COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE
Acts 13:40,41/Habakkuk, chapter 1 (KJV); Isaiah, chapters 13 and 14; chapter
47; Jeremiah chapters 50 and 51.
(Revelation, chapter 18, KJV)
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LOST SOULS BLOWING IN THE WIND
by Pete Hamill
The wind began to blow at exactly 8:46 a.m., when the
city was hushed for a frozen minute of silence. The wind was fierce and
sudden, driving from the west across harbor and river, pushing violently
through the spaces between buildings...
Down in the foundation of the destroyed World Trade Center,
relatives of those who died a year ago were coming forward to drop roses
in a ring called the Circle of Honor. The wind created swirling dust devils
in the earth beneath their feet...
And then the wind seemed to become an essential part
of this day of remembrance. It was as if it were lifting all the anguish
out of the pit, out of the earth, out of the hearts of all mourners and
dispersing it into the sparkling air.
A cleansing wind. A liberating wind. Once more at this
site...we saw a cloud of dust, THIS TIME COMING FROM NATURE AND NOT FROM
THE MURDEROUS HEARTS OF ADDLED MEN. The wind blew and the dust rose above
us all...toward all those places on our granite island where wolves howled
in forests when and women first came to live in Cortland St...
The Meaning of the Year
I stopped at City Hall restaurant on Duane St. and talked with my
friend Henry Meir about the components of the great Jewish traditions
of mourning: sitting shivah, WHERE YOU SURRENDER TO THE INVINCIBILITY
OF DEATH FOR SEVEN DAYS; sheloshim, for another 30 days, remembering
the dead as they were in life, and then a mourning period of 11 months
until the one-year anniversary called Yahrzeit. The prayer of mourning
is called Kaddish.
Meir was saying that the understanding of Yahrzeit is that
"now we must get on with our lives." And still we must pray...The
words of the old Jewish poet were apt for a New York that has reached
Yahrzeit and is getting on with life. The words, of course, acknowledge
the mercies of the Lord:
He knows how we are fashioned, remembers that we are dust...Our
days are as grass: we flourish as a flower in the field...The wind passes
over it, and it is gone...And no one can recognize where it grew...
Even for those who do not believe, that's a prayer fit for a day of
wind and dust, of memory and forgetting. Outside on Church St., you saw
women pushing babies in strollers and men eating ice cream cones and schoolgirls
flirting with boys in Allen Iverson jerseys. Taxis honked for passage.
A homeless man sipped wine against the pole of a telephone booth. Yahrzeit.
Our days are (indeed) as grass. The
New York Daily News, Sept. 12, 2002.
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"In the ruins of two towers, under a flag unfurled at the Pentagon,
at the funerals of the lost, we have made a sacred promise," Bush
said in the seven minute address. "WE WILL NOT RELENT UNTIL JUSTICE
IS DONE AND OUR NATION IS SECURE."
In a not-so-veiled reference to Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein, he
added, "We will not allow any terrorist or tyrant to threaten civilization
with weapons of mass murder."
But he also seemed to hint that it was time for the nation to move
on, noting, "Tomorrow is September 12. A milestone is passed, and
a mission goes on." The
New York Daily News, Sept.12, 2002.
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Bush's day took him to the Pentagon, Pennsylvania and the Pit, and
ended with a speech to the nation from Ellis Island on the eve of his
speech to the world urging action against Iraq.
"God had placed us together, to serve each other and our country,"
he said. "What our enemies have begun, we will finish. I BELIEVE
THERE IS A REASON THAT HISTORY HAS MATCHED THIS NATION WITH THIS TIME."
The New York Daily News,
September 12, 2002.
The first anniversary of September 11th has
come, and now passed. We have been inundated with the images, and the sounds
of America mourning, they are fresh in our minds. And though a billion tears
have been shed, and a billion words have been written since the fiery, and
totally surreal collapse of those towers a year ago, America has not come
one step closer to comprehending the meaning of it all. In fact, as America
moves closer to the next stage of its war of retribution (its insistance
on justice) it is moving further and further away from understanding the
meaning of it all, and closer and closer to the judgment (the justice)
that God has prepared and layed out for it. Thou shalt kindle no Fire
throughout your habitations on the sabbath day. (Exodus 35:3). America
is intent now (hell-bent is the word) on kindling the further flames
of God's Divine Wrath, flames that will eventually descend upon America again
in the most horrendous way, as it is also written: For our God is a consuming
Fire. (Deuteronomy 4:24; 32; 22-25; Hebrews 12:29). This will come as
the American people place further reliance and faith in the American political
process and in those evil ones who have risen to the pinnacle of power as
a result...
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved,
what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of
God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements
shall melt with a fervent heat?...
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things,
be diligent that ye may be found of Him IN PEACE, without spot, and blameless...
