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MILESTONES TO GOD
Healing Mind And Emotions
by
Lori M. Poe


'CULTS AND RELIGIONS'

Chapter 8

Love unites us here and everywhere. The Essence of Its Truth is the Forging Force that links us soul to soul. In the endless chain of stalwart seekers who yearn for freedom from duality, some have the dauntless will to break the bonds of physical, political and spiritual oppression.
The Spirit of the Age and closing era demands Truth in every department of life. It does not abide in the trappings of convention, tradition or organization, but in the Impersonality of the One Law, that decrees Liberty and Justice for every soul. Out of Caos–Peace is born–out of man's wreckages the Immortal Phoenix shall rise!
Of the many fearful who would not dare, there is a handful God can rely on, who know the Truth and report it clearly, no matter what the cost. The following is written in Love and not in contempt, with best intent and respect to all beliefs, concerning points vital to our well-being, physical, material and spiritual future. When we attain to the Highest Good, we will have the immeasurable blessing true Liberty affords and shall maintain our free spirited nature.
It is simple when all agree, but controversial views often stir up deep emotions, that nevertheless will favor the perfect picture when the quake is over and pieces fall into their rightful place. I do not seek approval. I speak from the courage of my innate convictions and offer the benefit of another view, as the scrub buckets and fringy mops are pushed along the expansive corridors of learning–attempting to clean up the ground floor.

WHAT IS A CULT


Anything that incites a following to a system whether of ceremony, rite, ritual, or belief is a cult. When man begins to worship his Creator "in Spirit and in Truth", he will have no further need to congregate. But to appease our sociable nature, we ally ourselves with those agreeable to our state of mind, and defile our faiths by goading and forcing others into the narrow mold of our creeds, only to find them anxious to throw off the yoke.
Organization destroys the true religion of the soul, since it denies man the right to think and act freely to find his God. The issue then is not religion, but the Spiritual Freedom it denies to follow one's own conscious and inborn trust in God. Wherever you find organization you find power struggles and dissension because the lower ego seeks satisfaction.
Since the soul is the incarnation of its Father, it has its own religion. All religions are a call to God, but not all show the Way. Man should disassociate himself from those who tell him what to do, how he should do it and in what to believe. When abiding by the Law of God, the individual will then abide by the law of man, instead of taking up permanent residency behind the bars of already overcrowded penal institutions.
Freedom of spirit is a priceless pearl and always exacts its dues. Many have dearly paid dearly for it. When you have become free, your expression of freedom will make its own statement. You can either go through life permitting others to decide for you, or decide for yourself. A free soul rules its mind, for it is in submission to Divine Will. The inborn freedom of soul is bondless and by innate instinct it will defend it to the last. Persecute a man, take away his rights, throw him into prison or into the sea, and he will do his best to get out of it. He will yearn for liberty and maintain it, if nowhere else but n his thoughts.
But while in human form, man can never be absolutely free, since he must abide by the system of his would to survive. Only when he regains his freedom in God, thus knows to leave his body at will, nothing will have the power to keep him bound.

ANOTHER VIEW


This writer is not influenced by any other than the Inner Light, that spurs the pen to pull the massive rope of the gonging, droning bells that call to Freedom. It grants the space to think on one's own terms and to express conclusions that are here shared.
Revelations, inner growth and the satiric glory of initiations into the Order of the Spirit were well earned. Thus not bestowed on me by sect, or creed, nor by any mortal who as myself did fall from Grace into the world of matter; but by the Higher Grace of every man that manifested to me as the Radiant Light.
Religion is what is in my own heart–and the Force that caught me up into Its Vibrant Life to know the Spirit and the Breath of every living thing, of bush, of tree, of animal, fragrant blooms and mountain rocks was within me and I in them. To realize the Spirit of Creation and precious life of everything in one short moment, is a revelation ineffable.
My shoes more often full of holes, I ran barefooted through dewy mists of meadow, wood and vale, and felt the prayerful breath of the evening wind caress my face and the prayerful breath of the evening wind caress my face and ruffle up my hair. Grasped after the dancing lights of lightning bugs and glowing fireflies, and searched the starlit tapestry of heaven in longing for the Unknown God. Stepping high with Love and the heart infilled with the tramping high with Love and the heart infilled with the transcendent music of he spheres, I could not doubt that this was God, or at least ass near as I could get right then.
And othertimes I beheld the forms of little prismatic colored creatures in their fullest splendor, some golden-white with yellow polka dots and others azure blue, some brown, that played along the wooded paths beneath the towering pines. I beheld the mist of angel-likeness that rose out of the nature of big trees, and other forms locked in their trunk that wept. And understood the whispers of nature's encompassing, brooding peace that welled up from the meadow and out of evening mists. Where the soul could sit in silence and realign to God and feel the flowing Force and Harmony of Cosmos moving round about and through the soul.
I heard the joyous sounds and silent sighs of bush and tree and listened to the busy dialogues of crickets, ants and bees. And saw the gigantic forms of Weather angels, that leaned over the tops of billowing white clouds, and so much more!
I experienced the Reality of Celestial Worlds in many ways, and entered Realms Bright where Love and Peace reigned uttermost, which held forever true for me; that reading books or scriptures could not for me provide. And I, much later on remembered what was gathered up in distant pasts. And again picked up the golden Thread to the God I sought of long ago as soul, that disallowed the entertaining of all false and wayward mutterings, of ignorance and sophistry.
The Christ I found was Spirit, Impersonal of religion, cult and creed; that Christ was the Love and Light of every faithful heart, but moved with Superstrength to purify the dross! Thus I cannot say the God-Man died for me, for as already proved, myself as any other human must die to lustful habits that incarcerate the soul; to worldly cravings and to the little self. Thus learn to die to live. Fore had the Valiant Jesus died for me, the grave would have gulped up my memory of other pasts. There would be no need to live on earth today, to rectify past insurrections.

