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WHAT MUST A MAN DO TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN?

ONE is often approached with this question, but it would be wrong to reply with a definite rule and to say "Do this" and "Do that"! That is not showing the way! It would be completely devoid of life, and for this reason nothing living, such as is absolutely necessary for soaring upwards, can arise from it, for life alone contains the key necessary for ascent!

If now I say "Do this and that, and don't do the other," I am only giving weak, external crutches on which no one can walk properly and independently, for these crutches do not at the same time help him to "see"! And yet he must see the "way" clearly before him, otherwise the crutches are of no use to him! Such a person would only hobble about aimlessly, like a blind man on a road he does not know. No, that is not the right thing, and would once more only lead to another dogma, which would hinder and delay every ascent!

Let man consider: If he wishes to enter the Realm of the Spirit he must naturally journey there! He must walk there - it does not come to him! The Spiritual Realm lies at the summit of Creation, indeed it is the highest point itself!

The human spirit, however, is still in the nether regions of the World of Gross Matter. Therefore it will probably be clear to everyone that he must first wander from these nether regions to the longed-for height in order to reach the goal!

In order not to lose his way it is imperative that he should have a thorough knowledge of the whole distance he has to traverse! Not only the way itself, but also everything he may meet en route, the dangers which threaten him, and the help he can count upon! Since the road lies entirely within Creation, in fact is Creation, the wanderer who journeys towards the Spiritual Realm must become absolutely familiar beforehand with the Creation which leads him there. For he needs must pass through it, otherwise he will not reach his goal!

Up till now there has been no man able to give such a description of Creation as it is necessary to absorb in order to ascend. In other words, there was no one who could make the way to the Grail Castle, the summit of Creation, visible and distinct. It is the way to the Castle which stands as the Temple of the Almighty in the Spiritual Realm, where alone pure worship takes place. This is not only meant allegorically, but it exists in all reality!

The Message of the Son of God pointed out the way once before. But in his eagerness to show how clever he was, man interpreted it wrongly in many respects and consequently misplaced the signposts, thereby misleading the human spirit and preventing it from rising!

[b]Now, however, the hour has arrived in which every human spirit must decide for itself, whether it is to be "yes" or "no", day or night, ascent to the Luminous Heights or descent, finally and irrevocably, without any further possibility for it to reconsider! For this reason another Message from the Luminous Castle has now been given. This Message puts the misplaced signposts back into their proper places, so that the right road may be recognised by all serious seekers!

Happy are all those who adjust themselves to this Message with an open mind and a free heart! They will find in it all they must know of Creation, and see all the rungs which their spirit must use on its ladder of ascent in order to enter into the Spiritual Realm, Paradise!

Each individual will find in it what he needs for his climb towards the Light with the abilities he possesses!

That alone brings life, freedom for ascent, and development of the abilities necessary for each individual, as against the uniform yoke of a fixed dogma which makes him a slave without a will of his own, suppresses all independent development, and thereby not only hinders but completely destroys the possibility of ascent for many!

The man who knows Creation in all its lawful activity will soon comprehend the sublime Will of God in it. If he adjusts himself to it in the right manner Creation, and also the way itself, will serve him only for a joyful ascent, because then he also stands correctly in the Will of God. His way and his life must therewith be right!

It is not the attitude of a canting devotee, writhing on his knees with eyes upturned in contrite prayer, but prayer made a living reality in fresh, pure-minded and joyful activity! It is not begging and whining to have the way pointed out, but recognising it with a thankful upward glance to the Creator and travelling upon it cheerfully!

Thus a life which can be described as devoted to God is quite different from what has been presumed hitherto! It will be much more free and beautiful! It means standing aright in Creation as is willed by your Creator through His Creation, in which (metaphorically speaking) one grasps the hand of God which He thereby stretches out to mankind!

Therefore I call out once more: Take all these things as factual, as real, and no longer regard them as figurative! Then you yourselves will become living realities instead of the lifeless shadows you now are! Learn to understand Creation aright in its laws![/b]
Therein lies the way upward to the Light!

Thank you for the effort. In your own opinion what do you expect redemption to be?, Killing of Christ and his blood?

We do not like trading words but help people to find the truth themselves.

You speak as if you have personal things to settle with a particular crossbearer. You need not throw the baby with its bathing water. You have your free will to read or leave the message but it is a fact of life. I wonder what  versions of  the Bible you have.
If you ever know how Bible was compiled or you ever know the meaning of Bible.

"Before God only the creature as such exists! And as the individual creature is within himself, so and not otherwise will he be valued in Creation and before God!
   "Nor does it count whether a human creature is a Catholic or Protestant, or whether he belongs to any particular denomination; he is valued solely as a human being in himself. His thoughts, his volition and his actions are what is decisive before the Holy Laws of God!"