(And) seeing that you know these things, beware lest ye
also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness...(2
Peter 3:10-18)
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FOLLOW PEACE WITH ALL MEN, and holiness,
without which no man shall see the Lord...(Hebrews
12:14).
Nor have the religious institutions of the West--the
ones who should be the first to see into the spiritual dimensions of these
events, and the first to interpret them--come a step closer to understanding
the reality of God's Presence in it all, as Paul himself said two thousand
years ago: Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord. We have come to
the fulness of these times, to the end of this age, and find that there is
absolutely no regard for the oracles of God (the written word) among America's
religious institutions; there is certainly no fear of God among them, nor
has the realization touched them yet that there is only One Reality (One unfolding
of events in the earth--only One God). Everything that Nature is doing (thus
everything that humanity is doing), God is doing. This very simple, yet profound
realization evades the natural mind...
And when the Sun was going down (at
the end of the age), a deep sleep fell
upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
And He said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed
shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs (America),
and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them Four hundred years;
And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I
judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance...(Genesis
15:5-16).
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Oh that we were wise, that we understood this, that
we would consider our latter end...
See now that I, even I , am He, and there is no god
with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal, neither is there
any that can deliver out of my hand.
For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for
ever.
If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold
on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them
that hate me.
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword
shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives,
from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy...(Deuteronomy
32:29-42).
The place where the World Trade Center stood:
is it sacred ground? Indeed it is, for the Lord of heaven and earth has visited
there (as He did at Pearl Harbor, and as He has on all the other battlefields
of the earth)...
Then the earth shook and trembled; the
foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because He was wroth.
There went up a smoke out of His nostrils,
and a fire out of His mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
He bowed the heavens also, and came down:
and darkness was under His feet.
And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly:
yea, He did fly upon the wings of the wind (the
Divine Kami-Kazi)...(Psalm
18:1-10).
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And there shall be upon every high mountain (every
great nation), and upon every high hill, rivers
and streams of waters (see
1 Thessalonians 5:3) in the day of the great
slaughter, when the Towers fall...(Isaiah 30:25).
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A voice of noise from the city, a voice
from the Temple, a voice of the Lord that rendereth recompense to His enemies..
Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen
such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall
a Nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth
her children.
Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause
to bring forth? saith the Lord: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the
womb? saith thy God...
For, behold, the Lord will come with Fire,
and with His chariots like a whirlwind, to render His anger with fury, and
His rebuke with flames of Fire.
For by Fire and by His Sword will the Lord
plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many...(Isaiah
66:6-9; 15-18).
Western civilization as we know it is founded
in the words and precepts of these sacred scriptures, and yet we are witnessing
a wholesale abandonment of them in our time. As events unfold, as the words
are being fulfilled before our very eyes, almost everyone, religious and non-religious
alike, are not only intent on leaving God out of the historical equation but
continue adamantly unmindful of the words that say: As a snare shall this
day come upon all them that dwell upon the earth. The day has come and
no one believes it.
Factions of the antiwar
and anti-globalist movement were outside of the United Nations building naively
shouting: "What do we want? PEACE! When do we want it? NOW!" while
George Bush was inside, paying absolutely no attention to them and delivering
his now-already-famous ultimatum to the United Nations (accusing Iraq of crimes
that everyone knows America is guilty of, and complicit in, ten times over--thus
indicting itself). "We will not relent until justice is done," said
Bush. Well those are God's sentiments exactly. The children of Light in the
world desire peace, but of the sons of Darkness, the ones who are in strict
obedience to God's commandments in the earth, it is written:
Proclaim ye this...Prepare
war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come
up:
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks
into spears: let the weak say, I am strong...
Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley
of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get
ye down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is
great.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for
the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision...(Joel
3:9-14).
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He that leadeth into captivity shall go into
captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here
is the patience and faith of the saints...(Revelation
13:10).
Not only are these wicked ones now caught in
their own devices, but the religious institutions, the media, the people themselves,
spellbound, and bewildered by it all, complicit in it all, are caught along
with them. They have fallen sheepishly in line again with the dictates of
the American antichrists (2 Thessalonians 2:5-11), just as they have in all
of the nation's previous wars. They remain severely unmindful of two basic
facts: (1), There are, indeed, no powers on earth but those that are ordained
of God (Romans 13:1-8, KJV). (Please consider the spiritual implications of
those words, and ask: why do George Bush and the other political and religious
leaders of the American order--those who call themselves Christians--not believe
that they are subject to them? As "christians" the word is explicitly
enjoined upon them; they too must fear the Power, but they don't); and (2),
that while the United States of America is the only place on earth, and the
American experience the only conditions out of which the Child of Revelation
can be born, the paradox is that the American nation itself was founded in
the clear violation of the precepts of Christ's teachings to begin with. It
was founded in rebellion and bloodshed, murder and war. (Open the pages of
the Book of Isaiah. Read 1 Peter 2:1-17, open the Book of Jude).
