Now this leads us into the continuing story of Jack, the Prince of sIAM. Dear friends, when we spoke with you in our last gathering, we told the story of Jack who was the prince of the kingdom of the First Circle. He enjoyed journeying out into all parts of the kingdom where he met many, where he learned much, where he experienced much. He went to new villages within the kingdom. He shared with others within the kingdom, and he helped to create many new things. This is a parable that we share with you, to help you understand how you came to Earth. For indeed each of you is Jack. Now what we did not talk to you about in our last gathering was what happened to Jack when he came to the place where the land ended. He pushed his boat out onto the great sea, where it was calm for a number of days. And Jack became bored.

We speak slowly here, and we emphasise these metaphors, for they are very key to things you will be teaching. We honour each of you, the teachers that are here tonight.

One day as Jack was drifting upon the waters, looking for new adventure, he saw a great wall of fire. It frightened him. He began paddling backwards, back towards the land where he had come from, back to the kingdom that had been his home. But yet this wall of fire pulled him in. He was frightened, and he was terrified, but yet it pulled him in a way that he could not prevent. After going through the wall of fire, Jack awoke upon the shores of a new land, at this place called Earth. Here he met others that were like him. Together they began to build the villages. They created the architecture and the energy patterns for the new land.

Now let us back up for a moment and talk about what transpired during this period when Jack went through the wall of fire. We did not focus so much on it in our last gathering, for we wanted to talk specifically about it on this night.

This was a traumatic experience for Jack – and for you. For the first time he felt he was not in control, when this wall of fire pulled him in, and he screamed within. This was the first time that Jack had ever felt terror. This was the first time Jack had ever felt a splitting apart within his own being. He had always been a prince, the heir to the throne. He had always had the freedom to create in whatever way he chose.

But now the wall of fire changed all of that for him. While he was passing through the wall of fire, it burned at the core of his very being, and it awoke within him conflict and pain and sorrow and suffering – all things he had never experienced before while he was in the kingdom. It awoke within him something called guilt. As he was tumbling through this dreaded wall, as he was wondering what he had done, he felt the guilt of having gone too far. He felt he should have stayed home in the kingdom where all things were good and right.

While he was in this wall of fire, it shattered him, dear friends. It shattered the oneness that he had been, and in a sense, you could say it created a war within him. There were experiences that he had during his brief moment that he passed through the wall of fire that seemed to last an eternity. Prince Jack, the one who was a creator within the kingdom, had experiences within the wall of fire that were filled with the deepest of sorrows, that were filled with anger and hate.

Oh, we know some of you have a hard time hearing this. But all of this was appropriate. All of this was meant to be. And all of this, you will see in its finality, was filled with the greatest of love.

We give you many important metaphors on this night. There are many metaphors that will be important in the teaching work that you will do.

Prince Jack spent an eternity in the zone of the wall of fire. It shattered him into pieces. Those pieces, in a sense, reorganised themselves into two areas.

A small portion of the pieces reconnected and fell through the universe onto a place called Earth. They resurrected themselves in a human body. In this human body, Jack was destined to walk the Earth many, many times, to repeat the cycle of lifetimes, to gain experience for something on a very grand scale.

Part of Jack, the larger part of Jack that was shattered, spent a bit of extra time in the zone of the wall of fire. These pieces of Jack spent time in turmoil and difficulty within the wall of fire. But then they banded together again. They found each other. They found the vibration of each other. They came back together. They then wrapped a large weaving of energy around them to protect them. You would call this a cocoon. And within this cocoon, the larger part of Jack that had come back together again went to sleep, protected by an energy cocoon, protected by many other types of unseen but loving forces.

While these pieces of Jack were sleeping in this cocoon, they looked inward. Jack had always been the outward creator, the adventurer, the one who sought new lands. Jack had always been an outer expression, but now most of Jack lay within a cocoon, deeply asleep, looking inward.

This had never been done before. There was in a need on the part of Spirit, through Jack, to look inward, to look from a new perspective, rather than to create outward.