CONSIDERING THE FACTS

Jesus did not make Peter his successor, for he was neither trustworthy nor dependable. Much less did Jesus establish a church in which he held no interest, but to which christendom contributes its original roots. And is especially untrue since jesus ascended over two centuries before man began to build his pagan monuments to Him and honored Him with the bloody sacrifices of the innocent.
Paul was the originator of christianity, not Jesus. jesus taught the doctrine of Rebirth, Consequences, Sound and Light, that His avid confessors of today vehemently disavow and call 'devilish'. Jesus taught that God is to be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth; which opposed the pagan worship of idols of the priestcraft, including the practice of necromancy, spirito-enjoyments, and side-shows of miracles. The German poet Nietsche wrote: "There was only one christian and he died at the cross!" Jesus was a Jew. When he dwelled in Spirit, the Divine Christ dwelled in Him, when He went about His daily duties He was jesus the man.
The Wondrous Spirit that graced Jesus occupied the forms of the saviours before Him and it dwells within You. Unfettered and Boundless, It dwells in Its Creations but is not possessed by them. People worship their evil gods and goddesses and profess a God they never knew.
There was no Judaism before Moses, no Sikhism before Guru Nanak, no Taoist before Lao-Tse, no Moslems before Mohammed, who died in the year 632 and was the last of the True Prophets. As already proved, there were no christians before Christ. But no matter how great a prophet or saint, they remained bound to the universe of mind, and until they could consciously enter the Sound Current. Christianity was not fully established until the hammer of oppression fell upon the humble: to be a christian or die! And the bloodfeud continues in our day all over the world to install one dogma after another.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES


Neither Zoroaster, Buddha, Jesus, nor any other Liberator before them claimed Saviourship or Divinity, nor did they hold interest in religion. They taught those who would listen how to redeem themselves, their message was brotherhood, peace and forgiveness. Nowaday masters and pseudo gurus demand your unconditional surrender to their wanton personalities and warn their integrity should never be called to question! All beg of God – what can they do for You? While religionists sanctify their threadbare relic and wallow in their demonic lust for power and sexual perversions; instead of showing the humble how to worship in the Temple of God within. In this world where everything is bought, sold and resold, people will adulterate and sell their divinity to gain their objectives.
In the breath of sacrificial prayer they "plead the Blood of Christ", and avow salvation and forgiveness by the very blood they shed for the glory of religion, which will exact its karmic dues, blow for blow, strike for strike and blood for blood. For, for every drop of blood shed, willfully, naturally or accidentally, another must be shed to redeem it. the Law is Unchanging, Inexorable. And: "o, my God, I am heartily sorry" and other paternosters will find no reception. The Winds of Karma swallow up their words.

TEACHING SYSTEMS


Jesus did not leave one single written line. We only have what He supposedly has said. What was handed down to us from the sayings of prophets, apostels and masters, is what their teacher or god had to say to them and does not replace what you yourself must experience in God to becomes free. Nothing else can hold true for you. Though Jesus was the Great Teacher of His Time, the same Presence that dwelled in Him is your Guiding Force today, that leads you to the Door of the soul where the experience becomes possible.
When the search is sincere, the Spirit within will guide the seeker to the right source and will stir him away from harmful edicts. What the grand Christ initially taught became a mixture of diverse beliefs, revisions, abridged editions and conjectures of personal judgments. World religions are composed of belief systems, therefore opinions. The soul must turn to its Chief Source to gain True Enlightenment. You must want to be with God if efforts would prove fruitful. Until man begins to trust the Spirit within he will always need something or someone to lean on. And when he retorts: "But – the Scriptures say..." he cuts himself off and can progress no further than what he reads.
Teachings that illumine and are vital to spiritual unfoldment can be found in the voluminous Library of the Theosophical University Press, Pasadena, Ca. - A golden legacy of excellence has been left to us by the Spiritual Giant and literary Genius, Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Her writings were compiled in part from the Secret Doctrines of antiquity which she ardently tried to preserve. See "Isis Unveiled", "The Secret Doctrines", and "Collected Writings".
"The Nag Hammadi Library", and Egyptian Teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, will incite in the seeker a longing for spiritual maturity, and speed up the search to enter the experience of the Far Country. (Available from the Theosophical University Press, P.O. Bin C, Pasadena, Ca., 91109).

