. Some people believe that God is delivering new messages into the world all the time, but this is not true. New Messages are delivered to humanity very infrequently. And they are only presented to enable humanity to meet a new and unprecedented need.

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They are presented at great turning points, great milestones in humanity's evolution and development. Humanity stands at the threshold now of encountering intelligent races from the Greater Community. It stands at the threshold of having the power to destroy its own life in the world. These alone are enough to prompt a New Message from God, and indeed this has been the case. Many people sense that a great change is going to come to the world, and many feel this change is happening already. They may interpret this change in many different ways, according to their range of experience and understanding, but the feeling is the same. Knowledge, or Spirit, is stirring in many people, alerting them to the reality that a great change is upon humanity, a great challenge and a great opportunity. The feeling is the same, however it may be interpreted. Whether a happy outcome or an unhappy outcome is predicted, it is the feeling that really matters, for this is a sign that great change is at hand. This is a sign that the New Message from God is coming. The Creator is very practical, yet people are very impractical, so often there is a misunderstanding at the outset. People think a New Message from God will be very dramatic. The clouds will part and a great voice from the sky will speak down to the people. But it is not like this at all. What really happens isthat one person is called and prepared to

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begin to receive the New Message. This person must undergo a tremendous process of upheaval. They must build the necessary self-acceptance and faith in God in order to do this. Then a few people are called to assist this person. They too must transcend their own personal interests and preoccupations to be able to assume a greater responsibility. This can take quite a while. Yet once this is achieved, then the New Message from God will begin to flow. And it will be very great, greater than even words can express, for it will not merely be a set of ideas or a set of precepts, it will be an entirely new understanding and awareness. The person chosen and those who are called to assist him or her must learn to convey this new understanding and awareness effectively to others. It is true that humanity is not very receptive to God's Revelations. Because of this, the communication process of translating a New Message from God into the world is fraught with many difficulties. Much resistance, judgment and condemnation are directed towards those who are attempting to bring this greater truth into the world. Yet however imperfect the response may be, the communication process must happen. God can only communicate to what God has created in you. Your mind may be opposed to this communication. Your mind may be upset by this communication. Your mind may take issue with it for any number of reasons. But the communication

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is intended to reach a deeper part of you. It is only at this deeper level that the New Message from God can be truly comprehended. As time goes on, there will be rejection. There will be resistance. There will be misunderstanding. There will be all kinds of confusion and denial. But eventually the New Message from God will become self-evident. Yet because of the accelerating nature of humanity's evolution, there is not a great deal of time to communicate the New Message from God that is being sent into the world today. Circumstances are changing too fast. Things are accelerating, and the presence of extraterrestrial visitors in the world is becoming so substantial and influential here that humanity does not have a great deal of time to think about or to acclimate itself to a new understanding. Because of the accelerating nature of your evolution, everything must happen more rapidly. The New Message from God must be presented tohumanity quickly and integrated rapidly in order to have its full impact and to provide its great service to humanity. This is absolutely fundamental for humanity's survival and well-being in the Greater Community. You are being given this greater understanding so that you may be in a position to receive the blessings of the Creator. When people think of the Creator providing blessings in their life, they often think of it in very immediate and inconsequential matters. They think of it in terms that are very

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small and related only to their personal concerns. Yet when the Creator provides a real blessing for humanity, it is very great and far reaching. The Creator understands that humanity cannot comprehend everything on its own. Humanity cannot even comprehend the movement of nature on its own. You need assistance to prepare for the seminal events that will occur in your future. Because God does not want to intervene in the world directly, communications must be sent through certain inspired individuals. There are Angels of the Creator who help humanity with more immediate things, with practical matters, with urgent needs for the well-being of communities and for the advancement of people's efforts that are truly beneficial. But a New Message from God, well, that is something else. Today there is a great calling for a New Message from God. Humanity is facing a great threshold, perhaps the greatest it will ever face. Your isolation in the Universe is over. Your world is experiencing an Intervention from intelligent races from beyond the world. Your tribal conflicts, your lack of unity and the depletion of the world's resources make you extremely vulnerable to such an Intervention and extremely vulnerable to persuasion and manipulation from beyond your world. Yet humanity has great strength. You have a spiri24

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tual foundation that many other technologically advanced races in the Greater Community do not have. You have both strengths and weaknesses as you approach this great turning point. The timing here is critical. The awareness is vital. It is not merely an option. It is not merely for the edification of certain inspired individuals. It is essential for the survival and well-being of all humanity. Perhaps you can feel this great turning point within yourself. Perhaps you can feel that the very essence of life, the environment of life, the feeling of life are changing. It is not merely that you are changing. It is that you are feeling something in the world around you changing. This change is greater than your economies; it is greater than your cultural experiences; it is greater than your art. It is something that people all over the world can feel. It is this feeling that is so universally experienced. It is towards this feeling that the New Message from God is being directed. God's New Message is for everyone in the world — from any culture, from any religion, for the rich, for the poor, for the sick, for the well, for the young, and for the old. It speaks to everyone. It is time now to explore the New Message from God and what is calling it into the world.

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This has prompted a New Message from God to be given to the world, for a Greater Darkness is upon humanity.

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The Greater Darkness Upon the World Surely a New Message from God must respond to a great need, a need that is so great that humanity could not understand it or prepare for it on its own. This must prompt, in a sense, an intervention from God, for God cannot let humanity enter a new arena and a new challenge without great assistance. God's interventions are infrequent, but they are vitally necessary. The arrival of great spiritual emissaries such as Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed represent such interventions. However their presence may have been interpreted and whatever the response, these great representatives brought something to humanity that it desperately needed, that it could not find on its own. You have now arrived at a great turning point when such a revelation must again be given. It is not a reiteration of what has been provided before. It is a New Message, a new understanding, an understanding that builds upon all God's Messages that 27

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have ever been sent into the world to assist humanity. Yet because it is new, it may arouse much dissent and confusion. This cannot be avoided. The time has come for a New Revelation. This has been prompted both by humanity's evolution and by the arrival of intelligent life from beyond the world. A Greater Darkness is upon the world — a darkness that humanity has never encountered before. This represents a challenge to your freedom and integrity that you have never experienced before. An extraterrestrial Intervention is occurring in the world and has been underway for some time. Its intent is to gain control of the world and the people of the world. It is deceptive, for the Intervention presents itself as a benign force that has come here to help humanity in its great practical needs. It presents itself in a more spiritual light. Yet in truth it seeks to persuade and pacify people into thinking that humanity needs its assistance and that it is in people's best interest to follow the directions given by the Intervention itself. Such an Intervention has been going on in the world for many years now. Yet it continues to go unrecognized. Even among those who realize that a visitation is occurring, it is not being discerned correctly. Humanity is unprepared. It has never faced such an Intervention. Yet because the Intervention is a natural event and not a mystical event, nature itself can teach you what it really means. For you already understand that pre-eminence is challenged 28

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in nature, that competition is part of nature and that the strong dominate the weak if they can. This is a reality of life throughout the physical Universe. Yet it is not the reality of life in your Ancient Home from which you have come. The world in which you live is not the Ancient Home from which you have come and to which you will return. It is not your spiritual reality. It is a different reality. And in this reality, the strong will dominate the weak if they can. The Greater Community into which you are emerging is replete with intelligent life at all stages of evolution and development. There are many technologically advanced races, but their technological advancement does not mean that they are spiritually advanced at all. There is so much for humanity to learn about life in the Universe, for it is like an arrogant child who is emerging into a larger neighborhood of life. How can you understand these things and how can you prepare for this great threshold in such a way that your destiny in the Greater Community may be fulfilled and that you may emerge into this larger arena of intelligent life as a free race? This is the greatest challenge facing humanity. Preparing for this is the greatest need of humanity. Yet how few people in the world are aware of this and can see it correctly. This has prompted a New Message from God to be given to the world, for a

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Greater Darkness is upon humanity. The New Message itself must give humanity an awareness of its situation, and it must provide humanity the tools it needs to build the awareness it must have in order to maintain its freedom and to build human unity in the world. For it is only a united humanity that will be free in the Universe. It is only a united humanity that will be strong enough to maintain its pre-eminent position in the world. It is God's will that you prepare for the future. It is God's will that humanity be able to survive as a free race within a larger arena of intelligent life where there are many challenges to freedom. Yet God's will and what people understand are so very different. Are you willing to bridge this great gap? Are you willing to learn to recognize your true situation and to accept the gift that has been given for your own preparation, preservation and well-being? These are questions that must be considered by everyone who receives God's New Message. They are questions that you must answer for yourself. A Greater Darkness is upon the world. Humanity's freedom and well-being are at stake. Those who are visiting your world do not value human freedom, and even though they want to preserve the human community in service to themselves, they do not regard you as their equals. They think of you in the same way that you think of your domesticated animals. They believe that you are chaotic and destructive and that you are ruining the world, a world

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they want to have for themselves. The fact that their presence here is becoming established and that humanity is not responding has prompted the New Message from God. If one person alone expressed these views, they would not be taken seriously, even if they fully understood the situation, which would be very difficult to do on their own. Even if this person had a complete understanding, their voice would be small and people would discount it. People would say, "Well, this person is crazy! This is foolishness! We should concern ourselves with the real problems that face humanity." That is why there is a New Message from God because the Message must come from God. It must come from God to be really understood. It cannot be the voice of one person. One person in the world could not possibly understand the meaning or the realities of life in the Universe. One person could not possibly understand what the Intervention really means and how it is functioning. For this you need a New Message from God. The Creator does not will that humanity fail. But humanity can still fail, for this is your world. Humanity wanted to have its own reality. This is true of all intelligent life in the Universe. This is what created the separation from God in the beginning, and this is what created the Universe that you can see and that you can touch — a Universe that is 31

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full of change, full of beauty and full of danger. That is why the Creator can only advise. That is why the Creator does not run the Universe that you see. However, great spiritual forces are at work in this physical reality, encouraging Knowledge, cooperation and truth in all the manifestations of life. You are now being given this perspective so that you can begin to see, to feel and to know what God's New Message really means for you. The Greater Darkness in the world today is hidden. It is deceptive. It portrays itself as benign and beneficial. Itencourages people to acquiesce to its presence and to share in its mission here. It is not a spiritual force. It is a physical force. It is not comprised of multi-dimensional beings. It is comprised of physical beings from the Universe who present themselves in such a way that people will think the "visitors" are mystical, spiritual and have magical powers. The only powers they have are their technology and their ability to convince you through persuasion in the mental environment. The real power is the power that you have. It is the power of Knowledge, the power to see and to know beyond deception. But this power is weak in humanity and must be strengthened. It is not a power that those who are intervening in your world use or are even aware of. If they were, they would not be intervening in your world. They would not be seeking to gain control of your world and the world's peoples. For Knowledge is born of God, and God cannot attack itself. 32

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The greatest power of the Universe is within you, but you are not using it. This power is now being called for as never before. The challenge now to human freedom is unprecedented. And yet people go about their daily lives never giving it a thought. Or if they are aware of its possibility, they tend to interpret it in such a way that it makes them feel safe and comfortable. How can humanity account, then, for the extraterrestrial Intervention? How can humanity account for the Greater Darkness in the world? Who can bring it to humanity's awareness? And how can humanity prepare to offset the Intervention and begin to fulfill its destiny of emerging into a Greater Community of intelligent life as a free race? Only God has the answer to this. No one person could have the answer to this. No philosophy could have the answer to this. That is why there is a New Message from God. The Greater Darkness in the world will affect every person living in the world. It will affect their children and the future of humanity itself. This is not a problem for one nation alone. It is a problem for people everywhere. For you all face the same challenge and you all face the same consequences if you should fail. This begins to show you that your issues with one another and your distrust of one another have no real foundation in the Universe. For those who are intervening in your world consider you all to be the same. They do not value one over another except insofar as you can be useful to their cause.

