A Gentle – Violent Man

FRI., NOV. 5, 1982, 5:53 AM
FARM, FRONT OF FIRE

Hear, o son, as I speak some words about gentleness and violence as aspects of human nature. The trigger, for you, is the film you saw, but you certainly know by now that I am not adverse to commenting on experiences that are yours to have, here in the earth.

Gentleness and quietness are one type of nature. Violence, even savagery, are another. These have a yin and yang quality about them… but I do not desire that they be evenly balanced. Gentleness is the more favored state of being, certainly, but in certain life situations it can be supplanted, for a time, with violence. Though My major rule is Do unto others as you would have them do unto you there are occasions when mutual violence also fulfills the rule.

In the film the man, John (a good name in any language), had severe violence done to him, by men and by nature. He survived a most violent fall, in addition to all that self-styled opponents had created, and it was time for a violent nature, one well-trained and disciplined, to take over. You recall, of course, the story of My violence, as Jesus, taking an action, in the temple area, that contrasted with My gentle nature. I was not often this way, but it was appropriate at that time. So violence has a place in the spiritual nature of humans.

Does violence have a spiritual quality to it. Not always, certainly. It can be an out-and-out repudiation of spirit, as that was which was inflicted on John. He would have submitted and remained gentle, but the spirit that had kept him alive in times before, a spirit linked with effective violence and combat, became dominant. Unnecessary and stupid violence done to one with a spirit that values living can bring forth violence to counter, where continued gentleness would be, truly, a denial of spirit.

There are realms where violence has no place, and those in such realms who have never really experienced an earth incarnation often cannot understand and appreciate this strange manifestation of spirit. My sojourn in the earth gave Me an appreciation that could not quite have been the same had I remained only spirit. And, you see, when I speak as the Holy Spirit, I have, as a part of My present nature, all that was in the Christ. So I, as pure Spirit, am enriched by My manifestation in human form. (In your language and with your thought patterns it does not come out clear and sharp. Yet you understand in your spirit, while the mind still protests, though gently.)

I also showed violence toward the Pharisees, those folks who knew the Scriptures so well. The violence was of a verbal rather than a physical nature, but, certainly it was violence. You have wondered about this violence, for it seemed not to be a response to violence offered by them. In the realm of spirit, it was. They showed a denial of Me and of that which Scripture foretold. It was My response as a man, at one with the Spirit of the Father, feeling a violence in their spirits which was misplaced. At the crucifixion, of course, I was moving back toward the realm of spirit and so I gave no violent response, verbally or physically. And, at the end, when John’s spirit had triumphed in the battle forced upon him, he displayed only gentleness.