@ Shinealight

I believe you already know this; it is my perception that the statement made by Abd-ru-shin in the 'Ethereal Briars' that you quoted in no way suggests that the atheist may make contact with the power of God without knowing it.
An atheist makes no such contact; he simply has shut himself off from such power.
But to be clearer. There power of God already in creation, the power which everything makes contact with. There is only one power, all power come from God. However, the power in creation, in the power centers are to a certain extent already diluted. Even a dead spirit receives this power; this power simply sustains all that exist. It is this diluted power in creation that anybody can make contact with provided he meets the requirements. An unconscious spirit lives in this power; and also do every that exist. This is the power an unconscious spirits uses without being aware of it, without the brain being conscious of it.

However, the conscious human spirit, being spiritual sometimes needs the concentrated power of God. This is the power referred to in “WHEN THE NEED ARISES….” And “ETHERIAL BRIARS.” For such a power to enter creation, a fresh act of will or strengthening is needed from the light. And the power arising from this strengthening is what an atheist has shut himself off. Because this power needs consciousness and even a conscious petitioning from the person needing it. This is what is meant in those lectures as the power of God or additional help. An atheist cannot make contact with it. A spirit so immobile that it cannot subjugate his brain to conscious realization of the existence of God cannot make contact with such power.

This is the power that spirits receive during worship; this power is also the Love of God which works miracles, it is concentrated and undiluted. An atheist cannot express it.

Anybody lacking in humility, be him a cultists who believes he carries the power inside him, is excluded from the concentrated power of God. Should he find himself in a situation that needs the power of God, thus additional strengthening than that which already exists in creation in a diluted form, the power already in creation will fail him.

This is why the spirits needs solemn worship and prayer. This concentrated power of God is also the Love of God.

Lectures in Admonitions are for people who have already arrived at some knowledge; it prepossess that the individual knows that there is only but one power. So when we say power of God, Love of God, etc., we refer to the concentrated power of God; not the diluted form that already exist in power centers in creation.

I will advice you not to post lectures from Admonitions on a public forum like this. 'Admonitions' is made for the closest associates of Abd-ru-shin.

Thanks

@ Speer

I will treat your questions as soon as I can.

Your apologies were not necessary; I see a continues going forward rather than going backwards. Referring to an issue that we talked about already does not mean that you are going backwards. Hence you have done nothing wrong to apologize for.

Thanks

@shinalight
Thanks so much your questions, which I can clearly sense you already know the answer; hence I will use this opportunity share my perception of what LOVE is. I will brake up your post, to deal with each sentence.

shinealight:
My question is this, can a spirit who has absorbed the Love of the Almighty and therefore truly senses HIS existence, refuse to confess and affirm HIS existence in Prayer & Worship?

In my perception, absolutely no!!!

To me the question is like asking: Can a house that has been set on fire refuse to burn in flames? Or can flames refuse to strive upwards? Flames of fire are always fervent and always rise upwards due to their lightness! Is like asking: Can a candle wax maintain direct connection with the sun and refuse to melt? It is like asking: Can the sun shine and refuse send out light and heat?

Fervent prayer and Worship of God is actually an intricate and separable part of LOVE! LOVE AND GOD CAN NEVER BE SEPARATED . Trying to do so is like trying to separate the ability to shine from light! Light cannot be light if it doesn’t send out rays, thus shine.

The problem is that we use the word love anyhow; when a man says ‘love,’ he could mean adoration, tender feeling, a feeling of affinity, sentimentality, and even infatuation! But true LOVE, the love of the Almighty that is embodied in Jesus is entirely different. It is far much deeper; and it doesn’t always manifest in softness, tenderness, sentimentality and etc.

And I think this is why we humans attributed many qualities to Jesus, qualities He never possessed. The human being thinks love always manifests in kindness, softness, yielding, he immediately attributes these qualities to Jesus; after all Jesus is the personification of love. But Jesus was not weak, yielding; like the Grail message, Jesus was relentless and unyielding. He wouldn’t budge an inch, even in the face of death; he will not pardon, agree or allow anything dark even for the sake of peace. He wouldn’t allow anything that deviates from the will of God and will never keep quit in the face of evil; He was a troublesome bringer of Truth.

But let the reader not just take my word for it, let’s delve into the Grail message. I notice from experiencing the Grail Message that Abd-ru-shin always clarifies the distance between man and God as well as the difference between the qualities of God that of the human spirit. The spirit can never possess Gods qualities. For example Purity! Only God possess purity; Purity is Divine. The human spirit can represent purity through chastity, faithfulness, and childlikeness; hence the creature can only imitate purity but can never possess it since it lies only God. However Love is the only quality of God which the Grail message maintained that the spirit can receive and pass on!

Abd-ru-shin called Love the greatest of all God’s gift! Abd-ru-shin writes:

” This help is available to all! It makes no distinction as to age or sex, whether a person be rich or poor, of high or lowly birth! Hence love is the greatest of all God’s gifts! He who grasps it is sure of salvation from every sorrow, every depth!” (The Grail Message. Volume II. Chapter 51)

Like all gifts of God, it is imbued with movement! You can’t make contact with it and remain sitting sluggishly; once contact it made, as long as it the Love that comes from God, it forces the spirit to its utmost motion. It is unrelenting like Jesus; and will demand no less than the greatest motion that the spirit of capable of. Anything in its highest motion rises upwards or becomes less heavy; this manifests even in the physical realm and science has confirmed it. Gas is lighter than solid because the molecules of gas are more mobile than that of a solid, even if they are the same substance. Water vapor(gas) is lighter than solid or liquid water. You can’t heat water without increasing the motion of its molecules. A spirit that has made contact with the Love of God cannot remain immobile; indeed it will not be able to make that contact if it was immobile; and once contact is made such a spirit will “burst into flames” and send fervent flames of joyful and conscious worship to the Almighty! It cannot be any other way.

Abd-ru-shin writes:
“Like a whirlwind love can seize and uplift him to the Light, to God, Who is Love Himself!” (The Grail Message. Volume II. Chapter 51)

The above statement already answers the question so clearly that anybody can understand; with a few words Abd-ru-shin said it all. Love uplifts to the Light, to God! He even went as far as telling us that God is Love!!!!!!!

Hence one who holds on to love holds on to something that can only come from God, something that comes only from God and hence carries God’s all animating life power. And based on the law that everything must return to its origin, this love that emanates from God is pulled back by Him; hence anybody that holds on to it is pulled closer to God as well; or it pulled along closer to God. And this pulling closer to God comes hand in hand with ever increasing consciousness. The more conscious a being is or has become, the closer it can move to God. Simply put, only the current of Love of God pulls worthy spirits out of subsequent creation into the Light or Paradise, in the vicinity of God. Hence the ever truthful words of our Lord Jesus, who is the personification of this Love, “No one comes to the father except through me!”

Hence a man who has made contact to such powerful current will very easily compel his cloaks; his brain being physical has no life compared his spirit, not to mention this Love which belonging to God bears eternal power and life. No brain, intellect or any physical condition can check this love. As soon as a spirit makes contact with it, it will flood the cloaks and even spill over into the individual’s environment uplifting everything! There is nothing more powerful than Love!

It will permeate all his works; be they words, thoughts, volitions, and physical actions. Such a person can never refuse to acknowledge the existence of God. Indeed, he will rather die than deny his God. Such a person will not only see the need for solemn worship but will thirst for it. For in moments of such solemn worship, the spirit opens itself to its greatest ability and drinks as much as it can from the power of God that flows through the Grail.

shinealight:
I know we also worship through deeds (i.e. our thoughts, words and actions) but I'm talking about that solemn Worship of the Almighty which is an expression of reverence, adoration and veneration of the Almighty.

Yes I perfectly understand your distinction. You can say quiet rightly that the spirit worships through deeds; but this does not annul the necessity for solemn worship!

Spirits in Paradise and the Primordial spirits in the Primordial realm all live in the will of God; all their deeds swing in this will. You can call this worship. Yet they also have Temples where they gather during certain intervals to receive from the Grail. For example, during Grail acts!

Since there is no distinction between this world and the beyond; the human spirits in subsequent creations should also have such temples. Living in the will of God does not annul the need to approach God at appointed interval in temples located at certain sacred places. You can compare such acts as recharging an electric battery.

Using electricity to analogize. You can imagine a company that demands electricity from NEPA. At the beginning, judging from the activity in the company, NEPA just supplies the normal energy that already circulates in the town; the normal 240V that the entire town depends on. As long as the company remains the same, it is comfortable with that amount of energy which can easily meet all the company’s needs. Soon the activity in the company begins to increase; more equipment are brought in the company expands and does its electric need. Soon the company begins to pull to much energy that it the wire in the town soon begins to heat up and break. All these will result in power shortage in such a town; the company has simply grown above the supply of energy in the town. Now the company demands a Transformer which will link the company directly to a higher power. And soon this company may even grow into a country that needs its own hydro power source, or needs to be directly supplied by the already existing power source in the next country.

In the above, this company is the human spirit, and the town is creation. At a stage in the development of the human spirit, it can drive all its energy from the worship that results in deeds. Soon the spirit employs all it abilities, as it grows and it requires a great deal of power usage that the spirit is no longer satisfied with what it receives from subsequent creation; it wishes to have its own transformer that can link it directly to the power of God to recharge! This is exactly what happens during solemn worship. In such nearness and contact with this inexhaustible power, the spirit realizes its smallness. It bows down in humility before its God and declares, “My God…!”

You can also imagine a system like your cellphone. In a state low activity or hibernation the battery is enough. But once you start using all the apps in the phone, then every now and then you will need to recharge the battery. To me solemn Worship is like the recharging of the spiritual battery; where the spirit is subjected to, momentarily, the concentrated power of God. In such moments, the spirit experiences the nearness of his God, feels secure and reenergized.

One who has not arrived at a certain level of spiritual activity will never understand. The intellect will never understand because the power already circulating in creation is actually too much for the intellect to use, talk less of needing more. The spirit at its initial state of growth actually may not feel this need; power in creation is enough for it. But if it keeps developing, it will get to a point where it will long to have as much direct connection to the source of all life as allowable by its nature.

shinealight:
Is this something inevitable for the spirit that has truly attained the recognition and awareness of the existence of the Almighty? Or is this something that is merely intellectually-willed by man?

Yes this is inevitable. It is an intricate nature of the spirit to draw as much near to God as its nature allows it. Even in paradise the spirits still lifts his eyes up, every now and then to the light, filled with longing. But this longing does not make them sad because they are in full awareness that they have arrived at the boundary where their nature will not allow them to cross consciously.

Yet the spirit never stops longing for God. And God in His greats love satiates this longing by, on special occasions, during solemn worship, allowing the spirit to see further than its nature would have allowed. Even the spirits in the lowest spiritual realm, at times, filled with longing, during worship, are allowed to behold Parsifal at the summit of creation. This is can only be accomplished through letting the spirit see a radiated image of Parsifal; which being so lifelike and powerful, forces the spirit down to its knees. Buddha was allowed to experience this, even while on earth.

Solemn worship is important for any conscious spirit. However it is a spiritual need; the intellect can never understand it nor can it ever see the need for it.

If it was not needed by the spirit Abd-ru-shin would not have told mankind,
“Above all make use of the joint gatherings as hours for the solemn worship of God. But do express Divine service in the entire activity of your being, in life itself; for it is with this that you shall serve your Creator, thankful and jubilant for the grace of being allowed to exist!” (The Grail Message. Volume III. Chapter 40)

Solemn worship of God exists in Primordial creations where there are Grail Temples as well. That which is born out of the intellect cannot find itself in the Primordial creation which came into being before the intellect. Even in the Divine realm there are Temples!

Also, the fact that Jesus went into the Temple, drove out thieves and even called it “my father’s house of worship,” already shows that this idea did not stem from the intellect. Jesus only concerned himself with the spiritual need of mankind; if He considered the temple an intellectual idea He would not cleanse it or call it “my father’s house of worship.”

Thanks!

@ all
Here are facts to consider:

We have agreed that there are many types of atheists. However we must perceive that the same distinction can be made on their so called genuine actions of love. Even though they may be born out of inner prompting, I will not consider them genuine acts of love. At best we must call these promptings acts of genuine concern. We must reserve love for something deeper.

Granted these actions are spiritual promptings; however, a spirit who is not strong enough or conscious enough to subjugate its cloaks, including the brain, to the most obvious fact of the existence of God, cannot be considered as being able to express the Love of God. Such a spirit is being ruled by the intellect.

To me genuine Love requires a certain degree of spiritual awareness and maturity; they go hand in hand.

If you consider any action born out inner prompting, no matter how small or weak this prompting may be, as genuine love, then you consider some suicide bombing genuine acts of love. Suicide bombers can be prompted by the desire to please God! However this spirit is still too immature and too weak to clarify this sensing an achieve it in manner pleasing to God; hence this unclarified sensing causes the brain to invent monstrous means. Not all suicide bombers do it out of hatred. Some of them do it because of their belief in the existence of God. The point that I’m making is that spiritual prompting is not enough! The spirit must be conscious enough to materialize its prompting in a manner corresponding to the will of God. Only then could such a person be referred to as having united with the love of God.
It is possible to do something wrong from a noble promptings. The Grail message talked about pastors who out of real love to God and mankind beg people to believe in God. Despite the fact that this action is prompted from a noble sensing, it remains wrong, a debasement of the word.

We cannot just lump all pious actions as acts of Genuine Love.

Don’t judge from outward actions. Three people may jump into the water to save s drowning child but out of those three, only one may reap a spiritual benefit. One may have jumped in to save the child so as to become famous. Another may have jumped in because intellectually he has calculated that saving this child is better for humanity, in view of what the child may become in the future. Another may have jumped in to win the favor of the child’s mother.

The action is not necessarily love. Some people save people to kill them later or to use them; it is the spiritual intention that carries the most weight not the outward action.

A man may save a girl from being molested only with the intention of receiving public acclaim. We cannot say that this man expressed love from God in this selfish action. Some may save a man only to demand that the man would henceforth live for them. He must remain thankful to them and can never disagree with them.

An atheist may figure out that it is generally good for the world to be kind to each other. This is purely for the sake of material benefit of the world and has no bearing to his spirit the existence of which he denies. This action will defiantly reap him material benefit but will reap him no spiritual benefit. Such action is not genuine acts of Love.

Another picture. A sick man dying on the bed is taken to two doctors. Doctor A seeing that the sick man has awakened to the recognition of God due to his sickness; and that the more he suffered the more he will genuinely repent. This doctor recognizes that once this disease is relived from the sick man he will relapse into his terrible old habits and tangle himself so much in guilt that he will lose his soul. In the light of this realization; in fact the best thing for the spiritual condition of the man is be left to die. Dr A refuses to heals this man.
Doctor B who doesn’t believe in God or the existence of the spirit. Doctor B sees the opportunity of healing the sick man as a means to win his daughter favor, the comfort of her physical body. Or maybe, feeling sorry for the sick man, this doctor actually spends thousands to heal this man. He finally succeeds in healing the man.

Judging from outward actions you would say that Doctor B showed an act of Genuine Love?

Jesus did not heal every sick person He met; neither did He awaken every dead man He met.

A spirit who has absorbed the Love of God (The concentrated power of God) cannot be so weak as not to be able sense that there is a God.

If you define what Love is, then in that definition, you will see that such actions as those you mentioned can at best be called genuine acts of consideration not LOVE.

We are here to learn to love; one who has achieved this will not only have the highest conception of God possible for human being, but will immediately be free from all guilt.

The Truth remains that an Atheist cannot love.

This is my humble addition; both m_nwankwo and shinalight have spoken wisely. Let each individual take only what resonates with his intuitive perception. We are all human spirits, none has more authority than the other. The Grail Message remains the final authority.

@Deep sight

My friend and my brother, I remember you and I have had this battle before. You just don’t want to consider what I said, even though I’m very sure you are quiet capable of doing so.
I do not think you really grasped what m_nwankwo is conveying either. He has clarified the type of atheist he is referring to, consider his post in the light of that clarification. I also made the a similar clarification in my reply to Speer about the atheist who genuinely is concerned about his fellow man.
We use the word atheists and love here. But not every atheist is a real atheist. Please read my reply to Speer on that issue. And the love we refer to when a man is infatuated or lustful towards a woman is not the real Love which is personified in Christ! This fact, shinalight has clarified.

However, I will deal with your questions.

I will start by definition, so as to keep us all on the same page:

Who is a real Atheist?

A real Atheist is one who is completely spiritually dead. Who does not perceive any inner vibrations. One who is completely spiritually immobile. Or like people say, “one who has no conscience.”

This precludes many of the so called atheists, today. Some of who are simply fighting with a certainty already within them. These people are not real Atheists. For example a true atheist will hardly post on religion forum; he is simply indifferent to God and anything non-physical. The so called Atheists on religion in Nairaland religion forums are hardly real atheists, even if they think they are.

I’m quite sure you’re intelligent enough to grasp this clarification. I have seen you make finer clarifications!

A true Atheist is dead spiritually. His spirit is already dead. He does not possess a spirit anymore; his animating core is only a spirit germ. The spiritual personality has been lost, but the spirit germ which is eternal remains. The fact that somebody is alive physically does not mean that his spirit is alive. The radiation of a spirit germ is enough to keep the cloaks alive and aglow. Hence on earth today, there are people who have been judged and spiritually destroyed. Real life lies in the spiritual!