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The healing of humanity will come as a result of its meeting a greater challenge together. The resolution of your long-standing disputes and your unforgiveness towards each other will be resolved by meeting a greater challenge together. This challenge is here now. It is a challenge that is overshadowing the entire world. This indeed is the great change that you feel. This indeed is the cause of your anxiety about the future. This indeed is what is calling you to respond. The great spiritual renaissance that is occurring in your world today is not merely to bring about a greater sense of well-being. It is a calling to respond to a great challenge. Yet if the challenge is not recognized, then the calling will be misinterpreted and will not be understood. The Universe that you will encounter is a very competitive environment, and there are great forces that seek to exploit emerging worlds such as your own. Yet you can resist such exploitation. It can be stopped. However, to do this you must begin to accept the greater spiritual power that lives within you, you must find this within other people and you must affirm this throughout the human family. Humanity has the promise to be a free and strong race. Yet it must be self-sufficient to do this. People must recognize their common ground and their common needs. People must offset their tendencies to exploit one another for personal advantage. This is not merely a recommendation now. It is essential for your survival and for your freedom. 34

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The extraterrestrial forces in the world today who are intervening in human affairs are seeking to take this freedom away from you. Yet they can only do this with your cooperation, with your acquiescence and with your avoidance and denial of the truth. Should you actively resist these forces, they will be forced to withdraw, for they are depending entirely upon human submission. They are depending upon your weakness and not upon your strength. The New Message from God reveals the real meaning of the Greater Darkness in the world, how it is functioning here and how you must respond to it. It is calling upon what you most deeply know. It is telling you that it is within your capacity to understand what is really happening in the world today. You can understand this and you must understand this. It is calling upon you to rise above your personal preoccupations in order to recognize a greater need, a need that is essential to your freedom and your well-being. Through the New Message, God is calling everyone equally, not to believe in one philosophy or one religion over another but to become aware of a greater need in the world. It is calling you to use your culture, your religion and the wisdom that they provide to respond to this great need. At the core of all world religions, there is one truth, and that is the reality of your spiritual nature. However clouded this truth may be, however lost it may seem in what religion has become or how it is promoted, this essential truth remains. The New Message from 35

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The New Message from God calls for human responsibility. This is the age of human unity and responsibility. Itis not the age where you only believe in a great saint or a great avatar. It is not the age where you follow a hidden or distant leader. This is a time for human responsibility and cooperation. This is not merely a good idea. It is the only idea. Here you will begin to see that the extraterrestrial Intervention, the Greater Darkness in the world, though grave and serious and posing tremendous risks, is at the same time the one thing that can unite humanity and enable you to override your longstanding conflicts and build the foundation for a new reality here. For it is only if humanity is united and self-sufficient in the Universe that you can hope to remain free. The New Message from God will reveal this to you in such a way that you can understand it. For you can understand reality even if you are afraid of it, even if you are not sure that you want it, even if you are not sure that you can be powerful within it. God's New Message does not speak to people's beliefs. It speaks to a deeper part of each person. The ability of people to respond is based upon how connected they are to their real spiritual nature and intelligence.

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reality are the same, and they try to apply their spiritual understanding to the physical world. Others think that there is no spiritual reality, that there is only the world. However, neither of these evaluations is correct. In physical life, there is competition in nature. This is part of nature. This is the natural world you live in. This competition exists throughout the Greater Community as well. In the Greater Community, there are races that are spiritually advanced and aware, and there are many races that are not. Some are technologically advanced, and some are not. There are powerful commercial forces in this part of the Galaxy in which you live. They seek to take advantage of new biological and ies. They seek to take advantage such as your own. They are not advanced, or they would not be self-serving way.

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hindering this great redemption, this great process of renewing and reinvigorating spiritual reality. Or, said in other words, everyone is either helping or hindering the return to the Creator. It is necessary to speak in very large terms here because you need to see things in this way, for this will bring great clarity to your understanding. This will enable you to recognize the forces that support humanity's freedom and those that oppose it. Fear serves only one beneficial purpose and that is to alert you to the presence of danger. This kind of fear is part of your natural makeup. It is there to protect your well-being and to give you an awareness of those elements in your natural environment, the physical world, that could threaten this wellbeing. Yet most of the fear that plagues people is the product of their imagination. It is something that they create for themselves. It is not grounded in reality. Though you can see evidence of terrible things in your physical reality, the fears that drive people are largely the product of their imagination. These are purely destructive fears. Love is the emanation of Knowledge within you, Knowledge being your spiritual reality and intelligence. But even the manifestations of love may not always seem to be kind, gentle or reassuring, for love sometimes must challenge you. Love sometimes must correct you, and love sometimes must redirect your actions. People have a very romantic view of love, but this is not really what love is. If you could

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see that the Creator is being loving by alerting you to the realities of the Intervention and by attempting to prepare you for your future in the Greater Community, you would see this expression of love very clearly. Then you would not have a conflict regarding love and fear. You would see the fear that disables you, the fear that weakens you, the fear that tells you that you are pathetic and cannot really establish a position of power and responsibility in the world. Love brings out fear. It reveals fear. It transforms fear. When people become aware of the Greater Darkness in the world, their first reaction may be fear. Part of this fear is their natural fear, being aware of danger. But much of this fear will be their imagination and what they think it means, and this fear will disable them. While your natural fear is cautionary, your imaginary fear is purely destructive. Reality will bring out this destructive fear. What will replace this fear is a kind of love that is aware, that is present, and that is responsible. It is not the kind of love that makes you feel passive and reassured. That is not really what love is. Love is not thinking that everything isgoing to be fine and that God is taking care of everything. Indeed, God has sent you here to take care of everything! Love is a position of selfacceptance, responsibility, cooperation and contribution. That is love. It is clear. It is sober. And it is able to face whatever life brings across its path.

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Love treats every difficulty as an opportunity. It does not deny the realities of life. It does not seek to gain personal advantage by denying reality. It does not seek to put a happy face on every event of life. This is love. This is God's love. Some people believe that God's love is like an aphrodisiac. They think that it will make you forget everything else and put you into some kind of ecstatic state. The only real ecstasy is to be grounded in God's love because this gives you all the inner security you could ever need. But it also gives you the responsibility to contribute to a world in need. Here there is no confusion between physical life and your Ancient Home. Here you are grounded spiritually but are learning to be effective in the natural world. Here you will see that God's New Message is an unparalleled gift. Here you will see that the Intervention, though grave and serious and unlike anything humanity has ever faced before, can in itself give humanity the foundation to unite itself on its own behalf. In the Greater Community, the physical Universe in which you live, the strong will dominate the weak if they can. This is a reality of life in the physical realm. You see this in nature all around you. The evolution of species and the competition for environment are fundamental to the natural world you live in. To be in denial of this is to deny the natural world, the reality of your body and the reality of your being in the world. Yet there are many people

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in the world today who deny this reality because they are afraid. As a result, they cannot see that the physical world and the heavenly state are two entirely different realities. Each must be responded to differently. The spiritual reality lives within you, in your Knowledge. This is the reality that the Creator has given you. You have it already. This is the source of real love, compassion and contribution. Knowledge within you does not seek escape. It does not try to deceive itself into thinking that everything is wonderful. Itdoes not claim that God is taking care of everything for you, as if you were a helpless child. Knowledge within you is here on a mission. It is here to contribute. It is here to face the world as it is and to contribute to it and to improve it so that the possibilities for greater spiritual awareness may be cultivated here. In the Greater Community into which you are emerging, technologically advanced races are rarely spiritually advanced. Those who seek to explore and to exploit other nations are not the spiritually advanced. You can understand this. It is no different in the Greater Community than it is here in your world. The question is whether you can accept it. Love will always encourage you to face reality and to meet its challenges and its opportunities. Fear will always take you away from reality because you are afraid for yourself — afraid your ideas may be 44

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wrong, afraid your security may be challenged, afraid that you will not know what to do, afraid that you will be helpless, afraid that you will be dominated and afraid that you will fail. Love will take you to meet these challenges. Fear will take you away. Love will face the Intervention. Fear will deny it. Love will receive the New Message from God. Fear will dispute it. God must give you this real understanding of love and fear or you will become very confused. Fear is always the basis of preference in these matters. You deny reality because you want something else. Perhaps you don't want your personal goals to be upset by the realities of life, and so you will deny those realities. Perhaps you want the Universe to be a place full of enlightened beings so that you won't have to be challenged. Already the Intervention that is in the world is preying upon these preferences and these fears, encouraging people to think that the Intervention is here for their good, if people are aware of it at all. There are people in the world today who are driven by fear, and they will naturally be receptive to such persuasion, for their own personal advantage of course. Who in the world really wants an Intervention? Most people do not want an Intervention, but an Intervention is what is happening. It is a reality of life. If you can face it, then love will become 45

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stronger. If you deny it, then fear will become stronger. God can only speak to that part of you that is capable of real love. The Intervention can only speak to that part of you that is already afraid. It is possible that those who are intervening in the world can be redeemed through Knowledge, but that is God's work and not yours. Your work here now is to preserve human freedom and to establish yourselves in the Universe as a free and independent race. If you fail, then all that humanity has accomplished will be lost. All of the teaching, all of the true spiritual understanding, all of the art, all of the culture, all of your advancements can be lost. Impossible, you say? Well, think of all the human civilizations that have disappeared from your world. All that they established is lost, leaving only a few traces. You have the possibility now to establish a greater foundation for humanity, a Greater Community understanding and awareness, a real unity and cooperation based upon real need and necessity. If you shrink from this, then you are following fear. If you shrink from this, then you are serving the Intervention, either knowingly or unknowingly. Establishing this foundation is a great challenge. The problem is not that the truth is difficult to comprehend; the problem is, do people really want it? It is not that life is too difficult; the question is, can people face it, rise above it and use it to gain greater maturity, greater equanimity and greater 46

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power? The gift of God's New Message is pure. Can it be purely received? That is the real question. The Intervention itself is a gift in that it can unite humanity in its own defense. Yet it is only a gift if you can receive the New Message from God because you cannot prepare yourself for the Intervention. From your vantage point, you cannot understand what life is like beyond your borders, what has prompted the Intervention, how it is functioning or the nature and organization of those who are generating it. For this, you need a greater awareness. You need a New Message from God. Therefore, come to realize what love really is within you. Love affirms your strength, your integrity, your responsibility, your honor, your courage and your contribution to others. It encourages selfless participation in the world. Love is the essence of your strength. It is not sentimental. It is not like the ridiculous romantic images that people have generated to describe it. It is not a source of personal avoidance or irresponsibility. What is fear? Fear is the belief that you are powerless and that you can do nothing. Fear is what prompts you to give yourself to your preferences and to your compulsions. Fear is what keeps you weak. Fear keeps you from responding to the real needs of the world and disables you from doing what you know you have to do for yourself. Fear prevents you from serving others in a real and genuine way.

