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(This lecture from Brother Gilbert was given to Michael and Jane during their holiday in May 2009. Michael hadn’t seen this particular guide before and describes him as a very peaceful-looking, young man with dark curly hair and glasses and wearing a mid-brown habit and sandals.)
Brother Gilbert: If you give a mirror to most people, they will do one of two things: they will either shy away from the image they see in it or they will admire their image. There are very few neutral reactions to someone looking in a mirror: they either look at it to admire their appearance or they try to avoid mirrors altogether because they don’t like what they see.
Isn’t it fascinating when you realise that most people looking in a mirror believe what is reflected back at them to be an accurate picture of who and what they are and it isn’t! If you were to put a hat on and look in the mirror you wouldn’t say: ‘This hat is me.’ If you were to put a mask on and look in a mirror you wouldn’t say: ‘Aren’t I a good-looking mask.’
The reflection in the mirror is usually a reflection of the physical but the physical, as you know, is not who the person is. The physical is simply a recognition point: a recognition point for the soul undergoing incarnation in matter and a recognition point for those other souls connected to that soul so that they know who they are addressing. They of course know on a psychic level, on a soul-level, who they are addressing but unfortunately their senses are deadened by the effects of the material world to such an extent that they need to see some identifying point and that identifying point is strengthened by the person’s perception of what they are (in other words that reflection in a mirror because they go to a mirror expecting to see the same person) and that recognition point is also strengthen by the other people who acknowledge that soul as being a particular individual. So the image in the mirror is strengthened from two sources: it is strengthened from the image of the soul that the soul has of itself and it is strengthened by those people who acknowledge that soul through the image that they recognise as being associated with that soul.
The physical image is also affected by the Field and by thought and by the circumstances that happen during a person’s life. There is a saying that was around when I was on Earth, and is still around, and it is that you have the face that you deserve by the time that you are fifty and that is so true because by the time you have lived fifty years on Earth you have put in the groundwork of how you will appear for the next fifty years (if you are ‘lucky ‘enough to survive within a physical framework for so long). You paint a picture of yourself and that picture is influenced by your physical health, by your mental health too and by your perception of the world and your position within the world. The Field imbues you with a sense of where you should be physically at any certain point within your physical existence: you are an attractive teenager, you are a slightly more mature person in your thirties but with lots of vitality, you are a person who has reached forty - which is such an important milestone says the Field and says society as you are beginning the long slide down into old-age (or perhaps a short slide because the years seem to fly by more quickly as you become older). By the time you are fifty things are really taking a turn for the worst …and sixty and seventy are years when, if you look in the mirror, you will see reflected back at you the cares, the wear on the physical body, the deterioration of the physical body and ‘there is nowhere to go except six feet under’, says the Field.
But what do you say?
If you are one of those people who looks in the mirror and is repulsed by what they see, it is not the physical that is repulsing you; it is your approach to your own inner worth. It is your approach to the state (as you see it) of your own soul and it is you psychically seeing those layers of experience that need to be brushed up on, need to be spring-cleaned, need to be discarded and dispensed with. In other words you are looking at aspects of yourself that you do not like but instead of attending to those areas with love, instead of saying: ‘Well, I have problems in this area or that area but I can work them out and I thank God for the opportunity of working them out’ - you look at that image and you avoid it. You say: ‘I don’t like something about myself’ and so you don’t think of it, you don’t look at it and you let it remain around you in your aura, you let it show in your soul and you carry it around with you and it makes you older, it makes you care-worn, it makes you sad, it makes you world-weary. So that is what happens on one side of the coin. On the other side of the coin there are those people who mistakenly look in the mirror and think: ‘Isn’t that fantastic! Aren’t I wonderful!’ And, yes, you may be; I am not saying that you are not wonderful but the image that you have that you are looking at – the perfect hair, the perfect teeth, the wrinkles that have been removed - is not you.
So, you have the person who looks in the mirror and is repulsed by what they see and sense psychically and then you have the person who looks in the mirror and mistakenly believes that that vessel, that physical identification point, is them. In both cases - what mistakes to make!
When you look in the mirror, you should see reflected back at you what you give to other people - that is the true worth of a physical mirror and that is the true worth of a mirror that you can hold up to yourself in mediation (although in meditation it is easier because you can, in your imagination, vacate your physical body and stand in front of it and look at it and look at yourself dispassionately and see what your reaction is to yourself). You see reflected back at yourself what you are in terms of what you give.
So, often someone will look in the mirror and be repulsed by what they see because they know in their heart-of-hearts, in their soul, that they should be giving more, that they should be expanding more, learning more, reaching out to others more but they don’t want to do it. They are being ‘self-ish’ and by that I mean they are concentrating on the self but in concentrating on the self psychically they know that there are things that they should do and they won’t do them. If you look in the mirror and are obsessed by your physical presence, your physical appearance, then you are missing the point entirely because if you were a person who was in tune with others, who gave to others through prayer, through time, through understanding, through patience, then who you are would shine from you into that mirror for others to see long after your physical ‘assembly point’ or your physical point of identification had crumbled into dust and had yielded to the effects of the Field.
