World of Reggae Music: Roots and Culture

Rastaman

Red, gold, and green flags emblazoned with the Lion of Judah fly above swirling clouds of ganja smoke while pulsing bass and driving reggae riddims flow through sound systems stacked ten-feet high. This edition of the World of Reggae Music Collection is entitled Roots and Culture. This first volume of Roots and Culture features the Rastaman. The Rastaman is an integral part of Caribbean culture and the reggae movement.

Rita Marley introduced Robert Nesta Marley to the foundations of the Rastafarian religion or “way of life.” She had seen the Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie I on his visit to Jamaica and had been struck by the spirit on seeing what she believed to be an incarnation of God, Jah Rastafari. Bob Marley and the Wailers later became a great messenger of the “king’s music.”

Bob Marley and the Wailers, the I-Threes (Rita Marley, Judy Mowatt, and Marcia Griffiths), Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer all professed to the wisdom of Jah in their music. Not only did Marley and the Wailer family play roots and culture reggae, but so did the great rastaman icons Burning Spear, Dennis “Crown Prince” Brown, and Jacob “Killer” Miller. The Rastafarian-inspired bands the Abyssinians, Black Uhuru, Aswad, the Gladiators, the Melodians, the Mighty Diamonds, Steel Pulse, Culture, the Wailing Souls, Third World, Israel Vibration, the Itals, and the Heptones rocked reggae for crowds of thousands of listeners and fired the souls and imaginations of millions of fans.

Not only the great reggae bands played tribute to the roots and culture of the rastaman, but so did the finest singjays from Dillinger, Barrington Levy, Ranking Joe, Sizzla, and Luciano to Buju Banton, Half Pint, Capleton, Anthony B, and Konshens. From the young to the old, from Tarrus Riley, Gyptian, Morgan Heritage, Alborosie, and Bushman to the old-school reggae originals of Jimmy Riley, Horace Andy, Johnny Clarke, and Cornell Campbell, Rastafarian reggae still captures the pulse and way of life of a people.

1. The Abyssinians – Satta Massagana
2. Bob Marley & the Wailers – Rastaman Chant
3. Black Uhuru & the Revolutionaries – Dread In The Mountain
4. Aswad – Candles
5. The Melodians – Rivers Of Babylon
6. Steel Pulse – Not King James Version
7. Burning Spear – Marcus Garvey
8. Peter Tosh – Igziabeher (Let Jah Be Praised)
9. Barrington Levy – A Yah We Deh
10. Bunny Wailer, Toot & the Maytals – Take A Trip
11. The Heptones – Cool Rasta
12. The Shadows – Brother Noah
13. Gregory Isaacs – Thief a Man
14. Jacob Miller – Tenement Yard
15. Luciano – It’s Me Again Jah
16. Buju Banton – Untold Stories
17. Israel Vibration - Jericho
18. Morgan Heritage – Down By The River
19. Bob Marley & the Wailers – Positive Vibration
20. The Mighty Diamonds – Jah Jah Bless The Dreadlocks
21. Ini Kamoze – Ital
22. Devon Irons – When Jah Comes
23. Bob Marley & the Wailers – Jah Live
24. The Wailing Souls – Kingdom Rise Kingdom Fall
25. Johnny Clarke – Be Holy My Brothers And Sisters (2000 Digital Remaster)
26. Burning Spear – Jah No Dead
27. Horace Andy – Psalm 68
28. Horace Andy – Dub 68
29. Kiddus I – Graduation In Zion
30. Tony Rebel – Jah Is By My Side
31. Dennis Brown – To the Foundations
32. Max Romeo – Babylon’s Burning
33. Luciano & Sizzla – Jah Blessing
34. The Mighty Diamonds – I Need A Roof
35. Israel Vibration – We A Da Rasta
36. The Gladiators –Roots Natty
37. Willie Williams – Armagideon Time
38. Bob Marley & the Wailers – Iron Lion Zion
39. Third World – Cool Meditation
40. Johnny Clarke – Enter Into His Gates
41. Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus – Rise Jah Jah
42. Aswad – Back to Africa
43. Steel Pulse – Babylon Makes the Rules
44. Burning Spear – Red, Gold, and Green
45. Half Pint – Blessings
46. Luciano – Jah Live
47. Fred Locks – Black Star Liner
48. Morgan Heritage – Set Yourself Free
49. Bushman – What’s the Matter With the World
50. Beres Hammond & Flourgon – I Love Jah
51. Capleton – Raggy Raggy Road
52. Garnett Silk – Mama Africa
53. Burning Spear – I and I Survive
54. Steel Pulse – Biko’s Kindred Lament
55. Sugar Minott – Black Roots
56. The Wailing Souls – Jah Give Us Life
57. Culture – Humble African
58. Black Uhuru – The Whole World Is Africa
59. Sizzla – Black Woman and Child
60. Anthony Cruz & Marlene Johnson – Africa
61. Tarrus Riley – Marcus Teaching
62. Edge Michael – Mr. Babylon
63. Winston Francis – Going To Zion
64. The Abyssinians – Declaration of Rights
65. Third World – Dreamland
66. Alborosie – Rastafari Anthem
67. Burning Spear – Calling Rastafari
68. Black Uhuru – I Love King Selassie
69. Anthony B & Horace Andy – Enter the Kingdom of Zion
70. Sylford Walker – Jah Golden Pen
71. The Mighty Diamonds – Africa
72. Black Uhuru – Going to Zion
73. The Abyssinians – Y Mas Gan
74. Sizzla – Rastaman Chant
75. Hell & Fire – Show Us The Way
76. Little Roy – Bongo Nyah
77. Junior Byles – King of Babylon
78. Konshens – Rasta Imposter
79. Irie Love – Put Jah First
80. Luciano & Candy Man – Dem No Know Jah
81. Third World – Satta Massagana
82. Alborosie – Call Up Jah
83. Burning Spear – The Lion (Live)
84. Bob Marley & the Wailers – Natty Dread
85. Buju Banton – Til I’m Laid to Rest
86. Max Roemo, Conrad Crystal, & Suga Roy – Chant Rasta
87. Peter Tosh – Mama Africa
88. Black Uhuru – Leaving to Zion
89. Buju Banton – Give I Strength
90. Culture – Get Ready to Ride the Lion to Zion
91. Alborosie – I Am
92. Frankie Paul – Red, Gold, and Green
93. Tarrus Riley – Love Created (Marcus Teaching)
94. Cornell Campbell – My Heart Is Clean
95. Alborosie – I Rusalem
96. Ranking Joe & Michael Rose – Poor Man Struggle
97. Dillinger – Gate Number
98. The Itals – Roll River Jordan
99. Pancho Alphonso & the Revolutionaries – Never Give Up In A Babylon
100. Burning Spear – Jah Is Real
101. Jimmy Riley – Tell the Youths the Truth
102. Dolphin Morris & Prince Far I – Su Su Pon Rasta/Heavy Manners
103. Gregory Isaacs – Babylon Too Rough
104. Culture – Jah Rastafari
105. The Wailing Souls – They Don’t Know Jah
106. Jacob Miller – I’m A Rastaman
107. Conrad Crystal, Suga Roy, & Gyptian – Jah Jah See Dem A Come

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some things that crossed my mind last night. I’m preaching these to myself, and letting you listen in. I hope these help and encourage you.

1. Pray. I need to learn to pray silently, spontaneously throughout the day as I run into trouble or have conflict. I just need to talk to God as if He was a close friend walking right besides me -because He is.

2. Look for 3 good things every day. Write them down and thank God for them.

3. Look for God’s hand in EVERYTHING! He has allowed things to happen to shape me to be more glorifying to Him, and yet has filtered everything through His hand and measured it carefully. When I have a rough time, I need to step back and ask (sometimes in intense pain and agony) “God, why did u allow this? What are you trying to teach me?” Asking why is human, and is proof that I do believe in God. It is proof that I do believe He’s in control.It’s not wrong to ask why.

4. remember that God CANNOT hate my sin more than He loves His son who has paid the price for my salvation.

Grace and peace.

This interview was conducted 1n 1988 by Stephan Bodian when he was editor of Yoga Journal. I have posted it here for the benefit of those who would like to know more about Jean Klein.

Jean, I find you and your teaching interesting for a number of reasons. For one thing, you are a Westerner who went to India long before such journeys were common and ended up attaining a high degree of realization. What prompted you to go to India?

I was hoping to find a society where people lived without conflict. Also, I think, I was hoping to find a center in myself that was free from conflict – a kind of forefeeling, or foretaste, of truth.

While in India, you found a teacher with whom you studied for a number of years. What is the value of a teacher for the spiritual life?

A teacher is one who lives free from the idea or image of being somebody. There’s only function; there’s no one who functions. It’s a loving relationship; a teacher is like a friend.

Why is that important for someone on the spiritual path?

Because generally the relationship with other people involves asking or demanding – sex, money, psychological or biological security. Then suddenly you meet someone who doesn’t ask for demand anything of you; there’s only giving.

A true teacher doesn’t take himself for a teacher, and he doesn’t take his pupil for a pupil. When neither one takes himself to be something, there is a coming together, a oneness. And in this oneness, transmission takes place. Otherwise the teacher will remain a teacher through the pupil, and the pupil will always remain a pupil.

When the image of being something is absent, one is completely in the world but not of the world; completely in society, but at the same time free from society. We are truly a creative element when we can be in society in this way.

What did your teacher teach you?

The teacher brings clarity of mind. That’s very important. There comes a moment when the mind has no reference and just stops, naturally, simply. There’s a silence which you more and more live knowingly.

And the teacher shows you how to do that. Did you learn any meditation or yoga techniques from you teacher?

No. Because what you really are is never achieved through technique. You go away from what you are when you use technique.

What about the whole notion of the spiritual path – the idea that you enter a path, follow a certain prescribed way of practice, and eventually achieve some goal?

It belongs to psychology, to the realm of the mind. These are sweets for the mind.

What about the argument that if you don’t practice, you can’t attain anything?

You must first see that in all practice you project a goal, a result. And in projecting a result you remain constantly in the representation of what you project. What you are fundamentally is a natural giving up. When the mind becomes clear, there is a giving up, a stillness, fulfilled with a current of love. As long as there’s a meditator, there’s no meditation. When the meditator disappears, there is meditation.

So by practicing some meditation technique, you are somehow interfering with that giving up.

Absolutely.

How?

You interfere because you think there is something to attain. But in reality what you are fundamentally is nothing to obtain, nothing to achieve. You can only achieve something that remains in the mind, knowledge. You must see the difference. Being yourself has nothing to do with accumulating knowledge.

