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The Laws Of Nature And The
Law of Octaves: When our Constitutional Framers expressed the words,
The Laws of Nature
and Nature's God, they understood the Law of Three as manifest in
the Divine Pattern of Creation, as well as the Law of Octaves which
holographically is embedded throughout every aspect of all that exists. When
Deism is portrayed as "Deism
...is the standpoint that
reason
and observation of the
natural world,
without the need for organized religion, can determine that a
supreme being created the
universe"
(see Deism) -- it was
because the American Gnostics who were Deists, understood the higher reality of
the Laws when overcome, is a harnessing of the Laws within one's own mind and
being that, in the above words of Ouspensky, "...makes
books and libraries entirely unnecessary" . Why would overcoming
the Laws within one's self render "...books and
libraries entirely unnecessary"? Those who overcome the Laws and
emerge out of what Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being --
or the illusions of Plato's Cave -- are able to see and understand all things
for what they truly are -- and are thus, travailing the path of the soul's
journey of enlightenment. And one of the primary concerns of our Deist
Constitutional Framers, was creating an environment where the Natural Laws (of
God) could function at a higher level, and permit the people to evolve to their
higher potential that organic man simply could not even begin to comprehend.
Though the pattern of the
Law of Three and the Law of Octaves is holographically present throughout all of
Creation, it is perhaps easiest to see, hear and observe in music. Again let me
stress the fact that while the manifest Laws-at-work can be demonstrated more
easily in music, its far-reaching reality is prevalent throughout all aspects of
life in this world and beyond. The only difference, then, is that the same
sequence of Law is more difficult to observe throughout the other aspects of
life -- but quickly becomes apparent once one is cognizant of the pattern and
sequence. The same pattern that is found
in music has been noted in what is known as Newlan's Law of Octaves -- i.e.,
is related to the arrangement of elements in the periodic table. If
elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, the eighth element
starting from a given one is a kind of repetition of the first.
It is said that once Pythagoras recognized the relationship of music and math --
and established music as an exact science -- Pythagoras then applied his Law of
harmonic intervals to all the phenomena of Nature. He went so far as to
demonstrate the harmonic relationship of the planets, constellations, and
elements to each other.
 If
we look at the picture of a typical keyboard, what we see is the whole notes
represented in the white keys, and the half-tones in the black keys. Regardless
of the fact of whether we understand music or not, what we should quickly
recognize is the easily discernable fact that not every whole-note interval has
a half-tone! Why? Why isn't there a half-tone between the third and fourth
note on the keyboard and musical scale? Also, why isn't there a half-tone
between the seventh and eigth note of a musical scale? Though the answer is
very simple, the reality that is portrayed is so esoteric and beyond physical
reality as we know it, that the most accomplished musicians cannot supply you
with the answer to the enigma -- an enigma that is holographically true of all
Laws -- and envelops every aspect of our lives and Creation.
Man's physical body is programmed for his
spiritual failure: Our physical body is of the earth -- it therefore is
not a vehicle that is the natural environment of man's higher soul and spiritual
natures. What this means is that if we are to manifest our higher natures, and
rise above the inherent carnal limitations of our physical body/vessel, we will
be required to make a conscious effort -- even a super conscious effort -- as we
endeavor to overcome the Laws that are the ruling forces of this natural world.
Once again, our physical body is comprised of earth-matter -- and is not
naturally acclimated to support man's higher aspects of mind and being. And
this is the reason why Paul warns that the
"natural" mind of man cannot even begin to
perceive or comprehend the higher reality of the soul and spiritual natures (see
Mystery Of The
Gospel) -- judging and rejecting these higher truths as utter
"foolishness" and even
heresy. That the physical body and mind must be purified and transformed in
order to gain access to those higher areas of mind that are able to perceive and
comprehend man's higher soul and spiritual reality -- and the fact that this
transformational process requires much effort and work on one's self -- is
portrayed in the words of the disciples where they stated:
"We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of
God" (Acts 14:22 NKJ).
If we are therefore bound
to this physical realm by the natural Laws, then it is of the utmost importance
for us to be cognizant of the effects of the Law as they interact with every
aspect of nature and life. If we pose the question: Is man's physical body
imbued with the Laws that inhibit him from fulfilling his spiritual goals? As
we look around us at the natural world it is important that we be cognizant of
the fact that we see the absence of strait lines. The leaves on a tree or plant
-- the outline of a mountain range -- the formation of rocks -- as well as the
very physical bodies in which we presently dwell. Strait lines do not exist in
nature. Why? Because these Laws which we can hear and observe on a keyboard,
cause all things to change direction in midstream. In the same way that we
cannot clear our minds and focus on a single thought, as we attempt to walk the
path of spiritual enlightenment, the Laws of this realm will constantly work to
lead us off the path to Life.
Returning once again to the
keyboard: Starting from the left most key, we can see the first note, and
between the first and second white keys is a half-tone which is represented by
that black key. Thus, the black key represents a half-step or half-tone between
the two white keys which musicians call a sharp or flat. The same is true with
respect to the sequence of the second to third note. Then, between the third
and fourth note the pattern suddenly changes, and we can observe that there is
no half-tone between these notes. Why? Because when we play the notes, the
frequency of the fourth note is actually a half-tone -- and yet it artificially
and falsely sounds to our physical hearing a whole-step increment. Why? Why
does our ears hear a half-tone in the third to fourth sequence as if it is a
whole, while this is not true in the first two intervals of an octave?
The enigma is caused by a
twisting of the frequencies when they are played in sequence -- but this
twisting is not only true of the musical scale -- but is holographically true
and representative of a pattern which is indigenous to all such sequences of Law
throughout all of Creation. What this means is that while we can hear this Law
at work in music, and observe this Law at work by virtue of the physical
placement of the keys on a keyboard, this same pattern remains universal to all
the Laws that control this world throughout every aspect of our lives. The
result is that when we think we are hearing what would be portrayed as a
straight linear path -- our physical senses are subject to an illusion within
the construct of the Laws -- resulting in the fact that we are inadvertently
turned off the linear path without ever realizing that our direction has been
altered by the natural sequence of Laws which immerse every aspect of this
physical realm in what Jesus portrayed as the
"outer darkness" of mind and being, or the
illusions of Plato's Cave.
 In
the first place we must understand that an octave is comprised of seven notes or
sequences -- as is the pattern of the seven colors of the rainbow that make up
white light. As the seventh note is stepped into the eighth sequence, the first
note of the sequence is double the frequency of the first, and is repeated as
one octave higher than the initial note played. What this means is that there
is seven notes which complete the sequence before the first note is repeated one
octave higher than the first -- as in the common musical sequence Doe Re Me Fa
So La Ti Doe -- with the second Doe being the same note as the first, but only
one octave higher. For those who don't understand the musical scale, there is
no variableness in the beginning and ending of the first sequence that makes up
the octave, because the frequency of the eighth note which is also expressed in
the term Doe which commences the next higher octave, is double the frequency of
the first Doe. And this is why whole notes only consist of a repetitive A
through G sequence.
Limits Of The Organic Mind - Linear
Thought And Fragmentation: While from a human
perspective it could be asserted that there is an inherent congenital defect in
the hearing of man that causes him to falsely hear the interval between the
third and fourth sequences of an octave as if it were a whole-step -- regardless
of the fact that it is a half-step in the frequencies of the musical sequence --
in failing to understand the reality and higher purpose of this long ignored
phenomena, it is as if mankind continues to dwell in a self-imposed Dark Ages
that has gravely inhibited his progress. In fact, all the poverty, all of
man's sufferings, violence, conflict and bestiality that men inflict upon other
men, is all the result of man's self-imposed ignorance of the knowledge of the
Laws. On the other hand, Mystics and those who have long understood the
movement of the Laws of Creation have known that this interval between the third
to fourth sequence is in fact a testing point of the Laws -- a test for
Completeness and Wholeness to see if we are prepared to move beyond that point
in the physical and mental limitations of the body-vessel. But it has been
virtually impossible for natural organic man to make any real progress beyond
the level where he is presently at, because pseudo-intellectuals reject the
wisdom that has been presented to them. The biblical authors all warned that
man's higher soul and spiritual reality as set forth in what was portrayed as
the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God, was beyond the comprehension of organic man
in his natural (earthly-carnal) mindset (see
Mystery Of The
Gospel) -- and yet, both man's religious and political leaders have long
ignored their witness.
In the same way that man is deaf and oblivious to the
fact that the third to fourth and seventh to eighth sequence of the musical
scale that he hears in not a linear progression as he imagines, he in like
manner remains oblivious to the fact that both his line of vision and his
rational linear thought that he relies upon to evaluate his experiences in this
world, is subject to the same testing and twisting that is easily demonstrated
in his hearing. What this means is that organic man's rational thinking is
totally unreliable to evaluate what he sees and evaluates, because what appears
to be linear, is an illusion that he is not at all even aware of. In the same
way that the listener is not aware of the frequency shifts when the notes of an
octave is played back to him -- and what sounds to his physical ears to be a
linear incremental progression is not at all true -- the same is true with
respect to both his vision and what he would consider rational thought and
reasoning.
The result is man's inherent blindness and suppressed
rationale that inhibits his ability to properly evaluate what he thinks he sees
and understands. Why? Very simply, because of the carnal blindness
 inflicted
upon man by virtue of the organic limitations of the body-vessel -- and when
these natural organic limitations are understood, the reality which confronts
man is seen in his inability to grasp only a mere fragment of what he sees and
comprehends. And perhaps the perfect example of the problem is presented in a
poem by John Godfrey Saxe which is based upon a fable told in India. It is a
good warning about how our inhibited sensory perceptions and limited organic
logic can lead to some serious misinterpretations -- especially when the
investigations of the component parts of a whole, and their relations in making
up the whole, are inadequate and lack co-ordination.
It was six men of Indostan, To learning much
inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That
each by observation, Might satisfy his mind
The First approached the Elephant, And happening to
fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl: "God bless me!
but the Elephant Is very like a wall!"
The Second, feeling of the tusk, Cried, "Ho! what
have we here, So very round and smooth and sharp? To me 'tis mighty clear, This
wonder of an Elephant, Is very like a spear!"
The Third approached the animal, And happening to
take The squirming trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up and spoke: "I see,"
quoth he, "the Elephant Is very like a snake!"
The Fourth reached out an eager hand, And felt
about the knee. "What most this wondrous beast is like, Is mighty plain," quoth
he; "'Tis clear enough the Elephant, Is very like a tree!"
The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear, Said:
"Even the blindest man Can tell what this resembles most; Deny the fact who can,
This marvel of an Elephant Is very like a fan!"
The Sixth no sooner had begun, About the beast to
grope, Than, seizing on the swinging tail, That fell within his scope, "I see,"
quoth he, "the Elephant, Is very like a rope!"
And so these men of Indostan, Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion, Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in
the right, And all were in the wrong!
The Moral: So oft in theologic wars, The
disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance, Of what each other mean, And
prate about an Elephant, Not one of them has actually seen!
From the enlightened perspective
of the Mystic, the inherent problem of human blindness is even greater than what
is presented in the above fable. The
90th Chapter
of what is known as The
Gospel of the Nazirenes preserves this higher reality that plagues organic
physical man: "The One truth has many sides, and
one sees one side only, another, and some see more than others, according as it
is given to them. Behold this crystal; how the one light is manifest in twelve
faces, yea four times twelve, and each face reflects one ray of light, and one
regards one face, and another, another, but it is the one crystal, and the one
light that shines in all."
Like the blind men, what is presented in the above
Gospel quotation is the reality that by Law, different men perceive the same
truth differently -- and that each perception of the one truth is both valid,
and fragmented. And in understanding the Laws and their effects upon organic
man, the Deist framers of the Constitution insured that each position based upon
each individual man's perception, was protected. Our Constitutional framers
understood that because each man's perception, understanding and mind is
segmented -- and that in his organic natural condition, each man is only able to
see mental forms and allegorical symbols (see above
The Allusions Of
The Forms Of Matter) that have been impressed into the images of nature --
that each individual man's perception is not only representative of a valid
perspective even though it is different than that of other men -- but that each
man's fragmented perspective is an integral part of the Whole. But because
each man's perception and understanding is a fragment of the whole, few men
possess the intelligent perception to realize the fact that his rational linear
reasoning is totally insufficient to evaluate what his very limited perception
and organic consciousness is presenting to him. And it was the realization of
this reality that organic man was inherently blind to by virtue of the
limitations of his physical senses and consciousness, that was expressed in the
shock of Einstein (see
Science Proves
Religion) when he stated: “All my attempts to adapt
the theoretical foundation of physics to this [new type of] knowledge failed
completely. It was as if the ground had been pulled out from under one, with no
firm foundation to be seen anywhere, upon which one could have built”.
In much the same fashion, the European physicist Niels Bohr stated that
“…The great extension of our experience in recent years
has brought to light the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and,
as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary
interpretation of observation was based.” Which confirms what
Einstein wrote in analysis that “We may
therefore regard matter as being constituted by the regions of space in which
the field is extremely intense… There is no place in this new kind of physics
both for the field and matter,
for the field is the only reality”
(quoted in M. Capek, The Philosophical Impact of
Contemporary Physics) -- and the words of physicist Walter Thirring who
wrote that modern physics “…has put our thinking
about the essence of matter in a different context. It has taken our gaze from
the visible - the particles -
to the underlying entity, the field.
The presence of matter is merely a disturbance of the perfect state of the field
at that place; something accidental, one could almost say, a ‘blemish’.
Accordingly, there are no simple laws describing the forces between elementary
particles…
Order and symmetry must be sought in the underlying field”
(Urbausteine der Materie).
What this means is that only the Mystic who has
endeavored to consciously develop his latent intuitive spheres of mind,
possesses the ability to observe and comprehend what man's very fragmented
linear-rational (intellectual) thinking is totally blind to -- which enables the
Mystic alone to perceive the source and underlying causes in the Etheric Field
that is the source of what man perceives in the forms of matter. Thus, Mystics
have long warned mankind that the reality of this world of appearances is not at
all what is seems to be through the perception of man's physical eyes and senses
-- i.e., that there is a great deal more that man's senses and perception cannot
detect or even imagine. And this same enigma of the limits of man's physical
senses was noted by Albert Einstein who concluded with respect to man's dilemma
when he stated: "The intuitive mind is a sacred
gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that
honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." And what the
Mystic has warned is that because man's religious, philosophical, cultural and
educational institutions "...have created a
society that honors the [rational] servant and has forgotten [and suppressed the
development of] the [intuitive] gift" -- thus, blinding mankind to
the underlying cause of all that man sees and experiences in this world, man
remains perpetually lost and blind in what Jesus portrayed as the
"outer darkness" of mind and being (see
Outer Darkness) -- or
what the philosopher portrayed in the analogy of the illusions of Plato's Cave
(see Cave) .
When properly
and factually understood, there is absolutely no difference
between the findings of the enlightened scientist, the original
disciples of Jesus, the Apostle Paul who attempted to warn
organic man of his inherent blindness to his own higher
soul-reality ( see
Mystery), and the enlightened Mystic -- except, perhaps, the
key word enlightened.
But the very word enlightened raises the crucial question as to
how one even becomes enlightened?
Certainly not by disputing others over
opinions based upon very fragmented and limited perceptions of
truths that are incomprehensible to the natural organic mind of
man. With great wisdom and vision
Einstein stated "Only those who
can see the invisible can do the impossible." But
since the vast majority of modern scientists who develop only
the linear-intellect and totally discard the intuitive, in their
blindness they reject even the existence of the invisible --
resulting in the fact that the scientific community has rendered
itself impotent with respect to any real depth of perception and
understanding. Paul conveyed the exact same message to the
congregation of believers that Einstein stated in the above
words: "While
we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things
which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal;
but the things which are not seen are eternal" (2 Cor
4:18 KJV). Which means that we first must recognize
not only that the unseen which is the source of what we see
exists, but also that be can develop the ability to see what
organic man is blind to.
When Paul wrote that "See to
it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which
depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world..."
(Col 2:8 NIV) -- he was making reference to philosophies, human
traditions and basic principles that were founded upon a linear-logic perception
and understanding of this world. When Paul warned that the wisdom of
this world comes to naught, it was because of the blind illusion of man's
linear-logic that causes him to arrive at defective assumptions. When the
scriptures warn that "There is a way that seems right
to man, but its end is the way of death" (Prov 14:12) -- once again
this warning is based upon the illusions of man's comprehension based upon his
dismissal of the intuitive and almost sole reliance on intellectual
linear-logic.
When Paul stated to the congregations that they should
"…take captive every thought to make it obedient
to Christ" (2
Cor 10:5 NIV) -- what he was stating was to be totally conscious of the thoughts
which are in fact controlled by the Law of Octaves, to insure that the thoughts
generated make an inner connection between the disciples lower earthly nature as
manifest in the body-vessel, and their higher spiritual nature that organic man
is blind and oblivious to. The developing of the mind through the capturing of
one's own thoughts, is the basis for the warning of Jesus in the Gospels:
"But I say unto you, That every idle word that
men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment"
(Matt 12:36 KJV). And that one must overcome the Laws working in the body is
the reason it is written in the Epistle of James:
"…bridle the whole body"
(James 3:2 KJV). While this may appear totally alien
from the perspective of the modern Christian who fully indulges in the unbounded
excesses of our present-day cultural lifestyle, the Apostle Paul confirmed the
validity of these words from a New Covenant perspective when he wrote of the
necessity to
"…beat my body and make it my slave..."
(1 Cor 9:27 NIV). Moreover, when Paul stated that
salvation is by faith over the ritual works of the Law of Moses, the reality
that faith meant an entirely different thing to the Apostle Paul than what is
being preached from our pulpits today, can be seen in Paul’s commandment to all
who would call themselves a Christian to
"Put to death, therefore, whatever
belongs to your earthly nature" (Col 3:5 NIV). If the
congregation of believers could simply have faith, without living a Consecrated
Life set apart from the thinking and lifestyle of the people of this world, then
Paul would not have warned the believers of the simple-faith that:
“For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die:
but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live”
(Rom 8:13 KJV). To mortify the deeds of the body takes
work -- a great amount of work -- and this work cannot be accomplished through a
static faith. The problem is that these biblical
commandments have absolutely nothing in common with the doctrine of faith that
was developed by MarReligionAsSystemOfEducationtin
Luther in the Middle-ages. In later chapters I will explore the effect of our
modern sexualized culture and its devastating effects upon men and women --
which was also warned by Paul in the full statement at Col 3:5 where he writes:
"Put to
death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality,
impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry."
In most instances the effects of our modern culture totally inhibit the person
from overcoming the Law of Octaves in their body-mind.
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The
Enigma Of The Segmented Mind: Modern Deists maintain that theirs
is the True Path of Reason -- suggesting that all Jews, Christians, Muslims and
Atheists should abandon their own religions and mindset, and embrace the
philosophy of the Deists. But the folly and irrationality of such a position
is immediately recognized, when the Natural Laws are understood with respect to
the Divine Design of Creation that necessitates balance across both the cosmos
(Macrocosm) and the spectrum of human thought and thinking (microcosm) -- and
the fact that each school of thought among mankind can be said to be hardwired
to perceiving the world from a preprogrammed perspective (see
The Enigma Of The Twelve -- The Laws -- And The Tree Of Life ). And
if this is true with respect to the requirement of the Natural Laws which must
maintain balance across the spectrum of human thought and thinking, then the
scenario of the Deist attempting to simply tell the Theist and Atheist to give
up their condition of mind and rational thought -- to merely adopt an
alternative school of thought that is contrary to their own hardwired perception
of life -- must be seen as the epitome of irrationality on the part of the
Deist. Quoting from the foregoing link:
In what is known as the Sermon on the Mount in the
Gospels, one of the primary commandments is a prohibition against judging our
brothers and sisters. Why? Because each person sees and perceives the world
from a different and sometimes conflicting perception and understanding -- a
perception and understanding that is brought about and maintained by the Laws of
Creation which imbues Nature with the Objective of maintaining balance and
wholeness. Perhaps it can be thought of as the
Tower of Babel Syndrome on
steroids. Therefore, when we judge another, we are in effect not only finding
fault with the Laws of Creation -- but we are also judging others who are
polarized to a different sphere/fragment within the pattern of the Tree of Life
-- from the perspective of our own fragmentary perception and understanding.
And while empathetic discernment of others is of the utmost importance in the
development of mind as manifest in the pattern of the Tree of Life within us, it
is imperative that we understand the difference between discernment and
judgment. In the same way that the great variations and diversity of thinking
across the spectrum of mankind exists and is maintained by the Laws of Nature
and Nature's God (Laws of Creation), while each fragment within the whole is
representative of a fractionated truth, the inherent limitations in the
construct of each fragment, immerses that individual perception of truth in a
sea of confusion and error by virtue of its fractionated reality. While Truth
exists within the Reality of the Whole, a fragment that is based upon 1/144.000th
of the whole, exists in grave error apart from the Fullness of the Whole.
In the 90th chapter of the
Gospel of the Nazirenes this important
teaching is preserved: "The One truth has many sides,
and one sees one side only, another, and some see more than others, according as
it is given to them. Behold this crystal; how the one light is manifest in
twelve faces, yea four times twelve, and each face reflects one ray of light,
and one regards one face, and another, another, but it is the one crystal, and
the one light that shines in all." What it is saying is that One
Truth is divided across the spectrum of the Twelve, and each person only sees
one face of the twelve -- and when the words, "...yea
four times twelve" is understood as the division of the pattern of
the twelve within each of the twelve, each person only sees a fragment of the
face of the original twelve as portrayed in the twelve faces of the crystal that
divides and segments the One Truth. And since the perception and understanding
of what each person thinks they see as a fragmented 1/144.000th is
from a different and often paradoxically different perspective than another
person, not only is every person and group bound by error by virtue of their own
inherent incompleteness -- but their judgment (in contradistinction of
discernment) of the perception and understanding of others, inhibits them from
advancing beyond a very rudimentary and incomplete reality of mind.