America was founded in
acts of genocide; in the institutions of slavery; the stealing of land and
the subsequent and private exploitation of the natural resources of the Earth;
in the steady amassing of privilege and power, and accumulation of private
wealth. It was founded in oppression, in continual disservice to indigenous
peoples and minorities, children, the poor, and literally on the backs of
its own working people. (Any changes in the American regime, any reforms to
the system on behalf of the oppressed, had always to be forced upon it. Such
changes never sprang, as it were, from the wellsprings of the mercantile and
capitalist heart). America is founded in the crafty misuse and distortion
of sacred writ, in the twisting of such concepts in the Law and the Prophets
as freedom, liberty, and justice, to further its own oppressive
ends. (Isaiah 5:17-30. KJV). And after four centuries, of which the sacred
oracles have clearly foretold, justice is now being served...
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl!
for your miseries, that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted,
and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the
rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as
it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have
reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth (from
everywhere else throughout the world now):
and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the
Lord of Sab'a-oth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton;
ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned
and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
Be patient therefore brethren, unto the
coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit
of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early
and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming
of the Lord draweth nigh...(James 5:1-8).
Actually it is more accurate to say that after
six thousand years justice is finally being served, for all these great oppressions,
and the wars that have ensued between men and God, have their roots in the
story of Genesis, in the garden of Eden, when Eve, as the great epic
story tells, gave birth to two sons, Cain and Abel. (Genesis 4:1-16).
"When Cain had traveled over
many countries he, with his wife, built a city named Nod, where he also had
children...However, he did not accept his punishment (for killing his
brother Abel) in
order to amend, but to increase his wickedness. For he only aimed to procure
everything that was for his own bodily (and material)
pleasure, though it obliged him to be injurious to his neighbor.
He augmented his household substance
with much wealth. By rapine and violence he excited his acquaintances to procure
pleasures and spoils by robbery, and became a great leader of men into wicked
courses. He also introduced change in the way of simplicity wherein men lived
before; and was the author of measures and weights; and whereas they lived
innocently and generously while they knew nothing of such arts, he changed
the world into cunning craftiness.
He first of all set boundaries
about lands, he built a city, and fortified it with walls, and he compelled
the family to come together to it, and called the city Enoch after the name
of his eldest son Enoch." Josephus's Antiquities I.II.2.
This seems to be the place to set in order,
and to put into perspective, all that we have been saying in the previous
chapters of this work. Is it possible to put six thousand years of human history
in a nutshell? We shall try. The story begins in Eden and it comes to its
conclusion in Eden. It begins in the final centuries of the Atlantean age,
and comes to its conclusion (or rather its beginning again), in the events
that are unfolding in the earth in our own time, here at the Western ends
of the earth:
But as the days of No'e were, so shall also the coming
of the Son of man be...(Matthew 24:37-39; Luke
17:26,27).
Have we not known? have we not heard? hath it not been
told us from the beginning? have we not understood from the foundations
of the earth?...(Isaiah 40:21,22).
Perhaps it begins in the words: ...For where
no law is, there is no transgression (Romans 4:15). Until God's revelation
to Adam Six thousand, or 120 Jubilees of years ago (120 X 49 = 5,880 years),
humankind could not conjure up the winds of war, or incur God's creative wrath
as it has been since that time, and particularly since the beginning of the
20th century, because there was no commandment in the earth against participating
in the act of war. Until the time of Adam humankind was following its own
natural, primal-angelic instincts. It had no fully-conscious idea of
the God of the Universe--of the Single Force that governed heaven and earth.
Its sense of good from evil was limited to those aspects of reality that enhanced
individual and tribal well-being from those that did not. Everything that
enhanced and preserved the life of the individual, the family, the clan and
the tribe was good. Everything that threatened life was evil. The world was
filled with good forces and good spirits, but it was also filled with malevolent
forces and evil spirits. Humans invoked and propitiated the good and protected
themselves as best as they could, and by what ever means they could, from
the evil. It is the natural state of mind.
The natural mind (however)
receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness
unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned...(1
Corinthians 2:14).
And then something happened in the earth that
altered the course of human history, an event that set the world on its course
to the 20th century of this common era and toward all the events that are
unfolding in the earth at this present time. God began a process that is only
now coming to its conclusions. They began to create a new order of humankind,
the order of Man, an order created in Their own image. (Genesis
1:26). They are ONE:
God (the Heavenly Father and the Divine Mother,
Heaven and Earth, Above and Below, and All that Exists, both visible and invisible)
revealed Themselves to one single, archetypal couple, a male and a female
whom the sacred writings call Adam. (Genesis 5:1,2). Adam is not the
first human beings, but rather the first of the human order to perceive in
their own relationship to each other, and in their mutual relationship to
the world around them, the Singular Nature of God's Presence in all things,
not only in the universe above but in the earth below, and in every living
creature that dwells on the earth. God is Light (LIFE), they realized,
and in Him there is no Darkness (DEATH) at all. They (Adam) were the world's
first monotheists, their children were the first cosmologists. They were the
first to realize that everything flows from the same source--day and night,
light and darkness, good and evil, the appearance of life and the appearance
of death. They were the first to perceive Reality in higher, theological (and
quantum) terms, the first to ask pertinent questions of the Universe
and, in turn, to receive the pertinent answers. They were the first to perceive
the order (the Beauty) in what seemed to everyone else to be natural chaos.
