What would be the "spiritually," correct stand on the matter of capital punishment?
Hilarion: Under the Mosaic dispensation, the old rule was that if a person took the life of another, then he himself must die at the hands of society. This law was given at that early time because of a desire to speed the setting aside of karma. The society of the day was such that no positive rehabilitation of murderers was thinkable and therefore any murderer who was left alive would not have any chance to improve from a spiritual point of view.
Indeed the very act of murder creates an energy field around the murderer which acts like a gate, preventing spiritualizing forces from having access to him, and tending to keep him unrepentant to the end of his life. Thus, by handing down this law, Moses was attempting to speed the spiritual evolution of the murderer by having him meet the karma from his act (by being put to death himself) so that he could be reborn into a new set of circumstances, without the inhibiting "field" around him.
However, man today understands the power of love, and understands that it is able to sweep all obstacles away--even that arising from the act of murder. Therefore, a murderer, even though his act still creates the field of negativity around him, can still hope for the possibility that he will make further spiritual progress in this same life.
Because of the shortness of the time remaining before the entry of the New Age, we think that, whenever possible, murders should be at least be offered the chance to change their violent pattern, through being exposed to love from others. It is a difficult question on which to give hard and fast guidance, since each case differs from all others. From a higher point of view, of course, it is inevitable that the karma will at some point be set aside, even though this must await another life.
"Answers," by Hilarion/ Maurice Cook published in 1983
Are contraceptive methods such as the pill, the I.U.D and prophylactics harmful to the body? From a spiritual level is there anything negative or karmic in practicing birth control?
Hilarion: This question first should be discussed from the the higher point of view because the approach in the spiritual sense will automatically answer the queries at the more earthly level.
The act of giving birth to the vehicle of another soul is among the greatest gifts one human being can offer to another. At the same time, the earth plane itself is arranged so that it can support only so many individuals of the human family at a time. Hence there must be some control over the numbers of incarnated souls on the planet at any given point. Prior to the present, the control always came about throughout he natural processes of disease and famine, and the total number of souls on the planet never before approached the "limit number" of five billion.
This figure represents the maximum for the human life form on the planet, and cannot be exceeded without dire consequences for the body of the earth itself. This limitation does not arise through exhaustion of food sources or oxygen, as might be thought. There is enough land area on earth to support a hundred times the limit number if all were vegetarians as man was meant to be. Instead, the limit comes about at the aetheric level: the mental "presence" of humanity en masse is very powerful, and this power tends to to be proportional to the population. If the earth population were to exceed 5 billion, the power of man's thought would exceed the power of the earth logos itself, and thus an imbalance would result. It is not possible for us to explain the difficulty more clearly, as the concepts required have no words in earth language.
We have digressed from the original question in order to explain a little of the background behind the question of population control. Turning to the spiritual implications of birth control, then, we can state that to decline to provide a channel for the entry of another soul is not an act which generates karma or any negative results of a similar kind. It is simply a decision made by each individual and is within the right of the individual to make.
However the only sure way to avoid becoming such a channel is to avoid intercourse entirely. The reason for this is as follows. The act of sexual intercourse is one which sets up considerable energies between the lovers-energies that seek to manifest in the form of pregnancy and birth. These energies have a great deal of power and it is very often necessary for the guides of an individual to intervene in order to prevent contraception when the life circumstances are not appropriate. This is true even where intercourse took place on a so called "safe" day. In reality there are no "safe" days. The ability of the energies we have described to keep sperm alive and viable for for several days, or to bring about the discharge of an ovum at a date off the normal schedule is remarkable. Many people who have studied spiritual matters and who understand the general functions of the guardians have the idea that is they who manipulate and arrange pregnancy, whereas in fact these guardians usually (as we have said) intervene to prevent it.
