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Pythagoras & Cosmic Morphology

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Pythagoras was an Ionian Greek philosopher who lived during the time of Buddha, around 570-495 BC. He was born on the island of Samos in the North Agean Sea.

Throughout his life, Pythagoras made influential contributions to philosophy and religious teaching, and is often revered as a great mathematician, mystic and scientist. But only fragments of his writings survive to give clues to all of his many philosophies, the most famous fragment being a compos-ite entitled the Golden Verses.

To those who listen to my teaching, more understanding will be given, and they will have an abundance of knowledge. Matthew 13:12

It was the standard belief in antiquity that Pythagoras undertook extensive travels for the sole purpose of accumulating knowledge and wisdom. In about 525 BC, he travelled to Egypt where he was admitted to the Egyptian priesthood. There, he spent twenty-two years studying under the high priests in the temples of Egypt.

Pythagoras became a Grand Master of the Order of the Magi, one of the oldest spiritual organizations that has ever existed and one of the most exclusive of the mystery schools.  It was this special group of Priests who were Divinely informed of the birth of the Christ child. It was they who then journeyed to welcome him into this world.

The ancient Order of the Magi was the principle religion of the ancient Chaldeans whose temples were located in Chaldea, Egypt and Persia.  The word magi takes its origins from the Greek word magos, which refers to the Chaldeans who gained an international reputation for being astrologers. Their use of astrology is what led to the translation to the word magic.

Magic is what we call any science we do not understand. Arthur C. Clarke

Upon his return to the Mediterranean, Pythagoras founded Pythagoreanism, a religious movement within which education, science and religion were all perfectly unified. His mystery school, which stood on the southern coast of Italy, was called the Pythagorean Italic School.[i]

The Pythagorean School contained nine different temples to the different arts and sciences, including geometry, astronomy, music, medicine, philosophy, politics and especially mathematics. But his esoteric teachings were kept a profound secret. Candidates had to pass through a period of probation, in which their disposition and mental capacity was tested along with their ability to maintain silence.Those who were initiated into the movement established a select brotherhood for the purpose of pursuing the religious and ascetic practices he developed. These followers were called Esoterici - The Esoteric.

The experience of life in a finite, limited body is specifically for the purpose of discovering and manifesting supernatural existence. Pythagoras

The discovery of the Golden Ratio, which appears frequently in geometry, is attributed to Pythagoras. The ‘division of a line into extreme and mean ratio’ is important in the geometry of regular pentagrams and pentagons.[ii] It is interesting to note that he chose, as the emblem for his society, the shape of a pentagram inscribed within the shape of another pentagon.

Geometry has two great treasures: one is the Theorem of Pythagoras, and the other the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. Johannes Kepler

There are five geometric shapes that have faces, edges and angles that are congruent. Named after the famous Pythagorean known as Plato, four of these Platonic solids include the tetrahedron, octahedron and icosahedron, all of which have a triangle on each side, as well as the cube, which has a square on each side. The Pythagoreans understood that the Universe is composed of four elements – fire (radiation), earth (solid), air (gas) and water (liquid).  And they believed that the particles of each of these elements are in the shapes of these four Platonic solids.

They also believed that the Earth is surrounded by one solid, which is then surrounded by another solid, and so on. In other words, the Earth grid of electro-magnetic lines and vortexes is comprised of smaller grids, each of which is in the shape of a different Platonic solid.[iii]

But there is a fifth solid, called the dodecahedron, which has a pentagon on each of its 12 sides. The dodecahedron is by far the most difficult of the solids to construct because the drawing of the pentagon requires an elaborate application of the Theorem of Pythagoras for which he is best known.

But what is most interesting is that the Pythagoreans believed that the element that is in the shape of the dodecahedron is ether- God’s Spirit.  Ether is the source of all things that arise in Space and Time. And it is this shape that surrounds Earth and the other four solids combined.