It is a good exercise to look at yourself, to see yourself in a mirror daily, and perhaps to question what you are looking at. You are not the physical body (we know that) but have you ever truly considered that when you look in the mirror? How closely do you identify yourself with the image that you see? You are not that image - you are the motivating force behind that image. And what does the motivating force look like? The motivating force is a reflection of God-Love that in turn is reflecting God-Love into those around it. You are - in spiritual nature and in actuality – ‘form-less’ i.e. without form …but not without purpose, not without being, not without doing, not without helping, not without loving.
You are a vibration of God that is reflected in what you do for others, in what you do to elevate your own soul, the souls of others and the face of this Earth.
In those things you are known and when you travel to the higher worlds you are recognised by others instantly because of the quality of your soul vibration and not because of any temporary suit of clothes that you have worn for a lifetime on Earth, which is only an instant but you have identified with so strongly that you think it is you. That suit of clothes will be a part of you but only in terms of a recognition point for those souls who are of a certain level of development after they have passed. But from other spheres, from other higher points of view, you will be someone else entirely encompassing that recognition point that others on a lower sphere recognise but also the other recognition points that you have been: the woman you were once, the man you were before that, the child that you were before that, the woman you were before that – all the incarnations that you have had. All those are built into you so that you can bring them forth at will or others can bring them forth at will to recognise you on certain levels of consciousness. When, for example, a friend of yours passes (and you have passed before them) until that friend has regained its soul knowledge of who they are, they - in their sphere - will recognise you and will see you as you were simply because they recognise you at soul-level. But to them they are recognising you by means of your face, by means of your body. They will bring that recognition point out of you but they are not actually recognising that persona - they are recognising, instead, your soul’s signature, which is what they always recognise whilst on Earth but don’t know that they are doing it.
On higher levels you will be recognised by the Light that you emanate; you will be recognised by the deeds that you have done because the deeds that you have done build you another ‘body’, build you another recognition point, build you a vehicle that will take you to other areas of experience. You cannot re-animate the physical body in the spiritual realms but you can go forwards in a vehicle that you have given life to via your deeds of Light whilst you were on Earth.
So who are you looking in that mirror? Who are you?
Better to ask: What are you - because you are love and love on a journey back to the greatest Love, the all encompassing Love, the ultimate Love - the Love of God. And your journey requires that you construct ‘vehicles of love’ to take you through the wasteland of Earth, to take you through the etheric spheres, to take you through the spheres of mind, of spirit, of mental, spiritual and mystical experience.
You are Love!
That is all you need to know when you look in that mirror - except you also need to know that you are not the physical face and the physical form looking back at you.
I tried to love when I was in a physical body and to some extent I did succeed. But my love was limited because it was the love of a religion, it was the love of a certain set of beliefs prayed onto people, into people (not always but at key times because that was what my religion required from me). Would that it had been different but, through that experience, I have gained the knowledge that it is a simple love that animates people, that brings them joy, that evolves them and evolves myself.
So when I look in a mirror, as it were, I see room for improvement, I see ‘form’ that has been acquired through work and I see an ever-changing person. You look in a mirror here and you see yourself growing old but we in the spirit world can look at ourselves and see ourselves becoming more - becoming more refined (not refined with regard to taste or society but refined with regard to vibration) and so it is the opposite of what you see.
So, this evening I bring you a mirror and I invite you to look into it. What do you see?
Be assured that you are not seeing your true self - just the mask, just the hat, just the suit of clothes - but if you look deeper you will see things that you want to improve in yourself. Do not shy away from them. Your soul will tell you what they are, will lead you into experiences that will allow you to highlight them and refine them. If you look only at the physical - perhaps you have enhanced your physical being, perhaps you are less wrinkled than you used to be, perhaps you are of a different shape than you used to be (and all these things are fine but only in the sense of you stitching up a ripped sleeve or putting new buttons on an old coat) - what you see is not you.
And it is fine to admire the physical as long as you also admire and acknowledge the God that is within you. Acknowledge that sometimes surgery is required on the soul and that you are the surgeon and you decide where things are sagging, you decide where things need to be tightened up, you decide the areas that need to be improved. Easy enough to do with the outer shell but very difficult to do with the inner expression - particularly as that inner expression is visible to all who are not of your level of consciousness. Your guides see right through you – and only you can decide whether that is a good or a bad thing! At night when you return to your heavenly home, you see right through you too. If you were to look in a mirror in the spirit world, you would see who you are and what you are and where you are in terms of your spiritual development. That is a sobering thought isn’t it?
I always come in love to people on Earth - that is what I want to do, to love you and in order to help you I must point out certain things that apply to me as much as they apply to you.
Try the mirror-test. Are you repulsed? Are you gratified? How do you approach yourself?
Physically approach yourself neutrally; spiritually approach yourself as a ‘work in progress’ and you can paint - through your actions today and tonight and tomorrow and every tomorrow - a different portrait to look at: one that is not just pleasing to your physical eyes but one that is satisfying to your soul’s eyes and to God’s eyes.
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