What is the ramifications? If, you divide the
twelve spheres of the Tree of Life across the spectrum of humanity in the
outer world, then each person is representative of 1/144,000th of the whole.
Which means that each person who begins their existence as a one-celled
human-amoeba, can only represent 1/144,000th of the Whole. And when you
take into account the three-dimensional aspects of this world in relation to
The Divine Pattern Of Creation as represented in the
Spiritual Doctrine of the Trinity -- and the reality that True Wholeness
can only be achieved when the Three Exist At-One -- this reality opens a
whole new dimension to the paradox of Wholeness. What is not at all
understood is that the soul of man is asexual -- i.e., but not asexual in
the meaning of the absence of polarity in the negative sense -- but rather,
the negation of the polarities through their evolved Fullness and Absolute
Balance as portrayed in the 22nd saying of the
Gospel of Thomas in
the words: Jesus said to them, "When you make the
two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like
the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the
female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female
female...".
The soul and true self of man which -- in its
Natural Form is a Being of Light (see
SoulSelf.org
) -- is a positive and absolute balance of male/female and the third-force
Manifestation of Higher Mind and Being. What this means is that while the
higher soul-self can manifest in this elevated state of being which I
portray as the Realm Of Souls because it is not limited to the three
dimensions of this physical world, it is impossible for the soul to manifest
in a one-cell human amoebic-embryo. Whereby, when projected into this
world, not only is the soul subject to the limitations of the Natural Laws
which require Wholeness across the spectrum of the 144,000, but also divided
across the gender-divide. Which means that when you further divide the one
cell embryo across gender lines, that makes each man or woman half of this
apportionment. Which is why in the above
Gospel of Thomas
teaching on when the Kingdom would come, not only must there be a
positive-evolved balance of male/female within the Trinitarian Divine
Pattern -- i.e., "...when you make the male and the
female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female
female..." -- but Jesus states that unless you achieve the next
stages of birth through this process of Evolved-Oneness which is able to
achieve the necessary Wholeness, you cannot bring about the state of
Wholeness within your mind and being that enables the person you are in this
world to be united to your higher soul-self -- and ultimately, to the
Indwelling Logos and Creator-God as a Fully Evolved
Being of Light.
When the biblical authors write and warn that
man's higher soul-reality and the Kingdom is incomprehensible to the
"natural" mind of organic man (see
The Second
Fatal Mistake), it is because Truth can only exist at a soul-level of
mind and being where the twelve faces of the crystal are manifest in the One
Truth -- and ultimately, at the Logos Level of Reality (see
Logos).
What this means from a holographic perspective, is that in the same way that
our physical bodies were formed from the joining and union of the sperm and
ovum of our mother and father, when we were born into this world that was
only the First Phase of Birth -- and having entered this world as male or
female, we exist as a Cosmic Ovum And Sperm (see
The Trinity And The Divine Pattern Of Creation). And from the
perspective of our un-manifested higher soul and spiritual reality, this
realm can be portrayed as the mental-womb of Mother-God that is the
necessary environment to bring about the next stage of birth which enables
us to manifest out Eternal Soul-Self in the body-vessel -- as portrayed in
another version of the above quotation from the Gospel of Thomas that has
been preserved in the Second Epistle Of Clement where Jesus is quoted with
respect to the teachings on the coming of the Kingdom in the words:
“Let us expect, therefore, hour by hour, the
kingdom of God in love and righteousness, since we know not the day of the
appearing of God. For the Lord Himself, being asked by one when His kingdom
would come, replied, 'When two shall be one, that which is without as that
which is within, and the male with the female, neither male nor female’” .
A truly enlightened Spiritually Mature seeker
who understood what is often portrayed as the Laws of Nature and Nature's
God, would begin to grasp the reality that, BY DESIGN, there can never be
unity in the outer world, because the Laws MUST maintain Wholeness -- and
the primary cell that formed you as an embryo could only be imbued with
1/144,000th part of the Whole. And since each of the twelve spheres of
mind perceive and understand the world from a different and often opposite
paradoxical perspective, then what you have is the embodiment of the
allegorical
Tower of Babel Syndrome that fragments the thinking and perception of
all of mankind -- resulting in the great conflict of thought that we can
easily observe in the world. Thus, based upon this higher reality, if we
pose the question: What makes you perceive and understand the world
differently from others? The vastly different perceptions are in fact
hard-wired into each person's thinking -- each person possessing a piece of
the enigmatic puzzle -- and together, making a whole.
The Solution To The
Dilemma: One of the parables of the Kingdom in the
Gospels is that of a merchant who searches and finds the Pearl of Great
Price, and he goes and sells all his lesser pearls in order to purchase it.
But since the carnal mind of the readers fail to understand with any depth
or fullness (see
Prologue Of The Key Of Knowledge), they fail to recognize the fact that
the key to acquiring the Pear of Great Price is to have collected a
substantial number of lesser pearls that can then be sold in order to
acquire the One Pearl. And what this means is that each person possesses a
lesser pearl -- i.e., a fragment of truth -- and by developing your power of
empathy in conjunction with an understanding of the Natural Laws -- and then
using the power of empathy in your interactions with your brothers and
sisters as a type of catalyst to reflect their fragmented perception back to
you -- you can then begin to expand your own mind, consciousness and being
-- INWARDLY.
We can define empathy as the ability to suspend
one's own self in the endeavor to project one's self into the life and
thinking of another, in order to perceive and understand the world from
their perspective. And what this means is that while you may not agree
with their perception of life because they are also representative of
1/144,000th of the whole, they do possess a fragment or lesser pearl that
you must possess within yourself, in order to begin to achieve Wholeness
within your own self -- which is accomplished by expanding your own mind,
consciousness and being (see
Expansion And Heightening Of Mind) beyond natural physical organic
limitations. But herein lies the problem -- i.e., empathy only works when
you are able to suspend judgment -- as detailed in the Gospel -- because
judgment is partisan and parochial, and is itself limited to a fragment of
mind/whole. Yet, while judgment is an extremely limiting factor, one of
the elements that is absolutely necessary to the
expansion of mind, is discernment.
Without judgment, I can discern the vision and
perception of life through the eyes of a homosexual, a whore, a thief, a
liberal or conservative, a person of a certain philosophical or
theological persuasion, as well as every other fragmented variety of human
condition. By suspending judgment, and empathetically inserting myself
into the conditions of my brothers and sisters, I can not only see from
their perspective -- but I can then use that person as a catalyst to
interact with that part of myself that is in harmony with that other person.
And each time I am able to do this, I am in effect expanding my own mind,
consciousness and being. That does not mean that I agree with their very
limited and fragmented assessment of life -- but rather, that by
empathetically projecting myself into their mind and thinking, and using
them as a reflective catalyst, I can collect one of the lesser pearls within
myself -- which eventually can be exchanged for the Pearl of Great Price
that is beyond natural organic human conception because of the limiting
factor of the Natural Laws.
Homosexuals claim that they were created
homosexual -- and while many people may be in denial of this claim, it is
fundamentally true (see
Conditions Of Birth). The question that should be asked is: Why has
such a person been born homosexual in this present life? In fact, modern
science has about proven that each person is born hard-wired to the life
that they are presently living. Consider the interesting finding in the
Publishers Weekly Review of the book entitled
Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals about Morality:
Society's assumptions about free will and individual responsibility must be
drastically revised in the light of scientific discoveries about the brain,
argues this fascinating study. Drawing on a wealth of recent developments in
neurobiology, genetics and brain imaging, Tancredi, a professor of
psychiatry and a lawyer, examines new findings about the neurological
structures and processes that underlie reasoning, emotions and
decision-making. He applies these discoveries to such traditional moral
concerns as violence, sexual infidelity, lying, gluttony and sloth, and even
financial fraud and gambling. The striking results of this research, he
notes, indicate that hormones, drugs, genetic abnormalities, injuries and
traumatic experiences all have profound effects on brain structure and
functioning, and hence on moral choices; indeed, some experiments imply that
our actions are initiated by the unconscious brain before we are consciously
aware of them, raising the possibility that our sense of moral agency is a
retrospective "illusion." Tancredi supplements his rather dry exposition of
the science with case studies from his clinical practice, including lengthy
profiles of a sex-addicted patient and of a "biologically driven" serial
killer, and closes by pondering the possibility and perils of a hypothetical
Brave New World-style program of neurological intervention-complete with
brain implants-to improve morality. Some will consider Tancredi's talk of
the "empathetic" female brain and "systemizing" male brain and his chalking
up of pedophilia to "an imbalance of the monoamine neurotransmitters" and
homosexuality to "differences in neurohumeral activity during the prenatal
phase" to be glibly reductionist, but many will find his well-researched
overview of the new science of the brain a stimulating addition to the
debate about human nature.
What this means is that your thinking -- and
your manner of thought -- is solely depended upon your
Conditions Of Birth. -- orchestrated by
(1) your Spiritual DNA
based upon your soul's previous accomplishments;
(2) where in the
spectrum of the 1/144,000 you fall;
(3) karmic loops that are carried from
life to life;
(4) and the debts you owe as portrayed in the reality of the
words:
“Do not be deceived: God
cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Gal 6:7
NIV). In the above example of the person who is born homosexual:
While there is a biological cause which the book by Prof. Tancredi notes in
his conclusion to "differences in neurohumeral
activity during the prenatal phase", these differences are
orchestrated by the foregoing four factors with respect to each person's
Conditions Of Birth. That each individual person is born into the
life that they are about to live that has been orchestrated by the Natural
Laws and the role on the stage of life that has been incorporated into their
own curriculum and syllabus of learning, means that the choices we make in
conjunction with what we accomplish with the opportunity of life,
orchestrates the life that our soul-self will be born into in the
future.
What this means is that a liberal, is a liberal,
because his thinking is hard-wired to that manner of perception and thinking
-- as is a conservative. Ultra-liberal
Alan Combs is incapable
of seeing the world from the perspective of Right-wing
Sean Hannity -- and
their perceptive thinking is hard-wired to opposite spheres of mind.
Which one is right? It is not a question of right or wrong, because they
both possess an important fragmented piece of the enigmatic puzzle -- which
when combined with many other fragmented pieces, creates the whole that is
maintained across the spectrum of human thought by the Natural Laws that
control our lives.
The Gospel message tells us not to judge our
brothers and sisters, because judgment is predicated upon a perception of
right and wrong. Yet, the Gospel also requires a very high level of
discernment. The Gospel account of Jesus has him stating to the man:
"Behold, thou art made whole:
sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee"
(John 5:14 KJV). Which means that what is portrayed as sin has dire
consequences. And to the woman caught in adultery Jesus stated:
"...go and sin no more'" (John
8:2-11 NKJ). Thus, while discernment and an enlightened
sense of cause and effect and higher reality is absolutely necessary,
judgment must be understood within the spectrum of the Natural Laws.
If not even a sparrow can fall to the earth
apart from the Will of God (see
The
Great Christian Quagmire) -- and each person is preordained and
hard-wired to the life they are presently living -- then while ideological
judgment is in and of itself the embodiment of evil, discernment and being
extremely cognizant of the fact that choices have consequences that must be
lived out, is a human reality that must be intimately embraced by those who
aspire to arise to man's highest potential. The fact that we are all
different -- and to perceive and evolve the ability to understand the causal
factors that hard-wired us to these often radically opposite differences --
is of the highest importance in overcoming our own natural limitations --
and ultimately acquiring the Pearl of Great Price.
Social
Justice And The Natural Laws: Contrary to the Marxist and Secular
Progressive ideology of Social Justice, one of the more important elements of
the Ten Commandments is not to desire what belongs to your neighbor. Why?
Because each person was born under different Laws -- they are expressing their
lives from the perspective of that fragmentary pearl that they received as their
allotted inheritance in this life -- and the key is to develop what you have,
without desiring that which has been bestowed upon your brother. This world is
God's Divine Schoolhouse -- each person's life is in accord with a syllabus and
curriculum that was predetermined before they were even born into this life --
and by Divine Design, each person's lessons are in accord with the needs and
requirements of the individual. There is a reason why some people are born
rich, while others are poor -- some are intelligent, while others are seemingly
incapable of learning -- some are religious, while others are agnostic or an
unbeliever. Jewish mystics claim that the Jews who suffered under Hitler, were
born into the life they lived (see
The Chickens
Come Home To Roost). It is not an accident that Jeremiah Wright has
embraced what is known as Black Liberation Theology. Or, that he was Barack
Obama's spiritual leader. It was preordained that George W. Bush would be
blamed for a financial meltdown that he did not cause. That this meltdown
would open the door to Barack Obama's presidency.
When you enroll in a course of study, the instructor
does not teach the course in any manner of his choosing. The math teacher does
not teach science, history, English Literature, music or cooking. In like
manner, there is a language association in mathematics -- a different language
in science -- in music, healing and medicine, as well as all other such courses
of study. In each course of study, there is a predetermined syllabus and
curriculum that must be followed, in order to bring about certain results. And
in this respect, each person's life is a course of study -- and as such, is
following a predetermined syllabus that is intended to bring about certain
results. In order to learn certain lessons, it is necessary for some people to
be born poor. Others to be born rich. Medical science has already
demonstrated that some people are born with the greater potential of an almost
inconceivable number of addictions. Some people are born virtuous, others not
so, while still others become conscious of the need to develop virtue.
Einstein was born into the life of genus. Mozart composed and performed at the
age of five. Da Vinci was born to be a painter. Siddhārtha Gautama was born
to be the Buddha, as was Jesus born to live the role that he fulfilled. All
the world is a stage -- a stage of learning -- and each person is born into the
role that they are to play on the stage of life. There are no accidents (see
Conditions Of Birth), and each person is born with abilities in accord with
the lessons of life they have been preordained to learn. And when we apply
this realty to a person's ability to see the previous lives that their higher
soul-self has lived, then this ability would be contingent upon the individual
requirements of the syllabus and curriculum of the life that the person is
presently living -- natural abilities which each person is born into this life
to develop into a strength and pearl.
What is important is to achieve your true potential
-- and you accomplish this by developing the natural abilities you were imbued
with when you entered this life. From man's perspective, the Pearl of Great
Price is achieved when you can see and understand from the perspective and Being
of your higher Soul-Self who is the balance and cumulation of all the fragmented
lives that your soul has lived (see
Man As An Embryonic Soul-Image). And while you can't at present simply
jump to the soul-level of being and perceive reality from this higher
enlightened perspective, you can and must begin to listen and develop the
empathetic intuition necessary to begin to expand one's own mind, consciousness
and being.
The Lawful Solution To The Dilemma:
Since, by Divine Design, each person has a direct path to Higher Truth through
what is allegorically portrayed as their own segmented portion of the Original
Twelve faces of the Crystal, then the Wise Deist much assist the masses in
understanding the Natural Laws, and the means by which each individual person
can begin to tap into that Source of Truth.
And in accord with the allegory of the Tower of
Babel Syndrome, because each person is hardwired by the Laws of Nature which is
required to manifest Wholeness across the divided reality of mankind -- which
causes each person and group of people to perceive and understand the world from
a different and often conflicting perspective within the construct of the
144,000 points within the Pattern of Mind as portrayed in the Tree of Life (see
The Enigma Of The Twelve -- The Laws -- And The Tree Of Life ) -- the
authors of the scriptures preserved and concealed the Knowledge of the Laws and
Forces of Mind within the allegorical enigma of the scriptures. Safeguarding
and preserving this knowledge that was written in the Universal Language of the
Soul for those who had evolved their condition of mind to the degree where they
were able to prevail over the Forces and Laws of Nature.
In order to escape the Cave of the Outer Darkness of
mind and being, and begin to perceive and comprehend the higher reality of the
Source, it is necessary to understand the Laws and Forces of Nature and begin to
apply what Jesus portrayed as the
Key of Knowledge in order
to begin the process of the development and expansion of mind (see
The
Heightening And Expansion Of Mind).
The Final
Temple - Using The Key Of Knowledge:
What is perfectly clear from the above
statement with respect to the Inner Kingdom
and the application of the scriptures as the
Key Of Knowledge that Jesus made
to the Pharisees is this: That while they
(the Pharisees) were in possession of what
Jesus portrayed as the
Key of Knowledge, their heresy was seen
in the fact that they failed to properly
utilize what Jesus portrayed as the Key for
its intended purpose -- which was to reveal
the true spiritual meaning of the
scriptures, which then enabled the
seeker/disciple the ability to unlock the
(inner) door ("narrow
strait gate"), and enter into the
Kingdom that Jesus confirmed the position of
the Zohar which declared existed as a Divine
"germ"
within the mind of each person. But the
problem was seen in the fact that the
leaders of the Jews -- like the modern
Christians -- ignored Jesus' statement (
http://GateOfEden.com ) that the Kingdom
would never come upon the earth in the
manner that carnal men look for it --
because the Kingdom was within them (Luke
17:20-21). Therefore, Jesus correctly
portrayed the leaders of the Jews as blind
guides who hindered the people's entrance
into the Kingdom -- because the leaders
among the Jews interpreted the scriptures
outwardly in ritual and tradition --
promoting the scriptures as historical
accounts, versus spiritual accounts. And
that they failed to turn the scriptures
within self -- properly utilizing the Key of
Knowledge to unlock the door to the Kingdom
Within -- is in fact why Jesus condemned the
Pharisees for cleansing the outside of the
cup, while ignoring the inside.
That
 the
scriptures must be turned within, is the
reason why Jesus condemned the whole system
of animal sacrifice in a temple made with
the hands of men -- i.e.,
"...the Most High
does not dwell in temples made with hands"
(Acts 7:48) -- "Do
you not know that you are the temple of God
and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?"
(1 Cor 3:16 NKJV). And this is
demonstrated in the AskMoses.com account of
the
Final Temple -- i.e., (quoting
AskMoses.com directly)
"With the destruction, G-d destroyed the
physical Temple and made it a spiritual
place... We cannot find G-d in Jerusalem; we
must find Him in us. With the destruction,
G-d destroyed the physical Temple and made
it a spiritual place. He took that window
and placed it within us. Instead of
traveling to Jerusalem, G-d wanted us to
find Him in our inner Jerusalem. Now, our
bodies are our Temples, our souls are our
windows, our minds are our Kohanim and our
animal instincts are our sacrifices. We
cannot offer physical sacrifices three times
a day, but we can pray three times a day. We
cannot attend Temple services three times a
day, but we can tap into our souls three
times a day. We cannot atone for our
shortcomings by sacrificing animals, but we
can sacrifice our inner animals—our
hormones, our lusts, our desires, our
beastly compulsions. We cannot find G-d in
Jerusalem; we must find Him in us."
And thus, when the scriptures are properly
understood in their spiritual meaning, they
are an allegorical presentation that
contains within the body of the text the
esoteric knowledge that is necessary to
build the
Final Living Temple within one's self.
Why do men of a
carnal mindset imagine that they can obtain
forgiveness through animal sacrifice?
Because their carnal mindset causes them to
perceive and project their inner realty
outwardly in ritual and tradition.
And as stated in the above, the mystic comes
to recognize that he
"...cannot atone for [his] shortcomings
by sacrificing animals"
on the altar of an external temple made with
the hands of men, and in the esoteric
revelation he comes to recognize that
"...we can [only] sacrifice our
inner animals—our hormones, our lusts, our
desires, our beastly compulsions". --
and it is these beastly
compulsions of our lower animal natures that
alienates us from becoming the
Final Temple -- and as the High
Priest of the Living and Consecrated Temple,
entering within the Holy of Holies and
achieving Oneness with the inner Source of
our Being -- as stated in the Zohar:
"...The souls must re-enter the absolute
substance whence they have emerged. But to
accomplish this end they must develop all
the perfections, the germ of which is
planted in them; and if they have not
fulfilled this condition during one life,
they must commence another, a third, and so
forth, until they have acquired the
condition which fits them for reunion with
God”.
Allegorically,
each of us must free ourselves from the
House of Bondage (Egyptians) -- travail
through the wilderness of carnal
consciousness -- and receive the Living
Torah on the Mount of Higher Being.
Thus, Moses is representative of the Laws
and Forces of Mind that each of us must
overcome in making this inner journey.
And in the same way that Moses could not
lead the Children of Israel across the
Jordan -- and this could only be
accomplished by Joshua/Yeshua -- the
original Gospel account requires that each
of us become all that is portrayed in the
vibration and reality of the name Yeshua --
which was paganized by the Romans into the
name of Jesus (Zeus/Ishtar). And
in the same way that it is stated in the
above that the
"Torah's primary function is to teach us
how to live Jewishly, in harmony with G-d's
will. As such, the basic levels of
scriptural interpretation lead to a
practical understanding of mitzvot and
related Jewish values" -- this
spiritual mindset and lifestyle is the main
and primary focus of the teaching of what is
known as the Sermon on the Mount.
The Preservation Of Torah And Other
Scriptures:
To many people today, the Torah would appear
to be outdated and no longer relevant.
And yet, when the enigmas of life are
correctly understood, nothing could be
further from the truth.
But to even begin to understand why I can
make this statement, it must be recognized
that it is not the purpose and objective of
the Torah and other scriptures to teach or
disseminate truth -- but rather, to convey
and enlightened the seeker/disciple how to
tap into the Source of all Truth.
Therefore it can also be stated that a
person could attend the finest universities
the world over -- learning from the most
knowing of teachers and authorities that our
culture has produced -- research all the
countless books containing the accumulative
wisdom of mankind -- and the end result
would be the continuation of that condition
of profound ignorance that has perpetually
enslaved mankind with respect to the most
important knowledge known to man.
Why? Because the knowledge that
is contained within the body of the text of
the Torah and other scriptures, exists
nowhere else!!! It remains
unknown to mankind's most esteemed educators
and teachers. It's higher wisdom
can't be researched in any of man's books.
There is no libraries where a seeker can go
and study in the traditional manner that man
has become accustomed to learning.
And if asked how I can make such a profound
statement: Because the wisdom of the Torah
and other scriptures deals exclusively with
the great void in human consciousness that
inhibits his ability to tap into the
Ultimate Source of Knowledge that elusively
evades the vast majority of intellectuals,
teachers and philosophers.