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Both love and fear are pervasive within your world. But people are still confused. The Intervention will speak to your fear. God's New Message will speak to your love. Yet in order for you to see this, you must deeply consider these things. You must face the great challenge of your time and be willing to see the relevance of the answer that God has given. Being in the world, by its very nature, is a compromised state of awareness. Your personal self wants to survive. It is afraid of death and does not want to suffer. And yet you cannot destroy what God has created within you. You can lose sight of it. You can avoid it. You can deny it. You can believe it does not exist. But it is still real within you. It is permanent. Itcannot be destroyed. It can only be rejected. And now it is being called for as never before. When you begin to recognize that there is a Greater Darkness in the world, when you see that this can take from you everything that you have and everything that humanity has gained and developed throughout its entire history, you will begin to really understand what you are facing. Perhaps you will lose possibly If it were Message

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Yet it can give humanity its greatest opportunity to become strong and united. No one in the world will have any advantage facing the Intervention alone. Even those individuals who are recruited to serve the Intervention will have no real advantage here. It is only by meeting a greater challenge in life that humanity can override and surmount its longstanding conflicts. This challenge is not momentary. It will be ongoing, for you live in a beautiful world that is greatly valued by others. You live in a world that is rich in mineral and biological resources — a gem in the Universe. Such places are far more rare than you may realize. Other nations in the Universe that have outstripped their world's resources must now trade and barter for what they need. They must seek and explore for what they need. You are living on what is considered by others to be a paradise island in the Universe. Yet you do not know what you have and you are ruining it. Only a real Greater Community awareness will change this. With this awareness, you would not squander such a place. You would not ruin the world if you realized what is really at stake here. Many people think the Universe is just a big empty place that humanity will go out and colonize for its own benefit. Be assured that is not the case. The situation has become very grave. However, humanity has the power to stop the Intervention. To do this, it must gain a greater cooperation. To

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do this, enough people must respond. This response must be born of love and not of fear. Serving the real needs of humanity, even in the face of great danger, is an act of profound love and selflessness. Let this be your understanding. Even the Creator is concerned that humanity may fail. This concern is born of love. As a parent is concerned for the well-being of his or her child, this concern is born of love. Do not repudiate this concern, thinking that it is negative or that it is unjustified. Indeed, the New Message from God affirms that behind all of the manifestations of life in the physical Universe, there is the great love and compassion ofthe Creator for what has been created. You cannot fully understand God's great love at the outset, for gaining this understanding represents a journey, a journey with many steps. You must begin from where you are. Here you are saved from your own personal predicament because God has given you a greater problem to address and a greater set of needs to meet within the world. Here you are saved from your hopeless attempt to fulfill yourself alone by being given something that can truly serve the world. There is no fulfillment in personal fulfillment. If you seek happiness only, you will compromise yourself and you will follow fear. You will deny reality, and you will turn away from the great needs of the world that are calling for you. Even the great needs

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that you are meant to serve, that you are sent here to serve, you will deny in order to try to fulfill your own agenda. You may try to fulfill what you think you want, but your heart will only be fulfilled by doing what you came here to do.

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at the world to see how utterly destructive this can be. Real relationships and real work, real families and real communities are based upon meeting the real challenges of life and contributing something even beyond the mundane necessities of life. The evidence of this is all around you if you will look. Your real purpose in the world is to give something that the world truly needs. When you return to your Ancient Home, there will be comfort and reassurance there unlike anything you can acquire for yourself within the world. So while you are here, you are here to work, to give something, to do something. This work then becomes the basis of your meaningful relationships and all of your meaningful activities. The New Message from God speaks about relationships, about work and about everything that you do in the world. It provides a whole new understanding of how you can be in the world in such a way that you can be spiritually connected and can fulfill your mission here by contributing to the world. With the Greater Darkness upon the world, a problem is revealed which will affect everyone. Yet this problem will speak to certain people directly because it is their mission to deal with this specifically. There are many other problems that require human contribution, but dealing with the Intervention and preparing for the Greater Community will be the fundamental work of cer54

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tain people. They are born with this. It is their mission. This is what they are here to do. They can misconstrue this mission; they can deny it; but they cannot change it. It is pure within them. The New Message from God will call to these people directly. It will be their calling. It will be the sign that the time has come for them to rise out of their personal preoccupations and distractions. It will be the catalyst for a greater spiritual power within them to come to the surface and be activated. Surely you have seen in your history that certain people were called to bring something absolutely new into the world. They were part of a new reality. Itwasn't simply something they wanted. It was something that was revealed, something that ignited the deeper part of themselves. You must look to the world and then you must look to the Greater Community in order to find your calling. The answer is within you, but the calling is not. It is out there. This is what heals your relationship with the world. This is what restores your true power to you. This is what takes you out of the suffering of your personal self-created reality and plants you in the reality that created you and that you were sent here to serve. Some people think they create their own reality and that creating your own reality is the thing you want to do. Well, that is only partially true. What is

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essential is to find the reality that created you. Then you must respond to the reality that you were sent here to serve. They are two different realities. One is the absolute reality of God. The other is the relative reality of life in the world. What humanity has learned thus far through its religious teachings and through its own cultural development cannot fully prepare it for what lies ahead. There is not enough time. You do not have centuries to acclimate yourself to the reality of the Greater Community. It is in your midst already. There is a Greater Darkness in the world. Time now is of the essence. Therefore, it becomes essential for people to respond, to have a clear understanding ofwhat they are dealing with, and to recognize what their real responsibilities are. You can spend a lifetime fulfilling the desires of the mind, or you can focus on the real need of your soul. The real need of your soul is to fulfill your mission in being here. That mission is revealed through the dilemmas and the challenges of the world around you. There is a great deal of work to be done at every level of human existence. There is a great deal of work that must be done to restore your natural environment so that it can sustain you in your new life in the Greater Community. You cannot go out into the Universe and get all the resources that you have depleted here in your own world. Those resources are owned by others. You will have to fight for them. Or you will have to trade for them. 56

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If you trade for them, you will relinquish much of your self-determination. Here your environmentalism has a whole new foundation. It is not merely to provide pleasant scenery. It is here to meet the fundamental needs of humanity in the future, needs that you will not be able to meet sufficiently otherwise. If you become dependent upon foreign powers in the Universe for your essential needs, the authority that you have established in the past will leave this world. Then you will pay whatever price you have to pay to get what you need from others beyond the world. Surely you can understand this. The Creator does not want to see humanity placed at such a disadvantage. All the spiritual work that has been done here, all that has been done to assist humanity and to preserve humanity could be lost in such a situation. Some people think that the Creator will just intervene and drive away all of the dark forces, but that is not how things work in the Universe. Your life is your opportunity to reclaim your true strength and integrity and to utilize them appropriately through contribution to the world. Life is not a welfare state. This understanding is part of the New Message from God. Human integrity, human empowerment, human sovereignty in this world, the preservation of the natural world, human unity — these are the things that are essential for your future. This is what the New Message from God advocates.

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people to awaken from their personal preoccupation and self-compromise. The thing, then, that seems to threaten you so thoroughly is the very thing that can call you out of your own personal hell and put you firmly on a path that can lead to true happiness and true fulfillment. The New Message from God addresses those key misperceptions that confuse people. These misperceptions must be addressed or the Message will not be understood. It will be rejected outright, or it will be accepted incorrectly. The very things that you concern yourself with — relationships, happiness, security, health, personal accomplishment — all these things must be put into a true light and true perspective orGod's New Message will be lost. It will be misinterpreted and misapplied. The truth is kept alive by people who can respond. It is also kept alive by the Angelic Presence that oversees humanity's ages the truth in all one philosophy over over another. These

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The New Message from God speaks to this fundamental truth within you. The question is, can you feel it and know it for yourself? Can you make the journey where it can be fully discovered? The truth is self-evident to all who have approached it sincerely. But first you must make this approach. From where you stand at this moment, you are not there yet. The great challenge facing humanity today will bring you closer, for it will speak to Knowledge within you. The Greater Darkness is a calling to Knowledge within you. Your mind will not want it. Your mind may object. Your mind may argue. Your mind perhaps will deny its reality entirely. Your mind may speculate. Your mind may try to compare and contrast this new understanding with all kinds of other things. Yet God's New Message is not for your mind. It is for your heart. It is for your soul. That is why it is a spiritual calling. That is why responding to it truly redeems you to yourself and places Knowledge above the mind in the true hierarchy of your Being. The New Message from God is a calling. It presents a problem that is a calling in itself. Ultimately, it provides redemption, but this redemption can only be found through real contribution. The outcome is important. In order for humanity to advance, it must survive. In order for humanity to advance, it must build upon the freedom it has established already. In the Greater Community, this is difficult to achieve. You have never had to compete with other forms of intelligent life. You compete with 60

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one another in many ways that are destructive, but you have never had to compete with other forms of intelligent life. This has now changed, and it has changed forever. Yet this competition can make you strong and can give you a greater wisdom. It can certainly unite humanity if you can respond to it correctly. Once you begin to understand this, it will be clear as day to you. But understanding only comes as a result of clearing the way, of gaining a greater resonance within yourself and of accepting a greater responsibility that must come from very deep within you. The mind only wants and fears. But Knowledge within you knows, being the great spiritual reality within you. What many people think they know is only what they want. And wants are always based upon fear — the fear of not having. But Knowledge is deeper. Because the Intervention is a natural event and not a mystical event, its reality can be recognized. It is unavoidable. It is not that something is happening on some other level. It is a natural event. The Intervention represents another set of races competing for your environment and using deception primarily to accomplish their goals. This should not create any confusion unless you are confused already. The intruders are not multi-dimensional beings. They are not spiritual beings. They are not angels.