                                                                                                            Abd-ru-shin



FOR YOUR GUIDANCE!


THE BANDAGE falls, and belief becomes conviction. Liberation and redemption lie only in conviction!

I am addressing earnest seekers only. They must be able and willing to examine this matter objectively! Religious fanatics and irresponsible enthusiasts may hold aloof, for they are detrimental to the Truth. As for the malevolent and prejudiced, they shall find their sentence in the very words.

The Message will strike only those who still carry within them a spark of truth, and the yearning to be true human beings. To all such it will become the shining light and staff. It will lead them unswervingly out of all the chaos of the present-day confusion.

The following Word does not bring a new religion, but is intended as the torch to help all serious listeners or readers find the right path, which leads them to the longed-for height.

Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.

But the moment he boldly uses all the abilities which lie dormant within him awaiting his call, to help in his ascent, he is employing the talent entrusted to him in accordance with his Creator's Will, and will easily overcome all obstacles that seek to divert him.

Therefore awake! Genuine faith lies only in conviction, and conviction comes solely through an inflexible weighing and examining! See that you are truly alive in the wonderful Creation of your God!

Abd-ru-shin

Whatever they want to know

If they ask it shall be given. When they seek they shall find in the grail message.

www.grailpublishers.com/author.htm --------- www.grailnet.org


SALVATION! REDEMPTION!


SALVATION! Redemption! How often already have human beings pictured these words wrongly to themselves, when they wanted to see in them unconditional help from the Light, to the exclusion of the All-Holy Justice! This implies a total error, that is already evident today in everything devised by the human mind. They want to make God into their helpful slave, who is only to be considered in connection with the welfare of insignificant earthen.

Just ask yourselves for once about this, throw light on your thoughts without extenuation, delve into them clearly and objectively, then you will have to confess that your whole thinking has never been attuned other than to the idea that, upon your petitions, God should always serve and help you to fulfil your wishes.

Of course you do not speak of it in terms that would be more according to the nature of your being, but as always give another name to your false volition, putting on little cloaks of deceptive humility, and only speaking of "granting" instead of serving; yet this does not alter the fact that your whole conduct, even when praying, is dominated by evil and cannot be pleasing to God!

At last be honest with yourselves for once, and tremble at the recognition of how you have hitherto always stood before your God, stubborn, arrogant and discontented, hypocritical because of your superficiality, thinking of Him only in misery and distress so that He may help you out of the consequences of your actions; but you have never asked beforehand whether your decisions really were according to His Will.

What are you men before the Omnipotence and Sublimely of the Lord, Whom you would have rule over you just as it pleases you! With what presumption you would like to enforce here on earth those laws that come from your narrow way of thinking, and that are not in harmony with the Divine Laws that He placed in Creation. You so often exercise your wrong volition, with a cunning and evil-mindedness that is inexcusable before God, harming your neighbours thereby to gain advantages for yourselves, either in money or goods, or to acquire a reputation with those for whom you do it.

All this will now fall heavily upon you with the weight of a mountain; for nothing of all your wrong-doing could be cancelled in the Law of Reciprocal Action as having been redeemed, unless you freed yourselves through the change in your volition for what is good.

The barriers that still hold back the collapse of the piled-up mass of reprisals are torn away! Everything rolls down irresistibly on earthly humanely, who would like to continue in spiritual indolence and arrogance in order to enforce their will, which has long since strayed far from the Will of God.

This, however, is the end for the dominion of all Darkness on earth! It will collapse, and drag down all those human beings who have sided with it.

But in the midst of the thundering roar of the collapse, the Word rings out! Victoriously It resounds through the lands, so that those who honestly strive for It may still save themselves.

The condition implied is that each one must himself strive to recognise the Word of the Lord as salvation! If he doubts and allows this last opportunely to pass without making use of it with all his strength, he will never again be in this position, and the moment for him to find redemption is forever lost.

Salvation, redemption, will only come to him in the Word, Which he must absorb, so that by living in accordance with It he may release himself from the bonds that hold him down through misunderstanding and distorting the true concepts.

You have been most seriously poisoned and endangered by the false representation of the Love of God, which you sought to divest of all vigour, all power and clarity, enveloping it instead in an unhealthy weakness and harmful indulgence, which was bound to plunge you all together into spiritual indolence and thus into ruin.

Beware of the fatal distortion of the concept of the Holy Love of God! You therewith fall into a slumber which at first is pleasant, but which becomes the sleep of death.

True love does not lie in indulgence, and in a kindness that is expected to forgive everything. This is wrong, and acts like a drug that only lulls the spirits into lassitude and weakness, finally bringing on complete paralysis and enforcing eternal death, since an awakening at the right time is then impossible.