The
problem that has always confronted mankind
in his journey in pursuit of Truth cannot be
resolved through the process of merely
reading of the literal text of the Torah --
because the very nature of the scriptures
insures that
can
produce an enlightened seeker -- but rather,
by learning the language of the Torah, you
will begin to learn the Language of Creation
itself. And by learning how to
strip away the facade of allegory with which
the UnSeen Spiritual Torah protectively lies
beneath the garb of the text of the written
word -- i.e., quoting the Zohar:
"The narratives of
the doctrine are its cloak. The simple look
only on the garment, that is upon the
narrative of the doctrine; more they know
not. The instructed, however, see not merely
the cloak, but what the cloak covers"
-- you will begin to pierce beneath the garb
of human consciousness, and begin to tap
into the Source of Truth that exists within
the mind and being of mankind.
thus the reality of the words:
"Thus the tales
related in the Torah are simply her outer
garments, and woe to the man who regards
that outer garb as the Torah itself, for
such a man will be deprived of portion in
the next world..." (The Zohar;
Edited by Gershom G. Scholem, Zohar- The
Book of Splendor, Basic Readings from the
Kabbalah [New York, Schocken Books, 1949]).
And in reference to this body of knowledge
that is contained within the inner meaning
of the Torah and other scriptures, the
Gospel of Thomas warns:
"But if you will
not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty
and it is you who are that
poverty... Whoever finds himself is superior
to the world".
And when rightly understood -- i.e.,
"The
Torah, however, is a multi-layered document.
Many of its deeper levels of interpretation
are not readily accessible; and they may not
lend themselves to obvious, practical
application in daily life..."
-- the Torah and other scriptures deal
exclusively with the Forces, Laws and Inner
Dimensions and Realities of Being as
portrayed in the pattern of one's Cosmology
of Mind. And not only does
this essential body of esoteric knowledge
exist no where else, but it's reality is not
even understood by today's educational
authorities.
In many respects
mankind has yet to free himself from the
Dark Ages of unknowing that has shackled him
to a
profound state of ignorance.
While Wisdom conveys to us that there
is "nothing new
under the sun" (Ecc 1:9), the
technological revolution that our culture
has undergone has very much changed the
circumstances under which man now finds
himself. What this means is that while
ordinary men and woman in the past had an
excuse for their undeveloped condition of
mind that anchored them to a very limited
carnal perspective and vision of life, the
findings of modern quantum physics had
completely changed the condition of carnal
ignorance that mankind has traditionally
found himself immersed in. And what the
modern physicist has proven, is that the
long-disregarded witness of the mystic is
correct -- and that this world is not at all
what it appears to be on the surface. In
fact, the physicist has confirmed the
assertion of the mystic that what is seen
with our physical eyes is an illusion, and
what the physicist portrays as the (Etheric)
Field that is unseen with our physical eyes
and senses, is the true reality which we
must seek out to find the true meaning and
answers to life.
Einstein
made one of the most important
observations that modern intellectuals
neither understand, nor can they in any
manner even begin to come to terms with
-- largely because of their politically
correct cultural philosophy and their
ignorance of the Laws. Einstein
stated: "The
intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the
rational mind is a faithful servant. We
have created a society that honors the
servant and has forgotten the gift."
When properly and factually understood,
there is absolutely no difference
between the findings of the enlightened
scientist, the Apostle Paul who
instructed the Gentile Christians, and
the enlightened Mystic who authored the
scriptures -- except, perhaps, the key
word
enlightened. But herein
lies the crux of the problem -- i.e.,
the very word enlightened raises the
crucial question as to how one even
becomes enlightened? Does one go to a
traditional school environment that
suppresses what Einstein portrays as the
forgotten intuitive gift -- while
programming the rational servant with
what often amounts to little more than
cultural and politically correct
propaganda? In his own words he
acknowledged that
“The only thing that interferes with
my learning is my education.”
In fact, what Einstein portrays as the
rational servant does not even possess
the necessary insight to understand both
the reality of the intuitive gift, or
the Great Source of Knowledge that the
undeveloped intuitive resources of the
mind of man has the innate potential of
tapping into -- which prompted Einstein
to acknowledge that
“We can't solve
problems by using the same kind of
thinking we used when we created them.”
With great
wisdom and vision Einstein stated
"Only those
who can see the invisible can do the
impossible." But since the
vast majority of modern scientists
reject even the existence of the
invisible, it is the scientific
community that has rendered itself
impotent with respect to any real depth
of perception and understanding. Paul
conveyed the exact same message to the
congregation of believers that Einstein
stated in the words: "While
we look not at the things which are
seen, but at the things which are not
seen: for the things which are seen are
temporal; but the things which are not
seen are eternal" (2 Cor 4:18
KJV). And when this reality is
understood for what it truly is, only
then is the words of the recently
discovered
Gospel of Thomas comprehended where
it is written:
(5) Jesus said,
"Recognize what is in your sight, and
that which is hidden from you will
become plain to you ..."
And while only a handful of people
have evolved their intuitive centers of
mind sufficiently enough to perceive and
understand from the higher reality of an
enlightened mind, this potential of man
that is portrayed as a gift, is indeed
the long ignored wisdom expressed by
both Einstein, the Apostle Paul, and the
biblical authors.
Both of
these statements which are ignored by
the vast majority of scientists and
their religious counterparts, ignore the
underlying reality that not only does
the unseen dimension of what we see
exist, but that it is within the scope
of man's innate abilities to develop
this facility of mind that enables the
individual to perceive an unseen reality
that is beyond the limits of man's
undeveloped physical organic senses.
And with respect to the invisible, when
it is understood that what is being made
reference to is a blindness that
encompasses all of mankind in a
condition that Jesus portrayed as the
"outer
darkness" of mind and being
(see
Outer Darkness) -- which is parallel
to the analogy of the illusions of
Plato's Cave that has entrapped
mankind in a world that he does not
understand the nature and reality of,
then the reality of these words spoken
by both the scientist and the mystic
becomes an obstacle that is imperative
to overcome and prevail over its
limitations.
The vast
difference between what would be called
the knowledge of man, and the higher
spiritual reality portrayed in the
Knowledge that is defined as Gnosis, has
begun to be demonstrated by the modern
scientific community. Quoting
physicist Walter Thirring
in his book,
Urbausteine der Materie where he
wrote about matter that modern physics
“...has put our
thinking about the essence of matter in
a different context. It has taken our
gaze from the visible - the particles -
to the underlying entity, the field.
The presence of matter is merely a
disturbance of the perfect state of the
field at that place; something
accidental, one could almost say, a
‘blemish’. Accordingly, there are no
simple laws describing the forces
between elementary particles… Order and
symmetry must be sought in the
underlying field.” One of
the primary realities that science has
to come to terms with in order to
advance beyond their present level, is
the fact that physical matter is the
result of the forces in the Etheric
Field coming together, causing what
Walter Thirring above describes as a
"blemish"
that we observe with our organic
physical senses. And what this is, is
Darwinism in reverse -- i.e., modern
science has proven that the Field which
is unseen and surrounds all matter, is
the Source which impresses the aspect of
mind and consciousness which is
represented in the form of matter that
we observe. The problem is that to the
organic mind of both the faith-based
believer, as well as the Atheist, what
modern science has proven is simply
beyond their ability to even
contemplate.
What man
calls knowledge, is the wisdom and
understanding gained through his study
of what Walter Thirring called the
"blemish" -- i.e., the
illusion of what we perceive as physical
matter. Yet, without understanding
the underlying forces in the Field that
formed the blemish that organic man
observes as concrete physical matter, it
can be stated that what we observe in
the physical world is so incomplete,
that it would be virtually impossible to
truly understand what we think and
imagine we see. Reality, states the
physicist, can only be found in the (Etheric)
Field -- and it is the Field that both
surrounds all physical forms that we
observe with our body-senses, and it is
the unseen Field that is the source of
what we perceive with our physical
senses which we call matter. Which
again, is reverse Darwinism -- in that,
Darwinism attempted to demonstrate that
this physical world came into being
apart from any unseen supernatural
forces -- and modern science has now
proven that this world is the direct
result of unseen forces that would be
defined as supernatural, or beyond what
is seen with the physical senses.
In defense of
Darwin, it must be understood
that in the same way that many unsolved
crimes in the past are presently
resolved through DNA, Darwin lived in
the nineteenth century -- long before
the most enlightening discoveries of
modern quantum physics. And in
recognition of this fact, Darwin himself
questioned the inadequacy of his own
conclusions. In the words of Niles
Eldredge of the American Museum of
Natural History:
“The old explanation that the fossil
record was inadequate is in itself an
inadequate explanation.”
Why? The fossil record is inadequate
because everything that we see and
perceive in this realm is directly
caused by patterns of force being
exerted upon matter from beyond the
bounds of this three-dimensional world
in which we presently dwell. And the
fact that the fossil record failed to
support Darwin's conclusions, is openly
acknowledged in his own words where he
wrote: "Why
then is not every geological formation
and every stratum full of such
intermediate links? Geology assuredly
does not reveal any such finely
graduated organic chain, and this,
perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest
objection which can be urged against my
theory" (Charles Darwin, On
The Origin Of Species). According to
Darwin's theory, the geological record
should be full of species that are
slowly increasing in complexity over
time. Since evolution relies on time,
chance, and incremental steps, sudden
leaps are not possible -- which
demonstrates that the fossil record
itself directly contradicts the theory
of evolution! And even if a proverbial
missing link could be found, this would
not in any manner negate the fact that
it is the forces in the Etheric Field
that has brought about all changes and
variations of life-forms that we observe
in the physical world.
Einstein
experienced shock when he first came
into contact with the new reality of
atomic physics, and wrote in his
autobiography:
“All my attempts to adapt the
theoretical foundation of physics to
this [new type of] knowledge failed
completely. It was as if the ground had
been pulled out from under one, with no
firm foundation to be seen anywhere,
upon which one could have built”.
In much the same fashion, the European
physicist Niels Bohr stated that
“…The great
extension of our experience in recent
years has brought to light the
insufficiency of our simple mechanical
conceptions and, as a consequence, has
shaken the foundation on which the
customary interpretation of observation
was based.” These
“…mechanical
conceptions” make reference
to Darwin and the theory of evolution.
In the same
way that Peter warned that organic man
only sees in the scriptures what he is
predisposed to already believe, it is
also true that man perceives all of
Creation through the filter of his
beliefs about life. The believer is in
no manner dependent upon facts, and no
amount of facts can deter the unbeliever
-- i.e., most of mankind is totally
predisposed to see only what they
already believe to be true. And while
many will become both offended and
simply dismiss the statement of the
Apostle Peter in the Homilies that men
see and understand only what they are
programmed to perceive by virtue of the
filter of their beliefs -- or, the
Organic Laws of the earth that
predisposes them to a specific
preordained opinion -- the text of
Itzhak Bentov’s book itself reveals
that: “The
quantum theory asserts that there is no
way one can measure some sets of things,
like momentum and position, together
very accurately... because the
consciousness of the experimenter
interacts with the experiment itself.
Therefore, it becomes possible that the
attitude of the experimenter must also
influence the outcome of any particular
experiment” (Preface to
Stalking The Wild Pendulum, by Itzhak
Bentov). Thus, we begin to contemplate
the interrelatedness of mind and matter
and the fact that our whole politically
correct culture has become an obstacle
to the advancement of mankind. And
since the vast majority of religious
doctrines of belief are merely what was
deemed politically correct in past
cultures, few people are even capable of
seeing beyond the limits of the facade
of their predisposed beliefs. In the
very narrow linear perception of the “fossilized”
world-view that is taught in science
class in our schools today, the idea
that the mind of the experimenter can
impact the results of the experiment
itself, is simply beyond the scope of
man's cultural understanding.
If, as
presupposed by the science of man's
past, everything man sees is a detached,
stand-alone, separate inanimate object,
then genuinely intelligent men must
recognize that in his present cultural
world view, there is a great void in
their understanding that inhibits them
from even contemplating how the mind of
a person can affect the outcome of a
given experiment? And thus, what the
Apostle Peter warns with respect to his
statement that each person who reads the
scriptures only sees what he he
predisposed to see, modern quantum
mechanics has gone beyond this fact, and
proven that the mindset and thinking of
a scientific investigator, can somehow
impact his findings and results. Not
only does this throw all of man's
analytical conclusions into question,
but it must be realized that even the
findings of Darwin was subject to the
filter of his Unitarian mindset and
beliefs. Moreover, this resolves the
dilemma of why different men see and
understand the same thing not only
differently, but often from an opposite
and conflicting perspective. Which one
is wrong? What if each is seeing a
fragmentary truth -- and while neither
is all wrong, there is still a greater
reality that is beyond the comprehension
of both conflicting viewpoints.
That there
is an unseen connection between mind and
matter, and man is able to consciously
and unconsciously effect what we
perceive as inanimate objects with his
own patterns of thought, means that our
present-day cultural and
quasi-scientific perception of Creation
itself is defective. Moreover, when we
attempt to interpret the scriptures
through the filter of our flawed vision
and predisposed inherent understanding,
it is impossible for us to even begin to
perceive the true depth and revelation
of the Word of God! The problem is
that we can never start to embrace man’s
true reality, until we begin to
acknowledge and recognize that what we
see is only a fragment of the whole
picture of any given object -- and this
is true not only from a religious
doctrinal perspective, but a scientific
one as well.
Robert
Jastrow, an astrophysicist who heads
NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space
Studies, pointed out that the big bang
is not exactly an explanation of cause.
He is quoted in The Aquarian Conspiracy:
“If a scientist
really examines the implications, he
would be traumatized. As usual, when the
mind is faced with trauma, it reacts by
ignoring the implications - in science
this is called ‘refusing to speculate’ -
or by trivializing the origin of the
world by calling it the Big Bang, as if
the universe were merely a firecracker”.
Mr. Jastrow then continues and states:
“Consider the
enormousness of the problem: Science has
proved that the universe exploded into
being at a certain moment. It asks, what
cause produced this effect? Who or what
put the matter and energy into the
universe? Was the universe created out
of nothing or was it gathered together
out of pre-existing materials? And
science cannot answer these questions...
It is not a matter of another year,
another decade of work, another
measurement, or another theory. At this
moment it seems as though science will
never be able to raise the curtain on
the mystery of creation”.
In the
realization that traditional scientific
inquiry can never provide the answers to
life, thoughtful physicists in greater
number have begun to notice the curious
parallels between their own findings and
ancient mystical descriptions of reality
-- mystical descriptions that have been
totally dismissed by our modern
culture. These similarities were
pointed out in the book, The Tao Of
Physics, by Fritjof Capra, and The
Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav.
Zukav’s book takes its title from the
Chinese expression for physics, wu li,
which he translates as
“patterns of
organic energy”, and writes:
“Bell’s theorem
not only suggests that the world is
quite different than it seems, it
demands it. Something very exciting is
happening. Physicists have ‘proved’
rationally that our rational ideas about
the world in which we live are
profoundly deficient”.
Bell’s
theorem, which was proposed in 1964 by
J.S. Bell, a physicist working in
Switzerland, was first confirmed
experimentally in 1972. Physicist Henry
Stapp, in a 1975 federal report called
it the most
“profound discovery of science”.
Bell’s theorem succeeds in exhibiting
the bizarre nature of the subatomic
world. Experiments show that if paired
particles which are identical twins in
their polarity fly apart, and the
polarity of one is changed by an
experimenter, the polarity of the other
particle changes instantaneously. Thus,
even though from a physical perspective
the two particles appear to us as
separate, it has been proven that the
particles remain mysteriously connected
regardless of the fact that there is no
physical connection.
The
esoteric reality that was proven and
demonstrated in this experiment was
portrayed as the most
“profound
discovery of science”,
because it virtually proves everything
that science presents in the classrooms
throughout our educational systems today
as being in profound error! Moreover
-- and perhaps even more important -- is
the fact that because we culturally
build the child's thinking and mindset
upon a fraudulent foundation, we inhibit
their evolving minds from moving beyond
a very counterfeit point in their
perception of both themselves, and the
world in which they presently dwell.
Further, the only explanation that the
flat-earth scientists who remain in
denial of the implications refuse to
acknowledge, is that the particles are
connected in another non-physical
dimension that is beyond man's organic
vision to detect -- i.e., what in the
above is portrayed as the Field. In
the words of Einstein:
“We may
therefore regard matter as being
constituted by the regions of space in
which the field is extremely intense…
There is no place in this new kind of
physics both for the field and matter,
for the field is the only reality”
(quoted in M. Capek, The Philosophical
Impact of Contemporary Physics). What
this confirms is that reality is in the
Field that is beyond the organic vision
and senses of man -- and the physical
world we perceive and interact with, is
not only a result of this higher reality
that we can't see with our physical
eyes, but in many instances is an
illusion that is controlled by our
predisposed beliefs and philosophical
opinions. Moreover, what this further
confirms is that the Darwinist mindset
that is presently taught in our schools
is not only gravely wrong, but the error
which our educational systems is
programming young school children with,
represents a vision and thought pattern
that will inhibit them from
understanding man's own higher reality
that is manifest in the Field -- or the
Etheric realms that the organic senses
of the body cannot normally detect.
And herein lies the crux of the problem
as seen in the example of our
educational systems which will promote
grave error -- as seen in the fact that
they present a totally false picture of
both themselves, and the world --
totally failing to convey to the
students that it has already been proven
that the mind of man in it’s natural
organic state is simply incapable of
perceiving the far-reaching
ramifications of man's higher reality of
mind that is centered in the Etheric
Field -- and even less prepared to
comprehend the results of the
intertwining connections that are
maintained not only between individuals
and groups of people, but between the
past, the present, and future. What is
portrayed in the above is merely science
beginning to crack open the door to
man's own higher reality -- a reality
that he can only begin to grasp, by
discarding almost everything that he
presently thinks he knows.
The
Cruel Hoax: While it has been
proven that the source of matter is in
the Etheric Field beyond our organic
vision -- and that in the subatomic
world, what appears to our senses is
connected in a dimension that we can't
see with our organic vision -- the fact
that we continue to program and imbue
our school children with this gravely
flawed mindset that modern quantum
physics has proven to be little more
than junk science -- means that we are
predetermining the child's failure to
make any real progress in this life.
And that our modern culture is
predetermining the failure of the child,
is the reason why in many of my writings
I portray this process which we call
education, as the (spiritual) abortion
of those children who escape the
abortionist who tears the fetus from
it's mother's womb.
^
The
Allusion Of The Forms Of Matter:
In
his 1951 textbook on quantum theory,
Bohm offered some interesting
speculations on the analogies between
quantum processes and thought processes,
thus carrying further the celebrated
statement made by the astronomer James
Jeans two decades earlier:
“Today there is
a wide measure of agreement… that the
stream of knowledge is heading towards a
non-mechanical reality; the universe
begins to look more like a great thought
than like a great machine”;
and the statement by astronomer Arthur
Eddington:
“The stuff of the
universe is mind-stuff”.
Max Planck who is considered the
founder of quantum theory stated:
"As a man who
has devoted his whole life to the most
clear headed science, to the study of
matter, I can tell you as a result of my
research about atoms this much: There is
no matter as such. All matter originates
and exists only by virtue of a force
which brings the particle of an atom to
vibration and holds this most minute
solar system of the atom together. We
must assume behind this force the
existence of a conscious and intelligent
mind. This mind is the matrix of all
matter."
More recently,
cyberneticist David Foster described
“an
intelligent universe”
whose apparent
concreteness is generated by cosmic data
from an unknowable, organized source.
The reality of the holographic theory
says that:
“…our brains
mathematically construct hard reality by
interpreting frequencies from a
dimension transcending time and space.
The brain is a hologram, interpreting a
holographic universe.”
If you
understand what is being said, then you
can begin to understand why Mystics who
have walked the spiritual path in search
of Gnosis and the Divine Manna of the
Kingdom of God, have traditionally
warned others that what they see with
their physical eyes -- i.e., the objects
that appear to their organic senses and
mind as being concrete and solid matter
-- is merely an illusion. And if we
ask the question, what does this
mean? What we are confronted with is
a reality that few biblical skeptics are
even prepared to embrace -- i.e., that
the allegorical nature of the scriptures
is merely an extension of man's own
consciousness, mind and being. In the
above reply to the Atheist,
The God Who Wasn't There, I
demonstrate that the most enlightened
religious/spiritual authorities all
portray the literal text of the written
word of the scriptures as an allegory
which conceals esoteric truths that are
beyond the understanding of
untransformed organic man -- to the
degree that the man who is known as the
Apostle Paul portrayed the literal text
of the scriptures as the
"letter that
killeth" (see
Letter). But what both blind
believer and critic alike fail to
recognize, is the esoteric reality that
the scriptures are in fact a written
allegory that is necessary to prepare
the seeker/disciple to begin to grasp
the greater allegory of the outer world
-- a world that in the analogy of
Plato's Cave, is portrayed as a
world of illusion that must be escaped!
And thus, the reality of what is
portrayed in the words of the Gospel of
Thomas: Jesus
said, "Recognize what is in your sight,
and that which is hidden from you will
become plain to you . For there is
nothing hidden which will not become
manifest." That few
recognize what is in their sight -- and
remain totally ignorant of the fact that
they live in an allegorical world -- is
the reason why they are portrayed as the
walking dead (The
Dead Know Nothing). But the fact
that religious people -- i.e., Jews,
Christians and Muslims -- permit their
children to be programmed by the dead,
is truly sinful.
^
The Demiurge - Allegory? Myth? What is
Reality? What this means is that
the authors of the scriptures did not
randomly decide to compose their
scriptures in allegorical forms -- i.e.,
they did not get together and randomly
create symbols in order to conceal their
spiritual wisdom from the masses. But
rather, they employed a parallel
allegorical format in the creation of
their scriptures, that is also employed
in the forms in the outer world of
matter. Which means that as the
disciple begins to make progress -- and
begins to perceive and comprehend the
inner meaning of the scriptures by
looking beyond the allegorical cloak of
the written text -- he is then able to
utilize this same knowledge to crack the
allegorical code of the forms in the
outer world of illusion -- or more
accurately, the world of allusion within
which mankind dwells in this, the Far
Country.
