“Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:11)
ON THURSDAY, MAY 29th, the Catholic world of Christianity celebrated the Feast of the Ascension of Jesus into heaven . . .”the Christ, the Son of the Living God,” as one of the disciples acknowledged and proclaimed — a proclamation upon which Jesus said He will build His church. In this year of our Lord 2025, we may rightly celebrate His return, as the angels declared, “in like manner as you have seen him go”. . . on the clouds of heaven. I write about this in SACRED ANATOMY ~ Temple of the Living God:
Jesus was seen by his disciples as ascending into the clouds above their heads. These clouds may be interpreted as the conditions in their own collective consciousness through which the Lord of Love was making his royal exit from the earthly planes back into the higher planes of being from which he had come, and from which we all have come—the “kingdom of heaven” which he had told them more than once “is within you.” This could also be the inference made by the two men in white apparel whom they reportedly saw standing with him and whom they heard say: “Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:11)
This may well be a classic instance where dimensional perception did not see nor comprehend the non-dimensional. In other words, the darkness did not comprehend the light. The lower planes simply cannot comprehend the higher . . . from the lower planes. But the One who stands in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, the seven planes of being, in the fourth dimension, has both physical and spiritual eyes and can see and comprehend the non-dimensional as clearly and easily as the dimensional. We are invited to stand with Him in this 4th plane of Being and share His view and comprehension of the levels above and below this crossoverconnection between heaven above and earth below. This is the place we were put in the beginning, the Garden of Eden, with the commission of dressing and keeping it. The “clouds of heaven” may be understood as the vibrational substance of consciousness where the ordinances of Heaven are handed down to Man for their dominion to be set in the earth, a function the Lord queried Job about from “out of the whirlwind, and demanded an answer, as though he had forgotten his Creator and his co-creator role in creating the forms of life to fill and live on the earth. (Job 38:23)
These are the very clouds upon which He has returned. “The Lord is in His Temple. Let all the earth keep silence before Him.” (Habakkuk 2:20). Thus will I be silent and simply welcome Him back . . . except to say “Welcome back, Lord. It’s so good to be with you in the Garden again after all these centuries of forgetfulness and disconnection. I am sorry. Please forgive me. I love you.” To which the Lord replies “Welcome back Home, my precious sons and daughters.” After all, it was we who left the Garden, not the Lord. He never left. We are simply awakening to His presence, having ascended, or been drawn by love, to a higher level of consciousness, the Garden of Eden. We’ve come full circle back from whence we came.
The Body of God on Earth is awakening! Let us give thanks and praise to the Lord for His eternal patience and unconditional love.
Anthony
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“Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:11)
THE FEAST OF THE ASCENSION of Jesus back into the inner and higher dimensions of the Realms of Light and to His Heavenly Father, after spending forty days with his disciples, is celebrated by Christians the world over on Thursday, May 29th this year. I offer my readers a very special gift. This video recording is of a presentation given by Lloyd A. Meeker (URANDA), spiritual teacher and modern day prophet, back in July of 1953 and was subsequently entitled “Transfiguration—Ascension.” It’s a bit lengthy (53 minutes) but rich with new perspective and profound insight. I trust that as you listen to his words and resonant voice, you can be open to hear his authoritative message and its many and provocative implications, and resonate with the tonal frequency of his spirit. Enjoy.
(I preface Uranda’s presentation with this passage from the fourteenth chapter of the Gospel of John because I do believe that John the Divine, the Beloved Disciple of Jesus and author of the Book of Revelation, came to “prophesy again,” just as he was promised he would do in sacred scripture, Revelation 10:11: “And he said unto me, ‘Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.'”)
And this From John 14: “. . . These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
“And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart; And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.” (Matt 17:1)
I take particular note of Uranda’s words about the spiritual nature of ascension, indicating that it’s a vibrational movement upward to a higher dimension and level rather than a physical ascension from the surface of the earth. The “clouds of heaven” describe a state of consciousness. I will consider this in my next post. Until then, I greet you with much Joy in this post-Easter Season.
“Verily, verily I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do, because I go to my Father.” (John 14:12)
I WRITE NOT FORENTERTAINMENT, but rather out of love for the Word; love for the Divine Design that shapes the Universe and our physical bodies; love for the breath of Life that inspires these flesh bodies — and has the power and intelligence to transmutes them into light . . . of which they and all created forms are made.
The following is not intended to be a futile exercise in speculation, but rather an appreciative and insightful peer into the magic of life’s genius that remains largely untapped in human experience, and that when activated by spirit, and often by prayer, or simply by belief, is viewed with awe as some sort of “miracle.” God doesn’t need to impress human beings with magical tricks in order to gain their belief and faith. What occurred in Jesus’s experience of resurrection and ascension was no miracle. It was rather the demonstration and revelation of the latent power and intelligence of the truth of love using natural laws and processes.
There are, indeed, many things most are not yet mature enough spiritually to understand and accept. Tradition holds human understanding and appreciation captive behind the structures erected in the subconscious by religious programming and superstition. The invitation and instruction given by the “voice” John heard “coming from heaven” was and still is, “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues” (Rev. 18:4). The word “sin” is an archery term for missing the target. Think about that!
The Christian world is about to observe and celebrate the Feast of the Ascension on Thursday, May the twenty-nineth. There are some Christian scholars, such as Francis V. Tiso mentioned in the second video below, who believe that Jesus may well have attained the “rainbow body” experience as he moved through the processes of resurrection and ascension. Could He have spent three days in the tomb in deep transcendental meditation, following the Tibetan Buddhist practice of achieving the Rainbow Body, and transmuted his flesh body into a light body? Scientific examination of the Shroud of Turin reveals that some kind of radiant heat burned the image of the comatose body of Jesus into the shroud, suggesting a process of transmutation.
The Shroud of Turin
My purpose here is to emphasize the very natural, physiologically, and chemically facilitated changes the human “quantum coherent biophoton” flesh body is capable of undergoing when those changes are empowered by the omnipotent Spirit of God. This may well have been the case in Jesus’s resurrection from the tomb and his ascension back into the Realms of Light. The way that He told Mary not to touch him could indicate that he was in a process of change energetically and physically that outside contact might have interrupted; or that He was being protective of her for some reason. The following videos give visual demonstration and historical and present-day evidence of transmutation from flesh unto light. Enjoy!