In certain traditions – Zen, for one – you have to meditate in order to exhaust the mind; through meditating the mind eventually wears itself out and comes to rest. Then a kind of opening takes place. But you’re suggesting that the process of meditating somehow gets in the way of this opening.

Yes. This practicing is still produced by will. For me, the point of meditation is only to look for the meditator. When we find out that the meditator, the one who looks for God, for beauty, for peace, is only a product of the brain and that there is therefore nothing to find, there is a giving up. What remains is a current of silence. You can never come to this silence through practice, through achievement. Enlightenment – being understanding – is instantaneous.

Once you’ve attained this enlightenment or this current, do you then exist in it all the time?

Constantly. But it’s not a state. When there’s a state, there is mind.

So in the midst of this current there is also activity?

Oh, yes. Activity and non-activity. Timeless awareness is the life behind all activity and non-activity. Activity and non-activity are more or less superimpositions upon this constant beingness. It is behind the three states of waking , dreaming, and sleeping, beyond inhalation and exhalation. Of course, the words “beyond” and “behind” have a spatial connotation that does not belong to beingness.

In the midst of all activity, then, you are aware of this presence, this clarity.

Yes, “presence” is a good word. You are presence, but you are not aware of it.

You’ve often called what you teach the direct way, and you’ve contrasted it with what you call progressive teachings, including the classical yoga tradition and most forms of Buddhism. What is the danger of progressive teachings, and why do you think the direct way is closer to the truth?

In the progressive way, you use various techniques and gradually attain higher and higher states. But you remain constantly in the mind, in the subject-object relationship. Even when you give up the last object, you still remain in the duality of subject and object. You are still in a kind of blank state, and this blank state itself becomes an extremely subtle object. In this state, it is very difficult to give up the subject-object relationship. Once you’ve attained it, you’re locked into it, fixed to it. There’s a kind of quietness, but there’s no flavor, no taste. To bring you to the point where the object vanishes and you abide in this beingness, a tremendous teacher of exceptional circumstances are necessary.

In the direct approach, you face the ultimate directly, and the conditioning gradually loses its impact. But that takes time.

So the ultimate melts the conditioning.

Yes. There’s a giving up, and in the end you remain in beingness.

You say that any kind of practice is a hindrance, but at the same time you suggest practices to people. You teach a form of yoga to your students, and to some you recommend self-inquiry, such as the question, “Who am I?” It sounds paradoxical – no practice, but you teach a practice. What practices do you teach, and why do you use practices at all?

To try to practice and to try not to practice are both practice. I would rather say listen, be attentive, and see that you really are not attentive. When you see in certain moments in daily life that you are not attentive, in those moments you are attentive. Then see how you function. That is very important. Be completely objective. Don’t judge, compare, criticize, evaluate. Become more and more accustomed to listening. Listen to your body, without judging, without reference – just listen. Listen to all the situations in daily life. Listen from the whole mind, not from a mind divided by positive and negative. Look from the whole, the global. Students generally observe that most of the time they are not in this listening, although our natural way of behavior is listening.

The path you are describing is often called the “high path with no railing,” which is the most difficult path of all. The average person wouldn’t know where to begin to do what you’re talking about. Most could probably be attentive to their inattention, but after that, what? There’s nothing to grasp onto.

No. there’s nothing to grasp, nothing to find. But it is only apparently a difficult path; actually, I would say it is the easiest path.

How so?

Listening to something is easy, because it doesn’t go through the mind. It is our natural behavior. Evaluation, comparison, is very difficult, because it involves mental effort. In this listening there’s a welcoming of all that happens, an unfolding, and this unfolding, this welcoming, is timeless. All that you welcome appears in this timelessness, and there’s a moment when you feel yourself timeless, fell yourself in welcoming, feel yourself in listening, in attention. Because attention has its own taste, its own flavor. There’s attention to something, but there’s also attention in which there’s no object: nothing to see, nothing to hear, nothing to touch, only attention.

And in that moment of pure attention, you realize the one who’s being attentive?

I would say that this attention, completely free from choice and reflection, refers to itself. Because it is essentially timeless.

The Zen master Dogen said: “Take the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate the self.” That seems to be similar to what you are talking about.

Yes, but one must be careful. Turning the head inward is still doing something. And there’s really no inward and no outward.

I notice that you use the word “attention.” Is this the same as what the Buddhists call mindfulness – being acutely aware of every movement, every sensation, every thought?

Mindfulness mainly emphasizes the object, the perceived, and not the perceiving, which can never be an object, just as the eye can never see its seeing. The attention I’m speaking of is objectless, directionless, and in it all that is perceived exists potentially. Mindfulness implies a subject-object relation, but attention is non-dual. Mindfulness is intentional; attention is the real state of the mind, free from volition.

What about the yoga you teach, which you call “body-work?” What is it, and why do you teach it?

You are not your body, senses, and mind; body, senses, and mind are expressions of your timeless awareness. But to completely understand that you are not something, you must first see what you are not. You cannot say “I am not the body” without knowing what it is. So you inquire, you explore, you look, you listen. And you discover that you know only certain fractions of your body, certain sensations, and these are more or less reactions, resistance. Eventually you come to a body feeling that you have never had before, because when you listen it unfolds, and the sensitive body, the energy body, appears. It is most important to feel and come into contact with the energy body. Because in the beginning your body is more or less a pattern or superficial structure in the mind, made up of reactions and resistance. But when you really listen to the body, you are no longer an accomplice to these reactions, and the body comes to its natural feeling, which is emptiness. The real body in its original state is emptiness, a completely vacant state. Then you feel the appearance of the elastic body, which is the energy body. When we speak of “body-work,” it is mainly to find this energy body. Once the energy body has been experienced, the physical body works completely differently. The muscle structure, the skin, the flesh, is seen and felt in a completely new way. Even the muscles and bones function differently.

What is the yoga that you teach like?

It’s not really yoga. It’s an approach to the body based on the Kashmir teaching. The Kashmir approach is largely an awakening of the subtle energies circulating in the body. These energies are used to spiritualize the body, to make it sattvic [literally, “pure” or “true”]. In a sattvic body there is already a giving up. You see more clearly what you are not – your tensions, ideas, fixations, reactions. Once the false is seen as false, what remains is our timeless being. By spiritualizing the body, therefore, I mean orchestrating all the dispersed energy that belongs to the false. Our approach is an exploration without will or effort. It is inspired by the truth itself. The natural body is an expression, a prolongation, of this truth.

But I understand you use the traditional asanas of Hatha Yoga.

Every gesture, every position the body can take, is an asana; there are certain archetypes that are not even mentioned in the classical texts of Hatha Yoga. But there are archetypal positions par excellence that brings harmonization of body and mind. Before going to these archetypes, however, one must prepare the body. Otherwise, yoga is nothing more than a kind of gesticulation. What you see for the most part in Europe and the U.S. is gymnastics, gesticulation, and has nothing to do with body integration.

Do you have any other reasons for not using the term “yoga”?

Yes. The term “yoga” means “to join,” and so there must be something to join, something to attain. But join who? Join what? In a certain way the body approach helps you to listen quietly. It is through real listening to the body that you come to true equanimity of mind and body.

Should this be practiced every day?

Don’t make a discipline of it, because in discipline there is anticipation – you’re already emphasizing a goal. This doesn’t belong to exploration.

Practically speaking, wait until you are invited by the energy of the body itself. This recall of our natural state is not memory. It comes from the needs of the body and appears spontaneously. Go to it as you would to a dinner invitation. Otherwise, you’re doing violence to the body.

In your daily life you may experience moments of absolute silence in which there’s nothing to do, nothing to avoid, nothing to achieve. In these moments, you’re completely attuned to this stillness without any effort. Become more and more aware of these timeless moments, moments when you cannot think, because when you think, the moment is already past. Present moments free from all thoughts. Often you will have these moments when an action is accomplished, when a thought is finished, in the evening before you fall asleep, in the morning when you first wake up. Become more and more familiar with these gaps between two thoughts or two actions – gaps which are not an absence of thought, but are presence itself. Simply let yourself be attuned to these timeless moments. You will increasingly welcome them, until one day you are established in this timelessness, are knowingly the light behind all perceptions.

So you don’t recommend practicing meditation as a regular discipline?

No.

You talk about stillness and silence. Are these goals of spiritual life?

When I speak of stillness and silence, nobody is still and nobody is silent; there is only silence and stillness. This stillness does no refer to somebody or something.

So in the midst of this stillness there is activity?

Yes. Stillness is like the hinge of a door. The body is the door that opens and closes constantly, but the stillness never moves.

T.S. Eliot called it “the still point of the turning world.” Since the practice has no goal – in fact, there isn’t even a practice – what is the purpose of spiritual life at all? Obviously, most of us would say that we are not enlightened or liberated, and so we do feel a need to go somewhere where we are not. Then it seems as if we do need to undertake some kind of spiritual life. What is that like?

I would say that we are constantly, without knowing it, being solicited by what we are fundamentally. But the feeling by which we are solicited is very often mistaken for something objective, for a state, for some relative mental stillness that we can achieve through effort or practice. We seek this state as a kind of compensation for real stillness. The moment you are really solicited by the inner need and you face it and visit with it, you will be taken by it. But generally we are looking for compensation.

This process you’re talking about is very different from the way we usually do things. Usually we have an idea in mind of where we are going and then we set out in a certain direction and use our will to get there.

But all doing has a certain motive. I think this motive is to be free – from oneself, free from all conflict.

The motive is a good one, then, but the response is a little misguided.

When you become more and more acquainted with the art of observation, you will first see that you do not observe; when you see that you don’t observe, you are immediately out of the process. There is a moment, a kind of insight, when you see yourself free from all volition, free from all representation; you feel yourself in this fullness, in this moment beyond thought. It’s mainly through observation and attention that you come to feel what you are fundamentally.

How would you describe liberation?

I’ll give you a short answer. It is being free from yourself, free from the image you believe yourself to be. That is liberation. It’s quite an explosion to see that you are nothing, and then to live completely attuned to this nothingness. The body approach I teach is more or less a beautiful pretext, because in a certain way the body is like a musical instrument that you have to tune.

And we tune it to play on it the song of our own nothingness.

Exactly. Liberation means to live freely in the beauty of your absence. You see at one moment that there is nothing seen and no seer. Then you live it.

This is what you refer to as living free from psychological memory.

Absolutely.

Is it really possible to live in the world in this state of total openness and freedom from our own identity, doing the things we do – leading busy lives, taking care of family, etc. ?