 Again,
in understanding what is portrayed in
the alchemical picture at the right
which is The
Escape: If the objective is to
escape what Jesus portrayed as the
"outer
darkness" of mind and being
(see
Outer Darkness), then why would the
biblical authors portray what is
perceived in the illusion of this world
as being real? Either from an
historical or literal perspective?
When it is recognized that what we
perceive is thought-symbols impressed
into the the forms of Nature as
presented by the modern physicist in the
above subheading
The Allusion Of The Forms Of Matter
-- and that our brain and physical mind
which perceives a holographic universe
by constructing these symbols
universally, out of frequencies of
thought -- then we must begin to
perceive both the scriptures, and the
outer world, from an entirely different
perspective. When it is recognized
that the objects we observe in the outer
world with our physical senses, are in
fact aspects of mind impressed into the
forms and symbols of nature -- and we
are dealing entirely with aspects of
mind -- why would we even imagine that
modern man who has based his assumptions
and predisposed thinking of counterfeit
doctrines of religious beliefs and
fraudulent scientific theories, would be
more inclined to perceive truth, than
the wise men of the past who were
enlightened as to the esoteric nature of
man, mind and the universe in which we
presently dwell? While we imagine
ourselves as more advanced and
enlightened than the mystic visionaries
and wise men in the past -- we do this
to our own folly. Do we need modern
technology to explore aspects of Mind?
And especially our own that we see
reflected back to us from the outer
world? When this fact is recognized,
one would have to conclude that our
modern culture which is built upon
erroneous assumptions, is actually a
great hindrance to finding the higher
truths of man's reality.
While the
modern biblical and religious critic can
point out the countless flaws in the
literal text of the scriptures and the
mainstream of religious doctrine -- they
are generally incapable of comprehending
the well documented assertion that what
they proclaim to be flaws in the literal
text, were purposely inserted in the
scriptures in order to inhibit a person
of greater intellect from reading them
literally/historically. To ignore the
warning of the Church Father Origen when
he portrayed those who were so gullible
to believe the literal text of the
scriptures as
"idiots" (see
The Mystery Of The Gospels) -- or
that of the Church Historian Eusebius
when he stated that those who read the
Gospels literally, and failed to seek
out the language of the soul were men of
"...of very small intelligence".
And to critique the scriptures without
first understanding why the visionaries
of the past composed their sacred
writings in this manner (see
An Inconvenient Truth) -- gives new
meaning to the term intellectual
bankruptcy. Which means that the
modern critics who put themselves forth
as intellectually superior, are
pseudo-authorities who are little more
than intellectual idiots!
In the
February 1979 Psychology Today interview
with brain scientist Karl Pribram, the
world which he attempted to describe
confirmed the vision witnessed by the
Hebrew mystics and prophets who authored
the scriptures -- and when properly
understood, confirmed the reality of the
Bible that neither true believer nor
staunch critic is even prepared to
acknowledge and understand -- i.e.,
Pribram wrote:
“It isn’t that the world of appearances
is wrong; it isn’t that there aren’t
objects out there, at one level of
reality. It’s that if you penetrate
through and look at the universe with a
holographic system, you arrive at a
different reality, one that can explain
things that have hitherto remained
scientifically inexplicable: paranormal
phenomena… synchronicities, the
apparently meaningful coincidence of
events” (see
Illusion ). And thus, it is this
world of illusion that is created by the
limitations of each person's own mind
that is portrayed by the Gnostics as the
Demiurge of a counterfeit creator.
This world of illusions is in fact what
Jesus portrayed as the
"outer
darkness" of mind and
being. And it is this same world of
illusion that man must escape in the
analogy of
Plato's Cave . The Demiurge,
therefore, is the illusions of each
person's own mind and thinking that has
created the world in which they
presently live.
Man's
Ultimate Reality that most are incapable
of coming to terms with, is the higher
factual reality that there is nothing
but Mind -- and this and all other
dimensions of Reality is a Great Thought
that man is experientially evolving
within. And what this confirms is the
fact that the objects in the outer world
that we observe with our physical
senses, are in reality allegorical
symbols of mind impressed into the forms
of matter by the forces in the
underlying
Etheric Field -- and the forms that
we observe, represents a psychic/mental
impression of the thought form of mind
that it denotes to our own, and
the Universal Consciousness. And once
this higher reality is properly
understood, is the very reason why it
would appear to the unenlightened mind
of the Atheist and critic, that one
religion borrows the mythological
symbolism from another -- when in fact,
nothing could be further from the
truth. Moreover, this is why,
while Eastern mysticism portrays the
forms of concrete matter that we observe
in the outer world as an illusion,
Western Gnosticism understands that the
illusion is more factually, an allusion
-- an allusion because each and every
aspect of what we observe, possess a
meaning that is being pictorially and
allegorically presented to our mind.
Thus, in the Gospel of Thomas Jesus
declares: Jesus said,
"Recognize what
is in your sight, and that which is
hidden from you will become plain to
you". While all things are
plain to the few who possess the eyes to
see, those who continue to dwell under
the limitations and illusions of their
beliefs, are those who dwell under the
power of what the Spiritual (Gnostic)
Christians portrayed as a Demiurge of
their own making. Because the carnal
Jews had thrown away what Jesus called
the Key of Knowledge -- and they saw
only the literal text of the scriptures
which Paul portrayed as the
"letter that
killeth" which were little
more than
"Jewish fables" (see
The Books With The Power to Deceive)
-- it was said that they dwelt under the
power of a Demiurge -- one of their own
making that totally controlled their
vision of the world.
What is the
difference between an illusion and an
allusion? When properly understood,
they are in fact worlds apart. While
an illusion could be virtually anything
-- i.e., like a hallucination that a
dying man sees in the form of a mirage
in the middle of the desert -- an
allusion is a symbolic representation of
a reality that we may or may not
recognize what is being portrayed.
That the organic mind of man only sees
the outward form that has been imbedded
in nature as a symbol of what that form
indicates, is the illusions of what
Jesus portrayed as the
"outer
darkness", and what Plato
portrayed as the Cave of illusions.
Only as your higher aspects of mind
develop, do you begin to see the meaning
of the allegorical symbols of this world
-- i.e.,
"Recognize what is in your sight, and
that which is hidden from you will
become plain to you".
If all that
we see in the outer world is the result
of the forces exerted in the underlying
Field -- i.e., the words of Einstein
that “We may
therefore regard matter as being
constituted by the regions of space in
which the field is extremely intense…
There is no place in this new kind of
physics both for the field and matter,
for the field is the only reality”
-- the form that is impressed into the
shape that we see, is an allegorical
representation of the aspect of mind
that the symbol expresses. In the same
way that a phallic symbol which was used
by the ancients expresses the male
generative power, the penis itself
expresses an aspect of mind that is
universal. And this is true not only
of all the parts of the body, but also
everything that exists in the outer
world -- which is merely a larger scale
and pattern of mind expressed and
impressed into matter -- i.e.,
mental-imagery. Which means that a
dog, appears to us in that physical form
that we see and interact with as a K9,
because of the underlying aspect of mind
and consciousness that is represented in
the physical form of a dog. A dog,
therefore, is an aspect of mind
impressed into the form of nature which
we observe. When Jesus warned not to
give what is holy to dogs, what he was
presenting was the reality that a dog
represents a condition of mind projected
into the forms of matter that we see --
and people who are ruled over by this
condition of mind, are incapable of
comprehending what is holy. And from
an enlightened perspective, a swine, is
a swine, because of the underlying
aspect of mind and consciousness that is
represented in the form of the swine.
Thought
Animated Symbols: The Egyptians
expressed themselves in hieroglyphs --
and much of the Chinese languages
represent thoughts impressed into
symbols -- and when properly understood,
everything that we see and interact with
in the outer world is merely the
thoughts of the Great Mind expressed in
the allegorical forms of matter -- i.e.,
mental-imagery. If you could take the
vast realities of our own mind and
express each aspect of mind in the form
of a symbol that would animate the
thought that each represents, then you
would begin to grasp the reality of man
as dwelling within an illusion that is
an allusion -- i.e., a Matrix of mind
expressed into symbols which animate
each thought that is the building blocks
of consciousness. And thus, we can
begin to grasp the higher reality
expressed by G.R.S. Mead, a foremost
authority on the Gnostics, in his book
entitled Fragments of a Faith
Forgotten, where this explanation of
the true nature of the scriptures is put
forth: “…what
the Gnostics projected onto the screen…
[in the form of a ] picture of the
universe was in reality a picture of
their own minds. Its mythology is a
symbolic portrayal, almost a deliberate
one, of the forces which operate in the
structuring and evolution of the human
personality”. And upon
encountering these same patterns of
thought in the dreams and thinking of
his patients, was the reason that Carl
Jung called the Gnostic Christians the
worlds first and foremost psychologists
who understood the very fabric of human
consciousness. Why did he come to
recognize what the Gnostics were
presenting? He found that many of his
patients who knew absolutely nothing
about either the Gnostics or scriptures,
were in fact dreaming in these same
symbolic symbols -- and thus, he began
to recognize that the authors of the
scriptures wrote in what is called the
language of the soul.
What this means is that all the many
critics of what is presented in Gnostic
scriptures, are merely expressing their
own ignorance of both the essence and
spiritual objectives of Gnosticism, as
well as the relationship of the
cosmology of self, and that of the outer
world. A most profoundly enlightened
statement with respect to the
relationship of what Jesus portrayed as
the Key of Knowledge and the true
meaning of the scriptures is made by the
Church Father Origen in his famed
writing De Principiis where he states:
“But all the
narrative portion, relating either to
the marriages, or to the begetting of
the children, or to battles of different
kinds, or to any other histories
whatever, what else can they be supposed
to be, save the forms and figures of
hidden and sacred things? As men,
however, make little effort to exercise
their intellect, or imagine that they
possess knowledge before they really
learn", they remain
lost and incapable of escaping the
Demiurge that controls their thinking.
What is being conveyed is that (from a
scriptural perspective) all the
interrelationships between men and
women, the marriages, and the begetting
of children, as well as the battles and
wars, kings and all other aspects of the
scriptures that on the surface of the
text appear to be historical -- are not
at all historical -- but rather, the
allegorical portrayal of body, mind/soul
and spirit of the disciples own mind and
being. And this is why the Apostle
Paul states that the biblical account of
Abraham is an allegory (Gal 4:24) -- and
has no historical relevance,
significance or accuracy. And while
both the carnal Jews and the carnal
Muslims look to Abraham as their common
forefather, they do this because of
their ignorance of the symbols of their
own scriptures.
In much the
same way, the seemingly astrological
myths of the Greek poets and other such
writings, are once again a portrayal of
mind. And this reality is demonstrated
in the words of the Apostle Peter:
“The wisest of
the ancients, men who had by hard labor
learned all truth, kept the path of
knowledge hid from those who were
unworthy and had no taste for lessons in
divine things. For it is not really true
that from Ouranos and his mother Ge were
born twelve children, as the myth counts
them: six sons, Okeanos, Koios, Krios,
Hyperion, Japetos, Kronos; and six
daughters, Thea, Themis, Mnemosyne,
Demeter, Tethys, and Rhea. Nor that
Kronos, with the knife of adamant,
mutilated his father Ouranos, as you
say, and threw the part into the sea;
nor that Aphrodite sprang from the drops
of blood which flowed from it; nor that
Kronos associated with Rhea, and
devoured his first-begotten son Pluto,
because a certain saying of Prometheus
led him to fear that a child born from
him would wax stronger than himself, and
spoil him of his kingdom... But, my son,
as I said, such stories have a peculiar
and philosophical meaning, which can be
allegorically set forth in such a way
that you yourself would listen with
wonder” (Peter quoted in the
Clementine Homilies). Why would the
esoteric truths concealed in the
writings of the Greek poets amaze the
hearer? Because what is being
revealed is the very foundational fabric
of mind and being that modern man
remains totally ignorant of today.
Higher
Truth Lies Beyond The Allegorical Forms
Of The World: That there
is an Inner Source of Knowledge that is
beyond even the most enlightened wisdom
of this world, is in fact the very
reason why the Apostle Paul wrote:
“For the truth
about God is known to them
instinctively; God has put this
knowledge in their hearts”
(Rom 1:19 TLB). Which are in fact
parallel statements presented in the
above -- i.e., that of
astronomer James
Jeans who stated that:
“Today there is a
wide measure of agreement… that the
stream of knowledge is heading towards a
non-mechanical reality; the universe
begins to look more like a great thought
than like a great machine”;
and the statement by astronomer Arthur
Eddington:
“The stuff of the
universe is mind-stuff”.
More recently, cyberneticist David
Foster described
“an intelligent
universe”
whose apparent
concreteness is generated by cosmic data
from an unknowable, organized source.
The reality of the holographic theory
says that:
“…our brains
mathematically construct hard reality by
interpreting frequencies from a
dimension transcending time and space.
The brain is a hologram, interpreting a
holographic universe.”
Once the
reality that this world is an illusion
-- and that the illusion is in fact an
allusion -- and this reality is
understood as one looks out at the forms
and mental-imagery of this world -- what
this means is that from a biblical
perspective, the swine is an unclean
animal, because of the thought-pattern
and consciousness that is represented in
the (allegorical) form of the swine as
presented to our organic senses. The
swine which is condemned as an unclean
animal in the Bible, is also rejected in
the Qur'an -- and while the
unenlightened Atheist may point to this
commonality between the scriptures and
conclude that Mohammed borrowed from
Moses, nothing could be further from the
truth. The swine is unclean, because
of the thoughts that are embodied when
projected into the allegorical form of
nature that created its image and
actions. The commonality is founded
upon the fact that both the authors of
the Torah, as well as the Qur'an, were
aware of what these thoughts projected
into the (allegorical) forms of mind
represented in the symbols of
consciousness impressed into the symbol
that is presented to the mind of man as
he observes the allusion of the outer
world. And because we are observing
and interacting with Universal
Consciousness, this esoteric reality of
mind is true of all the forms that we
observe in the outer world -- and
especially the human body, which is
an allegorical blueprint of our own
mind, impressed into the forms that make
up the body-vessel in which we dwell.
And the fact that these universal
(allegorical) symbols of mind which are
impressed into the forms of nature, is
the basis of why it appears that
religions borrow beliefs from other
religions (see
The God Who Wasn't There ),
represents the folly of the Atheists and
critics who condemn what they lack the
depth of mind to even begin to
understand. And in the same way that
the unenlightened religious believers
who, because of spiritual immaturity,
clings to doctrines of manmade belief
regarding the interpretation of these
symbols of projected mental-imagery, the
pseudo-intellectuals and Atheists invent
half-baked theories such as Evolution,
to explain away what they fail to
understand with respect to the forms
observed in the outer world. Thus,
the pseudo-intellectuals and Atheists
who fail to understand what they see
when they look out at the outer world,
merely dwell under the power of a
different variety of Demiurge than the
immature religious people they
condemn.
The True
Measure Of Intellect: Why do I
portray them as pseudo-intellectuals?
An ultra-important definition of
intellect is presented on the
Nazirene web site which reads:
"The true
measure of intellect is seen in the
ability of a person to re-evaluate what
they believe to be true when additional
and clarifying knowledge is received,
and then apply this knowledge in their
life so as to intimately embrace the
higher truth that has been revealed in
the endeavor to receive still Higher
Truth." To ignore the
explanation of why the author's of the
scriptures were literally forced to
compose their writings in the
allegorical language of the soul -- and
to ignore the universal message of the
mystic who has warned mankind that the
objects that they see in this world is
projected mental-imagery -- and that
this enlightened vision of this world
has been confirmed by modern physicists
who portray this world as a Great
Thought, the Source of which can only be
understood from the perspective of the
"Field" which is not seen by man's
physical senses -- gives a totally new
dimensional meaning to the folly of
man's absolute insanity to ignore. And
to ignore the very words of the Apostle
Paul in relation to the above -- i.e.,
"While we look
not at the things which are seen, but at
the things which are not seen: for the
things which are seen are temporal; but
the things which are not seen are
eternal" (2 Cor 4:18 KJV) --
represents a demonstration of modern
man's intellectual incompetency that is
simply beyond the pale of the history of
man's superstition and ignorant past.
And the fact that our modern
pseudo-intellectual educators are
clueless as to the universal meaning of
the mental-imagery that is projected
into the forms and symbols of the
scriptures -- i.e., composed in the
universal language of the soul -- is
proof of their intellectual
bankruptcy.
What is
being stated by both the physicist and
the Gnostic author of the scriptures?
I have demonstrated above at a number of
points where the biblical authors warn
that higher reality is inconceivable to
the mind of organic man. Why? For no
other reason than the fact that man's
organic natural physical consciousness
is infantile and undeveloped. So the
problem then becomes how an enlightened
visionary who has escaped the illusions
of this world -- i.e., an enlightened
visionary who finds himself condemned
and rejected by the men of organic
carnal consciousness -- finds it near
impossible to convey to others who lack
the ability to understand in their
present organic condition, what they
need to embrace in order to expand their
level of mind beyond organic human
consciousness. In the account of
Plato's Cave, those who succeed in
escaping the illusions of the Cave, are
condemned and rejected as
"madmen"
when they return and attempt to convey
to others the true reality of what
carnal organic man sees in this world of
mental-imagery. Thus, because it has
been impossible throughout man's history
to convey the truth of this world
literally, these visionaries who had
themselves escaped the illusion that is
an allusion, portrayed the symbols of
mental-imagery in such a way, that the
symbols themselves would act as a
catalyst that reflects man's inner
reality where the meaning of the symbols
is known and understood for what they
truly reveal to the mind of the
enlightened seeker. And this is why
in the above quotation of the Church
Father Origen he states that
"...As men,
however, make little effort to exercise
their intellect, or imagine that they
possess knowledge before they really
learn", he is
indicating that an inner part of us
already knows and understands the
meaning of the symbolism of the
projected mental-imagery, and when the
Key of Knowledge is properly applied,
man begins to possess the power and
ability to escape the illusions of
Plato's Cave that Jesus portrayed as the
"outer
darkness" of mind and
being. And the fact that our modern
systems of education is not only totally
ignorant of the true meaning of the
scriptures -- or why the mystic
visionaries who authored the worlds'
scriptures composed them in this
allegorical manner -- is indicative of
the fact that our modern educators are
themselves under the power of a
different variety of Demiurge -- and
they exist as virtual slaves who are
shackled to the illusions of
Plato's Cave and the
"outer
darkness" of mind and
being.
Thus, in
the same way that man dwells within a
living world of allegorical symbols that
when understood, had the inherent power
to enlighten -- the authors of the
scriptures utilize these very same
symbols in such a way, that they act as
catalysts that connect the seeker with
their own inner higher reality that they
are for the most part ignorant of.
Why? Because it is the proper usage of
these catalysts which facilitates the
necessary expansion of mind beyond
organic limitations. And while the
spiritually immature religious person
may embrace these biblical symbols under
the cloud of blind faith -- the very
fact that they systematically embrace
them, enables the symbols to begin to
act as forces that enlighten, when used
in the proper environment -- i.e., the
environment which Jesus portrayed as the
"good ground"
in the parable of the
Sower and the Seed. And apart
from this environment which Jesus warned
is necessary to escape the
"outer
darkness" of mind and being,
Jesus warned:
“Know ye not this parable? and how
then will ye know all parables?”
-- which indicates the absolute
necessity of brining about the
environment of the
"good ground" within one's
self, in order to escape the organic
limitations of the physical
consciousness of the body-vessel.
And proof of what Jesus stated is
demonstrated in the fact that not only
is the immature believer incapable of
understanding the true meaning of the
scriptures, but this blindness is also
true with respect to the
pseudo-intellectual and Atheist critics
who reject the biblical symbols as
superstition and useless myth --
remaining intellectually flat-lined and
bankrupt -- unable to move beyond their
present mindset, because the
Demiurge-filter that controls their
thinking, will not permit the necessary
expansion of mind beyond its present
carnal and organic limitations. Yet
these pseudo-intellectuals, like the
Pharisees before them, not only put
themselves forth as teachers -- but they
use their position of authority to force
others to subscribe to their folly and
ignorance.
In reality
there is nothing that is concealed from
mankind -- and the problem is the
inability of the physical to perceive
what lies beyond the vibration of the
spectrum of earth-frequencies. Thus,
the Gospel proclaims:
"And the disciples
came and said to Him, Why do You speak
to them in parables? He answered and
said to them,
Because it has
been given to you to know the mysteries
of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it
has not been given.
For whoever has, to him more will be
given, and he will have abundance; but
whoever does not have, even what he has
will be taken away from him.
Therefore I speak
to them in parables, because seeing they
do not see, and hearing they do not
hear, nor do they understand.
And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is
fulfilled, which says: 'Hearing you will
hear and shall not understand, and
seeing you will see and not perceive;
For the hearts of this people have grown
dull. Their ears are hard of hearing,
and their eyes they have closed, lest
they should see with their eyes and hear
with their ears, lest they should
understand with their hearts and turn,
so that I should heal them.'
But blessed are
your eyes for they see, and your ears
for they hear;
for assuredly, I say to you that many
prophets and righteous men desired to
see what you see, and did not see it,
and to hear what you hear, and did not
hear it" (Matt 13:10-17 NKJ).
The
disciples were those who had detached
themselves from the thinking, mindset
and lifestyle of this world -- and were
seeking the Kingdom. Thus, they began
to develop the necessary expansion of
mind and the senses, that permitted them
to see and perceive beyond the spectrum
of earth-frequencies. The multitudes,
on the other hand, remained blind to
anything outside of the frequencies of
the earth -- and were thus portrayed as
blind, deaf and unable to perceive and
understand man's higher soul and
spiritual reality. That limiting
force of consciousness that left them
earth-bound in their thinking and
virtually blind to man's higher reality,
was portrayed as a Demiurge that was the
source of the delusions they dwelled
under. The Demiurge is very much the
filter of their beliefs, mindset and
lifestyle, that limits the vision and
understanding of the world in which they
live. Therefore, once this reality is
understood, then it can be said that
each group -- nay, even each individual
-- dwells in a world created by their
own Demiurge which they worship in
ignorance. In the parable of the
Sower and the Seed, the Demiurge is
portrayed allegorically as Satan who
alienates the person from
“...the word
that was sown in their hearts”
(Mark 4:15 KJV).