Now whenever an individual attempts to "block" the body's natural tendency to become a channel for birth, as prompted by the powerful energies we have described, various difficulties-of greater or lesser seriousness-arise. Where the prevention is strictly mechanical, for example placing a diaphragm or sheath in the normal path in the normal path of sperm seeking the ovum, the consequences are confined to the aetheric and higher levels. As we have explained in our book, Seasons of the Spirit, the act of sexual intercourse is intended to allow the partners to interchange root chakra energy. In order to balance up or complete the lack in each person of energies characteristic of the other.
Thus, the man receives female energies, while the woman receives male energies. When the act of intercourse is accompanied by a full sharing of the this kind, a sense of great relaxation and at- one-ment results. However the imposition of any mechanical barrier which prevents or substantially prevents the tissues from directly contacting each other will act to greatly reduce the the interchange of male- female energies. the result will be a residue of continuing sexual tension in one or both partners, and a feeling that the experience was not fully satisfying. This can build up over a period of time , and ultimately manifest in other areas of the relationship.
If the means of preventing pregnancy involves drugs or chemicals, there will arise a great conflict between the channeling energies which we described earlier and the strictly earth level forces released by the drugs. These latter are essentially material only, and thus represent "dead" processes without life in them. By contrast the energies seeking to become a channel for birth are very alive and powerful. The conflict which results almost always has deleterious effects on the body of the person taking the drugs (usually the woman). The effects are often to alter the nature of the blood to increase clotting tendencies, thus causing more pain in menstruating. Often, headaches and other general symptoms are also found to accompany the taking of the pill to avoid pregnancy.
As to the karmic implications of mechanical or chemical methods of birth control, such are confined to the simple cause and effect mechanisms we have already described. There is no karma carried over by the higher self to another life, because the effects of the method of birth control are always manifested in the same life in which it is practiced, and usually simultaneously with the method.
It is not necessary to comment at length on the I.U.D., since the same general principles apply. These mechanical devices implanted in the womb do a great deal of damage to the energy flow paths from the root chakra and as a result, lower abdominal complications almost always are met with, if not during the time that the device is in place, then somewhat later in the same life pattern.
Finally, there is the matter of surgically cutting either the fallopian tubes or the equivalent passages in the male. As we have pointed out in a previous answer, the severing of these important passageways disrupts the flow of root chakra energy to the lower abdomen, and near term or long term physical deterioration is almost always the ultimate result. Again, the karma is simply the very results we have described at the physical level.
"More Answers," Hilarion/ Maurice Cooke published in 1985
Hilarion: You could say that it's the result of all of the hard lessons of war and karmic division and struggle for millennia and this is true. One of the reasons is the powerful galactic shift from Pisces to
Aquarius, a reminder to you of the true nature of your being, to move
out of the shadows and into the light with a place of deep, powerful ,
love. Yet, this energy as you would understand and work with it is
re-manifested regularly and so we see the regime change in North Korea.
With a great shift of energy of this nature, many of the people there
pray; cry forth with their own energy in their own way, it might not be a
prayer necessarily as you understand it but still as a collective
consciousness,” let us join the rest of the world. Let us find freedom.
Let us make this our reality.”
It is important to recognize that the communication about what has
happened in what was the great changes in the Middle East, the great
shifts on your planet in the last year, the Occupy Movement and the list
goes on and on, these have reached the hearts and minds of the North
Korean people. They do understand these things not with the detail
perhaps but the idea perhaps that this is possible.
So the tremendous opportunity that was brought forth, there is great
talk of revolution, there is great talk of many changes, but it is hoped
that they will also recognize the tremendous benefit of peace. The
opportunity for this to be a peaceful shift through some sense of a
change in the personality of the leadership, this is mirrored: a greater
degree of kindness, a possibility for love is now brought forth for Kim
Jong Il and will this be taken or not is the great question for the
people right now.
The Korean people themselves will assist with this more than anything
else. One of the great lessons karmically for these people is that by
being isolated from the world a unique opportunity has presented itself.
This was never the original intent of Kim Jong Il but still this
opportunity for these energies to be presented, still is present. His own
energy as a re-manifestation of a re-balancing of karma naturally
mirrors this.
