The Keenperception Of My Soul

The Chariot in the Art Nouveau deck is your Tarot card of the day

2010-10-26T22:04:00.000-07:00

The Chariot in the Art Nouveau deck is your Tarot card of the day

Joni's Personal Tarot Card:

The Chariot

This Tarot Deck: Art Nouveau
General Meaning: Traditionally, the card usually entitled the Chariot points to a triumphal feeling of freedom, as if the charioteer is being paraded through the streets as a hero (or heroine). The card reflects congratulations for high achievement, and serves as a sign of empowerment.

Huge wheels and frisky steeds speed the rate at which the driver's willpower can be realized. This kind of charge makes more of the world accessible to anyone ambitious enough to seize the Chariot's reins. But there is danger in this feeling of freedom, because of the increased rate of change and its power to magnify mistakes in judgment. As a seasoned warrior, the Charioteer is called upon to be extra attentive to the way ahead.

Judgment in the Visconti-Sforza deck is your Tarot card of the day

2010-10-26T21:49:00.000-07:00

Judgment in the Visconti-Sforza deck is your Tarot card of the day

Today's Tarot Card for Everyone:

Judgment

This Tarot Deck: Visconti-Sforza
General Meaning: What has traditionally been known as the Judgement card, sometimes entitled Resurrection, represents the great reunion that the ancients believed would happen once in every age. This was the time when souls are harvested and taken Home to their place of origin, outside the solar system. Then the World is seeded with a batch of new souls and the process starts over.

From a modern point of view, this great reunion -- which includes every personality that you have ever been and every soul that you have done deep work with -- reunites to consciously complete the process. In a way, we symbolically celebrate this returning to center every year on our birthday.

In personal terms, the Judgment cards points to freedom from inner conflicts, and so clear a channel, that the buried talents and gifts of past incarnations can come through an individual in this lifetime. This card counsels you to trust the process of opening yourself, because what emerges is of consistently high quality. You can effortlessly manifest as a multi-dimensional being, and assist in evoking that response from others.

My life is my own! Debate on Measure 74 Medical Marijuana

2010-10-05T03:47:00.000-07:00

My life is my own! No man on this earth has the right to tell me how to take care of my own body! The man in this video who opposes the movement needs to take a turn on Narcotics and other man made chemicals which he seem to prefers over a herb grown in the earth! Did I hear him say he use to be a "stoner" back in the day, in high school? Was he scared straight? Now he is passing on the dysfunction trying to scare us! Power trips I say! They are on a power trip as usual to keep us away from helping our selves! I for one am tired of them telling us how to live! They have not lived our lives how can they tell us a thing! Power trip that is how! They just do as they are told and think everyone else should follow suite! They oppose "US" not "MM!" Would they prefer I was still taking the 160mg time 3 per day of Oxycontin? Or that I was still on Oxygen which I needed to keep me breathing as my Oxygen levels were so low due to the narcotics that I would stop breathing! That man had no facts! His so called facts were the same old garbage. This State will be no more or less then it already is when this Measure is passed! The stoners are still the stoners, the user's of Medical Marijuana are still "Patients"! My own story, if these insensitive would listen, has facts! God if I could allow that man to live inside my body just for one day! Let him check my facts out and then look me in the eyes and tell me any thing! The facts are that my life was saved with the use of Medical Marijuana! It got me off eight years of pain narcotics prescribed by my MD for chronic pain! They almost killed me with their drugs and if that man cares to check into my life he would find plenty of facts to support our cause! My own doctor can not dispute the truth! I am better and still alive because of Medical Marijuana! Let that man face me! Thank God I was able to find a grower because I could not pay the price of what it cost to get the medication I need and I could not grow it for myself either! The narcotics I was on alone coast our tax payers over $1000.00 per month and that is not counting all the other crap they had me on! Check out the facts on "Oxycontin!" The fact of the matter is, Pharmaceuticals are not the right way back to health! I am proof that there is another way of dealing with health needs! The natural way! I think if you look at this a bit deeper you will find that the real truth behind there scare is in $$$$ and job security for these blood hounds who are put on our scent trail like the trained dogs they are, they do not care who they bite in the end as long as they get feed! As long as they keep their job security! How many arrests at 12am have you seen or read about due to MM? I hear about Alcohol and Meth all the time but never have I heard, "Man shoots up night club because he is stoned!" Have you? You know, anyone can be stupid, it does not take MM or any other substance to make you stupid! Believing every thing you are told.....that is stupid! I found out for myself about MM and found in favor of it! I walked the walk so that is way I talk the talk! To that man in the video opposing us I say, Mister, where do you get your facts? Take some notes from my life! I am an open book come take a look within my pages!
Please everyone check out the debate and then speak your mind, because "the mind is a terrible thing to waste" not knowing the facts! Pass this on to every one! WE have a right to seek our own health! I gave their FDA approved way a chance and it almost killed me, so I am scared straight from that way for sure! The people know what they need to be well! They need to listen to us! They need the real facts! Loving! Joni