Only the severe coolness of Divine Purity can penetrate the lassitude, and pave the way for the true Love that leads to your spirits. Purity is severe, It knows neither extenuation nor excuse. Therefore It will probably appear ruthless to many a person who only too willingly tries to deceive himself. But actually It only hurts where something is not in order.

Weakness brings harm to yourselves as well as to those whom you imagine you are pleasing by it. In time you will be judged by a Higher One with the kind of justice that has become strange to you for a long time through yourselves, for you have withdrawn from it.

It is the Divine justice, unchangeable from eternity to eternity, and independent of the opinions of men, free of their partiality, of their hate and their malice, their power. It is Almighty, for it is of God!

Unless you devote all your strength to severing yourselves from the old, you will not learn to comprehend this justice either. But you will then likewise not be able to become new within! And only the new man, who stands in the Word of Life and strives towards the Light, will receive the help that he needs to pass through the judgment of God.

Man must help himself through the Word, which shows him the ways he must follow! Only thus can he find redemption, otherwise it will not fall to his lot! He must grow strong in the battle that he wages for himself, or he must perish in it!

Awake, and present a fighting front to all Darkness, then you will also be given strength to help you. Weaklings, however, will lose even what strength they still possess, because they do not know how to use it properly. The little they have will thereby be taken away from them because, according to the Law of Attraction of Homogeneous Species, it flows to those who use this strength with zeal and in the right manner. Thus an ancient promise is fulfilled.

pilgrim.1:
Make una help me here:

-- after creation and all that, what about redemption in Christ?

For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully , ( I Corinthians 13: 9 - 12 ).

http://www.cinemaseekers.com/Christ/reincarnation.html

Yes PGD did the magic for me. The professional masters after HND are just waste of money, PGD is a repairer of HND.

No matter how good an HND holder could be, he is disadvantaged  because of the policy. If you are still young proceed to university no AGE barrier---News line of 22 July2007 NTA

The government started it they must also end it. Once they know our value we will be scarce, so they will have to pay higher fee to employ us. In as much as we say no Job and Engineering Technologist start to look for Job in the Bank then they can give him rubbish or outright REJECTION

hamabra:
@hnd-holder

because this extraction is not understood,
please speak on way forward. appreciates your contribution and your genuine interest in the struggle for our survive

Way forward is to give engineering technologists a chance at civil service and local government services commissions, that is when we would have our respect

Listen to Bill Gates, at the Graduation ceremony at Harvard University.

He was a student there, but dropped out and never graduated

" I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.”

I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I’ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.

I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, I’m just happy that the Crimson has called
me “Harvard’s most successful dropout.” I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class … I did the best of everyone who failed.

But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of business school. I’m a bad influence. That’s why I was invited to speak at your graduation. If I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today.

Harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me. Academic life was fascinating. I used to sit in on lots of classes I hadn’t even signed up for. And dorm life was terrific. I lived up at Radcliffe, in Currier House. There were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew I didn’t worry about getting up in the morning. That’s how I came to be the leader of the anti-social group. We clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people.
"

Nigerian HND specialized in engineering, I am a part Time lecturer and the core courses are technology in nature. Those that had HND Automobile in Mechanical engineering or Air Condition and refrigeration are all technologists. The old university syllabus should be thrown out as what is needed is this engineering technology addressing our needs. Degree 16 of 1985 9(1)a give all this details.

@ishmael
http://www.et.psu.edu/g_team.html

This is the world standard,

Engineers Turn Ideas Into Reality
Engineers are problem-solvers--people who make things work better, more efficiently, quicker and less expensively. They serve humanity with skill and dedication and search for better ways to solve problems.

Engineering offers: Challenging jobs
Good pay and benefits
Lasting and tangible products
Help to humankind
Prestige and status
Teaming Up for Success

Engineers often work with other people on projects. When engineers, scientists, technologists and technicians work together it is called an engineering team.

The engineer has a strong science, mathematics and technology background and is a team leader. Engineers plan, design and supervise engineering projects from concept to completion.

An engineering technologist translates the engineer's designs into systems and projects while the engineering technician collects and analyzes data, develops design layouts, inspects work, checks and repairs equipment and prepares reports for the engineering team.

Preparing for the Challenge
Engineers solve problems by relying on their creative and academic skills. You should enjoy problem solving and be challenged by the effort it requires!

The Engineering Team
Scientists PhD
Engineers B.Eng
Engineering Technologists B.Tech/HND
Engineering Technicians ND/FTC
Vocational Technicians C&G/Trade Test

Scientists are the most theoretical of the team members. They typically seek ways to apply new discoveries to advance technology for mankind. Most engineering scientists have an earned doctorate in engineering or a closely related discipline.
Engineers use the knowledge of mathematics and natural sciences gained by study, experience, and practice, applied with judgment, to develop ways to economically use the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of mankind. Engineering involves a wide spectrum of activities extending from the conception, design, development and formulation of new systems and products through the implementation, production and operation of engineering systems.
Engineers often work closely with scientists in developing new technology via research projects.
A minimum of four years of study is required to become an engineer. Mathematics and science are emphasized.