Einstein experienced shock when he first
came into contact with the new reality of
atomic physics, and wrote in his
autobiography: “All
my attempts to adapt the theoretical
foundation of physics to this [new type of]
knowledge failed completely. It was as if
the ground had been pulled out from under
one, with no firm foundation to be seen
anywhere, upon which one could have built”.
In much the same fashion, the European
physicist Niels Bohr stated that
“…The great
extension of our experience in recent years
has brought to light the insufficiency of
our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a
consequence, has shaken the foundation on
which the customary interpretation of
observation was based.” These
“…mechanical
conceptions” make reference to
Darwin and the theory of evolution.
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Rebuttal Of Law Of Octaves Critique
The above Law Of Octaves presentation was
recently set before a Messianic/Nazarene Jew who concluded after consulting with
a his friend Stephen Pidgeon who is portrayed as a world-class pianist and Torah
student, that what I have written in the foregoing was defective.
And in addition to a rebuttal by David Stalker who is himself a musician (see
Rebuttal By David Stalker), and a second rebuttal by an
expert in the Law of Octaves who is presently writing under the name of Gnosis
Kardais (see Rebuttal By Gnosis Kardais), the
following is my own critique which presents an important element and
understanding of the Natural Laws of Creation that is totally void in the
present-day understanding of all those who have aligned themselves with
Messianic/Nazarene Judaism.
In review of my foregoing dissertation on
the twisting of the frequencies which create half-steps which the human ear
hears as if they were full incremental steps, I would like to offer an
additional review of the critique of Stephen Pidgeon (see
Critique Of Stephen Pidgeon) who is portrayed as a
world-class pianist and Torah student. The enigma of the Law of
Octaves is caused by a twisting of the frequencies when they are played in
sequence -- but this twisting is representative of a pattern which is indigenous
to all such sequences of Law throughout all of Creation.
Stephen Pidgeon writes:
Here, we have an accurate representation of exactly
what the author is doing – twisting the frequencies of music in a manner that is
not consistent with music itself. His twisting – in his own words – “is
representative of a pattern which is indigenous” to all of his writing about the
“Law throughout all of Creation.” This argument is based on initial truths (for
instance, there is music; there is a diatonic scale; the piano has a sequence of
black and white keys); followed by unsupported foundational premises based on a
false metaphysic; followed by “facts” which do not exist in nature; followed by
conclusions that “twist” reality in order to allow the writer to reach his
predetermined conclusion, which is Gnostic at its root.
In critique of these words which totally misrepresents the article on the Law of
Octaves, David Stalker writes: I see nothing false about Allan's statement
above or with anything he has written on the topic, and one who is determined
can prove the truth of the writings on the Law of Octaves for themselves by
beginning to observe it in their lives and the lives of others. This is not
possible if one believes that they already know and are therefore bound by their
limited mindset.
What I would like to focus on in this instance is the statement with respect to
the fact that this twisting is representative of a pattern which is indigenous
to all such sequences of Law throughout all of Creation -- to which Stephen
Pidgeon: "...followed by unsupported foundational
premises based on a false metaphysic; followed by '“facts” which do not exist in
nature; followed by conclusions that 'twist' reality in order to allow the
writer to reach his predetermined conclusion, which is Gnostic at its root"
Thus the question must be raised: What is the metaphysics that is portrayed as
being Gnostic at its root that is being referenced to in the above? What
are the undeniable facts that Stephen Pidgeon is attempt to ignore and evade?
The Fundamentalist mindset -- i.e., the linear-perception to the exclusion of
the intuitive and higher centers of mind and being -- whether this
linear-perception is that of a religious Fundamentalist or a pseudo-scientific
perception -- is in denial of the facts as stated in the below:
When the notes Middle C, D, E and F are
played in sequence, from a purely linear perspective, the frequency of 369.994
should be the last note in the progression of Do Re Me Fa -- but it is not.
Which means that there is no real linear perception and understanding of the
twisting of the octaves at the interval between the third to fourth note
progression, and the seventh to eighth sequence of the start of a new octave --
with the eighth note being the same as the first, one octave higher with the
seven note pattern repeating itself at a higher frequency range. And
mankind generally has no answer to the foregoing enigma, because it defies
linear-logic -- and the answer can only be revealed through the Intuitive
Spheres of Mind.
The essence of the problem with Stephen Pidgeon's pseudo-linear perception -- a
perception that shackles man to the illusions of
Plato's Cave -- is seem in the
fact that this is a three-dimensional realm that is incapable of expressing and
manifesting man's higher multi-dimensional reality of the soul, the spirit and
the Kingdom. So, because of the limitations of the linear-perception,
Stephen Pidgeon's total lack of an explanation is a prime example of dismissing
and attempting to explain away using pseudo-logic -- which often is the basis of
dogmatic blind-faith. The word Metaphysics of course portrays a reality
that is beyond physical limitations -- and since this is a three-dimensional
realm, all the answers to man's higher soul-reality are in essence metaphysical.
In the subheading
Science - Religion
- And The Etheric Field/Mind, this important statement is made:
The vast difference between what would be called the knowledge of man, and the
higher spiritual reality portrayed in the Knowledge that is defined as Gnosis,
has begun to be demonstrated by the modern scientific community. Quoting
physicist Walter Thirring in his book, Urbausteine der Materie where he wrote
about matter that modern physics “...has put our thinking about the essence of
matter in a different context. It has taken our gaze from the visible - the
particles - to the underlying entity, the field. The presence of matter is
merely a disturbance of the perfect state of the field at that place; something
accidental, one could almost say, a ‘blemish’. Accordingly, there are no simple
laws describing the forces between elementary particles… Order and symmetry must
be sought in the underlying field.” One of the primary realities that science
has to come to terms with in order to advance beyond their present level, is the
fact that physical matter is the result of the forces in the Etheric Field
coming together, causing what Walter Thirring above describes as a "blemish"
that we observe with our organic physical senses. And what this is, is Darwinism
in reverse -- i.e., modern science has proven that the Field which is unseen and
surrounds all matter, is the Source which impresses the aspect of mind and
consciousness which is represented in the form of matter that we observe. The
problem is that to the organic mind of both the faith-based believer, as well as
the Atheist, what modern science has proven is simply beyond their ability to
even contemplate.
What man calls knowledge, is the
wisdom and understanding gained through his study of what Walter Thirring called
the "blemish" -- i.e., the illusion of what we perceive as physical matter. Yet,
without understanding the underlying forces in the Field that formed the blemish
that organic man observes as concrete physical matter, it can be stated that
what we observe in the physical world is so incomplete, that it would be
virtually impossible to truly understand what we think and imagine we see.
Reality, states the physicist, can only be found in the (Etheric) Field -- and
it is the Field that both surrounds all physical forms that we observe with our
body-senses, and it is the unseen Field that is the source of what we perceive
with our physical senses which we call matter. Which again, is reverse Darwinism
-- in that, Darwinism attempted to demonstrate that this physical world came
into being apart from any unseen supernatural forces -- and modern science has
now proven that this world is the direct result of unseen forces that would be
defined as supernatural, or beyond what is seen with the physical senses.
What this means is that all knowledge of
the Source of what we observe with our physical senses which is portrayed as a
"blemish" in the intersecting forces within the causal-field, is in fact
metaphysical. And this is why linear-minded fundamentalist religious and
pseudo-scientists are totally lacking any real answers to man's true reality.
But what then is Gnosis? Gnosis is defined at the subheading All Genuine
Religions Are Spiritual/Gnostic (quoting)
The word Gnostic is derived from the
Greek word "gnosis", which is the term used to both delineate and define
experiential spiritual knowledge, vs knowledge derived through human reasoning
based upon the natural consciousness of mankind. The word "gnosis" is defined as
indicating "...direct spiritual experiential knowledge rather than from rational
or reasoned thinking". The objective of all genuine religions, is to bring about
that condition within the mind and life of the individual where they are able to
fulfill the statement in the Gospel of John, and be "taught by God" -- i.e., "It
is written in the prophets, 'And they shall all be taught by God.' Therefore
everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me" (John 6:45 NKJ).
And it was for this reason that Jesus commanded his disciples not to be called
teacher or rabbi -- i.e., "But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have One
Teacher, and you are all brethren" (Matt 23:8 RSV) -- and this was commanded,
because there is Only One True Teacher, and that is the True Prophet (see True
Prophet). And that those lost prodigal sons who look to other men as their
teacher, rabbi or leaders, will be greatly deceived and misguided, is why the
disciple Peter in the Clementine Homilies declared: “Hence, O beloved Clement,
if you would know the things pertaining to God, you have to learn them from Him
alone, because He alone knows the truth. For if any one else knows anything, he
has received it from Him or from His disciples”.
In the Original Gospel teachings, there
was only One Teacher that each follower of Yeshua/Jesus was commanded to seek
out -- i.e.,
The Wisdom and Knowledge that the
True Prophet (Son of God/Logos) imparts to those who are worthy, is called
Gnosis. And Gnosis cannot be written in the words of man -- or even taught by
man -- because Gnosis is defined as Spiritual Knowledge, or the Divine Manna of
the Kingdom, that can only be received directly from the True Prophet to those
who are themselves true spiritual seekers. In the words of the second century
Elder Valentinus: "Gnosis was distinct from the secret teachings they only
revealed to initiates once they had reached a certain level of progression." And
the whole objective of the teachings of TheWay as revealed by Yeshua/Jesus, was
to prepare the mind of the disciple to receive the revelation of Gnosis -- i.e.,
the Divine Manna of the Kingdom -- from the indwelling True Prophet/Logos/Son of
God that is dormant within the minds of carnal believers.
The Source of this Spiritual Knowledge that is beyond organic human
comprehension, has often been portrayed as the Indwelling Logos/Son of God --
but few possess the insight to understand that this access to this higher
knowledge that is beyond carnal man's comprehension, is always via one's higher
reality of soul. But since few believers or unbelievers have ever come to
understand the ancient adage to Know Thyself -- and to Know who and even what
man's true nature and higher reality is, few ever come to possess the vision of
the True Mystic and what is portrayed in the word Gnosis.
While the word knowledge, and the word Gnosis, both denote a type of knowledge,
the Knowledge portrayed in the word Gnosis has absolutely nothing to do with
knowledge derived from this world. Gnosis is beyond organic human reasoning --
it cannot be read in a book -- it cannot be taught by a teacher -- or even
written in the literal text of scriptures. Therefore, the term Gnostic
scriptures is an oxymoron drawn out of the mouth of the person who uses the
phrase -- because, the objective of all scriptures are the same -- and all
scriptures are equally Gnostic. And in this respect, an interesting statement
was made by Dead Sea Scroll expert Prof. John Allegro in is book, The Dead Sea
Scrolls and the Origins of Christianity, where he writes: “It is a fact that the
Qumran Library has profoundly affected the study of the Johannine writings and
many longheld conceptions have had to be radically revised. No longer can John
be regarded as the most Hellenistic of the Evangelists; his Gnosticism, and the
whole framework of his thought is seen now to spring directly from a Jewish
sectarianism rooted in Palestinian soil, and his material recognized as founded
in the earliest layers of Gospel traditions.” What Prof. Allegro failed to
understand, is the fact that all the Gospels are equally Gnostic, and their
primary objective is to lead the disciple down the path of TheWay, and permit
them to gain access to the higher reality of the soul and spiritual natures, and
ultimately the Inner Kingdom that Jesus commanded to seek and find.
Quoting Valentinus, the early Christian who was considered one of the foremost
Gnostics: "Gnosis was distinct from the secret teachings they only revealed to
initiates once they had reached a certain level of progression." What Valentinus
is stating, is that the spiritual concepts which have been historically
portrayed as the secret teachings associated with many Gnostic groups was not at
all what is defined to be Gnosis -- but rather, AT BEST, these secret teachings
were the esoteric knowledge of the cosmology of one's own mind -- how the
disciple must live -- and the foundational truths that must be built upon, that
are necessary to bring about the expansion of mind and consciousness that
enables the disciple to begin the process of acquiring True Gnosis -- i.e., a
Spiritual Knowledge that cannot be comprehended by the untransformed organic
mind of man. That those who portrayed themselves as Orthodox, were totally
incapable of understanding the nature and reality of this higher knowledge which
they ignorantly condemned as heresy -- remains totally true to this very day. No
person who understands the higher reality of Gnosis, would condemn Gnosis -- and
what they would condemn, is the manmade carnal understanding of Gnosis.
Historically, it has often been pointed out that the Gnostics rarely ever
defended themselves against the onslaught of doctrinal attack waged by those who
portrayed themselves to be Orthodox -- and unless one comes to understand why
those known as Gnostics rarely ever attempted to defend themselves, then man's
own higher reality will remain forever elusive and beyond comprehension.
To even begin to comprehend the higher reality of the soul and what is called
the Kingdom of God, requires the development of man's higher facilities of mind.
In truth, you would have greater success at teaching kindergarten children
advanced calculus, than you would attempting to teach organic man about his own
higher natures and reality of mind and being. And this is not an elitist
statement -- but rather, one based upon the fact that it is impossible to
receive and comprehend True Gnosis, unless the higher areas of mind are
developed. What this means is that in the same way that it is impossible to
convey to the believers of the simple faith this higher knowledge that is
dependent upon the development of man's higher facilities of mind to comprehend,
the same is true of the intellectuals who reject the scriptures as myth and a
hoax. In the same way that you can't use a kitchen spoon to dig a foundation,
and then use this spoon to mix and lay the proper foundation in a great house,
neither can the orga nic mind of man even begin to comprehend man's own higher
soul and spiritual reality.
Mankind dwells in abject ignorance in what the Gospel portrays as the "outer
darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness) - which portrayal of man's
carnal condition has its parallels in the analogy of the illusions of Plato's
Cave, Which confirms the statement of the modern physicist that "...The presence
of matter is merely a disturbance of the perfect state of the field at that
place; something accidental, one could almost say, a ‘blemish’. Accordingly,
there are no simple laws describing the forces between elementary particles…
Order and symmetry must be sought in the underlying field.” If you base your
mindset and lifestyle on what you see with your physical senses -- without
developing the necessary spheres of mind and consciousness that permit you to
perceive the Source of what you see -- then you have been disenfranchised from
your own true reality of mind and being. And if you are not seeking the Divine
Manna of the Kingdom that can only be expressed in the word Gnosis, then you are
spiritually dead.
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Rebuttal Of Law Of Octaves Critique
Authored by David Stalker:
In response
to an article by Allan Cronshaw on the Law of Octaves as found above, a somewhat
prominent concert pianist well-versed in textbook music theory and the literal
letter of the Torah composed the following argument with the intention of
disproving the validity of the law as described by Allan. As anyone who
possesses knowledge of this law can observe however, the only thing really
proven in the argument set forth is the writer’s inability thus far to expand
his thinking outside of the theoretical box that has become so ingrained in him
from his years of training and perhaps other factors, that he completely misses
the point of the article and what the Law of Octaves is.
Additionally,
as the writer not only demonstrates a lack of understanding of the law but is
also oblivious to this fact – convinced that his knowledge on the matter is
vastly superior to that of Allan – we see in his argument a clear example of how
the Law of Octaves can keep us bound to our limited thinking and mindset unless
we put forth the tremendous effort necessary to consciously straighten the
twist of the Octave at its crucial intervals and move ourselves forward (given
what’s possible according to the Laws we are under). A relevant scripture can
be found at Proverbs 14:12, which states the following:
“There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death” (ESV).
I’ve included
here the pianist’s argument in full followed by my comments to serve as a
rebuttal of many of the main points raised within.
************
Mr. Cronshaw is struggling to make use of an
argument related to key signatures, which does not discuss any aspect of the
overtone series, diatonic progressions, chromaticism, or equal temperament, all
of which would be relational to such a discussion.
From the mysteries of the Torah,
so much is derived in music. For instance, the Tonic (the “1”) would be the
Alef – the neutral (echad) from which the Abba and Imma derive.
In music, this is the subdominant IV chord (Abba), and the dominant V
chord (Imma). In both cases, there is what is called a leading tone.
Where Allan is hearing a whole step, trained musicians hear a leading tone (only
a half step which pushes the ear to resolution by reaching the half-step above
or below. These intervals create what are called cadences, so that the V chord
(the dominant – Imma) naturally resolves to the I chord (the Alef).
This cadence is called an authentic cadence, and really reflects the path from Chokmah to Keter.
The leading tone is the seventh tone which is a half-step from the 8th tone
(the octave) and its resolution is perfect. In the case of the 1 chord to the
IV chord, the third note of the diatonic scale is also a leading tone, being but
a half step from the fourth tone. The ear perceives the leaning and the
resolution is accomplished in a similar manner to the Authentic Cadence
described above. However, in the event of the IV chord resolving to the one
chord, the fourth is resolved downward a half-step, also a leading environment.
This cadence is called a plagal cadence, and reflects the path from the Binah to
the Keter along the beit pathway. So, the chords the I, IV and V,
are the three cadence chords of every key signature, and represent the
Father (Abba), the ben Elohiym(the Alef), and the Imma (the Ruach
HaQodesh). It really is a perfect relationship, which exists in every key
signature. Now from the three chords (the Rosh cadences, if you will)
there are seven notes (do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti) which reflect the seven
radiances of Elohiym in the gupha. These are the diatonic tones.
Past these are the 12 notes of the chromatic scale, which represent the twelve
tribes/disciples/hours/ months, etc. So within the octave we have the 22
letters of the Hebrew alphabet: the three mothers: alef (I), shin (IV), mem (V),
the seven darash letters (do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti), and the 12 remaining
letters.
Additional Comment to Me,
personally, when I asked him to put all this technical stuff into a language
that I could understand and he wrote back the following:
I don’t think it would be any
problem for you to share this with your wife. I realize that it is a bit hard
to understand if you don’t know music, however, to get an idea how the leading
tone works, listen to the Overture to Romeo and Juliet. The melody you will
come away whistling is “seven – eight , 3,4,5,2,1, four.” (At least in
intervals). Here is Tchaikovsky given us the full rendition of the leading tone
(seven to eight) in this melody, so you can experience it.
Stephen
The “law of the octave” and the Torah
By Stephen Pidgeon
Below is a discussion of the
writings taken from the blog of the
Brother of Yeshua website: http://nazirene.org/spiritual_meaning_of_marriage3.htm#octave. The
statements from the blog are in bold. My comments are in italics.
Returning once again to the
keyboard: Starting from the left most key we can see the first note, and between
the first and second is a half-tone which is represented by that black key. The
same is true with respect to the sequence of the second to third note. Then,
between the third and fourth note the pattern suddenly changes, and we can
observe that there is no half-tone between these notes.
This last comment is false.
The step between E and F, and B and C is also a half-step. The
enharmonic equivalence would be Fb and F, Cb and C, E and E#, B and B#. The
piano keyboard was designed as the clavier keyboard, and the black keys were
omitted to better accommodate the fingers, and the intrinsic harmony.
Why? Because when we play the
notes, the fourth note is actually a half-tone [sic], and yet it artificially
and falsely sounds to us as a whole-step increment.
Again, another false
statement. There is nothing written
anywhere that claims that the ear hears a whole step, when only a half-step is
played. In short, this claim is a
bald, unsupported claim that has no genesis in any music theory. Those who are
schooled in music, hear the scale tone, the chromatic sequence, and the
interval. Those with perfect pitch
hear the leaning of this half-step to its next resolution in the sequence.
Why? Why does [sic] our ears
hear a half-tone in the third to fourth sequence as a whole, while this is not
true in the first two intervals of an octave?
Here is a question that defies
logic. An octave is one interval,
eight scale tones apart (hence, octave). There
are not two intervals of an octave, unless of course, you are discussing two
octaves, in which case, both intervals are octaves, and they sound like octaves
to the trained ear. If the writer is trying to discuss the diatonic scale within
the octave, the concept still makes no sense, as he makes an a priori claim that
the ear hears a whole-step from 3 to 4; now he claims our ears hear a half-step
in 3 to 4, but this is not true in the first two intervals (i.e., 1 to 2, and 2
to 3). This passage makes no sense.
The enigma is caused by a
twisting of the frequencies when they are played in sequence -- but this
twisting is representative of a pattern which is indigenous to all such
sequences of Law throughout all of Creation.
Here, we have an accurate
representation of exactly what the author is doing – twisting the frequencies of
music in a manner that is not consistent with music itself. His
twisting – in his own words – “is representative of a pattern which is
indigenous” to all of his writing about the “Law throughout all of Creation.” This
argument is based on initial truths (for instance, there is music; there is a
diatonic scale; the piano has a sequence of black and white keys); followed by
unsupported foundational premises based on a false metaphysic; followed by
“facts” which do not exist in nature; followed by conclusions that “twist”
reality in order to allow the writer to reach his predetermined conclusion,
which is Gnostic at its root.
What this means is that while we
can hear this Law at work in music, and observe this Law at work by virtue of
the physical placement of the keys on a keyboard, this same pattern remains
universal to all the Laws that control this world throughout every aspect of our
lives. The result is that when we think we are heading in a straight path, we
are inadvertently turned off the path without ever realizing that our direction
has been altered by the natural sequence of Laws which immerse every aspect of
this physical realm.
Bah, humbug. The torah is
proved in music theory, and music theory is expressed in the Sephiroth, in a
manner somewhat consistent with the formation discussed in the Sefer Yetzerah.
Here is a true “rule of the
octave.” In the sequence within the
octave, without repeating any of the notes, you have the following properties.
