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At this point we wish to clarify some apparent contradictions in Christian, indeed all, theologies. We have stated that God is over and above the creation and we have also stated that God is within the creation, being the totality of the creation. God is in fact all of these things, and more.

First, God is above and beyond all concepts and categories; within and throughout creation. Greater then we can imagine; And is the sea of beauty and love. The Source and the Goal of life. at this level it may be easier to view God as Heaven itself, a place rather then an individual.

Second, God/dess the eternal God existing in an eternal heaven of bliss. Wedded.

Third, God(s) is a host, existing in space/time, and as such is not in control of your every motive and move as an individual; only collectively. This aspect of God is also not a singular Super Being, but the mystery and majesty of Nature, the extraordinary process called Life.

It needs to be clearly understood that God/dess operates in a different manner in these different frameworks. However, from our perspective, there is no clear dividing lines to be found between the first, second, and third reference.

All our names for the Divine, whether male or female, are inadequate. All these metaphors are our feeble human
attempts and projections as we try to draw near to the Mysterious One. Probably the only adequate name for the Holy One is that which was written long ago: "I Am Who I Am" (Exodus 3:14).

Destiny is viewed from future to present; what will be and is: Free will is viewed from past to present, what was and is... Both exist in relation to the other.. Both free will and destiny exist in contrast to the other; both exist around a pivot of time we call the present.

All days come from one day, all dreams from someday.

Many believe that the Divine is not constrained by time, it is not a "Linear time" entity. If this is true then "Predestination", as we know it, is not applicable. Are events entirely free (free agency), entirely predestined, or a combination of the two? Beyond this question, does Divinity have free agency? If one believes that Divinity is the summation of all possibilities without regard to time, what possibility would there be for Divinity to be anything else but what It is? if Divinity itself is thus predestined what free agency could possibly exist for a lesser entity that is but a part or a creature of the predestined Divine? If you do not believe that Divinity is predestined to its nature then you should ask yourself if Divinity could be anything but Divine. What is woman's and man's purpose in the grand scheme of things?


The act of creation requires free will, and is a choice against entropy. An aspect of being made in the image of the Creator.
As all rivers flow to the sea; all beings flow into God. It is an act of self realization on Gods part. And the long suffering of God/dess shared with and through our development.
 

Though God may have conveyed Himself accurately to the prophets, the minute a prophet attempted to convey that message to anyone else in human language, the message was less than the complete one conveyed by God/dess. In a similar vein, one might ask if each part of the one must know the totality of All, to know the Divine. Put metaphorically, is Divinity dispersed throughout the cosmos like a shattered hologram, each piece displaying the image of the whole?

God does not come in clear shining; God comes with clouds. God is the well spring of life, but there are also boulders in the stream. Seeing your destiny, dreams and image in God is like a reflecting pool; thanksgiving, prayer and praise (including meditations and affirmations) is what makes the water still and clear, but other influences create ripples and may even muddy the water. The process of coming to the Kingdom involves stretching our liniments through the spiritual birth process. It involves pain.

One cannot or mustn't say to those who are ill and suffering: " That's God who puts you to the test". In this way we would offend The God of Endless Love who cannot wish our suffering. One needs say to those who suffer: " God's Son himself suffered because of evil, but you will also resurrect with Him, as He did". That is the truth and only the truth can give one who suffers the Hope which won't let him fall into that despair the devil one wants to seize his soul and conscience! Saying: "it's God who puts you to the test" gives a suffering man the same relief a lecture on food gives a starving person.

There is none of us but must come to bereavement and separation, When all the answers we are offered Fail the question death asks of each of us.

Not to give up -- amidst all the perplexities of living, whatever the shortcomings, the short-changings, the self-betrayals, deepening the learning, rediscovering the awesomeness Not to give up -- but to give *in* *in* *in* to *You*, Beloved, entering Your fullsomeness, Goddess of the All, Sapientia Luminosa, transfixed by Your beauty, transfused with Your Presence, transformed by Your Spirit...

Given sufficient free will, like the chaotic iterations of a fractile, the complex and highly ordered image of the predestined fractal emerges. What was predestined to become a rose becomes a rose while what was predestined to become a spiral galaxy becomes a spiral galaxy, all through unfettered free will.

Can a man cling only to heaven and know nothing of earth? They are correlative: to know one is to know the other. To refuse one is to refuse both."

The Great Way is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes muddled by mere wordplay, affirming this one aspect and denying all the rest."

The pivot of The Great Way passes through the center where all affirmations and denials converge. He who grasps the pivot is at the still-point from which all movements and oppositions can be seen in their right relationship... Abandoning all thought of imposing a limit or taking sides, he rests in direct intuition."

The future comes one day at a time. At the center of the universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service. Goals are a preview of future events and experiences in your life. When you focus on what might have been, it gets in the way of what can be.

The natural creation precedes the archetype, yet often the 'type' of a thing or 'class' is taken as akin to the spirit of a thing or class, which metaphysically precedes the thing or class. An omniscient, omnipotent, and perfect God is a 'type' of God; the spirit that precedes nature. An unchanging God cannot be subject to time because the element of time creates an ever changing unfolding of events. A prime mover god is behind the veil of matter and the creator of time. A perfect, omnipotent God, can fix anything. The perfect God lacks nothing. An omniscient, omnipotent, and perfect God who experiences any emotion other than bliss is impossible.

However, Nature manifest as we know it, works in another way; a way through time and becoming, where change is the constant ; it comes before the metaphysical archetype.

It is not the spiritual that comes first, but the physical, and then the spiritual. 1 COR 15:46

What is possible is that 'God in Nature' is changing and subject to time, yet "like nature" is eternal. We humans experience emotions as a result of new knowledge. We humans experience anger and frustration when something is wrong which we cannot fix. Humans experience longing for things we lack.

The old ones say two things must be present for a miracle to take place. One, the right time. Two, the right place. This is why we need to honor our ceremonies. Ceremonies are done in an order. This order is applied to open a "door" to the right time and place. This door opens to the Spiritual World. The Spiritual World is available to us at the right time and the right place.

"My Creator, let me be patient today so the timing is right".

The other side of the coin of this amazing matter of cooperation with God is that there are things even God cannot do. He cannot because He has chosen to assign certain powers to his people. If they will not, his hands are tied. "He did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief"(Mt 13:58 AV). "How often would I have gathered you . . . but ye would not"(Mt 23:37 AV}. Some would argue that although it is proper to say that God will not and does not, it is not proper to say that He cannot. However, given the terms of his relationship to us, the people He loved and called, He cannot force us, for He cannot deny Himself. To force us would be to deprive us of the freedom He granted when He made us, and thus to deny Himself. Yet we pray, "Make me to do Thy will!" And so we should, for in that prayer we express our will to cooperate with Him.

"Our wills are ours to make them Thine." (Tennyson)

In the book of Isaiah, God says, "I will work; but who will let me?" and the man of God says, "Send me." All the gifts of the Holy Spirit can and do manifest through the yeilded vessel of the believer--and if they are absent in a church body it is because the hardened spirits of human beings refuse to allow them to work. "For the Spirit is subject to the prophet" and our will, given to us by Creator at our inception as the right to choose, is powerful enough to stifle the Spirit's intentions if we will it. All too often, we do.

The Creation can be viewed as 2/3 good and 1/3 bad.. similar to the relation of entropy to the heat engine by which it is defined. : or in the three classes of symbiosis one is known as the parasites; Further, there are 3 dimensions of time which must unfold accordingly so that heaven has a direct relation to earth.  What or who is this 1/3 evil?.. the Buddhists call it Mara, the king of the demons, which represents all of human sin and vice.. Paul refers to it as the "prince of the power of the air".. The air is regarded as the region of the demons' might. According to the course of this world - In conformity with the customs and manners of the world at large. The word rendered here as “world” - αιων aiōn - means properly “age,” but is often used to denote the present world, with its cares, temptations, and desires; and here denotes particularly the people of this world. The spirit that now worketh - That still lives, and whose energy for evil is still seen and felt among the wicked. Paul here means undoubtedly to teach that there was such a spirit, and that he was still active in controlling people.
 

( Eph 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: )
 

Eph 2:2 - According to the course of this world - The word translated course properly means a long series of times, wherein one corrupt age follows another. According to the prince of the power of the air - The effect of which power all may perceive, though all do not understand the cause of it: a power unspeakably penetrating and widely diffused; but yet, as to its baneful influences, beneath the orb of believers. The evil spirits are united under one head, the seat of whose dominion is in the air (noo sphere). The spirit that now worketh - With mighty power; and so he did, and doth in all ages. In the sons of disobedience - In all who do not believe and obey the gospel.

It was not only the notion of the Jews (m), that there are noxious and accusing spirits, who fly about באויר, "in the air", and that there is no space between the earth and the firmament free, and that the whole is full of a multitude of them; but also it was the opinion of the Chaldeans (n), and of Pythagoras (o), and Plato (p), that the air is full of demons: now there is a prince who is at the head of these, called Beelzebub, the prince of devils, or the lord of a fly, for the devils under him are as so many flies in the air, Mat_12:24 and by the Jews called (q), רבהון דרוחיא, "the prince of spirits"; and is here styled, the Spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience; by which spirit is meant, not the lesser devils that are under the prince, nor the spirit of the world which comes from him, and is not of God; but Satan himself, who is a spirit, and an evil, and an unclean one; and who operates powerfully in unbelievers, for they are meant by children of disobedience, or unbelief; just as בני מהימנותא, "children of faith" (r), in the Jewish dialect, designs believers; and over these Satan has great influence, especially the reprobate part of them; whose minds he blinds, and whose hearts he fills, and puts it into them to do the worst of crimes;

(m) Shaare Ora, fol. 4. 1. (n) Laert. Procem. in Vit. Philos, p. 5. (o) lb. in Vit. Pythagor. p. 587. (p) Apuleius de Deo Socratis, p. 331. (q) T. Hieros. Peah, fol. 21. 2. (r) Zohar in Gen. fol. 21. 2. & 22. 4. & 27. 4. & 28. 2. & 35. 2. & 44. 1.

