As revealed to
Marshall Vian Summers
on May 28, 2006
in Boulder, Colorado
This is a message for the religious leaders of the world. It is part of the New Message from God, which has been sent into the world for the protection and advancement of humanity.
This New Message is needed now to bring the great spiritual teachings that have already been provided for humanity into greater union and harmony with one another, for they were never meant to compete with one another.
Humanity is facing a great set of trials in the future. It is facing the prospect of living in a world of diminishing resources and increasing competition, conflict and the risk of war. It is facing environmental disruption and breakdown. And it is facing intervention from forces from beyond the world who are here to take advantage of human weakness and conflict for their own ends.
At this moment, there are very few people in the world who can see all of these things. But like great waves of change they are approaching your shores, and they will affect the lives, the future and the destiny of all the peoples of the world.
The New Message is here, in part, to affirm the importance of all the world's religions and to proclaim that they are all initiated by God. However far they may have wandered or deviated from the original intent, they are still important for humanity's future and well-being.
God is very wise in knowing what will work for the human family. As author of the human family this certainly makes sense. So the first thing that should be stated and made clear is that all the world's religions were initiated by God. They are all building blocks given to different peoples at critical times in history, pointing to change in the overall evolution of the human family.
It is not that one religion is right and the rest are wrong. This cannot be, for God knows that not every person in the world can follow one teaching, one teacher, one prophet or one messenger. People still make this mistake all the time thinking that their faith is the real faith or the only faith, the truest faith or the latest revelation. But it is all part of a great series of gifts and messages to the human family.
Unfortunately, the Divine intent in these messages, in all the religious traditions of the world, both great and small, has been altered, forgotten, overshadowed and overlaid by the intentions of those people who have been the stewards and representatives of these traditions. Something pure cannot remain in the world for very long before it seems to become corrupted or used for personal and political advantages.
However, God understands this. God realizes that without Knowledge, without an awareness of the greater intelligence that the Creator has placed within all human minds and hearts, people will act selfishly, foolishly and destructively. They will act without wisdom, without foresight and without accountability. Yet there is no condemnation here. God knows that humanity is not developed enough, is not wise enough and is not advanced enough to be able to purely maintain the intent of each of the world's great traditions. Therefore, the idea of punishment has no basis here.
It must be accepted that regarding religion, a certain amount of misappropriation and misunderstanding will occur all the time. People will use religion for their own ends, for their own purposes, whether these ends and purposes be true to their Divine nature or not. The Creator of all life knows this and understands this.
The first important thing to understand here is that all the religions, though they compete with one another, though they demean one another, and though they may proclaim that they themselves are the one true faith, have in fact and in reality been initiated by God. God has given rise to them all. Like many rivers flowing into the sea, they are meant to nourish all the lands and all the peoples of the world.
Only one who is truly mature in their own faith can see this. Otherwise, they feel they must defend their faith against other faiths, setting in motion competition, denial, criticism, hatred and mistrust. Certainly this has happened in all cases. But the truth remains that God created all the religions. And they are all meant to serve in bringing the Divine presence, will and purpose into the minds and the hearts of people everywhere—in different cultures, in different climates, to people with very different social patterns and behaviors in all the eras of history.
The second thing to understand is that all the world's religions are here to serve humanity, not to compete with one another, but to serve humanity. To understand this statement, one must go to the very heart and essence of what religion is and the difference between religion and spirituality.
Spirituality is the spiritual reality and intelligence living within each person. It is what the Creator of all life has given to each person. In the New Message, spirituality is called Knowledge, because it is related to the ability to use this deeper intelligence, this deeper awareness, to see, to know and to act with integrity.
Religion is what has been created to give spirituality an opportunity to be expressed and to be shared, to create an environment where spirituality can be experienced and applied. It is like a house within which spirituality can live: a structure, a pathway, a context, an orientation. That is the purpose of religion.
Of course, people do not understand this very well at all. They think religion and spirituality are one and the same. But they are really different because spirituality is created by God. Religions are introduced by God but are brought into form and organization by people and are maintained by people whose knowledge of God is far from developed or perfect. Therefore, spirituality remains infallible; religion will always be fallible. God understands this. But people do not.
However religion may have been altered, changed or misused, it is still vitally important, for it must be the vehicle through which spirituality finds its truest and greatest expression. In this, the religious traditions of the world, despite their many errors, despite whatever corruption and misapplication may have occurred, still remain vitally important for the human family as vehicles through which spirituality can be expressed and shared, and through which God's wisdom, the wisdom of Knowledge, can be applied to the practical and personal needs of people everywhere.
The New Message from God is here to proclaim the unity and importance of all religions, and to make it very clear that any competition or conflict that may exist between them is born of human ignorance and lack of awareness of God's true intent in initiating these avenues of expression. It would indeed be a great tragedy if humanity were to continue to use these great avenues of expression in competition with each other, as weapons of war, as weapons of advantage, as leverage used by one nation and tribe over another.