The title of this post may cause some eyebrow raising, but it’s a subject that really needs to be addressed with common sense and esoteric truth. Traditional Christians—some of the kindest and best people on earth whom I call my friends—have been immersed in the doctrines and dogma of man for centuries, and blood sacrifice has been one of those doctrines that has kept them from understanding the deeper truths of the Bible, both in the Old and New Testaments. Please remember, it is not my intention to offend anyone. Ever. But some of what I write here will no doubt ruffle some feathers. Nonetheless, it needs to be said. [Read more…] about Is the Blood Sacrifice of Jesus Really Taught in the Bible as Atonement for Your Sin?
Consciousness
“…so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.” – An Esoteric Interpretation
The scripture mentioned in the title of this post has caused much controversy. This can be expected, because millions across the globe see the scripture as literal, even when Paul clearly indicates this is the not the case.
Are we really to assume that wives should be in subjection to their husbands – in everything? You can imagine the problem here.
It’s quite interesting. I have seen many theologians use the padding of other scriptures to bring more common sense to this issue, such as husbands ought to love their wives properly, and when that’s done, it somehow makes a literal interpretation in the title of this post OKAY because now there is the proper balance and understanding of what Paul truly meant. [Read more…] about “…so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.” – An Esoteric Interpretation
What do Genesis, Lemuria, and Atlantis Have in Common?
Scour the internet, and you will find all kinds of strange ideas about long lost continents that were once inhabited by root races of humans. The most widely known are Lemuria and Atlantis, both with flourishing civilizations long lost to the annals of history, except in circles of Theosophy and conspiracy theorists who claim to hold the truth to humanity’s origins. Ancient Egyptian mythology and Plato’s works originally fueled such ideas for thousands of years, and more recently, even Edgar Cayce, one of the most famed psychics of 20th century, provided detailed accounts of what these civilizations were like. [Read more…] about What do Genesis, Lemuria, and Atlantis Have in Common?
What if the purpose of Creation is the Evolution of God?
In a previous article of May 6th, Joshua asked the question: What is God to you?
When pondering this question I was suddenly reminded of the orthodox view that God is omniscient and Almighty, and that His Word should be taken absolutely literally and adhered to. During my childhood that did not trouble me at all as I have known since my birth that God is a God of Love. I even experienced that myself during a Near Death Experience. And I grew up in a love-oriented church so there was nothing to worry about.
Things changed however when during my teens I became aware of the fact that other people in other churches saw God as a Jealous God, who threatened with hell and damnation when you did not conform to His laws. And I also became aware of the Holocaust. How could such a thing have happened in a civilized society which at the time could still be considered Christian? Many people began leaving their church (or synagogue) because of the question: Where was God when all this happened? Why did He not do anything to prevent this? This must surely mean that God does not exist.
These questions were not my questions, however. I started wondering: What went wrong with the teaching of the church? Not God caused the Holocaust but people who often belonged to Christian churches. And many churches (not all) remained silent while it was all happening. Something must have gone seriously wrong with the teaching of the churches because how else could something like this have happened? How else could all these other atrocities have happened to both Jews and black people, and to the native peoples in so many countries, ever since conquering Christians arrived there? And all that during so many centuries, almost from the moment Christianity was recognized as a religion, and made into the ruling one by the Roman emperor Constantine. And how else could Christians belonging to different churches have started to even murder each other as well? Each claiming the one and only truth for themselves?
No, something must have gone seriously wrong with the teachings of the churches that appeared to be motivated more by the love of power than by the love of God. And that even started messing with the Bible texts themselves sometimes, especially those of the New Testament, in order to make them supportive of their teachings. The parts and pieces of the old biblical manuscripts that had been found had been ‘corrected’ and changed many times over before being copied again and so on and the differences between them are enormous. And also translations show many differences, caused either by interpretation or manipulation. I have mentioned this subject many times already in my comments on this blog and quite a few books were written about this subject over time.
[Of course there is another side to Christianity as well, a very positive side, but that is not the subject of discussion here.]