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They are not demons. They are physical beings like you who use technology and deception to present themselves in such a way to engender belief, faith and even reverence. Yet they are here without a spiritual purpose. They are here for purposes that are entirely prosaic in nature. Once you see, feel and know this for yourself, there will be no misunderstanding. It will be clear as day. Yet it may take some time to reach this understanding. For right now, your mind is filled with all kinds of other thoughts and beliefs. Everyone in the world ultimately must work on behalf of human freedom and on behalf of the wellbeing of this world. That is enough to take everyone out of their personal misery and set everyone on a positive course. Here people can work at every imaginable level, but all for a greater good. This satisfies the soul. This is what gives you true wellbeing and a true sense of integrity. A united humanity in the Universe could become a very strong force. It could become a very positive force and could achieve things that have never been achieved in the world before. This is not merely a better option. It is now a vital necessity. If you do not claim this authority over your world, someone else will, and humanity will come under the control of other powers. The description of what this means and how it can be counteracted is part of the New Message from God.

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The New Message from God speaks to and rests upon the reality of Knowledge within you. This is the foundation of your spirituality. The New Message does not necessarily represent the beliefs of your religion or of your culture. It represents the foundation of Knowledge. This foundation is your inherent strength, as your beliefs and your associations so often represent your inherent weakness. It is in this strength that the Creator has faith. What the Creator has given you cannot be destroyed. It can only be denied or misconstrued. It is permanent, yet it must serve in this world at this time in order for you to experience its real meaning and reality. Look then to the world. Face the Intervention. Face the new threshold of emerging into a Greater Community of intelligent life, and it will take you out of your belief in your littleness. It will take you out of your self-preoccupation and your personal torment and open the doors to a new life of contribution, relationships and integrity for you and for all others who will benefit by knowing you.

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Spiritual Powers in the Universe Throughout the physical Universe, even in your part of the Galaxy, there are many spiritual forces at work for the Creator. There are inspired individuals, there are spiritually advanced races of beings and there are the Angels and their helpers. Humanity has great allies in the Universe. This is vitally important for you to know because as you learn about the Intervention and as you learn about the Greater Darkness that is upon the world, you will need to know that you have allies in the Universe or you could become very afraid. Your allies are physical beings living in the Universe. They represent spiritually advanced nations that seek to keep freedom alive and to promote freedom in the Universe. They take special interest in emerging worlds in their vicinity such as your own because they recognize that the first visitors upon the shores of such worlds are usually resource explorers or economic collectives. Your allies understand that humanity, like many other races that are emerging into the Greater Community at this time, is very vulnerable to an Intervention such as you are experiencing now. 65

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When you begin to learn about the realities of life in the Greater Community, perhaps you will think that life in the Universe is very mundane and that there is really not much there that would evoke much hope. Yet this is not the case. In the Universe, as in your world, there are forces for good, and there are what could be called "dissonant" forces that seek to obstruct or to thwart the intention of the Creator. Often, this is simply done out of ignorance. Yet there are truly evil forces in the Universe as well that are bent on conquest and destruction. Those who are intervening in your world today fall more into the former category. They are ignorant. They do not have a spiritual tradition of their own. They are not aware of the reality of Knowledge in the individual. They represent mundane powers in the Universe who seek resources and alliances with worlds that have strategic importance. Freedom is being promoted throughout the Universe. Yet, as in your world, it is not practiced to a very great degree in many places. The reasons for this are the same reasons that hold true for your world — lack of spiritual development and lack of the personal freedom to explore. In reality, there are not many free societies in the Greater Community that are technologically advanced. This is true in your world as well. Real freedom is really just at the very beginning stage here in your world. But it has been practiced far longer in other places. Those who are the true allies of humanity have practiced freedom for a long time. For them, freedom was

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hard to earn and has been difficult to maintain, as it will be for you. This is the reality of life at this level of existence. It is necessary, then, for you to understand who your real allies are. Those who are intervening in the world will portray themselves as the allies of humanity. They will claim that they have come here to help humanity to learn to live in peace and to rescue its environment. But this is only a ploy to gain human allegiance and acquiescence. It is fundamentally untrue. Humanity's true allies are not visiting the world. They sent several of their emissaries to position themselves in the solar system near the Earth to witness the extraterrestrial Intervention that is occurring here and to send their report and analysis, which they have done. This report by the allies of humanity is fundamentally necessary to enable you to understand the realities that you are facing with the Intervention and to give you a window to see into the larger interactions of intelligent life in this part of the Galaxy in which you live. Without this, you would have no way of fully knowing who and what you are dealing with. You would not understand the organization of those intervening in your world. You would not understand their intentions or their methods and what restrains them and limits their activities here. The report from the allies of humanity is now avail-

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able in book form. It explains these things and provides the essential awareness that humanity will need. You may ask at this point, "Well, why does the Creator need the allies of humanity to report on these things? Why not just have the Angels tell us themselves?" There are two fundamental reasons for this. First, you need to know that you have allies in the Universe. They are aware of your predicament. They understand your strengths and your weaknesses. And they very clearly understand the forces that are seeking to intervene in the world at this time. The second reason is that you need to learn from those who have experienced the very things that you are facing now. You need to learn from those who live in the physical Universe who have developed Greater Community awareness and wisdom over time. They have faced similar interventions in the past when their respective worlds were undergoing the transition of emerging into the Greater Community. They have first-hand experience of what you are now just beginning to deal with. They understand the problems in your comprehension. They understand how easy it will be for you to deny this greater reality. They themselves have lived through the whole process of falling under an intervention and having to regain their freedom under very difficult circumstances. Their testimony, then, is vitally important for you who are just beginning to develop a Greater 68

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Community awareness and understanding. They serve the Creator in their mission in service to humanity. Their testimony supports the revelations about the Greater Community that are part of the New Message from God. Spiritual Powers in the Universe must encounter the limitations that exist in every world. This includes the limitations of culture, the limitations of freedom and even the limitations of religion, as they exist in many different forms in the Greater Community. In many places, these limitations are quite severe. Individual freedom, as you know it in this world, is actually very rare in the Universe. Highly technological societies are quite uniform and are governed with a strictness and a conformity that you would find difficult to tolerate. In this, humanity ultimately has a gift to give to other races if you can maintain and develop this freedom for yourselves. But for this greater potential to be realized, you must pass through this difficult threshold of emerging into the Greater Community. All the true Spiritual Powers that serve humanity in the world today, both within physical reality and beyond it, serve this recognition and serve your successful emergence into the Greater Community. It is important to note here that a large part of the resistance to the New Message from God will come from religious leaders and institutions in the world today. The very thing that they pray for, which is God's deliverance, will be the very thing that they 69

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will resist when it finally arrives. For it will not necessarily speak through their traditions. It will not necessarily validate their beliefs. It will not pay special homage to their spiritual teachers and founders. Yet it will not oppose their institutions. God's New Message does not seek to place one religion over another, but to speak to what is true and genuine and fundamental within all of them. However, in spite of this, you will find that there will be tremendous resistance and rejection of God's New Message by many who represent religious traditions in the world today. The Creator understands this. The Angelic Presence understands this. Even your allies abroad, though they have lived in very different circumstances, will be able to understand this as well. This resistance to God's New Message represents part of humanity's dilemma. This dilemma is part of the reality of living within a compromised environment. Itis not, by any means, a perfect learning situation. It is a very compromised learning situation. Yet this must be accepted if humanity is to survive and to advance and if the New Message from God is to be received here at all. Everyone who has strong religious affiliations and beliefs will have to be very courageous in learning about the New Message from God. It is difficult to learn something new when you think you already have the answer. It is difficult to recognize a problem that you basically do not want to recognize. Yet be assured that all the great spiritual emissaries

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that have come into your world, those who have been recognized and the many who have not been recognized, all support humanity's emergence into the Greater Community as a free race. They are all in harmony with God's New Message. How could they be otherwise? What may not be in harmony necessarily with God's New Message are the religious beliefs, customs and traditions that have been built upon their testimony and upon their demonstration. Yet these things are a human creation and not a Divine creation. Therefore, you can be assured that Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed and all the great spiritual emissaries, both known and unknown, are in complete harmony with what is being presented here. They too had to face dissension and conflict, rejection and ridicule. They understand, for this is the nature of delivering a New Message from God into this world or into any other world in the physical Universe. Each is a compromised learning environment. To the degree to which true spiritual advancement has been achieved and has been shared amongst races and societies, the degree of compromise is significantly reduced. Yet it remains a great problem. It may be interesting for you to know that religions as you know them in the world today are not common in the Greater Community, particularly amongst technological societies. Many of these societies have become entirely secular in their orienta-

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tion. Some of them have had little in their recent history to indicate any kind of religious tradition or spiritual understanding. Like you, they are driven by practical needs. With their increased technology, they need more and more resources. If they have foreign establishments, then they need to maintain strict control. It is a very complicated situation. However, it is not so complicated once you have a Greater Community understanding. God wills that humanity prepare for its future. In order for this to be possible, you must develop a Greater Community awareness and understanding. You must take a very sober approach to the realities of intelligent life in the Universe. And you must have evidence that you have allies there, or you will feel entirely too alone and too isolated to have any hope that you can mount a defense on your own behalf. Humanity is very much like a native tribe living in the jungle, living in the isolation of its own beliefs and associations. When you encounter explorers from beyond, you will tend to think of them in a very romantic way. You will tend to be dazzled by their technology and easily intrigued by their inducements. Let your own history teach you the valuable lessons of intervention here. It is no different in this new scenario, except that this Intervention is worldwide, and this time the natives are all of humanity. The Intervention is relying upon deception and not 72

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upon technology to achieve its results. Outright invasion of this world is not allowed in this part of the Galaxy and cannot be openly conducted by those who are intervening in the world today. The allies of humanity, in their testimony, reveal why this is true. Because of these constraints, the Intervention must rely upon persuasion and deception. Those who are intervening in the world today are very small in number and cannot use military force to accomplish their goals. Here humanity has in its possession a great advantage, an advantage that it barely recognizes that it possesses. It is this advantage that must be developed and cultivated, not only to offset the Intervention but to offset future Interventions as well. Developing this advantage will give humanity the foundation it needs to become a stronger and more united race in the Universe. The wealth of your world, the very resources that will give you not only self-sufficiency but also advantage in the Greater Community, is being diminished at an alarming rate. Once you gain a Greater Community understanding and perspective, this becomes obvious and you realize the great hazard that is being created for humanity's future. People are short sighted, of course, and do not see this. However, a Greater Community perspective and awareness is a very long-range, far-reaching way of looking at everything. If humanity squanders its resources now, it will be very deprived in 73

