Broken Cisterns

If we could compare today’s world to a physical example, we could do so with cisterns or reservoirs that do not hold water.

The prophet Jeremiah, confronting his generation, said to them in the Name of God the following: […]

“they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn for themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.”

Let us examine this comparison in order to understand it—not only because of the impact of these words on our spirit, but also because of the reach of this revealed truth, even to this day.

God compared His Spirit to a spring of flowing waters: always moving, clean, and with renewal within itself. It did not depend on the work or effort of man. As it was commonly said in Jeremiah’s time, it was “living water.” In contrast, rainwater collected in cisterns—which here represents human voices and doctrines—did not satisfy the thirst of the human spirit. Since it was not a natural stream that flowed constantly, that water became contaminated easily.

The contamination came from the filtration of mud or soil, insects, larvae, or decomposing organic matter, which caused the water to smell bad or have an unpleasant taste. And eventually it dried up, either because of cracks in the walls—through which the water escaped—or because of droughts.

Although it was not an expression used in that time, one could say, in contrast to the meaning of “living waters,” that the waters of cisterns were “dead waters”: waters that could cause disease, and thus weaken the body—or even, in the end, death.

The waters of springs can sometimes dry up because of droughts. In the same way, when we reject the signs of God—which indicate His closeness—whether due to the stubbornness of our heart or because we choose empty cisterns that do not hold water, the Spirit withdraws in order to leave us free to walk the path we choose. Then the Spirit retreats along with the waters that satisfy the soul, and a spiritual drought is produced. What remains is a pseudo-spirituality that feeds on the waters of cisterns.

From Proverbs 1:28 and Isaiah 55 we gain that relationship and that understanding.

Proverbs

True spiritual understanding—and the understanding of the Light—comes from God. There are no other waters that can give fullness and satisfaction to the soul.

In Isaiah He said:

“All who are thirsty, come to the water.
Even if you have no money, come anyway.

Come, take food.
Come and receive wine and milk,
without paying anything and at no cost.

Why do you spend your money on what does not feed,
and your effort on what does not satisfy?

Listen to Me attentively
and you will eat what is good;
your life will rejoice in abundance.

Pay attention and come near to Me.
Listen, and your life will live.
I will make with you a permanent covenant,
[…]

Seek YHWH while He can still be found;
call on Him while He is near.

Let the wicked abandon his way
and the unjust his thoughts;
let him return to YHWH,
and He will have compassion;
return to our God,
for He forgives generously.

My thoughts are not yours,
nor are My ways your ways—says YHWH.

As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are My ways above yours,
and My thoughts above yours.”

In Jeremiah, God also said to them: “Why do you run so much, changing your ways?” The people were inconsistent in the way of God, and they kept changing paths often, in what they believed was spiritual.

These words apply to our modern times. And this characteristic of instability and inconstancy began the day the first created couple changed their path by listening to another voice that was not God’s. It is a negative characteristic of human nature that disappears when we are spiritually born again.

The covenant agreement with Adam was to listen to His Voice. They should have listened to it because that was their spiritual protection, their abundance, and their blessing. The same happened with Israel. They should have listened to the Voice of the Lord, but they did not, despite the warnings. In Jeremiah, God reminded them that the conditions of the agreement with their fathers were that they would follow His Voice, so that He could fulfill His part of the deal: to give them the land He had promised them.

However, the examples we have from the history of our relationship with God, regarding the agreement, show that they did not listen to the Voice of God and they broke it. Therefore, the warning was fulfilled upon them. The commanding language found in many translations also did not help us understand the terms of the covenant—because an agreement is not described as an order, but as a commitment.

In an agreement or covenant, one person is not above the other. That is not an agreement. A covenant is the product of an understanding between two parties, each committing to place something of sufficient value on the table in order to sustain it and benefit mutually—although the benefit of this contract is 100% for the human being. God does not need us. We are the ones who need Him. Some translations say, “if you obey Me,” but an agreement is not based on obedience; it is based on commitment, where both parties fulfill what was agreed upon.

Regarding the curse: it does not touch us if we are on the path of the Light, because we are protected by the Source. And the way to reach that protection begins with reconciliation with the Creator. We do not need to put salt in our urine or perform other witchcraft rituals to be freed from a curse, as some YouTube channels teach. Witchcraft does not free us from witchcraft, because that would be working against itself and destroying its own business. Consequently, those rituals do not manage to free anyone from a curse. They keep them bound.