All this was a reason for me to undertake an independent search, not founded on the interpretations of any theologian or bible scholar. My discovery of the possibility of a symbolic Bible interpretation was of course a great help, as was the knowledge I gained from an interpretation based on Hebrew numerology but most of all from the insights I received when in a state of a meditative focus on a subject.
The mutual communication between writers and readers on this blog proved to be a great help as well. It made it possible to develop a kind of model of a cycle of spiritual development. A cycle of a descent/involution – into the world of matter – and ascension that I had discovered in the Bible stories. That brought the concept of consciousness and awareness to my attention. I am afraid I used these terms rather loosely to begin with, feeling they are important but …. What the bleep is Consciousness? as somebody asked me once. I couldn’t – and still cannot – describe it as I do not really have words for what is for me a wordless knowing. Still, I intuitively knew that these were the right words, but for what?
My model also includes the concept of energy, as waves vibrating on different levels, frequencies, patterns and what have you. I never remember the details as I am no scientist and the essence of things is what is important to me. I had been aware of the importance of the concept of energy already since the nineties of the last century. Everything is energy, including matter, which, as science finally has proven, does not even exist. No matter how deep you go into ‘matter’, everything proves to be a largely empty space with only a few very small ‘balls’ of matter in it. These however also prove to be an empty space with only a few very small ‘balls’ of matter in it, and so on, never mind how far down the line you explore. Neither do time or space exist in Reality, which was a conclusion reached by Albert Einstein, if I am not mistaken.
So what is this world if nothing is real? Buddhists call it Maya, illusion, and Hindus call it Leela, a game. It is also called a virtual reality or a dream. And this dream I recognized from Genesis, where God puts Adam, who until then had been androgynous, both male and female, into a deep sleep in order to separate the male and female sides of Man from each other. No, gentlemen, the woman did NOT arrive later on the scene than the man! The famous rib of Adam is the Hebrew word ‘tsela’, which also means side. And I am pretty sure that that is the right translation here. Nowhere it is said that they woke up after that. Mankind is still largely asleep though some of us are beginning to wake up now.
This dream is the ‘tardema’ that I have already mentioned very often in my articles and it is not a kind of anaesthesia for an operation but the beginning of a cycle of descent and ascension, of gradually descending into ever lower vibratory frequencies, with at the lowest part a stay in the so-called world of matter, and then a rising up again into ever higher frequencies and a return to the world of our origin. With conscious awareness this time.
Our life on earth is a journey in a world that is not real but a virtual reality in which nothing but our losing or gaining of conscious awareness is real. This may also be the answer to the question: Why does not God interfere? God does not interfere because this virtual reality is nothing but a game, or a school as it has also been called. For how could we possibly gain conscious awareness without getting to know the opposites of duality and without going through all the experiences of this world? How would we know the importance of Light if we had never experienced darkness? God does not interfere because in Reality nothing bad will ever happen to us. On the contrary, we will only gain wisdom from the lessons of this school, but we do have to do our homework!
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Looking at it from this point of view makes it easier to understand why we have to undertake this journey. It appears that to begin with we, mankind, departed from a world of High Consciousness but without much if any Awareness. I have heard this foundation of All-that-Is described as: the Zero-point Field of Infinite Potential. And also as a Field of Undifferentiated Consciousness, meaning that it is a oneness that is the same all over, without the possibility of becoming aware of anything at all because there is nothing in it to become aware of.
If this is the starting point of All-that-Is, so to speak, and God IS All-that-Is, then this means that this Zero-point Field of Infinite Potential might be another Name for God. A Name that is different from all the anthropomorphic terms and concepts that we are used to. And that we may still use as long as we remain aware of the fact that there is no One Name or concept that we can define God by. When we are right in our assumption that this term Zero-point Field of Infinite Potential is another Name for God, and in our assumption that God is Love, then Love must be the nature of this Field. And if we assume that Consciousness is another Name for God (which for one scientist was the criterion in order to be able to believe in God), then this field is Consciousness as well. However, to begin with without any Awareness of it. So something has to happen in order to gain this Awareness and this might be, in short, the starting point of a process of creation during which we as mankind finally enter this game of a virtual reality.