As I conclude this post I am drawn back to the passage above from the Gospel of John quoting Jesus’s words to His disciples as he prepared them for His departure from earth back into Heaven: “Verily, verily I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do, because I go to my Father.”
There are two implications in this passage that draw my attention. One implication is that His going to His Father plays an essential role in what makes the “greater works” at all possible. The second implication is that we are invited to follow Him is every aspect of His journey here on earth. Here’s the larger context in which He spoke these words:
“Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever. . . .” (John 14:10-15)
As I said in my blog post of May 3rd, I dream of a more pleasant and ecstatic way of departing this physical plane than death. I also know that a more pleasant and ecstatic life in form here on earth is possible. I have a dear friend and Attunement colleague who has testified from personal experience — in what he describes as an “NAE” (Near Ascension Experience) rather than an NDE (Near Death Experience) during a critical health crisis — to the reality that ascension is available now to us all. I personally have had a brief taste of such an experience some years back while sharing in a collective Attunement with friends miles apart and in which a current of “Unified Radiation” developed. I describe this ecstatic event in my book SACRED ANATOMY . . . which you can examine and purchase on Amazon Books. If you haven’t already read it, it’s the kind of book that will change the way you see your body and experience living in it. It is, in my humble opinion — and that of others as well — a beautiful book.
Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago in the middle of the 20th Century, became the first American born Pope on May 8th, 2025. Ten-thousand people from many parts of the world filled St. Peter’s Square as the whole world tuned into the conclave of 133 cardinals who came to Rome from 14 countries to choose from among their number their new leader and head of the Catholic Church. “Habemus Papam!” was the announcement in Latin from the traditional balcony of St. Peter Basilica overlooking the square where the people congregate to see the Holy Father, as he is known, and to receive his blessing: “We have a Pope!”
There are 1.375 billion Catholics in the world, of which nearly half live in the US. That’s half the number of Christians and nearly 18% of the current global population. That’s a critical mass which can, heeding the words of their newly elected leader, lever the fallen consciousness of humanity and thereby transform the world.
Marianne Williamson posted the following commentary on this momentous event. Her response resonates with my own. Coming from a devout Catholic family, and having spent seven years in seminary studying for the priesthood, I still have a love in my heart for the many friends and seminary classmates who traveled with me in those early years of searching and pursuing our vocations in life . . . one of whom recently reconnected with me after years of search. He went to Rome for his four years of Theology and ordination. We met in the seminary Gregorian chant choir, which I loved conducting. We sang ballads with guitar together and became best and forever friends. I felt a strong calling to a priestly life of service, and I have answered that calling in the healthcare field as a spirit-led chiropractor and holistic physician. So, Marianne’s words rest easy in my heart. I would like to share them with you now in this blog post.
TRANSFORM with Marianne Williamson
Humanitarians, progressives and Christians who are truly interested in the teachings of Christ are jubilant over the choice of Robert Prevost as Pope. At a moment when American public policy reflects a moral abyss – inverting every injunction to heal the sick, feed the hungry, and help the poor into its opposite- the first American Pope stands as a reminder of the American soul we seem to have misplaced.
I don’t know if any of the Cardinals who voted for Prevost were consciously sticking it to Trump and Musk by doing so. They say not, but they knew what they were doing either consciously or unconsciously. We need a moral counterforce to rising authoritarianism in the world today, particularly given that the United States has joined its ranks. Whatever the Pope says, the world will hear. And Pope Leo XIV, we can tell already, will be saying quite a lot.
Many have noted the holiness of Leo’s visage and I agree. But I see something else there too. There’s a mischievous twinkle in those newly anointed eyes, as though he knows some things and he’s about to say them. I’m not Catholic but I believe in divinely inspired decisions. You don’t have to be Catholic to get the feeling God had His hand in this one.
Some have argued that people are making way too big a deal about Leo’s election. Not everyone likes certain things he’s said and done, after all, and the Pope has no actual political power on the world stage. But anyone who influences over a billion people with every word he says is inherently relevant. He who touches the heart holds the greatest lever of power, and it’s the only power that can possibly save the world in time. In his first homily, Pope Leo called for the Catholic priesthood to show humility. That’s a big deal, because the meek after all will inherit the earth. Their strength will take the place over.
Leo expresses a spiritual wisdom that is universal, harkening to Truths that speak to people of all faiths and to no faith. He doesn’t talk b.s. He talks about Love. Promising to further the tradition of Pope Francis, while the world speaks of war we can expect that he will speak for peace. In a world obsessed with billionaires, he will point to the least of these. While some are trying to colonize space, he will speak of saving the earth. As he said in his first appearance as Pope, “Evil will not win.”
Gandhi had a word for that: Satyagraha. Satyagraha means insistence on the truth of the heart even when challenged by the lies of the world, such insistence a form of nonviolent resistance to all systems of oppression. We can hold to what we know in our hearts regardless what devilish propaganda declares that cruelty is okay, or idolatry patriotic. Satyagraha is the secret source of nonviolent revolution. It changes the world because it changes us.
Pope Francis had satyagraha. Abraham Lincoln had satyagraha. Martin Luther King, Jr. had satyagraha. The world’s greatest people have had and have it. They are those who refuse to forget the truth in our hearts, who refuse to look away from human suffering or ignore the call for love that goes out from every soul.
In the days ahead, the world will indeed be blessed if we have another satyagraha Pope. Many people, not just Catholics, could feel something powerful in the air when Robert Prevost was elected last week. May God work through him and stand beside him, as he so obviously stands with us.
Jesus’s words of command are love of God with all and love of one another as self. We should never underestimate the power of love in expression through the collective heart of a critical mass of humanity. Like the rudder of a great ship on the high seas, such power can and will change the course of our current destination and head us in the direction of a collective transformation that will take us victoriously into the Golden Age of a New Earth.
Love God with all and neighbor as Self . . . even your neighbor who doesn’t worship God the way you do in your church. Many have a critical view of the Catholic Church, which has a history, in concert with three other churches, of condemning witchcraft and approving burning them, along with heretics, alive at the stake. I have struggled with this for years being a student of religious history and aspirant to the Catholic priesthood. Judgement has come easily into my heart and mind. Still does. Let it go! Let it go! Let it go! It’s hard at times not to judge others . . . and self, for that matter. But it’s absolutely essential to the salvation and restoration of our species; the restoration of Man, male and female, to our ordained role as co-creators with God in the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. It’s critical to all life on Earth.