Yes. You can live in a family perfectly without the image of being a father or a mother, a lover or a husband. You can perfectly educate your children not to be something, and have a love relationship with them as a friend, rather than as a parent.

One teacher of vipassana meditation who is also a clinical psychologist has written, “You have to be somebody before you can be nobody,” meaning that for many people, particularly now in the West, who have been brought up in dysfunctional families, there are very often such deep lack of self-esteem and such a conflicted or uncertain sense of who they are in an everyday way, that they must first develop psychological and emotional strength before they can embark on the path to becoming nobody. There are people who would near you say that ultimately we have no identity, we are nothing, and we live in this nothingness, and would turn around and say, “Oh, yes, I know that.” What they are really talking about is their own inner emptiness, their own inner feeling of lack or deprivation, which is a kind of sickness. Do you agree that we have to be somebody before we can be nobody?

First you must see how you function. And you will see that you function as somebody, as a person. You live constantly in choice. You live completely in the psychological structure of like and dislike, which brings you sorrow.  You must see that. If you identify yourself your personality, it means you identify yourself as your memory, because personality is memory, what I call psychological memory. In this seeing, this natural giving up, the personality goes away. And when you live in this nothingness, something completely different emerges. Instead of seeing life in terms of the projections of your personality, things appear in your life as they are, as facts. And these appearings naturally bring their own solution. You are no longer identified with your personality, with psychological memory, though your functional memory remains. Instead, there is a cosmic personality, a trans-personality, that appears and disappears when you need it. You are nothing more than a channel, responding according to the situation.

This interview was part of a larger article that was published in Yoga Journal, Issue 83, November/December, 1988.

Home from up north.

We had a great time spending thanksgiving mainly with dad’s mom and sister, but we had thanksgiving dinner with a lot of dad’s extended family. (ie his cousins and their kids) So that was fun. The 3 hour van trip up was…strenuous as usual. It was strenuous because my little sisters and brother were being giggly and rambuntious, and I wanted to sleep.  The trip back was fine though, because they were all so tired that they fell asleep.

Grace and peace.

“Kill Them All, Let God Sort Them Out!”

The New Testament says, John 5:22 “For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son,”"Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoset” or “Kill them all. God will know His own.”

To understand the violence against anyone and any of those who raise the insights and historical connections needed to intuit the Risen Christ and His role as Lord of Karma, we will need to examine aspects of real history, with real bad guys and real occult events that mirror events that we twistedly teach to students of political science as accepted history.

Our first such example where the Lord Of Karma, with the Christ Being that is active all over the Earth, was observed and documented, and consequently the career and reputation of this individual was severely attacked because he nailed the Christ Event and Lord of Karma artistically, accurately and almost by accident will be Dalton Trumbo.

We find this brilliant excursion into the realm of the Etheric Christ that is active at the Threshold of Human Consciousness in the 16th Chapter of “Johnny Got His Gun” by Dalton Trumbo. It is dangerous to the Powers that be to study and meditate on this chapter of the book. Therefore Dalton Trumbo had to be marginalized and his personality crushed and his voice drowned out because that is how the ‘beast’ works when the Etheric Christ comes too close to the iron or nuclear grip of his bid to overthrow the Etheric Christ Being. Humanity for long years will worship and fear the nuclear god we have created against the Real King of the I Am, and the King of Light and the Logos itself, the Etheric Christ.

This essay and excursion is all about the Etheric Christ Event, and also about the instinctual and official government forces of human instinct who truly hate when a real issue arises that is a ‘game changer’. “Johnny Got His Gun” was a game changer that went against the entire superstructure of the powers that stand against our humanity ever acknowledging and absorbing the human ramifications of the mighty Etheric Christ Experience arising in the 20th and 21st centuries.

“Johnny Got His Gun” not only placed the reader in a position to understand the ‘I AM’ as an isolated force of pure eternal spirit, caught on the wrong side of the sense world, alone as no other human ‘I’ has ever been alone, but as a book it also focused a spotlight on the horrific lies and betrayals of the mighty War Machine and War Propaganda, and false heroism that is reduced to ash against the holy alone-ness of the isolated “I AM”. But most importantly, it stirred up a hornets nest run by a madman that everyone in the media lifted to national prominence.  Joseph McCarthy.

“Way Back in the 1950’s, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy had his own little version of the Spanish Inquisition, an hysterical attempt to root out the communism that he thought he saw climbing the walls all around him.” We could say that part of the extravagant and loose sixties were the extreme counter point and reaction to the artistic freeze and media whores and a typical moronic Congress flexing of power with it’s new toy, the T.V. A propaganda freeze of raw fear, that had crept into the soul of the nation in the 1950’s along with a new global nuclear beast that America had set loose upon the world unleashed a brave new world.

That horrific searing, incinerating light had unlocked the Beast and America had used it on humanity. Not only had Christ been crucified at age 33 but in terms of following the reality of how the Etheric Christ functions in time, Harry Truman the 33rd President of the United States had unleashed this anti-living Light, anti-Etheric Light force as the most potent and darkest guilt to spread through the world and give rise to the plague of fear and national guilt called McCarthyism. 33 was indelibly printed into the etheric structure of the world by the very Crucifixion and Resurrection of the eternal Logos or Cosmic Word of creation.

McCarthyism and Nazism as well as arrogant American Imperialism, dark torture and removal of creative human freedom of expression is what happens when unconscious guilt turns and devours it’s own national soul. This is what is happening today as well. This is how the freest country, America turns into the very monster it ingested. America ingested what Heisenberg and Einstein prevented Nazi Germany from attaining. The issue is our failure to understand, treat with higher consciousness, moral and immoral forces of light. Our failure was not recognizing the potent immoral signature of a vast anti-light beast with the capacity to infect the unguarded American psyche and use the entire American Soul as its new playing field. The beast outgrew Germany and was nestled away in the more subtle and naive new American Rome.

Both Heinrich Himmler who demanded a vast karmic understanding for the swath of death and destruction that Germany embarked upon based on the  Bhagavad Gita, from his own SS inner circle; and Oppenheimer and the coterie of Scientists centered at TRINITY, named after the Christ event and a poem by John Dunn hoping forgiveness from The Trinity, (Father-Son-Holy Ghost) were sucked into contemplating the vast Karmic message of Krishna, the Lord of Karma in the Bhagavad Gita.

America, guilty as sin, digested the most horrific anti-human weapon ever devised and the demise of America in the 21st century as it falls into fascism will be the result of a failure to comprehend the Etheric Christ Light vs the Anti-human, anti-etheric light of depleted uranium and horrific destructive, anti-Christ-imbued fallen devachan nuclear light.

“When chemical action is driven down beneath the physical plane – into the evil devachanic world – magnetism arises. When light is thrust down into the sub-material electricity arises. If what lives in the Harmony of the Spheres is thrust down further still, into the province of the Asuras, an even more terrible force – which it will not be possible to keep hidden very much longer – is generated. It can only be hoped that when this force comes to be known – a force…far, far stronger than the most violent electrical discharge – …that before some discoverer gives this into the hands of humankind, men will no longer have anything un-moral left in them.” Rudolf Steiner [The Etherisation of the Blood, pp.40-41]

In the aftermath of having developed the powerful, “Dr. Strangelove” global poisoning bomb, with fallen light from the fallen devachan itself,  America and the ingested immoral forces it devoured went after the moral light in people like Dalton Trumbo, Ruth Gordon, Zero Mostel, Dashiell Hammett, Lillian Hellman, Jose Ferrer and Orson Welles who were just a few of those who were blacklisted via human demonic witch hunts attempting to shield the beast from brotherhood and the Rise of the Etheric Christ.

But most importantly, in terms of actually looking at the subject matter of the most potent and powerful event that surrounds the core of the ” I AM” of humanity, Dalton Trumbo confronted the literal roots of Body-Soul and Spirit, in an artistic package that tore away the trappings of the sense world and the lies of the War Machine and revealed a hint of the mighty Etheric Christ behind the scenes of external world happenings. And the beast rose up and attacked innocent personalities exactly like the tale of “The Crucible”. “The Crucible” was a 1953 play by Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witchcraft trials that took place in Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as a response to McCarthyism.

Trumbo presented for all the world to see in Chapter 16 of his book, “Johnny Got His Gun” a window into the Etheric Christ Event of the 20th and 21st centuries.  Trumbo lifted the veil on a Mystery which the very instincts of humanity are terrified to hear. The petty pretty perch of the powers that be were in a position to destroy the fragile human personality and reputation of anyone who might open the door to the coherent and factual activities of the Christ as the Lord of Karma. And this lesson of looking at the subject matter instead of the distractions of the media and political animals in the cages at the zoo of public opinion gets us to the core of the issue of how Christ is active amidst the Angels of each human being, as the Lord of Karma.

Trumbo tripped upon it and opened himself up to a vast pronged attack. “Johnny Got His Gun” revealed a human being exiled to the narrow region of the ‘I AM’. Trumbo’s career was deliberately publicly destroyed and he was in exile, yet nothing as severe as the character of exile he outlined in his book. In “Johnny Got His Gun” Trumbo places a human soul in the most difficult philosophical and spiritual isolation ever offered as reality to non-philosophical American minds.

America hasn’t the strength or depth to enter a Fichte or “The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity” by Rudolf Steiner. But Trumbo presented the full experience of the isolation of the “I AM’ of humanity, so that pragmatic Americans could comprehend it. It is the most frightening and the most profound of considerations when isolating the “I AM” alone with it’s mortality and immortality. In the core of the I AM is the resonating central mystery of the actual Christ Being Himself. And Americans have shown no interest in wanting to get to the core of the I AM. “Johnny Got His Gun” is, objectively, terrifying and absolutely true in terms of Initiation Science.

Basically still today, your reputation is ruined or you are murdered if you attempt to speak truth to power. Today there is a science of defaming and destroying a target personality through the willing henchmen of the press and media. Which means that power literally hates the reality of the Etheric Christ in our environment or when a personality comes close to understanding the deceptions we delude ourselves with they become a target.

Fascism in all forms and American styled fascism, lies and deceptions are the M.O.(Modus operandi) of the beasts globally growing Main Stream Media’s face. The United States Congress, Great Britain, Washington D.C., Wall Street and Israel who refuses to acknowledge violations of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, to name just a few, all torture and have broken the slender line of human decency set in the Geneva Conventions. In other words the M.O. of the beast creates literal war criminals and trusts no one who isn’t a deceitful, murdering monster like itself.