It is the god of this world who controls, manipulates, and imprisons. He opens his mouth to speak of solutions that appear to be freedom, but he never opens the door for us to leave. He does not offer the way out—because if he did, he would be destroying his own kingdom. And it is the human being who allows it. And to the human being who says, “Why does God allow injustice and wars and this and that?” I answer: The God of the Garden is not the god of this world. The God of the Garden allows us to be free, even if we reject Him and tell Him, “we do not want to walk in Your ways.”

It is the one who reigns here who keeps us in prisons where he never opens the door, and who offers solutions that are useless because they do not have the power to transform, to free, and to bless. Therefore, it is time for humanity to assume the consequences of its own decisions and stop blaming God.

The breaking of the first Covenant was the seed of the history of man’s pseudo-spirituality on planet earth. The voice they followed made them replace the Source of living waters with cisterns that crack, break, and empty out. Their “waters” are human creations that do not free, do not heal, and do not transform. They are band-aids for the wounded soul.

Psychology says that some of the afflictive emotions are, for example, envy, resentment, jealousy, fear, and guilt, among others. This social science considers them secondary emotions, and therefore, in its view, they are learned through influence or through the environment of society. They teach people to recognize them and manage them through emotional control and emotional regulation, so that we can be the ones who control our emotions. This is essentially Jung’s theory, which teaches that the shadows are recognized and integrated.

The liberation from the shadows does not exist in human science. That is because no created being can free the soul from its darkness—because those things are spiritual by nature. Only God can give liberation, and He already gave it. The problem is that many do not want to accept it. From the perspective of spiritual science, those afflictive emotions, as they call them, did not originate from learning through the environment. Learning through the environment is, for example, speaking by shouting. That is a learned habit. But envy is not learned. I do not learn to desire Juanita’s sports car. The circumstance only triggers it, reveals it, and awakens it. There is no way to learn a desire, because it is born from within. All of that came because we listened to the voice antagonistic to God.

Trying to accept the darkness of your envy—or the other so-called conflicting emotions—and attempting to control it and consciously integrate it into your life, is like running on a treadmill: you wear yourself out, you struggle, you sweat… but you do not move forward. Or like trying to eliminate smoke without putting out the fire of a burning house.

Knowing that God already gifted us the liberation from our shadows through reconciliation, and that we do not have to strive for it, I consider this a great waste of time in our lives. And it is a clear example of an apparent freedom, because the door of the cell is never opened for the trapped one. When that is done, it is called liberation.

When the events of the Garden occurred, humanity began to multiply little by little. Later, men began to leave their nomadic life to settle in communities. From the most important one—Sumer, from which the first civilization emerged—came the first pseudo-spiritual creation of man: idolatry.

Sumer understood very well this concept it created: God is man, or God is the image of man. That resonates strongly with me in the modern idea that God is a creation of the human mind. It was the first sign of arrogance in humanity separated from the Source.

According to Sumerian written sources themselves, the creator of civilization—including religion, with its rituals, priesthoods, and forms—was Enlil, the lord of the depths. From this first civilization sprang the thought that God was created by man, and that this “god” was like him. Babylon consolidated those ideas and organized them into the first religion created by man.

There are three types of spiritualities:
the one of God or of the Light,
the one of darkness or of the shadows,
and the pseudo-spirituality of man.

The second type of spirituality is governed by the entities that rebelled against the authority of God, and the Scriptures tell us that they rule the earth. The third type is the pseudo-spirituality influenced by the shadows and created by man.

The foundation of true spirituality is God. In it, God is the center and the spiritual authority over man. God is not diluted in nature. He does not occupy a little corner of the human mind. He is not an idea created by man. God is not dead.

Man does not have the ability to create the spiritual because he is made of matter, and matter can only create matter based on observation of what is already created. For example: man invented the airplane by observing the flight of birds. Human beings invented ships and submarines, but they did so by observing how a log floats in the water or how a fish moves without sinking. Artificial intelligence is also an imitation: man created it by observing man, in order to reproduce his language and his behavior.