Words of a ballad I wrote and sang back in the 1960’s entitled “What Do You See When You See?” come to mind: “Man, you’re the reason for hatred; Man, you’re the reason for love; Man, you’re the keeper of Eden! What’s in your heart when you see?” And the closing phrase: “Man, you are love. Can’t you see?”
On this special day when we remember our mothers with love and appreciation, I give deep thanks for my mother and for all mothers through whose wombs we all were born into this world to love and live life fully. We are all mothers in that we are created to bring forth the spirit of God through the womb of our hearts. I send you the blessing of my love and appreciation for sharing the thoughts and meditations of my heart. Until my next post . . .
CALL ME A DREAMER, if you like, for I do indeed dream of a more pleasant and ecstatic way of departing this physical plane than “death”—which I understand is but an interlude in the cycle of incarnation, and not much different from birth. One door closes and another opens . . . only for the spirit, however, as the body remains behind to return to the earth from which it arose, even as the spirit returns to the Creator who gave it. I dream of ascension for my body as well as my spirit . . . and I do believe that what I think about and dream about in season comes about. My light body, that which I am, can so penetrate my dense physical body by way of resonant attunement and fusion so as to accelerate the vibratory frequencies of its billions of cells and send it floating in the air—an experience I know personally and write about in SACRED ANATOMY. In this post, I share an excerpt from the final pages of “PART V: ASCENT IN THE TEMPLE”—which really should have been entitled “ASCENT OF THE TEMPLE.” If the Tibetans can do it, “…why, then, oh why can’t I?” I invite you to dream with me.
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“According to the Biblical record handed down to us—and there have been other accounts that tell a different story—the Master Jesus lifted his own body temple up out of the tomb of decay and death and into the Garden state of eternal life. As this did in fact occur and as He truly is the Supreme Focus of the Spirit of God for the Body of Mankind, then by his own resurrection and ascension into a glorified state he established the pattern of resurrection and ascension for men and women for all time. As the template and model of a totally new paradigm for the healing of the gap between God and man, He opened a door in heaven and then proceeded to invite all those who so desire to come and be with Him, “that where I am there ye may be also,” (John 14:3-4) not only after death but now while we yet have life and breath.
“Obviously humanity has not taken the Lord up on his invitation. There has been no one, to my knowledge anyway, who has ascended into heaven in a glorified, spiritualized body as the Lord Himself did two thousand years ago. We have two accounts of ascension in the Old Testament, the first was Enoch, who “walked with God” and God “took him,” (Genesis 5:12), and the second was Elijah, who “went in a whirlwind to heaven” in a “fiery chariot.”(2 Kings 2:11) Whether we look at these incidents as physical ascensions into the Realms of Light, or as metaphorical descriptions of a transformation process by which their human consciousness merged with divine consciousness, either way Enoch and Elijah were no longer merely human in their identity. As we have explored in considerable depth, the way to this experience is open and available to all of mankind. It is available now and has been especially so for two thousand years. We, now, may not only enter into the kingdom of heaven but may inhabit and function in all the levels of being that make up the “many mansions” of the Father’s House. All that is required is that we walk with God on the path that leads thereto.
“Jesus walked with God and was about His Father’s business of restoring humanity to the Garden State. His purpose was not to set up yet another religion to replace the old ones. In the Garden of Eden, Man, “naked and unashamed,” walked and talked with the LORD God, and the LORD God with man. Death had not yet been introduced into man’s experience. It was his failure to remain in the Garden of Eden and therefore to leave identity in life, that first brought death. Anything that has a beginning necessarily must have an end. The fall of human identity included man’s choice of death as the end and not ascension. The cycle of incarnation had to have taken us from some form of birth—no doubt different from what we now know—through life, whatever that entailed and in whatever nature of form we had then, and on to ascension through the various levels of consciousness. It has even been suggested from legendary writings, as we considered at the start of this section, that we were once able to travel back and forth between heaven and earth to refresh ourselves with rarefied spiritual nourishment.
“In his profoundly engaging book, Memories and Visions of Paradise, a book that always engenders in me a deep sense of deja vu when I read it, author Richard Heinberg, who devoted a decade to studying Paradise Myths from around the world, explores universal stories of a lost “Golden Age” when the human spirit was not as earth-bound as it is today.
“He writes:
“‘Originally, according to myths of every continent, all humanity was perpetually in the divine presence and continually in harmony with divine will. The Africans’ insistence that at first God lived on Earth with the people, and the Australians’ memory of the Dreamtime, when the Creator-Heroes walked the land, echo the biblical image of Adam and Eve strolling naked and unashamed in the Garden with God. . . .
“‘Few things in Nature seem more axiomatic than the inevitability of death. It is remarkable, therefore, that one of the most consistently encountered themes in Paradise myths is that of the original immortality of human beings. The myths tell us that death is in some sense not natural at all, but rather the result of sin or sorcery. . . a mistake or misdeed on the part of ancestors in the First Age. . . .
“‘According to universal tradition, the original earthly Paradise and the still-existent otherworldly Paradise were at first united, or in any case were in close proximity and communication. The means of connection is described variously in different cultures— most vividly, perhaps, as a rainbow. In the traditions of Japan, Australia, and Mesopotamia, the rainbow was seen as a reminder of a bridge that once existed between Heaven and Earth and was accessible to all people. The seven colors of the rainbow were the seven heavens of Hindu, Mesopotamian, and Judaic religion. Among the central Asians, shamanic drums were decorated with rainbows symbolizing the shaman’s journey to the Otherworld. Similarly, the seven levels of the Babylonian ziggurat (stepped pyramid) were painted with the seven colors of the rainbow, and the priest, in climbing its stories, symbolically mounted to the cosmic world of the gods. . . .
“‘The primordial world-bridge is elsewhere remembered as a ladder or a rope. According to pre-Buddhist traditions, called Bon, there originally existed a rope that bound Earth to Heaven and that was used by the gods to come down to meet human beings. The first king of Tibet was said to have come down from Heaven by a rope, and the first Tibetan kings did not die but mounted again into Heaven. After the Fall and the coming of death, the link between Heaven and Earth was broken. Once the rope was cut, only spirits could ascend to Heaven; their bodies remained on Earth. . . .
“‘The Polynesians knew the Otherworld as Pulotu, a magical realm in the midst of which grew an immense tree whose leaves supplied all wants. Following physical death, according to tradition, a stream floated the spirit away to Pulotu.