ONE TRUTH FOR ALL PEOPLE


Truth is seldom comforting but necessary to face in order to evolve. The Spirit of Light calls out through every age to emancipate the seeking soul, but obscures itself from hearts wedded to creeds and cults, that spring up like weeds out of the phantasmagoria of incontinent minds.
Innate truth eliminates all questions, every why and wherefore of God. God placed His Light into all people. There is but one Truth, manifested as man and through man and is therefore realized within the individual self. "Truth has no special time", wrote Albert Schweitzer, "the hour is now, always."
In God are no dualistic teachings. God is not understood nor met through belief, acceptance or devotion, but by entering His Spirit. Questions and answers belong to the lower Universe of Mind, wherefore we ask amiss and answers received are incomplete.
The authenticity and core of ancient teachings derived from the Brilliant Sound Current that dropped its Unwritten Word into the hearts of Holy Men and Holy Women, who attained conscious union with God. Therefore no religion or cult can claim to be the originator or the keeper of Original Truth, since it is not bound in volumes.
Recorded texts were kept in ancient mystery schools and withheld from the profane. Violations of secret codes or abuse of secret knowledge could invoke severe punishment, even death. We might pose the question: why should he who cannot control his own energy receive spiritual power? To harm and destruct?
Though in our day part of the teachings are public domain, those unprepared will read but not understand. As in days of old, sacred teachings are given him who earned the Holy Trust, by inner revelations, which the receiver instinctively knows how to apply and not to share with anyone. They are given to him in such a way, he couldn't interest them to others if he tried, though he himself thoroughly understand, and if he could, wouldn't. For what good is Divine Knowledge to him who lives for the pleasures of the world and has only sporadic interests in the things of God?
Western luminaries who claim all teachings are but sprouts and shoots of their particular wisdom, will find Truth deprive them. While it continues to shine brightly on the clean living, humble saints of the Far East, who accredit their deep knowledge to none other than the Lord of Light, and remain silent as westerners plagiarize their texts. Blessings and joy vanish, spirituality declines, when we offer others the husk, instead of the soul-nourishing kernel of God.
Many spiritual teahers are sincere, but not all are brave enough to submit to the Transforming Light. A true teacher is not found in the market place of greed, for his life magnifies the Light he seeks to convey. He adheres to Divine Truth and lives it.
Word fencers and philosophical meanderers claim, to be a spiritual teacher you must have immense metaphysical knowledge, which is decidedly untrue. Only what you speak from the center of your innermost encounters with God will have meaning to others. Speaking from the inner life does not depend on texts or a litany of well-chosen words.
Above all, it should be remembered that you are the focal point of Light, wherefore your guidance comes directly from within. Time and time again we must clear the mind and look within, where the Radiant, Immortal Spirit shines down on Its creations and delights to bring us into reflection; and by our cognition of the Sound Current into the direct encounter with God. How more blessed could we be?

LOOKING FOR THE TEACHER


The Spirit of God is your Teacher. But you will also find that the teachings of illumined men and women who speak from the heart of inner experiences are alive with Truth and infused with spiritual vitality you can feel. Of this spoke Krishnamurti in Lutyens biography: "I maintain Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatever, by any religion, by any sect."
Learn as we will, it remains half truth and will slip our mind until we enter the experience. Only then will we know and never forget. Nothing taught is ever new to the timeless soul, accept in form and interpretation. It only seems novel until we reawaken to it. Then we say: 'O, I knew that all along!'
When looking for directions we should use discernment, take nothing for granted and make certain of the truth. Some teachers only speak from book knowledge and out of material need. You can find yourself wrapped up in the psychic veil, drained, sad in heart and weighed down to the bottom line of depression. Such individuals manipulate what they know – and You, to suit their needs. If they were god-realized, there would be no need to be a mouthpiece for stray entities, nor for the emptiness of spiritual mouthing. Persons who follow cults complain they feel dazed and passive, that they are moved by a strange energy and no longer themselves.
A teacher who speaks from the Heart of Light and projects his realization from worlds within, will illumine others that they too may learn to love with innate capacity and he will guide them to the Kingdom within. His teachings will lead out of the desert land of lower consciousness and certainly out of indifference towards God. Understanding, cheerfulness and a great sense of humor are the characteristics of spiritual souls. I can't imagine a person anywhere who does not have the innate desire to be happy. Can you?
At one point of spiritual unfoldment God will take you up and show you the spiritual teaching systems of Cosmos, that will stretch out before you as a gigantic, uprising map, reaching into Infinity. And incredible sight! Here you behold the value of every teaching, from the lowest to the highest last; and find there are lessons to be learned in all. And, they tire us out – that we would reach for the Truth that sets free.
Now, how can anyone teach you the Way of the soul, who speaks of your soul, my soul, and doesn't know he is the soul? It is when individuals admit they do not know, they begin to understand the Law. At times we encounter persons who are cynical, yet they hunger to know, they begin to understand the Law. At times we encounter persons who are cynical, yet they hunger to know. But until cynicism, suspicion and distrust are layed to rest, true knowledge remains out of reach. The worst obstacle to Divine Learning is pride, prejudice, austerity and opinionatedness. When you look at a thing with a bias, you come out with a bias. Speculations have no value and half-knowledge is worse than no knowledge at all.
The Spirit of God cannot teach a man who claims to know it all, no more than It will absolve him who feels he has nothing to be absolved for. Nor will Spirit teach a person who considers constructive guidances as a personal reprimand. Spiritual progress depends on man's readiness to accept Higher Truth. Now, we may deem ourselves more advanced than another struggling soul, who may live purer than we and closer to God, and perceive aspects of Divine Truth we might not see at all.

HOLD FAST TO GOD


Aspirants of the Illumined Way are often avid readers and will get quite enthused over a subject until someone comes along and says it's all wrong. Discouraged they lay it down, browse around for something else or fakesaken the subject matter altogether. Where is the answer? You should let God guide you. No longer look to the edges, Blessed Reader, but turn within to the center where men and women become gods and Gods become man. Where the Living Teachings of the Lord are clearly perceived and His Truth becomes part of you.
By natural instinct every man seeks the Perfect One. Until he meets the Sacred Beloved, he will run from one teacher to another and remain unfulfilled. There must be trust between soul and God. Faith does not suffice. But I say, if anyone believes in a godly, virtuous being, who teaches him to be a better person, then as long as he believes let him believe and be made every bit whole. But let him first believe in Himself, for this is believing in God. Every soul has illumined moments it cannot forget. But most, rather than pursuing them, push them out of thier mind.
And this I know: there is an invisible string that yields down from God to which you are attached. Every now and then you can feel the tug, the string is being pulled upward and you are being brought up higher. You cannot hold on to both ends. You must let go of one or the other. You cannot have God and the world. Yet you must live on earth, abide by its laws and nourish the root of the tree, that the crown may attain heaven. For both are our origin and while in the body you cannot be separated from either, accept during temporary suspension.