It has been said that we are divine sparks, sparks of the Fire that is God, another Name. We, not only humans but everything from quanta to universes and beyond, are all parts of God, points of focus of God, physical or non-physical, who each have our own role to play in this game of gaining Conscious Awareness. Even the physical ones are not really physical of course but only temporarily put on a body suit as it were by descending into the world of matter. The Dutch word for body, lichaam, comes actually from the Gothic word lic hamo, which means something like coat of flesh so people seem to have been aware of this already at the time.
God creates a game of duality and polarity in which all of us, as fractal parts of Him/Her/It (which means we potentially possess all of Its powers) each have our own part to play. We humans put on a blindfold before starting the game; this blindfold is the physical body which Adam and Eve, as mankind, receive by entering into the world of matter, by descending into ever lower frequencies of ever denser energy. In how far this implication of blindness also applies to other life forms in our ‘material’ world goes beyond the scope of this article, not to mention my understanding.
The physical body is ‘or’ in Hebrew, with a numerical value of 70-6-200. This word can also be read as ‘iver’, which means blind, as the number six, the character Vav, can be read both as the vowel o and as the consonant v. This means that we, mankind, are leaving the world of oneness and blindly enter a world of duality and matter in which we will have to come to terms with the conditions of duality. None of this is real but we are not aware of that anymore because this blindness means that our eyes are now closed to oneness but they have been opened to the possibilities of duality. We have also been given a whole toolkit full of tools to help us to discover this world, including time, space and matter, the ego with a full range emotions, karma and reincarnation, which in themselves are not real but will enable us to gradually gain Conscious Awareness by playing this game of duality for all it is worth until we reach the intended goal.
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In a comment I once gave a more extensive description of the game as I see it, which I now quote with some slight alterations and additions:
“I see this world as an illusion, or a dream (‘tardema’). It has also been called a game and indeed it can be compared to a computer game in which all possible choices are already there as potential realities. As such we each will create a different world on the basis of the choices we make and our perspective on whatever this world then presents to us as a result of that choice. When we use a so-called bad experience for instance to help others in similar circumstances the result will be different from when we remain angry and bitter about it.
When we enter the game, we leave our real identity behind and everything we know. We put on a blindfold. In this condition we now have to choose which choice of the first array of choices we want to make into a reality for us and then experience the consequences of that choice. Next we will be presented with a new array of choices and so on. Until game over. After the game we re-examine the choices we made and we may or may not see where it might have been better to make other choices. So we start a new game and proceed on the basis of our conclusions.
That is what the idea of karma and reincarnation is about, I think. You can roughly interpret that in two ways as well as the game is a game of duality: 1) karma is guilt which you have incurred in your previous life or game and in the next one you are punished for it, or 2) karma = action. On the basis of what you have learned from the previous life you decide what you can improve this time. Or descend further if you do not. And so on. It is all a matter of choice. There is no real guilt but only an increase or decrease of conscious awareness that has been lost or gained by our choices.
Since we are only playing a game and there is no real guilt involved, there is no need for salvation. There is just a game which helps us gain conscious awareness, which IS real. And as we get stuck sometimes, as I invariably do, we need all the help we can get in order to reach the final level of the game and bring it to a successful end.
And that help is available. We only have to call the Help desk.
And when we get really stuck and cannot bring this game to an end on our own anymore, Someone is sent to us to explain the rules of the game again very clearly and to play a round of the game with us in order to show how it is done. After that we will be able to continue the game on our own again, with some help from the Help desk from time to time.
Of course it is clear that time, space and matter, and karma and reincarnation, are only tools to help us play the game as none of it exists in reality. But as long as we are still living within the reality of this game, and we cannot possibly grasp the Absolute Reality yet, these concepts are good tools to work with.”
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This model roughly describes the journey through this world of virtual reality but does not yet show the result of this journey. For the world we return to is of course no longer a world of undifferentiated consciousness, a world of an undifferentiated oneness, but I have come to believe that this World has been changing right along with us! It has become a World of Conscious Awareness, and of Love and Unity in diversity. We humans have travelled different roads, and often been at odds with each other, but finally we will all arrive at the same goal. Entering the city of the New Jerusalem through 12 different gates, each ‘tribe’ passing through its own gate, as someone once remarked in a comment.