“‘All floated away together, well and ill-favored, young and old, sound and sick, chiefs and commoners; they must look neither to the right nor left, nor attempt to reach the other side, nor must they look back. Little more than half alive, they floated on until they reached Pulotu, where they bathed in the waters of Vaiola, when all become lively, bright and vigorous, every infirmity vanishing, and even the aged becoming young again. Everything went on in Pulotu much as in the world of life, except that here their bodies were singularly volatile, so that they were able to ascend at night, becoming luminous sparks, or vapors, revisiting their former homes, but retiring again in early dawn to the bush or to Pulotu. ‘”
“We are haunted by ancient memories of Paradise. In dreams people have visions of that Golden Age when we crossed over the rainbow between heaven and earth. Song writers have written whimsical lyrics about these memories and visions. In the Wizard of Oz is that memorable song by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg about the longing in the heart to return to a land “somewhere over the rainbow” where “troubles melt like lemon drops” and “dreams really do come true.” Go ahead and sing it with me . . . .
“‘Somewhere over the rainbow way up high, there’s a land that I heard of once in a lullaby….Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly, birds fly over the rainbow, why then, oh why can’t I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can’t I?‘”
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Why indeed?! More about the “RAINBOW BODY” to come . . . so stay tuned. I would love hearing your thoughts along these lines. My email address is below.
THE WAY I SEE IT, Jesus was never not in complete and utter control of his physical body throughout the ordeal of His trial and conviction, the mockery of being crowned with thorns, spit upon and flogged, the carrying of his cross through the streets of Jerusalem “and up to the hill of Golgotha—called the “place of the skull” (KJV, John 19:17-18)—even through the crucifixion and apparent death of His physical body. The silver cord of connection with his body was never loosed or severed. In the end He simply transcended his physical body and rose in consciousness to what spiritual author Joseph Chilton Pearce describes as the “causal body”— with which He may even have had an NDE (Near Death Experience). At least this is the way I see it.
This was not unique to Jesus, as we each have a causal body, only it’s not so much a “body” as an essence of spirit. That spirit, or causal body, is who and what we are, and is not a separate entity from God the Creator, any more than the Son of God was separate from His Heavenly Father. As He truly proclaims in John 10:30, “I and my Father are one.” So is it with each and every incarnate Being. To come to a conscious awareness and actual experience of that oneness with our Creator is the challenge of our earthly journey.
At the age of eighty-four I’ve become peculiarly and intensely interested in transcendence and transfiguration. I wasn’t aware of this interest until I inadvertently withdrew a book from off the shelf of our library and opened it to the author’s final chapters where he addresses what is now the very topic of this blog post: Jesus’s transcendent experience, otherwise called and celebrated as his “Resurrection” from the tomb — where, from all outward signs, his “dead” body was placed, wrapped in a shroud of white cloth, anointed with precious healing oils and laid to rest. What occurred after Joseph of Arimathea and a few women had laid his limp body to rest in the tomb, rolling a stone over its entrance, is a process I am compelled from within my heart to meditate upon and explore in a series of posts.
The Holy Shroud of Turin, with its scorched image of Jesus’s entire body imprinted on it, provides ample cause to contemplate what awful transmuting fire must have moved through His body to resurrect the living currents of vital energy that could lift it up to a higher vibrational level of manifestation. His resurrection was at the same time clearly a supernatural and a biological event of transcendence and transmutation.
RISE AND SHINE!
Yes, indeed, shine your light! But you first must rise! To “rise” is another matter altogether. It’s a required step toward shining. In a transcendent state, to which we all aspire, one’s light is found to have always been shining — only not outwardly — until one rises up in consciousness and identity to the level of one’s “causal” body where one’s radiance is the light of one’s world.
I can easily relate to Joseph Chilton Pearce’s perspective of “bodies within bodies”: physical, subtle and causal. From my own spiritual path the word “pneumaplasm,” coined by Lloyd A. Meeker (Uranda), serves my understanding best as descriptive of the “subtle” body. The “causal” body lives and moves independent of the physical and subtle bodies, whereas the subtle body, or pneumaplamic body, is generated out of the physical body as the causal body of spirit expresses its divine qualities with feeling, thought and action of a benevolent quality. Spiritual expression brings about the release of the transforming power of love — the only way open to human beings today as the physical and mental approaches failed miserably.
Again, my spiritual path defines the “causal body” simply as “spirit.” Spirit is divine in nature. Physical and subtle bodies are by nature human. The two are brought together when spirit incarnates and transmits its godly characteristics and benevolent qualities to the human person for expression. Patterns of design and control for the unfolding of one’s earthly journey are also established in the subtle body (pneumaplasm) for the execution of dominion over one’s world. Not domination but dominion.
The word “dominion” derives from the Latin for “lord”: dominus. Dominion is exercised by the lord incarnate whose “body” (of sorts) is causal by divine design, exercising dominion over the physical body, and by way of the body over ones world, in a benevolent, loving, non-imposing manner. Domination, to the contrary, is exercised by the human ego that has taken possession of one’s mental faculty in order to force its contriving and self-serving will upon one’s physical body and one’s world. It’s an apt model of David Hawkins’ Power VS Force –The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior.” They’re not so hidden to one who has risen in consciousness and in identity to the level of spirit in one’s causal body — causal in the sense of creator and designer of the physical body.
“I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD.”
Prince of Peace
The Master Jesus spoke those words just before his passion and crucifixion on Calvary. His exact words as recorded in John 16:33 are,“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” He transcended His physical body and maintained His identity with His causal body, which in his case was and is our Lord and King, the “Only Begotten Son of God.” Having complete control over His physical body via His subtle body, He did not let it die. The Only begotten Son of the Father was not sacrificed for the sins of the world, a rationalization Paul later contrived, nor for any other purpose rationalized subsequently in Christian dogma. He overcame death by not dying. He then proceeded to raise up his comatose physical body, transmute it to a higher vibration so as to fuse it with His causal body, His very Being, and return to His Father in Heaven — after spending forty days with His disciples eating and drinking with them and bestowing upon them His benediction of love and comfort. These things of spirit are beyond space and time. They are truly and literally timeless.
There is much to share along these lines revisiting Joseph Chilton Pearce’s THE BIOLOGY OF TRANSCENDENCE ~ A Blueprint of the Human Spirit — author of THE CRACK IN THE COSMIC EGG. The book is filled with quotable passages that have the ability to bring about a radical shift in perspective. His chosen character on which to shine light is Jesus himself and his passion and compassion, as the following excerpt demonstrates.