And when, after having divested yourself of your mortal body, you arrive at the most pure ether, you shall be a God. Pythagoras

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[i] The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom, Mark Amaru Pinkham, Adventures Unlimited Press, 1998

[ii] Bygone Beliefs: Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Thought, Herbert Stanley Redgrove, Forgotten Books, 2008

[iii] Anti-Gravity and the World Grid, David Hatcher Childress, Adventures Unlimited Press, 1987

Adam & the Higher Self

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The Ego and the Id is a prominent paper that was written in 1923 by Dr. Sigmund Freud as an analytical study of the human psyche. It is of fundamental importance in the development of psycho-analytic theory. In his paper, Freud wrote about what he called the ego, the id, and the super-ego.[i]

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from Heaven. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I Corinthians 15:44-47 and John 4:16-17

From a spiritual perspective, it is your ego that was created as a survival mechanism when you descended in consciousness during the Fall of Man. But your super-ego, your Spirit, is still merged with God. So, as you awaken to this understanding, it is your Spirit who is carrying out God’s Divine plan for you.

Often referred to as your ‘higher self’, your Spirit carries with it the spiritual gifts of clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, claircognizance and intuition. Stored in a quantum state in your DNA, it is the multi-dmensional part of you that never left the Garden. And your sub-conscious mind is the gateway to it.

The man who enters by the Gate is the shepherd of his sheep. The watchman opens the Gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. John 10:2-3

As an information processor, the conscious mind can only process forty bits of information per second. But the sub-conscious mind is one million times more powerful. It is the sub-conscious mind that stores the past, but lives in the present. It is this mind that continuously replays in the present the events that have taken place in the past.

The ego is the one who rants, blames, defends, judges, justifies, whines, doesn’t forgive, never forgets, expects the worst and trusts no one. Dr. Sonia Choquette

The higher self has an entry point into your human energy field.  This point is about an arm’s distance above your head.  You can engage your higher self by ‘sending’ the feeling of gratitude, from your heart to that entry point.

But the first step in connecting with your higher self is to quiet the ego – the lower self who lives in your sub-conscious. If we clear from our sub-conscious any energies that we no longer need, we can connect to our higher self and reunite with our Spirit.

In Zen, a duality between Higher Self and Lower Self is not made because – if you believe in the Higher Self, this is a simple trick of the Lower Self. Alan Watts

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[i] The Ego and the Id, Sigmund Freud, The Hogarth Press Ltd. London, 1949

Aquarius & the Second Coming

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Astronomy and Astrology are the oldest sciences on Earth.  Astronomy is driven by gravity and magnetics, which are the forces that shift the position of the planets around the Sun.  But it is Astrology that is the study of the cycles of these planets and how they relate to both the microcosm of our personal lives and to the macrocosm of the entire World.

The ocean tides are caused by the gravitational interaction between the Earth and the Moon. The gravitational attraction of the Moon pulls the oceans toward it.  In the science of Astrology, the planetary bodies are connected magnetically, both to the Earth as well as to humanity.  So their powerful electro-magnetic influence has a direct affect on our psyche in the same way the Moon has a direct affect on the tides.

In Astrology, your birth chart, or horoscope, is divided into twelve ‘houses,’ each of which is represented by one of the signs of the astrological zodiac.  The position of the Sun at the time of your birth determines the sign that has the strongest influence on your psyche.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. Plato

In the macrocosm of the World, the transition from one sign of the zodiac to another happens every 2160 years. The last time this occurred was during the time of  the man named Jesus, when all of humanity transitioned from the sign of Aries, into the current sign of Pisces.

It’s commonly thought that the zodiacal sign for Aries is an adult ram. But it is actually the Jewish Passover lamb.  And that age culminated with the arrival of this man, who demonstrated the first arrival of the Christ state of mind.

As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him. They said, “What will be the Sign of your coming and of the end of the Age?” Matthew 24:3

In the first age of our evolution we lived in this illusion as cave dwellers.  So we worshipped God through fear because it was all we could understand.  In the biblical Book of Exodus, which is part of the Torah, it is written that ten plagues were inflicted upon the Egyptians before they finally released their Hebrew slaves, the final plague being the killing of all firstborn sons.  It’s also written that the Hebrews were instructed to mark their doors with the blood of a lamb so the angel of death would pass over their homes and spare their sons.  In remembrance of this promise, the Hebrew people celebrate this event as a holy day they call Passover.