Engineering Technologists are graduates of Polytechnics or University of Technology HND/B.Tech programs in engineering technology. They apply engineering and scientific knowledge combined with technical skills to support engineering activities. Their areas of interest and education are typically application oriented, while being somewhat less theoretically and mathematically oriented than their engineering counterparts. They typically concentrate their activities on applied design, using current engineering practices. Technologists play key roles on the engineering team; they are typically involved in product development, manufacturing, product assurance, sales, and program management. HND graduates often carry the title "engineer" in practice. The term "technologist" has more significance in academic circles. It is a FIVE years course in Nigeria.

Officialy documented. Confirmed QED.

But Engineering Technology is not the same as Engineering.

Accountancy is not the same as Accounting

Polytechnics are not the same as university
ASUP ( Some with a PASS grade in university) not the same as ASUU ( PhD/Prof)

These are the facts

The consolidation has come to stay anyway. HND=Degree by policy, so let them say.----

"Improve teacher quality since eventually only those qualified to teach at University level will be engaged."

This is why ASUP are fighting

Improve the quality of intake thereby eliminating the problems associated with the “study centres/campuses” established by many universities nationwide before they were directed to close them down by the NUC.


Enhance the quality of the nation’s manpower.

TERTIARY CONSOLIDATION


INITIATIVE
To convert all Federal Polytechnics and Colleges of Education into campuses of Neighbouring Federal universities



ADVANTAGES

Improve the carrying capacity of the universities, particularly given their inability to accommodate a vast number of applicants through JAMB. Experience worldwide has shown that no nation has achieved a technological and socio-political advance where less than 15% of its qualified young citizens have access to University education. The US has achieved over 80% access while in Europe the average is 35%.

Eliminate the desperate desire for University education as against other tertiary institutions.

Reduce huge overhead costs by consolidating:
the supervisory agencies (NUC, NBTE and NCCE).
the Boards of three parastatals and 37 Governing Councils.
Chief Executives, Registrars and other principal officers.

Improve funding to universities in areas of infrastructural and instructional facilities, research, scholarly publications and staff training and development through the consolidation of ETF intervention.

Improve teacher quality since eventually only those qualified to teach at University level will be engaged.

Improve the quality of intake thereby eliminating the problems associated with the “study centres/campuses” established by many universities nationwide before they were directed to close them down by the NUC.

Enhance the quality of the nation’s manpower.


ANTECEDENTS

The idea builds on a familiar historical tradition in Nigeria. Some universities started as campuses of other universities: UI (London), Jos and Ilorin (UI), BUK, ATBU (ABU), FUTY (Unimaid), Calabar (UNN) etc.

Some universities presently operate multiple campuses located in:
same city i.e. the ABU campuses at Congo and Samaru; or
Other cities within a reasonable distance such as the two UNN campuses at Enugu and Nsukka

As Advanced Teachers’ Colleges (ATCs), some of the COEs started as campuses of neighbouring universities eg ATC/ABU Kano and ATC/ABU Zaria. Today COE Zaria and the Congo Campus of ABU are only separated by a street. So too is COE Kano which is directly opposite the main gate of the city campus of BUK.

A number of Polytechnics and COEs are presently awarding degrees by affiliation. Until recently, some COEs (both Federal and State) were in fact awarding their NCEs by affiliation.

Please visit FME WEB SITE full documentation on TERTIARY CONSOLIDATION.

Is Nigerian Diploma fake? we must call NAFDAC or ICPC to evaluate ND or HND then.

We shall be having a meeting on saturday. Nothing for now.

http://www.geocities.com/nate88et76/technologist.html

And let us have an engineering team.

If ASUP want it ended.

All hope not lost. Can you imaging ASUP fighting not a good fight?

If you like call us anyname but give us value.

No not for my self but staying by the truth. Hypocrites are dangerous more then evil doers.

Who is in that pix attached? uchetobi ! can not be an adherent

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?action=profile;u=3183

uchetobi:
I’l hug jigga (Jay-z, sean carter whatever) tight like I’l never let him go and have him rap into my ears for 9 mins. The tell him to ditch Bee for me with the remaining min

Is this how to be like them?

I have the authority to speak on the message. The law of homogeneity will not permit the light to stay with the darkness. Like them? who are the them?

@otuwe

HOW?

Keep you thoughts pure brother.

I came across the message in 1984 and made it my way of life since 1990. I am an adherent of the message.