My friend and supporter of human rights Albie posted this comment!

It's a clear case of the Power Elite (PE) controlling our lives. All over the world, what should be our decision, the PE tell us what to do. In the most menial matters, we have little to no choices left in directing our lives the way we want to. Health is the primal condition that can't be messed with. Health and well-being takes up 95% of the make-up of our happiness marker. This means that if we were all healthy, we would therefore be happiest. The MM debate is a farce. MM is definitely a stone, whether you take it for a medical condition or not. The point is it relieves people from the hum-drum of an already dull life. It is already being taken by the majority of the worlds population as the most preferred substance to consume. It has no ill effects apart from lethargy. It is a substance that helps insomnia suffers sleep deeper and longer. It is a social herb that brings people together in congeniality, unlike alcohol which promotes violence and mayhem. The other chemical drugs have a culture of theft and murder. Which one would you choose? Not only is MM beneficial for ill patients but is a source of fiber for clothing, the housing and the paper industry for its strength and resilience. MM has been used for centuries by various cultures for these same reason and suddenly because a buck can be made from it and the fact that the medical fraternity would become obsolete if it were legalized is the misinformation that is fed to the populace, globally. It seems the PE don't want MM legalized as they wont make money out of it and the population would be happy to revolt against any improprieties they might make against us. Criminalization of MM is the only way they can control every aspect of our lives. What would be the worse case scenario if MM were legalized. Well, if we all had it then the criminal element wouldn't exist, period. The PE know already that MM is a good product that helps humanity in dealing with the daily grind and promotes health and well being and that is the sole reason for its criminalization.
Put back the power to where it belongs. With the people.

Thanks for your support Albie! Loving! Joni

Big Brother Is Watching

2010-10-04T05:42:00.000-07:00

New system tracks what kids eat

Big Brother may be watching you -- but Big Mother is keeping an even closer eye on your kids.

In a shocking and blatant electronic intrusion, schoolchildren in Iowa are being forced to submit their school lunch choices to a computer, which matches their selections to a federal database.

If Big Mother approves, the kid gets to eat. If not, well, I suppose he gets to pick again... but it probably won't be long before he gets shipped off to a reeducation camp.

WE WILL EAT WHAT THE PARTY TELLS US TO! WE WILL EAT WHAT THE PARTY TELLS US TO! WE WILL EAT WHAT THE PARTY TELLS US TO!

Since the system works by computer, the kids -- some as young as 5 years old -- have to memorize a personal pin code before they can eat. And, just in case any of them are already learning how to hack the system, cafeteria staff watch to make sure the kid and food match up to what's in the computer.

Now, I know what you're thinking: What the heck's wrong with making sure kids eat a healthy lunch, doc?

Just the simple fact that federal bureaucrats wouldn't know a healthy meal if they were eaten by one!