What this is , are spirits in hell or purgatory devoid of hope, seeking the light they see in you. They perceive that somehow you might be a help to them so the come to you and draw from you what ever they can. Like a cat catching birds, they would kill you by instinct and without perception of their own malice. This is because they are blinded, knowing only their own pain and misery.

Also, you have your own Judas in life, God intends on your confronting it and separating you from it. It is not to be taken personally, it is elemental, like the resistance in a musical instrument that needs to be tuned out of it. Often, these people are the passive aggressive with a hidden agenda and are better left where you find them. 

And so it is as St. Teresa says, "it is like a file wearing it's way".

Remember you strive against the spiritual wiles of the devil, a thousand times more mighty than men in the flesh.
 

( Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Eph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Eph 6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
Eph 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Eph 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Eph 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Eph 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; )


It is as if there are two realities, one in faith, where Gods unchanging order is seen in all things; what is known as the beatific vision, communion and bliss; Another, where Gods permissive will allows for ignorance and vice and God is not often found. In order to express the truth of God, we must allow for distinctions of operation and time passages as we currently perceive them. Thus we must distinguish between God's order and God's permissive will. Further, it is as if God the father is impersonal to us while God the Son is personal to us ( and therefore our mediator). Both the father and the Son are love, however, they operate in a different fashion as related to us personally. While the Spirit is our Mother in whose womb we are fashioned spiritually.

Everything is in a constant state of movement. Inanimate objects aren't really inanimate. Even the walls around you are moving. They are just vibrating at such a rapid speed they appear to be solid.Nothing stays the same. And fear of change is not going to do you any good. It only holds you back from "possibility. Think about that for a second…if you are concentrating on your fear of change, and hoping everything stays as it is (your job, your marriage, your children, your finances), how can you be a joyful part of the transformation to a higher state of existence?


Rest assured, the salvation of your souls rests on eternal foundations. All things God intends to do will be done; however, it will only be done in God's time; and it is We as the Body, both on earth and in heaven, that are working to bring about the new world and Christ's Kingdom on earth. The distance from the moment of our revelations until the time of our deliverances as is determined by God is always outside of our understanding. .

Ultimately there is no explaining the source of being. There is no explaining why we are asked to do things that push us beyond our previous understanding of faith. All we can hope to have is greater faith in embodied experience and the willingness to let go of anything else. For God/dess is both perfection and the holes in perfection. God/dess is all that is and all that is not. God/dess is the space in perfection that allows for the continuation of creation. The practice is to live in the world God/dessing, with H\er presence in my heart and not wait for the God/dess outside of me to influence my world.

If we mistakenly presume that God (as noun) operating within our space/time is singularly all powerful, Then we must ask how can a perfectly compassionate being create beings which /he knows are doomed to suffer?. And we do suffer, to say we do not really suffer is an obvious lie. There is pain in life that is entirely unjust and without explanation. However, It is a choice not to think in black and white, rather, rainbow color.

Christ will overcome all spiritual rulers, authorities, and powers, and will hand over the kingdom to God the Father. 1 COR 15:24

If we mistakenly presume that God (as noun and personal) operating within our space/time is singularly all powerful, then the assumption that free will is necessary for happiness is false; due to the fact that a perfectly just and loving God who sentences an imperfect man to infinite punishment is impossible. However, Love is stronger then Justice. karma changes to dharma, and poetic justice is perfected in Christ. Therefore; a God who allows you free will has chosen not to be omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent in your life; and without explanation..

This is less confusing if one considers the collective host within God as ultimately all powerful, and where no single being is all powerful. God is the universal mind, however, it is possible for some things to be outside of the body of believers. The Creation can be viewed as 2/3 good 1/3 bad.. with the 1/3 bad ultimately serving the purpose of a greater good.. so then it may be said to be all good in it's proper time. The process ultimately seeks the greatest good for the greatest number, and is far more concerned about your spiritual birth then your material happiness.

Do you desire a life lived with passion? Legends are born from adversity. How much do you love your passion? Enough to follow God wherever you are lead? Do you have the saints and apostles backing you up from behind?

'DANIEL, DO NOT BE AFRAID. GOD HAS HEARD YOUR PRAYERS EVER SINCE THE FIRST DAY YOU DECIDED TO HUMBLE YOURSELF IN ORDER TO GAIN UNDERSTANDING. I HAVE COME IN ANSWER TO YOUR PRAYER. THE ANGEL OF THE PRINCE OF THE KINGDOM OF PERSIA OPPOSED ME FOR 21 DAYS. THEM MICHAEL, ONE OF THE CHIEF ANGELS, CAME TO HELP ME, BECAUSE I HAD BEEN LEFT THERE ALONE IN PERSIA. ..DANIEL 11:13

This shows that God/dess agency is delivered and mediated by angels. Angels are not considered all powerful however mighty.

In this, it may be said that God as a singular noun , although not all powerful in space/time, (..YET..) is still the central source of power. 2/3 good 1/3 bad.. Saying the God is not all powerful is the same as saying God is not always present. There is an obvious random factor which defines time and free will; it is the same thing. It is the same as saying love isn't always on time. The weight of our collective sin is heavy even for God's shoulders.


Why does God/dess allows suffering? it is change that requires suffering. Without suffering nothing would change. Love pulls and pain pushes. So it is not God/dess that requries suffering, rather, it is change that requires it. All things are part of a process, and out of this process God/dess can and does make butterflies...

It is the Mystery and the Majesty.. if you cling to a notion of an all powerful anthropomorphic personal God sitting on a throne of judgment, you will remain subject to torment.... And for those who would deny this truth, they may find themselves in the position of Jobs, not so understanding friends.... This is because God/dess the Great Spirit, father/mother; is not a personal God. Although a sea of beauty and love, it does not relate to you personally. It is like  the sun on a beautiful cool spring morning, you can believe it is personal because of your desire for it. However, when the situation changes that same sun in a desert is no longer so friendly. The sun didn't change, your place did. Or the beauty of the ocean on a nice day which draws your imagination and heart into the wonder of creation, but on a stormy day may become a source of fear through it's destructive power. The ocean did not change, the weather did.

We  are joined in a common God/dess and a common devil.. when we take on Christ, we enter in Christ's works.. and so we also take on the sins of the world.. on an interior level.. and these are crucified in us.. which is what is meant by the following scriptures..

( 1Pe 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. )

( Mat 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. )

( Heb 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. )

( 1Pe 5:10 And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you. )

( Jam 1:3 Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.
Jam 1:4 And let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing. )

By entering into the trials of Christ, you are doing a work of purification in the collective consciousness of mankind, on an interior level and you feel every bit of it even if your not sure what is going on.

Why does God do this? God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. If you are part of the Spirit of God, all your pride will be removed, even if you think you don't have any. However, through your trials God gives a hidden power to sustain you.


Is time for or against you? Is this a purely subjective determination? It is a way to define the consequence of sin; for those who wait on the Lord will see the blessing of the righteous. The phase "It was just that the time was wrong" is a great truth. So, it is said, "In your patience possess you your souls".

The Lord of Hosts has free will; and so, The Bible says that our Lord experiences all emotions, including anger, sadness, and happiness.
The Bible says our Lord 'long suffers' still for our salvation even though he is in paradise.

In the temporal univerise where change is the only constant, Good and evil are mediated by the many. We live among a host of angels and demons, where there are multiple levels to heaven and hell. The unconcious collective of the noo sphere can often be confused as God/dess; it is not strictly so, for God/dess exists above the collective psyche belonging to the spirits of this earth. Natural selection is working in this noo sphere or spirit world of this planet, just like it is working in the physical world of the creatures. Do not take this personally, it is not personal, it is simply out with the old and in with the new. Instead of thinking of God/dess as only ONE, omnipotent, perhaps we need to perceive God/dess as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 with what appears to be divided interests. Even so we are all moving toward a kingdom of heaven where God/dess is all powerful in Love. Waiting for the pieces to fit. We might say that God created the devil to prepare things for heaven first and foremost, Heaven has the highest priority. All trials are for securing heavenly things first, earthly things take a second seat.

Our Lord Jesus and our Lady Mary still labor and pray for us.
They long after us as a lover longs for a missing spouse or absent child.

What is possible is that we also have made a choice with our free will and have entered into a labor with Christ, for we also long for love.
What the world needs is love, and Love is God.

Ultimately we discover like Job did that the ways of God/dess are a mystery beyond our understanding.

GOD/DESS IS LOVE, AND LOVE IS OFTEN A VERB

God calls us from the future telling us to keep fighting the good fight because in the end we won.

Only God's love is without price, for true love is not free but must be tested to prove itself.

We get into sulks with God, and say, "'Oh, well I did pray and things did not turn out right, and I am going to give it all up." Yet, think what would happen if we talked like this in any other domain of life. Let Jesus and the Spirit relate you rightly to God.

Intent acted upon is how faith becomes works; true lovers perform the labors of love.
Then, "All things work for the good of those who are in Christ Jesus"... A free gift for us, earned by Lord Jesus; will you share your gifts too? We are created to make our dreams come true; but, in order to achieve this it must come through us, and it is more then a test, it is a fight and will cost us everything that we are.

"Why standest thou afar off, O Lord?" (Psalm 10:1.) God is "a very present help in trouble." But He permits trouble to pursue us, as though He were indifferent to its overwhelming pressure, that we may be brought to the end of ourselves, and led to discover the treasure of darkness, the immeasurable gains of tribulation. We may be sure that He who permits the suffering is with us in it. It may be that we shall see Him only when the trial is passing; but we must dare to believe that He never leaves the crucible. Our eyes are holden; and we cannot behold Him whom our soul loveth. It is dark--the bandages blind us so that we cannot see the form of our High Priest; but He is there, deeply touched. Let us not rely on feeling, but on faith in His unswerving fidelity; and though we see Him not, let us talk to Him. Directly we begin to speak to Jesus, as being literally present, though His presence is veiled, there comes an answering voice which shows that He is in the shadow, keeping watch upon His own. Your Father is as near when you journey through the dark tunnel as when under the open heaven!