Consequently, to know Christ doesn't mean only to know Him physically or while physically alive! A Muslim may have a better connection with Christ, than a leader of a Christian church. By connection, I mean connection with the Love that emanates from God, the Love of God, which can only make contact with the spirit.

Deep Sight:

Nor can a Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Confucianist, Shintoist, Pagan, Muslim, or traditionalist.

In short, everyone who lived before Jesus time as well, and also those who lived after his time, but lived in far off continents where the gospel never was preached before they died.

Does this make sense to you?

Is this spiritually just?

Honestly I don’t know how you came up with this. The people you mentioned above are not Atheists. Christianity and church going are two different things! A Muslim may be a better Christian that a Christian church goer

Only the spirit can make contact with Genuine Love. As long as the spirit is still mobile, it does not matter what his religion is it. I explained this to Speer. Religion remains an outward thing which may be born from an intuitive sensing or may even be born only out of habit.

Also, no creature existed before Jesus! Jesus said, "Before Abraham I'm." If you consider Jesus the personification of God's love then you must realize that God had Love even before creation came into being. Meeting Jesus physically on earth doesn't necessarily mean knowing Jesus. You of all people should know that physical body is only outward covering. In the past eras, even before Jesus incarnated into creation there were humans who were had already made contact spiritually with the rays of Love which has always been in creation, Indeed the entire creation and the entire laws of creation swing in Love and Justice.

Deep Sight:

Really? So the Parable of the Good Samaritan means nothing to you, sir?

Again, this only shows you didn't understand me. The parable you mentioned carries a great lesson like all parables of Jesus. The Good Samaritan did his deed out of inner prompting out of intuition not out of intellectual scheming for benefit.

He is not an atheist; the fact that he had inner prompting already precludes that he is not an atheist.

A real atheist only helps out of intellectual scheming not out of any inner promptings or pricks or conscience.

Keep in mind a religionist can be a real atheist too. A pastor or priest who only sees his position as a job to make money, and who is totally indifferent to God; has no conscience cannot Love either.

While a man who calls himself an atheists because religions believes doesn't make sense to him, but he is filled with inner promptings. This man’s spirit is still mobile and can make Love. But if he holds on to genuine love soon He will recognize God, needing neither any church nor any denomination.

I repeat, an atheist cannot Love; here we are talking of real Love and real atheist

I prefer the term 'real atheist,(Which means a dead spirit)' rather than 'spiritual atheist' for one who still possess a spirit cannot deny the sensing of a higher power. This sensing is an intricate nature of the spirit. The spirit has to be completely dead to have no sensing of this power. Knowledge of the existence of higher power lies in every spirit; it awakens in the spirit germ even before the germ is expelled from Paradise. This is one of the first promptings that awaken in the spirit as soon as it enters subsequent. The spirit cannot but long for his God. Indeed the spirit is a part bearer of the will of God. I do not believe that a spirit can be alive to any degree or posses any consciousness without sensing the power from which it drives its activity.

Thanks and remain blessed.

Speer: Hello Justcool,

Thanks. There is a rush of excitement once I see a response from you............and the longer it is (with examples/illustrations) the better!

Thanks! I feel the same way when I see a question from you, because I know you will always strike at core of the issue. Your questions, so far, has not been superficial; and this I very much appreciate.

Speer:
When our physical bodies are damaged, the astral and ethereal bodies remain the same as before. When "doubting Thomas" and the other disciples had their astral or ethereal eyes opened on the appearance of Jesus.....why were they able to see his injuries on his astral or ethereal body?

Excellent question!

First, you are right that when our physical bodies are damaged, the astral and ethereal remain intact. This is because these non-physical bodies are not dependent on the physical body; rather it is the physical that depends on them. Hence, in some cases, an attack on the ethereal body or great harm done on the ethereal may manifest on the physical body be it only it making it(the physical body) weaker, more prone to diseases, or reducing its longevity.

Now to the case of Jesus! Remember that our thoughts, words, and intuitions have forms. A strong intuitive lust, lust streaming from the spirit, takes on a very powerful ethereal form with a mobile substantiate(animistic) core. These forms rush towards the person who this lust is directed to, and may be able to attach themselves to her/his ethereal body, infesting it and thereby harming it; just as infections can harm the physical body. Hence when a man lusts after a woman for example, this lust takes on an ethereal form corresponding to it (hence an ugly, dark, and heavy form), and rush towards the woman, on whom it may find a homogenous soil and hence attach itself; this woman can equally repel it, depending on her inner purity. In this process we observe the secret behind the plain and Truthful word of Jesus, “But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

Here we observe two processes, (1) The lustful man to generate the forms of lust, and (2) the woman to allow them or repel them depending on her inner condition.


In the case of Jesus, the wickedness, animosity and rejection that mankind directed towards Him naturally took of form and Jesus, in order to redeem mankind had to be connected to mankind, through His love for mankind. And through this love or connection, Jesus personally received these attacks. Although the wicked forms of hatred could not attach themselves to Jesus, His love for mankind allowed Him to perceive these forms or wickedness form mankind; radiations or forms that are totally alien to the pure son of God. This perception caused Him great sorrow, which manifested in His non-physical bodies.

Hence even before mankind physically crucified Jesus, they had already completed this crucifixion in the beyond; their rejection of Jesus had already taken on form in the beyond, and Jesus had already perceived this rejection. An experience that hurt Him so much because of His love for mankind; an experience was so deeply felt that it touched Him greatly, also manifested in His non-physical bodies. From hence they(His wounds) became a living form of His great Love for mankind.

They became a living evidence or testament to the fact that the glorious Son of God did not fear physical death, rejection, radicle from mankind; He patiently accepted or suffered under these circumstances just to bring His father’s word to the few among mankind who still longed for it.

Hence, it must not be assumed that it was the wounds mankind inflicted on His physical body that manifested in His ethereal; rather it was the ethereal wounds mankind inflicted on his ethereal body that manifested in His physical body. This is the natural course or order of happenings; this is the right way to look at it.

The case of Jesus can be likened to a man whose children are on fire in a burning house! These children set their house on fire. Out of love, this man decides to jump into the burning house and rescue his children, knowing full well that in-order to pull them out of the fire, he has to touch them(make physical contact with them) and in so doing will also get burnt too, at least on his hands.

Compare this explanation with my perception as to why the effect or disturbance caused by Lucifer’s failure was able to reach as high as to become an attack on Elizabeth in the Primordial spiritual sphere. Even in the Divine, at the steps of the Throne of God, first ring of the Divine, this effect is felt. For the one of the winged Divine animals that guard the steps of this Throne, the Lamb mentioned in the revelation of John, carries a wound on its body too! This wound resulted from the failure of the human spirits in subsequent creation. Since all spiritual species issued from the radiation of the Lamb, he is connected to all that is spiritual; through this connection, the failure of the spiritual species in subsequent creation manifested on its body as a wound! But more of this later; let’s not go too deeply for now.

The bottom line is that the seeker must picture the entire creation as a whole! There are no gaps. One thing gears into another. Disturbance arising in one end is felt at the other end; as with the physical body so with the entire creation. And since the Love of God binds and holds everything together, these disturbances or any gaps that arises is immediately felt by this Love, Jesus! Hence wherever disease seeks to arise Jesus hastens to bring healing through the word of His eternal father.

We human spirits must vow with all our strength to retrace our steps so that wound on creation will finally heal; so that the great sacrifice made by Jesus does not go in vain. Let’s bow in humility and in gratitude before this ever watchful LOVE of GOD. JESUS

Speer:
Qstn:

You had mentioned earlier that if one was interested, you could elucidate about the thief on the cross who went to paradise. Abd-ru-Shin does talk about the event in his Questions & Answers. However, a rogue coming to conviction and and understanding of Creation, recognition of Jesus......etc just on his cruxifixation does stretch the mind. Even the disciples could not fathom all the words of Jesus despite the few years they spent with him.
As an aside, the way the event is described in the Bible, it does come across as an arbitrary act.

It was not an arbitrary act. But like I said earlier, the scriptures were written by man and from the view point of man. Mankind is inclined to look from below upwards, from outside to inward; however, this is wrong and unnatural. The right view point is from above to below. If looked from the right perspective the seemingly arbitrariness disappears.

Looked from outside, one thinks that Jesus acted at the spur of the moment; however, Jesus stands in the law of God, and when he acted, He only fulfilled what has already taken place spiritually. He only anchors in the physical realm, through words and deeds, what has already taken place spiritually. Jesus did not promise the man Paradise as a reward for defending Him and declaring that He was innocent. This is how the religionists teach this even; that it was an arbitrary reward to the man for saying kind words to Jesus. However, the truth is that Jesus does not indulge in praises or adulation from mankind; it mattered not to Him who praised Him or does not, He lived and lives only to fulfill the will of God, irrespective of what people think or say of Him.

The man in question, has gone through a lot of changes during his time of internment. He repented to the extent that if was set free, he would live the rest of his live in strict accord with the laws of God. That became a volition firm in him; and this volition matured him greatly. By the time he was about to be crucified, genuine love had already awakened him. Real love is actually the last stage in purification; for any soul that harbors real love will immediately be given an opportunity to redeem her/his guilt symbolically. Read THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MAN”S GERNARATIVE POWER, and MAN AND HIS FREEWILL, and you will see the power of love. Any soul who has learnt to love or has united with pure love will in a record time redeem all her/his guilt irrespective of what they might have been. Hence the fact that some guilt still attaches to you, me or any human being only evidences the fact that we have not learnt to love. Love is very deep; far deeper than we humans can imagine. It is God’s power in concentrated form in the face of which all that is dark, all guilt melts like wax before the sun. To quote from the Grail Message:

This magic power which every person during his whole life on earth has at his disposal in constant readiness to help, which also originates from the same union of generative power with the spiritual power, and which can liberate from all karma, is the love.
(In The Light of Truth: The Grail Message)

Further down from the same chapter 22, Volume II of the Grail Message, we read:

In this no limit is set as to age! As soon as a human being opens his heart to pure love, whether it be man’s love for a woman or vice versa, or the love for friends, parents or children, it is all the same! If only it is pure it will bring as its first gift the opportunity to cast off all karma, which will then only be redeemed “symbolically”, so that the free and conscious will, which can only strive upwards, may blossom forth. As a natural consequence ascent will then begin, that is, redemption from the unworthy fetters that hold him down.
(In The Light of Truth: The Grail Message)


From the above we see that pure love, not the sentimentality that we call love today, brings as gifts the opportunity to cast off all karma symbolically! This is something very stupendous that we must not just glance through!

Abd-ru-shin goes further to show us how to recognize this love which can only be an intuitive feeling, hence arising from the spirit. This fact alone precludes individuals already spiritually dead.
Abd-ru-shin writes:

[b] The first intuitive feeling which stirs the heart at the awakening of pure love is thinking oneself unworthy of the beloved one. This can be described in other words as the dawn of modesty and humility, thus the acquisition of two great virtues. With this comes the desire to protect the other so that no possible harm could come to him from any direction, and so that his way should lead over flowery, sunny paths. This desire “to wait hand and foot upon a person” is no empty saying, but quite rightly marks the rising intuitive perception.
Inherent in this is the surrendering of one’s personality, a strong desire to serve, which alone could suffice to cast off all karma in a short time, provided the volition remains uppermost and does not give way to mere sensual instincts Finally, with pure love comes the ardent desire to do something really great and noble for the beloved one, not to offend or hurt him by look, thought or word, much less by an unworthy action. The most delicate consideration is engendered.
The important thing is to hold fast to these pure intuitive perceptions and to place them above all else! Then no one will desire or do anything wrong. He will simply be unable to do so! On the contrary, through this he will enjoy the best protection, the greatest power, and the most benign helper and adviser.[/b]
(In The Light of Truth: The Grail Message)


The above intuitive feeling is exactly what the thief on the cross expressed in words. By declaring that himself as deserving to die, and Christ worthy to live, this thief showed that intuitively he actually felt unworthy to be next to Christ whose innocence this thief already recognized intuitively! At that point if he was given the grace of making a last wish, he would have wished that Christ be set free. He would have protected Christ if he could for he was not thinking of himself! This is surrendering ones personality in its purest form!

Hence even before the day of this man’s crucifixion, genuine love had already awakened in him. It was actually this love that brought him the opportunity to be crucified next to Christ. The opportunity to come in contact with Christ, to petition directly to Christ. On meeting Christ, this thief could clearly recognize that Christ was the Son of God immediately! What else could have afforded him this knowledge if not an awakened intuitive perception! This pure love that burned in this man’s heart immediately united whit the Love that emanated from Jesus. With the those fateful words he spoke, by defending Christ and declaring that while they deserved to die, Jesus didn't, this thief redeemed his guilt symbolically! The pains of crucifixion and finally physical death served as the final effect of the consequences of all his past wrong actions.

And looking at Jesus, thief petitioned to be admitted into Jesus’s kingdom. He actually felt attracted spiritually to Jesus, because, like I said his Love united with the Love that emanated from Jesus. This is pure love from a human being to Christ! As an answer to His petition, Christ who knew what had already taken place spiritually, told the man, “You will be in Paradise.”

Honestly what we call love on earth is very far from the True love which is not just a feeling but an intuitive perception! Such love is an evidence of the greatest inner purity. Hence one who is not pure within cannot unit with God’s love. The Love of God can only travel on the path of Purity! Hence when Abd-ru-shin, said, “Keep the heart of your thoughts pure!” He was telling us to strive to unite with God’s Love; because only with a pure heart can we unit with the love of God.

Speer:
Qstn from the lecture Faith in Vol. 2:

Divine Messages are received through the Word of God and also through His Creation. Everything bears witness to Him and to His Will. As soon as a man is able consciously to experience the entire process of genesis and existence[i][/i][color=#990000][/color], all his intuitions, his thoughts and his deeds will unite in joyful affirmation of God

Could you please explain the highlighted portion.

Thanks again Justcool, your explanations are very much held in regard and have speeded up my understanding.

My perception is that the genesis meant in the above is not the Book of Genesis in the bible. Genesis here means the continuous process of coming into existence of and the continuous evolution of creation and existence. Hence man must follow all the laws of creation and all the mechanisms of creation in his intuitive perception.

If you follow every event, process and mechanisms in creation minutely, in your intuition; that is if you follow them from the beginning to the end, not omitting any stage or process, you will soon come to recognition of the will of God which is expressed in every law in creation.

One who has recognized the Will of God will do no other than joyfully unite with It. Because in it you will perceive the wisdom, power, and nearness of your God. The supreme bliss!

I hope this helps. Thanks and remain blessed.

shinealight: @ Deep Sight

Well, I have read the exchange between you and M_Nwankwo and it does not change anything of what I stated earlier.
To believe in Jesus is to believe in and practise his Message of Love. However you have to understand what that message of love is. It is not that sensual feeling of affection that human beings call love but the Higher Love which is the same as Justice and is bound up with the Laws of Creation. So basically, Love and Justice are bound together and manifest in the Laws of Creation which are no respecter of persons, be you Christian, Buddhist, Atheist or whatever. So, to understand the true message of Love you have to understand the working of the Laws of Creation. It is the understanding of these laws that the Grail Message sought to explain and guide us into.

Besides the above, there is also Power in the name, whether you believe it or not. Hence the second Commandment of God given through Moses states that "THOU SHALL NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN". It is not for nothing that the commandment was given. The name awakens and gathers the concept in man! Whoever dishonours a name and dares to debase it, thereby debases the concept!

The Grail Message is widely available depending on your location. I suggest you check out the link below and from there you can access the Book Store for your country of residence:
http://shop.alexander-bernhardt.com/index.php?page=index&x77939=dbebd442d61e57b70e115ec80ba82c96

In addition to this, there are Grail Circles & Grail Centres in many cities of the world and there are helpers who are willing to guide those who are desirous of reading the Message in a language of their mother tongue in a Reader's Forum.
Best wishes.

shinealight: @ Deep Sight


So, if your perception is that he is, then for you he is and you would reap the benefit of his Power when you call on his name. If however you inwardly do not accept that he is, then his power cannot reach you either. It is exactly the same with belief or disbelief in the existence of God. The Power of the Almighty cannot flow into soil that is antagonistic to it. That is how everybody receives his/her sentence - it has to do with his/her inner state and conviction or lack of it.

You, of course, would want Crossbearers to come out and announce who Abd-ru-shin, the Author of the Grail Message is, his spiritual identity, his relationship to the Almighty, etc. Of what use would that be to you or anybody else? He actually did that himself while earth but all he got for his trouble was persecution, imprisonment and prohibition of his Work. That is always the reaction of the Darkness and its minions to anything that is of the Light.
So, if you are truly seeking, pick up the book, dig into it and you will come to your own recognitions by yourself and that is what will carry conviction for you which will help you at the hour of need. There is no point in asking me about my conviction because that is MINE and it will not do YOU any good. If I sense that you are truly seeking, I may provide some guidance and pointers or share my perceptions but I cannot teach you anything because I , myself, am continually evolving in my perceptions. I hope you now see why the Grail Message cannot be taught by anybody - it is LIVING!

In regard to the Message, Abd-ru-shin had this to say:
"....I pointed out that readers should heed only the Word Itself, and not Its Bringer. To examine the Works seriously and to accept only what each one for himself, with genuine conviction, can recognise as right is my special advice, because only on such a basis can benefit arise for him...."

I think you should take the above words to heart.
Best wishes.

Just beautiful!!!!! Falls like living waters on my intuition. @ Speer, thanks for the above!!

