In the Light of Truth

34. Cast all your sins on Him

This injunction, so often repeated, is one of the principal opiates used by all those who call themselves believing Christians. But this nostrum is an intoxicating poison. Poisons are often given to the patient to deaden bodily pain and they succeed apparently in calming him, and the words: “cast all your sins on Him, He has redeemed us and we shall be healed by His wounds” have a like effect in the spiritual sense.

As this doctrine has been accepted by the faithful as one of the chief tenets of the Christian Church, its effects are all the more pernicious. They build up their whole moral code on it, and thus come under the enervating dominion of blind faith and are only able to see as in a glass darkly, till at last the whole picture is blurred and a veil drawn over the truth. Then the Christian must needs hold to artificially built-up theories, which must break down on the day that the Light dawns.

“Cast your sins on Him.” What a foolish delusion! Like a flash of lightning the truth will strike the legions of false teachers and the inert believers and destroy all false doctrine! At present the masses are still sunning themselves in the belief that all the Saviour suffered and did was for them. In their indolence they reasoned, it would be presumptuous and blasphemous for a Christian to hold that man must contribute anything of himself to be able to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Surprising humility and modesty, not frequently to be found, characterises many in this point! According to them it would be sacrilegeous to harbour the thought, however faintly, that the coming to earth of the Saviour, His suffering and His death were not sufficient to wipe away the sins of all those who believe in His life on earth.

“Cast all your sins on Him”, they think with fervent devotion and do not know what they do. They sleep, but their awakening will be dreadful! Their faith, apparently so humble, is nothing but self-complacency. Their idea that, to serve them, a Son of God would descend to earth to prepare a path for them, on which, in their stolid stupidity, they could, without any trouble, saunter into the Kingdom of Heaven is unbounded insolence. In truth the hollowness of such a proposition is evident at first sight. To harbour such a thought must arise from indescribable frivolity and love of ease; unless indeed, shrewdness suggested the idea in the interests of worldly advantage.

Humanity has gone astray in thousands of erroneous ways, and in its foolish faith, it deceives itself. To think as men do is to belittle the Almighty. What is man that he should have the effrontery to expect that God would send down His only Son, a part of His own Divine Life, to give man the opportunity to cast his load of sin on Him, simply that he might be saved the trouble of washing his own dirty linen or expiating his dark burden of sin himself. Woe unto them who will have to give account of such thoughts. They belittle the supreme Godhead in the most impudent way. Christ's mission was not so paltry, it was stupendous — Divinity claiming its just rights!

I have spoken earlier of the Son of God's great work of Redemption.*(Lecture No. 14: The Redeemer) The seeds that His Divine Love sowed have come up in this world and in the next, and have brought forth fruit of all kinds. In the meantime many, elected by men, have claimed to be called by God. They have seized on the pure doctrine with their unholy hands and drawn it down to their own dense and dark level. Those who trusted them, without seriously examining what they taught, fell with them. The Divine essence of the sacred truth was confined in narrow limits, so that, although the external form remained the same, all its glorious light was put out in the quest for earthly power and earthly influence. Dim twilight reigns where the shining brilliancy of Spiritual Life might be. Where is the treasure that Christ Jesus brought to all who desired to possess it?

Ambitious egotists perverted the truth for their own ends and wilfully indicated the wrong path to those who were seeking, thus not only causing them to lose much precious time, but often leading them straight into the arms of the Dark Powers.

Heresies soon arose. They choked the truth. They clothed its simplicity in shining raiment, the brilliant colours of which, like poisonous plants, have exhalations which benumb all who approach, so that believers neglect and finally altogether give up keeping watch over themselves and, in so doing, lose the possibility of soaring to the true Light.

Once more truth will call aloud with a voice that will penetrate into all countries. After that, however, will come the great Day of Reckoning, when every man, having woven his own web of destiny, will have to settle his account with fate. Man will at last himself be made to feel what he so obstinately held up as right for others. He will have personally to undergo the effects of all the errors that, in his presumption, he defended and practised. The result will be wild and terrified out-cries and there will be gnashing of teeth, rage, and despair.

Those, who in their lives on earth held their own code of morals to be the only right one, will (when they are obliged to take the consequences of the precepts they preached when tribulation befalls them and they are brought to judgment), suddenly cry out at the severity and injustice of their treatment. Then they will turn to their God, to whom they were so insolent, to help them, they will call upon Him and beseech Him, and they will expect that in His Divine benevolence He will certainly forgive poor ignorant man for any baseness. Suddenly, in their opinion, He will be too magnanimous to bear ill-will, too great to take revenge — He whom they treated so shamefully,

But He will not listen to them; neither will He help them, because they did not listen to His word which He sent them. And herein lies that justice which can never be severed from His great love.

It was man's duty himself to study the word God sent him, even, if he would not accept His envoys as God's messengers. Therefore it shall be, that a voice, like thunder, will call to him:

“Thou didst not accept my Word; thus thou art doomed to be exterminated and be wiped out of the Book of Life.”

[Grail Message by Abdrushin]  [Resonances to the Grail Message]