Here's one way the feds have "improved" school lunches in recent years: They've replaced pizza with... pizza on a whole wheat crust. Never mind that it's still a carb-loaded nightmare starring processed noncheese and sugar-soaked tomato "sauce."

The only healthy thing on the pizza was the pepperoni -- and they're taking that off!

Remember, federal guidelines are the result of political -- not scientific -- negotiations with the barons of the food industry. Need proof? Just peek inside a school cafeteria, where you'll usually find items like Froot Loops and chocolate milk, well within government "standards."

That's not a breakfast of champions -- that's the lunchtime of losers.

But expect to see more of these tracking systems in more schools, because there's something else at work here -- something much more sinister: By raising a generation of kids who grow up with computers tracking their every move, they'll produce a generation of adults who don't know what the world was like before Big Brother and Big Mother took control of the family.

Think I'm exaggerating? It's already started -- and lunch isn't the only thing on the menu.

One California school forces kids to wear microchip-embedded jerseys that track their every move. And yes, Uncle Sam gave them the money for that program.

The future is here, and it is frightening.

It doesn't stop with kids -- keep reading to find out the latest scheme to keep tabs on you!

Big Brother is watching your garbage

That's not a hobo going through your trash -- that's a government agent!

Sounds crazy, I know... but creeping Big Brotherism has fallen to a filthy new low as the city of Cleveland unveils a high-tech trash-tracking system designed to weed out disloyal citizens who refuse to recycle.

The city is wasting millions of dollars on new computerized garbage cans and recycling containers embedded with radio frequency identification chips and bar codes.

Every pickup day, Big Brother will know which cans you rolled out... and if it turns out you haven't sent the recycling bin to the curb in a while, one of his agents will stop by to visit your trash.

And if he finds more than 10 percent recyclable material mixed in with your waste, you'll be out $100.

Even worse, you'll be on Al Gore's naughty list.

Cleveland says eventually, everyone in the city will be given these bins... and it's not alone. Similar greenie-pleasing systems are already in place in Philadelphia and Alexandria, Virginia.

Of course, the cities say this is just about making sure residents recycle -- not spying on people and tracking their behavior and habits.

Yeah, right. Tell that to the folks over in the U.K., where more than 2.5 million microchip-enhanced garbage bins not only track recycling habits... they also weigh the trash.

The more you throw away, the more you pay.

And while officials there made the same hollow privacy promises that you hear over here, they were caught digging through residential trash in 2008 to find evidence on income and lifestyles.

But that can't possibly happen here, right?

Eventually, there will come a time when people won't know what it's like NOT to have their every move watched and tracked.

And that time isn't far off.

He may be big, but he ain't my brother,

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

2010-10-03T12:53:00.000-07:00

Friday, June 16, 2006
People come into your life for a reason..
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a god send and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrong doing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.What we must realize is that our need has been met,our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.
Some people come into your life for a SEASON,because your turn has come to share, grow or learn.They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.!
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons,things you must build upon in order to have a solid motional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
Thank you for being a part of my life, whether you were a reason, a season or a lifetime.

posted by thepotofwisdom @ 5:42 PM

Loving Joni back to Health! ~ The Battle On My Mountain! ~

2010-09-17T10:31:00.000-07:00

Song:

One Tin Soldier (The Legend of Billy Jack)
by Lambert-Potter
"Listen, children, to a story That was written long ago, 'Bout a kingdom on a mountain And the valley-folk below. On the mountain was a treasure Buried deep beneath the stone, And the valley-people swore They'd have it for their very own. Go ahead and hate your neighbor, Go ahead and cheat a friend. Do it in the name of Heaven, You can justify it in the end. There won't be any trumpets blowing Come the judgment day, On the bloody morning after.... One tin soldier rides away. So the people of the valley Sent a message up the hill, Asking for the buried treasure, Tons of gold for which they'd kill. Came an answer from the kingdom, "With our brothers we will share All the secrets of our mountain, All the riches buried there." Go ahead and hate your neighbor, Go ahead and cheat a friend. Do it in the name of Heaven, You can justify it in the end. There won't be any trumpets blowing Come the judgment day, On the bloody morning after.... One tin soldier rides away. Now the valley cried with anger, "Mount your horses! Draw your sword!" And they killed the mountain-people, So they won their just reward. Now they stood beside the treasure, On the mountain, dark and red. Turned the stone and looked beneath it... "Peace on Earth" was all it said. Go ahead and hate your neighbor, Go ahead and cheat a friend. Do it in the name of Heaven, You can justify it in the end. There won't be any trumpets blowing Come the judgment day, On the bloody morning after.... One tin soldier rides away. Go ahead and hate your neighbor, Go ahead and cheat a friend. Do it in the name of Heaven, You can justify it in the end. There won't be any trumpets blowing Come the judgment day, On the bloody morning after.... One tin soldier rides away."

On that note:

The Battle On My Mountain!

The blood was shed, the life was sacrificed, but now I am risen like the Jesus I know as my savior! He himself showed me the way through this life of death, keeping love alive! Jesus my teacher, sacrificed himself for my life! He showed me the way, he stood up for me as he nearly died! Love set Him free, love lifted Him up and love took Him to the Isle of Iona, there his love did grow! The seed of his love was passed on through the mother of his seed, Mary Magdalen our Lady of Love! Many have told the same story many have lived and died to carry on the same tale, the tale where we are driven by our desires then used by our masters, burned at the stake, hung on the cross before we are then thrown into a cave to rot!

As the story goes, with help from loving hands, minds and hearts, love has come to lift me up, by Jesus, by Bruno Groening, by Gandhi by Allah... by my love for myself! Many spirits have come to help, which I have come to see as "All 'Being' Love"..........all are of God, all are a part of God therefor are God! In God's image we are made and therefor each are as God! Each our own teacher when we get out of our own way and let The God (in us) lead the way, teaching us, as we shut up and listen! Our inner guidance comes from a place described by many in many ways! All ways lead to God, to Allah, to The Infinite Divine One!

We are of that same power, that same energy coming from the cosmos which fills every space in the universe like a continual web which effects every thing and every one! Subatomic Elements! We see them only when they come together in a pattern which we can understand with our limited thinking. We see our selves as flesh but in reality we are electric! We are small elements of energy come together making up who each of us are, each one individually uniquely patterned! It may be difficult to understand this power, we can not see it, yet we know it is there! The same elements in the Mountain are the same in Me!

Many other things in life take on a similar pattern, ones which our life is sacrificed, for the greater good, weather you realize it at the time or not! We are all a learning experience, not in one, we are one!

We are used to study products, like new medications for many different diagnose, one such product which brought on my crucifixion was the most wicked of all! Oxycontin! This was my death and my resurrection! It almost took my life, yet in the end I was risen from the dead and given life because of my situation and where I ended up in that situation, I was thrown into yet another chaotic night mare! A night mare in which I once again found my self sleeping.

I was falling under the cross again when I found loving hands reaching out, pulling me up, helping bear my cross! These loving individuals are growing in numbers and are who God has brought into my life to help heal me!

I must first thank Barry Carter for his dedication and hard work tracking all the data which he manages on the ORMUS so that we can see the truths of our real choices! I for one did not have a clue to my choices! But then as I trusted the higher power in me, I was lead to the one thing my body was telling me "It" needed, minerals! I had told my doctor I need minerals and he told me to take a multi-vitamin, I knew that I needed more. Three weeks later I found myself following clues put in front of me by my higher power, I followed these clues and found ORMUS, another story of finding life, one which is magical, Google it!

Barry gave me minerals to try, ORMUS minerals, I took them and within one week I had life being restored to me! I was animated again!