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RESCUING JESUS FROM THE CHRISTIANS
And so I say to all theologians who apologize away the resurrection and the miracles, and to the noise of literal fundamentalists who go to the opposite extreme beyond all common sense and so miss the point: It’s not that most of the reported miracles of Jesus can be found duplicated somewhere even today, in random, scattered fashion, but that they are actual examples of the human potential that we all possess. Deny them in Jesus and you surely deny them for us all. We quickly seal any cracks in our cosmic egg lest the unknown assail us, even when the unknown is an expression of our highest nature and what is known is killing us. To maintain our position of fear and victimization requires enormous expenditures of energy that could be employed otherwise.
Jesus and the intelligence of life did what they could to heal our fractured minds and hearts, and culture did what it had to do to squelch his magnificent gesture and make a religion of it, “a homeopathic remedy for his viral threat” to endure. Projected onto the mystical Christ floating in the heavens, we can dismiss the reality of Jesus and his cross and the unconflicted nature of his faith. The whole operation can be moved into the ethereal realm of marshmallow make-believe and culture will remain supreme. There, I suppose, we can at least all believe and go down together, no doubt as a good, praying congregation begging mercy from that tyrannical “moral governor of the universe” and his “only begotten son,” that equally victimized moral whip and judge of a victimized, fated species.
Or we can pick up that cross and reclaim our birthright; rescue Jesus from the Christians, bring him down from cloud nine, and find him reflected in our mirror, see him in each and every face on the street as Whitman did, find him in these the least of our brethren behind bars. We too can risk ourselves, throw ourselves to the wind as he did, drop our fearful defenses, judgments, self-justifications, shame and guilt; and embrace that life of greater gifts that he displayed, performing, as he promised, even greater works than his, and so rise and go beyond.
THE BIOLOGY OF TRANSCENDENCE by Joseph Chilton Pearce
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I like the way he speaks his truth. I’ll share more along these lines in my next post of this series. Until then, have a Happy Easter Day.
IN THIS POST I share with you one of the most touching and profound words of Uranda I’ve ever read anywhere. Words that bring me to tears of joy and of unspeakable love that rises up from the depth of my soul for this One that I am, and we all are, privileged to call Master, Son of God, LORD of Lords and King of kings — and, as George Frederick Handel called Him in his Oratorio Masterpiece, Messiah, “Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.”
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My thoughts turn to some of the words of the Master tonight: “Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” And we are, also, to overcome the world.
I was thinking that, in the conclusion of the activities of a blessed day such as this, we might well again give thought to the Master’s Prayer at the time of the conclusion of His Ministry. The conclusion of His Ministry was peculiarly the point where our Ministry begins. The time that has elapsed since has no meaning in that. He had been outlining the Principles of the One Vine and of the means by which we might let the Works of the Father manifest.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full… For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”
He had also outlined the Principles with respect to the work of the Comforter or Spirit of Truth. He had pointed the Way to Life. It remained for those who should follow after to prove that Life, to experience it according to His Word. And then, in the conclusion of that Ministry, He gave a prayer—a prayer that is our beginning point.
“Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee”. He was, of course, the manifestation of the Son of God, but He was returning to the Father and He had outlined the Plan by means of which the Son, the only begotten Son of God, should continue on earth. The interval of time that has elapsed before that Plan began to be of effect should be, in our consideration, forgotten, as it were, that it may be meaningless. The trials and the tribulations, the concepts, the efforts and the failures of that interval must not be allowed to have meaning in relationship to our function. From the standpoint of Reality, those things do not have meaning. The connecting thread, the unifying Current, is not less strong because of the passage of that time. Our attitude and our feeling and our function should be as if we had heard these words for the first time a few days ago, as if only a month ago He had stood with us upon the face of the earth, as if it were but yesterday that the vibrant sound of His Voice fell on our ears, as if we, in this flesh, had seen Him come forth Victoriously from the tomb, as if we had, in person, shared His final words of admonition and instruction, as if we had known that hour when He ascended to return no more until what He had begun should have been finished in the hearts and lives of men.
The human mind is so inclined to feel the distance of the intervening years, so that there is a loss in a consciousness of personal contact. The Son is the One Christ Body on earth, then and now. The meaning of the Word as He spoke it with respect to His own manifestation is not to be construed as the only meaning, for He spoke also of that Body that is—“Father, the hour is come”. His was the hour of departing; ours is the hour of beginning, of moving forward in fulfilment. The Father glorified the Son then. He is just as capable of glorifying the Son now. “The hour is come. Glorify thy Son”. Why? “That thy Son also may glorify thee”. The beginning and the end, or the end and the beginning, are the same.
He was here on earth. It seems but yesterday we heard Him speak. It seems but the passage of a moment since His prayer first ascended as sweet incense unto God. Time—these things transcend all time. It was but yesterday He gave the Promise. Today we let that Promise be fulfilled. We remember how our hearts were stirred at the sound of His Voice, and the passage of an hour or a day cannot quiet that stirring or end that surge of consciousness of the Power of God. It is now, in this hour, that the Spirit of His Word finds fulfilment in our hearts. It is now, in this hour, that we let His Promise be fulfilled. The excitements and the questionings, the fears and the doubts, have been stilled. We have ceased trying to make it be so, for in the vibrant Power of His Love we are not separate or apart and we know that the Father Himself loveth us because we have loved Him, because we do love Him Who has walked the earth before us, Who has revealed the Way, the Truth and the Life.
“The hour is come” for us to let the Father glorify His Son, that the Son may glorify the Father. We trembled, and were sad, that the hour had come when He should leave us, but we did not let such things prevent fulfilment of His Word lest what He did should be in vain. The hour of His going was the hour of our beginning, and it is so still, for though He went He has not departed, for His Spirit lingers in our hearts and His Word is as powerful as when it first fell from His lips, Words burned in letters of Fire upon our hearts, memorable occasions that could never pass from mind. Yesterday His hour came—today is our hour of fulfilment in beginning.
“Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”
“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God”, and the Christ, the only begotten Son—then Jesus—now the One Christ Body Whom Thou hast sent. “I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do”. How truly is that our point of beginning. How seldom on this earth has the word reverberated in truth—“I have finished the work”. We have seen in the world the feeble attempts at doing some bit of work—human beings, like children, building castles in the sand to admire in one moment and to destroy in the next, and then to delude themselves into feeling that they had accomplished something. And how they brag about the mansions they builded in the sand; but we consider other mansions, Mansions in the Father’s House.