CULTS AND RELATED GROUPS


It is no secret that throughout our country many families suffer and grieve over loved ones that joined the mad menagerie of cults and were brainwashed and murdered. In man's subconscious need for God and search for the Unknown Deity, his frustrations turn to accepting substitutes, such as cults and new world saviours that spring up from the egocentric fancy of uprooted souls; who claim superhuman power; and offer their special brand of salvation and hallucinogenic for a quick trip to the Kingdom! While eloquent discourses of 'the only way' serve as attention getters and secret truth can be had for a membership fee; with the comment that only the privileged stumble upon their truth!
Piled up psychology and swarming literature's offer the only way to God through the cult leader and unconditional love to those they subjugate and seduce! There is no Holy Sap in all their works, human ego feeds the withering vines. In one text the cult leader expressed, that whoever does not accept their energy will bear the consequences and he who does will be blessed! No, my Friend, you must not accept anyone's fallout! You may block it and return the energy in the same bombastic manner you received it! You are not harming, but returning what does not belong to you.
The corrupt energy some people project from conscious and subconscious levels depicts the malignant force to which they become attached through the cult. To return good for evil is not always the way it is done. Much more could be said. By and by, life teaches evil individuals to reroute their energy.
Great claims are made how departed saints no longer intercede, but that the saints of their persuasion are always with them; while Christ they say is dead! This does not take from the Radiant Truth Jesus of Nazareth demonstrated when He dissolved his body and ascended, while the bones of the antichrists and authors of pen-hatched doctrines lay decomposing in their grave. The True Master never dies.
And though some claim the God-Man was unlovely, I've beheld His Spirit in many forms. The Lord of my visitations is brighter than Light, taller than a tower and most fair. I am not a christian, but know what I know. Nothing holds true from individuals who never beheld the Blazing Radiance and Fire of His Brilliant Light. And when the Spirit takes them into consideration, It will relieve the of their sullied robes and spoofed authority and place their breath elsewhere. With the respect that accords them; they are the soothsayers and tsetse flies – and the saints said worse!...that seduce the seeker into the sleep of doom, hoax and illusions.
To secure supremacy, the "master" projects his image on the mental screen of the follower's mind who then has a vision of him and worships him as his God. It's a change of pace for the lonely and for those who just stopped in for a fresh breath of spiritual air...

BELIEVE IN NO MAN


No mortal is your master, for the Master is no mortal! The liberty pseudo masters take covers a broad sensual spectrum and they will go as far as you let them. It is amazing how many individuals willingly trade their freedom to subserve another mortal, who, though well fed, himself starves for the Bread of Heaven and will have enough to atone for in the end. some cultists speak of morals and ethics they never sought to emulate and point out: "We no longer wear robes and sandals and therefore do different."
Beloved Reader, the Holy Law of God does not change with man's fashions and passing fancy. It stands Majestic, Invincible - forever. But when the faithful wise up and decide to leave the cult, they are threatened to lose the "master's" protection, they should have been spared from the start. God never withholds his Love and Protection, no matter who or what you are. Wherever you find organization, trouble abounds. And, as has been proved, when one leader pushes the other off the earth-bound throne it is not in an amicable way. mud slinging and public slander become the holy order of the day!

DEPROGRAMMING


Well-meant deprogramming is no more than an additional traumatic experience for the young and no better for the wear, since deprogrammers force the already abused into the furrow and squeeze of their own indoctrination and belief.
To further menticide young persons who are already too weak to exert their free will, only deepens unseen scars, which can become a long healing process and can remain with them for life. To indoctrinate anyone against their will to any belief, violates them. It does not reflect the clear, pure Image of Divine Law, but the indoctrinator's own ignorance of God and unredeemed ego.
We should unlearn what we know and begin anew, in simple, honest and direct worship of Our God. Then, and then only, will we be able to know God and love others with a full heart.

WONDERS, MAGICK OR NATURAL LAW?


People get rather upset when a 'miracle' is wrought by any other than their pastor or priest. When indeed, all wonders are the manifestation of God's Natural Law. There is no difference between the magic feat of the heathen, fakir, witch, warlock, voodooist, priest, guru, master and the humble in heart, except in the degree and purity of energy in which that wonder of 'miracle' is performed. you are using the same poser.
Whether by natural ability or superconscious attunement, all employ the Force of fire, water, air and earth, and the force of will, save he who learned to get himself out of the way and permits Divine power free reign to flow through him - to do Its own Bidding.
Those labeled 'heathens' and heretics are a special breed of souls that have their own wonderful way of reaching God, which is unobstructed by any arbitrary influence. Thus overpowers the practice of those who hold up the flaming torch of damnation at the gates of hell. Rather than remain soldered to creeds, we would do well to become reeducated in the Fiery Love of God and Strains of his Spirit, and turn to Our Source in the infinite cleanliness of childlike trust, humility, and brevity required of the Gods.
In 'Isis Unveiled', Theology, book II, page 500, madame H. B. Blavatsky cites: "How true the words of Paracelsus when worried by fierce persecution and slander, misunderstood by friends and foes, abused by clergy and laity he exclaimed: "O ye of Paris, Padua, Montpellier, Selerna, Vienna and Leipzig! ye are not teachers of the truth, but confessors of lies. your philosophy is a lie. Would you know what Magic really is, then seek St. John's Revelation. . . As you cannot yourself prove your teachings from the Bible and the Revelation, then let your farce have an end. The Bible is the true key and interpreter. John, not less than Moses, Elias, Enoch, David, Solomon, Daniel, Jeremiah,and the rest of the prophets, was a magician, kabalist and diviner. if now all, or even any of those I have named were living, i do not doubt that you would make an example of them in your miserable slaughterhouse, and would annihilate them there on the spot, and if it ere possible, the Creator of all things too!" (Theosophical University Press, P.O. Bin C. Pasadena, Ca. 91109)