They were the first to conceptualize the idea of symmetry, the first to speak
in terms of the hidden principles that permeated creation, holding it together,
giving it form. It was a startling revelation, for it implied that if there
is, indeed, only one Primary Force in the universe, and that if that Force
is both Intelligent and Benevolent (as well as fierce), and that if there
is a pattern and a meaning to it all, and another dimension to reality that
is not revealed to the natural eye, then there was nothing to fear from the
Universe at all, as long as one brought themselves into harmony with its higher
precepts. All things must, despite every appearance to the contrary, be working
out to the good. "For, after all," Adam deduced, "why would
God reveal these things to us if it was not so? We who only seek the good
in life, and those things that are good for all others?" Adam--a male
and female in love and in harmony with each other, and with Creation itself--were
the first Christs in the earth.
We do not know what race these first seers belonged
to, other than the human race. Anyone who cares to make the claim to
them may do so. It makes no matter, for they are archetypal, and their spiritual
seed in the earth were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the will of man, but of God, (John 1:13), and these are known by
their fruits. What we do know, however, is that the biblical story of Eden,
and the precepts and laws that attended this evolution in human consciousness,
were carried across the Atlantic, out of an Atlantean civilization that was
being inundated and destroyed by the judgment wars that God was igniting in
the earth in those ancient times....
And the end thereof shall be with a flood,
and unto the end of the war desolations are determined...(Daniel
9:26).
These recollections, transmitted orally at
first, were carried Eastward by those adepts in the newly emerging spiritual
sciences. They came out of those terrible events through what they perceived
to be nothing other than God's Mighty Arm, and His (Indra's) Divine Presence
risen up everywhere against their own spiritual enemies--the children of Cain.
For centuries they had tried to reason out of the teachings of Adam, and as
they spoke of the imperatives of peace, their adversaries (their own brothers,
the children of Cain) continually spoke of war. Atlantean civilization came
to its conclusion about sixteen hundred years after the initial revelation
to Adam (in the time of the legendary Noah), when the struggle between the
children of Light and the children of Darkness was already fully underway
in the Western world. The teachings of Adam/Manu had already by that time
gone out into the world in their earliest forms. The heavens were already
being charted. Perhaps the center (Tipheret) had already been located,
and the meanings of it all were already being hidden from the minds of the
children of Darkness. Metaphor and allegory, similitude and parable, and the
art of story were very early developments in this regard.
These spiritual adepts--attuned to spiritual
reality, always following the course of historical events, always taking the
path away from the still-continuing saga of human warfare, and always following
the course of the sacred rivers (the spiritual rivers that flowed out of Eden
into all the other regions of the earth)--emerged with their teachings and
their understanding of the Universe on the plains of Mesopotamia. Continuing
Eastward they found their way to India and gave rise to Vedic culture. (One
cannot interpret the historical framework of Hebrew thought if they are not
familiar with the structure of ideas that are present in the Vedas and the
other classic Hindu texts...Please see Chapter 4).
These beliefs were also carried to Egypt, and
built in those earliest of times into the structures of the great pyramids,
and inscribed hieroglyphically onto the temple walls of ancient Egypt. What
were built and inscribed there was the mysteries of the West, and above that,
the things that were already being concealed in the higher regions of human
consciousness, in the North--things that would be revealed and come to pass
in the fulness of times. Thus the words: And Moses was learned in all the
wisdom of the Egyptians...(Acts 7:22). Egypt (a symbol of the entire Western
world), is the base upon which God built the structure of the post-Deluvian
age...(Revelation 17:9-18).
Egypt, a symbol of the entire lower, Western order,
where also our Lord was crucified...(Revelation 11:8). This is an
epic story that is not complete yet. (Genesis 15:6-16).
These earliest of spiritual adepts understood
that this process of creation had only been set in motion at the time of their
spiritual parents in the garden of Eden. Through visions, insights, dreams
and premonitions, and through the corresponding unfolding of historical events,
they realized that it was a process that would not come to its conclusion
until a great cycle of human history had completed itself, and when all of
the ideas that first began to impress themselves upon the mind of Adam/Manu
came to fruition at the end of the age. They also perceived how thoroughly,
and how perfectly, the sons and daughters of Adam had already fallen away
from the precepts of Light, and, sadly, how they yielded instead, not only
to the subtle distortions of those teachings but to the fearful and violent
influences of Cain, and of all the other Nimrods who appeared in succession
in the earth now, one after another, to lead the mind of the people captive.