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the future. This will make you very vulnerable to foreign intervention. The answer to this problem of diminishing resources is not the conquest of other worlds. The answer is to learn to be discerning, wise and selfsufficient in the Greater Community. This is what the Wise have had to learn everywhere, often through great trials and many errors. This is a universal truth — true here, true everywhere. That is why your Allies' testimony is so valuable, because they have successfully achieved what humanity is only now beginning to set out to do. The Creator understands all this, of course. The Creator understands that humanity must gain this strength and must establish a resistance to the Intervention. However, this must be done with a clear understanding, and the impetus for this must come from Knowledge within you, for this is the real love that the Creator has given to you to give to the world. Some people may think, "Well, to be resisting the Intervention is not very loving." But it is absolutely loving! To acquiesce to the Intervention would not be loving. However, many people think that love is a kind of passive behavior. Yet real love is doing what you have to do to secure freedom and well-being for people. Sometimes you have to take very aggressive action on the behalf of the freedom and well-being of others. Sometimes you have to exert your power and your influence very strongly in order to make sure that this is

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accomplished. If your child were in danger, would you react passively to that? Of course not! You would react very strongly, very aggressively and perhaps very dramatically. This is entirely appropriate. Perhaps humanity can afford to continue onward, generating poverty, deprivation and conflict in the world. But humanity cannot afford to ignore the Intervention. Every day the Intervention is becoming stronger and more and more people are falling under its persuasions, and many more individuals are becoming its apologists and representatives. Can this be ignored without enormous consequences? That is why recognizing and resisting the Intervention isthe most pressing and urgent need of humanity today. It is like parents who will drop all other preoccupations when they realize that their child is in danger. There are great Spiritual Powers serving all beings in manifest life. The opportunities for rendering their service vary depending upon the nature of the societies and the cultures that they are sent to serve. Even those who are intervening in the world today have Spiritual Powers who are attempting to communicate with them though the obstacles to doing this are very great. Knowing that there are great Spiritual Powers preserving and building freedom in the Universe and knowing that you have allies in the Universe who

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are aware of your predicament and are attempting to help you without intervening directly in your world will mean nothing if you cannot see the fundamental problem that is facing you and respond to it in a way that is genuine and constructive. Therefore, it all comes down to awareness and responsibility. You are entering an era of human cooperation and responsibility. This is a time for cooperation and personal responsibility. The New Message from God is being delivered to make this possible. Yet people must respond. Those who are in positions of power in governments may not be free to respond to such a great calling and to such a great need. They may not be free to advocate for the New Message from God. Because of this, God's New Message is being brought to the people — the people who are able to do this, the people who are free to do this. Ultimately God's New Message is about freedom — the freedom to survive, the freedom to maintain your self-determination, and beyond this, the freedom for each person to find his or her spiritual calling and meaning in life. Yet finding your meaning and calling would be very difficult without the freedom to maintain and build your self-determination. The Creator is attempting to save humanity from a grave calamity, a calamity that has befallen many other emerging races in the Universe. It is the calamity that befalls any world that succumbs to 76

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the domination of any other world. The Creator wills that humanity emerge into the Greater Community as a free and self-determined race. This is the great transformation that must occur. This indeed is the great need of your time. Of all the other chronic problems that face humanity, and there are many, this is the greatest of them all. For what can humanity hope to achieve for itself in any avenue of endeavor if its fundamental freedom has been relinquished to a foreign power? Yet this will not be a human foreign power. It will be a foreign power that has an entirely different viewpoint and set of ethics than you do. Such is the great challenge you are facing now. You are spiritually equipped to deal with it. Yet you must have the freedom to even begin. Many people in the world today are so circumscribed bytheir beliefs, by their political associations, bytheir religious views or by the oppressive nature of their own cultures and governments that they are not even free to respond. As a result, they may not be able to receive the gift that God is giving. So at every level, it is a struggle for freedom. But what is freedom ultimately for? First, there is the freedom of the mind to think. With this, there is the freedom of the Spirit to express itself. Therefore, ultimately freedom is about the expression of Spirit. This is the freedom to find and to fulfill your greater purpose in the world. This is a rare and invaluable freedom. Never take it for granted. 77

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The Great Presence Within You Surely there is a Great Presence within you, for the Creator is relying upon this presence to enable you to respond to the New Message. Surely your allies in the Greater Community must think that humanity has great potential or they would not mount the effort to send their emissaries here at great risk to themselves in order to report on the Intervention that is occurring in the world today. The Creator and your allies have great confidence in the spiritual integrity of humanity. However, humanity does not have this confidence. Not yet. The situation at this point is very difficult because people have to be convinced that their freedom is imperiled, that they must defend it, that they must build it and that they already have the strength to do this. At this point, people feel so weak and so helpless and so dependent upon human authority figures to guide them, to lead them and to tell them what reality is, and so dependent upon human science to define the nature of existence that humanity is in a rather pathetic condition.

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This contrast is very revealing. Clearly, if the Creator is depending upon inherent human wisdom to respond and your allies in the Greater Community are depending upon the strength and integrity of humanity to receive their counsel, but this confidence and this recognition are not shared among the human family, well, then, this is where the problem really exists. What will restore respect, confidence, dignity and integrity to you except receiving the Great Presence that lives within you? The situation at hand so clearly demonstrates this, for you cannot rely upon your governments to tell you what the Intervention is or how it is happening or what it means. You cannot rely upon science, which is largely ignorant of this phenomenon. You cannot rely upon your religious leaders to counsel you about the reality of this phenomenon and what you should do, for they really do not know. That is why there is a New Message from God. God can speak to you directly, and what is deep within you can respond to this communication because what is deep within you has been created by God. This communication bypasses the need for human authority figures to tell what the Intervention is, how it is happening or what it means for they are not in a position to comment upon the real situation facing humanity and, in fact, may be prejudiced against it. They may not be free to comment upon it even if they have an awareness of it. There is no person in the world who has a complete 82

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awareness of what the Intervention is, how it is functioning and what it means for humanity. Knowledge within people can alert them to the reality of the Intervention, but they cannot see the full extent of it. That is why there is a New Message from God. That is why the communication now has to come from the Creator and secondarily from your allies, in order to show you what you cannot see on your own and to give you information that you could not find on your own, but which is so very needed in the world today. The success of this communication rests upon the reality of the Great Presence that lives within you. For it is only this presence that will enable you to respond and to recognize the truth in God's New Message and to recognize the reality of the Intervention. People's minds are the product of their conditioning, the product of their past. People are still attempting to live out God's previous Messages, given long ago. Many people still believe that they are isolated in the Universe and that no one can reach their shores. So clearly it is a matter for the Great Presence that lives within each person to recognize this communication and to respond. Here is where God's New Message offers redemption to each person who can receive it. For your mind may be unable to comprehend it,but your heart will know. This, then, shows you where your true power exists, where the true authority in your life resides.

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The Creator is not here to tell you to follow anyone. The Creator is here to tell you to follow Knowledge within yourself and to join with other people at this level of understanding, for this is the only level of understanding at which you can truly join people to begin with. People's relationships are still based upon personal attraction and upon shared values and interests. As a result, people have weak relationships and no foundation upon which to sustain themselves. Relationships, then, become the product of convenience and habit, and all the life goes out of them. It is only when the Great Presence can join you with another that a real bond and union have occurred — a real marriage, a real friendship, a real partnership of any kind. This has the power to transcend the differences between people and to offset whatever destructive tendencies people have within themselves. The Great Presence encourages you not to betray yourself, your world or humanity. It shows that you cannot really be separate from God. It proves that separation doesn't work and that separation fundamentally isn't real. It is a demonstration of all that is being presented here. The Great Presence will affirm God's New Message. It is able to recognize the Intervention and to face it. Your soul has no greater pleasure or greater meaning than to fulfill what it is here to do. However, until recognition of this Great Presence can be achieved, your soul is held in abeyance. It is a prisoner of the mind. Here your soul becomes mute and withdraws, becoming only a dim potential within you. 84

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God's New Message is calling for this Great Presence to emerge in your awareness. This is not merely a grand option for you now. It is vital for your survival and for your freedom. People must awaken from their dream of self-fulfillment and recognize that all humanity faces a grave threat and that this can be seen and known and that action can be taken to offset it. It is this Great Presence within yourself that you must learn to rely upon. It is the truth within you. Your ability to understand it may be very limited. Indeed, you will have to learn to follow it to find out what it really means and to finally be assured that it is ultimately real and for the good. The Intervention relies upon deceit, deception and persuasion to accomplish its goal of world domination. However, Knowledge within you cannot be persuaded; it cannot be deceived. The person who is strong with Knowledge cannot be manipulated, cannot be fooled, cannot be induced and cannot be seduced. Yet the person who is not strong with Knowledge can be appealed to in any number of ways. Their ideals can be appealed to. Their passions can be appealed to. Their attachments, their longings, their fears, their anxieties, their issues, their grievances, their unforgiveness — all are potential for manipulation. And they will capitulate to one of these things or to many of them. Humanity's freedom relies upon this Great Presence. Even the freedom that some people have 85

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in the world today cannot be fully enjoyed and experienced because they are not grounded in the Great Presence that lives within them. They take their freedom for granted. They do not see how valuable their freedom is and how much sacrifice had to be made to secure and to maintain this freedom. In the Greater Community, as in your world, freedom must be earned and maintained. There will always be challenges to your freedom, both from within you and from outside of you, as long as you are in physical reality. How you respond to this challenge and what you do in response will determine your life. Fail to respond and your freedom will belong to someone else, and you will simply be a slave to other forces. Even if you call your country a democracy, you will still be a slave to other forces. Freedom in the Universe is the most important thing because it establishes the foundation for everything else that is beneficial to happen. If there is no freedom, there is very little personal contribution. If there is very little personal contribution, there is very little personal happiness or satisfaction and very little meaning in relationships. All that gives humanity its meaning, its value and its sense of itself comes from this ability to contribute and from the freedom to contribute. Take these away and humanity is impoverished. The New Message from God is first being delivered into the United States because it is seemingly the freest nation and the most influential nation. Yet

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this freedom is only as good as people's awareness of the Great Presence within them. Regardless of what your government allows you to do, if you cannot find and follow Knowledge within yourself, you will still be a slave to other forces. You will still be miserable. Your problems will appear to be different from the problems of those who live in countries that do not have these freedoms, but your misery will in essence be the same. There are two kinds of freedom. There is freedom for the mind, and there is freedom for the soul. They both must occur. If there is no freedom for the mind, then freedom for the soul will be much harder to achieve. The Creator wants to emphasize this Great Presence that lives within you. In the Greater Community this is called Knowledge, the ability to know. This is the foundation of your freedom and of your true reality. This is also the common freedom and reality you share with all intelligent life in the Universe, whether they are free or not, whether they are intervening in your world or not. You do not have the strength to teach this freedom to those who are intervening in your world. You have not progressed that far. But you must demonstrate this freedom for yourselves and ultimately for everyone else who is watching the world at this time. Everyone needs to learn more about the Great Presence that lives within them, for this is their only

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hope for freedom now. You will not offset the Intervention through technology, for you do not yet have this technology. You will not offset the Intervention through social cohesion, for you do not yet have this social cohesion. Your greatest and only hope is to develop Knowledge and to share it with others. Everyone in the world wants freedom. Everyone in the world values freedom to some point, if only for themselves. Freedom is the common need of humanity. Freedom is the common struggle of humanity. No matter what country you are from, no matter how old you are, no matter what language you speak, whether you are rich or poor, freedom is essential and fundamental. What is this Great Presence that lives within you? There are various ways to describe it even though its reality is beyond words. You could say it is your reality before you came into the world, as it will be your reality after you leave. It is the reality that God created in you. It is you. It is really who and what you are. Take away all of the fascinations of the world — the fears, the desires, the attachments, the identification, and what do you have? You have this reality, this Great Presence. Some people may call it the Christ consciousness, or the Buddha nature or wisdom or enlightenment. These terms carry with them many kinds of expectations and associations, which may not be necessary for you to understand what is being said here.