It is written in the New Testament that, after Jesus ascended to God, his followers gathered together for the Jewish harvest that was celebrated during Passover.  While they were meditating, they saw what seemed to them to be tongues of fire.  Then they were filled with the Holy Spirit and began channeling God’s cosmic energies into audible languages.  This event was the birth of  Christianity and of the Church, a time that is now commemorated with a festival called Pentecost.

When they entered the City they went to the Upper Room.  All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues.  Acts 1:13 & 2:4

The Eucharist was the final meal that Jesus shared with his disciples before his arrest. It was during his last supper with them that he announced this upcoming shift of the ages – the shift from the sign of Pisces, the twelfth house, to the sign of Aquarius, the eleventh house.  So, at this point in our perceived history, humanity is entering the house of Aquarius – the sign of a man pouring water from a jar.

Jesus replied, “As you enter the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him to the House that he enters.” Luke 22:10-12

Many people believe that, before the second coming of Christ, Satan will pretend to be God in order to deceive us all and that God is going to banish those who are deceived – for all eternity.  But why would God banish those people who, by innocently following Satan, are consciously trying to find God? And why would He allow an infinite punishment to be inflicted for a finite transgression?

Evil is simply a state of the anti-Christ mind.

Jesus said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You do not have in Mind the things of God, but the things of Men.”  Matthew 16:23

In Astrology, all planets have a ruling sign.  It is when a planet moves into position in its ruling sign that it is most powerful.  A mutual reception occurs when two planets move into one another’s ruling signs. This aspect links the two signs intimately, which enhances their magnetic energies.

Between the years 2002-2010, there was a mutual reception that occurred between the planets Neptune and Uranus. So Neptune which rules Pisces ‘traded’ signs with Uranus which rules Aquarius.  This event occurs only six times within a given 5,000 year period. And, because we are moving from the age of Pisces into the age of Aquarius, it was of extreme importance for the dawning of this Aquarian age.

We have left the house of Pisces.  We are now opening up to an experience that was beautifully demonstrated 2000 years ago by Christ Jesus.  You are about to experience that same personal ascension, which is the mind of Christ embodied in your physical body.  This is the second coming of the Christ mind.

“In the last days,” said God, “I will Pour out my Spirit upon All people.” Acts 2:17

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Mothers

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In 1887, a wealthy Jewish Journalist, named Nicolas Notovitch, traveled to India to study its people and their customs. His travels took him to a Buddhist monastery in the province of Ladakh, which still stands today. During his stay, he was told by a chief Tibetan lama that, in the monastery’s archives, there exist copies of very ancient scrolls relating to the life of Jesus Christ.

The original scrolls were written by Buddhists, in the language of Pali. Around 200 AD, they were transferred to the city of Lhassa, which is now the residence of the Dalai-Lama. Copies were then translated into the Thibetan language and stored in Ladakh. It was with the assistance of a Thibetan interpreter that Nicolas Notovitch was able to translate them into English.

His translations include the following words of Jesus as he speaks fondly about women:

    “ Respect woman.  For, in her, we see the Mother of the Universe and all the truth of Divine creation is come through her.

    She is the fount of everything good and beautiful, as she is also the germ of life and death.  Upon her, man depends in all his existence.  For she is his moral and natural support in his labors.

    In pain and suffering she brings you forth; in the sweat of her brow she watches over your growth and, until her death, you cause her great anxieties.  Bless her and adore her.  For she is your only friend and support on Earth.

    Respect her; defend her.  In so doing, you will gain for yourself her love; you will find favor before God and, for her sake, many sins will be remitted to you.  Love your wives and respect them.  For they will be the mothers of tomorrow and, later, the grandmothers of a whole nation.

    Be submissive to the wife; her love ennobles man, softens his hardened heart, tames the wild beast in him and changes it to a lamb.  Wife and mother are priceless treasures, which God has given to you.  They are the most beautiful ornaments of the Universe and, from them, will be born all who inhabit the world. 