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There is however still another factor I did not consider yet but which became obvious in an article + video of which I may have shared a link already:
https://documentarystorm.com/the-simulation-hypothesis/
In this video there is an interesting discussion about this virtual reality, which was explained with an extensive variant of the double slit experiment, in which the presence of a Watcher was all important. And that may be the same here as well. This might also prove to be the answer to another point that was debated in the comments on this blog: ”Is God within or outside His creation?”
I looked at this subject from the viewpoint of God as All-that-Is. As such God had to be inside his creation. However when we look at God as the Father who watched the progress of his sons in my article about The Other Son, then the Father can be seen as outside his creation. His creation then being the virtual world. So He is inside All-that-is but at the same time outside the dream as the Watcher of the virtual world, who has to watch it from the outside. And the Watcher is absolutely essential in order to enable us to have all the experiences we need to bring our journey to a successful end, for if no one is watching, then our world ceases to exist. This also was shown by science.
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We, as the divine sparks of God, are the representatives of God in this virtual world. We are entangled aspects of His being that experience all there is to experience in this world in order to gain Conscious Awareness. As in Reality we are not separated from God, nor from each other, but an integral part of God, and God is All-that-Is, then Who is making this journey through this world of discovery? Is it not God Itself, the Watcher who keeps the game going. but who by doing so also simultaneously experiences everything all parts of his creation experience. And who in this dream world is embodied by us as so-called individual gods with a blindfold, who to begin with stumble blindly into this world of ever lower vibratory frequencies and open our eyes to the world of duality, but then gradually find our feet and start rising up again, gaining Conscious Awareness in the process. All this changes the Field of Infinite Potential but without any Awareness into a Realm of Unconditional Love and Unity in diversity, which is Consciously Aware of Itself and of all that led to this gaining of Conscious Awareness. And in which the divine sparks have been reabsorbed by the Fire they came from and never left in Reality. Where all levels of consciousness finally flow together through the process of Time that is No-time, and Place that is No-Place and all diverse forms of creation that have evolved into One Formless Consciousness with Full Awareness.
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So, seen from this perspective, could it be that maybe God was NOT yet Omniscient and Almighty from the very beginning but slowly gaining Conscious Awareness by this process of sending parts, sparks, of Itself into a virtual reality of time and place in order to safely experience everything there is to experience through them, and to evolve into the Omniscient and Almighty God in this way? Within the timeless No-Space of the Point, which is the translation of the Hebrew word Reshit with which it all began in Genesis 1:1: Bereshit bara Elohim et ha shamayim we et ha arets, which can also be interpreted as: With a point God created heaven and earth.
And may we not see this process then as the Evolution of God, and as the purpose of Creation? From God to God through different phases of being God? within All that is – has been – and always will be One after all?
Take up Thy Cross and Follow Me
In the Bible, Pontius Pilate (the Roman governor) found no wrongdoing with Jesus. Jesus was then sent to Herod who also found nothing wrong with what he did or preached. Finally, Pilate asked the people, “What shall he do with Jesus,” and they replied, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” The “him” being referred to is the son of man, or the non-integrated ego, further implying the fruits of the binding influence of spiritual ignorance. [Read more…] about Take up Thy Cross and Follow Me
Realization the Image and Likeness of God
Humankind is acknowledged as the crowning jewel of God’s creation: the only creature made in the image and likeness of God-nature. This is by virtue of the fact that man can self-realize individuality whereas animals cannot.
Col 1:19 puts it “For it was by God’s own decision that the Son (Christ within) has in himself the full nature of God”.
This scripture makes it abundantly clear that humankind is indeed made in the image and likeness of God, and, more specifically, expression of image and likeness.
But two vital questions remain. How is the immensity of God’s full nature accommodated physically in humans, and through what mechanisms? [Read more…] about Realization the Image and Likeness of God
Seventh Day Rest, Karma and the Forbidden Fruits
We’re all fairly familiar with Hebrews 4:4: “On the Seventh Day God Rested from all His Work”, and its seemingly straight forward literal understanding until examined esoterically. We shall explore. Also, how straight forward is the scripture a few lines down from it: “For whoever receives that rest which God promised will rest from his own work, just as God rested from his” Hebrews 4:10.