Our sense world is supposed to be ruled by distractions and disorientations and all education and the entire military budget and the control of human sheeple would come to screeching halt if the Etheric Christ and His activity behind the Threshold of the Sense World were known. Therefore people are murdered and their reputations destroyed through public humiliation and Media Whores who work for the same horrific beast that stands to gain by the denial of the Etheric Christ Event.

Chapter 16

“…..And then all sound seemed centered in one voice that filled the whole world. He listened to the voice because it had stopped his fall. It had become everything—the world and the universe and the nothingness around them. It was a woman’s voice crying and he had heard it before. Where’s my boy where’s my boy? He’s under age can’t you see? He just came up from Tucson about a week ago. They had him in jail for a tramp and I came all the way here to get him back. They let him out of jail if he’d join the army. He’s only sixteen except he’s big and strong for his age he always was. He’s too young I tell you he’s just a baby. Where is he my little boy? He just came up from Tucson you see and I came to take him home.

The voice faded away but he knew the whole thing now. That boy was Christ. There wasn’t any doubt about it. The boy was Christ and he had come up from Tucson and now his mother was hunting and crying for him. He could see Christ coming up from Tucson trembling out of the desert heat waves with purple robes flowing from him like in a mirage. Christ came right into the railway station and sat down with them.

It seemed like there must be a little room somewhere off from the station and they were playing blackjack there waiting for the train to go. He didn’t know the other guys and they didn’t know him but it didn’t seem to make any difference. Outside the crowds were yelling and the bands were playing and here he was with four or five guys in a quiet little room and they were playing blackjack when Christ came up from Tucson and walked in on them. The guy with red hair looked up and said you play blackjack? and Christ said sure and the guy who looked like a Swede said then pull up a chair. Table stakes said the guy with red hair and be sure your bet’s out before the first card. Christ said okay and fished around in his pocket and pulled out a quarter and laid it down.

The guy with red hair began to deal and everybody began to watch the cards except the Swede who grunted and said Christ I wish we had a drink here. Christ kind of grinned and said why don’t you drink it if you want it so bad? The guy who looked like a Swede turned and looked at Christ and then he looked down at the table and sure enough there was a glass of whiskey sitting by his right hand and everybody had a drink of whiskey sitting there. They all looked up at Christ and the guy with red hair said how in hell did you do that? Christ just smiled and said I can do anything hit me only not too hard. The dealer hit him and Christ looked at the card like it was bad news. Then he pushed his money toward the dealer. I never could hit a twelve he said in a complaining voice. I don’t understand it because a twelve shouldn’t be any harder to hit than a thirteen should it? It shouldn’t be only it is said the guy with red hair. There is nothing to that it’s all the bunk said the guy who looked like a Swede a twelve is just like any other number above it only better and anybody tells you any different is filled with superstition. Gosh said a quiet little guy who had been winning and now was sampling the whiskey this stuff is mighty good liquor try it. It ought to be good said Christ still looking at his dough out there on the table it’s sixteen years old.

All of a sudden the guy with red hair threw down his cards and stood up stretching and yawning. Well he said it’s all aboard outside I got to go. We all got to go. I’m going to be killed on the twenty-seventh of June and I got to say goodbye to my wife and kid. The kid he’s only a year eight months but smart as hell already I’d like to see him when he’s five. I can see myself getting killed plain. It’s just after daybreak all cool and nice with a brand new sun and the air smelling good. We’re going over and I’m a sergeant by then so I go over first. Just as I get my head over the edge a bullet hits me like a hammer. I fall back clear across the trench and try to tell the other guys to go on without me only I can’t talk and they go over anyhow. I lie there seeing only their legs as they run by and climb up and disappear. I kick and squirm for a minute like a chicken and then I snuggle down against the dirt. That bullet got me in the throat so I just snuggle down there peaceful like and watch the blood run out and then I’m dead. But my wife don’t know it so I got to tell her goodbye just like I thought I was coming back.

Hell said the little guy who had been winning you talk like you was the only one. We’re all going to be killed that’s why we’re here. Christ he’s already dead and the big Swede over there is going to catch flu and die in camp and you in the corner you’re going to get blown so damned high nobody’ll ever have a souvenir and me I’m going to get buried in a trench cave-in and smother now isn’t that a hell of a way to die?

All of a sudden they were all quiet listening and the guy with red hair said what’s that? Somewhere in the air way far above them there was music. It was high thin music like a ghost passing through the sunlight. It was pale white music so beautiful so very faint and yet loud enough for all of them to hear. It was music like a soft breeze that finds it way out beyond the place where there is air where there is only space. It was music so faint so shivery so sweet that it made them all tremble as they stood and listened. It is the music of death said Christ the high thin music of death.

Everybody was still for a minute and then the little guy who had been winning said what the hell’s this other guy doing here he ain’t going to die. And then everybody looked at him. For a minute he didn’t know what to say he felt like somebody who’s come to a party he hasn’t any invitation to and then he cleared his throat and said maybe you’re right but I’m going to be the same as dead. You see I’m going to have my arms and legs blown off and my face shot out so I can’t see or hear or talk or breathe and I’m going to live even if I am dead.

They all looked at him and finally the guy who looked like a Swede said Jesus he’s worse off than we are. There was a little more silence and all of them seemed to be looking at the guy with red hair as if he was the boss. Hell said the guy with red hair after staring hard at him he’s all right leave him alone. So they all went out to the train.

On the way out to the train the little guy who had been winning said to Christ Christ are you going with us? And Christ said for a little ways but not far I got lots of trains to meet lots of dead men lots of them you wouldn’t believe it. So they climbed on the train and Christ made just an easy little jump and swung right smack up on top of the engine.

When the train started up everybody thought it was the train’s whistle made the noise but it wasn’t it was Christ perched up there and screaming that made the noise. So the train went rushing and screaming away with Christ perched on top of the engine his clothes trailing after him and hollering at the top of his voice. The train went so fast all you could see looking out of the window was a line between the sky and the earth and nothing else.

Pretty soon the train was in the middle of a big desert a hot yellow desert that shivered under the sun. Away off in the distance there was a cloud—a haze that was floating between the sky and the earth but nearer to the earth. And out of the haze was Christ coming up from Tucson. Christ floated there above the desert with purple robes drifting down and the heat waves swimming up around him.

Looking at Christ there above the desert he couldn’t stand it any longer on the train. Dead men were on that train dead men or live men and he wasn’t either so he had no business being there. He had no business being anywhere there was no place for him he was forgotten and abandoned and left forever alone. So he jumped out of the train right through the window and started running toward Christ.

The nightmare train went on through the sunlight its whistle screeching and the dead men inside laughing. But he was alone in the desert running running till his lungs squeaked running toward Christ who floated there in the heat with purple robes. He ran and he ran and he ran and finally he came up to Christ. He threw himself into the hot sand at the feet of Christ and began to cry.”

 

To ask for our thoughtful attention to detail, when the Christ creates a round of drinks for the card players and to comprehend how each year in the life of a sixteen year old is part of the flavor and Spirit of the round of drinks is a wholly new concept of the transubstantiation, the Holy Communion. “Gosh said a quiet little guy who had been winning and now was sampling the whiskey this stuff is mighty good liquor try it. It ought to be good said Christ still looking at his dough out there on the table it’s sixteen years old.” The aged and aging process of Christ in the sixteen year old distills and creates a transubstantiation moment of drinking the actual illusion of the taste of someones life.

That which the card players drink around the table are the shot glasses of rich spirit. The distilled spirit of the sixteen year old boy is what they share as a communion together as they prepare to leave the realm of Earth life and Earth destiny, shepherded by the Christ. Guided by Christ the Lord of human Karma, as the hundreds of thousands of dead human beings, the casualties of war, the collateral damages to War Mongers are harvested and prepared to cross over to the Spiritual World. Yes and they toast with the young sixteen year old’s aged shots.

It was the FerryMan who used to ferry the souls across the river that divides the earthly world from the spiritual world. Christ the Lord of Karma and each human beings individual Angel now serve as Ferrymen in the service of the Christ Being.

“Christ looked at the card like it was bad news. Then he pushed his money toward the dealer. I never could hit a twelve he said in a complaining voice. I don’t understand it because a twelve shouldn’t be any harder to hit than a thirteen should it? It shouldn’t be only it is said the guy with red hair. There is nothing to that it’s all the bunk said the guy who looked like a Swede a twelve is just like any other number above it only better and anybody tells you any different is filled with superstition.”

Christ did not fail by having the TWELVE DISCIPLES. Listen very carefully, matter and light, and carbon based life forms, human beings as well as nature combine and are integrated with a Carbon-12 model. “Carbon-12 is the more abundant of the two stable isotopes of the element carbon, accounting for 98.89% of carbon; it contains 6 protons, 6 neutrons, and 6 electrons. Carbon-12 is of particular importance as it is used as the standard from which atomic masses of all nuclides are measured: its mass number is by definition 12.” Not only should light the devachan and the atomic table of elements not escape human intelligence in their lack of moral insight, but more importantly is the reality of the THIRTEENTH.

Trumbo lets slip an interesting and fathomless idea, but none of us as casual readers are supposed to catch the drift and catch the meaning are we? When we look at the Last Supper it is always Thirteen we are looking at. When we look at King Arthur and his mythical 12 knights of the Round Table, we always are looking at Thirteen because both Arthur and the Christ are the Thirteenth. But reality does not end at that comparison, The Sun Being, the Christ who transformed the entire physical and genetic form of humanity by using Jesus as the vehicle, was the actual moral kernel of the Sun Itself in human form. The Sun, whether idiotic science stands by the seasons or the procession of the Equinoxes places the Sun in a giant cosmic clock of TWELVE CONSTELLATIONS, from whence the Christ as the central Sun Being, the Logos arrived at the Baptism.

Humanity as slip-shod, goony thinkers have to have 12 hours on every clock face and must account both for the position of the Earth in the cosmos, the 12 months of the year, and finally that the ratio of body weight to blood in the human being is 13/1, must also hold in their consciousness the reality of the Free Functioning Formative Etheric Christ Being as the 13th amidst the twelve constellations. The failure to grasp the rooted depths of a divine being of that magnitude having visited Earth Humanity and plunging itself into the destructive humility of human death is a failure to understand the very roots how Spirit and matter are wed. This is not a little baby Jesus injunction but a Pauline and a Krishna revelation in both Science and vision. Dalton Trumbo, Charlie Chaplin, Oppenheimer, Himmler and Rudolf Steiner penetrated into the region of The Lord of Karma, the Etheric Christ.