MONEY - SEX - SALVATION


Without Sound and Light can e no truth in any system and what we are and speak colors our life. Wrote Frances Bacon: "All actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart." Ask the religious law maker if he experienced the Light and heard the holy Sound of inner worlds, and he will cover up his ignorance by quoting a litany of adverse scriptures.
Though all deny accepting money for spiritual services, spirito-materialistic empires flourish. Whether above board or beneath it, all make money, because it is not their professed love for God that moves them, but greed, occupation and business fees and gifts, but workers draw their salaries and other compensations out of the same fund. Not only for time invested but also to satisfy their insatiable greed. Not to mention the tithe badgered out of the poor and faithful.
When the televangelist laments: "My back is against the wall, i have an eleven million dollar deficit!" he forgets, (unless he never heard of it) the Law of God demands a debt free life: "Owe no man anything but Love!"
Since when does the salvation of soul depend on show and money? have you, the contributor, ever examined how many souls your money has saved? not a single one! Especially since salvation is a continual process that endures over uncountable lifetimes. It does not depend on the weeping preacher, but on the qualifications and merit of the soul. The blind alley call to salvation is unspiritual; and the vagrant promise of heaven and hell-threat of salvation is only as good as the man who expounds it, since it only exists in his limited perception.
Motivated by profit instead of by the ideal of Spirit, the sympathy hook of monetary beggary and the kalistic law that upholds it, makes religious innkeepers richer and magnifies the emptiness of the material world. While the money grubber stands on the misinterpreted promise of the Abundant Life! As I said in other writings: 'Man uses God the way he uses people!'
Now, when you know God you're not going to retire to a life of plenty, nor could you endure living in a mansion, knowing how poor and hungry other human beings are. your needs will be entirely different, as they are no longer of this world. And most who enter God-Realization while on earth - die poor. To boast the church gives to foreign aid is the worst excuse ever. nothing given out of a full pocket has spiritual value. Ill-begotten funds corrupt the gift.
Passing the begging bowl and collecting funds under the nonprofit charter that milks the whole, the pious moralist admonishes others how wrong it is to accept gratuities. organizations, divided as they are, might find it more honorable to come out from under the nonprofit charter and pay their taxes as any other law abiding citizen, instead of collecting in the Holy Name of God for theatrics, show and personal comforts. Where does it stand written man should erect lavish cathedrals, live in pomp, drain the poor, hang jewels on idols and build million dollar homes financed by the widow's mite?
Certainly, we are not living in an era of trading goods for services. And since money is the commodity, thank you(s) and gratitude are not bankable and only invite those who care less for God and more for themselves. What we are saying is: Live what you profess. Quit begging, badgering, wanting and needing - in the Name of God, and acting like greedy birds of prey!
Now, if the man made law of poverty would be upheld, then monies and bequests great or small should be declined. St. Matthew 18:8-10 would encourage religious legerdemainists to the following: ". . . freely ye have received, freely give. . . provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses. . . nor script for your journey, neither shoes, not yet staves. . . for the workman is worthy of his meat." This makes absolute wall to wall closets of fineries and furniture trimmed in gold. To understand the Way and Law of God, intellect must be quickened by Divine Light and the mind illumined by His Spirit. only then will man be free from vanity and greed, and then only will he qualify to serve God and to lead others into His Way.

THE SEX OF THINGS


The Most popular topic of today is sex. Some tend to treat sex indiscriminately, while the idea of the prude is: 'the body is ugly and sex sinful', since the blind do not see the purpose of physical-spiritual union established for man by his God.
To be whole, every inner vehicle must fuse in the harmony of body, mind and spirit. Even though a physical act, sex is a spiritual impulse, sanctified in the conjugal state. Would God condemn what He Himself set into motion as vehicle for the propagation of His species?
Persons who consider sex repulsive are likely to suffer from psychological disorders: low esteem, irritability, dissatisfaction with life and general neuroses; that can make them feel insecure and disconnected from others. Some claim to be celibate. Only after the soul has entered Conscious Union with God and moves deeper into the Neuter Aspect, does it unfold into spiritual celibacy and refrains from physical union; which holds true for a scant few but not for the masses. overweened pietists and puritans should know: no human can claim celibacy as long as his dreams attest otherwise!