First, echad. You
have one set of notes that appear in the natural register within the range of
human hearing which constitutes the range of distinct perception. This concept
is a bit more difficult than you might imagine, but worth the time to discover
it.
A musical tone is like a
rainbow – you hear one note, but it has multiple harmonics that are ongoing,
expressed in mathematics. Here is
the graphic (each octave is colorized):
|
Tone |
Divided by |
Length of string |
Interval |
|
Tonic |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
Octave |
2 |
1/2 |
1 – 8 |
|
Dominant |
3 |
1/3 |
5 |
|
Octave |
4 |
1/4 |
8 – 16 |
|
Mediant |
5 |
1/5 |
3 – 10 |
|
Dominant |
6 |
1/6 |
5 |
|
Seventh |
7 |
1/7 |
flat 7 |
|
Octave |
8 |
1/8 |
1 |
|
Super Tonic |
9 |
1/9 |
2 -9 |
|
Mediant |
10 |
1/10 |
3 – 10 |
|
Raised Fourth |
11 |
1/11 |
sharp 4 – sharp 11 |
|
Dominant |
12 |
1/12 |
5 – 12 |
|
Sixth |
13 |
1/13 |
6 – 13 |
|
Seventh |
14 |
1/14 |
flat 7 – flat 14 |
|
Leading |
15 |
1/15 |
Nat 7 (5 of 3) |
|
Octave |
16 |
1/16 |
8 – 16 |
|
Flat Second/ Nine |
17 |
1/17 |
flat 2 – flat 9 |
|
Second/Ninth |
18 |
1/18 |
2 -9 (5 of 5) |
|
Minor third/tenth |
19 |
1/19 |
flat 3 – flat 10 |
|
Mediant |
20 |
1/20 |
3 – 10 |
|
Sub Dominant |
21 |
1/21 |
Nat 4 (5 of flat 7) |
|
Raised Fourth |
22 |
1/22 |
sharp 4 – sharp 11 |
|
Flat Five |
23 |
1/23 |
flat 5 – flat 12 |
|
Dominant |
24 |
1/24 |
5 – 12 |
|
Augmented Fifth |
25 |
1/25 |
#5 – #12 (3 of 3) |
|
Sixth |
26 |
1/26 |
6 – 13 |
|
Raised Sixth |
27 |
1/27 |
(5 of 9) |
|
Flat Seventh |
28 |
1/28 |
flat 7 – flat 14 |
|
? |
29 |
1/29 |
¼ step |
|
Leading |
30 |
1/30 |
Nat 7 (5 of 10) |
|
Sub Tonic |
31 |
1/31 |
¼ step |
|
Octave |
32 |
1/32 |
8 – 16 |
Each of these tones exist
within the frequency of the given note, and basically become indiscernible after
you exceed the 32nd division. The
tone depicted here crosses four octaves. Bear
in mind that the human ear hears in perfect conditions from 20hz 20khz. Most
American adults hear from about 30hz.-15khz.
Because of the proliferation
of music and the anomalies of different instruments (and many of them are
irreconcilable in foundational pitch even today), instruments have been designed
to accommodate all of the possibilities of the third and fourth octaves
appearing above. As a consequence,
the organizational scheme is limited to the range of human hearing. A
piano is the one instrument which reaches the greatest range of sounds of all
the instruments, going as high as the piccolo, and as low as a contra-bassoon. The
lowest note on the piano sounds at 32hz.
We will therefore contain our
remarks to that set of half-steps that appear in the second octave of overtones
depicted above.
Echad. Then,
from echad (one), shteim (two). In
the case of the first division, the result is the tonic (the 1) and the fifth
(5). From shteim (two), shalosh
(three), as the interval between the fifth (5) and the octave is a fourth (4). The
principle is then that the division of the one yields two, and a third by
consequence. These three intervals,
the tonic, the fourth and the fifth, are called “perfect” intervals (as opposed
to major, minor, augmented or diminished).
So, from one, two, and from
two, three. All perfect in their
inception. Harmony (the feminine)
begins to appear at this juncture, although because the intervals are perfect,
the harmony is called perfect, neither major, nor minor, nor augmented, nor
diminished.
From three now, comes seven:
do, rey, me, fa, so, la, ti (note that the accepted diatonic scale
(1,2,3,4,5,6,7) the “white keys” on a piano in the key of C, differs from the
natural major scale which appears as 1, 2, 3, 4#, 5, 6, 7b).
So from three, seven, and from
seven, twelve (C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B). Hence,
22 are found in the single octave (את). This
represents the masculine linear approach found in scales. Harmony
develops from the joining of two or more of these notes. Consonant
harmony is built on the relationship of notes that are 3 (the minor third) or 4
(the major third) half-steps apart.
In the first place we must
understand that an octave is comprised of seven notes or sequences -- as is the
pattern of the seven colors of the rainbow that make up white light. In the
Bible we can see this same message being conveyed in the Sabbath, and again it
is conveyed to us in the example of Enoch, the seventh from Adam, who supposedly
did not die because he was taken by God. Not supported in scripture, and
violates the premise that Elohiym told him in that day you shall surely die. In
fact, if we are observant, we can see this same pattern behind the sequences of
seven that is used throughout every aspect of the scriptures. From a spiritual
perspective it is important to remember that the Light -- or, the One (also
not supported in scripture and contradicted by the edict “be light”) --
is made up of the seven (colors of the rainbow) that are divided. The
importance of this is seen in the words: "And God said: This is the sign of
the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is
with you, for perpetual generations: I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall
be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth" (Gen 9:12-13 NKJ).
This statement is essentially
true (ignoring the contradictions referenced above), but incomplete. First,
he is speaking of the diatonic scale, not the octave. However, using his analogy
of the rainbow, it is easy to see that when you look at the sky, you find one
rainbow, expressed in three primary colors (red, yellow, blue), and expressed
more completely in 7 secondary colors that the eye easily sees, and an
additional twelve visual frequencies that the average eye does not discern. Again,
the physical reality reflects 22, the number of letters found in the Hebrew alef-bet
– better said, alef-tav, affirming that the written word of Yah is found in and
reflected in the physical world and that the Hebrew language is the pure
language of Elohiym.
Thus, the objective of fulfilling
the covenant with God from a New Covenant perspective, is to bring the seven
into an absolute harmony in the endeavor to permit the Light to immerse the
totality of our being.
I disagree, and using the
piano to illustrate this point is a poor analogy. Harmony
cannot be summarized in one or two paragraphs, but suffice it to say that there
are basically two kinds of harmony: consonant (tov) and dissonant (ra).
Consonant harmony is that harmony which is consistent with the overtone series
(set forth in the chart above) based upon either the minor third or the major
third (although scale intervals are also harmonic).
Consider the words of
Bere’shiyth 1:1 in relation to the seven tones of the scale:
בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ׃
Ti La So Fa Mi Re Do
Don’t we get interesting
results here.
Abba: The tonic chord (the
“1”) in major: Do, mi, so: Bere’shiyth Elohiym Shamayim
Ben: The four chord (the “4)
in major: Do, Fa, So: Bere’shiyth eth v’eth (Yochanan 1:1)
Imma: The five-seven chord
(the “5”): Re, Fa, So, Ti: bara eth Shamayim ha’aretz.
While it is true that those who
meditate in the Eastern religious traditions can see the Light -- and this is
good -- it is only those who become Complete within themselves, that succeed in
becoming the vessels of the Light.
This is not supported in this
proposition. Furthermore, every single living person is a vessel of the Light,
as the discovery of Living Water(H3O2) illustrates.
This presents a problem that few
people on the road to spiritual enlightenment ever consider -- i.e., if the soul
is asexual, and the gender divided male and female centers are in fact half of
the whole by virtue of their inherent physical sexual orientation, then only
those soul-mates who enter a Genuine Divine Marriage can truly manifest the ONE
in their UNION! Unlike the Eastern religions, the Hebrew holy men knew this,
and therefore required students of Mysticism to be married and live in
accordance with the principles of the Torah (Law). This is also the basis for
the Orthodox Jewish refusal to say or write the name of God -- i.e., G-d --
because Hebrew Mysticism teaches that only a man and women in absolute harmony
and oneness can together in unison speak the True Name of God.
We should all speak, publish
and proclaim the name of Yahuah.
אֲסַפְּרָה שִׁמְךָ לְאֶחָי בְּתוֹךְ קָהָל אֲהַלְלֶךָּ׃
I will declare your name to my
brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise you.
Psalm 22:1
If we again look at the keyboard
we will see this sequence of seven in the fact that if we count the first seven
white keys, the pattern replicates itself and starts over again, because each
seven-note sequence completes an octave. Notice also that there is no half-tone
in the sequence between the end of one octave and the beginning of the next.
This is important -- in that, in this we find the key to the enigma -- i.e.,
something is at work upon our senses that causes us to hear a half-tone as if it
were a whole-tone. This unknown something, is a force or series of Laws that
are at work, that gives a false completion between the third and forth [sic]
sequence.
First, we note that the word
“forth” is misspelled. Second, this
conclusion that there is no half-tone between the first octave and the second
octave is not only patently false, but is the basis for all tension in the
harmony, as the seventh (which is called the “leading” tone) drives the music to
resolution at the 8th tone. In
fact, in harmony, there is a “rule of thumb” that goes something like this: 7
goes to 8, 6 goes to 5, 4 goes to 3, and 2 goes to 1 or 3.
I have only briefly touched on
the mathematics of music (for instance, consider that the equal temperament of
the modern piano is tuned to a formula using twelve points calculated over a
self-similar spiral). Music, in my opinion, is the third voice of Elohiym
(numbers, Word, music/speech). It does not make the case as proposed by this
writer - it proves the black fire
torah, the existence of Qodesh in the physical word. “Now
that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower
parts of the earth?”
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Rebuttal of the above authored by David Stalker:
Returning to
the writer’s opening remarks where he mentions that Allan
“…is struggling to make use of an argument related to key signatures…,”
we can see a flaw in the writer’s understanding that is prevalent throughout
much of his argument. To be clear, Allan’s article does not argue anything
related to key signatures per se, nor is an understanding of advanced music
theory at all necessary to grasp its concepts (which may actually serve as a
hindrance in some cases); rather, it simply uses the layout of a keyboard to
illustrate a universal law of vibration that can be found everywhere in our
lives. For the sake of simplicity, a C Major scale on the keyboard was used –
not because there is any significance to C Major per se, as the law would apply
to any major scale due to the fixed sequence of whole and half-steps and
particularly because of where the half-steps fall within the sequence (i.e.
Whole-Whole-Half-Whole-Whole-Whole-Half) – but a C Major scale, being the one
major scale that utilizes only the white keys of a piano, lends itself well to
help explain a somewhat complex subject in as simple a manner as possible;
particularly for those that may not understand music well. The same principles
would of course hold true for everything from E Major to C# Major – but such
examples would make things unnecessarily complex.
Far more
important than knowing the name or type of the scale being described however, is
coming to understand that within the progression of the octave, the interval
between the third and fourth scale degrees is different (i.e. being a half-step)
from the previous two (i.e. whole-steps), though our ears do not naturally HEAR
the interval as being any different. Equally as important is coming to
understand why this is, and – being a demonstration of a universal law of
vibration – the far-reaching ramifications it has in our lives.
A little
further into the writer’s argument, he makes the following assertion:
“Where Allan is hearing a whole step, trained musicians
hear a leading tone (only a half step which pushes the ear to resolution by
reaching the half-step above or below.”
As briefly
discussed above, within the context of a major scale, the half-tone interval
between the third and fourth notes sounds quite different than when the same two
notes are played in succession by themselves. When isolated outside of the
progression of the octave, the half-tone has a distinct dissonance or tension to
it. As an example, think of the
“Jaws” movie theme.
Composer John Williams understood the tension of the half-tone in isolation
well enough to use it quite effectively as the theme for a movie about a killer
shark. But something very interesting happens when that same interval is played
subsequently to the two initial whole tones of an octave/scale in that our ears
are "tricked" into hearing the interval differently – and this is key. To
demonstrate, here’s what a major scale
sounds like. And now for the
paramount question: within the progression of the sequence of the major
scale/octave, which by its very nature is known as having a “bright” or “happy”
quality to it, where is the tension of the interval between the third and fourth
scale degrees and between the seventh and eighth/first degrees so apparent in
the “Jaws” theme linked above? It’s the same half-tone, and yet our ears will
naturally hear it quite differently. In fact, the half-tone interval between
the third and fourth scale degrees sounds very much like the previous two whole
tones of the sequence, though very importantly, only when played in a
progression subsequently to the first/male, second/female, and third/third-force
scale degrees – which is extremely important in coming to understand how the
keyboard illustration demonstrates the universal application of this law.
Returning to
the writer’s point of trained musicians hearing the intervals as leading tones
rather than whole tones; comparing the characteristic of the interval between
the third to fourth scale degrees within the context of an ascending major
scale/octave to a whole step is accurate to my ear, though if it be thought of
as a leading tone or a note that wants to resolve to an adjacent half-tone, I
don't really see how the argument changes. It still sounds different to my ear
from when the notes are played in succession by themselves as described above.
Additionally, the writer makes mention of trained musicians hearing the
interval differently from other people, which may be true, but in making this
point the writer doesn’t realize that he is actually corroborating one of the
points of Allan’s article that ultimately we must likewise strive to achieve
sufficient awareness and knowledge of the Law of Octaves (i.e. “train”
ourselves) to be able to recognize the intervals for what they are and
consciously straighten the twists that occur at these crucial points. To the
"untrained ear" however, they will nearly always succeed in "tricking" the
person and go by unnoticed.
Moving on
from the writer’s introductory comments to the more formal dissertation he
presents, we see a number of misunderstandings and apparent hang-ups on
terminology that prevent him from gleaning the points being made in Allan’s
article. I will respond to a number of them here. For example, he presents the
following quote from Allan’s article and then afterwards includes his own
commentary in italics:
Returning
once again to the keyboard: Starting from the left most key we can see the first
note, and between the first and second is a half-tone which is represented by
that black key. The same is true with respect to the sequence of the second to
third note. Then, between the third and fourth note the pattern suddenly
changes, and we can observe that there is no half-tone between these notes.
This last comment is false. The step between E and F, and B and C is also a
half-step. The enharmonic equivalence would be Fb and F, Cb and C, E and E#, B
and B#. The piano keyboard was designed as the clavier keyboard, and the black
keys were omitted to better accommodate the fingers, and the intrinsic harmony.
In actuality, Allan’s last comment is true. Allan did not say that the third to
fourth degree is not a half-step, he merely said that there is no half-tone
between these notes, which is true and the exact same thing as saying
“…the step between E and F, and B and C is also a half-step.” Within the
context of the progression of the octave (i.e. major scale), the interval
between the third and fourth scale degree is the first interval not separated by
a half-tone, and this is the point being made. Again, far more importantly than
note names and advanced theoretical concepts that the writer seems to be stuck
on is coming to understand the change in the pattern of the sequence at the
third interval and its significance.
The writer continues with another quote of Allan’s and subsequent commentary:
Why? Because
when we play the notes, the fourth note is actually a half-tone [sic], and yet
it artificially and falsely sounds to us as a whole-step increment.
Again,
another false statement. There is nothing written anywhere that claims that the
ear hears a whole step, when only a half-step is played. In short, this claim
is a bald, unsupported claim that has no genesis in any music theory. Those who
are schooled in music, hear the scale tone, the chromatic sequence, and the
interval. Those with perfect pitch hear the leaning of this half-step to its
next resolution in the sequence.
I found it
interesting that the idea of the third to fourth degree resembling a whole step
to the ear was determined to be false on the basis that it hasn't been written
about elsewhere (whether or not this is true; I’m not certain). Though I
understand the mindset of seeing something as not being valid unless and until
it has been verified by the experts or scholars in a given field, my ears
confirm the argument regardless of what's been written about it; which I believe
can be confirmed by anybody given the opportunity to hear examples for
themselves – such as the previously-linked music clips above. The point raised
by the writer about trained musicians hearing the interval differently goes back
to my previous point that the universal law can also be recognized by those who
have done the work to understand and observe it in action, and therefore merely
confirms much of what Allan describes in his article.
The writer continues with another rebuttal of a passage of Allan’s:
Why? Why
does [sic] our ears hear a half-tone in the third to fourth sequence as a whole,
while this is not true in the first two intervals of an octave?
Here is a
question that defies logic. An octave is one interval, eight scale tones apart
(hence, octave). There are not two intervals of an octave, unless of course,
you are discussing two octaves, in which case, both intervals are octaves, and
they sound like octaves to the trained ear. If the writer is trying to discuss
the diatonic scale within the octave, the concept still makes no sense, as he
makes an a priori claim that the ear hears a whole-step from 3 to 4; now he
claims our ears hear a half-step in 3 to 4, but this is not true in the first
two intervals (i.e., 1 to 2, and 2 to 3). This passage makes no sense.
Here, the
writer’s theoretical paradigm and his usage and understanding of certain
terminology seems to be limiting his ability to discern what is being conveyed.
First, "intervals" in this context is referring to the intervals between the
first and second, and second and third degrees/notes of the octave – not an
octave as a whole as the writer is interpreting it (octaves within each note of
the octave aside, which is a separate topic). He's also misreading what Allan
writes by believing it’s being said that the third to fourth degree is now heard
as a half-tone, which is not being said. In adding a word to Allan’s sentence
quoted above to clarify what is being implied, it can be seen what the writer is
missing: "Why does our ears hear a half-tone in the third to fourth sequence
as a whole [tone]..." Of course, what we are hearing as a whole tone
between the third and fourth scale degrees is different from the whole tones we
are hearing in the first two intervals of the octave in the sense that the first
two intervals actually ARE whole tones; and this is the point being made.
To continue
with the writer’s dissertation, another quote of Allan is discussed:
The enigma is caused by a twisting of the frequencies when they are played in
sequence -- but this twisting is representative of a pattern which is indigenous
to all such sequences of Law throughout all of Creation.
Here, we have an accurate representation of exactly what the author is doing
– twisting the frequencies of music in a manner that is not consistent with
music itself. His twisting – in his own words – “is representative of a pattern
which is indigenous” to all of his writing about the “Law throughout all of
Creation.” This argument is based on initial truths (for instance, there is
music; there is a diatonic scale; the piano has a sequence of black and white
keys); followed by unsupported foundational premises based on a false
metaphysic; followed by “facts” which do not exist in nature; followed by
conclusions that “twist” reality in order to allow the writer to reach his
predetermined conclusion, which is Gnostic at its root.
Here we see a culmination of sorts of the writer’s lack of understanding with
regard to the material being presented by Allan. The writer arrives at his
conclusions here based on a total misinterpretation of the facts presented in
Allan’s article as described in part above – in conjunction with his own very
limited mindset and ideas projected onto the material. He begins by stating
that Allan is “twisting the frequencies of music in a
manner that is not consistent with music itself,” and yet nowhere has
he presented anything to disprove what is set forth in Allan’s article. His
claim seems to be based on the two-fold premise that (1) musicians with a
trained ear can discern the third and seventh half-tone intervals of the octave
differently from those with a non-trained ear, therefore debunking the idea of
the intervals being heard as whole tones, and yet in actuality, this only proves
the point of the possibility and importance of “training” ourselves to likewise
understand and recognize the Law of Octaves in our own lives and the lives of
others; and (2) as the concept of the third and seventh intervals being heard as
whole-tones rather than half-tones within the sequence of the octave/major scale
has apparently not yet been written about by music theory scholars or experts,
the concept is therefore debunked, and yet I believe the concept can be proven
by virtually anybody who listens to the sequence of the octave played on a
musical instrument and then compares the sound of the half-tones within that
sequence to half-tones outside of the sequence in isolation.
Additionally, in my own experience and observation, I see nothing false about
Allan's statement above or with anything he has written on the topic, and one
with the necessary determination to do so can prove the truth of the writings on
the Law of Octaves for themselves by working to observe it in their own lives
and the lives of others. This is not possible however if one believes that they
already know – that their “cup is full” so to speak – therefore assuredly
remaining bound by their limited mindset as we see in the case of our pianist
friend who is certain he has found error with the Law of Octaves. In the end,
when the writer states Allan’s argument is based on “conclusions that “twist”
reality in order to allow the writer to reach his predetermined conclusion...,”
we perhaps could not find a better description of what the writer himself
has done with his own argument.
As an aside, returning to the point of the
importance of coming to observe the Law of Octaves in one’s life, a simplified
example will be presented here to help illustrate how the law must ultimately
become something practical that we strive to consciously work with each day. It
should be remembered when reading this example however, that it is only one of
an infinite amount of possibilities at many different possible levels (e.g. for
individuals versus groups, families, organizations, countries, etc.) and based
on countless factors.
One may initiate an octave in their life, for
example, with a firm commitment to work towards accomplishing a certain goal
based on self-observed past failures, such as a goal to maintain better
self-control during arguments with a certain loved one – rather than responding
in a reactive and retaliatory manner that has become customary for the person.
This could be a “Do” movement, which is the active/male movement that initiates
the octave, though like any degree of an octave, could at the same time be any
step of other, previous octaves; part of a sub-octave within a larger octave;
and/or could contain one or more sub-octaves within itself. A possible “Re”
would be a situation that arises – reflective of the “Do” step of the sequence –
in which a situation or argument with one’s loved one arises that would likely
result in the typical retaliatory and reactive response that resulted in the
person’s desire to set the goal of maintaining better self-control in the first
place. Note that the “Re” is the reflective/female movement that follows the
initial “Do” movement in the sequence. And in the “Mi” – the third-force
balance of the active and reflective movements of the sequence, yet at the same
time, the “Do” of its own new sequence in addition to being a part of any number
of other concurrent octaves as described earlier in this paragraph – a series of
possible choices are set up from which the person must choose. And this is the
point at which the rate of increasing vibration within the progression of the
sequence naturally decreases and the twist occurs (i.e. the half-tone third
interval of the octave) – often imperceptibly – that we must strive to
straighten.