At that time I was in a situation where I did not feel safe or happy and in the end was attacked and hurt by the people I should have been able to trust! I found myself yet again in the mist of pain! I had my closes friends and family helping me but It was me inside this body being crushed, twisted, and stabbed with electrical fire running rampant in me. Muscles were locking into permanent spasms again, which never let up.

Deeper then that however is a web, a web of life, a wed which houses our every inner cell! The fascia. Myofascia a web flowing smoothly through out the entire body wrapping every organ, nerve, tissue, muscle and cell. This web tightens only when damage of some kind is put upon the body, inner or outer, emotionally or physically! This is the bodies way of protecting it's self. When the fascia locks up to protect the body it solidifies. The fluid movement of the fascia becomes ridged to hold things into place while they heal! If the body is under to much stress or is chronically injured it protects itself with the fascia like a cast, holding in place the injured body parts, but if to much stress is continued, the body is thrown into a chronic state of protection locking up the fascia! This is were Ann's hands come into play, helping open the fascia back up!

We become trapped inside this web or cast protecting us! We find ourselves under pressure of over 2000 pounds! The fascia is like a mummy wrap which your inner body is completely engulfed in! When this web locks down the entire body can be affected! This is how I was, I was in a mummy suit! The pressure was so great and I could not get any one to understand how I felt! I could not describe what I was going through good enough to get the help I needed! I knew I needed hands on help, I could see it in my mind over and over! Two hands pushing on the spots that hurt so much, someone to reach into me and pull out the pain! But with our system the way it is, I could not get that help! Instead I ended up on narcotics prescribed for chronic pain! These narcotics made my pain worse!

From the moment I started those narcotics my life started to fall apart and I began the slow descent into the abyss, into the underworld! I found myself in my bed and by the end of eight year of this, I had no life, I was ready to die! I didn't know how I was going to get out of all that pain, I was alone, without helping hands!

I would not have found the help even now if it were not that "One More Time I Was Hurt!" Being hurt again was what brought me to "Ann" and "Carl"! My two healers who are now helping me heal! With out drugs, with out narcotics! I am being healed by all natural God given gifts from the "Garden" or from "Loving Hands"! Ann and Carl are two of the most loving individuals I have had the "Grace" of meeting!

Between the two of them and my "Higher Power" as I know and understand "It" I have continued to find health! Finding along the way my own God given knowledge, for we are so off track knowing our own bodies! I am regaining the right frequency to receive the right signal in order to have my body operate right! This healthful functioning I feel has come to me through the ORMUS witch has helped me find balance within my DNA! That signal has tuned me into my higher power greater then I have ever experienced before!

Healing is coming to me as I see it within myself! My mind is where I find the help, connecting within my heart, within Love! I think I am getting well therefore I am, I desire it so it comes to me! It is my "Intent!" I desire my fair share of life, it is my God given right to live life in love! I love myself well! Care is coming to me as I open up and let it come! I have been given a team and that team and I are healing me with the guidance of God leading each of us, "Together!" Together, we will all be healed! Loving! Joni

Edible Weeds: Dr. Linda Digs Burdock

2010-07-28T13:30:00.000-07:00

Edible Weeds: Dr. Linda Digs Burdock

2010-05-17T03:44:00.000-07:00

How ALL phones SHOULD be answered!

GOOD MORNING, WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA , a Christian nation of the free and the home of the brave. How may I help you?
.......

Press
'1' for English.

Press
'2' to disconnect until you learn to speak English

And remember only two defining forces have ever Offered to die for you,

Jesus Christ

And the American Soldier.

One died for your soul,

The other for your freedom.

