Hatonn: Let Yourself Die to the Past

What do you call Satan? His body is the past - - his breath the future. Energized by your past- oriented guilt and your future-oriented fear - he follows you around like some vast cosmic shadow. He casts his nets of fear on the waters of your awareness, then draws them with ropes of "reason", back into a guilt-ridden past. You can only experience in the moment - -ALL is the present -- and you must re-evaluate that which is fed unto your consciousness - lest you end your journey before coming into understanding. Let me illustrate for the sake of example.

Your presence might well be compared to an inflatable balloon--a plasmic membrane of sorts. It is designed to be filled to the full with the energy and power of Life. Like two gigantic rips in the side, guilt and fear allow the precious life-substance to escape, leaving you withered, ineffectual and short-lived - all the while using your own life-substance to energize everything that you fear. It is easy to reverse the situation. Let yourself die to the past and wake up in the present moment. Why should you hesitate? Are your past experiences really comprehensive enough to provide a basis for understanding everything you encounter in the present? Do they truly deserve the authority and credibility that you give them? How attentive were you to all the factors that were present in the moment of their occurrence? If you are preoccupied with "experience", how attentive will you be to what is occurring in this very moment? Where is your attention right this moment?

You MUST be wherever your attention takes you. In fact, you are your attention! If your attention is fragmented, you are fragmented. When your attention is in the past, you are in the past. When your attention is in the present moment, you are in the Presence of God - and God is present in you. Let yourself die to all that does not really exist - and discover what does. Let go of all you think you know. Be honest; all you know is of the past. It does not exist in the eyes of God. In the eyes of God, your knowledge is but dust in the eye of a child blinding you to the splendor of Creation.

You know in effect, nothing of eternal significance - for you have forgotten that which really was and cling unto that which is brief and spoiled by the lies given to trip you up along the path of experience. When you operate on the basis of your so-called knowledge, you are operating without divine foundation. Belief in your own knowledge is not belief in God, dear ones. Trust in your own knowledge is not trust in God. No matter how much you learn within your present framework of finite knowledge, it will never be even one step closer to an understanding of God, the universe or yourself. Knowledge, as you presently understand it, will never bring you "closer to LIFE".