(Please consider the chapter entitled Cain and Nimrod in the Addendum
to this work). The struggle between the Mind of Light and the Mind of Darkness
was well underway, and it would lead inexorably to the time of Christ and
back to the garden of Eden, to the roots of the World Tree, and to the
Great Falling Away that has occurred again here in America in our time.
(Hebrews 6:4-8; 2 Thessalonians, chapter 2; 2 Corinthians 4:1-4. KJV).
The epic began in Eden, 6,000 years ago, and ends in Eden,
at the roots of the Tree of Life again.
What were Adam's instructions to their congregation
(to their Church as it were, and subsequently to all of her children
throughout time...Ephesians 5:31.32)? Basically this: There is only One Reality,
and that Reality is God. Look now into the world of that Reality. What ever
you behold, and what ever you are capable of understanding, that is God. God
is all that exists. Behold the forces of Nature. That is God. Behold the elements
of Nature. That is God. See how these forces and elements come together, spin,
clash, appear and disappear, ordering the world from day to day, season to
season, and year to year. That is God. These forces are not in opposition
to themselves. You yourselves are the work of those forces, you are made of
these very same elements--Air above, Earth below, Water and Fire--understand
your relationship to them. Be in harmony with them. Inherit the age to come...
Now look beyond the village, all around you,
over those mountains, across the sea. Consider that tribe of people over there
that you are afraid of, that warrior band, the ones that you are arming yourselves
against in case they should decide to attack you. What does it tell you about
God? Yes, you understand it right, God is Terrible (2 Corinthians 5:11;
Hebrews 10:31). He is a God of War. (Exodus 15:1-3). He is a Consuming
Fire. (Deuteronomy 4:23-35). Let that understanding sink down into your
soul, into your collective state of consciousness, so that when you come to
the end of the age you will not be found waging war against God--the very
One who will be risen up in all of His Glory in those times, in the sum of
every natural and historical event. Believe us, the prophets said, if you
do not follow these instructions God will destroy you from off the Face of
the earth. This is why God has sent us into the world, to tell you of these
things, and to warn you again and again, in case you forget, and in case you
should choose instead to follow your own natural instincts (Ezekiel 33) and,
worse of all, if you choose to follow the fearful and violent instincts of
those antichrists who will have risen up powerful in the earth in those times.
(Hebrews 12:18-29). If you do follow these instructions God will bequeath
to you, not only a fruitful life upon the earth but in the heavens above,
and universes beyond. This is the heritage of those who overcome, and who
are created at last in the image of God...
Here are your instructions: Follow peace
with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. Follow
the Eightfold Path which leads to salvation: (1) Right Understanding
(free from superstition and delusion); (2) Right Thought (high and worthy
of spiritual beings); (3) Right Speech (kindly, open, truthful); (4) Right
Actions (peaceful, honest, pure); (5) Right Livlihood (bringing hurt or danger
to no living being); (6) Right Effort (in self-training and self-control);
(7) Right Mindfulness (the active watchful mind) and (8) Right Concentration
(in deep meditation on the realities of Life). And walk always in the Beatitudes
of the Lord:
Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom
of heaven.
Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness:
for they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called
the children of God.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness
sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when men shall revile you, and persecute
you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.
Rejoice and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward
in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you...(Matthew
5:1-12; Luke 6:20-49).
The rest is history (Romans 12; 1 Thessalonians 5), the whole
of it is unfolding before our very eyes. Eve, the first church--the first
people to receive these teachings from the mouth of Adam--gave birth in turn
to two spirits: the spirit of Cain and the spirit of Abel. The spirit of Cain
went on to become the Nimrods, the Pharaohs and the Caesars in the earth,
those who disregarded and violated these precepts, the religious institutions
that supported them, and all of those who are risen up in power and authority
everywhere throughout the Western world at this very time. God has ordained
a day for them, and is now preparing to end their rule in the earth. Remember
ye the law of Moses, the scriptures say (Malachi, chapter 4). Who
hath heard such a thing? the law of Moses says (Deuteronomy, chapter 4)...
The spirit of Abel (which passed into the children of Seth,
and from there into the lives of all the ancient spiritual adepts of the earth,
and the prophets who emerged among them), is all of those throughout history
who have obeyed the commandments of God, and the instructions of all the spiritual
Elders (the symbolic Twenty Four Elders; understand it in the Four
sefirot on the Tree of Life named Love and Power, Endurance and Majesty) who
have walked throughout time in the continuing revelations of God, and who
have from time to time been called upon to suffer and die for justice and
righteousness' sake--for the Mystery of God's sake. (Our's is such a time).
The Door to eternity has always been opened to these (as well as to all of
those--the simple, the humble, and even those who did not call themselves
by God's Names but who lived as those who call themselves by these Names should).
