Q35: Since we do not know what our brother or sister needs, is it possible that the Holy Spirit would guide us to say and do things that others would react vehemently to, such as You did when You yelled and got angry at the moneychangers? Is it true that we can’t put a lid on how the guidance of the Holy Spirit would sound or look?

A: By its very nature, the guidance of the Holy Spirit comes from beyond the realm of ideas and perceptions that the mind identifies itself with. If you think of a room in a house as being where you normally abide, you know all the furniture, you’ve identified it all, you’ve defined it, it’s under your control. In such a room, when you go to access the answer for a problem or a situation that has arisen, you can only go to what you already know.

That is what the egoic mind tries to do, even when it begins to receive into its “room” new ideas – spiritual ideas, metaphysical ideas, religious ideas, magical mean ideas. It still is in the realm of the known and so, when a situation comes up, it rummages around the room looking for something it knows is already there. And it looks for what it thinks will be the device, the word, the phrase, the action, that is the right thing. But this is the very same thing as saying that you already know what you need to say or do. But you do not have that knowledge in the room in which the ego lives.

That space or channel, that we spoke of earlier, through which Love can inform your decisions, requires that you recognize it is beyond the context of the room that you’re used to living in. The mind, as you know it – your daily mind – can operate only in a closed universe of what it already knows.

And therefore, in a given situation, the Holy Spirit may have said to you, Take this homeless brother into your house and fix him a good meal. And so, you’ve done it. Now, ten years later, there is another homeless man outside your door. You rummage around in the past, and you see that once you brought this person in and you fed him, Oh, this must be the solution because this is my “homeless person” tape. I just pulled it out of my dresser drawer in my egoic mind.

And then you set about to act on that and you discover that that homeless man steals everything in your house. You’ve forgotten that there was a time when a homeless man appeared and you didn’t know what to do. You let go of everything you thought you knew and you asked in prayer. This same way of not knowing is the ultimate state of Knowing. Knowing that the egoic mind does not know is the source of powerful Knowing.

Therefore, could it be the case that the Holy Spirit would guide you to say or do something that might cause others to act, or react, vehemently? Indeed, beloved friends – yes! But remember this: the Holy Spirit’s guidance is not what is causing another to react vehemently. Their own mind causes that, because they are not committed to healing and to Love. Any reaction that is not the extension of Love must be fear, and nothing else. Any form of attack or judgment can come only from fear, and not from Love.

Therefore, when I felt guided to approach the moneychangers in front of my Father’s holy temple, I was not guided to say: Excuse me, could we have a slight conference here? I would like to express a slight opinion, and of course, you’re totally free to do what you will, because you’re actually very powerful, rich beings and I am just a lonely Essene. But if you’d just give me a minute, I’d just like to share my thought.

No. I was guided to move with great power, to literally act in the ways that some would call violence – not that I hurt anybody, but I overturned their tables and I yelled deeply that, “You have made my Father’s house a den of thieves!”

Now, that got their attention. Why? Because the Holy Spirit saw that those minds engaged in those activities could respond only to a powerful energy, since they idolized power, itself. They were always putting themselves in the position of having more power than the people who came to the temple. So, what was required was someone who put themselves in a greater source of power and demonstrated that the moneychangers were not as powerful as they thought. They couldn’t imagine, before that moment, that anybody would upset their apple cart. But through that act, it began to create what you might call a rattle in their mind and their being as their reality was shaken up a bit. And some of them began to ponder what it was that they were doing with their lives.

Now, if I was attached to my own safety, if I was attached to being liked, I would not have allowed that expression of the Holy Spirit to be made manifest. And that is what far too many in your world tend to do: Oh, if I say what just came to my mind, I may not be liked. But I’m really committed to being liked, while pretending to live a spiritual life. But indeed, beloved friend, the way of Atonement, the way of service, is not a popularity contest.

Therefore, indeed, precious friend, understand well, you have no idea what your brother or sister needs – from a gentle kiss on the cheek to a swift kick in the ass. But if you are committed to Love, to innocence, to freedom, to trust, and if you choose to access the perfect freedom of your channel of communion with God, and not to react from the egoic mind, then you will be guided as you need to be. And as you choose to fulfill that purpose, you have fulfilled your own pathway into the depths of knowing God.

So, yes, the Holy Spirit is not a namby-pamby, strawberry jelly kind of energy. The Holy Spirit is committed to one thing: the Atonement. The Atonement occurs when illusions are shattered. The Holy Spirit knows what is required. And what is required may not always, shall we say, meet the approval of the social world in which you find yourself. But those afraid to rattle the cages of others are simply afraid. This means they run their life by fear and are more committed to their comfort or safety, which is to be committed to the insanity of the ego, and not to the freedom of Christed Consciousness.

Does that help with that question?

Response: Very much so.

Jeshua: Now, I’m not saying there is not an art involved in that. The degree to which you enact the suggestion of the Holy Spirit comes from your willingness to save not one love for yourself – to be unattached, to recognize that you are the student of the Holy Spirit. You see? Which is, of course, the cultivation of self-love.