Causes of Illness

Each one of you, when you fall ill, will look for some external excuse for what you call your disease.  There is none. There are no physical reasons in your environment; there is nothing in your environment that can cause you an illness. Now you’re wondering ‘perhaps Jade Fire has never heard of bacteria and virus?’  They are present. They do not harm you, they only serve as a catalyst that your body makes use of to talk to you. It is because you do not talk enough to your physical body. It is because you do not listen to your physical body that your body has to use this. If this child needs to talk to this child, she will use a catalyst and she will talk. The telephone she uses is only the catalyst.  It is not the telephone that is talking, not at all.  If both could raise their vibrations, so that telepathic messages can be sent back and forth, would she need to use an external catalyst?  Not at all. So if you do not wish for your body to use these external catalysts, listen to it more. Talk to it more. Love it more. Am I asking you to be vain?  No. I am asking you to look at this as the greatest temple that there is, within which resides the only God in all the Universes. Do not look at an external temple. Do not search for an external God. HE is within. SHE is within. IT is within. IT…..a spark that has separated from Divinity and is still ‘one’ with Divinity. Love this temple, look after it, not obsessively, not for the sake of vanity, but because this temple is respected for permitting this one God to reside within. Everyday, open the doors of this temple and look within. Can you not see the cobwebs in that corner?  Can you not see that the floor remains unswept?  Can you not smell the bad odour of anger and pain? Once you can see it, smell it, and be aware of this, you will do what you do to all your external temples. You will at once, without any hesitation, begin the process of cleaning. But, where is the broom going to come from?  Where will you find the soap?  Where will you search for the swab? Isn’t this a wonderful temple? Not only is it dirty, but within it lies all that is necessary for its cleansing. So, what is the broom? Let us clean our temples step by step. Pick up the broom of Universal Wisdom, and know that only you have the power to hurt yourself. Only you have the power to be joyous.  And only you……and only you are responsible for every pleasant and unpleasant experience in your life. Without this broom of wisdom, cleansing cannot even begin. Take this broom and sweep away at what angers you, at what hurts you. With every sweep, repeat---I am the one. And there is no other greater truth. “I am the one”. With every stroke, empower yourself ------“I am God. And I am His name.” After the sweeping, the floor needs to be cleansed with soap.  All the dirt of the ages that lies stuck ------black, grime, of this and all other lifetimes, must be scrubbed away using the soap of Surrender. How beautiful is this surrender. Because you surrender to none but yourself. There is no other God, but you. But you.  But you.  But you.  There is no other God. How often have you fallen onto your knees and prayed in all your pain?  ‘Dear Lord, I surrender to your will’ and so often have you been disillusioned, because you find no answering echo. But my loved one,   where can the echo come from, when you pray outwards where there is nothing, and look not inwards where there is everything.  So, the soap of surrender, is not a surrender to an enemy, it is not a surrender to a Master, it is not a surrender to a God that sits in judgement, and whose only task seems to be to mete out punishment after punishment. The surrender is to the ‘spark’ within. ‘I am God’------and when you ARE God, who else in this universe has power over you?  There is none. There is no tyrant so powerful who can enchain you. There is no false friend so powerful who can demean you. There is no enemy so powerful who can defeat you. Because you already know, with the broom of Universal Wisdom -----that it is you and you alone, who is responsible for all. Do you think that you have come here today by accident?  Or because someone asked you to come?  You came out of a pre-determined moment of conscious planning, that ‘in this lifetime, with all other experiences I will also choose growth and unity.’ So it is no accident that you are sitting there. And you did not come because you were invited. So, with this soap of surrender clean away the grime, knowing that every moment of pain was chosen with complete, wilful, deliberate planning. You ask me why? Why would I be so foolish to plan such a difficult life? Am I really that stupid?  In all your wisdom you planned …….not in the wisdom of the small physical mind, but in the larger wisdom of a Higher Mind. You planned. Why did you plan?  Each answer is different, but there is one common answer. You planned because you wished to fall. You planned because you wished to falter. You planned because you wished to experience defeat and loss. You planned because wished to experience a complete emptiness, so that out of this you could rise and grow. And reach another higher level of consciousness. So that out of this, as you rose, and looked at the emptiness within, you could say ‘thank you’ to yourself and then allow the love of Divine Energy to fill you. So that never again would you have to look outwards for love and acclaim. That is why you chose. That is why you chose to fall. That is why you chose to scrape your knees, that is why you chose to break your bones. That is why you chose to experience pain that that wrenched your guts out of you. That is why you chose. So what does the soap do? As you scrub and scrub, and let the grime be covered by soft, white, pure foam, you surrender to the knowledge that ‘I am the One.’ ‘I chose this for a particular purpose and I surrender to the Higher Wisdom of my Higher Soul’. Once there is surrender, there is no pain.

Give me your hand, child. (Twisting it) Is there pain?

Yes.

(Relaxing the hand)  Is there pain?

 No Sir.

When I squeezed, you resisted and there was pain. When I let it be, there was no resistance, and there was no pain.  So, after using the soap of surrender, we clean away all the grime with the soap, with a swab-----and the ‘swab’ is the swab of ‘no resistance’.  Not ‘Thy Will Be Done’, but ‘My Will Be Done’.  The will of my Higher Self that knows universal truths that I will not even hear while in physical form. “My Will Be Done” ------no resistance, no pain. The temple is cleaned afresh. And then, you look within this cleaned temple and suddenly you smile and there are tears of joy that run down your face, because within that temple you see, seated in its very center, the Divinity that you have always searched for, but somehow never found. And you see that, and it grows, and it grows. And it envelopes you, both inside and outside. And all at once, there is a feeling that you have never felt before. All at once you understand, not with the intellect but with the soul, what is ‘peace’ and what is ‘love’. And all your questions that you desire to ask lie unanswered because there are no more questions left.  That is how you love this temple. Not by standing in front of a mirror, not by covering its beauty with false wealth, not by putting into it all that will make it even dirtier. That is how you love this body. This temple.

 
 Are all illnesses a form of inner cleansing?

No, my son. Illnesses are not a form of cleansing. Illness is your body communicating with you, in the only language that you somehow understand, telling you that ‘I am not being looked after, that my inside is dirty and needs to be cleansed. Please take care of me, please talk to me. Don’t forget me.’ that is an illness.