Many, while professing a literal understanding of these particular scriptures, remain in ignorance I feel of the vital points to which they are alluding. To obtain any meaningful benefit from these two scriptures, literal interpretation will have to be suspended. For, in their literal evaluation the scriptures offer no substantial insight for the individual’s spiritual growth—nothing remotely close to the dramatic truth which esoterically they contain. [Read more…] about Seventh Day Rest, Karma and the Forbidden Fruits
The Mustard Seed of Faith and Developing it Within
This article will explain how faith is a level of potential awaiting development from tiny beginnings into the blossoming of full spiritual consciousness, and that faith is not something reserved strictly for certain times or particular events.
Matthew 17: 19-20 reads: “The apostles came to Jesus in private and asked him: why couldn’t we drive the demon out?” The question refers back to an earlier incident in Matthew 17:14 when the apostles could not heal a boy. “Because you did not have enough faith” Jesus replied, then he said: “I assure you that if you had faith as big as a mustard seed, you can say to this hill go from here to there! And it will go! You could do anything!”
Earlier in Matthew 17:17 Jesus said, “How unbelieving and wrong you people [mind-sets] are! How long must I stay with you?” In other words, how long we will choose to remain under the domain of the finite mind instead of the infinite Son of God?
We’re unbelieving while in spiritual ignorance. Thus the boy is a symbol of our non-spiritually quickened soul in need of awakening into conscious contact with the Higher Self.
Other scriptures use mountain instead of hill: “You could say to this mountain be gone into the sea and it would be gone.” Mountain in scriptures means higher consciousness. When human consciousness becomes transformed into higher consciousness, it is gone into the sea – the equivalent of faith-filled consciousness – when intentions through this state of mind come about. A spiritually rooted person will live faith naturally, and enjoy an unbreakable link with God regardless of how big the so called problem or goal. The mountain will give, heal, or sprout new understanding in tandem with the intentions of the heart.
The mustard seed story is about coming upon hidden faith ability and its development into an unshakable, unmovable level of mountain consciousness and its expression. This scripture is not about having faith already. It’s about how, from tiny beginnings, the mustard seed births and expands into ever present levels of Godliness, into never waning or fading soul values.
The reason the apostles in Matthew 17:19-20 could not perform healing was because the left-side of the brain was dominating, which is why Jesus said: “Of my own self (ego) I can do nothing.” The apostles were spiritually asleep, unable to experience the true nature of faith.
The apostles going to Jesus in private symbolizes personal meditation, that entering of the boundless silence of the soul. Jesus is a symbol of our own awakening wisdom, the inner teaching guiding us to our own Christ within.
Concentrated Seed Faith
Let us consider a seed. Any seed. A seed (symbolically) is the most faith-filled unit of creation. It produces only what it is designed for and nothing else is possible. Being the smallest of all seeds, Jesus selects the mustard seed for his story of explaining how boundless faith is intended to grow and expand from tiny beginnings within consciousness. But while existing in concentrated form within each soul, faith requires awakening, tapping into germination. In this context, the deep silence of meditation amounts to the unmanifest seed faith transmuted into manifest faith consciousness.
The actual seed in your body though, is somewhat bigger than a mustard seed. It’s about the size of a pea and is located in the exact center of your brain. It’s called the pineal gland. In many religions, this gland is portrayed as a pine cone because of its visual similarities. There is even a statue of it on the grounds of the Vatican, even though it’s never openly mentioned in their teachings. In ancient Egyptian religion it was known as the Eye of Horus.
Biblical faith clearly is not about strong faith in this and lesser in that, for, being all pervading, faith is not a conditional allocation of measurement. While remaining constant, faith is ever active in its all encompassing dynamic silence as in water taking the shape of any container. This is also symbolized when Jesus stooped and wrote in the sand, which means whatever faith capacity we have achieved.
Faith in action is constantly transforming consciousness into ever higher spiritual dimensions, even nudging the soul into ever-perfecting levels of human love, into total experiential immersement of Christ consciousness and its expression at one’s own level.