@ all

In order to make my self clearer, after reading the most recent exchange interaction between Deep sight and Shinalight, I fell compelled to make this post. I actually had to postpone an important appointment to make this quick post. I have to save my soul, because he who makes the Truth agreeable and easier to men to win their adoration commits a great sin.

I wish to make it clear that the explanation I gave to Speer in regards to the Atheist who has genuine concern for his fellow man, is only in the light of such genuine concern or consideration and must not be confused with love. An Atheist can have genuine concern of his neighbors' physical well-being; but real love goes deeper than that. Real love is directed mainly towards the spiritual well-being of man!


Also when I call m_nwankwo's post, provided by Deep sight, enlightening, I only consider it such in light of the love mentioned there being genuine concern or genuine consideration for ones neighbor.

However, the pure and simple Truth is that an Atheist cannot love! If we mean the genuine love which proceeds from God, intricately and inseparably tied to His power; the love that only the spirit can receive, swing in and pass on, the love that is only concerned to the spiritual condition not physical condition. A man who swings in this love directs it only to the spirit of his fellow man not their physical condition. And this love is so powerful and inseparable from God, that once a spirit makes contact with it, from it this so blessed spirit divines God or perceives his nearness.

Such love which is the real love embodied and personified in Jesus, an atheist cannot express! One who does not believe in the existence of the spiritual and God is automatically distanced from the greatest of all God's blessing.

I know this is very hard to follow intellectual and I may receive condemnation for it; but I cant distort the Truth to make easier.

I absolutely agree with shinealight that an Atheist is excluded from the Power of God.

@Speer. I've seen your post an I will treat it as soon as I can. I have to run for now I'm already late to a meeting. My conscience just wont let me go ahead without making the above post.

@Deep Sight

Deep Sight:

What was the motivation behind this reported statement? Was it or was it not due to Nazi harrassment? Did it, or did it not originate from security intimidation by the Nazi Regime? Is it possibly the case, or not, that such a statement was made on the express insistence of the Nazi regime? Was Abd-ru-Shin arrested, or not arrested, by the Nazi regime at any point in time with regard to any matters associated thereto?

Look particularly at the line I have highlighted in red. What was that "necessity" or "imperative"?

I would be interested to know.

Also, the answers may have a bearing on your discussion with shinealight.

Good observation!
I have more questions to add to the above; please anybody can answer this questions.

(1) Was the document in question written for the entire mankind? Was not the Grail Message Abd-ru-shin's legacy to mankind? Who was this document written to. Is this document in regards to business or spiritual mandate?

(2) Does the document in any way annul anything written in the Grail message? What does the Grail Message say about joint gathering or union of crossbearers?

(3) What does the Grail Message tell us about Maria and Irmingard?

Thanks and remain blessed.

shinealight: @ Justcool

Hello Justcool. Thought I should seize the opportunity of this Bank Holiday to put down the perception about Lucifer that I promised in my last post. Here it goes:

That which was able to take on form first in the Divine Substantiate was the Primordial Queen Elizabeth, Who is also the Primordial Queen of Womanhood. Next we have the Archangels and the Primordial Queen Elizabeth contributes in the formation of the Archangels. These are designated as the four columns of the Throne of GOD. The Archangels take on male form and have wings which swing totally and completely in the Will of the Almighty. The Archangels are flaming columns that swing down and upwards again. The Primordial Queen's activity is directed downwards and that of the Archangels upwards. The Archangels swing completely in the Will of the Almighty and their activity is directed completely to the Almighty.

When we hear of the Archangels, e.g. Gabriel or Michael being in Creation, it is not them but their radiation. They remain in their place swinging totally in the Will of the Almighty in a flaming column.

For this instance, let us see Lucifer as a radiation of Light which was sent down from Divine Substantiate.

Now, in Divine Substantiate, there is also Spiritual Substantiate. One can picture a strong radiation of Light sent from the Divine Substantiate to Subsequent Creation. The spirit-germs in Subsequent Creation were stagnant. This stagnation took place in gross matter. The substantiate (animistic) beings in exixtence at that time, seen as gods by the spirits, could not set these stagnant spirits in motion. Even the Fore-runners were not able to get the indolent spirit-germs into motion. Help was needed and as such a strong radiation of Light was sent from the Divine Substantiate as a help. Lucifer was this radiation of Light to penetrate Subsequent Creation in order to get these spirits swinging in the Will of the Almighty. The name Lucifer means Bringer of Light.

This Light radiation was able to penetrate Subsequent Creation and as it has spiritual in it, so in Subsequent Creation it became spiritual. Lucifer came as a direct radiation but he did not go through all the intervening planes and he came outside Subsequent Creation. He could thus influence the spirits in Subsequent Creation. Because of his distance from the Divine, Lucifer developed his own volition whereby he wanted to take charge contrary to the nature of an Angel which is to just carry out but not to be the one to determine. As such, he developed his own personal volition while the spirit-germs also had their own personal, therefore as the strongest he could influence these spirit-germs' volition. As a result, Lucifer lost the Divine Substantiate radiation connection which he had and became the strongest spirit.

It is further noted that volitions can take form. In the case of Lucifer, first his volition took on form as the monster in the Book of Revelations, as the Antichrist and also as the form of sin. When in the Book of Revelations the picture is transmitted that the child in the lap of the Queen of Heaven was attacked, this took place in the Primordial Spiritual plane. The monster was Lucifer and Archangel Michael was sent down to fight this monster and expel him fron the seven heavens which is to say from the Primordial Creation and Creation. From then, Lucifer's influence could be felt in Subsequent Creation. This anger that Lucifer had because of his banishment he concentrated on the human spirits. Lucifer was thrown into the abyss and the Antichrist and the animal (sin) were killed. The forms that the volition of Lucifer took on could be killed by Parsifal. Lucifer himself could not be killed by Parsifal. Parsifal could only bind and banish him. Parsifal could not kill Lucifer since Lucifer is eternal. The reason for Lucifer's eternal life is explained through the logical understanding of the nature of the radiations of God. As long as God is in existence, His eternal radiations are eternal and unavoidable. These rays emanating from God that are unavoidable and eternal gave rise to the existence of the Archangels. Lucifer came into existence out of the volition of an Archangel and as such will remain eternal so long as the radiation of God remain.

So much for the perception I spoke about. As I had noted previously, this has not originated from me but is from a source that I consider sacrosanct but not infallible. Readers are therefore enjoined to examine what has been written thoroughly with their intuition. I have no doubt Justcool, M_Nwankwo and a few others will do just that in any case!
Regards and stay blessed.

@Shinealight

Thanks for the above! I have taken time to read it and will reread it and digest. Basically it does not diverge from my view as to where the attack on Elizabeth took place. Only little divergence in regards to the descent and sending out of Lucifer.

When time permits me I will offer my humble perception on the issue in the exchanges between you and m_nwankwo. As of now, I can only thank both of you for sharing your perceptions! Despite all that has been said and all the documents, there are facts that remains clear to me. Facts that nobody, crossbearer or not, can take away from me, since it stems from my personal experiencing; an experience which I will share here as soon as time permits me. These facts remain: (1) Abd-ru-shin's legacy to mankind is the Grail message. Every other document irrespective of where it came from must not be given credence over the Grail message. (2) Abd-ru-shin can never lie or participate in any form of deception! (3) Irmingard was and remains purity and was not a liar or a deceiver. Personal experiences engraved these facts into my soul! Nothing can extinguish them.

And when I say personal experiences, don't misunderstand me, these are not supernatural or anything extraordinary, I did not met Abd-ru-shin, Maria, Irmingard, personally in their last incarnations on earth. So I'm not claiming to have any personal associations with any of them.


Thanks and remain blessed.

@Speer,
My dear friend, I deeply apologize for this my very late reply. I’ve been very busy and sometimes my laziness gets the better part of me.

Speer: Thanks Justcool.
Next inquiry is from Scripture (Exodus);

So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the Lord had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands. 5 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord. 6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, 7 maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”
[/i]


I cannot quite figure out the last sentence in the context of the Message..........obviously to do with reciprocal action and homogeneous species.

I have already shared my perception, with a certain Nairalander, on the issue of generational curse. Here is what I wrote to him:

[i]Generational curse does not imply that it is God who curses the descendants.
"The sins of the fathers shall be visited on to the sons," does not mean that it is God who does this injustice by making the sons suffer for the sins of their fathers. It is we humans that are responsible for this injustice. How??
I will give an example:
A man teaches his son that God does not exist. This teaching and the belief(atheism) resulting from it is evil will remain in the family. Even after the father dies, the son still carries this belief; and he may teach his sons the same thing. And from generation on to generation the evil continues. Even many years after the man who invented it has died, as long as the belief is still passed down, from generation to generation, in his family, the evil remains. And the consequence of this evil, will remain and afflict the family from generation to generation until one generation realizes that this belief is wrong.
If they discard this wrong belief and seek God; they will find the Truth, and consequently, the curse will fall away from them.
Therefore be careful with what you teach your descendants. The man who teaches his descendants wrong teachings, will remain held in the beyond after he dies; he will not be able to ascend to Paradise as long as his wrong teaching remains in the family. Even if it takes centuries.

Therefore be careful with what you teach your descendants. You will be held accountable for whatever you teach people. Even everything you write in the Nairaland forum; you must one day face the consequences.

In addition the above, attraction of homogenous species can have a hand in what manifests to us as generational curse; this, you have quite rightly sensed and expressed in your question. A man who has a predilection for stealing, for example; this predilection of his, being so strong, may act as the dominant factor in determining the nature of the children who comes into the world through his wife or another pregnant woman in his vicinity, or who is a close associate of his. Based on the law of attraction of homogenous species, the man can only attract souls who carry the same vice or predilection for stealing. Hence when his wife becomes pregnant, one of such souls, who is attracted by this man, incarnates into the developing fetus. And as long as this vice remains the predominate attracting factor or quality in this family, only souls carrying similar vices will attract. Hence from generation to generation thieves are born in the family. The onlookers, judging by the history of the family will easily conclude that God cursed the family, or cursed the forefathers of the family. But in reality it was the forefather who cursed himself and his future family by opening a door through which only souls from hell can come in and incarnate into his family.

And this is part of the reason why the ancient cultures were warned not to mix or interbreed with other races or cultures, and why many ancient peoples, including the ancient Igbos, demanded that the pregnant woman should be very careful with whom she allowed in her vicinity or with whom she associated with. These ancient peoples, in their simple and pure intuitive perceptions, could already sense the three most obvious and most fundamental laws of creation: The law of Reciprocal action; the law of attraction of homogenous species; and the law of spiritual gravity. The missionaries and the jihadists, along with the “modern intellectual man,” in their illusion of progress no longer perceive or sense these obvious laws, quickly regarding them as superstitious beliefs and the observance of them as racism, suppression of women, segregation, etc.

As with vices so with virtues. A person can also bless his family and bless the world through his descendants by cultivating a righteous quality in him to the extent that it will become the major factor that will determine the nature of his children or children in his vicinity. Look at Bob Marley, for example! Almost all his descendants are musically inclined and hence successful. People often say that God specially blessed Bob and his family with musical talent. Another will say that Bob’s children inherited the musical talent from Bob. However, both sides are wrong! God does not specially and specially bless one more than another! We all started off with the same amount of blessings, the same amount of talents; however, while the individual spirit choses which talent to develop, and some souls, out of laziness, enveloped none of theirs! In reality it is man who creates himself! One does not inherit his present’s talents, (here I’m talking about talents that stem from the spirit, spiritual qualities such as artistry). When an individual possess the same talent as his parents, it must not be assumed that he inherited it from his parents; rather his parents attracted him due to the Law of attraction of homogenous species.

In view of all this clarification, when the scriptures(Bible, Koran, etc.) report that God said to a particular individual, “If you follow my commandments, I will bless you and your descendants,” it should not be interpreted to mean that God specially chose to make a covenant with this particular man and his descendants, while ignoring others; such will be favoritism. God does not practice favoritism! The scriptures were written from the view point of man. From this view point, it appears that this man was specifically picked by God to bless. But from the right perspective, it was the man who blessed himself, making himself a door through which only virtuous souls can incarnate, thus making his descendants a blessed people. This man, out of his own personal effort, chose to utilize the blessings that God provided to all his creatures irrespective of their race, color, nationality, and or creed. The scriptural saying is as good as telling a man, who lives in a mosquito infected neighborhood, that if he closes his windows in the night, mosquitos will not enter and bite him while he sleeps. It is as good as a man coming to the recognition that if he follows the proper rules of hygiene, healthy diet and exercise, he will live a healthy life. This is not favoritism, because anybody who lives up to these standards will receive the same benefits; those that do not recognize these stands are only lazy people who never tried to investigate and find out how to treat their body to achieve optimum health.

By the same token, when the scriptures say, “he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation,” looked from the right perspective, this only means: Based on the laws of creation, set in place by God, you will held accountable for the sins you introduce in creation or the evil that you teach your children, even if these sins persist up to the fourth generation! Hence physical death doesn’t free you from the evils you did on earth. It also highlights that fact that ignorance does not protect from the law of reciprocal action; if you teach an innocent child to sin, when he commits this sin as an adult, he will bear responsibility for this sin, even though you raised him to believe that the sin was not a sin; his ignorance will not excuse him. The fact that you are tied to him and will not ascend until he recognizes the truth of this sin, will not absolve him of the full responsibility for all his actions. Hence this scriptural saying is as good as telling a man that if he puts a hole on the bottom of his floating boat, water will keep filling the boat until it sinks. As long as the hole remains there, and the boat remains on the river, water will keep coming into it through the hole, even days after poking the hole, and even if the man who drilled the hole is no longer alive; his boat is bound to sink!

Rightly understood, these scriptures should not be thrown away; only that the right understanding of them, the descriptive manner as well as the spiritual development of the writer should be properly understood and taken into account by the readers of today. Unfortunately, the religionists refuses to take these into consideration, they would rather see these scriptures as proof from God that they or some cultures are specially chosen by God, loved more by God. In this they thereby declare God guilty of favoritism!

Speer: This inquiry is from the Message------The First Step in Vol. I

If you could but once see how the immutable Justice of God’s All-Holy Will is always fulfilled in the self-acting Laws of this Creation for every single thought you harbor, you would strive with all your might to attain purity in your thinking!

Only then will you have become such human beings as the Creator in His Work will mercifully guide to the knowledge that bestows eternal life upon them, allowing them to become helpers in Creation worthy to receive the high blessings destined for the human spirit; so that these may be joyfully and gratefully transformed and passed on to those creatures who are only able to absorb them through such a transformation by man, and who today, through the decline of the human spirit, remain wantonly cut off from them, after it had already been possible for them to come into existence in times of a better and more purely swinging humanity[i][/i].

Had pls wanted to ask about the creatures mentioned above and about the transformed radiations that they depend on from human spirits . I presume that they are animistic beings

Yes! These are the animistic beings or the elementals, some of whom the ancients referred to as fairies. However, it is my perception that the ones that remain wantonly cut off are the ones, a particular species of elemental, whose tasks are to link up pass down to the human spirits in subsequent creation, the radiations that they(the elementals) receive from higher elementals above them.

I have already explained that the animistic only receive and transmit or give away; the spirits, however, pull and attract from all directions. These elementals, closest to the human spirits receive radiations from the higher elementals above them in the sphere substantiality, however, since they do not have free will, they only dispense downwards. It is the spirits(the human spirit in subsequent creation) tasks to pull these radiations from these elementals and through their(the spirits) connection to the higher spirits above subsequent creation, these radiations are in turn pulled or attracted by the spirits above. Hence the more the spirits pull from these elementals, the more they(the elementals) can receive from the elementals above them. Through this activity the elementals become stronger, more active and powerful. But when the spirits could not pull from them, they receive lesser from above and hence become weaker.

Since the elementals do not possess freewill, they cannot pull but only receive and dispense downwards. And based on the Law of reciprocal action, only through giving can one receive! Hence, when there is none to pull from these elementals in subsequent creation, they receive less and hence in time they can become cut off due to the failure or inactivity of the spirits in subsequent creation. These are the creatures, mentioned, who can only absorb radiations through transformations by human spirits. Suffice also for me to mention that by pulling or attracting from them, the human spirits maintain a connection to them(the elementals) and through this connection, a certain type of radiation, which is necessary for them, flows back to them retroactively.

A good way to picture the radiation of spirits is to picture an alternating electric current. In alternating current both positive and negative current flow interchanging on the live wire; that’s why in alternating current we don’t have a positive pole(wire) and a negative pole(wire). Rather we have a live wire(live pole) and a neutral wire(or reverence pole). Through the live wire current both flows into the source or appliance(positive current) and away from the source or appliance(negative current). Hence any appliance connected to alternating current receives both positive(currents coming into it) and negative(currents being pulled away from it) from the live wire!

Hence when a spirit is connected to anything, in the way of radiation, it not only pulls or attracts, it also gives out; thereby sustaining the source! Yet the spirit mainly pulls or attracts, but through this attraction currents also retroactively flows back to the source or to that which it’s pulling from.