"Into a desert place apart" (Matt. 14:13). "There is no music in a rest, but there is the making of music in it." In our whole life-melody the music is broken off here and there by "rests," and we foolishly think we have come to the end of the tune. God sends a time of forced leisure, sickness, disappointed plans, frustrated efforts, and makes a sudden pause in the choral hymn of our lives; and we lament that our voices must be silent, and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of the Creator. How does the musician read the "rest"? See him beat the time with unvarying count, and catch up the next note true and steady, as if no breaking place had come between. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the tune, and not be dismayed at the "rests." They are not to be slurred over, not to be omitted, not to destroy the melody, not to change the keynote. If we look up, God Himself will beat the time for us. With the eye on Him, we shall strike the next note full and clear. If we sadly say to ourselves, "There is no music in a 'rest,'" let us not forget "there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!

In fierce storms," said an old seaman, "we must do one thing; there is only one way: we must put the ship in a certain position and keep her there." This, Christian, is what you must do. Sometimes, like Paul, you can see neither sun nor stars, and no small tempest lies on you; and then you can do but one thing; there is only one way. Reason cannot help you; past experiences give you no light. Even prayer fetches no consolation. Only a single course is left. You must put your soul in one position and keep it there. You must stay upon the Lord; and come what may--winds, waves, cross-seas, thunder, lightning, frowning rocks, roaring breakers--no matter what, you must lash yourself to the helm, and hold fast your confidence in God's faithfulness, His covenant engagement, His everlasting love in Christ Jesus.

God does not give us overcoming life, God gives us life as we overcome. There is evolution of thought; mind and body. There is progression of the soul. We humans engage in activities because we are pursuing the elusive perfection, because there is disequilibrium caused by a difference between what we are and what we want to be. We are coming to a new creation in Christ. This is why there is still a war in heaven.. ie..Revelations.. This is why we have free will and yet God's will is eternal.. This is why the promises of God are reserved for the coming Kingdom.. This is why you must fight the good fight of faith and works.. And this is why there are evil spirits to fight against.. And this is why the Angels fight along with you..

Evil never surrenders its hold without a sore fight. We never pass into any spiritual inheritance through the delightful exercises of a picnic, but always through the grim contentions of the battle field. It is so in the secret realm of the soul. Every faculty which wins its spiritual freedom does so at the price of blood. Apollyon is not put to flight by a courteous request; he straddles across the full breadth of the way, and our progress has to be registered in blood and tears. This we must remember or we shall add to all the other burdens of life the gall of misinterpretation. We are not "born again" into soft and protected nurseries, but in the open country where we suck strength from the very terror of the tempest. "We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." Often God seems to place His children in positions of profound difficulty, leading them into a wedge from which there is no escape; contriving a situation which no human judgment would have permitted, had it been previously consulted. The very cloud conducts them thither. You may be thus involved at this very hour. It does seem perplexing and very serious to the last degree, but it is perfectly right. The issue will more than justify Him who has brought you hither. It is a platform for the display of His almighty grace and power. S/He will not only deliver you; but in doing so, He will give you a lesson that you will never forget, and to which, in many a psalm and song, in after days, you will revert. You will never be able to thank God enough for having done just as He has. The problem of getting great things from God is being able to hold on for the last half hour.

You must strive to enter communion, in communion you will find rest and peace.. In communion we experience timeless bliss.. Perhaps we cannot earn God/dess approval by merit. What we can do is accept God/dess unconditional love which has been revealed through Jesus Christ, and move toward it. Difficulty is the very atmosphere of miracle--it is miracle in its first stage. If it is to be a great miracle, the condition is not difficulty but impossibility.
 The simple truth is that you cannot receive the promises until you have entirely let them go, this is a cruelty to reveal a kindness, remember, it is not personal, it is elemental.


Do Not Yield to Discouragement "They looked…and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud" (Exod. 16:10). Get into the habit of looking for the silver lining of the cloud and when you have found it, continue to look at it, rather than at the leaden gray in the middle. Do not yield to discouragement no matter how sorely pressed or beset you may be. A discouraged soul is helpless. He can neither resist the wiles of the enemy himself, while in this state, nor can he prevail in prayer for others. Flee from every symptom of this deadly foe as you would flee from a viper. And be not slow in turning your back on it, unless you want to bite the dust in bitter defeat.

If, when faced with the bad, when told everything is futile, you can still look up and end the conversation with the phrase... "Yeah...BUT…" Then you still have hope... Hope is such a marvelous thing. It bends, it twists, it sometimes hides, but rarely does it break... It sustains us when nothing else can... It gives us reason to continue and courage to move ahead, when we tell ourselves we'd rather give in... Hope puts a smile on our face when the heart cannot manage...Hope puts our feet on the path when our eyes cannot see it...Hope moves us to act when our souls are confused of the direction.... Hope is a wonderful thing, something to be cherished and nurtured, and something that will refresh us in return... And it can be found in each of us, and it can bring light into the darkest of places...Never lose hope...

Search out God's promises and say aloud of each one: "This promise is mine."

There are times when things look very dark to me--so dark that I have to wait even for hope. It is bad enough to wait in hope. A long-deferred fulfillment carries its own pain, but to wait for hope, to see no glimmer of a prospect and yet refuse to despair; to have nothing but night before the casement and yet to keep the casement open for possible stars; to have a vacant place in my heart and yet to allow that place to be filled by no inferior presence--that is the grandest patience in the universe. It is Job in the tempest; it is Abraham on the road to Moriah; it is Moses in the desert of Midian; it is the Son of man in the Garden of Gethsemane. There is no patience so hard as that which endures, "as seeing him who is invisible"; it is the waiting for hope.

Thou hast made waiting beautiful; Thou has made patience divine. Thou hast taught us that the Father's will may be received just because it is His will. Thou hast revealed to us that a soul may see nothing but sorrow in the cup and yet may refuse to let it go, convinced that the eye of the Father sees further than its own.

Perhaps we need to inquire once more just what our deeper objectives are. Each of us would like to live at peace themselves and others. We would like to be assured that the grace of God can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. It is most often character defects based upon shortsighted or unworthy desires that are the obstacles that block our path toward these objectives. Perhaps we may now clearly see that we have been making unreasonable demands upon ourselves, upon others, and upon God. The chief activator of our defects has been self centered fear; primarily fear that we would lose something we already possessed, or would fail to get something we demanded. However; if we live upon a basis of unsatisfied demands we will be in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Thanksgiving and prayer is the way out of bondage to these fearful unsatisfied desires.

The 'way' is not about trying to find and ideal situation and state of mind that is separate from the turmoil of our everyday lives. The journey of awakening and re-birth into the kingdom, begins with accepting and appreciating who and where we are right now, with all our fear, our anger, our anxiety and confusion. Instead of struggling and trying to escape our present situation, we need to use our conflicted emotions and adverse circumstances as stepping stones to simplicity, wisdom and compassion. By beginning to accept our lives and ourselves unconditionally on life's own terms, we awaken the heart; and thereby discover clarity, insight, compassion and communion, which in turn extends to all beings who suffer just as we do.

It is up to you; There are two paths you can travel, one leading to communion with the Spirit of God, the other away from God into separation from God.. There is a body of Christ which is the family of the beloved. In a like fashion the Bride is body of Christ being the Church; The two are one.

If we are to understand the heart, the character, the holiness, the righteousness, and the will of God, Jesus claims that we must look to him. He embodies and completes what the Law had as its goal. He didn't come to offer some cheapened form of grace (cf. Jude 4 & 2 Tim. 3:2-5). Instead, God wants us to look to Jesus and see what he intended in his Law -- he wanted to benefit us with his righteousness and bring us closer to him!

It is sometimes very difficult not to be offended in Jesus Christ. The offenses may be circumstantial. I find myself in a prison-house--a narrow sphere, a sick chamber, an unpopular position--when I had hoped for wide opportunities. Yes, but He knows what is best for me. My environment is of His determining. He means it to intensify my faith, to draw me into nearer communion with Himself, to ripen my power. In the dungeon my soul should prosper.

The offense may be mental. I am haunted by perplexities, questions, which I cannot solve. I had hoped that, when I gave myself to Him, my sky would always be clear; but often it is overspread by mist and cloud. Yet let me believe that, if difficulties remain, it is that I may learn to trust Him all the more implicitly--to trust and not be afraid. Yes, and by my intellectual conflicts, I am trained to be a tutor to other storm-driven men.

The offense may be spiritual. I had fancied that within His fold I should never feel the biting winds of temptation; but it is best as it is. His grace is magnified. My own character is matured. His Heaven is sweeter at the close of the day. There I shall look back on the turnings and trials of the way, and shall sing the praises of my Guide. So, let come what will come, His will is welcome; and I shall refuse to be offended in my loving Lord.

There are competing forces and there are degrees of freedom and influence. There are birth pains and there are growing pains. There are struggles of the "principalities and powers". There is God's unchanging order, eternal in the heavens, and there is God's permissive will and changing order in all of nature. The concepts of fate and free will are the ends of a reality that in fact lies between.

Struggle and conflict is neither good nor bad, it just is. Everything that grows experiences conflict. When the deer is born it is through conflict. When the seed first grows, it is through conflict. Conflict precedes clarity. Everything has the seasons of growth. Recognize - acknowledge - forgive and change. All of these things are done through conflict.

What is important is which path you are traveling on. Fate and free will are merely how you define the present. If you have not forgotten your purpose and if you hold to faith you are not lost. Live your life in the present; it is the only place you will find it. Don't forsake your dreams, even if the whole world would rob you of them; for it is you who must build the kingdom of heaven..

"Hear what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge his own elect which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily" (Luke 18:6, 7).

God's seasons are not at your beck. If the first stroke of the flint doth not bring forth the fire, you must strike again. God will hear prayer, but He may not answer it at the time which we in our minds have appointed; He will reveal Himself to our seeking hearts, but not just when and where we have settled in our own expectations. Hence the need of perseverance and importunity in supplication.