“So that in what happened at the Mystery of Golgotha, we really have a co-operation of the most important leaders of mankind, a synthesis of spirit-life. When St. Paul had his vision before Damascus, He Who appeared to him then was the Christ. The halo of light in which Christ was enveloped was Krishna. And because Christ has taken Krishna for His own soul-covering through which He then works on further, therefore in the light which shone there, in Christ Himself, there is all that was once upon a time contained in the sublime Gita. We find much of that old Krishna-teaching, although scattered about, in the New Testament revelations. This old Krishna-teaching has on that account become a personal matter to the whole of mankind, because Christ is not as such a human ego belonging to mankind, but to the Higher Hierarchies, Thus Christ belongs also to those times when man was not yet separated from that which now surrounds him as material existence, and which is veiled to him in maya through his own Luciferic temptation. If we glance back over the whole of evolution, we shall find that in those olden times there was not yet that strict division between the spiritual and the material; material was then still spiritual, and the spiritual — if we may say so — still manifested itself externally. Thus because, in the Christ-Impulse, something entered into mankind which completely prevented such a strict separation…”

From 1933 onwards the Risen Christ, The Lord of the physics of Human Karma has stood at the Threshold of Human Consciousness as humanity plunged itself into deeper and deeper forces of chaos and darkness. The issue of the physics of Human Karma is centered on the vast core and hub of the Christ Being that sorts out all the billions of human time streams and currents, primitively viewed as a train station by Dalton Trumbo, but far into the future, our current karmic issues have a cause and effect field within the vast Alpha – Omega structural system of the Light coordinator, the Christ Being. Trumbo allows that his passengers will know the time of their deaths, and will visit their loved ones and realize the results of the immense realities of Time – Cause and Effect that transcends our current sloppy physics studies of reality.

This vast cosmic I AM is intimate to every single i am that functions. Therefore Physics theory and time theory and studying karmic events of the past and their specific effects out into the future, have created what Steiner understood and Physics is trying to understand as a kind of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, disturbance that reveals a karmic effect sent winging back into the soul of the human being in the present from the future.

In this present and in that future The Etheric Christ Being embraces the full gamut of the divine unfolding of all human beings everywhere including compensation from the past, present and future events within an integrated, creative and cohesive whole. Not one human spirit or event is out of the system ever. This new disturbing capacity is part of the central reality of raising our vision past Krishna to the current Lord of Karma, The Etheric Christ Being currently operating within the etheric region of humanity. We need to know a great deal about the intimacy of our own human biographies within the Angelic and Divine system of compassion, matter, light and love. For our decisions in freedom, in the moment, create intimate alterations to our own and humanities karma in the future.

“…Russian researcher Anatoly Okhatrin are of definite interest. They confirm the idea of an ether or universal lepton gas, which contains full information about the material world. Clusters of the lightest particles–microleptons–carry people’s thoughts and feelings; these microleptons are capable of traveling in space and time at tremendous speeds.

The speed of light is a limiting factor only for a continuous stream of speeds, the so-called continuum. However, greater speed levels, in excess of the speed of light, are possible for extremely weak
signals.

Okhatrin’s experiments and calculations show that people’s thoughts are carried by the lightest microleptons. And the equations of karma prove that they can travel much faster than light. This justifies
the conclusion that humanity’s potential in getting to understand the Universe is practically boundless.

Up to now it was considered that our potential in the conquest of outer space is limited by what is known as the pessimistic radius of Poincare-Einstein. If we multiply the speed of light by the human life span, we arrive at the limit that even the most sophisticated spaceships cannot surpass. No generation of spacemen can explore the Universe beyond that radius.

But from the equations of karma it follows that at the level of extremely weak signals we can reach out far beyond the Poincare-Einstein sphere. Material thought can travel to distant regions of the Universe at a speed greater than that of light. Man can obtain information about what is happening at any distance from him. This is a fundamental philosophical conclusion that allows humanity to look to the future with optimism.

I arrived at this conclusion by considering the equations of karma. But then, many scientists before me have reflected on the synthesis of science and religion, among them the founders of quantum physics. What are termed the conjugated equations of Schrodinger and Dirac point to the possibility of the existence of anti-particles. Similarly, the conjugated equation of karma suggests that there can be anti-signals as well as anti-particles. Moreover, this equation makes it possible to describe the spectrum of
properties that these anti-signals possess. While ordinary signals travel along the river of time from the past via the present into the future, anti-signals travel in the opposite direction. They originate in the future and pass through the present into the past.

We touched upon the issue of how America was preserved and chosen, as the most advanced technical nation, to become the bearer of a truly demonic weapon of mass incineration and destruction. America’s karma was to ingest and be chosen by the beast, to bring forth FEAR with more intensity than even Nazi Germany did. Both Heisenberg and Einstein prevented Germany from going further down a certain path, but America, as arrogant and malicious and huge as She is would be a far more interesting and enormous win for the seductive forces of the beast and our failure is a failure to think of macro or vast motives and intentions that are part of “The Grand Chessboard” that include think-tanks and societies and clubs that have fallen under the brilliant and glittering glare of the beasts most intimate schooling.

This is where the Manhattan Project and Oppenheimer crossed paths with Heinrich Himmler. Both Oppenheimer and Himmler were immersed in how Krishna answers Arjuna. Human Karma and the Logos or law of the world allowed Himmler to train his ruthless SS officers in moral detachment while fulfilling the job of murdering innocent people. Since murdering masses of innocent people would disturb the individual human moral conscience both Himmler and Oppenheimer resorted to hiding behind the Yogi Karma of detachment by using the  Bhagavad Gita and what the Lord of Karma, Krishna, as a Spiritual Being, brought as justification to the horrific death and destruction that would happen on the battlefield or in the final solution of Concentration Camps.

“Krishna is not teaching Arjuna to become ruthless. A choice less person can never be ruthless. Ruthlessness can only happen to a person of attachment, attachment to killing. A ruthless person simply enjoys being ruthless. Krishna will have no attachment to killing; killing has to take place because the value system Dharma is in danger. The law and order has to be maintained.”

In other words, it doesn’t matter if you think you would like things explained very easily to you, what matters is that you raise yourself up to the plateau where you grasp that the Christ, that super divine being that entered Jesus at the Baptism at 29/30 and completed the Resurrection at 33 years of age, was indeed the very Being of Krishna and that all arguments for murder or karmic justice or detachment from torture or rendition, or sterile annihilation as with un-manned drones or bio-weapons or mere launch codes, are all brought back to the individual I AM and cannot as both Himmler and Oppenheimer imagined, that somehow by lending their destiny to mass murder they would somehow be granted immunity from karma.

You and your affiliations with what you think are the righteous military good boys and girls think that somehow you will be given a pass because you remained nothing but ignorant unconscious pawns, taking orders and all the while imagining our perfect America doing the good. No, what matters is that you treated other I AM’s as you would have wished to be treated. Not one jot or tittle that caused the horrific murder or removing someones karma from the scope of reality will be left undetected by the Christ the Lord of Karma.

It is a physics impossibility and it is a Logos law and a Logos Being that stands as steady as the order of the Sun in the constellations. Therefore puny human denial is just weary water under the bridge. Christ is the master of the physics of how the entire karma of each and every individual will be woven back into reality and held to account. And this will absolutely cause Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and psychic distortions and Karmic earthquakes through out the entire system. The Beast plans to vaccine and medicate such disturbances as a cover up against the actual influences of the Etheric Christ Being.

Humanity and the Christ Being who is the I AM of the Light of the World has placed the weight of the moral depths of the world on each and every individual human being. If you pretend to be unconscious or pretend to not understand that an actual Divine Being, the Christ, is actually active now within humanity and that this is not some Eastern Esoteric tangent, but the moral and ethical battle for the very core of each and every brother and sister in protecting the tiniest I AM because in that fragile i am is also the germ of the mighty Christ I AM, you are pretending and hiding from actual reality. We are charged with becoming morally mature or descending deeper into the abyss.

“…the saving and redeeming work of Christ as a Sun Being or a spirit connected with the mystery of the Sun, the eternal spiritual and creative light. Christ leads man back to the spiritual domain through the Mystery of Golgotha in which mankind is resurrected from the physical condition and has begun the upwards journey from matter towards light, transubstantiated by the Soul-I connection or the Christ-being of his inner make-up.”

Oppenheimer later stated that while watching the display the horrific power of the nuclear test he was reminded of a line from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita: “Now I become Death, the destroyer of worlds” The Manhattan Project was the perfect circle of research scientists who broke into the lower Devachan world without initiation. The Grail Castle and Grail legends have a collection of souls who have experienced the initiation of the moral light of the Christ Being around the destiny of the blood of a God/human. In the Grail Community Angelic and higher Devachan Light of the Risen Christ was received as inspiration and communion into the will and courage of the human being.

In the Manhattan Project terrified, fearful and scientific patriotic souls of many different nationalities gathered together, during the horrors of WW II with the opportunity supplied by the advances in technology of the west, armed only with superficial intellectual, paper thin, veneer of moral substance and sterile thinking, ready to serve the beast and open the gates of the lower devachan. Decayed or fallen Light appears in magnetism, electricity and in the fatal depleted uranium of nuclear poisoned light that literally eats into the etheric lymphatic system and destroys the light re-generator of the the bone marrow.

The Resurrection and the rise of the Etheric Christ in magnificent stages has been set into the foundations of the world within the tangible number 33. On 17 December 1833 Kaspar Hauser is stabbed to death; in 1933 was the burning of the Reichstag and the launch of Nazism and the rise of Hitler. At the approach of 1933 the dawning of the experience of the etheric Christ, at the threshold of our higher consciousness had arrived.

It means to this day and ever since the dawn of the 20th century that anyone who imagines that we shall see parading before the cameras a PHYSICAL CHRIST in a PHYSICAL BODY, has failed to understand the magnitude and intimacy of the Etheric Christ experience. As the 30’s approached the entire world, Dust Bowel, Nazism, King Kong, The Great Depression, The Gold Standard and the brilliant ‘false flag’ deception of the burning of the Reichstag hit exactly on the mark of Feb 27, 1933.

The film “The Great Dictator” by Charlie Chaplin locked into the entire world wide distraction and deception that fully upstaged the intimacy of the Etheric Christ event as it approached and dawned. Chaplin managed to reverse the entire message of Nazism to the true message of global brotherhood.

The entire distorted message that broke the surface on the significant date of Feb 27, 1933, when all the lower forces of Germany erupted and all the backroom political deals were made in the U.S. of funding Nazi Germany via Prescott Bush, and the entire Bush dynasty, set the stage for money, power and the advancement of the war mentality to a science, all of which became part of the beast’s repertoire.