WAIT UPON THE LORD

2010-05-15T23:17:00.000-07:00

Study Guide

Tape available

WHY SHOULD WE WAIT UPON THE LORD?
Ps.27:13-14 - we are commanded to WAIT upon the Lord
PROMISES

THEY THAT WAIT UPON THE LORD SHALL :
Is.40:31 Renew their strength Rise up on wings like the eagles Run and not grow weary Walk and not be faint
Ps.37:7-9 Inherit the earth
Is.49:23 Not be ashamed
Lk.12:3 Shall have all things added unto him (be served)
Is.30:18 Be blessed, happy, fortunate, envied
Is.64:4 Have God working on his behalf
Lam.3:25 Obtain the goodness of the Lord
Phil.3:20-21 Shall be changed - transformed
SHALL = denotes FUTURE PROMISE
Tells us what is going to happen to THEY. It also tells us that they who don't, wont get these things
WORD DEFINITIONS: WAIT
Dictionary: to remain - be ready - be in expectation - stay until something anticipated occurs. - tarry to allow one to catch up. - to remain temporarily neglected,unattended to - to work as a waiter
WAIT ON - UPON
to serve the needs of - to follow as a result
WORSHIP IS A FORM OF WAITING
# Scripture: Is.30:18 - expectant looking and longing - expect & look & long for Him and His victory,favor,love,peace,joy & His matchless unbroken companionship.
# Ps.62:5 - hope and expectation
# Is.8:17 - look for and hope
# Hos.12:6 - expectation
HOW TO WAIT
IKi.19:11-12 Loud action - violent wind - earthquake - fire Then - a still small voice - WAIT UPON THE LORD
Do not be swayed by pentecostal excitement
IIKi.2:11 Chariot and horse of fire - distractions while Elijah went up
WAITING DOES NOT MEAN DOING NOTHING
THINGS TO DO WHILE WAITING
IIPet.3:12-14 Prepare your heart
IPet.5:6 Humble yourself before God
Jn.4:23-24 Worship God in Spirit and truth
Mt.6:9-18 Pray and Fast
Jn.12:24 DIE to your self life
WAIT UPON THE LORD - ACT AFTER HE GIVES THE INSTRUCTION
Jn.5:30 as the voice comes so I give a decision
Ps.46:10 be still and know that I am God
Zech.4:6 not by might, not by power,but by My spirit says the Lord
Mt.5:3-11 beatitudes
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For The People "WE NOTICED"

2010-05-15T22:49:00.000-07:00

This was written by Sherry Hackett, Buddy Hackett's widow.
"WE NOTICED"
President Obama:
Today I read of your administrations' plan to re-define September 11 as
a National Service Day. Sir, it's time we had a talk.
During your campaign, Americans watched as you made mockery of our
tradition of standing and crossing your heart when the Pledge of Allegiance
was spoken. You, out of four people on the stage, were the only one not
honoring our tradition.
YES, "We noticed."
During one of your many speeches, Americans heard you say that you
intended to visit all 57 states.
We all know that Islam, not America has 57 states.
YES, "We noticed."
When President Bush leaned over at Ground Zero and gently placed a
flower on the memorial, while you nonchalantly tossed your flower onto
the pile without leaning over.
YES, "We noticed."
Every time you apologized to other countries for America 's position on
an issue we have wondered why you don't share our pride in this great
country.. When you have heard foreign leaders berate our country and
our beliefs, you have not defended us. In fact, you insulted the
British Crown beyond belief.
YES, "We noticed."
When your pastor of 20 years, "God-damned America " and said that
9/11 was " America 's chickens coming home to roost" and you denied
having heard recriminations of that nature, we wondered how that could
be. You later disassociated yourself from that church and Pastor
Wright because it was politically expedient to do so.

YES, "We noticed."
When you announced that you would transform America , we wondered
why. With all her faults, America is the greatest country on earth.
Sir, KEEP THIS IN MIND, "if not for America and the people who built
her, you wouldn't be sitting in the White House now." Prior to your
election to the highest office in this Country, you were a senator from
Illinois and from what we can glean from the records available, not a
very remarkable one.