Now back to Jack, the human, who lived many lifetimes and forgot who he was and forgot about his angelic origins. He came to think and believe that he was just a human. Oh, he even forget that he had past lifetimes on Earth. He began to believe his existence was merely being born and living and then dying. He would forget from lifetime to lifetime to lifetime who he was. And his name would change from lifetime to lifetime. His gender would change occasionally. He had many experiences.

One day in one lifetime he began to question "why." He began to ask who he was. He began to ask who his father truly was. And the words that he was told did not rest well within him. The words that he had heard from those in churches and from the ones who controlled the spiritual doctrines did not resonate within him. He knew there was something more, and he sought to find it. He sought to reunite with something he knew was there, but could not put his finger on. He could not define it. Jack spent a number of lifetimes in search of himself. He spent these lifetimes in loneliness and solitude. He spent these lifetimes searching and struggling and banging his head against the wall.

After many trials and tribulations, and after going through pains of the body and the mind and the spirit, Jack finally gave up one day. He did not care if he lived or died again as a human. He loved his family and he loved those he had met along the way, but he did not care so much any more. He did not care or have the passion for being a human any longer. And this was not a sad thing, dear friends. This was not a sad thing. It was time. It was time to release being human, of holding the human belief, of maintaining the human condition.

Others thought Jack was going out of his mind. They worried for him, and they talked amongst themselves, saying Jack was perhaps suicidal, and that Jack had gone out of his mind. They thought Jack should get a simple job, doing simple things and not worry about such grand events as finding himself once again.

Jack finally stopped his outer searching. He sat quietly and began to accept. He began to truly listen and began to follow no voice but his own. He put down his books. He put down what the others were telling him and put down the struggling that was taking place in his heart and in his mind. Only then did Jack begin to understand what was truly taking place. The greater part of him that had been in this cocoon, looking inward, had now finished its sleep. It had now finished its introspective look and was ready to awaken.

Dear friends, when the greater part of Jack that was in the cocoon decided to awaken, it was like an infant. Oh, you think the True Self is like your father or mother? No, it is like the infant. As it awakens, the first thing it longs to do is to reunite with you. As the True Self is awakening and coming forth from its cocoon, it is seeking to find you. When it does, dear friends, this is what we call the awakening of the Christ consciousness that is within.

Now Jack sat quietly, and he listened for a long time. At first he tried to listen in ways he had been told to listen by others. This did not work so well. He found himself out searching again, even while he was trying to be quiet, out searching in his mind, trying the right technique or process. When he finally gave those up, when he finally began allowing and listening in no one else’s way but his own, did he then begin to hear the energy, the love, the longing and the passion of the part that had been left behind.

Then Jack understood something that even we could not explain here to you. We choose not to because it will be unique to each one of you. There is no process from this point forward that Jack could have read in a book. It is so unique and personal to you, it is not something that can be outlined. Oh, indeed we can talk to you of being creators. We can talk to you of how you got here. We can talk to you of things that you are experiencing at this moment. But the process of the awakening of your divinity is so deeply personal within you that we could not possibly begin to define it. You will come to understand.

Dear friends, Jack sat quietly and listened within his being and allowed at the deepest levels. He allowed at the level that meant total release. He finally began to hear and finally began to understand. He finally began to integrate with all that he was, what you call your True Self. This is what some of you mistake for your guides, what some of you mistake for an outer energy, even Sananda, Yeshua ben Joseph. These are all ones who come to guide you and to work with you and to give you love, but dear friends, the integration and the inner discovery is of something far grander.

We will talk more of this in our times to come, but we wanted to get a little further ahead with the story of Jack. It is your story.

When you left the kingdom and went through the great wall of fire, much of you was left behind. Much of you went through a turmoil that is very difficult to describe and difficult for you to even understand within your being. A small part of your total energy came to this place called Earth and has walked for many, many lifetimes. But the part of you that was left behind – your True Self – is now awakening. This is what is happening within you right now. This is why you are feeling the things within your body and your mind that you do. This is why we gather here. This is why we honour you.

Remember dear friends, this is not some outer entity. Your True Self is not some angel-like being with wings. It is you. It is you, and it comes from within. If you review some of the metaphors we have used in this parable, you will come to understand more here. It comes from within you.