In 1940 Charlie Chaplin brought out [WATCH CLIP] “The Great Dictator” and against all odds presented the true message of brotherhood and humanity and the Etheric Christ event that was rising in the background of the basest human instincts. Real freedom is the ability to cope with intangible and mature elements of reality. Real freedom means digging into the depths of the foundations of the Spiritual and the Material worlds.

Like Dalton Trumbo, Charlie Chaplin and countless others have been pursued by and some murdered and assassinated by the machinations of the Beast. The stratagems of how The Soul of America was to be attacked and prevented from attaining a true insight into brotherhood and The Etheric Christ, was hatched in the crooked and demonic forces of the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover who was a pathological psychopath that held power over Presidents and politicians alike.

All the lower instincts and the lower devachan substance of human behavior were tools for manipulation and redirecting agencies and activities against the true revelation of the Etheric Christ. Tapes, pictures and recordings of Congress, Presidents and leaders are used today with venom to blackmail all those who enter, unprepared in their darkened human instincts to attempt to serve humanity.

Just as Hoover was a gay cross dresser who tried to keep his darker side hidden, so also were the sexual and political crimes, held on file by the FBI, held over the heads of anyone who presumed that they could walk up to the face of Power and pretend they were purely seeking the good of mankind. The best politicians and those who love the lust of power above all else, all have skeletons and hideous deeds in their histories that promote the lies and deception of humanity.

Colin Powell’s U.N. pile of lies to press for invading Iraq are a very good examples of the manipulation of the beast. Dick Cheney has been one of the finest recent examples of the unmitigated corruption of a human soul by the beast. But America ingested the Anti-etheric light and the naive American soul had no training in higher Devachan moral insights.

“Chaplin became increasingly concerned with politics. A strong supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, Chaplin’s film, Modern Times (1936), was seen by some critics as an attack on capitalism. J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), began compiling a file on Chaplin’s activities, including his friendship with radicals such as Upton Sinclair, H. G. Wells, Hanns Eisner, Albert Einstein and Harold Laski.

A strong opponent of racism, in 1937 Chaplin decided to make a film on the dangers of fascism. As Chaplin pointed out in his autobiography, attempts were made to stop the film being made: “Half-way through making The Great Dictator I began receiving alarming messages from United Artists. They had been advised by the Hays Office that I would run into censorship trouble. Also the English office was very concerned about an anti-Hitler picture and doubted whether it could be shown in Britain. But I was determined to go ahead, for Hitler must be laughed at.” However, by the time The Great Dictator was finished, Britain was at war with Germany and it was used as propaganda against Hitler.

During the Second World War Chaplin played an active role in the American Committee for Russian War Relief. Others involved in this organization included Fiorello La Guardia, Vito Marcantonio, Wendell Willkie, Orson Welles, Rockwell Kent and Pearl Buck. Chaplin was also one of the major figures in the campaign during the summer of 1942 for the opening of a second-front in Europe.

After the Second World War the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) began to investigate people with left-wing views in the entertainment industry. In September 1947 Chaplin was subpoenaed to appear before the HUAC but three times his meeting was postponed. Unknown to Chaplin, J. Edgar Hoover, and the FBI, now had a 1,900 page file on his political activities. Hoover advised the Attorney General that when Chaplin left the country he should be allowed to return.

In 1952 Chaplin visited London for the premiere of Limelight. When he arrived back he discovered his entry permit revoked and had been denied the right to live in the United States. As Chaplin pointed out in his autobiography: “My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.”

Chaplin, blacklisted from making films in Hollywood, responded by making A King in New York (1957). The film stars Chaplin as the deposed king of Estrovia who flees to America where he is tormented by McCarthy style investigations. Chaplin was once again accused of being pro-communist and the film was not released in the United States.”

Dismissing the depth and Science, education and reality of the Spiritual World without a fight is immaturity first and cowardly second. Ignoring the deeper issues of humanity and how we are connected to the depths of an extended Devachan moral world is a literal failure to understand the message of The Matrix. Humanity can find itself submerged in the sub-devachan world of electricity and find that they themselves have sentenced themselves to slavery and extinction.

Oh the education and schooling of the schools of the beast started crudely with Nazi Germany. But these schools of the beast quickly grew and when America ingested the terrible potent secret of fallen light and began developing and nursing this beast, the entire social fabric of America slowly, upon slowly, became infected. For the strategy of the beast, was to outgrow the cumbersomeness of Nazi Germany and nestle its motives and agendas slowly and deeply into the lower psyche of the immoral core of America’s unconscious motives. These immoral American drives of greed and Avarice and Vegas and Wall Street motives have created entire new schools of deception. In these unconscious instincts are the causes and reasons for corruption, death, torture and economic disaster at every turn.

Chief to these schools of deception were CIA, Mossad and British nationals who found all that the beast, against brotherhood, whispered as power and aggression in their souls to be worthy of winning riches, fame and fortune in a superficial and debauched media environment and worthy of the envy of men’s eyes. And all that mattered was not the moral fabric of humanity, the higher Devachan or the reality of a Sun Being like the Etheric Christ who had walked the Earth as Jesus, all that mattered was the pretense of external success.

The pretensions of what materialism deemed  ‘the good life’. Never mind that there was very little self observation or depth of insight or courage to ask or seek the roots of disturbing questions, Americans became comfortable with convenient lies. JFK, Weapons of Mass Destruction, The Economic Crisis, 9/11, Global Warming, Heroin and Oil, The Stock Markets, Ponzi Schemes, American Health Care, all countless, countless lies, The Big Bang, Creationism, all convenient lies. The beast found the American Soul easy to seduce and America had much more stepping stone potential to paving the way to the Incarnation of the Anti-Christ because most of the leaders were easy marks and always greedy for short term success.

It does not matter to the self satisfied selfish to trace how the physics of mastering the path and way of each human “I AM’ in the vast populations of the living and the dead, passed through the world of the stars after death and how the stars themselves and the vast Angelic Community one stage above humanity, helped the Christ organize the incarnation and the lessons of all the billions over the planet. This was such high Devachan physics that to steal and rob and intrude into the Fallen Devachan Light forces of Magnetism, Electricity and Laser and atomic technology, was a robbery that was recognized by the base instincts of humanity as REAL POWER, not the cognitive power to awaken hidden spiritual capacities and creating a school of wisdom and a wide world of educational principles and insights that could reawaken all that slumbered as the good and healing potential in humanity. To the media and culture, such insights appeared uninteresting, boring. The effort to locate the activity of the I AM in the blood; The astral body in the nervous system; The etheric body in the lymphatic system; and map the brilliant Physical Form and Physical body of Human Beings as a potent IMAGINATION of the gods themselves, was left to Rudolf Steiner and The School of Spiritual Science and the Devachan Grail students to defend.

The rich Science of how the supercharged higher devachan light of the Christ entered Jesus, not as a simple man, but as a complex deed of Initiation Schooling and human karma, entered into the human humility and humiliation of a God’s sacrifice on Golgotha is all part of the Science of Humanity. The Lord of Karma and the Etheric Christ was charged with lifting the entire genetic Fall of Humanity upwards, so that a Human model of Spirit Man, an advance prototype of what humanity shall become in the distant future, shattered the entire mid-point of human evolution on Earth. Humanity is charged with balancing the depths of its human darkness with the heights of it’s divine potential by choosing in freedom to walk a line between hellish slavery and the higher education of human Initiation Science.

Christ in The Spirit Man Phantom Body arising from the Tomb

I have chosen darkness
in it
poetry swells,
literature breeds
dark and oppressive
I breathe in an atmosphere of coal
black ash swarms in metaphors and
contradictions
beating heart that’s become
sullen with life
I choose obscurity
like the ambiguous rose
within an unmovable abyss
I choose the ungraspable void
where borders and objects
interfuse with phantasmagorical thoughts
leaving no content, awaiting an obscure name –
in this dark dream
the Mysterious
is like wine
flowing through the veins
of whatever I am.

nihilistic poetry

If you missed it on ABC, here’s Beyonce’s Thanksgiving Day special.

I was interviewed by the lovely Sarah Ayoub over at Wordsmith Lane on being a writer, starting a business, taking Onya to print, my goals and the challenges I’ve faced.

To read the interview, click this link.

“I want to be all that I am capable of becoming…..”

Katherine Mansfield – 1888 – 1923

I don’t normally take much notice of all the various kind of gift guides that everyone feels the need to create, but there’s something about Wired’s 2009 Holiday Gift Guide this year that just makes me want to leave a whole lot more than just cookies for Santa this year.

Ahhhh, Saturdays. The beginning of the all too short weekend. The day to get shit done around the house because Sundays always get me down*.

Unfortunately this past Saturday heralded in the funk at Mama’s house. Not more than one hour after Aitch had her bottle (yes, she still is using a bottle. What of it?!?), and while we were all still lounging around in pjs discussing whether it was eggs and bacon day or pancakes day (Doodicus picks), she decided to unload the entire contents.

In an amazing display of centrifugal force, my cheek (and mouth!), neck and hair could only stop a small portion of what ended up hitting the floor in a curds and whey streak five foot long. What lead up to me becoming a human barf bag is that while I was in the front room blogging working, I heard Aitch start to whine and cry, like Doodicus had taken a toy from her or ejected her from the little rocking chair. I was prepared to reprimand him as I saw her standing there, clutching her hands together in front of her. Then I just assumed she had smooshed her hand into something. She reached for me and I picked her up and that’s when hell broke loose.

I rushed her into the bathroom and we sat in the tub while Sparring Partner and I got her cleaned up. I was grateful that I had gone to bed in a tank top under my t-shirt and was able to get most of the funk off of me simply by peeling off one layer.

I then focused my attention on cleaning up the mess left on the living room carpet and noted cast off on several toys. While I hate my Kirby vacuum, I was grateful for the shampoo attachments.

She did OK for the rest of the morning, drinking only a bit of clear pedialyte mixed with 7up, a chunk of banana and a couple of crackers. She woke from her morning nap not hungry, but once she saw Sparring Partner snacking on some chips, she quickly sidled up to him. I said it couldn’t hurt.

After one chip, she again upchucked.

Since then, she’s started coughing, oozing green snot, and one eye is weeping. Isn’t that what we refer to as a hot mess? Sparring Partner is currently suffering from an intestinal bug and I’m high on Tylenol Cold medicine for my troubles. Doodicus on the other hand, is a picture of health. He paid no attention to the drama that unfolded literally at his feet Saturday (hello?! the tv was on!); and since he refuses to give or take kisses, he has avoided transference of any number of funkified germs floating about the house – knock on wood.