Hence the relationship between the spirits and the elementals are very symbiotic, like all relationships within creation. The spirits pull from the elementals, thereby leaving room in them(the elementals) to receive more from the elementals above them. And through this pulling, spiritual currents retroactively flows back to these elementals from which the spirits pull. Hence when the spiritual activity is missing, the elementals(in subsequent creation) remain wantonly cut off. They cannot grow bigger and more powerful, because for this they need to receive enormous energy from above; since for they do not nave freewill and cannot pull, they can only receive enormous energy from above when there is enormous demand or pull from them. When this demand, attraction, or pull that only comes from spirits is lacking, the elementals receive only what they need to remain alive or in existence. In reality, it was this demand from the spirits in subsequent creation that brought them(this particular type of elementals in subsequent creation) that brought them into being in the first place.

Speer: @speer

Please bear with me. I will treat your questions as soon as time permits me.

Thanks and remain blessed


Thanks so very much for the explanations above in response to shinealight.

Much earlier, I had asked if an ascending spirit passes through the animistic sphere and found the answer in the chapter titled Spirit-germs in Vol. III.

Peace

I’m happy about the above. And I wish you strength in that regards. My explanations are meant to make you see more in the Grail Message! I have nothing new to offer, but that which already lies in the Grail Message. My words are meant to induce seeking into the Grail Message, which I hold as the ultimate authority, wherever my words or those of other posters deviate from the Grail Message, you must give credence to the word of the Grail message.

Always feel free to raise more issues.

Thanks and remain blessed.

shinealight: Hello Justcool,
It is now 5 WEEKS since we heard from you on this forum! That is way too long for someone like you to keep away as so many people look forward to your postings because of the deep insights you bring to every issue. Please find time to write a few words even if you do not have the time to address some of the questions posed by enquirers comprehensively as you always aim to do.
We miss you Justcool. May the Lord continue to grant you wisdom with which to guide your readers on this forum.
Is your book out yet? When can those of us in the UK expect to get hold of a copy?
Stay blessed!

@Shinealight
Now that I've shared my perceptions on your questions, let me briefing explain why I have been a way. Many issues kept me away:

First, the question you raised in regards to the mountain of salvation is so deep that I had to take time and seek clarification, i.e. to be sure that it right for me to pass on my perception on it. My perception on the issue of the mountain of salvation is very personal, I was reluctant to share it; but at the moment I believe it’s I’m allowed to share it. So I have taken time to answer that question.

Secondly, I’ve been very busy working on my book which, tentatively, will be ready be available by next month. Here is the link to the Facebook page I created for the book:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Guardian-of-the-Crown/425994407493069
Once the book is available I will post a link to the website from where you can obtain the book, on the Facebook page

Thanks so much for your prayers. The reciprocal effect of your good wishes for me will definitely enrich you greatly.

Feel free to raise any concerns or questions you might have about my explanations above.

Thanks and remain blessed.

@speer

Please bear with me. I will treat your questions as soon as time permits me.

Thanks and remain blessed

@shinalight

shinealight:
2.) What should be the advice to Seekers who wish to take the next step on the path, having come to recognition of the Word of Truth? Should this be simply to read the Message and do their utmost to apply it in their private lives? Or is it advantageous for them to be part of an organisation which affords exchange/sharing of perceptions as well as engaging in a co-ordinated activity geared towards the spread of the Message? Is there a role for the Mountain of Salvation in all this?

The utmost is to live in accord with the Grail message. The individual must make the Grail message the basses of his entire life, both in private and in public.

Organizations can be beneficial; they can also cause great harm. The individual must avoid all forms binding organizations. He must be careful not to be canopied by anybody or any organization, as much as he must avoid becoming dependent on any organization, or individual.

Individuals who form organizations for the bases of the Grail message must only deal with each other, in the organization, on the bases of the Grail message, on the basses of providing awareness for the Grail message or exchanging/ sharing perceptions. Each individual must maintain his God-given right of free-will. He owes nobody but God any obligations, be it moral or otherwise. Neither must he interfere into other’s private lives to demand or investigate morality. Picture the right organization as a group of people standing together and facing upwards, not perchance looking at each other. The problems with we humans is that whenever we get together, we start to focus our attention on members of the organization rather than the task at hand.

I will give an example: Mr. Z finds out than another, perhaps a leader, who others hold in high esteem, is having an affair with a woman he is not legally married to. Mr. Z takes it as his task to spread this knowledge and discredit his fellow man who he believes cannot be a servant of God. He forgets that in so doing he is acting against the laws of God in so many ways. First, he could not have obtained this information if he didn’t invade his neighbor’s privacy!! This is already a sin, for everybody has a right to privacy. His conclusion that this man cannot be servant of God because of his outward physical action is also a sin, because he only judges from the externals. The spiritual scenario may be entirely different! And even if the man was doing something wrong, perhaps it is part of his learning process. Even highly called ones make mistakes as they prepare for their task. I can go on and on to point out everything wrong with this kind of inversion of privacy, but what’s the point? Any intuitively perceptive human being can easily perceive that it can only be jealousy that makes people carry such rumors. If you come to tell me what my neighbor does behind closed doors, I will simply close my ears and walk away. My neighbor has a right to privacy. Information about people’s dealings, obtained without the consent of the people is like a stolen property! Whoever distributes it distributes stolen property, and whoever entertains or accepts it, buys stolen property!

We see things like this happen every day in various organizations and churches. It often happens that Mr. Z will rebel and form his own organization or church; and this is often the cause of so many denominations. However, one must not invade anybody’s privacy, and one must not judge the calling of a called one by what he did in private or his physical situation. One should intuitively pay attention to weigh and examine the words of the called one in regards to the truth. This is how to judge if a called one still stands in the light. If his words, when he is talking about the Grail message, deviates from the truth or is contrary to the Grail message then you must turn away from him, irrespective of his reputation or what people say about him. If one’s saying or words or actions regarding the organization, are in accord with the Truth, then hold him in high regard irrespective of what people claim he does in private or may have done in the past. If you work with your intuition, you can perceive how a man stands in regards to his calling. The early Christians in their simple and childlike intuitive perception did not disqualify Paul because he used to be a killer! The moment he started preaching, they perceived in their intuition that he was called, and they listened to him and disregarded his past actions. Even Peter who was with Jesus respected Paul and never doubted his calling! This is how it should be. Deal with the members of any organization you belong only in regards to the Grail Message; the organization should formed around the Grail message not around individuals! If the Grail message is not the basses of any actions of the organization, then stay away. Any organization that claims to be formed around the Grail message must put the word of the Truth alone on the pedestal. Otherwise such organization becomes a church or a social gathering.

Hence anybody who acts contrary to the Grail message in the issues of the organization you must avoid; if the entire organization acts contrary to the Grail message, avoid such organization. Irrespective of what they do in their private lives, if their actions in regards to the organization are righteous, that's all that should matter to you. What he does in private is between him and his God, you have no say there! Your focus should be upwards to God. It is not wrong to join an organization whose purpose is to create awareness of the Grail Message, provide places of worship, give public lectures and conduct peaceful exchanges of perceptions. Any member of the group that does not interfere with implementing these purposes in a manner according to the will of God, you can work with. But only that bases alone.

And I use the word 'member' very loosely, and not in a binding way. Membership should be out the question because the writer of the Grail message did not intend to found a church or a sect; the Grail message it directed to the individual human being irrespective or his race, nationality, or creed. Hence any organization that we humans form around it must not be binding in any way; it must respect the individuality of everybody. Hence rather than seeing themselves as members of an organization, they should see themselves as individuals who come together to work together towards their goals. And these goals are creating awareness of the Grail Message, providing places for joint worship of God, conducting peaceful exchanges of experiences and perceptions. In all these activities, the individual's individuality must never be violated.

It is my perception that the mountain of salvation plays a very important role in the establishment of the kingdom of God on earth. The mountain has been reserved for ages for the anchoring of Light. Here human volition has very little or no say; for even if the entire mankind fails, the mountain will still stand as a place of light anchorage. Luminous servants of God watch over it and will remove any disturbing element from it. This is why the Nazi and the allied forces occupation of the mountain did not last long. All that is disturbing will either voluntarily detach itself from the mountain or be forcefully removed by the non-physical and luminous servants or God that watch over it.

shinealight:
Thanks in advance of your response.

All I wrote above are my perceptions; however, don’t take my words as gospel Truth. Weigh and examine my words with your intuitive perception and where they do not resonate with your intuition or where they do not accord with the Grail Message, disregard them.
Thanks and remain blessed.

@shinealight

shinealight: Justcool, thanks ever so much for taking the time and trouble to respond to our issues and to share your very insightful perceptions. It is indeed a privilege to have come across your writings in this Forum .

Thanks so much dear friend! It’s my privilege to dialogue with you on this forum. With your questions you give me a lot. To demand spiritually from another human being is the greatest gift you can give the individual; for by taking, pulling away, or attracting from the individual, you force him to draw more from above. This way, we keep the blood-flow of spiritual currents flowing as it’s mandated from by the Light.

Therefore never suppress your questions or concerns, I will always offer my perceptions; but sometimes my perceptions may come many weeks after your asked for it.

shinealight:
1.) Going by your comments on Lucifer and his mission, one could surmise that Lucifer never in fact left the Divine Realm but only sent out his volition to the various planes as and when this was desired. Obviously, as a Being that could not exercise a Will of his own at that height, the Order to send out the Volition could only have come from the Godhead. Would this be a correct assumption? Can one credit any of the Archangels that we have heard spoken of (Oriel/Gabriel/Michael/Ezechiel/Rafael/Ariel/Ephraim) with having been mandated to help with the development of the human intellect? Do we know which of the Archangels was so mandated? Or is Lucifer himself simply a volition of an Archangel?

Your assumption that Lucifer, being in the Divine sphere, could only send out his volition by an order from Godhead is very correct; since, before the fall of Lucifer, when he was still in the Divine plane, he could not have done anything of his own freewill which he naturally could not possess in such vicinity to God. Hence it was God that ordered Lucifer to send out his volition. Or one can equally say that it was God that sent Lucifer out to help creation.

In order not to leave any gap, I will explain exhaustively about the sending out of help from the Divine sphere. The expression fall of Lucifer explains a lot if we pay attention to it with our intuition. Here fall is literal, I.e. ‘descent from above,’ not ‘failure.’ It was the failure of Lucifer that caused his[b] fall[/b]. These are two different happenings which we often confuse as one, although they a linked we must separate them here in order to fallow the event minutely.
When a being or spirit above the spiritual plane is sent on a mission, this must not be taken to mean that the entire being or spirit leaves his plane of origin and journeys down. That’s not exactly how it happens, but we human spirits can only picture it that way because of our origin which is far away from God and which implies reduction of abilities.

The human spirit does not possess the ability to be two places at a time; or better said, to work consciously through different vessels at different locations the same time. The human spirit lacks this ability; the Primordial spiritual beings possess this ability, although in a lesser extent than Divine beings who, in turn, possess it in a lower extent that God Himself.

When it is said that Jesus, who is the love of God, was sent to the earth; one must not imagine it a human way. One must not think that it is like when a man is sent from one place to another. In the case of man, he must leave his location entirely and go to another location. When a man who lives in Enugu is sent to work in Lagos, he must leave Enugu entirely and go to Lagos; he cannot leave a part of him in Enugu while he is at Lagos. Neither can he be at Enugu and Lagos at the same time. But beings that originated above the Paradise of man carry this ability. Hence in the case of Jesus, He remained with God and never separated from God at such; Jesus, who is unsubstantiate, remains with the unsubstantiate God and never separated from Him. For God is and will forever remain one, hence indivisible! Only the volition of Jesus left the Divine unsubstantiate God and received a covering, a cloak, an anchorage or embodiment in the Divine substantiate sphere. From there this volition is radiated into creation or a part of this volition in the Divine substantiate plane enters creation and receives a primordial spiritual covering, cloak, an anchorage or embodiment in the Primordial spiritual sphere. The same process repeats itself until it gets to subsequent creation. At each major sphere or specie of creation, this volition receives embodiment. All these embodiments are held together with radiation and hence are one. While Jesus Himself, who is the unsubstantiate love of God remains with God. Hence while Jesus was on earth, He was also in the spiritual sphere, in the Divine sphere and in also Godhead above the Divine sphere. Hence the Jesus we encountered on earth was that link in the embodiments of of the volition of God. A volition God made out of love! Hence Jesus embodies and is the love of God.

Since Jesus is the love of God, it will be absurd to imagine that the entire love of the infinite Godhead can be incarnated or embodied in a physical body. Indeed the entire creation cannot carry the love of God. The entire creation cannot carry Jesus. Only an activity of this love was radiated into creation, or one can equally say that only a ray of the Love(Jesus) who is Light Himself was allowed to be embodied in creation. Even this single ray, being unsubstantiate is too powerful and cannot be directly be connected with the strongest species of creation, which is the Primordial spiritual species; hence this ray or volition has to first be embodied in the Divine substantiate sphere; and then from there radiate into creation or send a ray into creation to be embodied at the summit of creation. With each embodiment the power is reduced. Only after several embodiments was it able to receive a physical cloak.

As with Jesus, so with Imanuel who is the creative will or creative volition of God. One can say that Jesus is a volition that God made out of His love, hence Jesus is the love of God; while Imanuel is the volition that God made out of His creative will or out of His will to create, hence Imanuel is the creative Will of God. Just as you can make many volitions in a day, yet you remain one; God remains one and indivisible. When your child is about drown in a river, out of love a desire or volition arises in you to save the child; and you might stretch a helping hand towards the child. This action of yours is born out of love and can be regarded as a embodying your love! When you want create or build something, a volition arises in you and impels you to use your hands to build. This action of yours is born out of your spiritual creative will or volition and can be regarded an embodiment of your creative will. Hence one can metaphorically say that Jesus is the hand of love through which or with which God saved subsequent creation; while Imanuel is God’s creative hand with which or through which God created the entire creation. Just as the action that is born out of your creative will or talent is limited and thus finite while your talent as such is limitless, Jesus and Imanuel outside of God are both finite while God’s loving ability or God’s creative will within God Himself are limitless. Hence while Jesus of Nazareth (the finite volition of God’s love or the volition God made out of love to save subsequent creation) was on earth, Jesus(the limitless or infinite love of God or the infinite loving ability of God) was still in God. And while Imanuel the son of man (the finite volition of God’s creative will or the volition through which God created the entire creation) works in the Grail castle at the bother of the Divine substantiate plane, Imanuel ( the infinite creative ability, creative will, or creative talent of God) remains inside God as an integral part of Him. These volitions or embodiments outside of God remains connected through radiation with God from who they receive their power and sustenance; although carrying unsubstantaite cores, they are still dependent on God. Hence Jesus expressed, “My father is greater than I.”

But we must not consider the relationship between God and His two sons or His two volitions as the relationship between the human spirit and its volitions. I only used the human spirits ability to make volition to analogize albeit very roughly, God’s relationship with his volitions, Jesus and Imanuel. The human spirit’s volitions take on forms, just like God’s volition does; but the human spirit’s volition does not carry any spiritual substance or any part of the spirit of the human spirit. Man’s volitions only carry substantiate (animistic) core as their animating core; while God’s volitions carry[b] unsubstantiate [/b]cores, the very essence of God as their cores! Hence even Jesus, while on earth, carried Divinity unsubstantiate as His animating core! By the same token, Imanuel in the Divine substantiate sphere carries an unsubstantaite core, while His volition, Parsifal, outside the Divine sphere also carries Divine unsubstantiate core. Even Imanuel in the Primordial spiritual plane, whose birth into this plane Isaiah was allowed to see and report, also carries Divine unsubstantiate core.

It’s not difficult to understand why there is a great difference between our relationship with our volitions and God’s relationship with His volition. I.e. why God’s volitions carry the essence of God in their core while our volitions do not carry the essence or substance of our spirits. We only need to look around us, in our nearest surrounding to see a repetition of the same process; for every law or ability which manifests here in subsequent creation is only a course reflection of a law or ability that exists in primordial creation, and originating from God Himself. Look at animals and their volitions! The volitions of animals do not carry a living core! But the volition of human spirits carries living animistic substance as its core. Hence the volition of a man remains far stronger than that of an animal. Here we observe that the higher a being originates the stronger its volition is, and also the stronger the abilities of the being! By the same token, the volitions of the Primordial spiritual beings are far strong than that of human spirits. It is my perception that the volition of primordial spiritual beings carries spiritual substance as their core, but not Primordial spiritual substance, only the lowest degradation of the spiritual specie. This clears the puzzle why on how a primordial spiritual being does not have to leave his plane of origin when sent into subsequent creation. Only his volition, which being spiritual and carries real life and abilities, takes on forms and incarnates in subsequent creation; while the Primordial being itself remains in the Primordial spiritual plane. It is like being two places at the same time. Human spirits cannot achieve this, because the human spirits volitions carry no spirit within it but only animistic substance. As we ascend further upwards, we observe the same process. Hence the volitions of Divine substantiate beings are even stronger than the volitions of Primordial spiritual beings, and carry a gradation of Primordial spiritual substance as their core. And God as the highest and strongest, His volitions can carry Divine unsubstantiate core! Just as the volition of a human spirit can be stronger than an animal, the volition of the primordial spirits can be stronger than a human spirit, and the volition of a Divine being can be stronger than a Primordial spiritual being. The volition of God is stronger than any Divine substantiate being!