OBSERVING THE HEART OF THINGS


The action of sex in unselfish love was the original intent, rather than the promiscuousness of sex for self-gratification only. Now, when the human self feels remorseful we frequent confessionals and if this does not reconcile guilts with conscions we hang our sins on the public clotheline to tell the world how it is with us!
While giving charity and vocalizing our distinct disdain against infidelity, we close the drapes and retreat to secret passions, to incest, sodomy and other nymphomanias. Sodom and Gomorrah did as well - with less sanctimony! In addition, we are not beyond having affairs with priests and as recently viewed on national TV, being seduced by naked bishops at gunpoint - no doubt they are as human as we. By and by, we are learning to see things in proper perspective. And who, drunk with guile can absolve your sins? Much less be called father? Who forgives them? The prayers of the righteous get caught up in their own wailing. The virtuous words of moralists are quite impressive, though it's obvious some find it difficult to raise the mind above the cummerbund. Whether preacher, priest, seer, guru or sage, all harbor their own private passions and human frailties, thus they are not superior to anyone and should not be considered gods.

AWAKEN TO SPIRITUAL LIFE


Few on earth are pure in heart, for while in lower worlds soul is constantly subjected to the influences of the negative power. But when man becomes attached to Sound and Light, he finds himself detached from all that deeply troubled him.
Looking for exemplary lives, the magic wand would trim its wick in shame if it peered the privity of chambers under vaulted roofs. The stone-wlls of religious orders, as the private lives of ranting prophets could tell astonishing tales. No doubt we would withdraw our praise from those who demand our consistent reverence and remind us to rue our infamies. But we know there are exceptions, depending on the inward energizing of the consecrated soul. But most of them will do no more than following the rest, preferred to feeling insecure and disconnected.
We worship an obscure Ideal, but forget to search out the Essence of Its Heart. Last, but not least, individuals can pray for lifetimes, chastise body and spirit, work like trojans, and never realize God. For the being must become illumined from within, that then life would grow gradually purer. Celibate is only he whose heart and life are celibate, who lives encloistered by the Radiant Spirit no matter where he may abide. only two kinds of souls are there: one who revels in self-production, the other who subdued his pangs of lust.
When man is alone he is himself. We call it privacy. Unmindful of the all-Observing, Unseen Guest, he abandons every principle. The message simply states: Live what you profess. We don not judge, but observe the action. And, independent of galvanized opinions, all are of the Light, regardless of sexual preferences. Some experience Its manifestation to greater degree and know God better, than their infernal hecklers and abusers who profess God at every turn. The Divine Self knows no division. All of the Light become ruled by It.
Whilst people's guilts punish them far worse than the Tribunal Spirits would concede, we merely lift the sacrilegious veil of virginal pretense and of blurred modesty from those who hail Eternal Life and love to all - but kill the life within their womb. Though life itself is indestructible, premature termination and dissection cause great pain to the unborn. And deprives the soul of a form, a body - and an incarnation it prepared to enter over many lifetimes.
If you are involved in awakening others to the Light of God, thus represent the Virtue of the one, Who is Father, Son and Holy Ghost, there are things you can no longer do in public or in private. some options are no longer yours. "If you cannot keep your own counsel, how can you expect another person to keep it." -Proverb-
We cannot separate sexuality from ethics and morality, neither exists by itself. you are what you are, the whole You. Until these issues are faced, there will be trouble afoot and dissension at every turn. self-honesty is a vital factor to mental health and spiritual progress. As every soul goes through periods of learning, let each do what holds true for him, but reserve his guilt for himself and not attack others because of it.
It is not in hoe nor willingness human darkness transmutes into Light, but through the Power Current of Divine Love that will change the course of every thought and redirect your energy.

MYTH OF THE VOW


The claim that physical union robs you of spiritual power is untrue. To the contrary, it strengthens it, makes steady and stable. Affectionate, loving sexual union keep body, mind and spirit in needed balance and deepens the bond and inner harmony of the relationship. The subliminal stirring of sex is a spiritual impulse, but as bodily function not a spiritual act. The idea that it is the duty of woman to satisfy the sexual drive of her spouse is chauvinistic and crude, since some humans suffer from uncontrolled sexual compulsions. such person's thoughts constantly attain to enduring sex, upon which they make everything else contingent. Thus inclined, they say: "You do for me and I'll do for you!" True love invokes a mutual, natural, loving response. However, once the soul has entered conscious union with God, it will then y the Power, Mercy and Purity of this bond begin a celibate existence.
Man will never be satisfied until he meets God. To realize God means fulfillment on every level. God and soul are two halves of one whole. God is your True Soul Mate. The love between soul and God is rare, exciting, complete and ravishingly divine. A fulfillment of promise and love sought. And even though God loves you more intensely than any human being can, He will leave you to cry alone to test your faithfulness and loyalty. When soul meets God it is a Bond no power can break. For this is the bond no man can put asunder. Ad infinitum it is the only marriage made in heaven.

THE BURDEN BELONGS TO US


Over the centuries nonconformists as the reformed were persecuted alike, injured, brutalized, thrown into prisons and perished - as pseudo radicals offered their human sacrifice to God. oppression of the human spirit bears dire consequences, that extend far into future existences. The enemy must be faced again until he becomes the friend. Freedom is not won by death, but by surrender to God.
Nations are men, men are people, and we, as souls, are karmically indebted and liable for the actions of the whole, as mass-karma demonstrates when people die together by the drones. The duty to redeem the wrong remains within us and becomes our karmic destiny.
Because God is I Am - is consciousness and Life, whatever our brothers are, good or evil, I Am is also, albeit to degrees. The True Self includes all Life. Thus in the Unity of Spirit is no distinction, for the Infinity o Spirit is the infinity of soul. Until we recognize our unity with all life, see and treat it as One soul, and as we would ourself - and behold the God-Presence as the center of all things; evil will dog our footsteps and disrupt our lives. Things will not change, but we can change ourself whereby uplift the whole.

