What does the New Message advocate?
1. Freedom—Learning to build, maintain and protect one’s individual freedom and humanity’s collective freedom in the face of grave and unprecedented challenges
2. Human unity, cooperation and the cessation of war and conflict —not out of high morals and ideals but for humanity’s collective survival
3. Sustainability and the restoration of the environment—preserving and sharing the world’s diminishing resources instead of competing over them, to avoid war so that humanity can have a future
4. Primacy of Knowledge within the individual—Knowledge is the Great Endowment of the Creator that lives within you and allows you to experience & express humanity’s One Spirituality, beyond all divisions of race, culture, nation & religion. Knowledge alone has the power both to guide and protect the individual and to unite and enable humanity to chart a new way forward
5. Peaceful coexistence and cooperation amongst the world’s religions—All the world’s religions were initiated by God and were never intended to be in competition and conflict with one another.
6. Becoming strong in the mental environment—You live in a mental environment as well as a physical environment. The mental environment is the pervasive environment of thought and influence in which we all live. To be able to think freely, to be discerning and to resist mental manipulation, you must learn about the mental environment and become a force within it. Steps to Knowledge, the New Message Book of Practice, teaches you how to do this.
7.Preparing for the Greater Community — Our isolation is over. The New Message prophecy reveals that humanity is not alone in the Universe or even within its own world. The New Message is here to prepare individuals and nations for the reality, danger and opportunity of encountering a Greater Community of intelligent life in the Universe. As the native peoples of this one world, we must face our first encounters with intervening forces with wisdom and discernment and establish our own rules of engagement.
8. Preparing for the Great Waves of Change —The New Message prophecy reveals that G reat Waves of change are now converging upon the entire human family, creating a situation unprecedented in human history. Among the Great Waves are climate change and catastrophic weather, diminishing energy resources, severe environmental deterioration, declining food production, economic instability and the growing threat of competition, conflict and war over the world’s remaining resources. The Great Waves will create immense instability around the world, even in wealthy nations. Recognizing and preparing for the reality of the Greater Community and the coming Great Waves of Change represent the great needs of our time. The New Message has come to prepare us for navigating the difficult times ahead.
9. Contributing to a world in need—True happiness is the result of doing what you came here to do. To accomplish this, you must unite your thinking mind with the deeper mind of Knowledge within you and develop the wisdom and strength to fulfill your mission in the world.
10. Building the Four Pillars of your life—your life has four pillars, like the four legs of a table, which uphold your life and give it strength, stability and balance:
- The Pillar of Relationships
- The Pillar of Health
- The Pillar of Work & Providership
- The Pillar of Spiritual Development
11. Relationships of Higher Purpose— You were born with a mission and with the Knowledge to help you find and fulfill this mission. As a result, there are certain individuals in life you must meet and engage with. At a deeper level, this represents your search for relationship. In the New Message, these are called relationships of higher purpose. The New Message teaches you how to find and discern these individuals beyond all other forms of attraction and obligation. You cannot find and fulfill your mission alone. You will need exceptional relationships of honesty and integrity whose mission and destiny are in alignment with your own.
There must be a new testament advocating these things. The New Message from God is a new testament, a new understanding, a new way, which goes beyond all of the beliefs and assumptions about the past, beyond all of the conflicts and discord from the past.
The New Message advocates wisdom, freedom, purpose, unity and cooperation based upon humanity’s One Spirituality and the great needs of our time.
What does the New Message ask of me?
The New Message asks of you honesty, sincerity, integrity and commitment—all the things that everyone needs to establish in his or her own life and everything that needs to be established within the communities and villages, the cities and nations of the world.
The New Message asks you to honor what you need and what the world needs. It asks you to recognize and receive the blessings of the Creator and the preparation that the Creator has sent into the world for the benefit of all of humanity.
If this seems too much for anyone, then they do not recognize their own needs. They have not come to understand the needs of their soul, the needs of their heart. They are preoccupied with what they want and what they fear. They have not yet reached the point of recognizing that they need to find their greater purpose in life. They need to make a contribution in order to feel satisfaction and happiness. They need to give to the preservation of the world in order that their life may feel vital, meaningful and purposeful.
The New Message from God asks that you recognize the need for a New Message, that you read the New Message, that you consider it and begin to apply it and live it.
It asks you to receive its blessings, its benefit, its strength and its power in your own life.
It asks you to share this New Message with others and maintain it in a pure form, without altering it or changing it or trying to align it with anything else.
In essence, you are asked to receive the New Message from God and to bear witness to it. And if you can receive its blessings, you are asked to advocate for it and to advocate for its protection in the world.
So the New Message asks you to receive what you need and what the world needs. Let this be your understanding.
Is this a new religion, and why does the world need a new religion?
The world needs a new understanding and a new awareness. Out of this, forms of spiritual practice and communities will arise and in this sense, yes, it is like a new religion. But the purpose of the New Message is not simply to create another religion in competition or in contrast to all other religions, but instead to advance human understanding of its spiritual reality, its greater challenges in the world and its destiny in a Universe replete with intelligent life.
What humanity needs is a new experience and a new understanding of God’s will, intent and presence in the world, of the great change that is coming and of the forces that threaten to undermine human unity, freedom and sovereignty in the world.
The world therefore does not need a new religion as much as it needs a new understanding and awareness and a new commitment to human unity in the face of great undermining change. This is not simply a good idea. This is not simply a high moral principle. This is a necessity if humanity is to survive and remain free.
Only something of great necessity would call a New Message from God into the world. Only a need so prevailing would call such a new testament into the world. Only a situation for which humanity cannot prepare itself would call for a New Message from God and with it, a preparation to enable people to gain this new experience and understanding, which are so needed in the world today.
Do I have to become a convert or follower of the New Message in order to receive the New Message?
No. To receive the New Message is to receive its wisdom and its teaching about Self-Knowledge, purpose, relationship, unity, cooperation and humanity’s emergence into a Greater Community of intelligent life in the Universe.
Take the New Message then and give it to your people, your nation, your tribe, your religion, and recognize the great forces that are threatening to undermine humanity’s survival, freedom, and sovereignty within this world. There must be a new commitment to human freedom, unity and the preservation of the world. This commitment can only arise from the deeper knowledge that God has placed within each person.
Then you can be a Buddhist with a Greater Community awareness and commitment. You can be a Muslim with a Greater Community awareness and commitment. You can be a Catholic or a Protestant or practice any other religion or spiritual path that you have chosen, but with a greater perspective. For it is important to understand here that God does not seek to create a new religion but a new understanding, a new awareness and a new commitment. And these must reside within all of humanity’s nations and religions.
However, there are some for whom the New Message will be their path and their way, and they will become its first recipients, its first practitioners. They will feel that they have been given what they have been looking for, which is a new way. For everyone else, the New Message gives humanity a greater awareness, understanding, power and commitment that must be expressed throughout the human family.
Receive then the New Message. Bring it into your heart, your mind, your family, your community, your religious tradition, your nation and your understanding of the world, and you will have received the New Message from God.