Religion and Politics | A New Message Teaching Released Live

The New Message presents the two great challenges of our lives: the Great Waves of change, a converging set of environmental, economic and social forces impacting our world; and the Intervention by competitive races from beyond our solar system who have traveled here and are now intervening in our world.

The New Message teaches about spirituality and religion at the level of Knowledge, which resides deep within you. And it is our greater Intelligence that we need to face these challenges. The New Message brings great wisdom from the universe that we all need to navigate life and to build a solid foundation for our future. And finally, the New Message reveals that humanity’s destiny is within the Greater Community of intelligent life in the universe.

Now—excuse me—I have a brief introduction to Religion and Politics. This teaching was revealed to Marshall on October 11th, 2008, in Boulder. And it is now available to the world at the New Message website, newmessage.org.

So I will start with this first slide. This first quote:

This is a gift from the Creator. It is a gift of profound love and respect for humanity. Yet it is a gift that brings with it a great challenge and a great correction to so many things that hold humanity back and that keep it in a primitive and divided state.

Thank you. To me this teaching presents many clear corrections for humanity in our understanding and practices of religion and politics. First, the teaching begins with defining politics and their basic purpose. They are both involved in communicating and with human thought and human behavior, yet they exist for different reasons.

Politics is our attempt to build stability and progress to culture and civilization whereas religion is God communicating to people and setting a higher standard for human thinking and human behavior, a higher standard than politics is able to do or can achieve.

And here’s a quote, my next slide, that speaks to purpose:

In reality, all religion in all of its forms is to bring your thinking mind into a deep association and service to a deeper Mind that God has placed within you that is beyond the control of government and that adheres to a greater power and a deeper conscience.

On an institutional level, religion and politics are both comprised of people, and as such, there exist competition, conflicts, deception and quest for power in both of these and at this level, this institutional level, there is the ongoing attempt to combine religion with state. And the Teachers discuss the many ramifications of joining these two.

So my next slide, this quote is one of the corrections provided: 

Let religion speak to the deeper conscience of people and to support them taking the Steps to Knowledge. Let politics deal with running the machinery of civilization.

And then lastly, the Teachers discuss a great need of the human family, that we are entering an a new age where women must assume positions of power. Women must assume positions of leadership in religious institutions and in political institutions and in all other are major areas of contribution to the human family. The teachers refer to this as The Age of Women.

So my next slide, please:

You cannot suppress half the human population and expect humanity to advance and to meet its great challenges.

And then at the conclusion of Religion and Politics, the Teachers close with a beautiful, powerful and loving blessing. So thank you. It is now time to listen to this wonderful revelation. Thank you.

[The revelation plays.]

So powerful, so needed. Thank you, Marshall, Patricia Reed. And thank you Broadcast Team for providing this experience today. We are going to go, hopefully I’m going to go, to the Discord New Message live channel. Please join us all there to discuss our experience of hearing this teaching for the first time, Religion and Politics. And in the chat room, we’ll share with you the dates of the upcoming next events. Thank you so much. Goodbye.