From the above, you can deduce that when a Divine substantiate being is sent to work in creation, he does not have to leave the Divine sphere and enter creation. These beings are even too big in size to fit into any vessel in creation. Lucifer, for example is larger than the entire earth in size! So is each of the four knowing animals at the steps of the throne of God, in the first plane of divine substantiate sphere. So when a Divine being is sent to work in creation, only his volition descends into creation, and takes on form in the Primordial spiritual plane. If he has to descend as far as subsequent creation, then out of that volition in the primordial spiritual sphere, another volition will descend into subsequent creation and take on form there. While the Divine being itself remains in the Divine sphere. One allegorically explain it by saying that a part of him descends, or a ray from him, or a part of his activity descends and takes on form in creation while the root remains in the Divine plane. Hence a Divine being cannot directly incarnate in subsequent creation or matter, this is impossible owing to difference in specie. The gap between Divine and matter is too much. The volition has to take on form in the next lower plane from the Divine sphere, which is Primordial plane and from there proceed further downwards, receiving an anchorage or an embodiment at each step of creation. It’s like stepping down electrical current from the power station before it can enter a household appliance. A direct connection from a power station to a household appliance would prove catastrophic because the household appliance cannot carry such high current and hence will explode. No physical or material body can directly carry the entire power that emanates from primordial spiritual being or Divine being.

Now back to Lucifer. Lucifer actually originated from the first ring or plane of the Divine sphere! When it is said that he was sent out to work in creation, this means that in accordance with the will of God, Lucifer’s volition was embodied in creation like I explained above. While Lucifer remained above creation, in the Divine sphere, he works in creation through this volition embodied in creation, i.e. in the Primordial spiritual plane. When subsequent creation (along with the human spirit germs) developed out of Primordial creation, out of Lucifer’s volition in Primordial spiritual plane, another volition took on form and descended into subsequent creation to aid the developing human spirits like I already explained to you. Only while working in matter, which is very different from his nature, and the nature of light, did the wrong principle arose in him, or out of his embodiment in subsequent creation. However, Lucifer or Lucifer’s volition never incarnated into coarsest gross matter or physical plane because this was not necessary as I already explained in an earlier post.

The embodiment of his volition in subsequent creation or in the world of matter only had to send suggestions or spiritual impressions to the developing human spirits in coarsest gross matter who at that point being very intuitive could easily pick up these impressions. It was while working in subsequent creation or in the world of matter that he introduced the wrong principle. Hence this principle came from his volition that was working or embodied in subsequent creation or world or matter. Being from on high and not used to failure, hesitation or weakness, he could not understand the human spirits developing from spirit germs for they are riddled with all sorts of weaknesses. He could not wait for the human spirits who were taking too long to mature, he could not wait to finish his job and detach from matter; in order to do his work faster, he devised means that were not in accordance with the will of God. The principle of temptation which makes perfect sense to the intellect but totally contrary to the love of God. It appears that while working with the intellect i.e. while helping the human spirits spiritualize their intellect, this embodiment of Lucifer sort intellectual means to achieve its task. Hence this embodiment of Lucifer in subsequent creation vibrated wrongly and caused a disturbance subsequent creation. Since this volition is connected to the embedment in the Primordial spiritual, and ultimately to Lucifer in the Divine, the disturbance was reciprocally or retroactively felt by the embodiment in the Primordial spiritual plane and through this embodiment, caused disturbance there. And also this disturbance reaches Lucifer in the Divine who could either let go of this volition or be thrown out of Divine because the current in the Divine is too strong for Lucifer to cause disturbance, hence he fell. Since his radiation connection with these wrongly vibrating volitions was taut and strong, Lucifer himself has to vibrate in the same resonance with his volitions, and since such wrong vibration is against the will of God, it clashed with the stronger vibration of the Divine sphere, the resultant is that Lucifer had to be thrown out of the Divine sphere. It is like a plant whose branch got caught in a moving car, is too strong that it cannot break, then entire tree will uprooted from the ground and pulled along by the moving car. Hence Lucifer cut himself off from the light. He literally fell off the Divine sphere. Being above creation, he couldn’t fall into creation, he fell outside, bellow, or under creation. Due to his origin he could sink far more than any creature in creation can. This is his fall which resulted from his failure, his failure to subjugate his volition in matter to swing in resonance with the will of God. It was the disturbance that his embedment in Primordial spiritual plane caused while it was still there that Elizabeth felt as an attack while when she entered primordial spiritual plane. Hence the angels fought this volition of Lucifer in the Primordial and drove him out. With this volition out of primordial creation, Lucifer lost all his connection to the vicinity of God. His power in the world of matter became very strong because the human spirits in matter offered him no resistance but rather empower him more through their worship of him and through giving in to his wrong principle.

The angels you mentioned are not working in connection with the human intellect. The catastrophe that the failure of Lucifer caused through the intellect was reserved to the son of man to correct. Only by the human spirits living in accordance with the will of God which is embodied in the son of man, will they be saved and rid themselves of the evil of Luciferian intellectual deceit.

Lucifer, himself is an archangel, as I already explained, he originated from the first ring of the Divine substantiate plane. Lucifer himself is not a volition of any archangel, for he is one of the strongest Divine archangels. The dragon described in revelation is a volition of Lucifer, or an embodiment of Lucifer’s volition. The Egyptian sun god, Re, is a volition of Lucifer or an embodiment of Lucifer’s volition. The archangels you mentioned all have their different activities in the Primordial spiritual planes. Rafael, for example works in the ray of Love. Michael swings in the rhythm of the Will of God, hence he works in the ray of Justice. Michael played a decisive role in chasing the dragon(the embodiment of Lucifer in Paradise) out of primodial creation. Michael is opposed to all that opposes the will of God.

I will treat your next question in my next post.

@ inesQor,
Thanks a lot.

More excerpts

Prologue

A certain atmosphere of serenity pervaded the luxurious private room of the esteemed German hospital where the dying African king, Gĩtonga, lay.
Next to him sat a beautiful damsel; she held the sick man’s hand, as if trying to keep him away from the ruthless hands of death eagerly waiting to snatch him at any moment. Tears ran down her delicate cheeks as she watched her beloved father gradually yield to his demise.
The room was almost quiet. There was no sound except the beep beep beep that came from the heartbeat monitors attached to the patient. But the beeping did not disturb Nia’s peace, neither did it leave her in peace; it was a music she dreaded yet, wouldn’t want to stop, a dirge to which she had to dance. For each beep reassured her that her father was still alive, yet it reminded her that his death was imminent.
Every now and then, she would look at the monitors of the beeping machines to see the lines of waves that rushed across the screens; at each peak, a beep befell her ears. She knew a time would come when the lines would go flat and the beeping would cease; her father’s heart would have stopped beating by then.
“Nia,” Gĩtonga called. He had just woken up, but he didn’t have to open his eyes to know that Nia was by his side; she always was. “What time is it?” he asked.
“It’s 10:30,” Nia said, looking at the clock on the wall.
“Where is Jabori?” the dying king asked.
Jabori was supposed to be there by 10:00 a.m., for the dying king wished to speak to his two children, Nia and Jabori, in private before the selected members of his cabinet arrived. The cabinet had to be there to witness the departing king pronounce his son as his successor as was customary. But Jabori was late, as usual.
The pains, from the diseased body, that Gĩtonga was enduring was nothing compared to the torment he felt when he considered handing his crown over to Jabori. For Jabori never failed to disappoint him.
“Nia,” the dying king called out.
As readily and as handily as always, Nia answered, “Yes, my father.”
“Promise me you’ll look after your brother,” Gĩtonga asked his most beloved daughter. The irony of having to ask his very young daughter to look after her elder brother, his first son, saddened him greatly; under the weight of the sorrow, he almost gave up the ghost. But he had to wait a little longer for the benefit of his people, so with great strength, he fended off death for another hour.
“I will, my father,” Nia answered. Then upon noticing the despair on his face, she firmed her grip on his hand and said reassuringly to him, “But don’t worry about Jabori. He will be fine. Jabori is wise and strong.”
“I will not hand my crown over to Jabori,” Gĩtonga said as Nia listened. “I will let you have it.”
“No, that’s uncustomary, my father. I’m a woman, and Jabori is your first child, your only son,” Nia said.
“You will share power with my cabinet. It is nontraditional, I know, but it has happened in our empire in the past.” King Gĩtonga paused to catch his breath, then after a while, he continued, “The governorship of the empire will rest on yours and my cabinet’s shoulders. I will not give Jabori complete authority over the empire, as I know he will plunge it into ruins.”
“The responsibility will strengthen him. Please, dear father. He has waited for this all his life. Deny him this, and you have given him a blow he will never recover from,” Nia pleaded.
“Jabori is afflicted with countless diseases, cancers of the character. He is plagued with a thousand leeches, each draining his judgment,” the sick man said as he shook his head regretfully. He paused for a while and then continued. “The greatest of Jabori’s afflictions is his wife, Kadezi. Much like a malignant sore on his body, she drains out every ounce of common sense in him.”
Nia fell to her knees and redoubled her pleading effort, “Please, Father. Let Jabori have his birthright. I will always be there by his side to help. Jabori loves me, and he will listen to me.”
“Rise, my daughter,” the king said as the door opened and Jabori walked in.
“My father,” Jabori said as he gave the dying man the customary genuflection, “I’m sorry for being late.”
Minutes later, the cabinet arrived. They stood around the dying king’s bed, shocked and finding it difficult to reconcile the broken and weak man on the bed with their king whom they always knew to be exuberant and robust.
Many eyes turned moist and red in their quests to restrain tears. It was frowned upon for men to cry openly, so the cabinet members swallowed their sorrow.
“I hereby hand my crown over to my two children,” King Gĩtonga stated to the amazement of the cabinet. They had never heard of one crown being worn by two people. Yet they kept quiet and listened as the king continued, his lawyer recording every word he spoke.
“Jabori shall wear the crown as the king, but Nia shall be the guardian of the crown. Both must consult each other to make any decisions concerning the administration of the empire, both will have equal powers.”
The cabinet listened eagerly. Like parched men before a water fountain, they had to quench their thirsty ears with the words that poured out of the departing king’s mouth. And the stream of the fountain was weakening, for each word Gĩtonga spoke was less audible than the previous. He was gradually departing as he already stood with one foot on earth and the other in the great beyond. Yet the attentive ears of his cabinet missed nothing.
Questions filled the room. How would that work? the cabinet men asked in their minds. The king usually chose his cabinet, and the cabinet oriented itself to the king who had supreme power. Would Nia and Jabori have different cabinets? Nia and Jabori would definitely experience a power struggle that may split the empire into two, the cabinet men collectively thought.
As if he perceived their questions, King Gĩtonga continued, “The present cabinet, my cabinet, shall not be dissolved, and it shall remain independent. It, too, shall have a share of the power. Hence, the leadership of the Agiku Empire rests on three shoulders: Jabori, the wearer of the crown; Nia, the guardian of the crown; and the cabinet. Each of these three arms of the government will have equal power.”
The king paused; it was increasingly challenging for him to speak. Perhaps he had in fact uttered his last words, but everybody waited patiently.
And when Gĩtonga called out the names of his dead relatives, the people physically present knew he was already gone.
Soon, the chirping of the heart monitor lost its rhythm. A nurse rushed into the room, on her heels was the doctor who checked the king’s vital signs as the heart monitor now beat in rapid procession. Then the beeping quieted, and the graphs on the monitors screen flattened into a straight line. The doctor pulled the white cover over the dead man’s face and left the room. However, he was not surprised, the man had actually lived longer than the doctor expected.
“Go in peace, my king,” the cabinet men said to the deceased man one after the other as they left the room.
Nia had to be torn apart from her departed father’s body. Her cries echoed through the corridors of the hospital as they wheeled her father’s body down the hall to the morgue.
Jabori stood silently, not knowing what to do; as always, he was unsure of himself. Should he show emotion for the loss of his father? No! He should be a man. Should he be angry because his father denied him his birthright, the sole power over the empire that was customarily always given to the first son by a departing king? Should he console Nia? Should he go and talk to the cabinet men?
He remembered that Kadezi told him to call her immediately afterward. He pulled his cell phone out of his pocket and looked at it; there was no signal reception in the hospital. He headed outside so he could get a signal to place the call. He walked through the corridor as Nia sat on the floor with her back against the wall, weeping profusely. Two of the cabinet men stood over her. Jabori could hear the men saying, “Take heart, my princess,” to Nia as he passed by her.

A few steps away from the hospital building, he was able to phone Kenya. “Hello,” Kadezi said to him, lying on their matrimonial bed. He quickly told Kadezi what happened, everything his father decreed before passing. Kadezi was disappointed; she wondered how the new structure of the government would affect her and Karanja’s plans. But her disappointment did not deter her from recognizing an opportunity to criticize Nia and create enmity between the siblings.
“Did Nia get to him before you?” Kadezi asked as Jabori affirmed. “You see? Nia went there and persuaded your father not hand over absolute power to you. She stole your birthright!” Kadezi screamed.
Minutes later, Jabori ended the call, and Kadezi, back in Kenya, placed her cell phone next to the bed. She turned toward Karanja, the man on the bed with her. She told Karanja everything Jabori said.
Karanja thought for a while and said, “We will have to get to the newly departed king’s will before the cabinet announces it to the people. We will destroy it and silence the cabinet. We will have to let Jabori have absolute power over the empire for a while, and then we will take care of him.”
Karanja pulled Kadezi closer. He was the head of the palace guards. He was supposed to be a bodyguard to Jabori and Kadezi. But to Kadezi’s body, he did more than simply guard. He and Kadezi were lovers.

from another part of the book

Later that evening, Thomas sat on his balcony bathing in the evening breeze. He usually sat there after work with his wife, Caroline, but this time, Caroline had to run some errands so Thomas sat alone.
It was the season of the queen of the night, and as night approached, her aroma increased. The queen of the night was a rare flower that, in due season, gave off its aroma only in the eve.
Thomas remembered the day he planted the flower, the day Rose died. Rose was a strange woman, Thomas thought. As strange as she was beautiful. Thomas remembered the day Rose gave him the seeds of the flower and made him promise to plant them to remember her by. He had taken the seeds and misplaced them, only to find them the day Rose died; the same day Joseph was born.
Memories both sweet and bitter filled Thomas; consumed by thoughts of Rose, he sat there gazing into the ever-darkening sky. Soon guilt and sadness enveloped him, leaving him with an indescribable feeling of nostalgia.
Poor, poor, poor, sweet Rose! Thomas thought.
From Rose, his thoughts drifted to Joseph. He remembered the first time he saw Joseph. He remembered how circumstances did not permit the poor boy to be breast-fed. He remembered a lot.
He wondered what Joseph’s reaction would be when he learned everything about himself. Thomas felt sorry for the boy. He dreaded the day he would have to tell Joseph the truth, but he knew that it was inevitable.
How would he do it? It would hurt the boy so much. But was it necessary to tell the boy? Must the poor boy know? No, he mustn’t. After all, Joseph was his son, his own flesh and blood, and he loved Joseph.
Thomas knew he was deceiving himself for he would have to tell the boy the truth when the time came. But there was still plenty of time. He must wait for Joseph to be at least eighteen years of age before he would be told. The years standing between Thomas and what he must do comforted him. He must use those years to prepare himself and the boy. He must train Joseph to be a man; he must equip him. Henceforth, Joseph should no longer be allowed any leniency. He must go to school and become the best in his class like Ada and Gilbert.
Thomas vowed to himself to do anything that would make Joseph strong, even if for now such measures seemed hard on Joseph.
Thomas recalled the promise. “I shall,” he said aloud as he did six years ago when the boy was handed to him.

A few days later, children gathered around Geraldine as they did every evening to listen to her bedtime story. She sat in the middle of them, and they sat around her like dogs sit around their master awaiting their food. With great appetite, they awaited the utterance of her mouth. Children from the neighboring compounds all visited, especially those who did not have grandmothers.
Unlike most children when they were together, they were quiet and peaceful. That particular evening, Geraldine had not decided what story to tell. She sat silently, searching the recesses of her heart for a story she hadn’t told in a long time.
They told the stories in turns, and that evening it was Geraldine’s. Whenever it was her turn, the children got excited because Geraldine sometimes came up with a totally new tale, one the children never heard. The children also told stories when it was their turn, but it was always one Geraldine had told before, for the children lacked the ability to invent their own.
But whoever told the story and whatever story was related, at the end Geraldine always offered explanations, which unveiled the hidden moral that the story embodied.
Gilbert, Thomas’s five-year-old son, was sent on an errand but was not yet back. Geraldine, ostensibly, was waiting for Gilbert to join them before she could start her story, but really, she was contemplating on which one to tell.

But where was Gilbert? Thomas wondered.
Thirty minutes earlier, Gilbert was sent to deliver a parcel to their neighbor, an errand that shouldn’t have taken him more than five minutes.
Thomas became worried. Caroline, who sat beside him in the balcony, rose up and said, “I’ll call Jacinta and have her go out and look for Gilbert.”
Minutes later, Jacinta came back with Gilbert.
Gilbert couldn’t dare to look at his father’s face. He stared down as he stood before him.
On his way to the neighbor’s, Gilbert was distracted. He saw his friends playing soccer and joined them.
After learning of this, Thomas was angry with the boy.
“To teach you a lesson, today you must not listen to Geraldine’s folk story,” Thomas said, and as the boy was about to walk away, Thomas continued, “And there shall be no playing for you this evening. You must sit here 'til it is bedtime, then you go to sleep.”
Gilbert sat on the balcony. He felt like crying for every day he looked forward to evening for Geraldine’s story. He looked at his mother for leniency, but he knew her compassion was powerless before his father’s orders.
After waiting a long time for Gilbert to join the gathering, Geraldine went to Thomas’s balcony to find out what was going on. Thomas told her why Gilbert was being punished.
“Please, Thomas,” Geraldine pleaded with her son. “You must let me do the grounding today. I have a story that will teach him to be more responsible.”
Thomas consented. Geraldine, taking Gilbert by the hand, left the balcony.