At this point in the heat of the moment of the
situation or argument, the person’s aspects of self from the multitude within
(see
http://beingoflight.brotherofyeshua.com/self.htm#TheTrueSelf)
that tend to come to the surface and overtake the person in these situations
will almost certainly be invoked, and at that moment, without some degree of
conscious oversight and direction of the multitude within, a shift will
unknowingly occur and in that moment the person’s typical response may seem
to be the correct one – oblivious at that time to the other aspects of self that
seek to maintain better self-control during such situations and the goal of
same. Though outside of the situation, such as initially when the goal was set
or after the situation has passed in retrospection, what seemed correct in the
moment during the argument (e.g. the retaliatory, defensive, reactive, etc.
response) could perhaps be seen more clearly for what it is – i.e. a loss of
self-control that results in words and actions that are later regretted for
example. In the moment of the argument however, the interval at which the
choice to behave as desired when the octave was initiated may not be readily
apparent, and the octave twists at that point, potentially veering the person
off course from their original intentions and often without any idea at the time
that it is occurring. Remember that it is largely through the tests of life at
the crucial intervals of the octave that give us the opportunity to prove that
we are ready to progress and advance up the rungs of Jacob’s Ladder, or
alternatively, remain stuck where we are – or worse, even move backwards – until
which time we are truly ready to overcome and succeed.
Returning to
the dissertation, the writer continues with a rather in-depth description of
harmonics and harmony as well as other aspects of music theory and the Torah
that as far as I can tell, have no direct relevance to the Law of Octaves and
how to begin to consciously work with the law in our lives. If the writer
wishes to explain how the material does have relevance to this topic, I would be
very interested to hear his explanation. However, I will skip down to the
following argument that the writer presents (likewise preceded by a passage from
Allan’s article) to point out another error made that should be addressed:
While it is true that those who
meditate in the Eastern religious traditions can see the Light -- and this is
good -- it is only those who become Complete within themselves, that succeed in
becoming the vessels of the Light.
This is not supported in this
proposition. Furthermore, every single living person is a vessel of the Light,
as the discovery of Living Water(H3O2) illustrates.
Quite simply,
the writer is not understanding the terms “Complete” and "Light" as they are
being used in this context and may benefit from reviewing material on the topic
as found at
http://beingoflight.brotherofyeshua.com/self.htm.
Finally,
though I believe ample evidence of the writer’s short-sighted interpretation of
Allan’s article has been presented, I will close with one final point. The
writer includes the following passage from the Law of Octaves article followed
again by his comments:
If we again look at the keyboard we will see this sequence of seven in the fact
that if we count the first seven white keys, the pattern replicates itself and
starts over again, because each seven-note sequence completes an octave. Notice
also that there is no half-tone in the sequence between the end of one octave
and the beginning of the next. This is important -- in that, in this we find
the key to the enigma -- i.e., something is at work upon our senses that causes
us to hear a half-tone as if it were a whole-tone. This unknown something, is a
force or series of Laws that are at work, that gives a false completion between
the third and forth [sic] sequence.
First, we note that the word “forth” is misspelled. Second, this conclusion
that there is no half-tone between the first octave and the second octave is not
only patently false, but is the basis for all tension in the harmony, as the
seventh (which is called the “leading” tone) drives the music to resolution at
the 8th tone. In fact, in harmony, there is a “rule of thumb” that
goes something like this: 7 goes to 8, 6 goes to 5, 4 goes to 3, and 2 goes to 1
or 3.
As I stated previously in response to comments made elsewhere by the writer, his
theoretical paradigm as well as his usage and understanding of certain
terminology seems to be limiting his ability to discern what is being conveyed.
Nothing is false about Allan's statement. Whereas the writer says that the
seventh scale degree of an octave to the first scale degree of the following
octave is a half-tone (referred to by the writer as a “leading tone”), Allan
says the exact same thing by explaining that there is no half-tone between these
two degrees/notes – which of course is the same thing as saying that the
interval is a half-tone. Again, the most important thing here – much more so
than advanced music theory concepts and note names – is coming to understand the
change in the pattern of the sequence at the third and seventh intervals as well
as the significance of these changes and the far-reaching application it has to
our lives.
In closing, I do not present this rebuttal by any means to judge or condemn the
writer in his response to Allan Cronshaw’s Law of Octaves article, as we all
have our obstacles and limitations to overcome, but rather seek to bring the
error in his thinking as I see it to light – possibly to provide him with some
useful ideas that will help him to expand his thinking outside of the
theoretical box that is currently limiting his thinking, but also to possibly
assist others with better understanding some of the elements of Allan’s
article. Additionally, he may wish to read what is presented on the topic by
P.D. Ouspensky in
“In Search of the Miraculous,” which presents the material in a very
scientific way that may make more sense to his theory/logic-based mindset.
Should he have any further thoughts or points of contention that he wishes to
discuss further, I welcome his comments via the “TheWay of the Disciple of the
Nazirene” forum found at
The_Way_of_the_disciple_of_the_Nazirene@yahoogroups.com.
Shalom,
David
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Rebuttal Of Law Of Octaves Critique
Authored by Gnosis Kardias
THE
LAW OF OCTAVES NOT THE LAW OF PIANO
Posted on October 19, 2013 by Gnosis Kardias
The Law of Octaves is not The Law of Piano
Recently it became abundantly clear by a
certain critic of The Law of Octaves (see article above by
Stephen Pidgeon) that the concepts on which the
significant Law of Octaves stands, have moved me to offer a humble writing on
the character of the Law of Octaves and its interval, mostly for inquiry. Not
that I truly need to, this Law has been known for a very long time by mystics of
nearly every era. It was perhaps first made publicly known through Pythagoras,
hidden in plain sight in the biblical and associated scriptures, discussed by
many mystics of old, and some of contemporary times. But one does not need to
read anything to know of these Laws, that indwelling knowledge exists within the
Being of Light, who one truly is, and one can be lead to this knowledge of
Sevens, Threes, and so forth, without the need of writings. All knowledge is
indwelling and it is, of course, the true meaning of Education. When I
discovered the forums, I had known about the law of forces and law of seven, but
in a way that would’ve been only perceivable to me at the time. So if it could
be for me, it can be for anyone, who is able to have real education. But this
critic does not know about this and is locked in a dogmatic box, as such, it is
reasonable to write about the Law of Octaves, in this way.
The said critic was apparently a pianist, who assumed or imagined that, all
because he knows the technicality of aspects of music theory, it means he could
understand this Law of Octaves. More than likely, this was owed to the usage of
the word “Octave”, which of course is from the latin root which translates to
‘scale of eight” (do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-Ti-do), which is often associated with the
major scale of the piano and the fact that he totally missed the point of the
article by Allan (see: http://nazirene.org/spiritual_meaning_of_marriage3.htm#octave),
as a result of his approach to music in relationship to his doctrines of belief
on the Torah. As a result, in his rebuke, he seemed more interested in
explaining about music’s relationship with the Torah, then actually assessing
the main point of the Law, but that is another matter.
People like him, and I mean the linear thinking types, the intellectuals who
through the modern form of public education, has all but forcibly forfeited and
had further usurped their essence-self and intuitive faculties, will have
difficulty understanding something like the Law of Octaves in life. They have
exchanged there higher faculties for rote linear thinking/conditioning via
false-personalities which had their birth from such environments. This creates a
sterile condition of mind, that through wrong thinking, and imbalanced
connection (conditioning) to the forms that exists, where “I” is not included in
their observations (all knowledge should be self knowledge), has closed up the
possibilities from, again, being seen and understood. And with this barrier of
dualistic thinking, i.e. “this is this and that is that” type of thinking, no
greater connection to their Soul Self can even be formed, for they are already
filled to the brim with the philosophies and thinking’s of our institutions of
the world.
Such individuals have never been taught to truly think – to engender thought
which can make way for their Soul to teach them, like a current of connection.
In the case of this Pianist, and what has been a stumbling block for many, is
that they assume that the Law of Octaves is merely a Law of Piano and get stuck
in the piano, seeing the tree for the forest. But ironically, if you have read
the Article by Allan (http://americanspirituality.divinestrategery.com/#LawOfOctaves)
, you would be able to quickly see, that this flaw of getting stuck in the
piano, is a very working of this Law upon their thinking, where they see only
the part, that the law can be presented in a piano only because the Law is
present in everything, as a whole, due to their own unique organic barriers,
which has yet to be overcome or straightened out.
The Law of Octaves, in its actions, is immutable, inevitable, and exists even if
you chose to accept it or not and the fact that you can’t recognize it, is proof
of its action upon you. And this is not an insult, but a natural fundamental
law’s movement upon the Laws of creation and creations natures. Not only is
clearly visible in all, it can be measured and heard with ones ear via music
instruments, but more specifically, string instruments. This Law is of immense
significance to all who wish to really achieve anything beyond the natural
limitations which are imposed upon them. It is chemistry, as it even uses it as
a law of its science, the law of Octaves – it is in physics, in the color
spectrum, in the ordering of the days of the week, in process of cellular
structure formation — that are bodies, in their cells, are renewed/changed every
7 years, Seven Spiritual centers/major glands, etc.
The law of octaves proposes, as a principle role of its action or force, that
all things and processes will be moved gradually in its intensity, as nothing
goes on forever in one way, but at certain points, a direction of change will
take place. This change is where the movement and or action, will be redirected,
disconnected, twisted, deviated, or must be developmentally increased with super
efforts. The sentiments of this Law is expressed beautifully by songwriter, Bob
Dylan, where he says “…he not busy being born is busy dying,” and further
paraphrased in film, “Get busy living or get busy dying”. P.D.Ouspensky, in The
Fourth Way, said,” It means that no process in the world goes without
interruptions… The Law of Seven shows that no force can develop in one direction
and shows the places where these changes or retardations occur.”
This sentiment of the Law is expressed in music due to the frequency of sound
and vibrations relationship to the Law. Everything in life represents a specific
expression of thought in vibration, and the Law of Octaves, in its essence, is a
Law of vibration – and if we look above, it is more specifically, a Law on the
process of vibrations change, stops, and twists, to quote G.I. Gurdjieff, in
“Fragments of a Forgotten Truth,” “In order to understand the meaning of this
law it is necessary to regard the universe as consisting of vibrations… These
vibrations”, he continues,” develop in a regular way only for a certain time…
But at a certain moment a kind of change takes place in it and the vibrations…
slow down and… change their nature or direction.” So if this is the case, all
aspects of life, both within us, and outside of us, is subject to, inevitable
points in their progression where the momentum, rate, or condition naturally
regresses, departs from what was its normal state from its beginning or its
path. What this means, upon the octave movement, which start straights, will at
a certain point, twist and turn out of alignment. And since all things are
vibrating, thus moving, and nothing is truly still, then all succumb to the
dynamics of this Law. Seekers, for instance, may start out sincere, only to
become disillusioned into the idea that they have found, and are actually very
far from finding.
Since all of life succumbs to the dynamics of this fundamental law, which in our
case, the most important of our observations of the law dealing with how it
moves upon our mind and being, then it becomes vital to understand and connect
to the scaling of its steps. Even if it is not a law of piano, it was said that
essentially the musical scale in how it is ordered was added with the knowledge
of the Law of octaves in mind, but that is another matter, not to deviate J. To,
continue, in the musical scale there is only actually 7 steps, do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti,
to the process, instead of 8. Each step could be thought of as a deflection,
which deflects the momentum of the initial action, which jump-started the
octave, i.e. an active force – an affirming desire, thought, or need. (As well,
each note in succession is in itself an octave. Think of fractals, how fractals
are self replicating patterns, octaves work a similar way.)
The passage of the vibration from the 7th note, Ti, into the 8th note, do, is a
passage of completion – what this means is that the last do is the beginning of
a higher octave, so that the last Do is double the vibration of the first. So
the passing over from the first do to last, is a process of bringing completion
to the Alpha Do of whatever process or condition is being moved by the Law —
everything between the beginning and end is merely the striving/gradual possible
fulfilling of what was initiated in the beginning – The product in the beginning
being developed to reach its fulfillment.
Since I don’t imagine everyone reading this to be a musician, I will impart,
what an interval is from my brief reading of it. Vibrations are the pulsations
of energy and are scaled by its rates and strengths. Intervals are where
vibrations differing in their rates or frequency come together. So, in this
case, the whole Octave could be thought of as an Interval. But in the Law of
Octaves, when the word interval is used, it is used in connection with the
difference of acceleration which happens between the 3rd – 4th (mi-fa) interval
and the 7th — 8th (Ti-Do), or to put more simply, where octavic twisting
happens. To quote from, Fragments of a Forgotten Truth,
“The differences in the acceleration or increase in the notes or the difference
in tone will be as follows:
between do and re (9/8 : 1) = 9/8
between re and mi (5/4 : 9/8) = 10/9
between mi and fa (4/3 : 5/4) = 16/15 increase retarded
between fa and sol (3/2 : 4/3) = 9/8
between sol and la (5/3 : 3/2) = 10/9
between la and si (15/8 : 5/3) == 9/8
between si and do (2 : 15/8) = 16/15 increase again retarded
“The differences in the notes or the differences in the pitch of the notes are
called intervals. We see that there are three kinds of intervals in the octave:
9/8, 10/9, and 16/15, which in whole numbers correspond to 405, 400, and 384.
The smallest interval 16/15 occurs between mi and fa and between si and do.
These are precisely the places of retardation in the octave.”
The Intervals, in this law, are the inevitable points of change in the process
of all things, and it is at the point of the interval where the Law of Octaves
gets its most defining and perhaps essential character. In the above, what is
being described is the change in momentum, where the vibration is halved or
changes in its momentum. In other words, the twisting occurs. The intervals
between the steps in the octave could be thought of as gravitation points, where
the movement is drawn in, and effects the movement of the next step. In other
words, the step before initiates/begins the step after it, but the interval is
where they interact, or are drawn together. But it is the key intervals, the
third-fourth and seventh and eighth, where the twisting happens.
It is, between these key intervals, why, mankind, as a whole, walks the Broadway
of self destruction, why they cannot walk through the straight gate, to the
inner kingdom.. but not only withstanding to higher objectives of life, it is
the reason why things which people do never seem to finish for the most part…
why relationships fall apart, why religious movements and social organizations
become their opposite, and why anything under the activity of human experience
and outside of it, never goes straight, but moves off into other directions,
even turning about and becoming its complete opposite.
With the interval, ones aims twists away from their straight trajectory,
becoming reversed. Think of a person setting out to shoot a target, but only
finding a boomerang in their hand. When the boomerang is thrown straight it
inevitably twist back to the thrower. This reserved octave movement ends with
the aim being thrown back into its beginning, but now moving upon a reserved
octave of illusion of moving straight or fulfilling the aim when involution is
what is truly taking place. What one becomes locked in at this point, is a
movement similar to the infinity sign, moving back and forth, which is to say,
making no progress. In the Phillip Gospel this has been touched upon, “An ass
which turns a millstone did a hundred miles walking. When it was loosed, it
found that it was still at the same place. There are men who make many journeys,
but make no progress towards any destination. When evening came upon them, they
saw neither city nor village, neither human artifact nor natural phenomenon,
power nor angel. In vain have the wretches labored.”
Ultimately, the enigmatic interval is the major test for all that falls under
human activity. It is a point of testing, the testing of what has been
developing along the process of the first steps — DO-RE-MI. As you may notice,
DO-RE-MI is a triad and this triad is consistent with the Divine Pattern of
Creation, which could be thought of as a law of content, i.e. everything has
permeating in it the Active, Reflective, and Third Forces, while the Law of
octaves relate to progress. So pairing DO-RE-MI in this way is just showing that
the pattern is represented in the motions of the octave.
This is why it is a Divine Pattern, can be said to be, God’s signature found in
even the smallest of phenomena. DO-RE-MI is DO-ACTIVE/the initial movement,
thought, desire, need… RE-REFLECTIVE/the action being reflected back on itself,
how do you fulfill the desire, need, thought… MI-NEUTRALIZING/what reconciles
the action with the reflection. From these one can begin to see how practically
they can apply this to any new thing they do, for after every action, there is a
reflected one. With this, one can begin to understand that things are not
automatic before the interval of mi-fa – and there are efforts to be made,
before or better said, IF, one can even get to that point – if we are
considering ideals and objectives. DO-RE-MI is the forerunner efforts, which is
necessary to even hope to make the path straights, for the coming of help – if
we are referring to trying to achieve inner development.
The law of progress or Octaves defines for us the character of how all things
move, no matter how great or small, there is a natural “path” by which all
things MUST travel, and by which all vibration inevitably develops upon. Due to
this and the forces of the Divine Pattern of Creation, it can be said; there is
only ONE way to completion. Thus the Octave becomes the necessary struggle which
measures your real progress.
The interval between MI-FA, where discord and illusion exists, according to how
this “process” acts upon our own organic nature, is ever present, again, if one
accepts it or not. In life there is always something which tends to cause a
“falling” of what we want. Naturally, as things start they are strong, but as
they continue further, they begin to slow, stop, and even flip flop. This is
similar to how people typically start something in good intentions only to have
those intentions turn into its opposite, and worst, having no awareness that
this twisting has occurred. In life, a man can go on and on in this illusion of
making progression and right decisions, only to have found themselves in worst
sorts then they were when they even began. The scriptures call for a seeker to
make their “last works greater than the first” – or, “I am the first and the
last”, the acknowledgement of the completion of the Octaves. In the Thomas
Gospel we read, “For this reason I say, if the owners of a house know that a
thief is coming, they will be on guard before the thief arrives and will not let
the thief break into their house (their domain) and steal their possessions. As
for you, then, be on guard against the world. Prepare yourselves with great
strength, so the robbers can’t find a way to get to you, for the trouble you
expect will come. Let there be among you a person who understands.” Each person,
ought to be watchful of the Law of Octaves, so they don’t suffer lose, and find
their end worst than when they started out.
(For instance, to use a common circumstance, let’s say there is a person who is
in a relationship. In the beginning things were great for them, but the
inevitable testing comes, they come to an impasse. Due to things which test
their own willingness to make personal changes for the betterment of their
significant other, their own organic limitations causes them to not see how
their actions are flawed, and that making proper changes would benefit the
growth of the union. In this state of illusion, they make choices that they
think are proper to make, which have the effect of actually undoing their
relationship. In the end, being stuck in this illusion of being right, they are
maintain in this undeveloped state completely obvious, or reaffirmed of its
illusionary rightness. As a result they squandered away the opportunity to make
a change in self, which would have given power to the relationship, and thus
brought it to a more fulfilling state, but now they are moving backwards,
thinking they are moving forward. So, for this hypothetical person, they are in
a process of involution now whereas before there was prospect for evolution.)
When the law of Octaves is applied to humanity, it acts upon each individual
person’s nature/condition. What this means is that our organic nature creates
the conditions and need for the interval. If all people were perfect, then there
would be no interval, for it would have worked itself out already. But since all
people are divided, the law acts upon them. It is the organic condition, which
creates the illusion, as this law works upon it — man does not see things as
they are. With the example of the piano, there is no full step between the mi
and fa, but yet we hear the illusion of it being full to us. In a similar
manner, the whole world is a stage and or schoolhouse, but does not appear to
most to be so; they do not know they are in a play, where their life is scripted
before they were end born — for this too is a cause of this organic limitation.
The interval makes a man think and feel he is “right, whole, developed,
complete” when he is still “very wrong, very divided, very underdeveloped, and
very incomplete”, even to the degree that one can destroy all that they have
built, thinking they are making the right choices. In the gospel of Thomas,
Yeshua says, on when the Kingdom will come, “It will not come by watching for
it. It will not be said, ‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ Rather, the Father’s
kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people don’t see it.” – and the reason
why man cannot see it, is owed to the Law of Octaves acting upon them, in
connection with their own organic condition. That saying, of course, referring
to the reality that the seemingly concrete world we see is not at all, and what
the forms of this world, really are objectively, are never truly seen, only a
projection, which offers only a small fraction of its nature which is often ones
own organic projections which they feel is whole reality. Natural man sees only
what these laws allow ordinary.
The question becomes, what can we do about it? What is needed to transcend this
impasse, of the enigmatic interval, or barrier that moves us to face our
unconscious limitations of our own mind and being? In many religions, the idea
of being in submission to a higher source of power is mentioned. With the
interval, a force is needed which can take them to the other side – a help must
come from above the state that one is in. If one was addicted to drugs and they
wanted to stop, they would not be successful by going to a person afflicted with
the same sickness for help. The blind cannot lead the blind, and the same exists
for one’s own development, if they imagine that they, existing in the illusion,
can do what is outside of their capacities at the level they are at.
Help can’t come from your “organic nature”; a force above it must be there to
lift it. You must meet it half way, that is to say, prepare for it by opening to
the possibility at the right time to be taken pass what your organic limitation
previously did not allow. What exist beyond FA is “higher” and that which is
“higher” is descending to YOU or that opportunity is placed before you, one of
which presents a higher life and a higher possibility which reality eludes your
perception in that moment due to the limitation which exist upon your mind, but
an escape or a way of growth, is always given, as every difficult upon the
octave and interval is proportionate to what is possible to be handled, “No
temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he
will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted,
he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it..” (1 Corinth
10:13) For instance, the addict must have help from something or someone who is
beyond that point and help will exists for this to happen. In the case of self
development, there will be others who can help you, and ultimately one’s own
Soul-Self, if one draws nigh unto it.
If one is aware of the Enneagram, they will understand, why I am suggesting
“help comes from above”. The Enneagram is symbol of Law, it shows the dynamic
relationship between both the Law of Octaves which Gurdjieff called
heptaparaparshinokh, and the Divine Pattern, which Gurdjieff again called,
Triamazikmno. But also, what is also being represented in the circle, is the Law
of one or The All and the Nothing, the Unity and the Segmentation, which the
whole works from the point of.
