defects. Unfortunately there are many people who, motivated by the
desire to be or appear as somebody important over and above
others, as a kind of "Ascended Master" or something similar, conjure up
with their minds experiences that are not real, and which can end up
deceiving other people. Or having had real experiences of spiritual
contact, instead of using them for their own spiritual advancement or
to help others, they have used them to aggrandise themselves and
consider themselves superior and they demand that others treat them
as though they were gods. It is the defect of vanity that makes you
look for the admiration of others instead of seeking to improve yourself.
Unfortunately this is very frequent in your world.
And what is a prophet?
A prophet is an envoy sent from superior spirituality to teach the truth
about the spiritual world and to warn people from each era of the
consequences of acts against the law of love. Prophets are generally
more advanced spirits than the average for the planet in which they
incarnate, since otherwise they could not undertake the mission which
has been entrusted to them. At the same time as they are helping,
they are helping themselves to evolve, putting to the test their
capacity to love, since they are generally repudiated, rejected,
tortured, scorned or ridiculed by the societies in which they have been
incarnated. They are not beings with special divine privileges, as is
commonly believed, since their spiritual capacity has been secured by
their own merit in the wheel of incarnations, although these could
have been given to them in other worlds. These then are older students
who make contact with younger students to help them in their
education. The difference is that we cannot recognise them by their
physical aspect or by their age, since they incarnate in the same
conditions as all the others. Some day any one of the beings that
inhabits your planet, when sufficiently evolved, will be able to perform
the function of prophet in a world inhabited by a less evolved
humanity.
But does it not often happen that there are people who are believed to
be great teachers, only for it to be discovered later that they are
profiteers, who amass great fortunes at the cost of the naivety of
people?
That is true. There are many fraudsters. But also there are many who
begin well and who initially follow the right path, and for that reason
they are given all the spiritual aid that they need. The problem arises
when they allow themselves to be dazzled by the effect that they
have on people, who are in great need of answers, and when they