Once Geraldine was in the middle of the children again, she looked deeply at Gilbert, who was sitting directly opposite her. Then she started:

“Once upon a time, in the land beyond seven forests and seven seas, tidings came from God for all things living on earth to request for their dearest need. All the livings things on earth needed to come up with one wish, and whatever it was, he would grant it. But there was division on earth then as there is now, a division between the dark forces and the good forces. The two forces were at loggerheads about whose request would be presented to God. Finally, they came to an agreement: each side would send a messenger to God. They knew that God only granted the first request, so whichever among the two messengers reached God first, his request would be granted. To the good forces belonged all the beautiful, fast, and courageous animals and humans. And to the dark forces belonged the clumsy, ugly, and cunning animals, evil humans, and dark spirits.
“On the day of the petitioning, the good forces chose the dog to be their messenger, trusting on the animal’s speed and enthusiasm. Among the fast animals belonging to the good forces, the dog was the most enthusiastic.
“Out of their scarcity of fast animals, the dark forces chose the tortoise, which was the fastest they possessed. Though the tortoise was far slower than the dog, they trusted its cunningness.
“When the hour came for the messengers to leave, the good forces told the dog to tell God to grant that after death, one shall return to earth and continue a happy life.
“The dark forces told the tortoise to tell God to grant that once a person died, he shall be buried, shall rot in the grave, and shall never return to earth.
“At the same minute, the dog and the tortoise left on their journeys to reach God. The dog ran and ran and ran with so much speed and excitement that in minutes, the tortoise lost sight of the dog’s back. The tortoise unhurriedly crawled and crawled and crawled.
“The dog ran so fast that soon he was already half the distance, but on the way, he saw some farmers harvesting palm nuts.
“‘Please, rest for a while and enjoy some of our palm nuts,’ the farmers invited the dog.
“The dog paused and took a glance at the nuts. They were so luscious and appetizing. The dog tasted some of the fruits and then realized how hungry he was. He sat down and started eating. So much did he consume that he felt dizzy after eating.
“With a little sleep, I would regain my strength and continue my journey, the dog thought. Besides, the tortoise is still many hours behind me, so thirty minutes sleep will not hurt, the dog concluded.
“He lay down and slept, hoping to wake in about half an hour, but he slept for hours without waking.
“He was still asleep when the tortoise reached the place where he lay. The tortoise didn’t even pause to examine the dog. Neither did the tortoise pause to examine the farmers and their most tempting palm nuts.
“The farmers invited the tortoise to rest and eat, but he refused.
“I must not allow myself to be distracted, the tortoise reminded himself.
“With neither haste nor delay, the tortoise kept crawling.
“He reached God and presented his request before him. God granted the tortoise’s request.
“On his way back, the tortoise met the dog. The dog hastily went by and soon was before God’s golden gate. But the guardian of God’s palace wouldn’t let him in.
“‘The first request was granted by God,’ the guardian told the dog. ‘You are too late.’
“Mortified and frustrated, the dog left.
“And that’s why up until today, when people die they get buried and they rot in the grave without ever coming back to life.

“And that, children, is the end of the story,” Geraldine concluded.
The children did not move. They sat motionlessly in great amazement. That was the first time Geraldine ever told a story in which evil defeated good.
It was time for Geraldine to expose the moral lessons embodied in the story. She was about to say something when Joseph interrupted her with a question: “How can evil defeat good? You have always taught us that in the end, good triumphs.”
“Yes, Joseph, but not without the right effort,” Geraldine explained. She looked at Joseph for a while, then continued, “No matter how much you’re blessed and how much you’re given, you must put your talents to use. Watch it, and never neglect it. And no matter how far you think you have gone in life, don’t ever stop or become complacent. Walk through life slowly but steadily, not minding those who hastily rush ahead for they stand the danger of getting tired and may fall along the way. But you, who take it one day at a time, shall neither get tired nor crash on your way. And don’t ever underestimate those who are still far behind you, for with diligence, they can still meet up with you and pass you by. Remember the warning the Savior once gave: ‘The first shall be the last, and the last shall be the first.’”
Geraldine paused, glancing at Gilbert, who looked down in guilt. She continued, “And whatsoever your mission is in this life, you must never allow yourself to be distracted from it. You might never get another opportunity to make up for what you neglected.”
Greatly moved, Gilbert sat motionlessly, gazing at his grandmother. In the story, he recognized how irresponsible he had been and what grave consequences such thoughtlessness could bring.

From another part of the book

He packed his bag hastily, leaving behind anything unimportant. It was daytime. The sky still had its eyes, and he must wait for the sky to close its eyes before he would leave. He would run away to a distant country where no one would find him. He would start a new life and do whatever it took to forget this time, a time that rejected him.
Sorrow filled Joseph's heart, for everything he had put his trust in had disappointed him. He would forgive neither Thomas nor Caroline nor anybody else. He opened the drawer next to his bed and found Caroline’s birthday present for him. He removed it from the drawer and opened it; it was a beautiful sweater.
He was not in the mood to admire it however; dropping it hastily on the bed, he left the room. Geraldine requested he see her immediately after meeting with the king. She had a special present for him.
He stood before Geraldine.
“So you knew all this while?” he asked.
“Yes, my prince,” the old woman replied.
“Your prince?” Joseph repeated. “Is that how you address me now? Am I no longer your grandson? What have I done that you’re rejecting me?”
“Sit down, Joseph,” Geraldine said.
Joseph sat beside her.
“Nobody is rejecting you, you are still my grandson. Or am I not noble enough to mother a prince?” she asked.
Joseph offered no reply. As if Joseph had replied with a “No!” Geraldine continued. “If not, why would my grandson be angry when I call him my prince?”
Joseph was quiet for a while, then in a very low tone, almost a whisper, he asked, “What was she like?”
Geraldine allowed a sigh of relief to escape, then shook her head regretfully, as if she remembered something so precious that used to be hers but was now lost forever.
“Oh, Joseph, you should have seen her. She was indeed a princess.”
“And him?” Joseph asked.
“Gregory?” Geraldine asked, and Joseph nodded. She continued. “I never got to know him very well. I did see him a couple of times. Your mother seldom spoke of him to me. All she talked about was her baby, you. The day you were born, before she died, she gave me a parcel to give you when you turned eighteen.”
“How did she know she would not be around?” Joseph asked.
“You know, I never thought of that. I accepted the parcel, and I thought she would request it back the next day—as you know, she was mentally unstable. As she gave me the parcel, she made me promise her that I would keep it a secret and not open it. She made me also promise to take care of you like my own son and see that nothing happens to you. I asked her if she was planning to run away, and she said, ‘I shall be with him until this injustice is avenged.’”
“What injustice?” Joseph asked.
“I have been looking for you, Joseph. I went to your room and saw your bag packed. Are you planning to leave us and ascend to your throne so soon?” Thomas interrupted.
Joseph turned and looked at Thomas.
Thomas had been standing by the door, but Joseph was so absorbed in Geraldine’s words he hadn’t noticed when he initially appeared.
“What injustice?” Joseph repeated.
Geraldine was about to reply when Thomas interrupted again. “The king told you everything, Joseph. Remember, your mother was insane and probably did not know what she was talking about.”
Joseph looked at Thomas.
Is he trying to prevent Geraldine from telling me something? Joseph asked himself as he wondered what Thomas was hiding.
He had looked up to Thomas all his life as his father and inspiration, a man of truth and honesty. Now, for the first time in his life, he was seeing his father as a different man.
The whole situation seemed like a hideous dream to Joseph. Indescribable feelings filled his soul. He yearned to embrace Thomas and beg him to keep him as his son. To remain in the family, a family he loved much.
But he was now a man and must not yield to sentiments. He must think, he must calculate, he must use his intellect. He thought about the situation, his rejected father, his poor mother—and now they were rejecting him, too.
A different feeling awakened in him. It urged him to hold Thomas and threaten him. If Thomas had had anything to do with his parents' deaths, he would kill him.
Kill Thomas? The man who fathered him? No! Joseph roared in his mind. He can never kill anybody, much more the man who raised him.
Beyond these confused thoughts, feelings, and sentiments—within the deepest recesses of his heart—a child was crying, the genius within.
Joseph clasped his hands and rested his chin on them. Tears welled in his eyes. Thomas was also suffering deep within him. He moved close to Joseph. “Son, have you made up your mind?” he said.
“You heard what I told the king. I shall not accept the crown. If you want me to leave, I will, but I shall not go to the palace, nor shall I accept the crown. I have planned my life and how to lead it. Nobody can simply wake up one day and tell me to change my destiny,” Joseph argued.
“And what is your destiny?” Thomas asked.
“I want to achieve my own greatness.”
Thomas put his hand on Joseph’s back and said, “Joseph, this is the tide of your life, and you must seize this current and achieve all that you aspire.
“A good captain does not run away from his ship when the sea gets angry or a great tide appears. He seizes the helm and fights his way through. Our people say that a man’s reaction to suddenness shows his greatness. Have I trained you all these years for you to see but a tip of the iceberg and run away?”
“You call this the peak of the iceberg,” Joseph said. Looking directly at Thomas, Joseph continued, “So there’s more to it that I don’t know yet. What monstrous base must this iceberg have if its peak is as hideous as this? What could be worse than being rejected by the family you love, the only family you have known?
“No! I cannot accept the crown. A veil of shadow still covers a lot of things. When I asked the king about my father’s death, he was reluctant to tell me. Who knows what he was trying to hide from me? And I should serve this tradition that could have killed my father? And—”
“Joseph!” Geraldine cut in sharply. “A man shall not venture into the cause of his father’s death until he has seized the hilt of his sword! Else what killed his father shall kill him, too.”
“Therefore, I shall seize my sword first before venturing into the palace. I shall seize my sword, and I shall stand in the palace someday. Not as the crown prince but as an avenger.”
“Joseph!” Geraldine called. “You want to fight? Against what? Hardly did you learn of your parents' deaths, now you want to avenge them. If you eat without asking, death will come on you without warning.”
She was well familiar with the Igbo adage that one should carefully consider one's actions, as the results could be disastrous if one acted impulsively.
Geraldine continued, “You must wait first. Take things one at a time. Seize the crown first and wait. Upon the throne shall you sit, as the most powerful man in the empire, and fish out the cause of your father’s death. Remember, only the patient man makes a good fisherman.”
As if he did not hear those words, Joseph rose up. “You two do not love me!” he yelled. “You never did, for all you care about is for me to become the king.”
“Joseph!” Thomas called. Thomas’s voice embodied so much sorrow that Joseph was taken aback. The accusation was difficult for Thomas to bear; indeed, the whole ordeal was terribly difficult for both Thomas and Geraldine, for they knew more than everybody else, except Reverend Mike, who was part of the cover-up. There was more to the situation, but they dared not tell Joseph the other part of the story; it might be too hard for him to bear. Besides, the king might learn of it. It had to be kept secret for now. Thomas promised himself to tell Joseph someday.
Joseph looked into Thomas’s eyes and was struck by the sadness he saw within. He had never seen him so deeply hurt. What have I done? Do they deserve this after all they did for me? Joseph berated himself.
Thomas bade his mother good-bye and left the room without any further words to Joseph.
“Thanks so much, Joseph, for your ungratefulness,” Geraldine said. “Take your parcel, leave. Do whatever you want to do.”
With the parcel in his hands, Joseph left.

Once alone in his room, Joseph opened the package. In it was a piece of cloth and a letter. He opened the letter:

A princess gives up her life
A slave is sacrificed
A king’s heart broken in half

A woman cries in desperation
She wants to be loved
But love for tradition
Consumes love of blood

The defender of the truth
Seeks to veil the truth
To keep a romance secret
A romance is conjured up

Dear Son,
They think I am insane, but I am not. My heart conceals secrets, secrets I wish you to know. But I cannot write it in plain language out of fear of somebody reading and understanding it.
Only Geraldine, Thomas, and Rev. Michael know the truth; Caroline, my father, and my brother know nothing. The poem above contains everything, but only experience will allow you to understand it. Let no one else read it.
Be thankful to Thomas, Caroline, Geraldine, and Rev. Michael for the way they treated me. And when you return to the palace, trust nobody but my brother and my father.
As I depart this world, my heart delights in the trust I have for the Ndubuisis to take good care of you.
Geraldine loved me like a daughter, and I’m sure she will love you, too.
I love you, and I will always be with you.
Your mother,
Rose

Joseph clasped the letter to his heart. Something slipped from the page. He picked it up. It was his mother’s picture. She looked directly into Joseph’s eyes. Geraldine was right. Rose was indeed a princess, Joseph thought.
In her eyes Joseph read her words, “My heart conceals secrets.” He turned the back of the picture. “The queen of the night” was written on the back.
What did she mean, referring to herself as the queen of the night? Joseph asked himself. He wrapped the piece of cloth around the letter and the picture, sealed it, and put it in his luggage.
Would he still run away?
He lay down on the bed and gazed to the roof, and thoughts filled his heart. He thought of his mother’s poem and letter. He recalled his mother’s words: “The poem contains everything, but only experience will allow you to understand it.” He did not understand what his mother was saying for nothing was difficult to decipher in the poem. Everything was clear to him:
“A princess gives up her life.” She lost her life.
“A slave is sacrificed.” Her lover, the Osu, lost his, too.
“A king’s heart broken in half.” Her father’s heart was broken, all because his love for tradition would not let him accept his daughter’s romance with an Osu. Thus, “Love for tradition consumes love of blood.”
And the words, “A woman cries in desperation.”
Sorrow filled Joseph’s heart, sorrow for his poor mother.
The next passage, “The defender of the truth seeks to veil the truth,” made no more sense to Joseph than the last part of the poem, “To keep a romance secret, a romance is conjured up.” He could not figure out what the last part of the poem meant.
What romance was conjured up? “Conjured up?” What did she mean by that? Joseph asked himself. He sought to find the meaning behind those words, but he couldn’t. His head ached as much as his heart.
He passed out.

Somebody called him from a distant place. He woke up. It was Geraldine. He had heard the call in his dream. He looked around him, not recognizing the strange environment that enveloped him. Slowly he began to recognize his surroundings, his room. He looked at the clock on the wall opposite his bed, and it was 5:30 a.m. He had been unconscious for hours.
Now he was fully awake. The events of the previous day passed before his memory. Sadness and guilt filled his heart when he recalled the way he spoke to Geraldine and Thomas the previous day. In his mind burned in flaming letters his mother’s words: “Be thankful to Thomas, Caroline, Geraldine, and Rev. Michael for the way they treated me.”
He stood. He must run to Geraldine to apologize to her and thank her for all they did for his mother and him, and then when the day broke, he would apologize to Thomas, too.
Like a ghost, he groped about the dark morning into Geraldine’s apartment. He walked through the living room and stood before her room. He knocked at the door expecting Geraldine to tell him to come in for, by now, she should be awake, sitting on her bed and praying as he had always known her to do.
But no sound came from within. Something urged him to move in. He opened the door and entered. Geraldine lay on her bed. The room was dark; he could hardly discern Geraldine from the pillow and blanket.
As he moved closer to her, he felt weakness in his knees. A terrible chasm seemed to have been placed between him and Geraldine. He prayed Geraldine would accept his apology and forgive him.
He reached her bedside.
“Grandma,” he called softly.
No sound came from the old woman. She was lying on her back, hands by her sides. Joseph slid his hand on hers, but she was cold.
Geraldine had passed away.