Faith is alchemized silence brought about by repeated meditational transcendence, of entering into the pineal gland. It’s a process which transmutes the human ego. The transcendental experience is beyond ego, the act of will or mental effort. Rather it is by a natural infusion of bliss into the very nature of the mind, which is the state of knowing no opposite.
Although the physical seed is situated in the brain as the pineal gland, germination or activation is initiated through the root chakra at the base of the spine and subsequent rising of kundalini life force into the brain. It’s this root chakra opening which triggers the five other spinal chakras into opening, culminating in awareness entering the pineal gland and divine seed sprouting. Once this process is commenced faith journeying into higher realms has began. This is why Jacob’s name was changed to Israel by God at the place of Peniel, which is another metaphor for pineal gland.
Biblically, awakening kundalini is equivalent of John the Baptist and the One who follows – the one who follows is baptism into directly knowing Christ consciousness faith nature.
Healing and Everyday Faith
Healing is not a single life event, where, once achieved, further spiritual development can be ignored. This can happen when healing is attained by visitation to particular shrines, pools or by intermediary – where someone or holy venue bypasses our own unbelieving level. In such instances, people’s expectations become raised in advance of the encounter, which the brain translates as faith; and while there might be healing, this is NOT the mustard seed of faith in the Bible. To faith-mimic we can of course accentuate joyous feelings by becoming animated in visioning specific desired outcomes. Thus natural happiness is indeed a potent healing force, but it’s not real faith. We can only cast demons out permanently by the transformation of consciousness. By coming upon mountain consciousness, upon Higher Self consciousness, when purification of the mind, body, and soul occurs leaving no opening for negative emotions to form new or repeating dis-ease.
In other words, using an onion to generate tears is not emotional crying!
In the early stages of mustard seed faith, much casting out is taking place without awareness. It’s when the subtle realignment of thought processes are taking new shape, when mature understanding and clarity soul perceptions are forming and abiding state for further thoughts and intuition of a higher realm to realm to dwell.
As we advance further in practicing meditation, realization of higher consciousness becomes acutely tangible. Through awakening mechanisms in the brain and spinal column, newer levels of health of well-being manifest in the body. Struggling and resistance conditioning began to release its grip.
In the early stages of spiritual development, we may feel that strong faith in certain Biblical characters or historical events is required or insinuated into the mustard seed story. But no, this is not what scripture is about. Jesus is not asking that we have faith in him, a philosophy or religion, a place or any other person. The asking message is about self-realization. That we come about our own innate capacity of faith. To this end we are reminded: “The apostles got into the boat and went to the other side.” Boat here signifying meditation, and, the “other side” signifying transcendence into the right brain, the abiding home of the faith nature.
The 12 Cranial Nerves and Healing
Once realized as not twelve historical men, and that the apostles are symbols for the twelve cranial nerves of the brain, then new understanding can begin to unfold rapidly. The twelve apostles symbolize twelve qualities of the soul. They are aspects of human consciousness for integration and healing. These twelve spiritually serving nerve centers – responsible for almost every bodily function, along with the five chakras in the spine and two in the brain – are the soul’s receptor or diffusion points for bodily interaction of cosmic energy. This is how well-being for optimal spiritual growth is maintained.
The reason the apostles could not drive out the demons represents that the twelve cranial nerves were not spiritually functioning. It’s only when these consecrated centers are performing as intended, in conjunction with the chakras and glandular system that we can spiritually mature in a practical way.
Demons have their origins in deeply rooted generational conditioning from previous lives where the cranial nerves were not used spiritually. It is myriad and complex, beyond the realm of modern psychology to understand. The spiritually asleep state of these vital nerve centers is what keeps demon consciousness in place, and the birth, life, and death cycle of suffering. And this is why Jesus said he would rebuild this temple in three days. It symbolizes spiritually reconstructing the brain. Three is not a symbol of earth days, but of divinity and unity.
This is also why the apostles (12 cranial nerves) went to Jesus in private, meaning engaged in silent meditation, awakening the temple of the brain in unity consciousness.
