Ancient Civilizations
This question for William LePar’s
spiritual source, The Council, elicited more than what the questioner expected.
Questioner: I wondered if The Council could speak on what
happened to the ancient Mayan city-civilizations and if anything applies from then
till now?
The Council: Ancient civilizations. We wonder how they can
be so separated from today, for most of you have been part of those ancient civilizations.
Ancient civilizations are no different than your modern-day civilization with
possibly one exception, the ancient civilizations had far greater periods of
time where they were compassionate and loving. The ancient civilizations formulated
for the present-day civilization those Divine Principles that were necessary
for the future to succeed in its spiritual growth. They were able, particularly
in the very earliest of civilizations, when the soul or the conscious state being
was not fully materialized or as dense as the physical is today, those entities
still maintained or retained the Divine Principles very clearly. They still
were very conscious of their divine nature. They were very conscious of what principles
constituted the God Consciousness, and as that consciousness began to become
more involved, through the free will choice of those individuals, into the material
form then it becomes not the God Consciousness but the Christ Consciousness
since it dealt with the creation of the material form. Now, in those early times
before the full knowledge of their present status or state, they began to formulate
those principles, and it was a matter of progression or evolvement, not in
greater understanding but in terminology and application to the material form
as it solidified into the future. The original touching in of entities into the
material creation is extremely hard to explain in the sense that initially the
entities were not involved in a physical form themselves but as they become more
interested in their creations of the physical forms, then they became more
engrossed or denser because of their activities. The preoccupation with their
own creations led to the, shall we put it this way, a forgetfulness of their original
state. The more they became occupied, the more denser they became until they
developed a physical body, a dense body that was suited to the application of
the Divine Principles that would restore them back to their original godly
state. So, prehistory, ancient civilizations, became at times greater aware of these
principles, in the original state of those people in those civilizations, and
that awareness cyclically would decline. With each decline then came a denser
form. Eventually you come down to the present day where things are of a much
denser nature than ever before. The swings from knowing to lack of knowing are
far more radical and severe. Good and what is less than good are far more separate
than what they used to be. There is greater distance between the two. Yet even
though man and those entities that manifest as man are more radical than what
you had in the times of the ancient civilizations, he still can overcome all
conditions and all situations because after all is said and done the Divine Principles
are part of his very being, his very core, and it is simply a matter of choice.
If it were not for the ancient civilizations establishing these principles, it
could possibly have been that man would be less aware of the Divine and his divine
nature. It could possibly have been that man could reach a time or a state of mind
where he would consider himself no better than the animals that populate the
earth, the only distinguishing mark between them and the animal is that he is
able to think and make intelligent choices. So the ancient civilizations for
all that they have done and undone end up leaving a legacy for the future and, that
is, a permanent record of the Divine Principles that all must accept and apply
to their lives.
