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Pope's Reform Path: Francis Shakes Up Church Establishment

By Hans-Jürgen Schlamp in Rome, SPIEGEL

July 6, 2013

It appears Pope Francis truly wants to change the Catholic Church. He's reforming the Vatican Bank first, but he's also circumventing the old guard wherever he can. The establishment is up in arms.

A cardinal in Rome earns about ?3,000 ($3,888) a month, even less than a pastor in Germany. But a cardinal's life in Rome is a lot more expensive -- with visits to restaurants and shopping at boutiques for the upscale clothing men of the church are expected to wear, not to mention their jewelry and the antiques they display in their apartments. So it's good to have friends who can treat you or otherwise provide support now and then.

Friends are also happy to give a cardinal a hand -- and not just out of religious considerations. A cardinal can be helpful in both political and business terms. So it's not surprising that a symbiotic relationship between parts of the Curia and the upper class around the world has formed -- one that brings together the establishment, luxury and power. It's a nice little tradition that new Pope Francis would like to put an end to. For the Catholic establishment, though, it is nothing less than a catastrophe.

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Even before his enthronement as pope, when he was still a cardinal, Jorge Mario Bergoglio had spoken clearly about this. During his speech to the cardinal conclave, he warned that, "When the church does not emerge from itself to evangalize, it becomes self-referential and therefore becomes sick." He warned of "self-referentiality" and "theological narcissism." He also criticized a "mundane church that lives within itself, of itself and for itself." And it appears the Argentinian pope meant this criticism seriously. In fact, he demonstrates that every day.

Instead of wearing a gold cross, he has one of steel. And he lives in a sparsely furnished apartment in the Santa Marta guest house rather than in the Apostolic Palace. Instead of taking his seat in the Vatican concert hall to listen to classical music, he recently remained at his desk working on the final version of his decree for the church-state's own Institute for Religious Works (IOR) bank. With his signature, he created a powerful special papal commission to review the bank's activities. He also said the new commission must change everything at the Vatican Bank, as it is also known. He said the Vatican certainly needed a bank, but its areas of business should only reach a "certain point."

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For decades now, the IOR has been in the headlines for one scandal after the other. At the beginning of the 1980s, it was at the center of one of the darkest crime thrillers in postwar Italian history. The scandal surrounded billions in business with the mafia, and a Vatican banker was hanged from a London bridge by a killer commando.

But the chain of scandals never let up. When, in autumn 2010, fresh suspicions of money laundering to the tune of triple-digit millions emerged, then Pope Benedict XVI promised stricter rules for his financial managers. In fact, though, nothing changed. In the so-called Vatileaks scandal, secret documents that had been smuggled out of the Vatican shed light on bizarre intrigues inside the papal state. Often, the Vatican Bank played a role in those intrigues. Benedict XVI was appalled, but also overwhelmed. He failed to prevail over the powerful cardinals who backed the IOR. His resignation was the logical outcome.

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Sheldan Nidle Update 7-2-13

I felt this Sheldan message was well worth posting at this moment. The energies of active transformation feel very high right now. The planet is moving. On several Dimensions at once.
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Sheldan Nidle 7-2-13

12 Ben, 1 Kumku, 9 Eb

Selamat Balik! We come with much to tell you. At this time, an exchange of legal documents is underway which paves the way for the final exchanges sanctioning the various prosperity programs to be fully funded by the Dragon families. It also authorizes Quan Yin and St. Germain to sign disbursement papers for each of their world trusts. The individuals who make up these international boards of trustees are similarly immersed in these complex-signing procedures. Concurrently, the many organizations set up to distribute these funds are alerting their regional trustees that the time long awaited by all is fast approaching. This final flurry of activity owes its legitimacy to a very special set of legal protocols, and its implementation at this time is made possible in part by the First Contact Board’s sagacious use of what we call the galactic option. This is simply the power behind the Light to get things done. It has allowed favorable legal decisions to be secretly handed down and these are now ready to bring our long journey to a most marvelous moment of manifestation!

As all of this moves inexorably forward, we monitor the many schemes of the dark cabal. So far we have been able to neutralize the deleterious effects of the global chem-trails that the dark has sprayed into the atmosphere for around a decade. This ongoing depredation has severely disrupted the natural balance of your atmosphere and spread pestilence and disease across the globe. It is threatening to trigger a great extinction cycle, decimating humanity as well as the entire ecosphere of the planet. Our countermeasures in this area are preparing the ground for the time after disclosure, when our technology can safely return Gaia’s atmosphere, oceans, and landmasses back into the state of balance that existed just after the end of WWII, in late 1945. This point of terrestrial balance can be moved; it is simply a starting point that ultimately needs to be moved ‘back’ to an even more pristine time, over 2500 years ago. This is the point to be worked toward once we have begun to distribute some of our technology among you.

Once your interim government makes its initial announcements, we intend to oversee this technology disbursal and do what is necessary to ensure that the many government programs are successfully launched. This will be our prime focus before disclosure. Our sacred mission is to do all that is deemed vital to shift you toward full consciousness as this is why we are here. Our Agarthan liaison teams and associated personnel are working diligently to push the dark out of power. You can see that many abuses of power are still at work in all corners of your world, and while these things are upsetting for us we remain in full compliance with the edicts laid out for us in Heaven’s divine plan. Rest assured, the expressions of the dark cabal’s arrogance are very shortly to be transformed. We have witnessed the legal rulings that your new governance will use to change many of these injustices. And soon thereafter further great changes of heart will come to pass when the Ascended Masters begin their new teachings around the world, and this will engender a great change in attitude in all your societal structures. Indeed, the truth of so many things coming to Light will alter a great many perceptions among a great many people.

