Doubt

Doubt is something you cannot escaper. You know in your heart. You do not know in your head. This is not an intellectual process, though you do process the knowledge within your intellect. When you experience doubt, seize it, examine it, and look for its origin. And when you find that, seek to understand what has brought it about. Seek the answer to your doubt. Do not let it fester. Do not let it sit and build doubt upon doubt. Talk to your friends. Inter-association with other personalities is absolutely necessary. You cannot exist on this world, much less on the Mansion Worlds - or further on in isolation. When you have doubts, seek the counsel of your loved ones and your friends, they will give you assistance.

Doubt is also desirable, because, without doubt you will be unable to exercise that faith muscle. You will not be able to do that. It is similar to walking. Without gravity you could not walk. Belief must be accompanied by doubt in some way. You must have some thing to overcome in order to believe. Do not hide from it. Meet it face on.

Question: Is faith the spiritual antidote for doubt?

A: Not exactly. Faith is the spiritual antidote to uncertainty and fear, but doubt occurs and may live side by side with faith. For example, one can have unshakable faith in God. Say you have already passed through the portals of physical death and are on the mansion worlds, you may have total faith in your potential for divinity, for the existence of God, for the teachings now manifest through your own experience of spirit and soul, but you can still have self-doubt. Doubt is not solely dependent on faith; doubt is different.

All should be encompassed in your human life: prayer, worship, service, thanksgiving, participating in your own spiritual growth, in other avenues of expression. All of these are concurrent. And you certainly must achieve balance finding ways to re-center your self in your identity.

Much doubt is - in essence - what you call psychologically “identity crisis,” going into the core of your psychological being and shaking it. Each person is equipped with radar spiritually, spirit of truth and seraphim, Thought Adjuster, and should be responsible for their own - and is responsible for their own perception of their experience. You are not responsible for another's spiritual growth. All we can do as fellows is extend love, service, understanding, emotional support, friendship, to others, listening, etc., but
you cannot do anything for them that they have not freely agreed to in this universe of free will.

And everyone must proceed at his or her own pace on this path. So your sense of responsibility that your own unbalance or insanity - let us take a worst case scenario - could infect or contage or harm others is spiritually unreal, for they are all equipped with their own radar devices and cannot be harmed unless they wish to participate in your hallucination, disassociation, process - which is not really what human beings generally do.

There are few groups of mad men that agree on the common delusion. Even in cults that have agreed to participate in a mass hysteria-type delusion there is disagreement, eventually. So there is built in a protection against what you fear, and what you fear is not real. 

Jonathan: In the past years you have mentioned that, in relation to faith, doubt can be good as a stimulus to growth. Now you mention doubt in relation to fear as stifling growth. Could you comment on both the usefulness and the drawbacks to doubt?

Elyon: Indeed, the doubt card can be played in two directions. In preliminary stages of development, doubt is absolutely normal and can indeed be a stimulant to enhance or increase faith. It is also true that from time to time throughout your development this doubt may rise to the surface. However, it is infallibly true that, as you spiritually progress in your ascension, doubt inevitably becomes less and less of a factor as you
give yourself over more and more to faith and the will of the Father and your progression. The more you wholeheartedly devote your being to your ascension, the will of the Father, the less room is left for any doubt. So that a fully developed spiritualized being does not grapple with doubt as a factor; they are fully devoted to their faith in which there is literally no room left for doubt. 

Doubt has by its very nature a stifling, halting effect on forward progression and movement. In the beginning stages of spiritual development this doubt challenges the individual to further increase their faith.  So the doubt is seen as an obstacle or a challenge to go around or to overcome, and therefore it is useful. At some point it is no longer a necessary element in your spiritual development and can be released or let go from your spiritually progressive path.

Jonathan: As you were speaking I was playing with the metaphor of water. I see that if someone has an ocean to cross, doubting one's ability to build a worthy vessel to cross this ocean, in faith utilizes that doubt to research and develop a seaworthy vessel. That would be a good growth stimulus. But at full sail at sea, that is not the time to doubt one's effective construction and pull in the sails and climb in the berth and cringe in fear. That's where doubt has its negative effect. As we progress our assuredness of the care and provision of the Father and our abilities to work His will should overcome those doubts. 

Elyon: My friend, you have done an excellent job of stating the truths, rearranging in your concept frame and explaining perhaps even better than I did the places where doubt exists and the consequences therein. Well done!