“I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do”—and in season the Son shall again speak these words, but before those words may be truly spoken once more, there must truly be the beginning, the opening up, that comes through the surging Power of His Spirit as we hear again, in memory, His Word, “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.” That was but yesterday, surely. It is but a dream that some did not keep His Word. There must now be fulfilment which gives meaning to His faith when He spoke that Word, that when these words sound in memory, and stir within our hearts, they shall not be as a mockery, a symbol of the faith of the Son of God that found no answering heart on earth, but a symbol of the faith of the Son of God that finds fulfilment here and now in His Son on earth.
“And they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.” Yes, the intervening time when these words remained unfulfilled is surely but a dream. Twas only yesterday He spoke, and today His Word finds fulfilment. Today we prove His faith was not in vain.
“And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.” What was His joy? It was the joy of Oneness with the Father. It was the joy of Being the Son on earth. That is the joy that must be fulfilled in us, the joy of Oneness with the Father, the joy of Being the Son.
“And these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.” That is His Word. His Word is true, and we let it be so in us in this hour, and forevermore, for as the Father sent Him into the world, even so has He sent us into the world.
“And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them”—“And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them.” It is glory to be the Son on earth. “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am”—not where I shall be, where I am. He, the Son of God, stood on earth in the hour of fulfilment. He had finished the work. That was where He was in the hour of fulfilment. And He said, “Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am”—and so it is His Will that we should stand in that Oneness of the Son in the hour of fulfilment. “That they may behold my glory. Which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.” (John 17)
Beloved LORD, we thank Thee that it is so, and we thank Thee for the Holy Privilege of sharing Thy Fulfilment on earth. In the Christ. Aumen.”
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May your Easter be the happiest one ever. Until my next post,
THE WAY OF THE MASTER is the way of LOVE. As the world of Christianity celebrates once again the final days of the Master Jesus’s life and ministry on Earth, leading to his crucifixion, entombment, and resurrection, I will now share this excerpt from SACRED ANATOMY and hopefully shed some new light on this historical and pivotal event in the cycles of restoration of Man to his ordained state of oneness with God in the Garden of Eden. I hope you will see something new or anew as you read these words.
The Way of the Master
There was a Man sent from God—a God-Man—who returned to the Realms of Light from the earth with his body temple restored to its original glorified state. His name was Yeshua and he was called “Master” and “Teacher” by those who followed him closely.
Putting the cycles of restorative opportunities in a certain perspective, Uranda called them “Sacred Schools” in that they were periods of time when human beings were taught by great spirits and masters how to move through and function in each level of ascent as the restoration continued to unfold. The first cycle on the physical plane was initiated by Abraham. Yeshua (Jesus) initiated the second cycle on the level of the mental plane, and opened the door to the third, the level of spiritual expression, with his two Great Commandments of Love. But those to whom he brought the Way back into the “kingdom of heaven” — except for a few close friends and disciples — rejected him out of hand and sought to erase him from the face of the Earth by destroying his personal temple. This time it was men who failed to defeat the Divine Design for restoration, as it was beyond their reach.
Jesus dealt with human consciousness from the “mental plane approach.” He offered tranquillity, a quality of the Spirit of the Single Eye in the second plane of being, to minds frantically busy with the letter of the law and the prophets. “Peace, be still,” were words he often spoke before preaching and ministering to his disciples. He took issue with the Scribes and Pharisees, for example, which he blatantly characterized as “hypocrites” and “whited sepulchers full of dead men’s bones” for the way they allowed the letter of the law to overshadow the “spirit that giveth life.” He came to fulfill the law and the prophets, not to impose them upon the faithful in order to “lord it over them.” Above all, he met and dealt forthrightly and in singleness of purpose with the tempter in his own human mind and restored order and beauty to his House of Being. “Get thee behind me, Satan” were his words of rebuke more than once to His own human mind and through it to the collective self active mind in the body of mankind that strives to lead ahead of Spirit to set the agenda.
He brought one law, the law of love, to replace the many laws that were on the books and enforced in order to keep people subdued and under control. The Master’s law was stated as two Great Commandments: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all of thy heart and all of thy soul and with all of thy mind,” and “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” (Matt 22:37-40). In giving this one dual law of love, He began opening the third level of consciousness and plane of being, the spiritual-expression plane, an opportunity offered at the level of the heart. It is simply the expression of the spirit of God in living, which brings a realization of the presence of God in one’s temple and an outpouring of blessing into one’s world. We have seen this level as the domain of the Spirit of Blessing.
“Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God” (Matt 5:8), He taught, and in so teaching began to open the way toward the fourth level of consciousness, which is the plane of Being connecting heaven and earth and the level of awareness of our divine identity. The Spirit of Purification reigns here at the crossover point to bring clarity to the heaven. In order to enter this level of consciousness, where one knows with assurance one’s own divine presence in the world, the heart must be purified by the continual and consistent outpouring of the Holy Spirit of Love. It is the only way—and the Master Jesus went that way, even though he did it alone. “I am the way, the truth and the life” (John 14:6), He proclaimed and then proceeded to exemplify for all who had ears to hear and eyes to see.
Here was the Lord of Love Himself incarnate as the man Jesus, attempting to gather human beings back under His wings. Matthew records Jesus‘s anguish in his Gospel (23:37): “Jerusalem, Jerusalem! She who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, yet you were not willing!” His account goes on to relate how Jesus wept over the city of Jerusalem. It was not for Himself that He wept but for what he saw human beings were doing to themselves. He came to initiate the process by which human beings could come out of the state of being dying souls and back into the state of original innocence as living souls. He was met by all sorts of resistance and considerable opposition. After a time it became apparent to Him that He was not going to be allowed to see that process through for the whole body of mankind, and He accepted the responsibility himself of ascending to the third and fourth planes of being. But He did not stop here. There had already been too much failure in the past. He went all the way through the remaining three levels of being: the fifth which is that of radiance under the domain of the Spirit of Life, the sixth which is that of wisdom under the domain of the Spirit of Truth, or the Womb, and finally the seventh, the dwelling place of the Spirit of Love, with His transfiguration, resurrection and ascension into the Temple of Light in Heaven.