In the days of flint and steel and brimstone matches we had to strike and strike again, dozens of times, before we could get a spark to live in the tinder; and we were thankful enough if we succeeded at last.

Shall we not be as persevering and hopeful as to heavenly things? We have more certainty of success in this business than we had with our flint and steel, for we have God's promises at our back.

Never let us despair. God's time for mercy will come; yea, it has come, if our time for believing has arrived. Ask in faith nothing wavering; but never cease from petitioning because the King delays to reply. Strike the steel again. Make the sparks fly and have your tinder ready; you will get a light before long


Prayer, thanksgiving, compassion, and praise must involve our whole being and change our lives in such a way as to bring about a continuous process of spiritual growth. In this way the love of God is allowed to be a vitality expanding our being, and making us capable of approaching God in an unending process of greater growth; and greater joy.

How great are the suffering and meek blessed in this life and the world to come. For suffering has the property of moving you closer to God/dess and also the property of moving God/dess closer to you.

"In waiting, I waited, for the Lord" (Ps. 40:1, ). Waiting is much more difficult than walking. Waiting requires patience, and patience is a rare virtue. It is fine to know that God builds hedges around His people--when the hedge is looked at from the viewpoint of protection. But when the hedge is kept around one until it grows so high that he cannot see over the top, and wonders whether he is ever to get out of the little sphere of influence and service in which he is pent up, it is hard for him sometimes to understand why he may not have a larger environment--hard for him to "brighten the corner" where he is. But God has a purpose in all HIS holdups. "The steps of a good man are ordered of the Lord," reads Psalm 37:23. On the margin of his Bible at this verse George Mueller had a notation, "And the stops also." It is a sad mistake for men to break through God's hedges. It is a vital principle of guidance for a Christian never to move out of the place in which he is sure God has placed him, until the Pillar of Cloud moves. When we learn to wait for our Lord's lead in everything, we shall know the strength that finds its climax in an even, steady walk. Many of us are lacking in the strength we so covet. But God gives full power for every task He appoints. Waiting, holding oneself true to His lead--this is the secret of strength. And anything that falls out of the line of obedience is a waste of time and strength. Watch for His leading. Must life be a failure for one compelled to stand still in enforced inaction and see the great throbbing tides of life go by? No; victory is then to be gotten by standing still, by quiet waiting. It is a thousand times harder to do this than it was in the active days to rush on in the columns of stirring life. It requires a grander heroism to stand and wait and not lose heart and not lose hope, to submit to the will of God, to give up work and honors to others, to be quiet, confident and rejoicing, while the happy, busy multitude go on and away. It is the grandest life "having done all, to stand."

The finest china in the world is burned at least three times, some of it more than three times. Dresden china is always burned three times. Why does it go through that intense fire? Once ought to be enough; twice ought to be enough. No, three times are necessary to burn that china so that the gold and the crimson are brought out more beautiful and then fastened there to stay. We are fashioned after the same principle in human life. Our trials are burned into us once, twice, thrice; and by God's grace these beautiful colors are there and they are there to stay forever

The question of good and evil is not about morality, rather, it is about going in or going out. God/dess is in Heaven and Heaven is inside you. We are all in communion on some level, and when one suffers we all suffer. There is such a thing as a collective subconscious and also a conscious collective….

There are certain times in our lives when a voice whispers to us. The voice doesn't always talk. Usually we hear it best when we are sick an tired of being sick and tired. Inside of every person is the knowledge that a Supreme Being exists. Sometimes a restlessness occurs and it makes me feel I need to be doing something or I need to be going somewhere or maybe I start wondering who am I? Often when this happens, I feel lost. Inside of everyone is the natural, built-in desire to be seeking a relationship with the Creator. No one can force us to make this journey. We must make this journey because we want to. This journey is not on the outside. The path is inside of ourselves. It is inside that we must begin our search.

When we are in harmony and experience real magic when we flow with the creative force. This is achieved by going within. It shows up in our outside world as coincidence and archetype. Because we are all in communion, or part of the metaphysical body of Christ, we all have a common devil, which is also inside. The devils influence is either us going without or the outside distracting us from going within, however, we must go in to kick the devil out of ourselves, both individually and collectively. I can give up holding on to any shame or guilt about the past and quit struggling with the ways of the world and peoples resistance by recognizing that I have been going the wrong direction, Perhaps we have been going without instead of within, If you do not go within you will go without! This also explains why the good suffer and the wicked do not appear to. Because it is really God/dess kindness that is driving me and you to go within. If separation from God/dess is evil and God/dess is within, then it is obvious why things are the way they are without. As they say, the world belongs to the devil.. or more specifically to the ways of wicked men. And although they appear to have the worlds good.. they do not have themselves or God/dess. We must be detached from outward things and attached inwardly to the Lord and Lady alone in order to see Their wonders. The issue of good and evil presented as a philosophical question just confuses things by presenting a duality. God is good , God is within, introspection in light of your best truth is the key to going within further to deeper truth.. The further we go in to God/dess the more and more the devil ultimately becomes a phantom, only the shadow of God; while God/dess becomes more and more real. We really do move from one reality to the other. You can see God/dess in the natural world, but that is best seen when clear insight is achieved.

The question often comes, "Why didn't He help me sooner?" It is not His order. He must first adjust you to the trouble and cause you to learn your lesson from it. His promise is, "I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him." He must be with you in the trouble first all day and all night. Then He will take you out of it. This will not come till you have stopped being restless and fretful about it and become calm and quiet. Then He will say, "It is enough." God uses trouble to teach His children precious lessons. They are intended to educate us. When their good work is done, a glorious recompense will come to us through them. There is a sweet joy and a real value in them. He does not regard them as difficulties but as opportunities.

One of the names of the enemy is the Accuser. It is his doing, when we have sought God's guidance and been as obedient as we knew how, and then remain in an agony of doubt as to whether God did guide, whether we really did obey. There is no end to the "proofs" the Accuser can present to sow doubt in our minds. "Hath God said?" (Gn 3:1 AV) was the first seed he sowed in the mind of Eve, and he has had a great deal of practice at that kind of planting ever since. It is to be expected that every decision made with the desire to be obedient to God will be attacked. Spread your doubts before the Lord. Pray for correction of any wrong in thinking or doing and for his word of assurance as to the action you must take. If there is nothing else required of you at this moment, leave it at that. Trust God. Put the whole weight of your doubts and cares on Him--that will foil the Accuser. "It is God who pronounces our acquittal....It is Christ who pleads...our cause" (Rom 8:33,34 EB).

The accuser lies within each person. The Gnostics call it our matter while our spirit, our energy, is pure, God. The truth is that Christ showed us that the Accuser lies within, not without. He pointed out hypocrisy in many of its forms - even within His own gang. He called Peter evil when he tried to talk Jesus into not doing what He knew was the Will of the Divine. But when you have pure Faith in your own understanding of the Divine within and without, you can turn off the accuser in your own mind. So, while it is explained duolistically in the religion of Babylon, it comes together in the Gospels. It brings us to the existentialistic chioce whether we believe in the Divine within and listen to it regularly or if you are going to listen to the doubts that seep into Faith from external force then we are putting the physical, the world which we see, above God, the Divine Within. It is then that we begin to learn to see the True Divine Without. So it does move beyond the simplicity of the Zoarastrian Mythology that worked its way into Judaic Teachings after they returned from exile in the Persian Territories where the Zoastrian Traditions were Sacred. Christ brought us back to the Abramistic understanding of the Divine. Nothing ever detoured him from his Vision of the Divine..

Mar 4:26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;

Mar 4:27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

Mar 4:28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

Mar 4:29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

Mar 4:30 And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?

Mar 4:31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:

Mar 4:32 But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.

Mar 4:33 And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.

Character is revealed by depth of soul; it is not a property of shallow superficial people. Jesus is the one who was esteemed the least and yet became the first.

Mark 12;10 And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:

The parable of the first shall be last and the last, first,

Luke 13;30 And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.

and also the parable of The ten talents

Matthew 25;28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents. 29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

..show that it is those who bear with God/dess patience who shall be rewarded. This is part of the atonement. The at-one-ment.

For though God/dess gives people space for repentance at the expense of those who suffered wrong against themselves. All shall be repaid in full at the expense of those who are guilty of these sins. In the here-after they shall owe their allegiance to those who are now esteemed least, they shall be last. The poor and meek will be truly blessed in time, they shall be first. However, we should not become vain because we all owe a debt to someone and most especially to the saints. Also, it is not God/dess will that you suffer overmuch, but that you recieve peace and joy in this world as well as the salvation of your souls in the next.

We will be set Free Through Suffering "Thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress" (Ps. 4:1). This is one of the grandest testimonies ever given by man to the moral government of God. It is not a man's thanksgiving that he has been set free from suffering. It is a thanksgiving that he has been set free through suffering: "Thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress." He declares the sorrows of life to have been themselves the source of life's enlargement. And have not you and I a thousand times felt this to be true? It is written of Joseph in the dungeon that "the iron entered into his soul." We all feel that what Joseph needed for his soul was just the iron. He had seen only the glitter of the gold. He had been rejoicing in youthful dreams; and dreaming hardens the heart. He who sheds tears over a romance will not be most apt to help reality; real sorrow will be too unpoetic for him. We need the iron to enlarge our nature. The gold is but a vision; the iron is an experience. The chain which unites me to humanity must be an iron chain. That touch of nature which makes the world akin is not joy, but sorrow; gold is partial, but iron is universal. My soul, if thou wouldst be enlarged into human sympathy, thou must be narrowed into limits of human suffering. Joseph's dungeon is the road to Joseph's throne. Thou canst not lift the iron load of thy brother if the iron hath not entered into thee. It is thy limit that is thine enlargement. It is the shadows of thy life that are the real fulfillment of thy dreams of glory. Murmur not at the shadows; they are better revelations than thy dreams. Say not that the shades of the prison-house have fettered thee; thy fetters are wings--wings of flight into the bosom of humanity. The door of thy prison-house is a door into the heart of the universe. God has enlarged thee by the binding of sorrow's chain. If Joseph had not been Egypt's prisoner, he had never been Egypt's governor. The iron chain about his feet ushered in the golden chain about his neck.