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For example, you do not need to be enlightened to offset the Intervention. You just need to be spiritually grounded in Knowledge. You do not need to be perfect. You do not need to be saintly. You do not need to be without flaws to secure human freedom. You just need to be spiritually grounded in Knowledge. This is very possible. Even if 10% of the world's population were spiritually grounded in Knowledge and were aware of the Intervention, the Intervention would be stopped. All human religions have a common foundation. This common foundation is based upon the Great Presence that lives within you and its connection to the Creator of all life. In the New Message from God there is not an emphasis on enlightenment. The emphasis instead is on becoming spiritually grounded in Knowledge. Enlightenment is too distant a goal and too few people would reach it sufficiently inthe time needed. But in the short time that you have, enough people can become spiritually grounded in Knowledge to speak out against the Intervention and to advocate for Knowledge in everyone. This is possible. This can happen. The only thing keeping it from happening is human ignorance and human presumption. The Intervention will seek to thwart your awareness of the Great Presence. But it can only do so with your agreement. The Great Presence within you, the presence of Knowledge, cannot be deceived or manipulated. Think about what this really means.

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This means it is the only part of you that can really be trusted. It is the only part of you that is pure, regardless of what you may have done in your life. It is the only part of you that knows who you are, why you are here and what is really happening in the world. It is the only part of you that can truly join with another in meaningful relationship. Knowledge within you is here on a mission. It is here to give something, to accomplish something, to meet a real need in the world. Why else would you come to the world? Some people think they come to the world for their own healing and therapy. But that is not complete. You are only healed by reclaiming the Knowledge that you have denied. Your healing and therapy are by-products of fulfilling your mission here. Without a real sense of mission and purpose, what is healing? It is more self-obsession. It is more self-involvement. It is more ignorance and denial of the world around you. Here the attempt at healing just perpetuates the illness as it really exists. The New Message from God speaks about this in detail. It speaks about the Four Pillars of life that people must establish — the Pillar of Relationships, the Pillar of Health, the Pillar of Work and Contribution and the Pillar of Spiritual Development. Like the four legs of a table, the Four Pillars uphold your life. The New Message speaks about how these Pillars must be built and why all of them must be built.

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God's New Message speaks of the three levels of human development — dependence, independence and interdependence — and how relationships function at each level. It speaks about how to develop relationships of destiny, relationships that have this great spiritual presence at their heart. It speaks about where these relationships can be found and how not to be deceived by other attractions, which may appear to have these qualities but which, in reality, do not. God's New Message speaks about what work means and what contribution is. It speaks about courage and faith. It speaks about power, strength and forgiveness in ways that have never been spoken of before in this world. Some people will think, "Well, I have heard these things before." But I say to you, you have not heard them before. If you take the time to read God's New Message in its entirety, you will see that this is the case. Yes, you will see elements of truth that have always been in human awareness, but you will also see things you have never seen before. The foundation for truth already lives within you. There is a foundation of truth in all your religious traditions, but they cannot prepare you for the Greater Community. They cannot help you offset the Intervention. Here God builds upon what God has established already. Here nothing is destroyed. Everything is built upon a firm foundation, as firm a foundation as humanity will allow. This is why people from different religious tradi91

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tions who have a strong adherence to their traditions need not be threatened by the New Message from God. They should welcome it, for it will strengthen their tradition and strengthen their faith and give both a chance to be truly relevant within a Greater Community of life. Humanity's isolation is at an end. You cannot go back. You must go forward. Your accelerating social, economic and political development are all leading towards this great threshold. You cannot go back and live the way your grandparents lived or even your parents, for things are changing very fast. You are driving headlong into the future, but you are not prepared. That is why there is a New Message from God. Cultures and religions of the world are increasingly having to learn to co-exist and to find their common ground. That is why there is a New Message from God. Human cooperation is vitally essential if the resources of the world are to be preserved and if humanity is to develop any real self-sufficiency in the future. That is why there is a New Message from God. What does your life mean within the Greater Community? What will be the basis of your future relations with other races in the Universe, especially with those communities and worlds that prove to be very positive and beneficial? What will be the basis of these relationships? You cannot enter into this

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new arena with an old understanding based upon an anthropocentric notion of life. Humanity is not the center of the Universe. Humanity is not the centerpiece of God's creation. Humanity is not the highest level or expression of intelligent life in the Universe. All these assumptions become meaningless as your isolation in the Universe comes to an end. Your future relations in the Greater Community must be based upon your awareness of the Great Presence that lives within you and upon your ability to gain a new perspective and wisdom about life in the Universe. Otherwise, you are like primitive natives who will be overtaken by foreign powers. Can humanity achieve this in a short time? It is possible ifenough people take to heart what is being presented here. It is possible if enough people receive God's New Message, study it, learn about it and see its complete application to their lives. It is possible if enough people become advocates for the New Message from God. The Creator has faith in this. The allies of humanity have faith in this. Do you have faith in this? If not, you must regain it, for the Creator and your allies see something that you do not see. They know something that you do not know but that you need to know. Even beyond offsetting the Intervention, there must be a restoration of awareness and spirituality within people. Humanity's spirituality is its greatest gift to life in the Universe. Many races in 93

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the Universe have lost their spiritual awareness and traditions entirely. Their spirituality has been eclipsed by technology and by manipulation from other forces in the Greater Community. Spiritual Powers in the world and in the Universe are encouraging humanity not to follow this path. Let not technology become your religion, or you will most assuredly fall prey to those whose technology isgreater than yours. If Knowledge becomes the foundation of your spiritual understanding, then no one in the Universe can overtake you, for no one else's Knowledge is greater than yours. The potential for Knowledge is equal amongst all intelligent races in the Universe, regardless of their technology or their social development. The more you establish your foundation upon Knowledge within yourself, the more you see and understand how relations with other races can be established successfully and how unwanted forces can be thwarted or discouraged when that becomes necessary. The very heart of God's New Message is the teaching in The Way of Knowledge, the most essential spiritual teaching there is— the foundation of all your world's religions, the greatest promise for humanity and now the greatest need for humanity. Any progress that any person can make in learning The Way freedom said, the emphasis

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The Calling The New Message from God is not merely an idea. It is not merely a warning. It is not merely a prescription. It really presents the foundation for a whole new way of living within a Greater Community reality. Therefore, it must address the fundamental activities of human life as well as what humanity must learn and do to preserve its freedom in the Greater Community. The New Message includes an entire teaching about relationships, work, contribution, health, spiritual development, discernment, discretion and learning The Way of Knowledge. This involves developing those ideas that help in the discovery of Knowledge. Such a Teaching must be very comprehensive. It must speak to a wide variety of people who have different natures and different ways of learning. It must speak to people from different traditions. It must address both the fundamental needs that humanity acknowledges and those needs that humanity has yet to recognize. This small book serves as only an introduction to the New Message from God, for the Message itself

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is very great. It involves an education about life in the Greater Community. It involves learning The Way of Knowledge and learning how to take the steps to Knowledge. It involves learning the wisdom that has been achieved in the Greater Community that humanity can put to use right at this moment. It teaches about the Four Pillars of life and provides people the means to build real certainty, stability and clarity in their lives. It shows people how they can find their true avenue of expression and contribution and how they can respond, even at this moment, to help humanity regain its awareness and preserve its freedom. At the heart of this is a call to action. People must do something. God's New Message is not merely food for further contemplation. It is not merely a set of ideas that people can speculate about, argue about or compare and contrast with other ideas. At the level of ideas, the New Message from God is profound, but its real message is not at the level of ideas. It really is a communication from the Creator to the Great Presence that lives within each person. This kind of communication surpasses all understanding, allspeculation, all arguments, all issues and all controversies. It is the most fundamental communication there can be in the Universe. It is a direct communication from the Creator to the Created. It speaks from the heart of the Creator to the heart of the person receiving the New Message. Understanding is very important, but understanding

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may not be immediate. What is truly important is the mysterious communication between you and the Creator. You can ask millions of questions, but what you really need to know is being communicated in the New Message from God. This requires deeper consideration and more active application of your mind than merely trying to have all of your questions answered. For what is an answer from the Creator but an invitation for you to participate, for you to take a greater journey in learning, for you to penetrate deeper into the mystery and the meaning of your life and for you to become more interactive with the world around you instead of less so? While it is true that some people need to withdraw from the world for a time in order to build their spiritual foundation, ultimately all true spiritual work leads you back into the world as a contributor. The New Message from God emphasizes this tremendously. It is both a call to awareness and a call to action. The Intervention that is occurring in the world today, the Greater Darkness that is upon humanity, cannot be avoided. You cannot procrastinate regarding it. It is too vital. It is too challenging. Itis too real. How will you know its reality? You will know at the level of Knowledge. How will you know what it really means? You will know at the level of Knowledge. How will you know that the New Message from God and the Greater Community Way of Knowledge in which it is embodied are genuine and important? You will know at the level of Knowledge.