He rose, spiritualized body and all, from earth back into Heaven from whence He had come—and from whence we all have come—giving the simple and achievable instruction to simply follow Him: “He that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” (John 14:12) Going unto the Father is the first step and the last that leads to union with God and glorious transfiguration. He established agreement on earth with His Father in heaven, and where two agree on earth as touching anything “in my name” (Matt 18:19)… in the vibration of love…, it shall be done of them by the Father in heaven. He was able to ascend, transmuted body, soul and spirit, back into the realms of light by reason of the working of the law of love. Subsequently the process of ascension manifested in His humanity.
Each one of these steps of ascent, from one level of to the next, manifested changes in His outer form. They each had their impact on Him physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Throughout this process He experienced amazing feats of all sorts: levitation, transfiguration, command of the wind, mental telepathy, long distance healing power, a potently radiant and highly charged personal atmosphere that when but touched by those around Him in faith, wrought healing; power to raise the seeming dead, and many other miracles of transformation. The greatest transformation was that of His own consciousness to the clear, absolute realization that “I and my Father are one.” He attained to the vibration of the Father, who is love, as He himself had long since earned the title of “Lord of Love.”
Probably the toughest of all the outer circumstances to move through was His betrayal and subsequent crucifixion, yet move through it victoriously He did, maintaining His connection with His Father, and thereby maintaining the continuity of the cycle He had initiated which took Him step by step back into the Realms of Light from whence He had come. He knew that experience as opening a door through which He had to pass in order to go the Way He had chosen. Death with its seeming finality was to Him but the shadow side of eternal life itself, and not just for His spirit but for His own body temple as well. The door that leads into the light appears hidden in shadow, because it is closed. He opened that door, went through it, and experienced resurrection and ascension on the other side. He opened it with unconditional love for and forgiveness of those who had put him on the cross. His heart was utterly purified in the fire of love He shared with His Heavenly Father, and which He sought unceasingly to share with His disciples and the world which His Father so loved and had sent Him to save. His outer form was transmuted by the Spirit of Purification as He moved through the fourth plane of being on His way up in the ascension process. Indeed, He assumed the identity of the Spirit of Purification Himself and burned His way through the thick veil of the impure heart of humanity—described as “hell” into which the scripture says He descended.
In a service entitled “The Way of the Master,” British Lord Martin Cecil describes these events in a remarkably clear and thought-provoking presentation. He refers to a “tone” sounded:
“What a task! What an unbelievable undertaking, and yet He did it, in spite of everything . . . He established what we have called the true tone of life for man, an actual vibratory radiation that has been sounding on earth all down the centuries . . . . It was set of course not by a man as such but by the Lord through a man. That trumpet tone has been sounding without diminishing for nineteen centuries . . . .
“When He did proceed through the creative cycle in His own personal experience on earth He did what He might to assist those who were present with Him to come along into an experience of greater understanding, but they didn’t get very far. You may recall, in the Gospel of John, Philip and Thomas, two of the disciples, had no faintest idea as to what it was that our Master was talking about. He’d been speaking: “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.” And He said, “I go to prepare a place for you.” That’s the way He was going, moving through these successive levels of consciousness in the creative cycle, the ascending cycle, thereby preparing the way. Nobody was going with Him at that time. The disciples were completely at sea. They enjoyed being with Him, they loved Him, but they didn’t know what was happening and apparently no one has known since. Some beliefs have been generated, some ideas have been produced, and there may have been a little truth back of some of these things. But only now, when it begins to surface and come within the range of present human experience, does it once more become meaningful. It becomes meaningful to the extent that it is experienced; not to the extent that it is thought about or discussed, or to the extent that doctrines are established; it means something only on the basis of actual experience. So because there begins to be some actual experience it begins to be meaningful . . . .” (Excerpted from Third Sacred School, Vol. 2, ch. 28)
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It is the experience this One Man undertook Himself that has established what the body of mankind is to experience and has experienced since He set this tone and sounded it all the way through the seven levels of being as He ascended with his body temple restored to its glorified state. This is the path that all of mankind has been invited to take and that we each must travel if we are to experience fully the salvation which He brought, the path leading well beyond the worship of God to the resurrection and ascension in sacred union with God. Until such union is known, man shall continue his search for Eden outside himself and worship God at the foot of altars made of wood and stone—but not for long. The days are shortened.
I leave you to ponder these things in the womb of your heart during this Holy Week in the Christian world.
RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION ARE AVAILABLE NOW! We do not have to leave our body temples behind in order to rise up and ascend to the Temple of Light. I will share an except from my book SACRED ANATOMY that considers this step-by-step process in the story of a “Great Tree.” Enjoy!
The focal point of light above the head is just a couple of inches higher than the seventh or Crown Chakra. My sensing is that what hovers here is a focus of the ascending fire of love at the level of what we might call the Eighth Chakra, a swirling wheel of ascending and descending currents that connect us with higher dimensions of being. When I touch into this center during Attunement, I am immediately aware of a focus of spirit radiating a magnetic force field.
This magnetic force field is drawing upward the substance of pneumaplasm generated during the Attunement session, much as a candle’s flame draws the wax and oxygen up into and around the wick at the center of the flame where the wax is transmuted by fire. At a certain point in this process, the quantity and quality of the responding substance of pneumaplasm is sufficient to convey and reflect the current of love radiation. There is a unified release of love in the body temple and through it into the world. It is possible to understand how this substance could be dense enough to reveal the presence of “cloven tongues like unto fire,” as is written in the gospel story of the Day of Pentecost. (Acts 2:1-3)
This flame, as I indicated, draws the fine substance of response generated and gathered during the Attunement session. The two who are sharing in the release of the current of blessing in Attunement may become consciously aware of their oneness that is already a reality in heaven. The movement of the Attunement current forms a metaphorical figure 8 in the configuration of the pair, with one standing in a position of “giving” and the other in the position of “receiving” the current. The returning cycle moves upward through them both. The two may then become aware that they share a single identity—indeed, that I AM the Attunement current of radiant love extending the blessing of my Self into the world. There is only one ascending flame.
Uranda stated, and I sense as well, that this is the focal point of the Christ Radiance, or the White Ray of Divine Light, in our spiritual bodies. Here is the ascending flame of worship in our body temple transmuting physical substance, lifting its essences upward as incense before the throne of God in heaven. This center provides an aperture for the radiation of the White Ray of Light, which may be what is represented by the “halo” reportedly seen hovering over the heads of saintly people. Artists often depict Jesus as having a halo above his head. There is no doubt in my mind that it is the glow of the ascending flame made visible by reason of ascending pneumaplasm as it is refined in the fire of love in the “Temple of Light.”