Here our experience of God is a work in progress, we need to seek a better God continually. The conditions of life and are not punishments or rewards for the wicked or righteous. Wickedness is its own punishment and righteousness is its own reward. Life, pleasant and/or unpleasant, is simply the experience that allows us to find that out. God is all loving and all powerful over there somewhere in eternity. However, we can let God's light shine through us here now.

When you are doubtful as to your course, submit your judgment absolutely to the Spirit of God, and ask Him to shut against you every door but the right one…Meanwhile keep on as you are, and consider the absence of indication to be the indication of God's will that you are on His track…As you go down the long corridor, you will find that He has preceded you, and locked many doors which you would fain have entered; but be sure that beyond these there is one which He has left unlocked. Open it and enter, and you will find yourself face to face with a bend of the river of opportunity, broader and deeper than anything you had dared to imagine in your sunniest dreams. Launch forth upon it; it conducts to the open sea. God guides us, often by circumstances. At one moment the way may seem utterly blocked; and then shortly afterward some trivial incident occurs, which might not seem much to others, but which to the keen eye of faith speaks volumes. Sometimes these things are repeated in various ways, in answer to prayer. They are not haphazard results of chance, but the opening up of circumstances in the direction in which we would walk. And they begin to multiply as we advance toward our goal, just as the lights do as we near a populous town, when driving through the land by night.

No one can explain life's tragedies. That is just the way things are. Our task as agents of the divine is to transform our world, to play the game of life with the hand we are dealt and to make whatever we can of our circumstances. Christianity does not free us from pain or evil, but it does give us the ability to transform them so that life becomes full to the limits available to that life and therefore a blessing to those who are touched by that life.

The most deeply taught Christians are generally those who have been brought into the searching fires of deep soul-anguish. If you have been praying to know more of Christ, do not be surprised if He takes you aside into a desert place, or leads you into a furnace of pain."

God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God. Affliction does not hit the saint by chance, but by direction. God does not draw His bow at a venture. Every one of His arrows goes upon a special errand and touches no breast but his against whom it is sent. It is not only the grace, but the glory of a believer when we can stand and take affliction quietly.

So what is the Devil? Human sacrifice and ritual rape were still practiced up to and in the time of Christ. It is an ancient curse that haunts the human race. It's source is demon worship and murder. We have a common enemy that feeds off our fear; It is the parasite of the seven deadly sins. It is a debt of blood owed by the shedding of innocent blood. It is rape and preditory sex. The original sin of choosing to sacrifice others instead of loving and giving mercy. It is all the human sacrifices demanded by our fathers. It is a debt of blood not paid. It is the mythic dragon which eats virgins. It is corruption in the priesthood. This shed blood is imprinted into the collective unconscious and in the rocks as well. We do not know much about the devil, but people have experienced the haunting. We excite ourselves with it on Halloween. This spirit is set on death and destruction. It has one goal, consuming all. Christ defeated this curse and showed the way for others to defeat it as well. It is by ending the sacrifice. By choosing to be sacrificed instead of sacrificing others.. One may even view the major part of the Bible as being the story of ending the sacrifice. First by sacrificing lambs instead of children and then by stopping Abraham's sacrifice of Issac, and ultimately by God/dess giving Her son.. not to be sacrificed but to end the sacrifice once and for all. Christ foresaw his victory though a vision of the dragon being cast out of heaven The sacrifice still continues though and as long as it does, we will all suffer from the common curse of our fathers sins, generation after generation. The firey trial that righteous enter into is the sacrificial fire of changing karma into dharma; the fire of justice forge the chains of vengence but if you trust in the Lord with all your heart he will carry you through and set you free. When the sacrifice of others ends, so will our haunting. Once fear is cast out, understanding and love will reign. Then there will be a great wedding.

The war in heaven occurs at the END of the Bible and at the end of the age.. the stars cast down are literaly meteor showers..

The Kabbala teaches that we live our lives in four different worlds. The worlds are nested, each world contained in a higher world. Olam HaAsiya, the World of Action. Olam HaYitzira, the World of Formation. Olam HaBeriya, the World of Creation. Olam HaAtzilut, The World of Emanation. The highest world we can reach while still living in this material world is Olam HaAtzilut, the World of Emanation. The soul on this level of connection is called chaya, literally “life.” This is the world beyond the physical, a world where we feel such a deep and powerful connection to our beloved that it is as if our souls are connected. We have left the limitation of our bodies and encountered one another on a higher spiritual plane. Our ego has disappeared What we do in each world affects the higher world. Our soul, which goes by various names, exists in all four worlds. Let us climb through the four worlds, look at four levels of our soul, and ask the question, what does it mean to love in each of these four worlds?

It is the nature of the Divine to attract those who raise their eyes upward, for due to grace’s infinite beauty our desire for God is never in conclusion. Enlightenment is to realize that human perfection consists precisely in this constant growth within the Holy Spirit; and to eat our bread with gladness and simplicity of heart. In time we come to the understanding that just as the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, the whole universe is the temple of God, and God is working to bring us and the whole universe to Christ. We go to God together with this whole wonderful natural creation. God’s natural world is not a hindrance, but is rather a ministry or stewardship through which we can respond to God. And it is in responding to God, and in listening to the call and accepting it, that we can move from image to likeness.

With prayer and good intentions, we make our lives sacred and so come to balance. Through prayer we can make spiritual changes that are permanent.

Nothing that is not God's will can come into the life of one who trusts and obeys God. This fact is enough to make our life one of ceaseless thanksgiving and joy. For "God's will is the one hopeful, glad, and glorious thing in the world"; and it is working in the omnipotence for us all the time, with nothing to prevent it if we are surrendered and believing. Is it not a glorious thing to know that, no difference how unjust a thing may be, or how absolutely it may seem to be from Satan, by the time it reaches us it is God's will for us, and will work for good to us? For all things work together for good to us who love God. And even of the betrayal, Christ said, "The cup which my Father gave me, shall I not drink it?" We live charmed lives if we are living in the center of God's will. All the attacks that Satan, through others' sin, can hurl against us are not only powerless to harm us, but are turned into blessings on the way!

The whole creation is in travail of the birth of the spiritual children of God.

Mercy has the quality of giving more then is earned by merit. And our God/dess has infinite mercy. Ultimately God/dess is the process of the culmination of eternl life in the universe, ie..

"In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world"

Straining, driving effort does not accomplish the work God gives man to do. Only God Himself, who always works without strain, and who never overworks, can do the work that He assigns to His children. When they restfully trust Him to do it, it will be well done and completely done. The way to let Him do His work through us is to partake of Christ so fully, by faith, that He more than fills our life. A man who had learned this secret once said: "I came to Jesus and I drank, and I do not think that I shall ever be thirsty again. I have taken for my motto, 'Not overwork, but overflow'; and already it has made all the difference in my life." There is no effort in overflow. It is quietly irresistible. It is the normal life of omnipotent and ceaseless accomplishment into which Christ invites us today and always.

 

There are many things that block us from wisdom such as selfishness, secrets, hate, anger, jealousy and judgments. This is trying to get the God/dess to come through the back door.  Another thing that can block us from wisdom is trying too hard or wishing something would happen. Wishing implies doubt and worry, trying implies control and grasping. This is trying to get God/dess to come through the front door. We need to let go of these things. God/dess  only comes through the side door. We need to abandon ourselves to the Creator. As soon as we surrender everything, the side door opens and the wisdom starts to flow.

 

One can be so overwhelmed by the tragedies that surround us that it makes life seem joyless and loveless. For a decade I use to believe that life was too harsh to endure, that life held no meaning, no purpose, and that very belief had governed my whole life with severe depression. It is here in my life time, God could have said, "my people perish from lack of knowledge".

 

 We guided ourselves with superstitions and speculates then projected onto God what we believed. We fended for ourselves through rivalry, in which we allowed the meanest to rule over us, thus came scarcity and hierarchies with the belief some are better than others, thus entitled to be more rewarded. We protected ourselves through the belief  kill'em before they kill us, All the ways of the world, with its wars, poverties, social injustices, illnesses, crimes, sorrows, are but a consequence to what we believe, for it is done onto us in accordance to what we believe. I have come to learn through the awakening by the Holy Spirit, that God is not a punishing God, that God did not create life for us to suffer, and that God did not give us these cancers and accidents, rather these are a consequence for believing as a collective world, that although we believe in God we still believe we are separate from God, thus forced to guide, fend, protect ourselves from the jungle and snakes.

 

 For what we have believed, the world over, is that we are separate from God who is all there is, for that is what a true God is, God is everything, therefore there can not be another true God.

 

Believing God is outside our world,  Rendered God outside our personal lives. Thus, all sorrows, hardships, illnesses, accidents are the consequence of that belief. Believing God is outside our personal lives gave us fear, hate, anger, hopeless, despair, and that in turn, takes away our will to live in such a loveless world. However, God does not always show His/Her personal side. We cannot expect a life free of hardship, or our ego to survive death by our own request.

 

Yet, believe in the return of Jesus, when the world will be restored to the psychic Oneness of God. That is each person will experience for his/herself, the true meaning and purpose of life and of their own personal life, and even all our loved ones that have passed to the other side, shall also partake in this glorious return to our true and former self which is a oneness of God. What is that true meaning and purpose but to be the best you can be, being happy being yourself which is rooted in God.

 

Rooted in God, means  we understand that God is with us always to love us, to guide us, to protect us, to provide for us. That only God has the answers to our questions and the solutions to our problems and that God will never leave nor abandon us no matter what wrong we might have done.

 

 God who is life who is love is all there is, and there is no separation between us and God, no separation between the genders, no separation between us and other life forms, no separation between us and the whole world and whole universe.