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Therefore, bringing people close to Knowledge is bringing them close to everything that is vital and important for their lives. It is bringing them close to their communication with the Creator. It is bringing them close to the realization of the great need for freedom in the world. It is bringing them close to their certainty about what they must do, even within the mundane circumstances of their lives. A New Message from God also emphasizes your relationship with your environment. Here it begins to break new ground in human understanding. Some people think that they are the product of the environment, and others think that the environment is somehow the product of their own creation. Yet God's New Message brings these different viewpoints together by teaching how you are in dynamic relationship with your environment. You influence it. It influences you. This includes both the physical environment that you can touch and the mental environment that affects your thoughts and feelings. The New Message from God begins to open the door to what this really means and how it can be experienced every day. When you begin to take the steps to Knowledge, you begin to practice this awareness and take it with you into every encounter that you have, into every situation that you enter, into every thought, feeling and mood that you experience. This is called taking the spiritual journey. Reading about the journey and taking the journey are two different things. You can read about the

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journey to find out if it is real for you and if you must take it. But it is only when you take the journey that you will really find out what it is. This calling is both immediate and vital. People who are ready to respond must begin to become educated about the Greater Community. They must become educated about the Intervention and must learn to speak out in support of human freedom and self-determination. Not everyone will be able to do this at the outset, but some people are already prepared. Life has prepared them. Their own inner development has prepared them. Here God's New Message serves as a confirmation. It is the Message that they have been waiting for and now they have found it. For others, this recognition will take longer. But again it must be emphasized that the meaning of God's New Message is fundamental to every person and speaks to the real needs of every person. Of course, no words or ideas will appeal to everyone, but Greater Community awareness is something that everyone needs even if they cannot take the journey that is prescribed here. Everyone needs to learn that they live within a Greater Community and that certain forces from the Greater Community are intervening in human affairs and threatening human freedom and self-determination. Everyone needs to hear this, whether they can accept it in the moment or not. It is a responsibility.

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ing out for human freedom and self-determination in the Greater Community. There must be great sobriety regarding your contact with other races in the Universe. There must be a great understanding here that your allies would never intervene in human affairs and try to circumvent human authority. There must be an education regarding the Intervention and about the realities of life in the Universe. There is so much that people can do right now. There are no excuses. In this, people either express their self-confidence or their lack of it. God's New Message comes at a critical time. Time is of the essence now. If nothing is done, the Intervention will be successful. Then there will be almost no turning back. Human authority will have left the world, the world will be governed from afar and your ability to respond or act against this authority will be very limited. Do not allow this to happen. Great activity must be undertaken. Every day is critical in this regard. Remember, you are dealing with something greater than you have ever dealt with before. If you seek to find your greatness, the Great Presence that lives within you, this is how you will find it. You will not find it through endless meditation. You will find your greatness by exercising it in service to a great need and a worthy cause. People find their greatness by doing great things. People escape their pathetic idea of themselves by assuming a greater responsibility. 103

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find a place to begin. Even beginning is an act of freedom and self-determination. Even taking the first step enables you to break the bonds of your past conditioning and to offset the effects of the pacification program that are being generated through the Intervention. The first step is vital. Every step is vital. Every step establishes you as an authority within your own life and calls upon the greater authority which lives within you in your Knowledge. This is what humanity needs. Humanity is not going to develop, in such a short period of time, the technology necessary to offset the Intervention. Humanity does not yet have the social cohesion to speak as one voice in the Universe, so it is up to individuals and small groups of individuals to make the difference. Here there is no saint or guru leading the way. Even the one chosen to receive God's New Message, even though he is the Messenger, he is not the leader of this whole movement. It is like a leaderless revolution. Itmust emerge everywhere. And it can. God has faith in this. The allies of humanity have faith in this. And you must have faith in this as well. Let not the appearances of the world discourage you. Let not the effects of the pacification program lead you to acquiesce or feel helpless or impotent. This is all deception. You must face the Intervention and remind yourself that the seed of God's awareness is within you, that the Great Presence is within you and that you must place your faith there because that is where it truly belongs.

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ology. It must carry the strength of the Creator with it. In truth, this is what is being given to the world at this time. Humanity has lost its self-confidence. It has lost its appreciation for itself. This is leading humanity to appeal to other powers in the Universe for its salvation. This is leading many people to submit without resistance to new dominating forces within your world. Yet as it has been said, you are entering the period of human cooperation and responsibility. This emphasizes the power of the individual, the power of relationships and the power of community — the power of Knowledge expressing itself at all three levels. As it was said at the beginning of this book, New Messages from God are infrequent. Yet they carry with them tremendous power and resonance, tremendous permanence and depth. You will see this in the people who can respond to God's New Message, and you will see this in the New Message itself. The New Message begins to heal the division between you and the Creator because now you are serving the Creation. You are becoming a force for good in manifest life. You are beginning to reduce the compromise that exists within this world. You are beginning to become an advocate for Knowledge and for freedom. The need for such advocates is tremendous. This is not about belief in Jesus, in Buddha or in Mohammed. This is not about strict adherence to a religious tradition. This is about the very essence of 107

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your spirituality and your responsibility to the Creator. Humanity must find its common ground even while it maintains its religious and cultural diversity. Its common ground is its future and its freedom. Without this, humanity will be lost. Yet with it, humanity can gain a strength that it has always yearned for but has never achieved. What can bring about such a great achievement? Only a problem so great that everyone must respond. The Intervention represents this problem. It is a problem that challenges everyone equally. It is a challenge not just for heroes or heroines. It is a challenge that everyone must respond to. It is immediate. Itis urgent. And your response to it cannot wait. What else, other than the total degradation of your natural environment, could so overshadow humanity that everyone would be challenged by it? Therefore, when you look at the Intervention and you think, "Oh, my God! This is the most frightening thing that has ever happened!" you must also realize it could be the best thing that has ever happened. Itis the one great chance for humanity to unite for its own welfare. Here the power and the permanence of the New Message from God become recognized. You can begin to study it today. You can begin to learn it today. You can begin to live it today. Today is the day. Look out into the world. You have not come here by accident. You have come here on a mission. This may not seem true at the level of your thoughts, but at the level of Knowledge within you, 108

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it is most certainly true. Knowledge is yearning and waiting to express itself, waiting for you to become a vehicle for it to express God's will and love through you. While your mind continues to be stimulated and distracted, your soul remains a prisoner within you, and this is the source of all of your suffering. Let your soul out. Open a way for it, and it will begin to manifest within you. It will clear away all the cobwebs in your mind and all the confusion that clouds your vision and your understanding. It will enable you to see deception in all of its forms, both human and extraterrestrial. And it will enable you to see the truth of Knowledge in all of its forms, both human and extraterrestrial. God's New Message has come at a critical time, at the right time. The rest is up to human responsibility, humanity's ability to respond. That is why this is the age of human cooperation and responsibility. Here there is no more seeking escape. No more immersion in one's self. No more hiding. It is too late for that, for life is calling you out of the shadows. Itis calling you out of your self-preoccupation. Itis calling you out of your confusion, and even out of your beliefs. A great need is prevailing in the world. A Greater Darkness is upon the world. God has provided a New Message, a new answer and a new beginning. It is time to begin.

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How the New Message Came into the World The Messenger Marshall Vian Summers was sent into the world to receive a New Message from God. He was prepared over a very long time to become its Messenger. He was given opportunities to gain a fundamental education about the world, to learn about relationships and self-expression and to develop his awareness of the human condition. He was ignited spiritually at an early age, especially through his experiences in nature. As a young man, his journeys through the wilderness of North America continued his mysterious education. After graduating from the university, he became a teacher for blind children. During this time he began to experience and rely upon an Inner Voice to guide him in his work. Acknowledged for his talents in the field of special education, he was offered the opportunity to make this his life's work. Yet the Inner Voice compelled him to decline and to re-enter the wilderness for many months. Following this time of

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re-evaluation, he returned to the world of people and culture and began to teach the principles of Self Knowledge, which he did for seven years. In 1982, at the age of 33, he had a direct encounter with the Unseen Ones, the Angelic Presence who had been guiding and preparing him all along. This encounter forever altered the course of his life and initiated him into a deeper relationship with them, requiring that he surrender his life to God. Soon after this encounter, Marshall knew he had to leave his students and his teaching, his relationships and his home in the city to wander again. This was a difficult, inexplicable and solitary period for him. His wandering led him to retreat in the desert of the American Southwest where the Angelic Presence came to him again. And so began the long mysterious process of receiving God's New Message for humanity. During the years that followed, Marshall's role as a teacher had to evolve so that he, as the one destined to become the receiver of the New Message and its Messenger, would be ready. He had to have enough worldly wisdom and enough skill and integrity as a communicator, as a teacher and as one who is visionary and who has insight, to be able to receive a Message of this magnitude given over a very long period of time. He had to learn about the reality and spirituality of intelligent life in the Universe beyond the world, which in the New Message is called the

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Greater Community. In addition, he had to be able to endure thousands of hours of direct contact with the Angelic Presence, receiving and recording the New Message from God. This put a great strain upon him, both mentally and physically. It is a process that few in the world today understand. Even though Marshall Vian Summers was sent into the world destined to be the Messenger, he would not know this for many years. It would only be revealed to him much later, in the latter stages of receiving the New Message itself. For there is always the risk of the Messenger failing — by tampering with the Message, denying the Message or being unable to make the ongoing sacrifices required to receive and present the Message. Therefore, it was necessary that Marshall reach a level of individual maturity and wisdom in order to receive the greater mission and calling which were his to claim.

The Message The New Message represents the will of God for humanity, both now and for the times to come. God's will has been translated into language, into a preparation and into a complete teaching through the Angelic Presence who represent the Divine will and purpose for humanity in this world. The New Message from God was delivered over a

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period of more than zo years, very incrementally. The New Message was received in a state of revelation, spoken, recorded and transcribed. This has preserved its integrity. Entire books of the New Message were received in days or even hours. For example, this introduction, There Is a New Message from God in the World, was received in a four-hour period, while the 27 chapters of Greater Community Spirituality - A New Revelation were received in just four days. This process of revelation continues. From the outset, it was given Marshall to begin to integrate the New Message from God into human experience. He was required to be its first student as well as its first advocate. Eventually he began to share it with others, building a network of individuals who could receive it and who could become its first students and representatives. This took a long time because progress often depended upon the development and commitment of others. But now the New Message has been revealed, the Messenger is prepared and a network of people is expanding worldwide, people who are capable of receiving, experiencing, practicing and expressing the New Message under Marshall's guidance and counsel. This is how the New Message from God has come into the world, and its transmission is in keeping with all the great Messages that have ever been sent into the world for the advancement of humanity. God always communicates these great and timely Messages through the Angelic Presence, both to this

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world and to all worlds within the Universe. This is the nature of Divine transmission. This is how God communicates to individuals and to whole worlds and races. The New Message from God is meant to serve humanity at this time and in the times to come. It is a very great Message. Its gift, its efficacy and its timeliness for the human family should never be underestimated. Great Wisdom and Knowledge it carries, Knowledge and Wisdom beyond anything that has been given to humanity before. And it will take great courage, humility and time to receive the full extent of what the New Message contains. Its power, its truth and the peace that it offers will surpass human understanding. God's New Message holds the hope and the promise of guiding the human family into the future so that humanity may build greater freedom and justice in the world and take its place as a free and united race in the Greater Community.

