Hi ATS,
Jesus taught "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you"
Something just struck me regarding the battles that we as humans can experience in the depths of our soul; the way in which our mind is our own
kingdom, providing a forum for debate or an arena in which battles of various sorts can be fought. In my case, there is a constant war of attrition
as the backdrop in my soul, with frequent skirmishes being fought day & night.. I am a dreamer with rich vistas of all manner of sorts being spread
out before me each & every night. It is often the case that I find myself locked into a bizarre anti-logical fete of pandemonium, captive to a
narrative that is not my own, battles which make no real sense yet which sap the fullness of energy from me, taking away my liberty in scraps &
scrapings night by night. Despite my unwillingness to go along with these complex & winding narratives, I find myself trapped in the labyrinth,
strangely obsessed with somehow finding a 'win' within the oddities that I face.
It is now my conclusion that when the Lord said that the Kingdom is within you, He wasn't being allegorical. Our Heaven is within our mind, soul &
spirit, and it is ours to claim & oversee in accordance with the righteousness with which we are bound over along the Way with reference to the deeds
& dreams of our earthly lives. It is wrong to consider a Heaven 'out there' until we have somehow dealt with those worlds within us, bringing them
into alignment with the visions of Heaven that our conscious selves aspire to during our lucid waking moments in life. For me, I find myself accosted
& victimised in my dreams, and this is a near-constancy which erodes my confidence & saps my strength. Occasionally the Lord will provide me with a
dream that gives me such great inspiration that I am sustained by its message for weeks, months, even years.. But then, it is back to the grindstone
to wage this bizarre clockwork-scripted petty campaign against tyrants which love to stand over the near-defeated warrior to gloat & attempt to
insipre terror.
I am certain that the presence of such entities breathes life into the reality that we are literally faced with powers, principalities, rulers,
thrones of wickedness in high places, etc. These things know that we are in their territory, behind enemy lines, and they work to erode, trick &
wrangle the looks of a defeat out of the victory that our conscious selves more or less know ourselves to possess, If we are not against the Lord,
then we are for Him, and we may find ourselves facing sinister opposition, a captive to their macabre & twisted shenanigans. It seems therefore to be
a moral imperative that we are to work our way into lucid control of our dreams, to evade the magical flute which causes us to dance through their
scripted dream worlds with no control over the narrative, literally hypnotised to follow the route they have planned out for us.
ATS, if you have similar dream experiences, where nightmares & folly seem to sap your courage, where campaigns of attrition wear you out so much that
you are more tired on waking than you were when you went to bed - wake up! Work out how to do it, then get LUCID in your dreams, defy the hypnotising
magicians, the dark powers in high places. If you face such opposition then you are clearly on the right course, in some sense, and so you owe it to
yourself, and to God, to wrest control from the oppressors, and find a way to overcome their nocturnal influence.
I am now certain that when the angels go into battle against a foe, it means that they must enter the labyrinth of the controlling power, to overcome
the traps & illusions which entrance & entrain - one alone may fear to tread, because of the severe danger to lose one's coherence of mind, if one is
trapped & tricked by powers which remain significant, with no pushovers enthroned in such worlds.. This is why Gabriel made a point of telling the
prophet Daniel that only Michael had ventured to enter the maze alongside him, on a rescue mission, to bring aid to Gabriel as he entered the lair of
the controlling Archon which ruled over Persia. This was a powerful fallen angel, controlling a huge empire, with great skill in casting illusions &
stocking up on demon-infested traps. The fear of being thus trapped must have kept other spiritual powers from entering, hence Michael had special
dispensation or a weapon that would overcome the worst of what awaited them.
We ourselves face illusions & traps in our dreams, if we are on the side of the good powers of this universe, and for some these actions & entities
will cause power to spill over into waking life, making things more difficult to manage when our perspective is limited to a humanistic point of view.
If we trust in God, then we are strengthened for the task as in Isaiah 41
Isaiah 41 vs 10-13
So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
11
“All who rage against you
will surely be ashamed and disgraced;
those who oppose you
will be as nothing and perish.
12
Though you search for your enemies,
you will not find them.
Those who wage war against you
will be as nothing at all.
13
For I am the Lord your God
who takes hold of your right hand
and says to you, Do not fear;
I will help you.
Godspeed ATS, get lucid & get going!