 

There will come an answer, and we will all understand, as Jesus will restore us, heal us, re-unite us back to the truth that God who is all there is, who is all of life, is knowable, loveable, always accessible to each of us. That God is our true love for all eternity. That restoration is a new Paradise. Then there will be no more tears but rather everlasting Joy.

 

Then each generation who has ever lived, will know they never lived in vain, but that their own personal struggles had brought the world closer to the return of God's love. Each of us played a role in life's drama of comedy and tragedy, but no one, has ever lived in vain. Each has contributed to the march onwards, to bringing earth to heaven.

 

Thus when we find ourselves surrounded by misery, by the tragedies such as the loss of loved ones, and the insanity of such moments as Nero burning Rome, or the military/industrial betrayal of the world public in the trade center attacks of (911) Sept, 1 2001.  But see with your own heart, the rising of the Son. And know with total certainty, Jesus is in our world, spiritually active and present, and that He has always been, organizing mass movements, such as transforming all of the ancient empires from barbarians into a thriving civilizations that surpassed the old world, and that all modern innovations, education, medicines, technologies even beautiful music are the workings of His/Her Creative Spirit.

 

Jesus will not stop working, even if our beliefs rendered Him invisible,  until we are returned to His protecting arms, his loving embrace,  our eternal home. For that is His eternal promise to restore the world back to His eternal love.

The dreams and events on this earth are mediated by angels and demons; Collectively they were called the Diamons. They are the Angels, both good and bad, the Genies, the Jin, the Spirits. They are vibrations in a psychic sphere. However, we are God/dess children.

Every person has purpose and importance to God. Every person was created from love and for love. So when we are surrounded by overwhelming grief, in prayer let us remember all the darkness shall pass away, and soon a new day will dawn, and we will no longer know suffering any more. Don't let life's tragedies overwhelm you and snuff out your will to live, instead hold his hand and he will lead you out of the darkness of our world into the sunlit realm of his heart.

If ever you find yourself surrounded by the tragedies of living in a world filled with darkness, (the absence of knowing God's Loving presence) look to the horizon having hope to see the rising Son, who will heal our wounded hearts and restore the world back to God's true eternal love. 

Who has not in moments of meditation and prayer caught a glimpse of opening gates? Who has not in the secret place of holy communion felt the rush of some white surging wave of emotion--a foretaste of the joy of the blessed?

The Master had times and places for quiet converse with His disciples, once on the peak of Hermon, but oftener on the sacred slopes of Olivet. Every Christian should have his Olivet. Most of us, especially in the cities and towns, live at high pressure. From early morning until bedtime we are exposed to the whirl. Amid all this maelstrom how little chance for quiet thought, for God's Word, for prayer and heart fellowship!

Daniel needed to have an Olivet in his chamber amid Babylon's roar and idolatries. Peter found his on a housetop in Joppa; and Martin Luther found his in the "upper room" at Wittenberg, which is still held sacred.

If we do not get back to visions, peeps into heaven, consciousness of the higher glory and the larger life, we shall lose our religion; our altar will become a bare stone, unblessed by visitant from Heaven." Here is the world's need today--men who have seen their Lord; and bring back the lost art of meditation

Come close to Him! He may take you today up into the mountain top, for where He took Peter with his blundering, and James and John, those sons of thunder who again and again so utterly misunderstood their Master and His mission, there is no reason why He should not take you. So don't shut yourself out of it and say, "Ah, these wonderful visions and revelations of the Lord are for choice spirits!" They may be for you!

The seven spiritual gifts of waiting: are; 1. patience, 2. a loss of desiring control, 3. living in the present, 4. compassion, 5. gratitude, 6. humility and 7. trust in God. But to look at waiting in this way is to go against the cultural grain. We have been brainwashed to believe that our desires can be fulfilled instantly. The pragmatism of our can-do philosophy exalts action over contemplation. We are convinced that we can fix anything and everything, if we just set our minds to it.

But the problem is that not everything can be salvaged or saved. The more we push against the river, the more we come up against the mystery that will not give way to our egotism.

The Process of miracles involves spiritual conflict. And your greatest weapon is patients..

We like the idea of seeing "waiting" as a spiritual teacher. This is especially important for impatient people who are ill at ease with standing in lines or waiting for some important news. The Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin  advised: "trust in the slow work of God." This was what the Israelites did during their long sojourn in the wilderness and what Christians must do during the Advent season. But it is difficult to stop trying to control things and just relax into the grace of God.

Closely connected with waiting is worry: "The longer we live, the more we believe that worry is an utterly unprofitable and ineffective condition. Yet worry is a pervasive condition — especially when we are waiting for something important, such as  news about a loved one. The truth is, worry never teaches us anything useful. When we worry we disempower ourselves and lessen our trust in God. When we worry, our anxiety mounts as we manipulate everyone around us to make room for our worry and to accommodate our anxiety."

We need to challenges ourselves to combat this nettlesome brand of anxiety by living in the present moment. The spiritual discipline of waiting will produce humility, which leads to love, to honoring others, to living without judgment, and to making honest assessments. Mystical theology is generally divided into three parts, respectively called the purgative, the illuminative, and the unitive life.

Miracles, Tokens, Coincidence, is the effect of a cause(s) in a higher dimension. the mathematics would be those applicable to time travel, from future to past as well as past to future. when you make first contact with the higher plane and the greater mind you move into this other dimension, another world. God/dess is revealed as personal because you recognize your oneness with the greater mind. You have touched the source, and understand the promises. You then become the special child of God. When this happens the egos attention is pointed straight at the individual self, the ego, in relation to all things, And in which your personal god may be mistakenly become your alter ego. It is like being taken by angels to a great height to be able to view your destiny, but then you are set back down on the lowest plane and must begin a journey up to where you desire to go; you must realize you are back on the ground where you were before. When you begin to climb upward, this is the beginning of your ego death and spiritual birth, and in which the pain is not to be taken personally, it comes from elemental things.  Do not be vain, some say the are born of the spirit when really they are just conceived and in embryo. When outside of this womb things become a little more difficult. Like a Baby elephant who tries to follow it's mother through a sand storm in search for the living waters, you may become blinded, if you are not careful you may get turned around and end up following the right path, Her path, but in the wrong direction, which leads to death.

"From personal experience I could give you much information as to what happens in these first mansions. I will only say that you must not imagine there are only a few, but a number of rooms, for souls enter them by many different ways, and always with a good intention. The devil is so angry at this that he keeps legions of evil spirits hidden in each room to stop the progress of Christians, whom, being ignorant of this, he entraps in a thousand ways. He cannot so easily deceive souls which dwell nearer to the King as he can beginners still absorbed in the world, immersed in its pleasures, and eager for its honors and distinctions...  "Those conscious of being in this state must as often as possible have recourse to His Majesty, taking His Blessed Mother and the saints for their advocates to do battle for them, because we creatures possess little strength for self defense. Indeed in every state of life all our help must come from God; may He in His mercy grant it us, Amen!"..

"They resemble a person entering a chamber full of brilliant sunshine, with eyes clogged and half closed with dust. Though the room itself is light, he cannot see because of his self-imposed impediment. In the same way, these fierce and wild beasts blind the eyes of the beginner, so that he sees nothing but them." 

    ..Do not trouble yourselves, my daughters, with cares which do not concern you. You must notice that the struggle with the demons continues through nearly all the mansions of this castle. True, in some of them, the guards, which, as I explained, are the powers of the soul, have strength for the combat, but we must be keenly on the watch against the devil's arts, lest he deceive us in the form of an angel of light. He creeps in gradually, in numberless ways, and does us much harm, though we do not discover it until too late.
. As I said elsewhere, he works like a file, secretly and silently wearing its way: ..  St. Teresa of Avila

 

It is like moving though a hard shell into the soft interior.

The right direction is the one that leads away from focusing on the personal self at this point; without giving away your pearls of personal power and responsibility and becoming a door mat for those who would take advantage of the situation. Do not cast your pearls before swine. Remember that selfishness created the demons in the first place. Seek to be anonymous and do not look for reward. I repeat, If you would save yourself from many wounds, remain anonymous and seek no reward! You are now dealing with spiritual enemies as well as worldly ones, and they often come together, and they themselves often hide their intent. St Teresa rightly calls them one thousand hidden reptiles surrounding the interior castle. You cannot bring heaven to earth. Trying to steal fire from the Gods you'll end up like Prometheus' subject to an irresistible force while chained to an immovable object. You need to move yourself to heaven, by following the Buddha or Christ example. Either way the self is let go of, all is given to the providence of God/dess and you begin to move in the right direction, toward the living waters. Coincidence always comes through the side door, miracles happen and relieve the tension, but not while you are watching, and not how you expect. The magic is real, you can get what you want, but not how you wanted it. Fortunately, God/dess ways and plans seem to always be better then our own, in the long, "sometimes very long" run. When the Divine is putting new wine into bottles, it is moving dreamtime into the everyday world of matter. This acts in the noo sphere similar to dream psychology in the individual. It is about seeking wholeness in the collective unconsciousness of the entire creation, the devil shows up, because fear comes to destroy your fears, no matter how painful this is! Fear and Hope which come tied together, are separated in the fiery crucible of God/dess. This is your journey through the interior castle. The interior castle is the noo sphere, the collective soul, and not heaven. Heaven is in the Seventh Mansion in complete union with God/dess, not in the lower levels, even though they are spiritual in their nature, and filled with voices. A major problem we encounter is that our learned defense mechanisms of fight and flight do not serve us in our spiritual birth, you must unlearn them, and this is very painful. We must learn new defense mechanisms based on love overcoming evil, at the same time as protecting yourself. A simple rule to help you in this is the realization that there are only two fundamental forces at work, love and fear. Light destroys the darkness. Truth destroys the lie. The problem with relying on divination is that the further from the source of the love of God/dess you are the more unreliable the information becomes. Remember, love casts out fear, and anger does not serve love. When you are close to the source, you are a conduit for the Divine Love, but, may also be unaware that not everyone in the world wants that love light brought into their world, which exposes their shame, and will seek to stop it up by devious means. So then, moving the dream into reality is resisting unbelief with belief and the pain of the mystics transformation and metamorphosis is the necessary energy to effect change through time, moving from the future to the past in the revelation of prophecy or dream oracle. In this respect it is like gold being tried in the fire, it burns, but it also burns away all dross. When we are blinded by our pain, others wounded behavior is an easy scapegoat and an unprofitable place to project our projections upon, which only results in even further frustration. Sometimes part of the necessary change is our own selves saying there must be a different and better way; I will try something else. Other time you must just submit all to God/dess. Do not blame yourself if you cannot comprehend what has been hidden. However, do not be so proud that you refuse to seek the help of those who have gone before you. both male and female. Your trial can be viewed as training, but not like book learning in a classroom, far more like basic training in the army running relays and marching in the cold and rain. Your present separation will lead to a permanent union, and your present suffering will lead to God/dess revealed glory in you. While ye suffer for his sake, rejoice in hope of more abundant glory. For the measure of glory answers the measure of suffering; and much more abundantly.