    Even as the Lord of Hosts separated the Light from the darkness, and the dry land from the waters, so does woman possess the Divine gift of calling forth out of man’s evil nature all the good that is in him.

    Therefore I say unto you, after God, to woman you must belong your best thoughts.  For she is the Divine temple where you will most easily obtain perfect happiness.  Draw from this temple your moral force.  There, you will forget your sorrows and your failures, and recover the Love necessary to aid your fellow men.

    Suffer her not to be humiliated.  For, by humiliating her, you humiliate yourselves and lose the sentiment of Love, without which nothing can exist here on Earth.  Protect your wife, that she may protect you – you and all your household.  All that you do for your mothers, your wives, for a widow or any other woman in distress… you will do for your God.”

And the two will become One Flesh. So they are no longer two, but One.   Mark 10:8

The Divine Law of Gender states that gender is in everything; everything has its masculine and feminine principles; gender manifests on all planes.  In the language of ancient Hebrew, the word woman is translated as two pictures that signify ‘mighty’ and ‘warrior’.

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Inspired by the book The Unknown Life of Jesus, Nicolas Notovitch, Translated by J.H. Connelly and L. Landsberg, Linden Publishing, 2004

Om & the Tilt of the Earth

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When God created the Earth, He created the four elements of air, fire, water and earth. And then He enveloped the Earth in a non-duality firmament – a force field.

This firmament kept the wind to a maximum of seven miles per hour. It also lowered the level of heat so the temperature was maintained at about 75 degrees Fahrenheit in all geographical locations. This provided for the perfect season, year round.

There were two bands that arched around this firmament; one was electrical in nature, the other was magnetic. When played as part of the Music of the Spheres, the sound that was emitted from the pulsing of the firmament could be heard as the musical tone of Om.[i]

And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. Genesis 1:6-8

But, as Man gradually became attached to the things in Life, he began to think that God’s original Creation could be improved upon. As a result, the wars he started caused major devastation to the Earth and its pole began to tilt away from the galactic plane, at an angle of 23.5 degrees.

The tilt of the Earth is why the North pole has moved backwards through the astrological zodiac.  It is also what has caused it to wobble like a spinning top as it slowed down. And the resulting wobble has altered its vibrational rate of frequency, which changed its musical tone of Om.

St John the Baptist, Paolo Veronese c. 1562

St. John the Baptist, Jusepe de Ribera c. 1624

St. John the Baptist, Nicolas Regnier c. 1610

St John the Baptist, Jean Clouet c. 1527

John in the Wilderness, Leonardo Da Vinci c.1517

Beginning in the 15th century AD, a number of philosophers and men of science were forced underground because of religious persecutions made by the Church. As a way of preserving it, scientific knowledge and spiritual wisdom was encoded in various sources, such as art and music.

This is displayed in many pieces of sacred art of the Renaissance and Baroque periods that call attention to the index finger of St. John the Baptist, which clearly points away from the rest of his fingers at the precise mathematical angle of 23.5 degrees – the tilt of the Earth.

This oddity can be seen in numerous works by many famous painters and sculptors of that period, including Leonardo Da Vinci, François Le Moyne, Jusepe de Ribera, Titian, Mathis Gothart, Jean Clouet, Raphael, El Greco, Caravaggio, Valentin de Boulogne, Nicolas Regnier, Caravaggio, Paolo Veronese, Boccaccio, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and so on.

Although this symbolism clearly appears in almost every single portrayal of John the Baptist that was painted between the 15th and 18th centuries, it has gone unnoticed for hundreds of years.[ii]

And in those days, Noah saw the Earth had tilted and that it’s destruction was near. Book of Enoch 65.1

When a star falls away from its source, it becomes a planet. In a star system, the stars rotate toward their Creator, not away from it. But our Earth has now returned to its rightful status.

We have reached the very end of all cycles of Time. Our Milky Way galaxy has been spinning in a clockwise direction, away from its Creator, for an astounding five billion years. So there has been a continual battle for freedom in this galaxy because it has not been spinning toward its source. But, because of recent earthquakes that have taken place on the earth, it has now established a new rotation, one that matches energies that are currently being instilled within its core.