The human being, by his own physical nature, cannot create what he does not see. And the spiritual world—and God—is invisible to the human eye. For that strictly material reason, the human mind cannot create the idea of a God who is Spirit.

Man does not create the spiritual: he only manufactures images with materials from this world, and his solutions for liberation of any kind are physical. That is why his gods were represented as they were, in their own image. Even when they speak of spiritual beings, they represent them with a human figure, or with an animal form, or with a mixture of both.

The only One who can create out of nothing is God.

Show me the man who created the idea of a God who is Spirit. I can clearly show where the idea came from that man created God, or that God was an idea invented by him. Which nation created God? Where is it written in the records of humanity?

The notion of a spiritual domain in humanity comes from having perceived, intuited, or experienced an approach to that world—long before civilizations existed. And in that spiritual world there is the Light and there are the Shadows, and both are reflected and work through humanity in one way or another. The shadows try to deceive and destroy humanity, because that is their objective.

God already told us that He created man good and without deceit. And He told us that deceit was born in the one who desired His divinity and His throne of government in the spiritual domain—and that because of his audacity and transgression, he was cast down to the earth.

One domain offers liberation, healing, and transformation. The other cannot offer it, because it does not have it. Therefore, it suggests that we remain as we are. Or it creates systems that mortify the body and do not help the soul.

For example, God said to Israel when the people followed the tedious practices of fasting:

“Is this the fast that I have chosen: a day to afflict the body, to bow down the head like a reed, to put on rough clothing and cover oneself with ashes? Is that what you call a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord?”

And the most impressive part is this:

God was denouncing a religious system that looked spiritual, but did not transform. And that same pattern is still alive today. It has only changed form.

Because in our modern times we also have our systems without God. They are not the same ancient rituals, but they fulfill the same function: to appear as change, to appear as healing, to appear as liberation, without touching the heart.

And many times, it is not even that they do not mention God. Sometimes they mention Him, but they use His Name as a tool—as if God were in the business of doing jobs for man.

Because if someone uses the Name of God, but does not lead people to reconciliation with the Source as the first step toward true healing, liberation, or inner transformation, that is not the Spirit of the God of the Light.

For the voices that deceive would never tell people that in order to break the chains of the shadows, they must make peace with the Creator. If they said that, they would be destroying their own kingdom. Because reconciliation is the salvation of man and of the entire world—and in that picture only the Light enters, and the darkness disappears.

The ancients offered sacrifices because they believed the gods existed.

Modern man performs rituals in order to prove to himself that he is god.

And so, man replaced the ancient systems with new ones: psychological, ideological, or fabricated spiritual systems that promise some kind of desired change, but only offer temporary relief.

Man does not create spirituality. Someone gives it to him. Humanity has gone from empty cistern to empty cistern. They seemed to have found the true waters that satisfy, but in the end, they became disillusioned—even with their own beliefs.

Man invents beliefs in order to fill, somehow, his existential emptiness. Nevertheless, that emptiness is filled only by the Spirit of God. Because that emptiness was created when the first created couple decided to follow another voice that was not the Creator’s. And the Creator removed from them the portion of His Spirit that lived in them. When that happened, the Covenant and the spiritual relationship were broken, creating the existential emptiness we feel, because we lost our direction when we jumped onto another path.

We lost the direction, and a world without direction is like a ship lost in an infinite sea. The ship never reaches the port, and it cannot anchor.

Since then, the Lord has been calling His child—humanity—and the child has always turned his back on Him. Contrary to what some teach about there being “chosen ones,” all humanity is chosen by God. What happens is that only a few—compared to the number of human beings living on the planet—choose the path of the Light.

When we lose direction, the mind cannot find true north. Existential emptiness is an inner sensation of being turned off inside: feeling that nothing has weight, doing things but without purpose, living on autopilot, feeling that life is “not connected,” feeling that everything is the same, feeling that something is missing but not knowing what, a kind of silent hollow.

That emptiness is not filled by the best therapies in the world, nor by any cistern that has collected rainwater.

When the Spirit of the Source makes a nest in our heart, all that existential feeling changes and the emptiness ceases to exist. Because we know where we come from and where we are going—even though the death of the body still reaches us. Then it is there that His waters, always living, fill our souls.