It has always been opened to the poor and the poor in spirit, and every righteous
soul who has ever walked in the light of the Truth. (Even if they did not
know the Truth). The spirit of Abel, then Seth, find their perfection
in the cosmic dimensions of the Mystery of Christ (Genesis 4:25,26):
I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I,
if it be already kindled?...(Luke 12:49).
What if the Fire of Wisdom and Understanding, of Love
and true Power, of Endurance and Majesty, were already kindled in the hearts
of men? Then God would have no further cause to bring the Fires of Destruction
upon the earth.
As everyone can see, a great repression is getting ready
to unfold in America. Those thousands upon thousands who are already resisting
America's global and military ambitions will be declared enemies of the state.
Among them is the Remnant in our time. (1 Kings 19:18; Revelation 11:13).
Their purpose in the earth at this time is to interpret the scriptures, to
shine a light on the system of antichrist (please see Chapter 11, and the
chapter entitled The Number Six Hundred Sixty and Six), and to reveal
the Messiahs who will appear in the name DaViD from the Lunar, or Feminine
side of the sacred Oracle. (Romans 10:12-15; Isaiah 4:1,2; Isa.30:25,26).
As the Father is risen up everywhere in the East preparing
to meet the Western powers on the battlefields of Armageddon, the Divine Mother
is descended here in the West bringing forth Her next child. (Revelation 12:1,2;
Isaiah 66:6-18...Please see the Chapter 5 and the one entitled The Holy
Child). The Great Dragon has surfaced from the sea, and the Higher Jerusalem
is descending from its hiding place in the East, shedding a light on the illegitimacy
of the existence of the Zionist State of Israel. (Please see chapters Two
and Ten, and that chapter entitled Kalachakra Initiation (And the Jerusalem
Above). All the historical conditions are arranged, the pieces are in
place, and all the personalities are already at large in the world (2 Thessalonians
2:1-12). We have come to the Great Day of the Lord. The old order of
things has come to its conclusion, and out of it a truly new order will be
born.
Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord: for He is raised
up out of His holy habitation... (Zechariah 2:1-13).
I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken,
O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because
thou hast striven against the Lord...(Jeremiah
50:22-24).
As events unfold, as war erupts, as the economy
collapses (separating the children of Light from the children of Darkness,
Revelation 13:17), as the word goes out, as the social crises deepens, and
as the repressions, arrests and imprisonments intensify, as the people awaken,
as the idea of the Messiah's begins to clarify and manifest itself, as the
judgments fall, as the old gives way to the new, as the Child is born,
the people and the Messiahs will all meet in the center. A nation will come
into existence--the true Israel--and the Law shall begin to go forth from
Zion. (Isaiah 2:1-3). Just as the United States of America is the prophetic
Babylon the Great, so is it the final manifestation of the Mystery Egypt,
as it is written:
And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God,
and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord
God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints...(Revelation
15:3/ Exodus 15).
The song of Hannah..(1 Samuel
2:1-12), and The Magnificat of Miriam...(Luke 1:46-55).
Meet in the middle.
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, AND
THOU ART AS A WHALE IN THE SEAS: and thou camest forth with thy rivers,
and troublest the waters with thy Feet, and fouledst their rivers.
Thus saith the Lord God: I will therefore spread out
my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee
up in my net.
Then I will leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee
forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of heaven to remain
upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill
the valleys with thy height.
I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou
swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee...(Ezekiel
32:2-6).
DaViD (D.V.D) The Anointed Ones...Zechariah
4.
By consulting the oracle--the diagram of the Tree of Life
above--we see that there are two lines proceeding from the time of Moses and
Aaron into our own time. These two lines are reflected in the words:
And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and
the Two Tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written
on BOTH their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written...(Exodus
32:15,16).
The timeline on the Right side of the oracle represents the
Written Law. The literal precepts and statutes of the Torah were handed down
to the world along that line which led from the figure of Moses to the time
of Christ, when Paul--a Pharisee, and rigid literalist--appears in the story
of Israel. Talmudic Judaism knows this rabbi by the name Elisha ben Abuyah,
and called him A'her, "the one who goes by another, or assumed,
name." (Please see Chapter 8, and study the Epistles of Paul in this
light). The Torah experienced a crisis of interpretation in that time, one
that altered the course of history: He seems to be a setter forth of strange
gods, they said: because he preached unto them Jesus (Hesus-Crishna--the
composite figure of the Druid's Hesus and the Vedic Crishna),
and the resurrection. (Acts 17:17-20). Those who adhered to the teachings
of Paul (and John the Baptist before him), departed from the written, or purely
literal dimensions of the Torah, following instead the secret, hidden, pathways
in the Torah that led inwards, into the mysteries that were being concealed
from the eyes of the world all those centuries. These pathways led into the
center of the Oracle, to the place named Beauty on the World Tree. (Deuteronomy
12). And then these mysteries were sealed up, with Seven Seals, and
hidden from the eyes of the world again, so that the mind of Darkness in the
earth could not discover them, And take hold of the Tree of Life, as
it were, and live. (Revelation 5:1; 10:7-11).