This new rotation of the galaxy is responsible for polar shifts that have occurred on all of the planets in our solar system. It has thrusted the entire system into a new formation – an harmonic convergence. All of the planets in the solar system have now returned to God’s original blueprint, which is based upon sacred geometry.

Within this cosmic movement, the axis of the Earth has been synchronized with the new rotation cycle of the other planets. Although it has not shifted to a devastating degree, its axis has shifted from its orbital plane.

Because of the completion of the new Earth grid, a new firmament will eventually emerge around the planet. This Crystalline firmament will allow for what the ancients called ‘1000 Years of Peace.’  And, as our tilted planet is slowly rolled into an upright position, its musical tone of Om will return.

The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up. Revelation 6:14

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[i] James Tyberonn in a channeling of Archangel Metatron

[ii] From an article written by Gary Osborn

Cao Daism & the Law of One

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During World War I, a Vietnamese named Ngo Van Chieu was an administrator for the French in Indo-China. After the war, he founded a philosophy in Tay Ninh province, in Vietnam. This philosophy is called Cao Daism – the belief in the principles of love and justice, the ongoing connection of each religion to its source, and the belief in one God. It is the assertion of Cao Daism that any believer who follows the esoteric practice of their religion will ultimately reach that same God.

30 metre Statue of the Buddha, in Nha Trang, Vietnam

Decades later, during the Vietnam war, a leading teacher of Buddhism, named Jack Kornfield, was focusing on bringing the great Eastern spiritual teachings to the West.  In the introduction to a book, titled Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings, he wrote a short story of an experience he had during the late 1960s in war-torn Vietnam…

After passing through the waterways in the midst of active gunfire, Kornfield’s boat arrived at a dock in the Mekong Delta. There, Buddhist monks escorted him to an island at the end of which stood their Buddhist monastery. But, as his eyes moved to the top of a nearby hill, he was surprised to see two giant statues standing in embrace, one was of Gautama the Buddha and the other was of Jesus the Christ.[i]

While helicopter gunships flew overhead and the war raged around us, Buddha and Jesus stood there like brothers, expressing compassion and healing for all who would follow in their way. Jack Kornfield

30 m Status of the ChristVung Tao, Vietnam

After the North Vietnamese Communists won the Vietnam war, the Cao Dai religion became heavily persecuted. In 1979, four of its members were executed.

But it continued underground, spreading by way of the people who escaped the war by fleeing to Europe, North America and other parts of the world. It is now the third most popular religion in all of Vietnam, with a membership totalling in the millions.

Founded on religious philosophies from both Eastern and Western cultures, Cao Daism is an attempt to merge universal truths and insights that are common to Hinduism, Judaism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Zoro-astrianism and Islam. As a blend of the teachings of all the major world religions, it is seen as the answer to the Universal Faith.

There is One truth, not many. It is open to all. See and know this for yourself. Buddha

The Cao Dai believe that history is divided into three significant periods of revelation, the first being when God’s truth was revealed to humanity through the diety Lao Tse; the second being the appearance of dieties, such as Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius, Jesus and Moses.[ii]  The Cao Dai believe that their Universal Faith is now ushering in the third period, one that they call Tam Ky Pho Do.

Many, many Timelines are now merging and coming together in a way that is presently inconceivable to us.  As they merge, we will start to experience the meaning of Oneness.  This age of Oneness, which will spiritually enLighten the West, is marked by a direct revelation between Heaven and Earth.

This merging and melding of Timelines will continue until there is only One, and then that too will dissolve, disintegrate, disappear…

…leaving only one nation under God.

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[i] Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings, Ulysses Press, 2005

[ii] Vietnam, Nick Ray and Wendy Yanagihara, Lonely Planet; 8th Revised edition, 2005

Consciousness

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In 2006, Dr. Eric C. Leuthardt, Ph.D., an assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery, and Dr. Daniel Moran, Ph.D., an assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, implanted a special electro-corticographic (ECoG) grid into the brain of a 14-year old boy in an effort to help control his epilepsy. The grid, which is used to record brain surface signals, was connected to a computer that was running a special video game program.