Uranda described seven steps to the Temple of Light. The seventh step is Love. Love is not the destination or place of arrival; the Temple of Light is the destination, the place the seven steps lead to, and Love is the final step before entering. The instruction of the Master is to love the Lord our God with all and our neighbor as our Self. Upon mastering this commandment, we may freely enter the Temple of Light. In the Temple of Light we lose all sense of separate individuality and know the All, utterly aware of our oneness in the Light and with all of creation.
“The Great Tree”
There is a beautiful and relevant story about a “Great Tree” in The Gospel of The Beloved Companion – The Complete Gospel of Mary Magdalene, translated from the Greek by Jehanne de Quillam. The gospel itself is part of several scrolls of early Christian and Gnostic texts found in a cave near the upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945.
Mary Magdalene – or Miriam as Jesus called her – was one of the women who traveled with Yeshua (Jesus) and helped support his ministry. She was probably wealthy. She rose to the level of “Apostle of apostles” due to her depth of understanding of her Master’s teachings. He called her “The Migdalah” which means “tower” in Hebrew. The name also means “leader, visionary, powerful.”
The story tells of an interchange between Mary and Yeshua shortly after his ordeal and resurrection. In the mournful wake of their Master’s ignominious crucifixion, Mary Magdalene comforts a gathering of his disciples and shares with them what, in the author’s opinion, is one of the most profound teachings of this entire Gospel. Can one, in this noisy world, ever come to a place where one can no longer hear the voice of the world? My short answer is “Yes.” The story tells the long answer.
MIRIAM: My Master spoke thus to me. He said: “Miriam, blessed are you who came into being before coming into being, and whose eyes are set upon the Kingdom, who from the beginning has understood and followed my teachings. Only from the truth I tell you, there is a Great Tree within you that does not change, summer, winter, and its leaves do not fall. Whosoever listens to my words and ascends to its crown will not taste death, but know the truth of eternal life.”
Then he showed me a vision in which I saw a Great Tree that seemed to reach unto the heavens, and as I saw these things, he said, “The roots of this tree are in the earth, which is your body. The trunk extends upwards through the five regions of humanity to the crown, which is the Kingdom of the Spirit.”
Yeshua described this Great Tree as having eight boughs that bore their own unique fruits which he told Miriam to fully consume. The fruits, he told her, would grant her “the light of the Spirit that is eternal life.” On each bough stood a guardian at a gate leading to the next bough who would challenge her worthiness to pass.
Now, the lower boughs were thick with leaves that prevented the light from reaching them and illuminating the way upward. Assuring her that He Himself would provide the light, and that as she ascended the leaves would thin out, allowing more light through from above, Yeshua told her, “Those who seek to ascend must free themselves of the world. If you do not free yourself from the world you will die in the darkness that is the root of the tree. But if you free yourself, you will rise and reach the light that is eternal life.”
As the story goes, Miryam’s soul ascended to the very top of the Great Tree where it was consumed by the fire of the Spirit. On the way up she met each challenge and gained access to the fruits. The fruits of the first bough were love and compassion, “the foundation of all things.” To eat of it she had to come free of all judgment and wrath, which she did, allowing her to pass the first of seven guardians, each one tempting her to fall for their lure.
The second bough was laden with the fruits of wisdom and understanding, of which she partook, having freed herself of ignorance and intolerance, which she did and proceeded upward to the third bough. This bough bore the fruits of honor and humility, which she was able to enjoy after coming free of duplicity and arrogance. She then moved up to the fourth bough as the light increased. Strength and courage were the fruits of this bough, which she was able to enjoy having freed herself from the weakness of the flesh and overcome the “illusion of fear.” The “Master of this world” tried to claim her as his own, but she denied him.
Before moving on up to the fifth bough, Miryam had to reject the “deceiver” in order to pass through what her Master told her was “the hardest gate of all.” Here she partook of the fruits of clarity and truth, and in doing so she came to know herself “for the first time” as a child of the Living Spirit.
As her soul ascended to the sixth bough, the voice of the world became silent, and in the increased light she saw the fruits of power and healing, the power to heal her own soul and prepare it to ascend to the seventh bough. The seventh bough’s fruits were light and goodness “that is the Spirit.” Consuming them she was filled with “a fierce joy” as her soul “turned to fire and flew upward in the flames.” Her Master then showed her the eighth and final bough, “upon which burn the fruits of the grace and beauty of the Spirit.”
Upon ascending to the eighth bough, her soul and everything she could see dissolved and was absorbed in a brilliant light, in the midst of which appeared “a woman of extraordinary beauty, clothed in garments of brilliant white.” At this climatic point, her soul melted into the extended arms and embrace of the woman in white raiment, and in that moment she was free from the world. The vision thus ended.
Then from a distance she heard the voice of her Master telling her, “Miryam, whom I have called the Migdalah, now you have seen the All, and have known the truth of yourself, the truth that I AM. Now you have become the completion of completions.” From that moment on through her remaining days, the story says, Miryam lived in silence, no longer hearing the voice of the world.
Transformation and Transfiguration
Moses of the Old Testament is described as having a ray of light emanating from atop his head when he came down from Mount Sinai, where he reportedly communicated with God. His face was so radiant that it had to be covered with a veil in order for the Israelites to look upon him. The Shekinah was apparently evident through Moses. Jesus, in the New Testament, is also described as being so radiant during his “transfiguration” in the company of his three closest disciples that they could not look upon his countenance. Here is the Shekinah, the Christ Radiance shining through the human forms of these great Beings who have incarnated throughout the history of mankind to initiate specific cycles of restoration for the Earth and the body of Mankind. We are designed and destined to know such glory in our own expression of the spirit of God through our flesh.
Reference to this “flame” above the head can be found, as I stated earlier, in the Biblical account of the Day of Pentecost when the apostles of Jesus were reportedly gathered “with one accord and in one place” in an “upper room” shortly after Jesus had come forth from out of the tomb as the risen Christ. These very close friends of Jesus were in a place of accord which brought down upon their heads and entire bodies and souls the transforming power of love. They were “filled with the Holy Spirit” that produced the appearance of tongues of fire atop their heads.
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