Enneagram
In the above symbol, you will see the Law of octaves or 7 related in the
movement of the line, from 1–>4–>2–>8–>5–7–>1. While the Law of Three is
represented in 3,6,9.
emmeagram
The above is a more developed version of the enneagram, in it we see multiple
octaves in succession, which fill the interval for each other. If we further
applied the symbol of the Octave to man and his spiritual centers, what is
represented in the above is the movement of overcoming the natural energy
outputs in the organic body that feeds nature. The natural laws only takes mans
development to a certain point for the bodies organic needs, but they can not
overcome the interval for man, as the body only supports what its vibration
naturally allows. In this symbol, we see that the body has in its pattern the
possibility, partially and under special conditions, to develop this energy by
straightening the natural organic twists, and introduce or develop a higher
expanded state of consciousness in man. But this possibility of growth also
shows the natural limits in the body, which maintains only a very limited
condition of mind and being naturally — only that which provides for rudimentary
biological needs.
Now if you look at the relationship of the laws in that symbol, you will notice
something… the points where the triangle falls, are the points where the
intervals are — and each point of the triangle is taken as Do, or the beginning
of a new octave. Help, comes from the point of a new octave, and it is taken as
a third force, being a point on the triangle. The 3 and the 6, in this example,
can be said to come from a transcending point in 9, where the beginning and
ending of the circle is.
In considering the above on help, it is important to understand that this
difficulty can be overcome through one’s own efforts. That after sometime, as
one works through the lower triad of the octave (DO-MI-FA), that eventually they
can “build” a force, through extraneous efforts, in themselves, which can
connect them to something higher more. What one builds or develops within self
can be said to be “above” the limitation, having expanded beyond it. But this is
a part of the process of “meeting help half way”.
In the interval, there exists a pivotal moment for real development. This
moment, one will not know for sure until they get a taste for it through
observation that comes before it. To taste this moment is to get an inner
sensing, that intuitively you can feel. In that moment, is the moment for real
change. It is only on the cusp, when you are standing between the lower, how you
have always been, and the higher, what it is possible for you to be, that you
can move the lower onward in its progression, help will be there. So, if one is
working with the octave, and they which to straighten out the octave, what they
are doing is attempting to provide the semi-tones, where there are none, as
Ouspensky in Fourth Way, said, “With certain kinds of effort we can produce
these missing semi-tones, fill the intervals and in this way change the work of
our machine. “ In the development of the Octave, the interval can only be
straightened, by an octave, i.e. creating a whole or semi-tones, where they are
missing. If I had a weakness to a certain addicted personality, I would need to
work a great deal to maintain consciousness, in order to move it forward, at the
pivotal moment when the twisting happens — the interval. But of course,
forerunner efforts need to be made, so that one can be in the position to move
that personality onward towards evolution and not send the whole of me into
involution by its wants. In the example of religious movements that become their
opposite, preventing this natural twisting, a multitude would need consciousness
to straightened it.
With what has been said in the above, we can begin to form a much bigger
picture, not just the tree of a forest, but the whole, and the Law of Octaves is
something that is experienced in the WHOLE, and it becomes clearer why this is
not a Law of Piano, but is simply one of the ways it can be illustrated. The
Piano is essentially a string instrument, as its sounds/tones are created by
hammers hitting the many strings within it. And while it is known commonly as a
hybrid of string and percussion, it is in the strings that the tones are sourced
in, which means musically, one can see and connect to this law better with
string only instruments, as was demonstrated by Allan, made me want to learn how
to play the acoustic guitar.
After that demonstration I searched for some knowledgeable videos on playing the
guitar. I stumbled upon a video of a musician, who had a knowledge of the Law of
Octaves, he suggested that the Piano abandoned a lot of its mystical nature,
with the changes to its instrument (perhaps temperaments?) whereas the guitar
has it preserved in its structure, the cycle of fourths and fifths, which i know
nothing about. This is all hearsay, and unless I was there at that time (the
construction of the piano), I can’t accurately verify such a claim, but what
Allan suggested, was another matter and it is what sparked my mind, and that
was, to paraphrase, that with a piano you can’t see what is going on (with the
twist of the octave), but with the guitar you can see the strings, and see what
is happening with the octave. I interpret that to mean, to me; With the piano
one hears, with the guitar one hears and sees. So what can a piano man say of
all this?
Peace.
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In the recently discovered
Gospel of Thomas it is written: (12) The disciples
said to Jesus, "We know that you
will depart from us. Who is to be our leader?" Jesus
said to them, "Wherever you are, you are to go to James
the righteous, for whose sake heaven and earth came into
being." So to once again restore the teachings
of TheWay which is today known as Christianity, the Lord
has sent Jacob/James, the Brother of Yeshua/Jesus, back
into the world in order to guide the faithful flock into
the Truth, the Light, and the Kingdom within (Luke
17:20-21). It is there that my brother Yeshua/Jesus
awaits you.
The above warning with
respect to the predicted corruption of Yeshua's
teachings is further stated in the first century
writings known today as the Clementine Recognitions
where it is written: "Our Lord and
Prophet, who hath sent us, declared to us that the
wicked one, having disputed with Him forty days, and
having prevailed nothing against Him, promised that he
would send apostles from amongst his subjects, to
deceive. Wherefore, above all, remember to shun apostle
or teacher or prophet who does not first accurately
compare his preaching with that of James, who was called
the brother of my Lord, and to whom was entrusted to
administer the church of the Hebrews in Jerusalem, — and
that even though he come to you with witnesses: lest the
wickedness which disputed forty days with the Lord, and
prevailed nothing, should afterwards, like lightning
falling from heaven upon the earth, send a preacher to
your injury, as now he has sent Simon upon us,
preaching, under pretense of the truth, in the name of
the Lord, and sowing error. Wherefore He who hath sent
us, said, ‘Many shall come to me in sheep’s clothing,
but inwardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits
ye shall know them.’"
Again it is warned by Clement:
"Wherefore observe the
greatest caution, that you believe no teacher, unless he
bring from Jerusalem the testimonial of James the Lord’s
brother, or of whosoever may come after him. For no one,
unless he has gone up thither, and there has been
approved as a fit and faithful teacher for preaching the
word of Christ, — unless, I say, he brings a testimonial
thence, is by any means to be received. But let neither
prophet nor apostle be looked for by you at this time,
besides us. For there is one true Prophet, whose words
we twelve apostles preach"
As
predicted, the ministers of Satan have succeeded in
altering the teachings of my brother Yeshua, and
continue to lead many into the abyss of darkness. But
have no fear my brothers and sisters, for the teachings
of TheWay has been restored so that you might be able to
overcome the darkness, and enter the Kingdom of Light
within you (Luke 17:20-21).
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The Brother Of Yeshua/Jesus:
2000
years ago I lived as Jacob who many all
James, and I was known as the Brother of
Yeshua and the first leader of the New
Covenant movement of TheWay which is today
known as Christianity. I was sent back into
the world to restore the teachings of my
brother Yeshua to their original spiritual
essence, and to guide you in TheWay that is
"narrow" so you will be able to open the
"strait gate" within you and enter the
Kingdom that Yeshua declared must be
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The Ebionite HomePage:
If you
call yourself a Christian, Jew, Messianic
believer, Evyonim, Nazarene or Muslim, then
it is imperative that you learn of the
Ebionites who are True Spiritual Israel --
They are the Poor Ones to the ways and
thinking of this world -- The Ebionites were
the Israelites of the Nazirene Vow They
are/were the Genuine Disciples of Yeshua/Jesus
who are in the world and not of it! |
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The Nazirene HomePage:
The
original spiritual teachings of Yeshua/Jesus
as practiced by the people of The Way who
where known historically as the Essenes,
Ebionites, and Nazirenes. The teachings of
The Way are Spiritual -- and provide a means
to open the "strait gate" into the Kingdom
while still physically alive in the
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The Master Index:
The Index of Nazirene Ebionite web sites and
the Original Teachings of TheWay |
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The Ten Words:
That restores the teachings of Jesus and
TheWay to their original spiritual
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Reincarnation - The
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The Light
Of Yeshua -- The Messianic Nazirene Disciple
of TheWay:
While many teach that believers are saved by
faith, the journey of the disciple of Yeshua
is one of absolute dedication to The Way.
The disciple who becomes a brother to Yeshua
must live as he lived, and become a Nazirene
who is consecrated and wholly set apart as
they walk the Narrow Way, enter into the
Kingdom through the Strait Gate, and learn
directly from the L-rd -- the One Rabbi and
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 Divine
Strategery: How God Fools Mankind - Keeping
Him Ignorant Of The Truth: Strategery
has become synonymous with when what is
portrayed as simple, simpleminded, or even
self-evident, is able to dupe and thwart an
opposing force that perceives itself to be
either superior, or to suppose they know the
answers. Divine Strategery is how God
fools all the religious leaders of this
world who think they
doctrinally
know God -- all the would-be teachers and
philosophers of this world who think they
Know Truth
-- all the Atheists and those who criticize
and denounce the existence of God by virtue
of their limited perception and
understanding -- and all the people in this
world who think they understand the purpose
of life and the world in which we presently
dwell. As prodigal sons and daughters of
our Heavenly Father, if the people in this
life knew the answers, then the learning
experience of
God's SchoolHouse of this world would
not effectively evolve us to become true
Brothers and Sisters of our Elder Brother
Yeshua/Jesus. Therefore, in order to insure
that each of us is immersed in the necessary
learning experience that this life offers,
all people are equally fooled into thinking
they know, in order for them to be
manipulated into embracing a higher agenda
that is beyond their ability to even
imagine. Thus, Divine Strategery!!!
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The
Pre-Existent Soul of Mankind: Jesus
taught the reality of the pre-existent soul
that evolves to perfection over the course
of many lifetimes. The Church adheres to the
doctrine and theology of a Circus Prostitute
and a Roman Emperor who maintained absolute
control over what Christians were permitted
to believe! Christians continue to cling to
the theology of this Circus Prostitute today
- rejecting the teachings of Jesus, while
adhering to the doctrines of Pagan Rome. The
mass confusion of an uncountable number of
sects today, is the direct result of the
void which was brought about when this
foundational concept was removed from both
the Bible, as well as Christian doctrine.
The doctrinal quagmire which was brought
about with the removal of this foundational
teaching, obstructs Christians growth and
maturity beyond the entry-level simple
faith. Because they adhere to the corrupted
doctrines of men, modern Christians can't
inherit the Biblical Promise of entering the
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Being Of
Light: Who are we? What are
we? From where have we come? What is our
destiny? To the demise of those who read
these words, only a handful of people today
can answer these all-important crucial
questions correctly! The rest dwell under
the cloud of unknowing -- and if you think
you are the person whose reflection you see
in the mirror, then you are a stranger to
your true self and have made yourself part
of the illusion of this world. With great
wisdom Yeshua/Jesus is quoted in The Books
of the Savior, also known as Pistis Sophia
(Faith-Wisdom): "Do
not cease seeking day or night, and do not
let yourselves relax until you have found
all the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Light,
which will purify you and make you into Pure
Light and lead you into the Kingdom of
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Gospel of
the Nazirenes -- Gospel Of Light:
What did the Gospels look like
before being edited and re-written by the
Church of Rome? What were the original
beliefs of the first followers of Yeshua?
You will be astonished when you read a
surviving text of The Gospel of the
Nazirenes which was hidden away from the
corrupters of the Roman Church. Are you
ready for a truly enlightening experience? |
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The Gate Of
Eden: Why were the
Nazirene/Ebionites vegetarian? Why did they
live in accordance with the precepts of the
Torah/Law? Why did they live separate and
apart from both Jews and Christians? The
answer is very simple: The Gate of Eden is
within us, and if we fail to enter therein
while we are still physically alive in the
body, we will have failed in our opportunity
to enter into Life. And while it can be
countered that we are saved by our belief in
Messiah/Christ, faith, or the blood of the
lamb, the truth is that if we were truly
faithful disciples of TheWay, that we would
experience the opening of the inner door and
the Kingdom coming within us. The
GateOfEden article explores all aspects of
the need to pick up one's own cross and
follow the narrow path that leads to the
inner gate to the Edenic Kingdom of
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To Know
Thyself
To
GOD
One of the primary objectives of all
religious paths is The
Heightening And Expansion Of Mind.
Which means that you not only have
to overcome the limitations of the
brain and physical body-vessel, but
you have to grow and evolve your
facilities of mind that enable you
to bring about the next stage of
birth, and become ONE with your
Unknown Self -- which can be
portrayed as your higher soul-self.
When the Buddha became
Enlightened, he did not arise and
preach God to the people in the
manner of the Hindus, because he
moved past their spiritual
immaturity and found the seat of
self. In like manner, the Gospel
of Thomas which opens with the
statement that you must find the
true meaning to the teachings
herein, if you are to overcome death
-- and thereafter he states: "But
if you will not know yourselves, you
dwell in poverty and it is you who
are that poverty... Whoever
finds himself is superior to the
world".
And while the spiritually immature
preach and teach God, the focus of
the words in the Gospel of Thomas is
Knowing Self. Why? Because it is
impossible to Know God from a human
perspective, without first Knowing
and Becoming one's True Self. In
Gospel Of Thomas saying 84, the
image-self does not rejoice over
seeing God -- but rather, their
likeness, which is their True Self
-- i.e., their higher Soul-Self.
Saying 84 does not proclaim: When
you see God you rejoice -- but when
you see those (people) who did not
become manifest,
"...how much you [sorrow] will have
to bear!"
The Law is that all things must
return to its source. The esoteric
truths that could only be revealed
to those who had moved beyond what
Paul portrayed as the elementary and
entry level parabolic teachings (see
Mystery Of The Gospel) -- and
was portrayed as those who were able
to
Enter Into The House -- was the
higher reality of the soul that is a
Being of Light, and does not
incarnate into the body. And in
accordance with the Laws, in the
same way that your soul must return
to it's Source, you must return to
your source. Your source is your
higher soul-self -- of which you
began your existence at conception
in this life as an embryonic image
of (see Man
As An Embryonic Soul-Image).
And it is through these cycles of
birth, development and return, that
the soul-self evolves to perfection
through the experiential knowledge
gained in the life of each
embryonic-image that is generated
into this world. Holographically,
your higher soul-self must in the
Omega, return to its Source, which
is Creator-God. The spiritually
immature attempt to skip over their
True Self, which is their higher
Soul-Self -- i.e., "But
if you will not know yourselves, you
dwell in poverty and it is you who
are that poverty..." -- and
they preach God.
If you
stand before the carnal and
spiritually immature people of this
world and proclaim that God revealed
this or that to you, then they will
not only listen -- but they will do
your bidding and even give you their
money and allegiance. And thus,
the leaders of the spiritually
immature have been preaching God and
depriving their brothers and sisters
of Life, since the dawn of time
itself. If, on the other hand, you
stood before the carnal and
spiritually immature and stated that
your true self revealed esoteric
knowledge to you that will help them
overcome their plight in the "outer
darkness" of
mind and being of this world (see Outer
Darkness), they will
condemn and reject you as a "madman" as
portrayed in the analogy of Plato's
Cave. If, on the other
hand, the person who escaped the
illusions of the Cave of this world
came and told the other prisoners
that they escaped to heaven and saw
God, the prisoners inside the cave
would proclaim this person a prophet
-- or, even God incarnate. But the
very fact that the few who actually
escape the Cave of Illusions of this
world, attempt to convey to the
prisoners the reality of Self that
the Gospel of Thomas states you must
come to Know, causes the prisoners
to condemn these few who escape the
Cave of Illusions as heretics,
madmen, and demon-possessed.
The
forbidden fruit of the Tree of
Knowledge of Good and Evil (Tree of
Duality) is in fact the embodiment
of the Divine Pattern of Creation
which is holographically imbued with
the PARADOXICAL duality of male and
female in their infinite forms and
expressions. A paradox is two
opposite and often conflicting
truths that oppose each other even
though they are both equally true.
And when rightly understood,
forbidden fruit of the paradoxical
opposites of the Tree of Duality can
only be rectified on a higher plane
(see The
Triangle in The Way Of The Monk)
-- and if you eat (ingest) the one
truth while discarding or rejecting
its opposite, then the eating of
this fruit/truth sustains you in a
state of (spiritual) death. And
one of the greatest of man's
paradoxes which confront him, is the
reality that while all of Creation
dwells within the Mind of God, man
dwells within God by PROXY --
meaning that while your higher
soul-self is the direct offspring of
Creator-God, you are the direct
offspring of your higher soul-self
-- i.e., "But
if you will not know yourselves, you
dwell in poverty and it is you who
are that poverty...".
As a
generated thought-image of your
higher soul-self who is neither male
nor female or any of the races --
and is a Being
Of Light of
pure vital life-force and manifest
intellect -- it is impossible for
you to become One with God --
because you dwell within the Mind of
God by proxy -- and it is your
higher soul-self that must return to
its Source, which is Creator-God.
And in not understanding the
Cosmology of Mind and the many
images that make up the higher
Soul-Self, or True Self that is not
manifest in this physical world, you
will mentally and spiritually
flat-line in the manner of the
Hindus who preached God to the
people, in the time of the Buddha.
And since the person you are very
much the ego-self in relation to
your unmanifest higher soul-self
(see The
Divine Counterpart), then you
lose yourself by becoming the "good
ground" within
which the embryonic image of your
higher soul-self has been planted
(see Sower
And The Seed) -- and as you find
and become your True Self, you will
be working to bring about that
condition where your True Self can
then return to its Source -- which
is Creator-God.
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The Shepherd of Hermas
was one of the most popular
books produced in the early
Christian Church, and up
until the fourth century,
was frequently quoted and
regarded as inspired. The
book is a picturesque
religious allegory, in most
of which a rugged figure
dressed like a shepherd is
Hermas' guide. The purpose
of The Shepherd was to call
clergy and laity responsible
for grave disorders in the
Roman culture to penance.
Because present-day
Christianity is imbued with
these same Roman cultural
disorders, the Shepherd is
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The Jewish Scribes and
lawyers had a perfect
theological knowledge of the
Old Testament but Jesus
said,
“Woe unto you, for ye have
taken away the key of
knowledge!” The idea
that Jesus condemned the
Scribes and Pharisees
because they did not believe
in him in the manner
proclaimed by modern
Christians, has absolutely
no basis in biblical fact.
When it is realized that the
original Gospel accounts
portrayed Jesus as a man who
fulfilled the Law within
himself to become the
Anointed (see
TheTenWords.com ) -- and
that the Virgin Birth
account which was a later
addition, is purely
allegorical, and was not
part of the original Gospels
(see
Virgin Birth) -- then a
totally different Gospel
objective begins to
emerge. And in not
understanding the original
objectives that very quickly
became altered and
corrupted, the Christian
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What if you are not your
real or true self? And if
you preserve and attempt to
save that which is false,
that you will have
squandered your life away?
What if what is often
portrayed as the ego-self,
is the person you are in
this world, while the true
self exists at a deeper
level of mind and being and
cannot easily manifest in
the person whose thinking,
mindset and lifestyle is
founded upon the temporal
cultures and lifestyles of
this world? And what if
when Jesus makes reference
to the blind, deaf and those
incapable of understanding
with any depth of
comprehension, it is in
reference to those who are
carnal and anchored to this
world -- which condition of
mind is that portrayed as
dwelling in what Jesus said
was the
"outer
darkness" of mind and
being? And what if beyond
the barrier of the inner
wall of consciousness where
the true self dwells, all
truths were seen and known
in the Light of a naked
reality? Why, all of a
sudden the enigmas of
knowing one's self, losing
the self in this world, and
ones search for the Kingdom
within, would suddenly be
understood from a totally
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The Essence Of The Gospel:
When the disciples who were portrayed as
being set apart from the rest of the people
-- who were said to be dwelling
Precept Upon Precept:
What Mystics such as Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Valentinus, the original
disciples of Jesus, and in more modern times G.I.Gurdjieff knew, that others do
not, is that for every action there is not only a reaction -- but there are
testing points built into the Laws of Creation that must be satisfied, in order
to move beyond the barrier that these Laws present. What this means
is that in our development, you can't skip the rungs of the proverbial Jacob's
Ladder. In the same way that when an embryo begins to form in the
womb, it's development is not haphazard, adhoc or piecemeal -- but rather, the
forming of the physical body in the womb is controlled and in direct accord with
the human DNA blueprint. In like manner, when the body has passed
through the first stage of birth and emerges out of the womb of the infants
physical mother, this same exacting stages of development is instituted in
accord with the Divine Design of the Natural Laws of Creation. And
this reality has been set forth in the words:
"Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to understand the message?
Those just weaned from milk? Those just drawn from
the breasts? For precept must be upon precept,
precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a
little" (Isa 28:9-10 NKJ). And Paul explained this
reality in the words:
“I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were
not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able” (1
Cor 3:2 NAS). If the elementary teachings presented by Paul was the
"milk" of the Gospel, then each level of
maturity gained by climbing the rungs of Jacob's Ladder must be achieved
incrementally -- i.e.,
"...For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line
upon line, here a little, there a little". 
With
respect to the underlying Laws of Creation, Gurdjieff used what is commonly
known as the Enneagram -- which is said to be a merger of the Law of Three which
I have portrayed as the Divine Pattern that permeates all of Creation, and the
Law of Seven which is portrayed as the Law of Octaves. The Enneagram consists
of nine points which is the Law of Seven with the two shock points added at the
crucial interval points where the Laws test all movements. The following is a
quote from Ouspensky's In Search of the Miraculous:
"Speaking in general it must be understood that the enneagram is a universal
symbol. All knowledge can be included in the enneagram and with the help of the
enneagram it can be interpreted. And in this connection only what a man is able
to put into the enneagram does he actually know, that is, understand. What he
cannot put into the enneagram he does not understand. For the man who is able to
make use of it, the enneagram makes books and libraries entirely unnecessary.
Everything can be included and read in the enneagram. A man may be quite alone
in the desert and he can trace the enneagram in the sand and in it read the
eternal laws of the universe. And every time he can learn something new,
something he did not know before." Take particular note of the words
"...For the man who is able to make use of it, the
enneagram makes books and libraries entirely unnecessary." And it
is this Knowledge of the Laws that the original core disciples of Jesus and
TheWay understood, that made them warn others that there is only One Teacher --
which they portrayed as
