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Greetings Tau Malachi,

in your recent post on the interior stars you wrote about blaspheme of the Holy Spirit. This immediately brought to my mind the example of blaspheme you mention in saying 44 of the Gospel of Thomas. I just recently contemplated your words on this saying. In the gospel you explain that suicide is a severe form of ignorance and blaspheme of the Holy Spirit.

Are there exceptional circumstances in life in which suicide would not be seen as a betrayal of the Holy Spirit, for instance a terminal illness?


I wish you a blessed holiday and will keep you in my prayers
Martina

[Tau Malachi]

Greetings Martina!

That is a very good question.

Yes, I believe that there are conditions in which facilitating the end of one’s own life may be positive, rather than negative; specifically in a situation of terminal illness at the point when the quality of life is gone, but the potential for a conscious process of dying remains. However, for such a transition to be positive a person must let go of name and form, and not go forth in any kind of negativity or despair, but rather they must abide in faith, hope and love, enacting a conscious death.

It is one thing to prematurely cut off one’s life, but it is another to accept then end of one’s life when it comes. Ideally, it is true that if one is able to uplift and transform it, the suffering of death until a natural end can be very powerful – it can dispel much negative karma of the soul, and may even serve as a vehicle for the liberation of other souls from their negative karma, as we see with Adonai Yeshua on the cross. That assumes, however, that a person has the capacity to do so; in the case of many ordinary individuals, this capacity may not be present – thus bringing life to its fruition, its end, before the peak of the suffering could conceivably facilitate a positive transition that might otherwise not be possible.

We do not let animals suffer the way we so often demand human beings to suffer – if there is some purpose to the suffering, well and good, but if not then it is rather cruel and insane, or so I believe. The idea of a law, whether political or religious, that demands a person to undergo extreme physical suffering at the end of life when there is no hope of recovery, in circumstances against the person’s will, offering them no mercy, no assistance by a skilled doctor and no community support, seems like ignorance to me – but, this is my opinion.

It is our state of mind and heart – our state of consciousness at the time of actual death, which is the most significant determining factor in our experience of the afterlife and the next life; so everything depends upon it, and this is the measure of truth.

Generally speaking, however, in terms of suicide in the midst of life, it is a completely negative state of consciousness, and we may say “demonic,” devoid of faith, hope or love; a state of extreme selfishness and self-negativity that, in effect, cuts a person off from the Divine Light. In working with the dying and the dead we find that in cases of suicide, on account of the state of mind at the time of death, souls violently refuse all spiritual assistance that might be offered and flee from the Light-presence and Light-power. Therefore we find that we can offer no help, but such souls are fated to experience the reality they have created for themselves until the energy of that karmic continuum dissipates and they are able to move on.

If we are to speak of the Judgment it is always in this context: The reality of our experience is the radiant display of our mind, consciousness or soul, and thus we experience the reality we create for ourselves, whether for better or for worse. This is exactly what Adonai Yeshua teaches in the third chapter of the Gospel of St. John when he speaks about the Judgment to Nicodemus.

Of course it must be said that our lineage and our lineage-holders would *never* give a person advice on what they should or should not do regarding ending their life in the face of a terminal illness – such decisions belong to the individual and are between them and God; for our part we can only sharing teachings and practices, and support the decisions that an individual makes for themselves – whatever a person does in this regard, one way or the other, it is not our place to give advice or judge. In other words, we do not advocate either way, as the truth depends upon the individual, their capacity and circumstances, and only they can make such a decision for themselves, hopefully through the guidance of the Indwelling Christ and Holy Spirit.

May we be blessed with mercy and compassion – the love offered by the Risen Christ; amen.

Blessings & shalom!

_________________
Tau Malachi
Sophia Fellowship
Ecclesia Pistis Sophia