Steps to Being True Perfection

by Lorraine Michaels

March 25, 2006

Trying to be perfect from a human standpoint can really trip us up. It can lead to many problems in our ability to love ourselves and others, and to even take us to the point of immobility, where we are afraid to move because we might make a mistake.

We all have had various levels of perfectionism in our lives that we have either overcome or are meeting up with in our quest to overcome the human ego. So how does this perfectionism enter our worlds and how do we overcome it?

The term “perfection” mean the quality or condition of being perfect. So we need to look at the word “perfect” to understand perfection and what it really means. From a human standpoint, “perfect” means being without defect or blemish; lacking nothing essential to the whole; complete of its nature or kind.

I speak here on perfectionism because it is an important subject that we need to understand or we cannot progress on the path of Being, instead creating a rigidity or hardness of heart that opposes the very thing we are trying to accomplish—becoming the Christ and being who we are in God.

Perfection is God
God created everything in perfection. We only need to look at the human body that houses our spirit and soul and we see a magnificent creation. Not only is the human form perfection, but the form is surrounded and interpenetrated with other bodies (i.e. four lower bodies) that are not seen normally with the physical eyes, but do coexist to give us the ultimate opportunity to learn and grow and be more.

Through the use of our free will, we may take that perfect creation and create imperfection that might follow us from lifetime to lifetime and eventually outpicture an imperfect form that we embody in. But that was not the original creation, nor what is held in the Mind of God for his creations.

There are Cosmic Beings that do nothing but hold this “immaculate concept” for all life, for creation and for God’s self-aware creations endowed with free will and the opportunity to be co-creators with God. These Cosmic Beings hold and maintain the perfection of the original blueprint of perfection, while those with free will go forth and experiment with God’s energies and either create “more” God or “mis” create, missing the mark of perfection.

So God is not to blame for the miscreations we see around us. Man has created these miscreations that have no permanent reality in God. They are here today and gone tomorrow, with only that which is endowed with Christ perfection able to rise to the planes of perfection and immortality. God has given us the gift of free will and the opportunity in time and space to practice being co-creators. That is our right—for a time. But that “time” may run out and all energy to “be” withdrawn from the mis-creator, and returned back to the Great Central Sun in the ritual of the second death.

But this does not mean that we should fear making choices and not dare to make decisions at all, or only the necessary few decisions to survive. Through the choice of not making any choices, there is still a choice made. You cannot get around making choices and living in the physical plane. So it is better to make a choice, even a wrong choice, then no choice at all. Jesus said, " I know thy works, that thou art neither hot nor cold: I would thou wert either hot or cold. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.." Rev. 3:15-16

Jesus was talking to the Laodicean people, who were rich and had everything they thought they needed. They would not commit fully to any one ideology, catering the power elite of their day and their Satanic practices, and yet outwardly being of a Christian nature, putting on the garments of a good person. They were self-sufficient, only interested in fattening their pockets and maintaining their standard of living. They were practicing the perfect life from the standpoint of man’s perception of perfection. But were they practicing discernment between right and wrong? Daring to be more? To express who they really were in God?

What this message teaches us is that these people were self-satisfied. They were independent in the physical sense. Money could buy them most everything and they believed money could buy them everything they needed. But what they lacked was love. And so they did not have the spirit of “more”, that fire of love that realizes that less in the physical sense is better, and more in the Spirit is the goal.

You could neither fault them in their expression of living because they did everything seemingly right in the outer. They lived like kings in the kingdom of God, except they had no will to be, because they had nothing to bank the fires of Being, the fires of “more”. And yet they were not cold, not practicing an ill life, not doing anything overtly wrong, that karma could come in to play, to teach them of the wrong they were doing.

But t hey were karma dodgers, avoiding the discernment of the Christ consciousness. Not taking a stand for truth, not willing to be I AM. So God had nothing to work with to help them be more. In lacking the will to be more, they chose not to discern between right and wrong, neither choosing what was completely right with God, nor completely wrong with God.

Likewise, if we are not on fire to be “more” but peacefully exist in our daily living, not wanting or willing to discern what is right, we are not weaving the wedding garments that will take us to the wedding supper. We might be wearing all the outer “right” garments of earthly riches, but inwardly lack the fire to bank the flame of the heart to be “more”, the will to Be the Christ, and thereby obtain perfection in God while on earth.

What is God looking for from his children? How can we become perfect in an imperfect world? What is perfection in God? How may we be “right” in God?
First the fire needs to be there. You must cultivate the fires of the heart. If the fires are lukewarm, there is nothing that can be done to help build that fire in you if you are already doing all of the outer right things. If you had little fire, and were cold, life would return to you more cold so that you could feel the lack of heat, contrasting to those who had the fires of Being more. The stark difference could awaken you to desire to be more and have in your life what you feel lacking and see in others.

And if you were on fire and burning brightly because you are always putting on the kindling of “being more”, the heat quickly catches fire to whatever life brings you to expose it and then cast it into the hot fires. Therefore, if you are making wrong decisions, they quickly are exposed in the light of the fire and just as quickly can be consumed in that fire.

But if the fires are lukewarm because you are not banking the fire in the heart because of fear of being wrong, by avoiding making any choices, you are not being, you are not discerning, you are not in love. In keeping that kindling going just enough to not let the fire burn out, doing everything that is safe to do because everyone else is doing it or you form relationships where others make the decisions for you, is really stemming from a lack of the will to be more.

So if we truly wanted to understand what perfection is from the standpoint of Heaven, consider that love is the cornerstone of perfection in God. Then it does not become so important that we worry or fear making wrong decisions and suffering the consequences of their karmic return. Rather, we can make any and all decisions with one objective in mind—to be love in action.