I stayed home with Aitch yesterday, but today I figured I’d return the favor to the daycare and sent her on her way. She’s on antibiotics for yet another ear infection and bronchitis.

Needles to say, we are off the hook for Thanksgiving dinner at our house Thursday. (whoot!) It looks like it just might be the four of us hanging out together with Doodicus holding down the fort while the rest of us alternate between warming up the throne or getting some much needed beauty rest.

Maybe with this long weekend, I’ll be able to get to those questions, specifically the one about my art degree which will require photographic proof. My computer + pictures = frustrated Yo-yo, so try to be optimistic, OK?

* Extra brownie points if you know who sung this?

Hello again, brothers and sisters!!!

Before we get into today’s discussion, I just want to briefly say “thank you” to those of you who have been regularly taking part in these discussions, as well as those of you who visit whenever you are able.  I would also like to thank all of our first-time visitors.  It is a blessing and a genuine pleasure to have you all here:-)

For today’s discussion, we will review the parables of the treasure and the goodly pearl.  While these two parables were a couple of the shorter parables that Jesus shared, they are certainly just as important as all of the other parables.  Jesus was speaking with His disciples when He shared these parables.  The parables are as follows:

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field;  the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.  Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:  Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.” – Matthew 13:44-46 (KJV)

Both of these parables are making the same point, right?  Let’s break them down, shall we?

The man seeking treasure, and the merchant-man seeking goodly pearls, are played in real life by sinners seeking the truth, redemption, and salvation.  The treasure hiding in the field and the goodly pearl, represent the kingdom of God found through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who is also the Living Word of God.  So with that being the case, why would we have to sell all that we have in order to buy our way into the kingdom of God through Jesus Christ?  Doesn’t that run contrary to salvation being a gift given freely by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior?  It sure does.  however, the point of these parables is not that we are “buying” our way into the kingdom of God. 

The point is that once we have discovered the kingdom of heaven by accepting Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we should value nothing else as much as this “treasure/goodly pearl”.  Beloved, when we find the kingdom of heaven through Jesus Christ and His word, we should value the Lord, His word, and His kingdom above anything else in our lives.  As obedient and faithful servants, there should be no price we are unwilling to pay in order to serve Him completely.  If we live in complete submission to the Lord’s will, then there is no room for competing interests.  Just as with the Apostle Paul, all former things we held dear we must be willing to count as lost once we are saved.  Why?  Well, once we are saved, serving the Lord is to be the focal point of our lives, and our vision is to be focused like a laser on doing so.

Interestingly, in these two parables that Jesus Christ shared with us we can also Him as the man/merchant-man seeking the treasure/goodly pearls.  Think about it.  Jesus gave up all that He had and suffered death on the cross in order to pay our sin debt.  In so doing, beloved, we were saved and purchased by His blood.  The treasure being “hid” in the field refers to those who live in Christ being granted access to the kingdom of heaven, which is a place that someone who serves sin cannot find or gain access to.  Once we belong to Christ, He protects us from the enemy.  We are effectively “hidden” in His protection, as once we belong to Christ Jesus, we cannot be snatched away from Him.  As Jesus said:

“I told you, and ye believed not:  the works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me.  But ye believe not, because ye are not of My sheep, as I said unto you.  My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow Me:  And I give unto them eternal life;  and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand.  My Father, which gave them Me, is greater than all;  and no man is able to pluck them out of My Father’s hand.  I and My Father are one.” – John 10:25-30 (KJV)

Brothers and sisters, let us rejoice that the Lord considers us His “treasure/goodly pearl” and was willing to pay everything in order to save us!!!  Praise God!!!  Thank you, Jesus!!!  Furthermore, let’s praise the Lord God Almighty for His lovingkindness and longsuffering, and let’s show Him that He is the only real treasure that matters to us, as well!!!  Beloved, do you know what the word of God, the truth, salvation, entrance to the kingdom of heaven, light, love, peace, life, faith, wisdom, and understanding all have in common?  I’ll tell you what.  We find and receive all these things when we find Christ and turn our lives over to Him.  Jesus is the Truth.  Jesus is the Living Word of God.  Jesus is the Prince of Peace.  Jesus is the Author and Finisher/Perfector of our faith.  He is the Way to the Father and the kingdom of heaven.  Jesus Christ is the Life.  The Lord is the Light of the world.  You get the point, yes?

Beloved, besides the praise we offer to the Lord in the form of prayer, song, and worship, we need to commit ourselves to praise Him through our lives and actions.  That we belong to Christ Jesus should be obvious to all not just by the words we speak, but also by the things we do.  It should not appear to others that we live for money, or for the approval of man;  rather it should be clear to all that we live to serve our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Just as Jesus paid for us by giving up all that He had for our sakes, we ought to esteem our treasure, found in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, above any passing “treasure” that this world has to offer.  Remember, beloved, the treasure of this world lasts for a limited amount of time and diminishes.  The treasure of the Lord is forever.  Suffer any necessary hardships, persecutions, or trials in this world in order to serve the Lord obediently and faithfully.  By so doing, your treasure in heaven will be waiting for you, and increasing, and will be with you forever:-)

Beloved, the Lord will always provide for, and take care of, those entrusted to Him.  It is, however, up to each one of us to make the decision to seek the Lord and His kingdom.  If we are willing to walk through the thorns, rats, mice, and bugs, and other treacheries of the field in order to find Him, then we will find that our “treasure” is more than worth the jouney.  Remember, beloved, hidden treasure only has value to us once we find it.  In order to find it, we must seek it.  As Jesus said:

“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness;  and all these things shall be added unto you.” – Matthew 6:33 (KJV)

Precious one, we cannot claim hidden treasure that is never discovered, because we have no idea where it is.  Once we seek and find our treasure in Christ Jesus, however, we have the greatest treasure of all.  This is real treasure.  Everything other treasure pursued yields only fools gold.  So often we allow the cares of this world to distract us from searching for our hidden treasure.  Jesus was telling us not to get consumed/wrapped up in the concerns of this world.  He was telling us that we should put our whole focus on seeking the Lord and His will.  We can do so while not being overwhelmed with thoughts of what we will eat, where we will live, or what we will clothe ourselves with, because God will see to our needs just as He does with the birds of the air and the grass of the field.

Please pray for all those who have no idea of the hidden treasure available to them.  Let’s pray that they go searching for it, willing to brave the trials of the journey, in order to find the only treasure that really counts.  Furthermore, let’s pray that once they find that treasure, they see Him for who He really is and turn their lives over to Him as their Lord and Savior.  Jesus Christ is our treasure.

If you are ready to discover your hidden treasure, and claim your eternal inheritance from the Lord God Almighty, you can do so by accepting Him as your Lord and Savior today.  If you would like to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior today, and be saved, please pray the following prayer with me:

“Lord God Almighty, I know that I am a sinner and that I am lost.  I know that I need to be saved from sin, but I also know that I can’t save myself.  Lord Jesus, I know that only You can save me.  I know that you paid for my salvation with your own life and blood on the cross.  I know that when You rose from the grave on the third day, you conquered death and provided everlasting life to all who trust in You.  Right now, I lay down my life and let go of my pride, my vanity and every other sin that has kept me from You.  Lord Jesus, I now completely trust my life to You.  I open my heart to You, Lord.  Please come into my heart.  Please forgive me of all of my sins, and please accept me as Your child.  From this point on, I commit my life to You. Please guide me and provide me strength as I begin to live the rest of my life for You.  In Your precious and matchless name I pray.  Amen.”

Beloved, if you just prayed that prayer sincerely, then you just found your hidden treasure.  I would encourage you to find out what’s all in the treasure chest by exploring it through God’s word, through prayer with supplication and thanksgiving to the Lord, and by asking Him to reveal the fullness of the treasure to you.  The treasure you have, precious one, is priceless.  God set aside this treasure just for you through His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ.  Welcome to the family:-)  The angels in heaven are rejoicing this very moment at your decision to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.  Find out about this and much more by exploring God’s word that He had written just for you:-)  This relationship with Christ is the most precious and important relationship you will ever have.  Invest yourself in growing the relationship as much as possible.  Seek the Lord’s will in all things, and let your will be completely surrendered to Him.

Thank you for joining our discussion today.   I hope you are able to join us on Friday to pray over this week’s prayer requests. 

Remember, if you would like to order the new book “Strapping On the Whole Armor of God – Suiting Up For Spiritual Warfare), please visit my website at http://www.yourbrotherinchrist.com .  If you prefer to order by mail, you will also find the mailing address on that website.  This book is very valuable in helping people understand how to go about securely and effectively putting on the whole armor of God that the apostle Paul refers to in Chapter 6 of Ephesians.  We are praying that many people will receive this book and be blessed in their walk with the Lord by reading it.

Have a wonderful and blessed rest of the day!!!  Walk in faith, knowing that you are loved by the Creator of the heavens, earth, and all life, and knowing that the treasure that you now carry in your heart and soul is priceless:-)

Have a happy, safe, and blessed Thanksgiving Day tomorrow!  Give a special thanks to the Lord for all that He has done for you and your loved ones.  Without Him, we’d be in a very bad place:-)

May the Lord bless you, keep you, guide you, and make His face to shine upon you and your loved ones always.

Your brother in Christ,

Rev Jason Thurwanger

Projeto de Cybil Gustafson e Jackie Young.

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Obie Trice, fostul component care-si merita pe bune locul in crema artistilor  smecheri (bine vanduti/bine vazuti) de la Shady Records, apare cu una bucata piesa care va fi prezenta pe Special Reserve, acesta fiind proiectul la care lucreaza in momentu` de fata, iar piesa se numeste I Am.

Via: XZ .

praising God!

You see, I am preparing my final paper on why abortion should be banned, and I thought that I’d be the only pro-life person in my class. Come to find out today that 2 others are also writing papers defending the pro-life  position! Thank u Father!!!

listening to hymns right now.

I had a stats midterm this morning and bombed it, so I’ve been feeling pretty bummed. So I decided to sit and listen to relaxing hymns and it’s helping. I got some free Sovereign Grace downloads, and they are really good. Now I just wish there was somewhere here at OU where I could go and belt it out with the music. I feel like belting it out right now, and raising my hands, but I’m sitting at college and I would prob get in trouble for “disturbing the peace”.

Oh well. Don’t forget that I’m trying to raise 5,000 gallons of water on socialvibe before Christmas. (See the right sidebar)

Welcome back, brothers and sisters!!! 

