< Discovery 4 > What caused him to have such passion, such drive, such clarity and humanity? It was adversity. Adversity, don't you know. It was adversity that drove so deep into his heart and deep into his soul, making such commitments to himself – “I will never again be a Dutch slaver. Never again be a slaver.”
Indeed, he was, in a time past, in a lifetime past, cruel, brutal. Yes, a brutal slaver, and as so many of you know from lifetimes past, from adversity in your own life, from suddenly waking up one day and saying, “What did I do? What was I thinking?” To be able to go from that, my dear friends, that awful feeling of knowing you had done something that would hurt another or yourself, that despicable feeling about yourself, that worthless feeling like you're just being ground to a pulp.
Where at one point you had felt like a mighty grand being, royalty, boss, the big guy, the big lady, power and everything else, and suddenly – suddenly, coming face to face with your own soul who doesn't see you quite that way. Your soul who says, “What was that lifetime about?” Suddenly, falling into the abyss, seeing the ghosts of yourself and of your past, and then what? Then what? To raise you up from those depths and that darkness, then what?
Forgiveness of yourself. Forgiveness of yourself. Taking a deep breath and releasing all of that guilt, all of that shame. Not an easy thing to do. Saying, not just saying in your head, but saying, “I release myself. These were experiences in a lower consciousness in a less awareness time. These were part of my experiences and everyone else's.”
It's not justification. It's absolute forgiveness. It's not trying to make amends in your mind. It's not trying to sugarcoat a situation. It's saying, “I, dear Godself, forgive myself and all others,” and indeed did not Nelson Mandela, even with all of his rage and anger for his incarceration and the torture that he endured, did he not then forgive those very ones who imprisoned him, who held him back, because he realized that in so many ways they were serving him.
They were serving his guilt for what he had done. They were serving his coming to a greater awareness of the I Am within himself and everyone else. And in that forgiveness of others, he was truly released.
He had such depth and such understanding and clarity at that point, he could then be a leader. Not a leader who tried to acquire power, make new rules, inflict himself on others, but a leader to say one thing to all people – “You are free also. You are free.”
He didn't seek the limelight. He wasn't interested in money. He had his human, what you would call, flaws, idiosyncrasies, of course. As long as you live on this planet, you're going to have those idiosyncrasies. But more than anything he understood the freedom of himself and passed that along to others.
What's he going to do from here? Cross over? Go into his Third Circle? Probably not. Probably not. Too much work to do at this all-important time on this planet. Too many people that need to hear the words that “You are free!” Too many people that need to get out of their own victimness.
It's not necessarily the abuser that he's going to try to work with, because the abuser, in a way, is just responding to the victim. He learned that. It's the ones who are victims, the ones who say, “I can't do this because – because of my color, because of my upbringing, because of my handicap or disability, because …” That's just victim energy. Once you realize that, once you release that, you are indeed free. There's nothing, dear Edith, my love (he kisses her on the cheek), nothing that can hold you back other than being in that sandbox of victimness, victimhood.
So dear Nelson Mandela is not going to go after the world leaders. Not going to go after the abusers, the dictators, those who abuse power and energy. He's going to go straight for the ones who are playing the role of victim, because once they say, “No more,” there can be no more abusers. There can be no more enslavers. Once humans say, “No more,” that sets them free and takes away the illusion of power that any of these type of imbalanced leaders might have.