Does a Tree Have Faith
Yes, on its own place of existence. Similar to humans, trees undergo healing on a daily basis, but in different ways. A trees ecosystem consists of leaves, branches, roots and a trunk. It is the sap which heals. But where does sap come from? Sap comes from a source beyond the tree. It’s drawn in from earth nature through the roots. The tree does not manufacture sap. Coming in through the root system, sap is distributed throughout the entire tree, whether healing is required or not. So long as the roots remain watered, then the roots maintain the capacity to distribute sap. The root is the conduit through which sap flows into the entire tree instantaneously.
If you could ask a tree what time it is, the tree would answer it is now!
Healing for a tree is an act of single-mindedness, a present moment. On the other hand, humans live in time, space and causation, plus an ego, where spiritual growth is indirectly hindered. Whereas the tree does not stand on the hose while being watered as do humans do through stress and worry about the past and future.
But what happens when there is no rain to water the roots? This is where the good gardner comes in. He / she waters the roots personally, thus maintaining sap flow. So long as the roots (chakras in us) receive water nourishment, then sap flows unabated.
Conversely, within human nature, there are two forms of healing. One, the innate healing intelligence within the body similar to the tree which does not require faith. But the faith mentioned in scripture is about a state of faith consciousness and its transformational power for taking the carnal mind beyond suffering and into the divine mind. Faith consciousness is about first awakening the mechanisms which initiates lives transforming from spiritual ignorance into conscious connection with TRUTH. Truth meaning that which never changes, eternal consciousness.
Transitioning of awareness into truth commences in the head (meditation) progresses to opening the first chakra at the base of the spine then returning up along spine and back to the head / heart for a permanent establishment in consciousness. This process, known as kundalini awakening, is how faith-nurture becomes resolute consciousness.
In human terms, the very same principle as watering the tree’s roots apply. Only it’s the mind which is watered. Watering the mind is entering into communion with pure silence which naturally awakens the tentacles or channels of the soul – the kundalini – allowing for healing of emotional scars and false conditioning. Thus converged silence is which expands from tiny mustard seed beginnings (birth of the Christ within) into boundless transformational faith consciousness, the abiding state for further thoughts and intuition into a higher realm.
The Mantra and Mustard Seed Faith
Luke 9:48 states: “For he who is least among you (converged intellect) is the greatest.”
Mantra is a word sound, a vibration used for creating calm and silence in the mind. Like water and air, the mantra is neutral and works with all people regardless or race, religion, or creed. At the practical level, mantra achieves Luke 9:48 in that, gradually the intellect reduces from gross levels of thought to the smallest of the smallest – least of the least, the mustard seed – resulting in the expansion of human consciousness into transcendental pure consciousness or unconditional faith nature. In other words, during meditation, the intellect is reduced to its least, and a new dynamic is born, a new connective wavelength infuses or vibrates into awareness: spontaneous calibration of mantra sound into thought expansion resulting in faith consciousness. Thus the mantra seed mushrooms into Mountain Light, Transcendent experiencing, when soul flow essence is freed from the bondage of cyclical darkness.
Often referred to as the law of thought increase, this expansion or thought – mantra is a thought – is commencement of ascension out of the lower carnal mind, when human ego-centric consciousness becomes awakened spiritual mountain. Mountain is now alive, thus thought-feeling nature becomes hugely sensitive, hence the need for thoughts to be positive with regard to self and others. “Lead us not into temptation (ignoring cosmic laws).
Conclusion – Thoughts, Watching and Faith Seeds
As faith consciousness develops, the expression of thoughts become equivalent to faith seeds, potent tool molds, in that, whatever vision or heart quality the thought is filled with, is what comes about. “Whatever ye ask for in my name (love nature) believing ye have it (resolute faith) I give you in my word (law) it will come about” (Mark 11:24). Through the law of thought increase – to go forth and multiply – every intentional faith filled thought expands from tiny infancy into manifestation of the intentional feelings or emotions generated.
In Biblical terms, planting a seed in the field is the same as planting a thought in the mind. The field is symbolic of the mind. The imperative being, keeping our thoughts divinely oriented for use through ever maturing faith, for good only. Watching thoughts allows conscious control over random and meaningless thoughts entering the mind. It further prevents us from being unduly influenced by other’s thoughts and desires which do not fit with our newly forming mustard seed consciousness. Watching allows witnessing experentially the sacredness and Immanence of each present moment and its faith-filled aspect.