From the data that was collected, the researchers were able to adjust the grid to correlate to the brain signals, which produced the movements the boy used to play the video game. After he was then asked not to use his hands to perform those movements, but to simply imagine them occurring on the computer screen, the boy was able to learn to control the game using only his imagination.[i]

Over the past decade, a team of researchers at Princeton University has been conducting experi-ments to measure the effects of human con-sciousness when focused on random events.  Called the Global Conscious-ness Project, this initiative is an international effort involving computers at sixty-five sites around the world, each of which has been programmed to generate numbers at random. The purpose of this experiment is to examine subtle correlations that reflect the activity of the consciousness of all of humanity, as a collective.

The graphs that are generated by these computers usually show completely random numbers. But, when a global event receives the focused attention of a large group of people, the numbers on the graphs suddenly become non-random. Major events that have coincided with this dramatic change include global medita­tions, major earthquakes and even the funeral for Princess Diana.

But the strongest effect of this was demonstrated when people worldwide were focused, in unified consciousness, on the events of the disaster at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. As an increasing number of people around the world heard the news of this disaster, the graph began to produce a fluctuating deviation that continued for almost one-half hour after the fall of the second World Trade Center tower.[ii]

September 11 was in the middle of the graph, and the spike just sits there all by itself, mocking us in our ignorance of what it means. Dr. Dean Radin

Until his recent retirement, Dr. Roger Nelson, Ph.D, the Director of the project, served as the Coordinator of Research at the Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory at Princeton University. He is now participating with a group of materials scientists, physicists, neurologists and biologists, in an initiative called The Intention Experiment, a project that consists of a series of web-based initiatives involving thousands of people around the world in an attempt to scientifically measure the Law of Mind.[iii]

The Global Coherence Initiative is a similar project that has recently been established, the goal of which is to unite people in focused intention, in an effort to shift global consciousness from instability and discord to balance, cooperation and peace.

This project is a collaborative research initiative between the Institute of HeartMath and Dr. Elizabeth Rauscher, consultant to the NASA Space Shuttle Program, as well as several other engineers and scientists. These people are designing and building multiple sensors around the world, which will directly measure fluctuations in the magnetic fields generated by the Earth. This sensing technology will allow researchers to observe changes in the Earth’s magnetic field in an effort to determine if it is affected by people united in intention.[iv]

The mind is more powerful than any particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optic.

Terence Mckenna

While we are incarnate in a physical body, we are able to experience sensation, something pure consciousness cannot do.  So our souls desire to inhabit bodies in this material plane.  But we are not our bodies.

If you were placed into the body of another person, you would still be you.  So it is what you think of, and what you ask and intend for, which creates your bodily experience.

Energy is neutral.  What gives it direction and what enables it to manifest into substance are the positive and negative charges that are continuously being formed by your thoughts, your intentions and your actions.  And, each time you think, you influence the outcome of the collective human consciousness.  That is what allows possibilities to evolve into probabilities, which in turn, become realities when the momentum becomes unstoppable.  This is a universal law.

God is the collective consciousness of all things.  God experiences his Creation through His creations.  God experiences life through You.

And we can intend to remain oblivious to an entire reality if we consciously choose to do so.  But humanity is at the end of a long cycle of expansion in consciousness and the beginning of a Golden age.  We are all learning, creating and evolving at an ever-increasing rate.  And we are leaving behind the consciousness of this singular galaxy and becoming integrated into the consciousness of the Universe.

 Energy cannot be created or destroyed.  It can only be changed from one form to another.  Albert Einstein

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[i] Teenager moves video icons just by imagination, Tony Fitzpatrick, Washington University of St. Louise Newsroom, October 9, 2006

[ii] Correlations of Continuous Random Data with Major World Events, R.D. Nelson, D.I. Radin, R. Shoup, P.A. Bancel, October 2002

[iii] The Intention Experiment

[iv] The Global Coherence Initiative

Truth & the Apocryphal

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In the Old Testament, there was once a collection of over one dozen texts called the Apocrypha. Derived from the Greek word apocryphal, it means ‘things that are hidden’.