YES, "We noticed."
All through your campaign and even now, you have surrounded
yourself with individuals who are basically unqualified for the
positions for which you appointed them. Worse than that, the majority
of them are people who, like you, bear no special allegiance, respect, or
affection for this country and her traditions.

YES, "We noticed."
You are 14 months into your term and every morning millions of
Americans wake up to a new horror heaped on us by you. You seek to
saddle working Americans with a health care/insurance reform package
that, along with cap and trade, will bankrupt this nation.
YES, "We noticed."
We seek, by protesting, to let our representatives know that we are not
in favor of these crippling expenditures and we are labeled
"un-American","racist", "mob". We wonder how we are supposed to let
you know how frustrated we are. You have attempted to make our protests seem
isolated and insignificant. Until your appointment, Americans had the right
to speak out.
YES, "We noticed."
On September 11, 2001 there were no Republicans or Democrats, only
Americans. And we all grieved together and helped each other in
whatever way we could. The attack on 9/11 was carried out because we are
Americans.
And YES, "We noticed."
There were many of us who prayed that as a black president you could
help unite this nation. In six months you have done more to destroy
this nation than the attack on 9/11. You have failed us.
YES, "We noticed."
September 11 is a day of remembrance for all Americans. You
propose to make 9/11 a "National Service Day". While we know that you
don't share our reverence for 9/11, we pray that history will report
your proposal as what it is, a disgrace.
YES, "We noticed."
You have made a mockery of our Constitution and the office that
you hold. You have embarrassed and slighted us in foreign visits
and policy.
YES, "We noticed."
We have noticed all these things. We will deal with you. When Americans
come together again, it will be to remove you from office.

And allow me to add another:
Yes, “I noticed”.
Unlike President Bush, who ALWAYS looked the Marine in the eye as he saluted with respect when disembarking from his aircraft –You on the other hand look straight ahead, making no eye contact with the United States Marine. Your disdain for our military is both evident and insulting to all who served and are serving our once great nation. The same nation you are hell bent on destroying.
Semper Fi,
Neal
Take notice.

Declaration Principles

2010-05-15T22:47:00.000-07:00

Declaration Principles

Abraham Lincoln said, in Independence Hall, February 22nd, 1861: "I never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence."

We who share Lincoln's views must make clear to ourselves and to our countrymen what those "Declaration sentiments" are.

We hold that what Lincoln referred to as the "sentiments" of the Declaration are the principles of the American Republic. And we understand them to include the following:

* All men are CREATED equal. Hence they have equal natural rights as a gift of the CREATOR.

* Our duty to seek and follow the will of the Creator is prior to all government. Accordingly, so is the liberty of religious conscience.

* The authority of the Creator, being prior to all civil society and human authority, must be respected for liberty to endure.

* There is a natural right to life, prior to all positive law, including the Constitution.

* There is a natural right to acquire, secure, and use property for safety and happiness.

* Men have a right and a duty to form governments to secure their rights, and to assist one another in striving for happiness.

* Men are authorized by the Creator to defend these rights, and accordingly, so are the governments they form. From this authority proceeds the right and duty to defend national sovereignty and security.

* Governments are made legitimate by the consent of the free and equal persons who form and sustain them. Governmental powers are always to be understood as a delegation from the persons who compact to form the political community.

* To enjoy the right of political self-government, men must be capable of personal self-government--the virtue of self-control. A people without decency cannot be secure in its liberty.

* The institutions by which the life of liberty is fostered — especially the marriage-based two-parent family, the churches, and other associations aiming at the good life — are to be protected and cherished.

* The vocation of citizenship in a free republic is noble and honorable. Public service, especially in the defense of the rule of law, merits praise and respect.

* The right to self-government entails the right to arms by which tyranny can be resisted and new government established when necessary.

* Governments may fail in many ways and still be tolerated. Peace is a precious good, and the people may be well advised to be patient with occasional governmental abuse to avoid rashly unleashing the season of popular passion and violence that will accompany any change in the fundamental form of government.