This is the idea that those who have created or been willing
participants in the creation of various forms of negative karma on
planet earth now have a place where they can land. Where they are able
to interact with these energies in the way of suffering, starvation in
particular and other energies these are the political leaders, regime
changers, powerful beings in various positions who have reached some
degree in which they must have physical incarnation but at the same time
must not be allowed to harm others or be in position for their own
karma to re-create this chaos and difficulty in their soul and in the
world simultaneously.
Thus, the political leaders from the Civil War era in USA, political
leaders in Nazi Germany, political leaders in Communist China, these
individuals incarnating at this time in North Korea to work out and
understand many of these things as common people, as peasants, to then
re-create for themselves this karma. One of the powerful karmic lessons
as they are studying and working with the law of karma is internal. The
way in which the balancing can take place, in which a greater love might
be manifested.
That is the great opportunity. The Korean people have not yet fully
grasped this but this is a wonderful time to assist them. If you might
imagine for yourself something loving, perhaps somebody you care for
deeply. Imagine that you are embracing them or you are speaking words of
love to them or they are speaking them to you. It need not be a human
being you may have this kind of feeling for an animal, a pet perhaps,
perhaps a child but in any way in which you have this let it envelop
your heart. Let it be a feeling that you may breathe.
Recognize within it is a wave of energy that expands outward from
you. You are bigger than just your own physical body with this energy.
It moves out three or four feet, a meter or two away from you and bigger
and bigger than that. When it reaches the end of the emerald light
cylinder which we spoke of earlier that is the time to see it instantly
transported to North Korea. An energy now simply sent to this place with
a feeling behind it, do with this as you see fit, feel and know this
love as a real possibility for engaging each other, for assisting with
the changes on your world, in your lives, in your countrymen and women
but also within your political leaders, then the possibilities for your
race, for your reality, for your country.
This is always the issue when the Universal issue is the law of
karma. Because there is this higher solution that dissolves karma, that
melts it, that shifts it, that allows the karmic balance back and forth
endlessly with the ages comes to a halt. The sense that both are loved,
the sense that the perpetrator and the victim as one are held in the
arms and in the loving hands of your own God self, your own Christ
energy.
Hilarion 2011 http://hilarion.com/win11.html
What is the karmic significance of abortion to the mother, the father and the foetus?
Hilarion: The karmic significance depends to a great degree on the motives and reasons behind the action which terminates the life of the foetus.
Birth into earth incarnation is viewed on the higher planes as a a great opportunity for soul advancement, for learning, and for spiritual progress. It is also seen by prospective souls as a chance to rejoin loved ones, and to participate in the fullness of physical existence on one of the most beautiful planetary oases in the universe.
Thus from the point of view of the soul that might have come into the world in the aborted foetus, the abortion is merely the shutting of a door, the loss of an opportunity to advance. However, as a general rule, souls who lose the possibility of earth incarnation through deliberate abortion are given another opportunity to incarnate very soon thereafter.
For the woman who arranges or assents to an abortion, the pivotal question is motive. If it is done for strictly selfish reasons, especially when the the woman was in a situation in which the child could have been welcomed and cared for, then the killing of the foetus is counted as an act close to murder in the scale of seriousness. The karmic burden arising in such a circumstance is normally met and set aside through the experience of being denied a child when one is wanted...either later in the same life, or in some subsequent experience on the earth plane.
At the other end of the scale of motive is the situation in which there are persuasive reasons for terminating the pregnancy, reasons not related to selfish desires. For example, where there is a threat to the mother's life or health, or where no family situation exists capable of providing a good early life to the child, then abortion is not taken to be a particularly negative act. Some karma stems from it, of course, but it is generally not of a severe nature.
The father of the aborted child is also assessed in strict accordance with his motive, assuming he forces or persuades the mother to have an abortion. It is unnecessary to explain the matter in greater detail.
More Answers by Maurice Cook published in 1985