King James of England imposed heavy fines on anyone who printed the Old Testament without including the Apocrypha. So it was included in the original King James version of the Bible, which was printed in the year 1611.[i] But 250 years later, the Archbishop of Canterbury officially removed it from that version.[ii]

The Book of Ben Sira is a volume of wise proverbs that was discovered in Egypt, in 1896. It is part of these apocryphal texts. Known also as the Book of Wisdom and as The Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach, this book was originally written in the language of Hebrew in the second century BC. Eventually, it was included in the Old Testament as the book of Ecclesiastes. But, before its recent discovery, no known Hebrew version existed. Some scholars even doubted its existence.

In your exploration of Bible Truth, see to it that you do not rest satisfied in the yellow clay of a few spiritual discoveries, but press on to the rich blue clay underneath. Emmet Fox

Also part of the apocryphal texts is the Book of Enoch, a massive five-volume manuscript that consists of 108 chapters.

Where the apocalyptic view of the end of Time leaves ‘the damned’ on a hellish Earth, the book of Enoch paints a very different picture.

This ancient book describes an Aquarian age in which Heaven will actually exist on the Earth. The Greek word apocalypse means ‘disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception.’

It is interesting to note that the books of Jude and Hebrews, which have both been retained in the Bible, actually quote directly from the Book of Enoch, which has not. In fact, there are over twenty books that are referred to in the Bible, but which have been excluded from it.

Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men: “‘See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones.” Jude 1:14

During World War II, the ancient Gnostic Gospels were discovered in Upper Egypt. These gospels formed the basis of the teachings of the first Jewish Christians who, rather than seeking salvation from sin, sought to achieve salvation from the ignorance of which sin is a consequence.

Since the discovery of these gospels, there have been other ancient scrolls that have been located, the most famous of which were found concealed in caves on the shore of the Dead Sea, near the ruins of an old Essene settlement called Qumran.

Known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, these scrolls consist of roughly 900 texts, twenty-five percent of which is biblical scripture that includes some of the only known copies of first-century biblical documents in existence. Portions of the original Aramaic version of the Book of Enoch were discovered at Qumran. In fact, with the exception of the book of Esther, every single book of the Old Testament was discovered there.[iii] But what is most interesting is that the book of Esther is the only book that does not refer to God.

The mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Saints.

Colossians 1:25-26

Many people believe that God would never have allowed the Word to be tampered with or concealed in ways He did not want. And, they’re absolutely correct. God has allowed this to take place. If we had known these truths two-thousand years ago, we would have distorted them to such an extent that, now, when we need them the most, we would not recognize them for what they truly are.

The Judeo-Christian scriptures are a scientific treatise on universal nuclear physics, which were written in a universal metaphysical language that discloses, in minute detail, the precise formula for the attainment of Unity  Consciousness.[iv]

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[i] English Bible History, John L. Jeffcoat III with special thanks to Dr. Craig H. Lampe, International Director of the World Bible Society

[ii] The Lost Books of the Bible: The Real Apocrypha, Patrick Cooke, Oracle Research Publishing, 2005

[iii] Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls, New Liberty Videos, 2006

[iv] The Treasure of El Dorado, Joseph Whitfield, Treasure Publications, 1989

Me, Myself & I

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There is an interesting word, called Rumination, for which there are two definitions.  One is ‘the act of chewing cud.’   The other is ‘to go over in the mind repeatedly.’

In regards to the latter, the inability to stop ruminating is a characteristic of the spiritually unconscious.

The 17th century philosopher, René Descartes, is regarded as the founder of modern philosophy.  It was he who gave expression to the famous statement, I think.  Therefore I Am.

But the consciousness that says ‘I Am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.  And, as long as we are unaware of this fact, we continue to mistake the thinker for who we are.

The core of all of our mind activity consists of repetitive and persistent thoughts, emotions and reactive patterns.  This entity is called ‘the ego’.  And the ego is the one who identifies with possessions, opinions, external appearances and long-standing resentments.  These are the things to which the words I, me, my and mine refer.