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Three weeks later, Edna lay on her back, completely devastated. She couldn’t believe her eyes when she opened the test result.
Her whole life flashed before her eyes. She realized that the only time she had truly been happy was when she was a little girl, when her father was still alive. She remembered the day she was told that Daddy wouldn’t be coming to visit. He had died.
She was only eight-years-old and couldn’t fully grasp the consequences of somebody being dead. Back then she was in the boarding school, and her father, the only person she had, visited every weekend.
That particular weekend she waited earnestly to tell her father that she had excelled in her math test. But her father never showed up. At the end of the day, the headmaster called her to his office and announced the news of her father’s departure. This left a hole in her heart that nothing could fill. That was many years ago when she was still pure; now a lot of things had changed in her.
Many years of struggling parentless in a world where nobody cared had made her impure or what the world regarded as “mature;” the same “maturity” that often allowed adults to act in the most intellectual manner and disregard any warning from their consciences.
And every now and then her conscience warned her, but she was always too smart to seriously consider such foolish sentiments. Now she was an adult, and she had to cheat or be cheated. This she always told herself.
Had she listened to her conscience, maybe she wouldn’t have ended up in this situation. Had she accepted living in poverty, maybe things would have been different.
There was always an unfathomed pain in her heart, maybe the pain of not being mothered, of not knowing her mother.
This pain she thought she already overcame, but this recent blow of fate brought back the pain, or better said, this recent blow of fate reawakened the pain for it never went away.
She moved in with her father’s friend when she graduated elementary school; this friend of her father’s was very nice to her, but his wife didn’t like her. This made Edna’s life difficult, and at the height of her discomfort, she ran away even though she was only thirteen.
Having no home at thirteen exposed her to a lot of things. She became sexually active earlier than her peers. She had to fend for herself. Experience taught her that the only way to get what she wanted was to give what she had. And all she had was her body, which men were always eager to accept. She offered herself to whoever had what she wanted, money.
With money she could get a place of her own, and she could get the things she needed. Her philosophy became “follow the money.” She followed it aggressively because only money could ensure her survival.
She had long given up her dream of finding a perfect man someday, one who would treat her with respect. Who would settle with her and raise a family. Her experiences taught her to dismiss such foolish dreams, for such a man did not exist, at least not for her.
She had grown to learn that men only treat women with respect when the woman has power, the power of her family’s protection or her financial muscle. But Edna had no family to empower her, nor did she have any money. Her only way out was to make as much money as she could, hence she followed the money. It was in her pursuit for money that she met Chris, and then through Chris, Joseph.
Only when she met Joseph did she realize that the pursuit of money was not the true reason for her promiscuity, for in reality, all those years she had been looking for that perfect man. Only then did she realize that the dream of finding Mr. Perfect someday never really died; it was dormant within her.
And the love for Joseph not only awakened this dream but also materialized it. The life of wild parties, intoxicating drinks and drugs were now being drowned in the deepest ocean of love. This love was like a rope stretched toward a drowning child; if only she could hold on to it, maybe she would turn out all right.
Gone were her fears of quiet moments, which she didn’t allow herself because she always feared that in such moments she’d be forced to listen to the child crying within and confront the pain in her heart. Hence the wild parties, booze, and drugs.
She was exposed to all these in her pursuit for money. Rich men sometimes had bad habits, and in her quest to be on their good side and caress their generosity, she had to not only consent to their wishes but also indulge in their habits.
Now this blow of fate had dashed to pieces her already materializing dreams and forcibly brought her face-to-face with the silence she had all the while avoided.
In the silence and stillness of the moment, she could only hear the voice of conscience.
The room wherein she lay was totally dark. It was twilight when she entered it hours ago. But now the sun had completely set, and it was dark.
She made no attempt to turn on the light for she figured that there was a power failure, as often happened in Nigeria. Otherwise, light from the other rooms in the hostel of the university would have entered hers, too. But everywhere darkness prevailed.
It was a strange night, too quiet for a university campus, probably because exams were fast approaching and the students were inside studying, or maybe it was the early setting of the sun and rumblings in the sky, which warned of an impending storm.
It was definitely going to rain again as it did yesternight. Yesternight’s storm was indeed a downpour; it was a baptism that commenced the rainy season, and as always, it was extremely heavy. The earth must have cried to the skies for water as she had thirsted through the dry season.
Nightly storms always put people in reflective moods. Many people lay on their beds, listening to the soothing sound of the rain. Every now and then, lightning would illuminate the night accompanied by a heavy thunderclap. Sometimes the thunder was so loud that it would scare children into their parents’ arms.
In the arms of their parents, they would sleep carefreely, trusting the love of their parents to protect them from whatever monster that was raging in the sky. Their parents would, in turn, lie upon the belief of the protection of the Supreme Being, God!
Edna was not one of such children. Once, when she was a little girl staying in the house of her father’s friend, a storm broke loose in the middle of the night. The thunder was terribly frightening that night. All the kids in the household ran to their mother for protection. Edna followed them, but she had to stop in front of the door, knowing the woman would not let her sleep in the same bed with her. So Edna returned to her room and curled up under the bed. Alone and sobbing, she faced the terrors of that night. That was an experience she'd never forget.
Ever since then, whenever there was a storm in the night, she would prove to herself that she could survive it without anybody’s help. She would pull herself away from whoever she was spending the night with. Had she nobody in her bed, she would kick away the pillow she often hugged as she slept. All in defiance to her desperate need for somebody who cared.
But yesternight she reacted to the storm differently, for she was in Joseph’s arms. She always used intimacy as a means to get what she wanted. It was always nothing but a job she had to do, and in such intimate moments, she would shield her heart from bonding with whomever she was being intimate with.
But yesternight, while in Joseph’s arm, a storm broke loose in her as it raged outside. It was a terrible outburst of affection, as terrible as the storm outside. For the first time in her life, she opened her heart to the intimacy.
Afterward, mollified by the downpour, they both fell asleep.
That was yesternight.

As she lay in the dark room, she prayed that time would stay still as she could not deal with another tomorrow. All her previous tomorrows had brought only sorrows and pain. She prayed that the darkness in the room that enveloped her would hide her forever for she could not bear the light anymore.
But the bright rays of the light pierced through her half-closed eyes, forcing her to shut them tightly. She had left the light switch on, and as if in defiance of her prayer, the power came back on.
Gradually her eyes adjusted to the light as she fully opened her eyelids. She must face the light now. She had to get up and do something rather than burying her head in the sand like the proverbial ostrich.
She had to go to Joseph and show him the test result. She got off the bed and nearly lost her balance as she placed her slender feet into her high-heeled shoe. She did not hesitate to put on appropriate walking shoes, nor did she make any arrangements for a taxi. She didn’t even pick up her purse on the table and inside which was her cell phone. She was not thinking. She folded the test result and put it inside her skirt pocket.
She stepped out of the room, daring the impending storm. She descended the stairs that led from the girls’ hostel to the parking lot. She walked through the parking lot to the narrow alley behind the dormitory. The alley of broken dreams!
There was always something broken in this alley. Sometimes there were broken bottles on the ground, and as one carefully walked amid the broken glass, one could hear girls moaning or whispering in the shadows, breaking the heart of someone somewhere else. Within the shadows of this alley, cheaters found their love nests, promiscuity found its protection, and so did everything that could not stand up to the light of the day.
She walked like a ghost through the alleyway, not minding what was going on in the shadows. Every now and then, the lightning would light up the alley for a split second, revealing couples hiding in the shadows. Edna made no attempt to discern them. She kept walking, totally absorbed in her own mind.
The gloom in her mind was indescribable. Within the alley of her mind, there were also shadowy places. Within these places were hidden things that Edna would rather let sleep. But her intuition, like the most ruthless lightning, shone forth and awakened those things. The sorest of all her sores, the thing she hated the most, her mother.
Had she not abandoned me, I would not have ended up in this, Edna surmised. She knew this thought always led her to the most painful conclusion; the conclusion that her abandonment by her mother was due to the fact that she was not good enough. To be abandoned by one’s own mother, one had to be totally disgusting.
She would rather have left this issue alone, for it brought lots of pain. As she walked through the alley neglecting those in the shadows, so would she walk through the alley of her mind neglecting the shadowy places.
But her conscience would not let her walk through in peace. Are you better than your mother? Did you not get rid of your child within your own womb? Your mother abandoned you after carrying you for nine months and giving birth to you. Within the comfort of her womb, you found the protection you needed to flourish. But you couldn’t give your child this comfort. Rather, you removed it even while it was budding within you, her conscience admonished her.
This ruthless conscience, like lightning, never failed to enlighten things that one would rather keep in the shadows.
But I got rid of the child when it could feel no pain. It was better for the child than giving birth to it and abandoning it in this harsh world. Besides, it was not a child, a pregnancy at that stage is just a cluster of cells, her intellect comforted her.
The intellect, like the snake that once convinced Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, never failed to offer an intoxicating wine that would numb the pains of the conscience. This wine of the intellect, this poisonous fruit of the intellect, had always been a substitute for the harsh reality of the conscience. Mankind, even from the time of proverbial Adam and Eve, had always shown preference for this wine.
Edna, being a human being, chose the same old way, the way of the intellect. This intellectual thought she held like an umbrella to shield her from the brimstones that her conscience dropped on her. Were these brimstones coming from the sky, then the intellectual umbrella would have worked. But the brimstones came beneath the umbrella, from the deepest and innermost part of her heart, from her spirit, the source of her intuition.
She dared not consider the admonitions of her conscience for it would lead her to forgiving her mother and blaming herself for all her mistakes. It was easier to place the blame on someone else.
So she walked on.
Soon, she was past the alley of broken dreams into the open streets. The frequency of the lightning and thunder indicated the storm was imminent. She increased her pace so as to get to the palace before the storm. But then the skies erupted. The rain was terribly heavy, and soon Edna was wet through to the skin. She tried to run, but her shoes, which were not appropriate for running, blistered her feet. Ignoring the pain, she took a few sprints, but then something gave way underneath her, perhaps the high heels her shoes. She lost her balance, tripped, and fell. She gasped as her face hit a puddle, forcing her to swallow some of the dirty water. As she tried to get up, she felt a shivering pain shoot up her spine. It was as if someone stuck a nail in her ankle, for with each movement the pain intensified. Her left ankle had been dislocated.
She managed to get on her feet again. However, she had to take off her shoes; because with them on, the ground seemed uneven. Only when she took them off did she confirm that it was the heel of one of the shoes that snapped off and caused her to fall. She continued walking, this time barefooted and limping. With each step, a terrible pain seared through her body. She dared not put a lot of weight on her left leg; the dislocated ankle would not let her. She could only tiptoe with her left leg. Limping like a handicapped person, she kept moving while the rain fell mercilessly on her. It was as if the elements were punishing her.
The pain she felt in her leg now forced her back to her senses. She realized her decision to walk to the palace while the storm was approaching was a terrible one. She would have still called for a taxi had she not left her cell phone in her room. She left the room totally absorbed in her sorrow; she thought she was too dismayed to care what happened to her. But now, being hurt and totally desolate in a storm brought back her feelings of self-preservation. She was presently halfway to her destination; therefore, it would make no sense to go back. She had to keep walking toward the palace.
She cried desperately as she thought of her life, of how everything was denied her, even the comfort of having her mother in her life. But like every other thing that was denied her, even the tears she shed were washed away by the falling rain and were denied the opportunity to run down her cheeks.

@Speer

Speer:
No worries at all Justcool, your responses are very much appreciated. Take your time and convenience.

Have a zesty week.........

Thanks so much my dear friend. I deeply appreciate your patience. I get lost in a maze of activities sometimes; I need to improve on how I manage my time. But never ever withhold any question because of my lack of time or poor time management; never be discouraged to ask me anything. Please always raise your issues. You can never ask too much questions. And don’t ever feel that you are bothering me or pestering me in anyway. When I don’t reply timely, it’s my fault, and not yours.

Speer:

"Every false helper, however, will have to undergo bitter experiences! His ascent in the beyond can only begin when the very last of all those whom he has held up or even led astray by spiritual trifling has come to recognition. As long as his books and writings continue to influence men on earth, he will be held fast in the next world, [b]even if in the meantime he has come to a better understanding there[/b]."

If such a spirit comes to a higher consciousness in the ethereal world, it will automatically cast off the old ethereal threads and move to a higher plane, why then does the above state that it will be held fast (until the very last astray soul is corrected) even after it has come to a better understanding?

I touched this in an earlier picture that I painted about the fate of the suicide bomber who could not free himself from his burning plane until he helped the entities, trapped along with him, out of the fire. To the suicide bomber, these entities are the same people he killed in his suicidal mission. The process is similar; although not exactly the same, the same mechanism and principle lies behind them.

Even though in my picture, the entities holding the man down are not the actual individuals he killed, and in the case you raised the false teacher is held fast by the treads of faith connecting him to the actual individuals he misled, the same principle is behind both processes. And the principle is love! Both individuals lack love, and what holds them down is this lack of love.

Let’s look at an example. The false helper above has given his congregation an erroneous teaching, by teaching them that there is no life after death. On passing over he realizes that life continues after death; thus he came to a better recognition. But this recognition does not automatically allow him to ascend to the light; he still carries the propensity that allowed him to teach his fellow men something erroneous while on earth. And this propensity is carelessness to what he feeds his fellow men, lack of consideration for his fellow man, or simply put, lack of love. If he had genuine love while on earth, he would only teach his fellow men what he personally has experienced in all its ramifications, hence what he is very sure of. As long as he still carries this propensity, he will be held fast in the beyond, even though he has come to the recognition that life continues after death.

Another example: A man out if the desire to be worshiped allows this desire to drive him into believing that he is God. He teaches his congregation this belief which he truly believes and forces them to accept it through intimidation or through some other means. Be it only frowning on anybody who disagrees with, it is already an unjust intimidation. On crossing over, after a longer or shorter stay in the beyond, bitter experiences soon come to his aid, he realizes that he is not God. Hence he has come to a better recognition. You can say that he has made a step towards the right direction. But as long as he still carries the propensity that prompted him to think that he is God in the first place, he will be held; and as long as he still carries the lack of love that allowed him to feed his fellow men this poison he will be held fast in the beyond. Tied with invisible treads of fate to the people he deceived while on earth. Hence at this stage, his ascent to the light is still totally out of the question.

Until genuine love awakens in him. Yet this love will not free him immediately, rather it will compel him to voluntarily wish to help the people he deceived out of the deception. Only at this point will he be offered an opportunity to redeem his guilt symbolically. This opportunity might come in the form of him being allowed to be the spiritual guide of one of the people he once deceived while on earth. Through promptings and suggestions, if he is able to persuade one of them to drop this erroneous teaching, he will be freed from that tread of fate.

If this genuine love never awakens in him, he will have to remain held fast till all the people he deceived realize the error of his teaching. And this is almost impossible because such teachings are usually passed on from generation to generation; therefore this man may count on eternal dammination. The same is applicable to one who writes a book of erroneous teachings, as long as his book remains on earth and keeps influencing people, he will be held fast in the beyond. However if genuine love awakens in him, this love will compel him to want to voluntarily help the people being deceived by his book, only then will a way out be shown to him through symbolic redemption. In such a case, he may succeed even from the beyond in persuading one of the readers of his book to drop the erroneous teaching. Or he may incarnate on earth to write another book exposing the falsehood of the book he wrote in his previous earth life. Even though in this incarnation he may not realize that he was the one who once wrote the book with erroneous teaching. In this incarnation he will find himself drawn to the book and filled with the desire to expose its falsehood.

Let us step aside from the topic a little to consider our environment. Every now and then we see a man so concerned about a particular issue; he spends almost his whole life over this issue, that people often wonder what is wrong with him. In some cases that issue may be the dominant factor that decided his incarnation. For example, we see a man fighting with all his might to expose the falsehood of a particular writing or scripture that people hold sacred. Such a man may have written the scripture in question in his previous earth life. On coming to recognition of his errors and on the onset of genuine love awakening in him, an opportunity is given to him to incarnate and correct his errors. Depending on the degree of love in his heart; he may be freed by freeing just one person from the errors of his book. Such a repentant one who symbolically redeems his guilt will no longer be held till everybody reading the book comes to recognition. His love has given him a way out.

Returning to the issue at hand: Recognition does not come all at one; ascent does not come all at once, It happens gradually. One comes to recognition inch by inch, link by link. And all the threads of fate are hardly snapped all at once, rather they snap, one after the other. Whatever the case maybe, love is the only way out of any type of entanglement; Hence Christ kept emphasizing on the importance of Love. Coming to a better recognition does not always imply coming to full or complete recognition of all one’s guilt, which is tantamount to having awakened pure or genuine love.

The verse you quoted said, “better recognition” not complete recognition of all guilt, or complete awakening of genuine love, which is tantamount to full recognition; which brings opportunity for symbolic redemption, which in its reciprocal affect, redeem the individual from all guilt.

A false teacher, who has not awakened to love, will be held fast in the beyond, even if he already recognizes the error of his teaching, until all the people he led astray gains clarification or comes to recognition.

Also, the verse said “held fast in the next world” that is held fast in the ethereal realm. You already know that you cannot ascend out of the ethereal realm into the Kingdom of God with, even the smallest particle of guilt still attached to you. The individual ethereal environment changes gradually as his inward maturity or recognition changes; but he may never leave the ethereal realm till he has completely redeemed all his guilt. As long as guilt still attaches to him, his ascent into the kingdom of God is out of the question.

What you wrote: “it will automatically cast off the old ethereal threads and move to a higher plane..” Is not wrong but one has to keep in mind that this “automatically casting off the old ethereal threads,” means living them off, or in other words, redeeming them. And one can redeem guilt symbolically. And this "redeeming them" or "living them off" may involve helping the decieved ones come to better recognition. But genuine love can make it easier on a repentant soul alowing him to be redeem through just helping one of the people he decieved. This is symbolic redemption of guilt, which only pure repentance that stems from love can bring about.

An excellent symbolic redemption happened with the thief that Christ promised, “you will be in Paradise.” When I have time, we can explore that happening and see how that man was able to symbolically redeem all his guilt in such a timely manner.


I hope this helps. Feel free to raise more issues concerning this issue or any other issue.

Thanks and remain blessed.

@shinealight and speer

I’m deeply sorry for this very late reply. I have been very busy since I returned. Now to the issues you raised!

shinealight: Hello Justcool, welcome back! I daresay one cannot make a visit to motherland Africa without having some unforgetable experiences some of which may serve as turning points in our lives, if we permit ourselves the deep reflection that is needed. I can only wish you strength in that regard!

True! And thanks for your wishes; I definitely draw strength from this visit.

shinealight:
1.) How is it that all the Helpers sent by the Light to help the human spirit in their further development and/or enlightenment
(includining Jesus, Parsifal, Cassandra, etc) had to pass through the various levels of creation to reach the World of Matter with the exception of Lucifer? Why was it that as a Helper (which Lucifer was originally meant to be) he had to come outside creation and always remained outside creation? I have often wondered about this peculiarity.

Good question. My perception is as follows:


What determines whether any help world incarnate into matter or not is the nature of the help that the helper is to give. Not all helpers incarnate into matter. Lucifer’s help was in regard to the entire creation, not just the world of matter, much less earthly mankind. Such help does not necessitate an incarnation into the world of matter. In regards to mankind, Lucifer was to help them spiritualize their intellect, to make proper good of their intellect. This mission does not necessitate incarnation into any of the material planets. And I must pause here to explain elaborately.