MALACHI, CHAPTER 4...(KJV)
Christianity, the Sun. Judaism, the Moon...(Isaiah 30:26).
The Written Torah itself, however, still had to be safeguarded
and preserved so that its purpose and its relationship to its own meanings
were not lost, or forgotten, as the children of Israel spread themselves out
across the earth, as the stars of heaven, and as the sand of the
sea for multitude. Thus by the end of the second century the Spirit had
already separated a remnant of Jews from all the rest, charging them, not
only with putting a hedge around the Written Torah, but with getting inside
of that fence themselves, and staying there until they were told to come out
of it in the last days. These are those of whom it was written: No man
also having drunk old wine straightaway desireth new: for he saith the old
is better. (Luke 5:39).
He that keepeth the Fig Tree shall eat of the fruit
thereof, and he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured...(Proverbs
27:18).
Blessed art thou O land when thy king is the son of
nobles, and thy princes eat in due season for strength and not for drunkenness...(Ecclesiastes
10:17).
Bound in their coats, their hosen, their hats, and their
other garments, these are those who have withstood the fiery trials of
their faith (1 Peter 1:7; 4:12,13). And there is one among them like unto
the Son of God. (Daniel 3:20-25...KJV). These are also the same upon whom
the right-hand line descends in our time--a remnant (anti-Zionists everyone),
from which the Anointed Ones will be manifest--of whom Paul refers in the
11th chapter of Romans when he says:
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant
of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness
in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
And so ALL Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There
shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn ungodliness from Jacob...(Romans
chapter 11...KJV).
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And in that day Seven Women (all
of Christendom...2 Corinthians 11:1-4) shall take
hold of One Man (Daniel
3:21, 25; Ephesians 4:13; Genesis 5:1,2), saying,
We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called
by thy name to take away our reproach.
In that day shall the Branch of the Lord be beautiful
and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely, for
them that are escaped of Israel...(Isaiah 4:1,2).
Having passed the Written law down for safekeeping--(in essence,
the process of the Torah, which was completed and codified, it is said, in the
time of Ezra, and perfected, it is said, by the Talmudic sages and rabbis who
have risen up since...We shall see. There is much that the rabbis will have
to repent of also, right alongside of Christianity)--Moses then took the mind
of Israel aside, and said: "This is the Torah, the Written Law. If you
obey it LITERALLY--in all of its literal dimensions (the stories
of Israel's wars for instance, which are purely allegorical)--you will die.
Thus the words: For the Letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. (2
Corinthians 3:6). If you approach the Torah with an impure heart, uninspired,
and without regard for the depths and heights of its meanings, you will surely
die. If you reject God's sabbaths (the true meanings of God's statutes) or the
teachers and prophets who bring you these meanings, you will most certainly
die." (Paul will later say: When the law came, I died..Romans 7:6-12).
"Woe to those who see in the
law only simple narratives and ordinary words: Were this really the case,
then we could, even today, comprise a law equally worthy of admiration. But
it is all quite otherwise...Every word of the Law contains an elevated sense
and a sublime mystery...The narratives of the Law are but the raiment in which
the (Higher) Law is clothed. Woe unto him who mistakes the garment for the
Law itself. It was to avert such a calamity that David prayed Open my eyes
that I might behold wondrous things out of Thy law. Another passage states
similarly: ...If the Law consisted of ordinary words and narratives like the
stories of Esau, Hagar,and Laban, or like the words spoken by Balaam's ass
or by Balaam himself, why should it have been called the Law of Truth, the
Perfect Law, the Faithful Testimony of God?" Introduction
to the Zohar.
Having taken the mind of Israel aside, Moses then expounded
the Oral Law--Kabbalah. Looking way off into the future the prophet expounded
the true, epic, allegorical and metaphorical meanings of the Torah, the parables
and the stories that would guide and inform the mind of Light in the times to
come, and then committed these to Aaron and the priests, the Levites. These
Oral traditions were passed down on a line that led along the Left, or lower
side of the Oracle (the Solar side), from Aaron to the time of the Essene, John
the Baptist, to our own time--the time of Endurance as it is written: Those
who endure to the end shall be saved. (Matthew 24:13). The people, having
received the oral transmission, then followed the story of Joshua, not
into a promised land (in the literal sense of the word), but up into
the hidden center of the Oracle, into a Promised State of Mind; for Moses
had instructed the people at that time, telling them clearly that the only land
they were allowed to rule over with authority and force was the land, and the
empire, of their own individual souls. These are among the sublime mysteries
that were enacted again in the time of Christ as the brother and sisterhood
of Essenes disappeared before the Roman onslaught of that city in the East,
and reappeared again in that City that was being concealed in the center of
the Tree of Life--in the center of Europe. (Open up the Book of Acts):
For, behold, the days come, and it shall be when the signs
which I have foretold you come to pass, then shall the City which is invisible
appear, and the land which is concealed be seen; and whosoever is delivered
from the predicted evils shall see my wonders...(4
Ezra 7:26,27).