Today we are going to discuss the parable of the ten virgins and the bridegroom.  Jesus was talking to His disciples about be ready for the last day when He shared the following parable:

“Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.  And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.  They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:  But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.  While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.  And at midnight there was a cry made, ‘Behold, the bridegroom cometh;  go ye out to meet him.’  Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.”

“And the foolish said unto the wise, ‘Give us of your oil;  for our lamps are gone out.’  But the wise answered, saying, ‘Not so;  lest there be not enough for us and you:  but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.’  And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came;  and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage:  and the door was shut.”

“Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’  But he answered and said, ‘Verily I say unto you, I know you not.” – Matthew 25:1-12 (KJV)

Brothers and sisters, the message of this parable is very sobering.  Let’s break this parable down and discuss the thrust of the message.

First of all, cast in the role of the bridegroom is the one and only begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ.  The ten virgins represent us, believers and non-believers.

Okay, so now that we know the cast, what is the tie-in to the oil and the lamps?  That’s simple, actually.  Why do we need lamps?  Lamps help us to see where we are going, right?  We are blinded when we are surrounded by darkness.

The lamps, beloved, represent our spirits/souls.  Why do I say this?  Consider the following scripture:

“The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.” – Proverbs 20:27 (KJV)

So if the lamp represents our soul/spirit, what does the oil represent?  The oil represents the Holy Spirit, which is attained through Christ Jesus.  Remember, beloved, that though Jesus is not present with us physically on earth anymore, He lives here in our hearts through the Holy Spirit.  This is the same Holy Spirit that God the Father filled Jesus, His only begotten Son, with after He was baptized by John the Baptist.  Brothers and sisters, Jesus Christ is also known as the Light of the World.  Having His light in us, we can rejoice in knowing that our lamps will be lit and shining brightly at the moment that Jesus comes for us.

You see, beloved, the Holy Spirit is the oil that shines brightly enough that all can see our light, which is the presence of the Lord in our hearts.  How can people see that light?  Well, let’s look at the type of light that the Holy Spirit emanates, as described by the Apostle Paul:

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance:  against such there is no law.” - Galatians 5:22-23 (KJV)

You see, beloved, when we live in Christ, we are to be faithful and obedient servants of that which He blesses and graces us with.  Frankly, the manner in which we live should be a strong witness for Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.  Remember, brothers and sisters, as His servants, our lives should be lived in such a manner as to reflect to others our service to our Lord and Savior.  That means we are to let the Lord’s light shine through us for all to see.  Jesus said the following about this:

“Ye are the light of the world.  A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.  Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick;  and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.  Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” – Matthew 5:14-16 (KJV)

Beloved, the 5 virgins that heed the Lord’s word, and live by it, are those that He will find doing His work when He returns for His bride, which is the church.  The church is comprised of all those who have accepted salvation given by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.  Only those that have Christ in them will be called home to be with the Lord.  Those that do not have Christ in them have souls/spirits filled with darkness instead of light.  Since there will be no light found in such people, they will be passed over when the believers are called home.  Consider the parable of the ten virgins, and listen to what Jesus said would happen when He calls His servants home:

“Then shall two be in the field;  the one shall be taken, and the other left.  Two women shall be grinding at the mill;  the one shall be taken, and the other left.  Watch therefore;  for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.  But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.  Therefore be ye also ready:  for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh.  Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?  Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.  Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.  But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, ‘My lord delayeth his coming’;  and shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;  The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites:  there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” – Matthew 24:40-51 (KJV)

Brothers and sisters, no one knows when Jesus will return.  Jesus Himself said that only the Father knows the appointed hour.  The point is that we are supposed to constantly live our lives doing the work of our Lord and Savior so that in that “twinkling of an eye” when Jesus does return, we are found as faithful and obedient servants, diligently doing His work and will.

Unfortunately, beloved, there are many that live without Christ in their hearts.  They do not have the oil of the Holy Spirit burning brightly within them and emanating His light in their lives.  This, brothers and sisters, is all the more reason for us to constantly have our lamps lit with the oil of the Holy Spirit.  By sharing, embracing, and living the Lord’s word and love, we will be more effective in shining His light through the darkness in order to reach those that are presently lost.  Just as we were once lost before being found, we are incredibly blessed with the opportunity to help gather many of our Shepherd’s lost “sheep” by lighting up the path that will lead them home to Him.  This is our mission, beloved, and the time is now to carry it out.

No one should take for granted that the Lord will not come back for “x” amount more time.  We simply do not know the Lord’s return date and time, as only the Father knows.  Jesus could return in 5,000 years, 5 months, 5 weeks, 5 days, or in the next 5 seconds.  Regardless of how long it is until Jesus returns, we need to commit ourselves to doing His work every single day of our lives.  When He returns for us, let’s bless and glorify Him by meeting Him with as many well-oiled lamps as possible!!!

I would like to ask each and every person taking part in today’s discussion a few questions.  If the Lord Jesus Christ were to return in the next few seconds, would you be ready?  Would the Lord find your lamp lit brightly by the oil of the Holy Spirit?  Just as importantly, are you confident and assured that all of your family, friends, and loved ones would be found ready if Jesus were to return in the next few seconds?  Are you confident that hte majority of people in this world are ready to meet the Lord?

Let’s be honest, beloved.  There are a great many people that are not yet ready to meet Jesus Christ.  If Jesus were calling His faithful servants home today, an incredibly large number of people would be among those left behind.  Evidence of this can be found all throughout the world today.  Just turn on the 6 o’clock news, or go for a drive through the city, and you will see that much of humanity is spiritually lost and adrift at sea, without boat or life jacket.  This, brothers and sisters, is the urgency of our mission.  Just as with the 5 foolish virgins, those who are not ready to meet the Lord when He calls His faithful home will find out the harsh reality that the time for making the decision to commit their lives to Him has passed.

Beloved, ask the Lord for the endurance, strength, perseverance, and courage to work tirelessly to share His love and His word with as many people as possible.  The Lord will give you the words and the guidance you need through the Holy Spirit.  The time is now, beloved, for us to increase our staffing levels of faithful and obedient servants to take part in the Lord’s harvest.  Let’s get to work!!!

If you have not yet accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, but you would like to, please pray the following prayer:

“Lord God Almighty, I know that I am a sinner and that I am lost.  I know that I need to be saved from sin, but I also know that I can’t save myself.  Lord Jesus, I know that only You can save me.  I know that you paid for my salvation with your own life and blood on the cross.  I know that when You rose from the grave on the third day, you provided everlasting life to all who trust in You.  Right now, I lay down my life and let go of my pride, my vanity and every other sin that has kept me from You.  Lord Jesus, I now completely trust my life to You.  I open my heart to You, Lord.  Please come into my heart.  Please forgive me of all of my sins, and please accept me as Your child.  From this point on, I commit my life to You.  Please guide me and provide me strength as I begin to live the rest of my life for You.  In Your precious and matchless name I pray.  Amen.”

Beloved, if you just prayed that prayer then you can rejoice in knowing that you now have the presence of the Lord in your heart.  While you will still face trials and tribulation in this world, you will never again face it alone.  Nurture your new relationship with the Lord and grow that relationship by getting to know Him better.  You can do this by studying His word (the bible), while also making talking to Him continually through prayer made with thanksgiving and supplication.  All you have to do to find out what the Lord had in mind for your life when He made you is to ask Him to shape your life in manner in which serves His will and then embrace the changes that He makes in you and your life.  Welcome to the family, beloved!!!  You are precious in your Heavenly Father’s eyes, and the angels in heaven are rejoicing in your decision to accept Christ Jesus as your Lord and Savior:-)  We are happy to have you!!!

Thank you for joining us for today’s discussion.  I hope you will be able to join us for tomorrow’s next discussion.  Now, go enjoy this day that the Lord has made, and make the most of it.  Be glad, and rejoice in it!!!  Share the Lord, His love, and His word with as many people as possible, doing so just as freely as the Father shared His only begotten Son with us:-)

May the Lord bless you, keep you, guide you, and make His face to shine upon you and your loved ones always.

Your brother in Christ,

Rev Jason Thurwanger

“Niet liefde is selectief, maar je verlangens zijn selectief. Liefde kent geen buitenstaanders. Zodra het middelpunt van zelfzucht ophoudt, verdwijnen alle verlangens naar plezier en ook elke angst voor pijn; elke interesse in gelukkig zijn verdwijnt; achter het geluk ligt de bron zelf van alle kracht, een onuitputtelijke energie, de extase van te geven uit een eeuwige bron.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

De vreugde van geven
uit de oneindigheid
die liefde is
die jij bent
die ik ben

Ongekend, ongewoon,
oneindig mooi …

I’ll be starting just a short series on the names of God.  I was inspired by a website, gotquestions.org, that sends out Questions of the Week.  One of the “QOTW” was “What are the names of God?”  It captured my attention and shared a lot of interesting facts on many names given to God in the Old Testament.

I wanted to start with Yahweh because it is the most frequently used name for God in the Bible, roughly 6,800 times.  It was first used in Exodus 3:14 when Moses questioned, “Who are you?”  God said, “I AM who I AM.”  In my language, God was saying, “I’m me and there is nobody like me.”

The meaning of the word has many different nuances.  First, it means that God is independent and self-existent.  He relies on nothing.  There is nobody or anything that keeps him going.  Also, his name, Yahweh, means that he, in his character, is immutable.  This means that he isn’t in the process of changing and he’s always the same.  Hebrews 13:8 says that he is ”the same yesterday and today and forever.”

What’s cool is that the Hebrew word for “I AM” is ehyeh (pronounced like you’re kicking someone in karate).  It is also translated “I will be”.  Check verse 12 in that passage.  Moses is scared to go speak to Pharoh and doesn’t have confidence to go.  God says, “But I will be with you…”  In context of the dialog between Moses and God, God is giving Moses and everyone Moses will talk to a reminder that He “will be with them.”  His name, Yahweh, alone is a reminder of His promises to his people and of his help for them to fulfill their calling.  We need to realize that this promise is true for us today.

This name clearly shows the true nature and character of God.  He is separate, holy and doesn’t change.  He is forever and he’ll always be with us to accomplish his will, for his glory.

“Wezenlijke communicatie tussen mensen ligt niet op het niveau van woorden. Om een echte relatie aan te gaan en te onderhouden, heb je warme aandacht nodig, die tot uitdrukking komt in  spontane activiteit. Niet wat je zegt, maar wat je doet is belangrijk”.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Wat een wonder
in verbinding te zijn met jou
vanuit de verbinding met mij

Wat een zegen
geen woorden meer te hoeven zeggen
gewoon alleen maar te Zijn
bij Mij …