WHY WAR


Conditions that ensue from amalgamating religion with politics and greed, as from religion itself, not only jeopardize our economy but the physical and spiritual future of our young. But as the saying goes: "It's nobody's fault and everybody's problem~"
No sooner than a just man endeavors to establish harmony and order, fanatics and money grubbers annihilate him. For the sake of warring and civil defense by which we claim to protect ourselves from each other, people are taught to hate, when the hatred is even their own brother. To keep the memory of acrimony and unforgiveness alive, we memorialize the bloodshed of war and weep at the monuments of our transgressions. Thus we preserve the madness and history of false martyrdom and call it our legacy for the young. A tumultuous legacy of hate, indeed. peace seeking individuals do not want to hear about these issues but are affected by them just the same.
While religious patriots kill each other "In the Holy Nave of God", they express every attribute of satan. Have we forgotten to love? When still young, someone handed me this poem from an unknown author, that points to a better way: "I sought my God, but my God I could not see, I sought my soul, but my soul eluded me, I sought my brother - and found all three!"
Warmongers are the crows that hover on the Branches of the tree of Life and steal away Its Fruit. Thousands, nay, millions of young, blossoming souls are forced to give up their life in senseless battle - that others may have what they demand. Our young die for those who never sorrowed for anyone but themselves, who are indifferent to the suffering their infernal mandates provoke. The mouth praising God, their heart is a fuming caldron of iniquity, thievery, hate and spiritual treason. To them speak the words of John the Baptizer: "He that saith he is in the light and hatest his brother, is in darkness even now."

WHERE DO HEROES GO?


Contrary to popular belief there are no heroes in heaven. The Law "thou shalt not kill!" (whether man or animal), holds true Above as below! And on june 29, 1987, the roman catholic clergy announced their sanction for the death penalty. quote: ". . . some crimes warrant the same treatment!" unquote. How can the perfidious absolve your sins or guide you to God? It is not up to man to institute laws that condemn to death, neither to prolong life by artificial means. It is disconcerting to think man no longer has the right to decide his own destiny.

IN THE NAME OF GOD


Observing world events and researching historic records prove the wantonness and bloodstained character of world religions. having myself endured the misery and horror of woeful times, and stared into the blank Face of War, gives good reason for pointing to unchanging conditions.
The colossal, gruesome looking Entity of War remained unmoved by the groaning, writhing agony of the dying. it didn't give a wink as flatbed wagons piled up with the dead rumbled down the narrow, cobbled streets of our town; and caravans of tattered and wounded hobbled after them, battered, maimed, leaning against each other, some dragging along on crutches - trickles and thin streams of blood marking the ground.
The air was filled with anxiety. Panic-stricken individuals peeped out from behind the curtains, a few moved cautiously about. Echoes of rattling machine guns and the blood-curdling screams of the repeatedly raped and stricken pierced the periodic stillness of the night. Every now and then bombs came down en masse, in inverted X-Mas tree patterns that turned the distant horizon into daylight. The ground beneath us trembled from nearby explosions and people were afraid.
In retrospect it invokes the thought that devotion, selfless love towards the whole and consecration to one's God were to b our gifts to life. but scanning the Globe we find none but anguish, sickness, suffering and death; while the Spirit of War lay like a cat in wait for the catch.
The terror, barbarism and persistent acts of persecution by the grim orders of the Great Inquisition are still at large and rampant all over the world; supported by the charity of do-gooders, mercenaries, religious flag-wavers, missionaries and misfits. While the Presence of the Invisible Master silently moves through the wasted harvest fields of earth and barrenness of soul to save the wheat and save the chaff!
Believers and unbelievers sign the blood-oath against each other, instead of trying to bridge the gap of religious controversy and to turn to the Beacon of Light that pours Its Merciful Love into every heart. The less concerned and lightness ignore the bloodstained ground and worship at the feet of Mamelukes and militants that run their warring systems and wanton institutions. We speak of peace and desire it but the world has never heard of it in its entire existence, not even for one holy Hour. Peace will manifest when it takes root in every individual heart around the Globe. Is it possible? Evil is as evil does. Lust, greed and passion are the cause of every war. Try as we may, there is no fair trial within the system of the negative material world, since it exists outside the limits of Divine Truth.
The answer then for every soul is found in the Holy Spirit of god. Its truth makes strong, steady, stable, and clean in heart and spirit. To love Truth manifests Its Grandest Reciprocation. When you feel loved the warring mind is layered to rest. honesty, gentility and power are the virtues of the holy warrior. It is no clinger nor a weeper. Forged by the power of spiritual Love the True soul has a heart of steel in every way. There is nothing it can't cope with or conquer. When you are joyful and peaceful within, thus at peace with yourself, you contribute to World Peace.

MAKE END TO WAR


Wars and weaponry are the use of perverted power. It is the mind that grubs and hankers after things, scourers the planet for its last treasure, and drains away its living resources to satisfy vanity and greed. in deeper spiritual observances you will find enough must die because we live. Warring is the congregated destructive will of evil-minded men, who should look to their higher part, the Soul, that is a citizen of every country, loves all creatures great and small, and every nationality, because in God it loves itself. Until we are able to love he Innate Self, we are unable to love anything else.