Come Up Unto The Lord...Exodus 23 and 24.
Psalm 148. The land (the land of one's own existence), the
King, and the people are One.(Hebrews 1:9-11).
"Now the interpretation of
the sacred scriptures is based on the under-meaning in the allegorical narratives,
for these men look on the whole of their law-code as a Being like a living
thing, having for a Body the spoken commands, and for a Soul the unseen thoughts
stored up in the words (in which the rational soul of the student begins to
contemplate things native to their own nature) the interpretation, as it were,
in the mirror of the words and names,catching sight of the extraordinary Beauties
of the ideas contained in them, unwrapping and unrobing the symbols from them,
and bringing to light the naked inner meanings, for those who are able with
a little suggestion to arrive at the intuition of the hidden sense from the
apparent meaning." Philo Judaeus, On the Contemplative Life (of
the Essenes).
These are the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke
and which Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down.
And he said, Whoever finds the interpretation of these
sayings will not experience death.
Jesus said, Let him who seeks continue seeking until he
finds. When he finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he
will be astonished, and he will rule over all...(Gospel
of Thomas, saying 1 and 2).
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Jesus said, He who has recognized the world
has found the Body, and he who has found the Body is superior to the world...(Saying
80).
These are also the same doctrines that some of the Essenes
secretly brought back into the mainstream of Judaism with them in the form of
the Merkabah mysteries which would inform later generations of Kabbalists,
in which Jesus (the Druid Hesus), the Sacrificial Passover Lamb suspended
on the limbs of the Cosmic Tree, reverts to His own Higher nature as the Metatron--the
Angel of Divine Presence who goes before the Mind of Israel, and brings it into
the Land of Promise. (Exodus 23:20-33; 24:12-18). What is the
mystery of the Cross? Simply that one must, indeed, die to their old nature,
and to all of their old ways of understanding reality before they can enter
this State of Mind. This is the same Angel of Divine Presence who flew into
the World Trade Center on September 11, and the very same who is risen up everywhere
in the world now, in all of the Powers of the earth, to make war against the
rulers of the Western world. (Revelation 19:11-21).
Thus among all these things that were
being both revealed and concealed--not only from Christianity itself (but from
Judaism and Islam as well)--was the early Church's understanding of the last
days, and how they would unfold, and the way (as well as the place on the Tree
of Life) in which the Two Anointed Ones would be revealed. (Please see Chapter
5 in this regard). They understood that one Remnant would come to perfection
on the Left side of the Oracle--the side of Levi, or the Christian side
as it were--and that another Remnant would come to perfection on the Right side
of the Oracle--the side of Judah as it is. And therefore the words:
For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek:
for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
For whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall
be saved.
How then shall they (the
Jews) call on him in whom they have not believed?
and how shall they (the
Christians and all others) believe in him (David,
the Messiahs) of whom they have not heard?
and how shall they hear without a preacher?
And how shall they preach, except they be Sent? (Please
open the Book of Ezekiel), as it is written: How beautiful
are the Feet of them that preach the Gospel of Peace, and bring glad tidings
of good things...(Romans 10:12-15).
The Remnant of Levi shall appear at the Feet of this mystery,
on the Left side of the Oracle at the place named Endurance.
And now my children obey Levi and Judah,
and be not lifted up against these two, for from them shall arise unto you
the salvation of God. For the Lord shall raise up from Levi as it were, a
high priest, and from Judah, as it were a king, God and man, and he shall
save all the Gentiles and the race of Israel...(Testament
of Simeon III.10).
The Two Anointed Ones from Judah will also be revealed here
in the West, at the Eighth sefirot on the Tree of Life named Majesty.
Alas! for the day is so great, so that none is like it.
It is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
For it shall come to pass in that day they shall serve
the Lord their God AND DAVID THEIR KING WHOM I SHALL RAISE UP TO THEM...(Jeremiah
30:7-9).
There is a book in the Nag Hammadi Library of sacred
texts entitled The Discourse on the Eighth and the Ninth. It is a Hermetic
treatise which begins: My father, yesterday you promised me that you would
bring my mind into the Eighth and afterwards you would bring me into the Ninth.
You said this was the order of tradition...
Meet in the Middle.
And He shewed me a pure river of water of Life, clear
as crystal, proceeding out of the Throne of God and of the Lamb.
In the midst of the street of it, on either side of
the river, was there the Tree of Life, which bare twelve manner of fruits,
and yielded Her fruit every month: and the leaves of the Tree were for the
healing of the nations...(Revelation 22:1,2).