But then we need to further understand that there are many descriptions of what love is and what it is not. And as in the description of perfection and what it truly means, there is a human understanding for what constitutes love as well. And that understanding might not be what true love is in God. In order to understand what true love is, the understanding of “more” and “Being” need to be understood.

Being
You can “be” and you can not “be”. I liken being to the quoted words of Revelation - with “not being” lukewarm and “Being” hot and “being” with a small “b” cold. You might be being and yet making all kinds of wrong choices. But you are willing to learn. So you can see that being can be one who makes mistakes and one who doesn’t make mistakes. Not being is one who is sitting on the fence, not making decisions, just striding that fence, neither choosing to “be” or not to “be”.

So looking at being in that perspective, you see that even a person who willfully chooses to do evil can still be in a state of being something. But they are not “right” with God in their being. Whereas those who are “Being” choosing to do good and right, will most often be “right” with God.

But what takes one who is “Being” into the realm of perfection? What is that magical quality that makes what they do “right” with God?

More
Before getting the answer to that question, there is the quality of “more” that needs to be understood. The description and meaning of more is “having a greater quantity of something”. The Masters’ have given us the understanding that one of the pivotal ingredients on the path back to God Being is the desiring to be “more” God.

The quality of wanting something more will often taken you out of the potential to be a lukewarm being and sitting on the fence. The fact that you want something more than you have presently, often is the catalyst that might impel you forward into making any decision, as long as your goal was to get that more. But often those who are sitting on the fence are willing to just wait and see what life brings them and what those around them decide for them. So you could say that they would lack that fire of wanting “more” as well as lacking love. But one who wants more does not automatically make one right with God and coming from a place of love.

So the key quality of that “more” that our Father Morya teaches us, that he came and represented to us in several of his lives i.e. Abraham, Thomas Becket, Sir Thomas More and Thomas Moore, is to love something more than we love ourselves. He showed us the principle of loving God more—with His truth and honor—than we loved our lives.

So the quality of “more’ that takes us higher in God Being is the ability to sacrifice even our lives for something more of God. It is also the quality of surrendering all that is “less” than God. It is also the ability to serve God, through serving others, more than having or wanting others to serve us. It is the ability to be self-less, which transcribes into being “more” Self.

These qualities that take us into the “more” of God are built upon that cornerstone of love. And this separates the real love from the human love. Conditional love says I can only love you when you serve me in return; or I will surrender this if you do the same or sacrifice something for me. It says I will give of my self and surrender my way for you if I get something in return. There are always conditions to the love given and thus the qualities of true love are perverted by those conditions.

Returning to Being and what makes one “right” with God, is another aspect to look at besides love. That aspect is “Being who you are"—not who you think you are, but truly who you are. How can you know who you are in God?

The important missing ingredient in most religions is how to understand who you are and your unique gift to return to God through more. Many are missing the understanding that each person is unique and has a unique purpose in God. We are not all the same, nor created by God the same. We are more than just Christed beings, or potential Christed beings. We are more than just the threefold flame, that spark of divinity anchored in our heart. We are I AM.

God Flames
Our God Self, our I AM Presence is a unique God flame. And when we, the conscious being in embodiment, choose to be more God while on earth, we are actually choosing to Be I AM. In the process, we rise higher and higher in God consciousness, God love and become more I AM. And when we become more I AM we become more of who we are in God. We become more of that unique flame that we are, manifesting I AM through our Being. Thereby we become perfection in embodiment. The more we allow the I AM to Be through us, the more perfection we manifest.

When the process of oneness is complete with the I AM, the ascension is usually the end result. Usually all the individual's karma has been balanced, the soul has already merged with the Christ and then merged with I AM. The individual's life mission has been served, and the life has completed with full devotion to God, serving in love and sacrifice. The human creation has been surrendered to be replaced by the Mind of God and God consciousness. Perfection is as the I AM is—already perfection.

But before this process is completed leading to the full transfiguration and ascension, there can be many years in physical embodiment where one is so merged with the I AM Presence that perfection can manifest while yet in embodiment. The goal is not necessarily to be “perfect” in all one does, as much as it is to be “right” in all one does. And being right can easily occur when one obtains mastery of Being their God flame on and through all seven rays.

Mastery on the Seven Rays
When you master Being your God flame through all seven rays, there is the total surrender of the miscreation that had taken the place of the I AM Presence. When you have surrendered the last bit of your human ego creation, you are a God free Being once again. You are love in action in all you do. You are free to Be anything you want and to do anything you want. Everything you do is then qualified in love through the action of the expression of your unique God flame through you. And the only thing that will take you out of perfection is if you return to misqualifying energy on any of those seven rays. And that misqualification can occur only when you love someone or something more than God.

The driving force should always be love in the love that is service, sacrifice, surrender and selflessness. The quality that gives energy to that driving force is wanting “more” God. The will to Be who you are is the expression of that driving force in the material universe. And perfection is the result of the combination of all these qualities together. No one part of this equation can create perfection.

All sense of belonging to a human race and born of physical parents is lost to the greater connection to you as a child of Light of parents not of this world, but who created this world. And as everything a small child does is perfect in the eyes of its parents, especially it’s mother, so is it with our heavenly parents. The hands and toes are perfect. The smile is perfect. The first step before falling and the first tooth breaking through the gums are perfect. The first babbles out of their mouth in an attempt to speak are perfect.

Do you see, it is not just the result that makes perfection on earth, but the process which comes out of the will to Be, the love of more and the pure innocent joy of giving—in love.

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