Warning! This is a "heavy duty" teaching...
Beloveds... here is a Biblical story on Compassion... from the Apocrapha "lost" books of the Bible.. hidden from your view for a very long time...
Before Jesus would perform a healing he would ask each 3 questions:
1 - Do you believe in me? (Meaning, for the healing to work it is necessary to have faith in the healer)
2 - Do you believe healing comes from a greater Power? (Not the healer, but him WITH god's love)
3 - What have you learned from your illness/disease? (We are all hear to learn. Sometimes the lessons come in the form of physical maladies)
On a particular day, a certain leper woman came to be healed. She answered the first two questions. Then when Jesus asked the 3rd, she retorted, "What do you mean "learned!" I have been this way all my life! I am so ugly I chase the children away! I am so deformed I have never known a man! I am tired of being this way and I want you to heal me now!"
After intense introspection Jesus answered, "then, go ye, woman, even unto death...." and didn't offer her the healing she wanted. By "death" he meant that she might not get the lesson in this lifetime, that perhaps in a future life she would understand the lesson.
This "level" of absolute love is very hard to immediately understand. How could he turn her away? Didn't he have compassion?
We have been taught that compassion is feeling sorry for others, to worry on their behalf, to agonize regarding their situation. This is a love of sorts... but then again?
So if not the above... what IS compassion???
Compassion is the INTENSE FEELING in our own hearts that we IDENTIFY with their pain, sorrow, discomfort, anger, etc. We become compassionate AFTER we have healed our own pains yet UNDERSTAND what that pain was like in ourselves KNOWING that really, friends, we CANNOT take and should take away another's earthly lessons. It is cosmically wrong for us to do that. For this reason among others, the Indians do not charge for their healings... only accept gifts when they are offered.
Of course, Jesus had endless love for the leper woman... but his responsibility to God had to prevail over her demands.
We truly hope this understanding helps in your lives...
I thank Gregg Braden for this lesson back in the '80's...
We Bless You in Your Willingness to Grow as a Galactic Being of Light!
Your Galactic Warrior Guardian,
MaAlaea