The human spirit germs being of a spiritual nature is very alien to the nature of all that is gross material, including the intellect. Hence after incarnation into matter, the spirit germs were developing as expected. Gradually, and step by step, they developed or descended till they were ripe for earthly incarnation. With earthly incarnation, another tool is placed at their disposal, the earthly physical body. And the nature of this tool is furthest(most different) from the nature of the developing spirit germ which up till then was developing only spiritually. At this point stagnation in this gradual development was about to occur because the spirit germs were too weak to subjugate the voice of their physical body, the intellect, which compared to the intuitive perception, is very coarse and terribly heavy. Hence a chasm was about to occur in the process of development, leaving only two roads open to the up-till-then very spiritually perceptive spirit germs. One road is to remain completely spiritual neglecting or not fully making use of their physical tool, the intellect. This defeats the purpose of physical incarnation, for then the physical experiencing very much needed for the completion of their development would be lacking; for a thorough experiencing of the physical plane or world of coarsest gross matter, the use of the intellect is indispensible. If mankind had taken this road, the earth today may more be moralistic than it is now; but all the technological achievements would have been lacking. Mankind would still be leaving in caves, for they will lack the tool that they need to transform the earth physically, a sound intellect. Even the language and the ability to speak may not even develop or may only be developed to meager level. This would be tantamount to physical stagnation, a stagnation which in its reciprocal effect will greatly burden the spirit, retarding its development and forcing it to stagnation too. The second road open to them was to completely give in to the intellect and neglect the voice of their spirits. Do I need to mention the consequences that would arise from taking this road?


To prevent this chasm that was bound to occur between the spirit germs and the proper use of their tool—intellect—Lucifer was given the task of helping mankind use their intellect. Like I said earlier, at this point in their development, the spirit germs were still very spiritually perceptive or intuitive; hence they could easily pick up impressions from the beyond with their spirits. Hence Lucifer did not have to incarnate into the physical plane; all he needed to do was to send his volitions into matter, to the developing human spirit germ which can easily pick up these volitions or suggestions and follow them. Hence Lucifer did not have to incarnate physically; that was not necessary.


Physical incarnation of called ones, which arouse later, became necessary due to the failure of mankind. By neglecting their intuitive perception and heeding only the voice of their intellect, mankind lost their ability to pick up spiritual impressions from above material realms. They completely walled off their spirits, the only thing which can soar above matter and pick up impressions with its antenna, the spiritual intuition. One can equally say that mankind closed their spiritual eyes and ears! The road that leads from their spirit was blocked, only that with leads through their cloaks—especially the physical body—remained open. Hence the only way to get to them is through physically showing them and speaking to them. Hence for help to reach them, the prophets had to incarnate physically; mankind had to physically see and hear these prophets, since mankind only perceive physically. Only what is seen or heard physically makes sense to mankind of today! Think about the court proceedings of today; only physical evidence is taken seriously! Cast an intuitive glance on one of the popular slogans of today: “seeing is believing!” and “seeing” here refers to seeing with the physical eyes only, thus perceiving with the physical senses only. Everybody quickly accepts this intellectual slogan as the ultimate truth; however one should not limit his perception to the physical senses alone or give credence only to physical perception! But one should give credence only to his intuitive perception! Hence deep Truth lies in the words, “Blessed are those who do not see and yet believe.” Unfortunately, today, the above biblical saying is interpreted as endorsement of blind faith or believing without weighing and examining. On the contrary the saying means that blessed are those who perceive intuitively!


To expand it further: I know you are a crossbearer and perhaps may have read the book called, “From the heart of Africa.” Think about the Negroes who out of physical inactivity lost the ability to speak! They were physically inactive but still spiritually perceptive, or better said, ethereally perceptive, or even more correct, astraly perceptive. Yet they were headed to physical annihilation, because a successful physical living demands physical alertness which only comes from full use of the physical senses, including the intellect. And this physical stagnation was their mistake, which is terribly wrong. The fact that they were still intuitively perceptive is clearly revealed by the fact that they could clearly see and communicate with the elementals; and by the fact that when they saw the son of the Light, they recognized him immediately. Without any introduction or any words from Him, they fell upon their knees! If a called one was to be sent to those Negroes, such a called one may not need to incarnate physically on earth, he may be able to lead them from the ethereal realm or astral; since they could clearly perceive the beyond. Mankind in their early stage of development can be likened to aforementioned Negroes. That’s how mankind may have remained if they didn’t receive help on how to fully use their intellect. Hence it become necessary to teach them how to place both feet on matter and fully experience the world of matter through their earthly tools; the physical body.

On the other hand, while mankind progressed intellectually, their perception of the beyond should not have stopped either. No matter how much intellectual growth or advancement they make, they can still keep their ability to perceive intuitively aglow. If mankind had developed this way, then the necessity of Jesus incarnating physically on earth would not have arisen, mankind would have been able to experience creation as a whole, and that’s the way creation is designed to be experienced. Gaps only arouse out of failure of mankind, through this failure mankind shut themselves out of Paradise, i.e. out of experiencing paradise. If they had kept both sides – the intellect and the intuition—aglow in the right manner, even while with both feet on the earth, they could still clearly experience or perceive life in the beyond; and in time they will be able to experience and clearly perceive Paradise even while still on earth. And this is where mankind failed, they moved only with the intellect while neglecting their spirits. They way to reach them hence became only physically.


Imagine children playing in the veranda while their father is sitting in the living room and watching them through the window. When the children start to misbehave, he can, while sitting in the living room, raise his voice and call them to order; they will hear him, provided they still have ears. But if the children, while playing wrongly, puncture their ears and lose their ability to hear; then, in order to instruct them, their father would have to leave his living room and enter the veranda and demonstrate his instructions to them.


To add further explanations: Even after the failure of mankind, Lucifer still could influence mankind without incarnating in coarsest gross matter. Even after mankind closed themselves to thier intuitive perception, the clairvoyants among them who could still see the beyond, could only see the dark planes of the beyond. Based on the law of attraction of homogeneous species, they could only see realms homogeneous to them. Hence they could only see the realms of darkness. This also makes it easier for the fallen Lucifer to lead mankind without incarnating on earth. It also makes it more difficult for the light to lead earthly mankind without incarnating on earth. Based on homogeneity, mankind can perceive the dark realm where Lucifer’s volition reigns! They can also see and perceive this volition, its living form. For example, Lucifer, through his volition "Re" led ancient Egypt for a long time. Many of them could clearly see him who the called “Re” or the sun god. Now Imagine if a prophet or Jesus Himself only descended as far as the ethereal realm; based on the law of homogeneity, His ethereal environment would be the purest of all ethereal plane; and such an environment will hardly be perceived or seen by majority of earthly mankind who do not carry as much inner purity; they lack the homogenous bridge. Hence from the ethereal realm Jesus would not be able to reach the entire mankind, only the best among mankind may approach his ethereal environment. The rest would not be able to do so because the law of attraction homogeneous species would not allow it. But on earth, due to the density of coarsest gross matter, good and evil may dwell side by side. Hence on earth an evil person may be able to approach Jesus, ask Him questions, and learn from Him. Only on earth can Jesus approach the entire mankind, both the good and the bad ones. The same is applicable with Parzifal and Cassandra, who in their first incarnations on earth, came to learn or become acquainted with the behavior of mankind. Based on their(Parzifal and Cassandra) high origin, mankind developing from spirit germs, are very different to them(Parzifal and Cassandra); hence they had to incarnate on earth to learn how men behave, think, act and perceive intuitively, as a preparation for their subsequent mission which involves dealing with men. Only on earth could they meet the majority of mankind, both the good and the bad. In other parts of creation, the law of attraction of homogenous species will not let any evil human being come close to these highly called ones.

shinealight:
2.) In the lecture Baptism, we read that John the Baptist had to come so that as the ONLY Called One he could baptise the Son of God (Jesus) in His earthly vessel at the beginning of His Mission on earth. We also learned about the Seer who was shown clearly the danger that was to befall the Prince (name withheld) during his first coming but failed to alert Him until the deed occurred. The Seer was a Called One who failed in his calling and thereby allowed the unthinkable to happen! I thought these two events are worth noting as they show that not all Called Ones are dispensable as implied in one of the threads above .

My perception is as follows:


The two examples you gave tallies perfectly and harmoniously with the explanation I gave earlier, to which you alluded. It depends on the nature of the calling. A human spirit can step in and fulfill where called human spirit failed; such a one will be given the strength to bridge the gap that results from the failure of the called one. However, the human spirit will not not be able to step in and fulfill a calling that requires a Primordial spirit, much less the one that requires a Divine being or the two sons of God. Hence I said that in the case of Lucifer no human spirit or any spirit can step in and correct his mistake, only the son of man Imanuel was given this task. I already said this in an earlier post to Speer. But a higher being can step in and fulfill the calling of a failing human spirit. The prince you mentioned, in His second advent on earth, had to step in fulfill where many called ones failed.



However none of these discredits the statement that no called one is indispensible. Even if John the Baptist had failed, Jesus would still have received His baptism and continued with His mission. When the Grail message reffered to John as the only callled one, this refference is in regards to the earth and mankind. Hence John baptist was the only called one on earth or among mankind physically equipped to baptise Jesus. Any human being could not have fulfilled this role; no humanbeing on earth at time could have fulfilled this role. However if John had failed, another Primodial spirit would have fulfilled this role without incarnating on earth. The physical performance of this act is only an outward covering, the real act istelf is spiritual! Only the spiritual is indespensible for blessings to arise, the physical act is not the main act itself. The Prince you mentioned, in His second earthly advent, the person called to baptize Him or awaken Him to His mission on earth, failed. This person was called to do an act similar what John did to Jesus, but he failed. The act had to be done from the beyond. While in a social gathering, a called Primordial spiritual being, who had already journeyed down to the ethereal realm, was able to achieve this act through a human spirit who voluntarily surrendered her physical vessel to this Primordial spiritual. This Primordial spirit, then spoke through her, awakening the prince to His mission. At a point in His(name withheld)mission Jesus had to journey down to the ethereal realm fulfill an act similar to baptisim to this servant of God who you and I know; this act involved confering and office or title to Him; only Jesus could confer this office or title to this servant of the Light. This is the second coming which Jesus spoke about; however this act did not receive a coarsest gross material covering, it was not done in the physical realm, although this servant of God was living physically on earth at that time, Jesus did not have to incarnate on earth again to perform this act which is similar to baptism. In order not to reveal too much I won’t go deeper in this particular case. I hope I’ve said enough to get my point across to you.


In the case of the seer. It will be absurd to think that the prince’s life depended only on the seer. By the time the seer failed, the prince had done all He needed to do on earth. Otherwise, the prince would have been alerted of the danger through some other means. Keep in mind that the prince is clairvoyant Himself! There was a reason why that danger was not alerted to Him but rather made known to a human being, the seer. At another instance didn’t He hear Ishmael directly telling Him where to camp? His mission concluded the moment Nahome called Him Par…..! What did He say afterwards to Nahome? What realization came to Him after this name calling or discovering of His identity? He was not to be recognized on earth at that time, for He was to live as a man among men. Hence the moment humans started regonizing His identity and origin, signified the completion of His mission in that particuler incarnation. Prior to the conclusion of His mission, no amount of failure from any spirit or being could have resulted in His earthly demise! Don’t belittle the power of God!! In order, not to reveal too much, let’s look at the life of Jesus. By the time His safety rested in the shoulders of mankind, he had actually finished His mission. The time He was arrested wasn’t the first and the only time mankind had sought to kill Him. But prior to that, His safety did not depend on mankind. At a point in His mission, before He said all he had to say to mankind, the entire mankind would not have been able to lay a harming hand on Him! Remember, just a few hours before His arrest, He stood at the Temple and preached. A few days earlier He entered Jerusalem as a King, and also a few days prior to His arrest, He forcibly drove money changers out of the temple in front of everybody. Yet nobody dared touched Him! Not even the roman soldiers who were ever ready to arrest any trouble maker. With the last supper, His mission ended; He had said all He had to say to mankind; and with that Grail act, which we call the last supper, He commemorated the end of His mission! Only from then did mankind have anything to say about His safety. He could have stayed longer, of course, if mankind proved they deserved it by keeping Him safe.


I repeat, in light happenings, nobody, no matter how highly called, is indispensible! The failure of highly called ones can delay things or alter things a little but nothing can prevent the happening all together. In some cases where a Primordial spiritual being fails, another Primordial spiritual will be sent; so this failure will only delay things a little.


God’s volition is stronger than the entire creation; no creature can prevent it. In its fulfillment, no creature, no matter how highly called, is indispensible! Any creature that ever, even for one second, considers himself indispensible is already lost. In the end God's will must be fulfilled to minutest detail! Nothing can escape this! Not even the smallest grain of sand will rest an inch away from the will of God in the end. In the intermediary, different options or paths might arise due to the freewill of spirits which can result in thier failure, but the final destination is the WILL of God.


Thanks a lot. Feel free to raise issues.. Remain blessed!


@ speer
Please bear with me. This is as much I can go today. Time forbids me to go further. I will treat yours as soon as time permits me. Please bear with me.

@speer and shinalight.

This is just to let you two know that I've seen your post but haven't had time to respond.

I'm so pressed by time this period; I'm actually writing this with my cellphone.

I'm trying to make out time this coming weekend to share my perception on your very worthy posts. Please bear with me.

Uncle Charles: Best wishes. Perhaps I too may be privileged to meet you.

@ Uncle Charles
May the Almighty grant it!! It will be my privilege.

Speer:
Thanks Justcool,

Have a joyous, blessed and reaffirming trip and an enlightening stay.

Peace and action!!!

Thanks Speer! My visit was indeed very enlightening. Experiences came to me that deepened my insight greatly. Veils after veils were thrown back from new insights; it was like bandages falling of my eyes. Perhaps, when I have time, I may be able to modify some of my experiences in a manner that I can share them on a public forum like this. I'm filled with gratitude towards the Light for every minute of my stay in Nigeria.

shinealight:

Justcool, I have been following your exchange with Speer for sometime and I must say that your answers always provide deep insights which should help any reader come to a deeper appreciation of what the Author of the Grail Message sought to explain to mankind. Would appreciate if you could let us know on this forum when you are back from Nigeria. Perhaps you can help shed some light on a few more issues. Thanks.

Thanks dear friend, and welcome to this thread! I'm back from Nigeria now, so kindly raise your issues and I will most gladly share my perception. I don’t promise a prompt reply each time, since I'm a very busy person; but I will always reply, at my opportune time.



Thank you all! May this year bring us all greater spiritual mobility!

Kay 17:

That's if we see zero difference btw the singularity and the Universe in its present state.

It doesn't matter. The bottom line is that a change of state doesn't imply the birth of the object or system that changed state. Otherwise one can say that ice melting to liquid implies the beginning or coming into existence of water.

Kay 17:

The implications for the lack of time is that we are deprived of a past prior to the Big Ban.g. Seeking a Cause for the Big Ban.g ignores the lack of a timeline. The tree analogy doesn't fit here, the focus here isn't on human observation.

I believe matter is in an ever flux, constant change of form, but the substance remains the same. The singularity was basically the Universe in a nutshell, the singularity explains the Universe.

By the same token, the implication of what you wrote here is that the universe have always exsisted in one form or another. It exsisted in a different form before the big bang and hence the big bang is only a stage in the development or unfolding of the universe and not the beginning. If so, why do you guys always try to find the beginning or birth of any component of the universe in the big bang? Who do you guys use the big bang to challenge creationists? In reality the big bang has nothing to do with the origin of the universe or anything in the universe!

comnsense:

Come on man, I must say, you are too 'scientific' to the point of hogwash. Deepsight is making more sense here. Don't tell me that there is no evidence that there is anything outside the universe. This is simple logic; we don't need evidence for this. Because if there isn't anything outside the Universe (as we rightly don't know), what then is there - nothing? Fair enough. Was this 'nothing' there before the Big Bang? Obviously. Well, did this 'nothing' negate the existence of Time. This is where definitions of Time get ridiculous.
Let's not get scientific to the point we don't make simple sense. You have been arguing that Time couldn't have existed before the Big Bang - Claptrap. This is like the 'If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one to hear it, does it make a sound?' riddle.
Because the Universe didn't exist then, doesn't mean that that metaphysical entity in which events unfold at some point (Time) didn't exist. Because Light, matter or scientists were not there to observe or measure it doesn't negate its existence. That, I think is Deepsight's idea of Layman's time.
So, no. There obviously was either Something or Nothing before the Big Bang..common sense and logic tells us that. If there was something, what was it? If there was nothing? From whence did all the matter in that singularity spring from? These are the valid points to debate and not the 'no Time before the big bang' hogwash.

Excellent! However, do not accept everything you read here as scientific or real science. Most of what people say concerning this topic are mere speculations.
However Deepsight's position is based on known and observerble ideas. Even if one calls his position mere speculation, it is speculation based on the reality we have observed around us. The reality that unfolds before us everyday.
What bits me is how people disregard this reality in their speculation about the origin of time and the universe, and yet maintain that the laws of physics are immutable.
Its funny how this basic cornerstone of science is quickly disregarded when it points to the possibility of something beyond the universe, or that something may have exsisted before the universe.
Hence I stayed away from this thread.