FROM BRIGHTER HORIZONS


Our advanced technology and explorations of outer space have drawn to us forces from Higher Dimensions and the counsel of Superior Beings; who would teach us self restraint and how not to act in order to survive. But we hide the evidence of their Visitations and pretend it never happened. Why? Would accepting their guidance and wisdom make an end to our atrophic teachings, believability and pride? Would it unseat our philosophies, bigotries, sophism - and broaden our limited perception of God?
Whether it is realized or not, true brotherhood extends into other worlds as well; and since we are not the Superior Race, we are subordinates of higher Intelligences more powerful and evolved than we, thus inferior to them.
Other than the 'Greenhouse Effect', there is concern these days about what would happen if aliens invaded our planet, but we do not stop to think we already invaded theirs. Instead of being bent on star wars, we should befriend our Higher Brothers and contact them by inner means on Inner Planes - instead of alienating and ridiculing them.
We would greatly benefit by listening within and accepting the Nobel Help extended to us from Brighter Horizons. It is self-evident what our ingenuity, insensitivity and willfulness have done to our planet. Perhaps there is still time to turn the tide. For, once the blurred Face of Nuclear Death becomes discernible at the Great Disjunction, it will be too late to change directions.

WHAT IS RELIGION?


Spiritual systems are part of the universal scheme and beneficial until they arrest our attention and block the way to Higher Consciousness. The child must be taught in the ways of God if it is to have a sound, moral foundation when an adult. But freedom of self-expression must be allowed, that the child when a man can find his way back to God.
since religion is an individual, inner experience, every person lives his own religion. how many can we count? billions. True religion affects change in every department of life. In its fall, it becomes congregated, segregated, steeped in rituals, external worship, fanaticism and fatalism. Pure religion is the love, affection and holy bond between soul and its Maker. Whether or not people call it of the devil, does not subtract from this Truth. The true soul knows neither preacher, priest, creed, doctrine or script, no any master, save the Radiant Lord within. It does not cower nor confess, nor bow to any one but God - and never compromises.
What Jesus taught is unrelated to the perpetrated myths admonished from pulpits. he did not teach Neoplatonism, nor the system of sacrifice Paul handed to his followers, which clearly belongs to the Old Judaic belief.
The message of eternal life does not resound from dead-letter texts, but as vibrant Sound and Light flows down from the heart of God into the soul of all creation. its all-imbuing rhapsody and Holy Word is perceived by every happy, cheerful heart and heard in every universe and world. For a religion to be true, its teachings must be based on Sound and Light, allowing inquiry into the afterlife and teach the principles of Action, Consequence, and Rebirth as fundamentals.
World religions insist life either ends in heaven or hell, some say at the grave! Would my Reader conclude we should believe suppositions that predetermine how it is going to be with us after death?
Only those can teach such doctrines who never found the Truth of God within themselves and never glimpsed His Brilliant Light nor heard the Sound; who not once observed the timeless wonder and luxuries of Nature, nor the Nature Beings that breathe life, vitality and beauty into everything. Nor beheld the glistening energies that stream from every bush and dart out wide from the top of every tree.
And if he who leads would watch the stars recede at dawn and reappear at eventide; and contemplate the Secret of the changing seasons, where all things come to life, thrive, die and are reborn, he would come to know the nature of himself and recognize the nature of his god.
But we cannot propagate what the mind cannot accept - thus we amble on. The words of John C. Lavatar here well apply: "there are ut three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive."
If individuals would glimpse the Reality of God for just one fleeting moment, they would cease plucking on the nerves of others and surrender to the Will of God. in this ineffable experience the worlds of the Ancient Saint resound: "Listen thou from me, O soul, to the secret of thine own being; thou wert ever with me."

ON OPPOSITE POLES


Religious spirituality differs from Spiritual Religion, as much as the uprising clouds of hyped up emotions are unrelated to the inspiration that is purely Divine. The latter is the quiet ecstasy of God in which there is no shouting, lamenting or kicking up your heels. And so, each in his own pace moves from stage to stage, until he has reached satiety, or meets with some disaster or misfortune, where he turns to God and makes the saving connection.
I've met persons who never saw the inside of a church, who were imbued with such radiance and so infused with heavenly Light I felt like taking off my shoes. And met others who reiterated their scriptures at every opportunity "to bear witness", who were infilled with hate, bigotry, and the scorn of the righteous - and spattered forth their indignations and poltergeist messages without flinching. it seems to me, spiritual lovingness should be the rule rather than the exception. suffice it to say, when we take our vaudeville act of electrical excitement on the road to raise anything - it should be our consciousness to God.
Individuals raising hell to their own level realize their deep fears. when asked to back up their allusions of heaven and hell, the kindhearted and joyous become increasingly irritated and take the antagonistic stand. For they must pause on issues beyond their keen, that have yet to become their reality. When you know the word you speak of, you do not have to craft your answers beforehand or quote from a book. For then you affirm with full authority: I say!
You have to live the answer before you can give it. All who sought have not found. And for all the times I said otherwise, my silent, long-term observations of their lives - that would have made a devil of a thriller - brought me to every foregoing conclusion. But no matter; 'er the bark may whither, the branches crumble or the leaves may fall, the Sap and Root of the Tree never change!
All scriptures are guide posts, pointing here and there, but the Divine Lord taught, neither to look here nor there, but to the Kingdom within. And thus spoke the Lord Christna to his disciple Arjuna: "Low men follow examples, Great Men give them. . . there is but one God. . . worship by deed predominates contemplation. -Bhagavat Gita-
The True Shepherd is within you. The Holy Spirit is your Teacher, the Divine Messenger that fills your heart with boundless and enduring joy, and guides you back Home to God. anyone who wants with all his heart to know the Way to the Kingdom will find it. and anyone who truly found it and experienced God, is profoundly at peace. The Worlds of God are free of illusive fantasies. There is only endless Love and endless Truth. Sometimes what seems most difficult, is the easiest to obtain. -PEACE-



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