(  1Pe 4:19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator. )

Sociopaths, Passive-Aggressive and Psychic Vampires are common traits of the same thing.. Long before the popularization of folklore vampires as blood-thirsty villains who sucked life-sustaining blood from their prey, psychic vampires as energy-sucking predators were common. There's strong evidence, in fact, that vampires as consumers of energy were the trailblazers that actually inspired the legendary version of vampires as consumers of blood.

psychic vampirism comes in a variety of unsuspecting guises. We see it all to commonly between individuals as one-on-one vampirism, but feeding on the energies of another person is only one of its many forms. For instance, anyone who exploits a lover, spreads malicious rumors, ruins a reputation, or betrays a trusted friend is a psychic vampire. Sociopaths prefer forms of violence that cannot be easily detected. They are much more likely to steal by swindling or conning than by robbery. They think nothing of lying, cheating and stealing. In extreme cases, sociopaths can be serial rapists and serial killers. Why is it so critical for you to know about sociopaths? Because millions of sociopaths are living among us. Yes, many of them are criminals, locked up in jail. But far more are on the street, hurting people without breaking laws, operating in the gray areas between legal and illegal, or simply eluding the authorities. They can appear to be normal, but they pose a tremendous threat to us all.


People with passive-aggressive behaviors show hostility and aggression in passive ways. Their aim is to resist job and social demands. Examples of passive-aggressive behaviors are:

“Forgetting” to do something on purpose
Making a habit of putting off or being late with social and/or job tasks
Failing to do one’s share of the work or doing sub-standard work on purpose
Having a constant negative attitude
Criticizing authority figures, not openly, but in subtle ways

The goal of passive-aggressive behavior is to frustrate the wishes of others and make others angry. This anger is most often directed at bosses, roommates, spouses, parents, teachers, or anyone who has power or authority. But, sometimes, people are not aware that their behavior is purposeful.

What leads to passive-aggressive behavior? Some researchers think that these behaviors stem from certain childhood experiences. They believe that parents who were aggressive and exercised complete control over their child did not let the child express himself or herself. This may have pushed the child into adopting passive-aggressive behavior patterns to cope. If, for example, the child openly disagreed with the parent and was punished for doing so, the child learned to substitute passive resistance for active resistance.

A person who shows a lot of passive-aggressive behavior can have a Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder. A person with this disorder:

Is irritable, defensive, and resentful
Lacks self-confidence
Has a hard time getting pleasure from relationships with others
Feels others are making unreasonable demands on him or her, but thinks he or she is doing a better job than what they are given credit for
Blames others for his or her problems
Is not aware that his or her self-defeating behaviors are part of their personality

 

Let's face it--we've probably all fallen prey to a psychic vampire, possibly without even knowing it. It may have been a chance encounter with an energy predator that left us temporarily exhausted, or possibly along-term vampire interaction with serious wear-and-tear effects on the mind and body.

Psychic vampirism is alive and flourishing in the world today. As consumers of energy rather than blood, vampires of the psychic kind exist in many guises but with one common trait--their own inadequate energy system compels them to tap into and feed upon the energies of unsuspecting host victims. The immediate results of such a one-on-one vampire encounter are anew but temporary surge of energy for the psychic vampire and a serious loss of mental and physical energy for the unsuspecting prey. If you suddenly feel emotionally or mentally depleted, you may be under attack by a psychic vampire. The unfortunate effects of prolonged energy loss are damage to the energy system itself and in some instances, serious illness.

Although it is impossible to change another person, we can change how we respond and react to people and situations. Passives have learned how to avoid confrontation at any cost.
To deal successfully with a passive, you must teach them by modeling assertive behavior on how to solve problems, sort out options, share concerns, and tell the truth about what is really happening. Anyone who has ever been involved with teaching, coaching, and mentoring knows that these jobs require tact and patience. All you can do is to give passive people in your life permission to make a decision and then praise them for their participation.
It is important that we take the time to carefully word our needs so the passive understands that (a) there are options, and we really need them to be honest with us, (b) they can trust us and safely share those honest feelings, and (c) if they really want to avoid a hassle, it would be better to resolve the issue now than to deal with it later. Nice as it may seem now, the relationship may not survive for two reasons.
A passive generally becomes very tiring and very frustrating to be around. It is hard to have respect for someone who rarely has an opinion or idea of their own. Also be aware that passives have a way of turning on you after years of giving up and giving in. They may either become aggressive and use some of the same techniques that always worked on them, or they will find a way to get even - not overtly, but secretly and deviously.
Getting someone to trust us and learning to trust someone who has misled, exaggerated or lied to us takes patience and time. The first thing that must be done in order to develop trust with a passive is to look within yourself. We may not be aware of our influences because it is so easy to manipulate passives. If we want the passives in our life to shape up, we must commit to being assertive with them.
 

The name psychic vampires immediately reveal our attitude toward people who take energy. Not as obvious, it also reveals our attitudes toward the people from whom they take. A vampire is a taker who drains its victims.

To help and heal ourselves and each other, we must first recognize the person who is taking energy from another person can only do so if the person they are taking from agrees to it on some level. Freedom comes when we stop projecting our fear of powerlessness onto others, blaming them and victimizing ourselves.

Permission to give or take does not need to be granted on a conscious individualized basis. It comes from an underlying attitude about giving and taking.

Our experiences in life all include give and take in varying degrees and mirror back to us where we are on the spectrum selfishness and selflessness.

Selfishness and self-centeredness are generally viewed as undesirable traits. Selflessness is usually viewed positively. Both require balancing.

Those who give selflessly without balance can become doormats or martyrs or may "kill with kindness". They may find it difficult to say "No." Those who take without thought are often very kind people who have learned inappropriate ways to get energy. They may also be obviously selfish and thoughtless of others. These are examples of opposite ends of the spectrum. Most of us sit somewhere closer to the middle and as with all living things our abilities and balance fluctuate.

The giver's attitude of willingness creates an opening that enables a taker to connect to the giver. Connecting to each other, although generally unseen, literally creates a physical connection that we just do not see with the naked eye. The Hunas have spoken about these connecting "cords" for centuries.

If you suspect you are a giver - you must become clear you play a role in the experience and you are no longer willing to do so. Say firmly and clearly aloud, "No one else can have my energy. My need to give is fulfilled through healthy means."

Love is always the right answer. Through love Jesus conquered the great divide between this world and the next. Remove the dualism between heaven and earth, did you forget you were one with God? Beyond the veil of time and cause and effect, the higher mind can still be found, however, now is seen to keep some of the wild nature like as to the high rugged mountains and deep jungle valleys and streams of the lower creation we are familiar with. All these things happen in the individual, the collective, the noo sphere, angels and demons, and the great beyond. As above so below. It is a search for wholeness, where wish fulfillment becomes true and the reality, but you must fight your dragons first.

Entropy works on a noo sphere level also.. the more organization you bring to one area of the collective psyche.. the more disorder is increased in another area and becomes psychic resistance in your life from the noo sphere.

As you experience the movement of energy, you know that all energy of consciousness moves from the inner realm into manifestation, which is the same as looking inward to bring forth. This is no secret. It is no mystery. It is simply the way it is. As this becomes the focus of understanding, there is then the moment by moment, precept by precept movement of that understanding into every moment of conscious existence. There is always the movement of energy for how could creation be sustained without the energy of consciousness continually and eternally moving from the inner realm to the outer realm. So it is no mystery. It is simply the way it is. As a conscious entity, as a conscious element of this process of creation, it is also no mystery that within the stream of consciousness flowing from the inner realm is all the energy, all the wisdom, all the experience, all the collected and eternal truth of who you are as a ray of that consciousness of the energy of creation. That is who you are as a soul. Listen carefully, feel intensely, receive openly, and act unhesitatingly on that which is offered from within. Open the inner ear and listen carefully to that which is presented. It may be in the form of an impulse. It may be in the form of an intuitive realization. It may be in the form of interpreted words that present a certain answer or certain guidance that then moves the consciousness of the energy of creation in and through who you are as a soul into manifestation. It is not a mystery. It is simply the way it is. You are one with and connected with this inner realm of infinite energy of creation. Accept and know this to be so and be aware of the flow of this energy. Open the inner ear. Listen intently and all that is needed; all that is part of the current experience, will become evident. The guidance will be specific and unerringly true for that guidance is the flow of the truth of who you are as a soul being moved into manifestation. It is not a mystery. That's just the way it is. All is one. All is connected.

We are the creation becoming the creator.. be creative.. since we are one with the creator this means we created everything.. we just are unaware of it.. this explains why we suffer and each have a cross.. because we are creating the future.. in the midst of the dragon of alchemy, tranformation, chaos and time.. and God/dess, of which we are a part, creates the past from the future.. that is to say, there is a two way flow of time because God/dess exists outside of time as we know it.

 

Which brings us back to the beginning of this page where we must make distinctions about our definitions of which reference of God we are speaking about!

"Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many." Lao Tzu

"The Tao that can be followed is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name." Tao Te Ching

Be grateful for it all, the good times and the bad, the right turns and the “wrong”. Gratitude is the key, and has a power like magic waters to wash over even the most painful of experiences and losses to reveal life’s mysterious and often hidden blessings. Without gratitude, many things might be missed along the way.
 

 Only the Love of God will will lift you high above all the dangers of this world into a state of mind that has perfect peace and safety. Therefore, Put all your faith into the Love of God. For God made you only to give and receive love with you. Through the Love of God, you can resolve all difficulties. Therefore, let no thought of hate nor foolish thought of fear enter to disturb your mind. For Heaven is within, and only with a mind and a heart filled with love, are you brought into the resting place of Heaven within, where Your Heavenly Father and Mother desired you to be sustained by the Love of God/dess. As Believers, we are sustained and transformed by the Love of God.

It is not so much that we experience evil to know the good

as much as it is that we experience separateness and emptiness so that we may truly know unity and  fullness.

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The way of the cross is a complete reversal. It means that the worst thing in your life, your cross, turns into the best thing that ever happened to you, by forcing you into surrender, into “death,” forcing you to become as nothing, to become as God – because God, too, is no-thing.


At this time, as far as the unconscious majority of humans are concerned, the way of the cross is still the only way. They will only awaken through further suffering, and enlightenment as a collective phenomenon will be predictably preceded by vast upheavals. This process reflects the workings of certain universal laws that govern the growth of consciousness and thus was foreseen by some seers.


It is described, among other places, in the Book of Revelation or Apocalypse, though cloaked in obscure and sometimes impenetrable symbology. This suffering is inflicted not by God, but by humans on themselves and on each other, as well as by certain defensive measures that the Earth, which is a living, intelligent organism, is going to take to protect herself from the onslaught of human madness.


However, there are a growing number of humans alive today whose consciousness is sufficiently evolved not to need any more suffering before the realization of enlightenment. You may be one of them.


Enlightenment through suffering – the way of the cross – means to be forced into the kingdom of heaven kicking and screaming. You finally surrender because you can’t stand the pain anymore, but the pain could go on for a long time until this happens. Enlightenment consciously chosen means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and to make the Now the main focus of your life. It means choosing to dwell in the state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.

 

 

How to Protect Yourself from a Psychic Vampire

 

A psychic vampire is someone whose life force is weak from stress or trauma so they unconsciously drain the energy of those around them in order to feel better.



Things You’ll Need:

* A sense of humor
* Patience
* Love


Step 1: Avoid any interaction with people who have been known to drain, depress or irritate you when you are feeling ill, weak, tired or stressed. Only surround yourself with positive people until your energy is strong again.


Step 2: Give yourself permission to say no. Energy vampires will often try to "get something" from you that serves them, whether it's advice, time, money or some kind of deal that makes them happy but doesn't work for you. It's important to stand your ground and say no or you will end up feeling drained and resentful.


Step 3: Set strong boundaries. When working with an energy vampire, you may find you have to cut them off when rambling on about their personal problems or life stories. Have compassion for their situation, but at the same time stop the drama from draining you dry. Saying something like, "thank you for sharing, but I really have to get back to this" will cut the stream of energy they've attached to you and give them no "hook" to keep going on.


Step 4: Wear crystals like hematite, snowflake obsidian and black tourmaline that protect your energy field from negativity and energy vampires.


Step 5: Protect your solar plexus chakra and your heart, where most energy vampires hook into. Wear a protective crystal over your heart and cross your arms over your solar plexus when talking to energy vampires. Charge these chakras with Reiki before and after your interactions.


Step 6: If you have an encounter with a psychic vampire that has left you feeling depressed, angry or irritable ask yourself, "what is in me that feels this is serving me somehow? What am I trying to learn from this?" Often, we will find that we need to strengthen our will and personal power, set stronger boundaries, balance our schedule, receive more self-care and even detox.






Step 7: Take a salt bath or use a salt scrub in the shower. It is important to cleanse your body and energy field after exposure from an energy vampire so you cleanse yourself from any feelings that are not loving and positive (this includes towards them).


Step 8: Ask yourself how you can help them. Sometimes saying no helps them. Sometimes ending relationships is needed to preserve your health and well-being. Sometimes referring toxic clients elsewhere to someone who is less sensitive to energy vampires is necessary. You can also speak your truth and tell them you can feel their energy field is weak and refer them to an acupuncturist, Reiki therapist or other energy specialist who can help strengthen their life force.


Step 9: Call on the Archangel Michael to place your aura in a strong blue light that serves as a barrier that will transmute any energy that is not positive that comes in your field.


Step 10: You can use your visualization to create a psychic shield around you. It can look like an actual metal shield, or a shield of mirrors sending unwanted energy back to the sender. You can also ask a spirit animal guide to protect you.


Step 11: Strengthen your own light with aura and chakra healing. Become a Reiki healer and learn how to detect weaknesses in your field that make you more vulnerable to psychic vampires.


Step 12: Remember, what hooks psychic vampires to you is your willingness to allow them take your time and energy. As soon as you feel yourself becoming uncomfortable in any way remind yourself that you deserve to feel joyful and release the connection to the person immediately by literally losing eye contact and disengaging in conversation.


Step 13: Keep your sense of humor and remain in a state of gratitude and compassion. Often people who are psychic vampires have experienced major stress and trauma and they don't even realize they are draining you and would feel terrible knowing they have! Protect yourself, but also have compassion.
Be grateful that you are aware and have the tools to strengthen your energy!


 

*DID GOD CREATE EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS?* **
The professor of a university once challenged his students with this question.
'Did God create everything that exists?'
A student answered bravely, 'Yes, He did'.
The professor then asked, 'If God created everything, then He created evil.
Since evil exists (as noticed by our own actions), so God is evil.
The student could not respond to that statement causing the professor
to conclude that he had 'proved' that the belief in God was a fairy tale,
and therefore worthless. Another student raised his hand and asked the professor,
'May I pose a question?' 'Of course', answered the professor.
The young student stood up and asked, 'Professor does cold exist?'
The professor answered, 'What kind of question is that? Of course cold exists...
haven't you ever been cold?' The young student answered, 'In fact sir,
cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold,
is in fact the absence of heat. Anything is able to be studied as long as it
transmits energy (heat). Absolute Zero is the total absence of heat, but cold
does not exist. What we have done is to create a term to describe how we
feel if we don't have body heat or we are not hot.'
'And, does darkness exist?', he continued. The professor answered, 'Of course'.
This time the student responded, 'Again you're wrong, sir. Darkness does not exist
either. Darkness is in fact simply the absence of light. Light can be studied,
darkness can not. Darkness cannot be broken down. A simple ray of light tears
the darkness and illuminates the surface where the light beam finishes. Dark is a
term that we humans have created to describe what happens when there's lack of
light.' Finally, the student asked the professor, 'Sir, does evil exist?'
The professor replied, 'Of course it exists, as I mentioned at the beginning,
we see violations, crimes and violence anywhere in the world, and those
things are evil.' The student responded, 'Sir, evil does not exist. Just as in
the previous cases, evil is a term which man has created to describe the
result of the absence of God's presence in the hearts of man.'
After this, the professor bowed down his head, and did not answer back.
 

 

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white light may be said to be a singularity.. but so is the rainbow which makes up white light.. one is considered absolute while he other is revealed by difference or degree.. the larger reality would include both as distinct and yet one and the same.. so when speaking of God as all things then we are not speaking about the way we as humans perceive our everyday world.. it is ether seen from our perspective in time or God/dess' outside of time.. but not both..

 

Why do we never get an answer
When we’re knocking at the door?
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war.

It’s where we stop and look around us
There is nothing that we need.
In a world of persecution
That is burning in it’s greed.

Why do we never get an answer
When we’re knocking at the door?
Because the truth is hard to swallow
That’s what the wall of love is for.

It’s not the way that you say it
When you do those things to me.
It’s more the way that you mean it
When you tell me what will be.

And when you stop and think about it
You won’t believe it’s true.
That all the love you’ve been giving
Has all been meant for you.

I’m looking for someone to change my life.
I’m looking for a miracle in my life.
And if you could see what it’s done to me
To lose the the love I knew
Could safely lead me through.

Between the silence of the mountains
And the crashing of the sea
There lies a land I once lived in
And she’s waiting there for me.

But in the grey of the morning
My mind becomes confused
Between the dead and the sleeping
And the road that I must choose.

I’m looking for someone to change my life.
I’m looking for a miracle in my life.
And if you could see what it’s done to me
To lose the the love I knew
Could safely lead me to
The land that I once knew.
To learn as we grow old
The secrets of our souls.

It’s not the way that you say it
When you do those things to me.
It’s more the way you really mean it
When you tell me what will be.

Why do we never get an answer
When we’re knocking at the door?
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war.

It’s where we stop and look around us
There is nothing that we need.
In a world of persecution
That is burning in it’s greed.

Why do we never get an answer
When we’re knocking at the door?

 

Moody Blues - Lyrics..  Question

 

How about getting off of these antibiotics
How about stopping eating when I’m filled up
How about them transparent dangling carrots
How about that ever elusive kudo

Thank you india
Thank you terror
Thank you disillusionment
Thank you frailty
Thank you consequence
Thank you thank you silence

How about me not blaming you for everything
How about me enjoying the moment for once
How about how good it feels to finally forgive you
How about grieving it all one at a time

Thank you india
Thank you terror
Thank you disillusionment
Thank you frailty
Thank you consequence
Thank you thank you silence

The moment I let go of it was
The moment I got more than I could handle
The moment I jumped off of it was
The moment I touched down

How about no longer being masochistic
How about remembering your divinity
How about unabashedly bawling your eyes out
How about not equating death with stopping

Thank you india
Thank you providence
Thank you disillusionment
Thank you nothingness
Thank you clarity
Thank you thank you silence

Yeah yeah
Ahh ohhh
Ahhh ho oh
Ahhh ho ohhhhhh
Yeaahhhh yeahh
 

Alanis Morissette - Thank U

Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water - Buddha, Dhammapada v 122
 

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