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The Other Son
The parable of the prodigal son is probably the most well-known parable of all and it is clear that the story is about the life journey of Man. It is all about us and our journey through life. Depending on the teaching of the different churches the emphasis may be put on different aspects of the story, on the sinfulness of man or on the love of God. However, the story is almost always told as an interpretation of the life of the son who undertakes the journey, the bad son. Not much is said about the other son, the son who stays home with the Father and faithfully attends to his tasks. He is supposed to be the good son who should be an example to us all. But is he? I would like to look at this parable from a different viewpoint and see what I come up with about both sons.
In my article The Tree of Judgement? I wrote about a comparable journey in which I started with a summary in order to make clear what the deeper meaning of this journey is. It is a journey into duality, which is symbolized by the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, but also by the story of the prodigal son. That is why I want to start this article with quoting this summary in its entirety, so it is clear what the process it is all about.
“I found the meaning of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil to be the tree of duality, ets-2, in Hebrew.
Eating from that tree caused the descent of Man into the world of duality and matter, also called the fourth world or the world of the seventh day. Eve, the female, nourishing and creative side of Man, was enticed into eating from it by the serpent, the nachash, numerical value 358, which proved to be the downward force in Man during the descending part of the involution / evolution cycle. This is a cycle, which you could see as a circle that is divided into three segments:
The first segment is the descent out of a world of higher consciousness as described above; this is called involution.
The second segment, described in the next paragraph, is the period that mankind resides in the world of matter.
The third segment, called evolution, is about ascension, going upwards in consciousness again, as described in the third paragraph of this description.
When man had almost reached the bottom of the cycle, the downward force got the upper hand and turned into par’oh (pharaoh), and man became enslaved / addicted. After a call for help to God and a promise to address this addiction themselves later on, man was delivered from this slavery by God and the nachash got its head / its downward principle, crushed, which made it fall asleep. It was then called the Kundalini that slept in 3½ coils at the halfway point of the cycle.
Psalm 78 Speaks: The Law is a Parable
If the Old Testament contained a chapter that told you the story of the wilderness journey wasn’t literal, would you believe it? Would you even notice?
I would argue that it all depends; if you were a staunch literalists, you would probably breeze by the verses without a second thought. That’s normal.
Even if you were undecided about the Bible’s literal-historical value, you still might pass them up as inconsequential without a careful reading of the language and context. Let’s review one of the most important texts in the Old Testament to understand how easy it is to miss what the Biblical authors thought so obvious. [Read more…] about Psalm 78 Speaks: The Law is a Parable
The True Meaning of Baptism
Today we’re going to look at the true Biblical meaning of baptism, and were going to use a lot of scriptural stories to prove it that it doesn’t mean dunking your head under water. By the end of it all I’m fairly confident you’ll be a Biblical expert on the subject. This will be a two part series, using the New Testament for the first post and the Old Testament for the second post. [Read more…] about The True Meaning of Baptism
Abraham’s Vision of Great Darkness: Kundalini, Meditation and Ego
In Genesis chapter fifteen we read about a strange event that occurs between God and Abraham. The mythological imagery stirs the imagination: God appears in great darkness, followed by a smoking furnace and a burning lamp that passes between Abraham’s sacrifice. The true meaning of the symbolism will never be preached from a traditional church pulpit because it deals with the divine physiology of man, and the implications of deep meditation, the ego, and spiritual initiation. So let’s break down this mystical mystery. [Read more…] about Abraham’s Vision of Great Darkness: Kundalini, Meditation and Ego
The Paradox of the Serpent and the Messiah
Today’s topic, the serpent and the messiah, has been addressed on this blog before by Anny, but today I am going to look at it from a few additional angles. I recently had a great discussion about it with a friend. This friend doesn’t agree with esoteric teaching because she is a mainstream Christian, but we greatly respect each other’s views and enjoy a healthy debate from time to time. [Read more…] about The Paradox of the Serpent and the Messiah