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Greater Community Spirituality A New Revelation

Mere you will be focusing on a God not of your world and of your time But a God of all worlds and all times. A prophetic new understanding of God and human spirituality within a larger arena of intelligent life. Greater Community Spirituality is a spirituality that transcends all boundaries of race, culture, religion and language, providing the foundation for recognition and relationship between people, nations and worlds. Greater Community Spirituality is the New Message Book of Theology. It opens the way to a greater experience of God. This Message has never been presented in the world before and is not based upon any existing world religious tradition or philosophy. It is a new theology to prepare the human family for the great thresholds ahead. It is a doorway into a greater universe. 118

Greater Community Spirituality Chapter 1:

What is God?

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What is the World? What is Life Force?

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What is Knowledge?

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How is Knowledge translated in the Greater Community?

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The New Message Book of Spiritual Practice Steps to Knowledge The Book of Inner Knowing

You came into the world with the Knowledge of who you are, who you must meet and what you must accomplish. It is time to find this Knowledge and begin to live it. In the New Message from God, Steps to Knowledge is the New Message Book of Spiritual Practice. It takes you on a great journey of discovering Self Knowledge, the mysterious source of your spirituality and inner authority. Following this inner Knowledge leads you to the greater relationships that you will need in order to find and to fulfill your mission in life. Steps to Knowledge contains 365 Steps, or practices, that lead you to a revelation about your life and destiny within a world undergoing profound change. In taking the steps to Knowledge, you will be able to experience inner certainty and direction in your life. It is this experience that can sustain and guide you every day and in every situation. These are new times and this is a new way. ISBN 1-884238-18-1 120

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Sample Steps from Steps to Knowledge: In stillness all things can be known.

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I have a mission in my life to fulfill.

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My Spiritual Family exists in all places.

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Knowledge serves humanity in all ways.

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If I abide with Knowledge, there will be no confusion in my relationships.

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With Knowledge I cannot be at war.

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I am now penetrating the mystery of my life.

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There is a Greater Power at work in the world.

STEP 181: Today I receive the love of Knowledge. Knowledge possesses the true seed of love, not love that is a mere sentiment, not love that is a form of intoxication surrounding an urgent desire born of fear. Knowledge is the seed of true love, not the love that seeks to conquer, to possess and to dominate, but the love that seeks to serve, to empower and to free another. Become the recipient of this love today so that it may flow through you to the world, for without your denial it will most surely do this. Upon the hour, repeat this statement and feel its full impact, regardless of the circumstance that you find yourself in. Allow each circumstance to support your practice, and you will find that your practice will have an increasingly potent effect on your external life. In your two deeper practices today, enter into the presence of Knowledge and receive its love. Affirm your worthiness and your receptivity. Relinquish your presumptions about yourself and the world, and allow yourself to have an experience that will demonstrate the truth beyond any assumption. This is your practice today. This is your gift to yourself, to your world and to your Creator so that you may receive the gift of love. Practice 181: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practices 121

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It is time now to learn Wisdom from the Greater Community. Here the application of Knowledge, the meaning of your existence, the development of discernment and discretion, the cultivation of forbearance, compassion, insight and a greater generosity are born of the overflowing nature of your Spirit and the expression of your true spirituality.

Wisdom from the Greater Community: Volume One How to Live with Certainty, Strength and Wisdom in an Emerging World

Wisdom from the Greater Community: Volume Two How to Find Purpose, Meaning and Direction in an Emerging World

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Ambition Possessions Pleasure Serving Others Working with the Mind Discernment Discretion Solving Problems Honesty Greater Community Visitations Spiritual Practice Self-Expression & the Mental Environment Religion as Mystery Intelligence Responding to the Greater Community Thresholds Visitors' Perception of Humanity Compassion Courage Learning from Others Devotion & Commitment Money Becoming Wise Work Environments Conflict Self-Doubt Greater Community Realities inspiration KINDNESS CONCENTRATION PRIDE PERSEVERANCE WALKING

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Living The Way of Knowledge * Building the Foundation for Becoming a Man or Woman of Knowledge in an Emerging World

whatever you establish in your life is only as strong as the foundation underneath it. Once your foundation in life becomes strong, then great things can be built upon it.

How to bring the grace, the guidance and the power of Knowledge into the "Four Pillars" of your life: your relationships, your work and providership, your health and your spiritual direction. After Steps to Knowledge, the second great practice in learning and living the New Message.

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Chapter 1:

Living in an Emerging World

Chapter 2:

The Four Pillars of Life

Chapter 3:

The Pillar of Relationships

Chapter 4:

The Pillar of Health

Chapter 5:

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Chapter 6:

The Pillar of Spiritual Development

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Your Relationship with Your Spiritual Family

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Building Spiritual Community

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Sharing The Way of Knowledge with Others

Chapter 10: Being Present in the World Chapter 11: PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE

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The New Message Book on Relationships

Relationships & Higher Purpose1 Finding Your People, Your Purpose and Your Mission in the World

Relationships £F

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The power of relationships joined in purpose is the greatest power there is. This is the power of God in the Universe.

A lifelong resource for discovering and developing the key relationships that are essential to your experience of higher purpose and destiny in life. Relationships & Higher Purpose offers a totally new and unique understanding, perspective and experience of your relationship with yourself, with others, with the world and with God.

*To be published in 2007

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Relationships & Higher Purpose

PART ONE: Relationships 6c Higher Purpose Chapter 1

Your Relationship with God

Chapter 2

Your Relationship with Yourself

Chapter 3

Your Relationship with Others

Chapter 4

Your Relationship with the World

Chapter 5

Your Relationship with your Spiritual Family

Chapter 6

Your Relationship with Knowledge

Chapter 7

Your Relationship with the Unknown

Chapter 8

The Problem of Evil &c the Forces of Dissonance

Chapter 9:

Stages of Development

Chapter 10:

Marriage

Chapter 11:

Your Purpose and Spiritual Calling

PART TWO: Practical Questions Chapter 12

Establishing Relationships

Chapter 13

Maintaining Relationships

Chapter 14

Completing Relationships

Chapter 15

Conclusion

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Important Terms

God: In the Greater Community, God is experience. In the Greater Community, God is the communication ofprofound insight and recognition from one to another, permeating all manifest life. What is God? It could be said that God is the sum of all relationships. God is the consummation of all relationships. This is a valuable definition because it enables you to experience God as a living force and power in your life rather than an absolute principle or a great and lofty Being whose reality is entirely beyond your reach and life within the world. This is a God not only of your world and your time, but a God of all worlds and all times. Messages from God: Major revelations that have been given to humanity over the course of history at critical times of need and change. Such revelations are infrequent and far reaching, yet are rarely preserved in their original form nor fully understood by the people for whom they are intended. THE GREATER COMMUNITY: Space. The vast Universe into which humanity is emerging that contains intelligent life in countless manifestations. 129

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Greater Darkness in the World: A grave set of converging circumstances building in the world today which are threatening the stability, future and freedom of the entire human family. This is a darkness unlike anything that humanity as a whole has ever had to face before. The Intervention: Certain races from the Greater Community intervening in the world without human permission who have been actively interfering in human affairs. These races are involved in a long process of integrating themselves into the fabric and soul of human life for the purpose of gaining control of the world's resources and people. The Allies of Humanity: An association of free races living in the Universe who support humanity's emergence into the Greater Community as a free and sovereign race. Unlike the Intervention, the allies of humanity are not present in the world and are not interfering in human affairs. Instead, from afar they have offered their wise counsel through the Allies of Humanity Briefings. The Mental Environment: The environment of thought where more concentrated minds exert mental influence and persuasion on weaker minds. Humanity must learn about the Mental Environment in order to successfully interact with other races in the Greater Community,

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where power in the Mental Environment can be far greater than technology. Knowledge: The greater spiritual intelligence, will and presence that God has placed deep within each person. Knowledge is the ultimate gift from God to protect us and lead us to the experience and the expression of our greater purpose for being in the world. Knowledge represents a new understanding of the real nature and purpose of human spirituality. It is a power and a presence that is waiting to be discovered within each individual. The Greater Community Way of Knowledge: The New Message pathway and teaching on how to live life at the level of Knowledge. In order to establish a preparation for the Greater Community and to bond the peoples of the world together with a greater foundation and a greater experience of union, The Greater Community Way of Knowledge has been introduced into the world. Greater Community Spirituality: The New Message teaching on the spirituality of life in the Greater Community. A new theology for an emerging world. The New Message from God: The New Revelation for humanity from the Creator of all life. It involves an education about life in the Greater

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Community. It involves learning The Way of Knowledge and learning how to take the steps to Knowledge. It involves learning the Wisdom that has been achieved in the Greater Community that humanity can put to use right at this moment. It teaches about the Four Pillars of life and provides people the means to build real certainty, stability and clarity in their lives. It shows people how they can find their true avenue of expression and contribution and how they can respond, even at this moment, to help humanity gain a new awareness of itself, rescue its environment and preserve its freedom at the threshold of space. The New Message from God is encompassed in the sacred texts of the New Message and in the teachings of the Messenger.

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The Next Step his New Revelation is being presented i^/his very humbly and very simply. It does not conform to people's expectations, beliefs or traditions. God is not bound by these things and only gives humanity specifically what it needs to take the next step in order to meet a new challenge.

The New Message from God asks that you recognize the need for a New Message, that you read the New Message, that you consider it and that you begin to apply it and live it. It asks you to receive its blessings, its benefit, its strength and its power in your own life. And it asks you to share this with others and maintain it in a pure form without altering it, changing it or trying to align it with anything else. Therefore, the New Message asks you to honor what you need and what the world needs. In essence here, you are asked to receive the New Message from God and to bear witness to it. And if you can receive its blessings, you are asked to advocate for it and to advocate for its protection in the world.

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Marshall Vian Summers and The Society for The Greater Community Way of Knowledge, the religious order that he founded in 1992, have begun to present this message worldwide. It is a gift to people everywhere. Yet it will take great resources and courage to give this great gift and help it spread far and wide. This printed version of the introduction to the New Message from God is being made available far below cost so that people can distribute copies to all who may need to read it. This has been made possible by the generous donations of individuals who have recognized the immense need for God's New Message in the world and who came forward to finance this first printing. Though this book was given in English, its message is meant to reach people in all the world's languages. Translations of this volume, There Is a New Message from God in the World have begun and are available online. If you feel you into the world own language New Message please contact

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recognize one another, how to listen to one another, how to communicate with one another and how to honor Knowledge within one another. It teaches us how to recognize and use our religious traditions beneficially and purposefully. It teaches us to promote freedom, well-being, cooperation and advancement for all the peoples of the world. It teaches us that we must share the remaining resources of the world instead of competing or fighting over them. It teaches us that we are one people with One Spirituality and that the mystery and the miracle of that spirituality lives within us— within the Knowledge that the Creator of all life has placed there, a Knowledge that represents the greatest gift to humanity and the greatest need of our time.

a great need is prevailing in the world. a greater darkness is upon the world. God has provided a New Message, a new answer and a new beginning.