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment.  Ego, and awareness of the ego, cannot co-exist. Eckhart Tolle

Many of us are completely identified with a stream of compulsive thinking, most of which is repetitive and pointless.  But, if we understand the basic mechanics behind the ego mind, we can recognize it as such.

The ego was created as a survival mechanism when you descended in consciousness during the Fall of Man.  But it is the ego that creates the illusion that we are separate from one another and separate from God.  This either makes us feel that we are not as good as, or better than others.

We are born into truth.  But we grow up believing in lies.  We witness so many lies when we are young and innocent, and we use these lies to form our personal Tree of Knowledge.  And one of the biggest lies is the lie of our own imperfection, which is told to us by the ego.  And believing the ego is an addiction.

What a liberation to realize that the voice in my head is not who I am.  Who am I then?  The one who sees that. Eckhart Tolle

The ego is actually an impostor who is pretending to be you. It is the ego who drives the car while you daydream behind the steering wheel.  It is the ego who causes you to terminate your meditation to take care of “more important” things.

And he said to them all, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny his Self.”  Luke 9:23

The ego is a descended master.  So your greatest protection from the ego is to become fully conscious and aware of it.  You are a character in The Truman Show and everyone who is asleep at the wheel is named “Truman.”

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Inspired by the book A New Earth: Awakening to your Life’s Purpose, Eckhart Tolle, Penguin Books, 2005

Masters & their Sermons

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In 1963, the Hindu Swami Prabhavananda included the following as an Introduction to his interpretation of the sermon that was preached by Jesus on the Mount of Olives, as recorded in the biblical Gospel of Matthew:

    “I have studied the New Testament as I have studied the scriptures of my own religion, Vedanta. My religion therefore accepts and reveres all the great prophets, spiritual teachers, and aspects of the Godhead worshipped in different faiths, considering them to be manifestations of one underlying truth.”

    “As a young monk, I dwelt in close association with most of the monastic disciples of the founder of the order to which I belong. These holy men lived in the consciousness of God.”

    “One of these disciples celebrated Christmas every year by offering special worship to Jesus, a custom which has been observed in all the monasteries of the order to the present day. On these occasions fruit, bread, and cake are offered in our Hindu way. Often, there is a lecture on Christ, or the story of the Nativity… or the Sermon on the Mount is read.”

This Hindu swami was an early-twentieth century teacher of the Vedanta philosophy, a philosophy that follows the most ancient of Hindu scriptures – the Vedas. Vedanta teaches that all religions are true inasmuch as they lead to one and the same goal – that of God-realization.[i]

Blessed are the Peacemakers; for they shall be called the Children of God. Matthew 5:9

In Hinduism, the concept of Brahman is the same as the Christian concept of God. And Lord Krishna, a diety who appeared in India over five-thousand years ago, is the primeval Lord.

In Christian doctrine, the concept of The Trinity is considered to be the unity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit as three personifi-cations in one Godhead. Similarly, in ancient Brah-manism, we can find embedded this same doctrine – the triad of Brahma the Father, Vishnu the Word and Shiva the Power.

It is interesting to note that, in the Vedas, there is a text that, when translated into English reads, ‘In the beginning was Brahman, with whom was the Word, and the Word was Brahman’.[ii] This is in direct comparison to scripture that was written in the biblical Gospel of John.

The Sermon on the Mount represents the essence of both the teachings of Christ and the teachings of Krishna.

If you really wish to alter your life… then Jesus, in his Sermon on the Mount of Olives, has clearly shown you how it is to be done. Emmet Fox

In fact, all the major religions and philosophies have their roots in the same source. And, as members of a Great White Brotherhood of ascended masters, all of these Peacemakers delivered the same sermon.

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[i] The Sermon on the Mount According to Vedanta, Swami Prabhavanada, Vedanta Press, 1991

[ii] Krishna Yajurveda, Kathaka Samhita, 12.5, 27.1; Krishna Yajurveda, Kathakapisthala Samhita, 42.1; Jaiminiya Brahmana II, Samaveda, 2244