The moment you have all been waiting for is here: the end of the stranglehold of the dark upon your world and your lives! Each of you knows in your higher mind that this great, prophesied shift is now ready to happen. Our fleet has been compelled for a very long time to watch and merely carry out whatever assisted you in your cause in a very slow but deliberate manner. We are very pleased that a period of more direct action arrives! Our liaison teams see clearly that the dark’s grip is failing, and the resources it once had at its beck and call are dwindling fast. This reversal of fortune is being helped by our own actions and it is our firm intention to see the shift in governance completed successfully. It is time for the Light to take back this realm and ensure that you swiftly and easily return to your natural, fully conscious state. This stage of the operation is beginning now, and we hope to be able to complete the process in just over a year. To this end we joyfully proclaim our full and unwavering focus!

Blessings to all! We are your Ascended Masters! We return to deliver a special message! Your world is in the final stage of a transition from dark to Light. Nearly 13 millennia ago, Atlantis, due to its own arrogant miscalculations, sank beneath the waves. Its citizenry was evacuated to a planet that orbits a star in the constellation Centaurus, called Hagar, or Beta Centauri by our astronomers. The Centaurians know it as Agena. These Atlantean evacuees knew that the few survivors of that watery calamity were to be our ancestors. These ‘fallen’ humans began a long, arduous journey that was ultimately to see their prodigy at long last return to full consciousness. We have watched over these generations of wanderers and witnessed the Anunnaki being given temporary control of surface Earth. It was this that resulted in our home world being split into two separate realms. Our sacred task down through the ages was to guide you and see that the edicts of Heaven were righteously followed.

A few centuries ago, the dark finally permitted a small amount of primitive technology to see the light of day on your surface world. The Anunnaki were careful to make sure that the subsequent progress using this deleterious technology was slow and accompanied by much pain and suffering for Gaia and our ancestors. We did what we could to help, to cure, and to given moral advice to all concerned. We noticed the way Heaven was slowly introducing Souls into Gaia who grew up to use their abilities and resources to assist us in distributing sustenance and other much-needed resources to those whose poverty and pain were most acute. We bless our associates and ask that all soon honor this good work. Now the time comes when we can openly address you about what we witnessed unfolding over the past 13 millennia.

We have seen the Anunnaki create a world of ignorance, unending strife, and poverty. Wealth was used to cause bitterness and separation, and was mainly the province of a special group of minions who ruled absolutely and displayed unbelievable cruelty and endemic immorality. Such lawlessness is to cease, and this will allow the grand shift decreed by Heaven to take place as planned. Then we can openly explain about the past dark times, and prepare you for your return to full consciousness. As Ascended Masters, we have created a sacred network which is to provide you with a universal prosperity that is linked to your sovereignty. The other side of that coin is freedom, and this unites you with your long-lost families from Inner Earth, Heaven, and space. Hosanna to Heaven and to your Liberation! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Heavenletter #4607 More Than You Imagine

July 6, 2013

http://heavenletters.org/more-than-you-imagine.html

God said:

Your life is not an accident. To whom you are born is not an accident. If you were given up for adoption, it’s not an accident. No matter the occurrences in your life, no matter what, this is your life presented to you, and it is yours to do with.

You are more important than your life. You are more important than what transpires. You are more important than the people you meet. You are never alone in life, and yet it is your life. It is your life to make the most of.

You may not love all the cards dealt you. Still, this is your life to determine from here on in.

You can’t quit. Your life is infinite. You are taking vital steps now. Yes, your life is important. Most important to you and to Me, or you would not have your life. In the world, you are dealt a deck of cards, and you have to play them. There is no quitting this life. You began in Eternity, and you are still in the same playing field of Eternity.

Your name is Vastness, as is My Name.

You can’t think all that much about what has been and what is yet to be. You have a card in your hands right now. You have to do something with it. Play it. No holds barred.

If life were an umbrella, you open it. If you are a magician, you unfurl the umbrella and perhaps doves fly out or a kite or popcorn or another umbrella. Of course, all this matters to you. It makes a difference to you, and, yet, beloveds, what is the difference? As soon as you play this card or open this umbrella, there will be another card waiting for you. Play your card.

There is also a lot to be said for being spontaneous and a lot to be said for thinking. There is a lot to be said for getting into action. There is a lot to be said for being cautious. Nevertheless, life is to be lived in this lifetime.

Your life is lived in your mind. Life is also lived in your heart, hard or soft. Your mind may flip a coin. Your heart has its mind made up. Reason all you like, yet life is to be lived on the front lines, even when the front lines are your backyard.

You like the idea that life is yours and no one else’s. You don’t like being told what to do, and, yet, sometimes you ask for a push, and sometimes you need it. Life will provide you a push as well.

Now, you might ask: “How do I make my life correspond with my nature? It seems to be my nature to be deliberate and go slow. Someone else’s nature may be to jump right in and hop to it.”

True enough. Nevertheless, you can be sure that at one time or another, life will light a fire under you who like to take your time, and you can also be sure that life will slow down the lickety-split temperament as well.

Nor am I saying that middle of the road is better. It may be. Or speed may be better. Or step by step may be better. Beloveds, who knows the answers to these questions until he enters the field and plays his cards?

Who said that, in Earth terms, you always have to be right? In Earth terms, you don’t have to be perfect. Sometimes you rue your actions or inaction. You call them whopping mistakes, and, yet, still, you don’t know yet how one action leads to another and how it will all play out.

On the other hand, you don’t always know where a well-respected action will lead. You could come to rue that too. This is another good reason to let the past go. Use a new pack of cards today. Despite anything and everything, despite what you are sure is right or are sure is wrong, you and life served more than you can imagine. You may have moved mountains.