A parable of a prince who dreams he is a beggar makes the case that human suffering is not a condition to be solved but a dream to be woken from. Each Simulation is built for that same moment of recognition: not an improvement of the dream, but a direct address to who is dreaming it.
“There once was a great king, who ruled his kingdom with wisdom and love. The king lived in a beautiful palace. There were many workers in that palace that served the king and helped run the kingdom. Also living in the palace was the king’s beloved son, the prince. The young prince never lacked anything. He had the best garments, food and all the comforts the good king could provide. The workers in the palace also loved the prince and attentively served all his needs.
One day, the young prince was looking out the palace window when he saw a beggar in the street. The prince called one of the palace workers and asked about the decrepit man. The worker explained that not all the people in his father’s kingdom had enough food or money and therefore they had to beg just to get the sustenance they needed just to live. It saddened the prince to think people in his father’s prosperous realm were hungry and had to resort to begging for food. This greatly disturbed his peace of mind.
That night, after the prince had fallen asleep, he had a horrible nightmare. He dreamed he was a hungry beggar with dirty, tattered clothes living homelessly in the streets. He was starving, and no one would give him food. The prince tossed and turned in his bed repeatedly crying out loud, “I am poor and hungry! Please feed me! Help me I am a hungry beggar”
Over and over he cried out until the workers in the king’s palace heard and ran to help him. When they entered his bedroom, the prince was still in a frightful state and kept crying out from his nightmarish dream that he was a hungry beggar. The workers rushed to his bedside and all called out, “Wake up Prince!”
In this allegory the good king represents God. The king’s workers represent the archangels that serve God and humankind. The king’s son, the prince, represents the human beings, who are offspring of God but currently slumbering in illusion. This is the state that humankind has fallen into living their lives in the illusion of lack and separation.
It makes no difference whether we are absorbed in our waking dreams of unimportance or self-importance. Either way, we are mistakenly accepting our error-enriched notions as the true reality. Our duty as human beings should be to awaken from shabby dreams of either lack or self-aggrandizement.
How shall we awaken from these kinds of illusions, come to our senses, and find the perfection of our true identities in genuine Self-realization? This is the main task of a Researcher of Truth. We have a complete system for awakening in a safe, methodical way in which all can engage themselves.
Returning to the story of the prince. Did you notice how, in this story, the palace workers addressed the king’s dreaming son by his identity? They did not go to him and say, “Wake up hungry beggar.” Instead, they called, “Wake up Prince” to arouse him from the illusion that he was a hungry beggar. The king’s workers never lost sight of the prince’s identity. Likewise, our archangelic brothers have not lost sight of our true identities.
They see and hold us in their constant meditation as we always have been, how we are now, and how we will always be: offspring of the Almighty; true sons and daughters of our Divine Father. Yet it remains our responsibilities to make the effort to raise our consciousness from the slumbering states of subconsciousness to higher levels of consciousness and come to this realization.
Christ’s gentle persuasion to us all was, “Be ye perfect, as perfect as your heavenly father–God” (Matthew 5: 48). Was this misquoted? Is that possible? Can we become as perfect as the Absolute Infinite intelligence we call God? No, we can’t become it as a personality, the point is we already are it. Our true nature is perfect, as perfect as God our Heavenly Father.
We as Spirit Souls do not need to become something perfect, we already are that perfect something. Rather, as personalities, we need to awaken from our dreams of separation to realize that we as spirit souls perfect, incorruptible, immortal, and everlasting. This is a great truth and one of the many mysteries we as researchers of truth will unravel over time.”