* But the worst failures, tending irrevocably to excessive concentration of power, consolidating the branches and depriving the people of its liberty, or withdrawing the protection of the laws from the people, constitute tyranny or anarchy, and may and sometimes should be resisted, even to the point of rebellion, as our Founders declared.

* Free speech and a free press are both required for the practice of responsible liberty, as necessary means by which the people can act together to govern themselves according to the laws of nature and of nature's God.

* All persons have a right to equal treatment under the laws without regard to race, creed, or ethnicity.

* It is the duty of the people, individually and in their associations, private and public, to declare the principles of self-government, including the fundamental American creed that our liberties come as a gift of the Creator.

* Personal religious belief is not a requirement for American citizenship, but acknowledgment of our national belief that human equality and rights come from an authority beyond human will is a moral duty of citizenship. Its rejection constitutes a denial of natural rights and human equality, and is inconsistent with ordered liberty.

On the basis of these principles, we would like to add a new term to American grassroots politics: DECLARATIONIST. A "Declarationist" is anyone who believes in the principles of the American Republic as outlined in the Declaration of Independence.

(Adapted from "Summary of Declaration Principles," by Dr. Richard Ferrier.)

They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. —Isaiah 40:31

The Declaration of Independence

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The Declaration of Independence

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness--that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

JOHN HANCOCK, President

Attest.

CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.

They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. —Isaiah 40:31

Lily Of The Valley Happy May Day

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Lilliputian Lily of the Valley
May 1, 2004 - © Audrey Stallsmith

He's the Lily of the Valley,
The bright and Morning Star.
He's the fairest of ten thousand to my soul.
from hymn, The Lily of the Valley, by C. W. Fry

Lily of the valley's ladder of miniature bells seems just the right size for the little people. So the flower is frequently called fairy bells. Despite its delicate appearance, however, this "lily" is one tough little plant. When I started my current garden, near a site where an old house had once stood, there was already an Oriental poppy and some lilies of the valley growing there. Although the poppy has gotten crowded out by other plants, the "lilies" have since spread to carpet an entire hillside.

The plant is also known as May lily, Our Lady's tears, lily constancy, ladder to heaven, male lily, and convall lily. Its official title, convallaria majalis, derives from the Latin convallis ('valley") and majalis ("May-flowering"). In France, its bells frequently decorate lapels on May Day.

Lily of the valley supposedly sprang from the blood shed in the fierce struggle between St. Leonard and the dragon Malitia. Due to the flower's pristine color and its association with the Virgin Mary's tears, it often symbolizes purity, and is considered the 5th thing that a bride should carry. In the Language of Flowers, the plant's low stature associates it with "humility." Perhaps because it signifies the return of spring, it also stands for the "return of happiness."

In The Fragrant Path, Louise Beebe Wilder reports that "In the old credulous days. . .a miraculous water was distilled from the chaste flowers of the Lily-of-the-Valley. It was called Golden Water, and whoso drank of it found new strength and vigor animating his old and tired limbs and new courage in his heart." Gerard asserts that this "water" (actually wine), often served in golden vessels due to its perceived value, can "restore speech unto those that have the dumb palsie and that are falne into the Apoplexie, and are good against the gout, and comfort the heart. The water aforesaid doth strengthen the memory that is weak and diminished. . ." Folklore holds that the distillation, dabbed on the forehead and nape of the neck, also restores common sense!

Convallamarin, which is derived from lily of the valley, does slow and strengthen the heart in a manner similar to digitalis (foxglove). Although it is not considered as poisonous as digitalis, convallamarin can still be toxic-especially to children. I seem to recall reading about a little girl who died after drinking water from a vase that contained some "fairy bells." So, these days, it's probably best to seek restoration only in the plant's delicious scent.
The copyright of the article Lilliputian Lily of the Valley in Historical Plants is owned by Audrey Stallsmith. Permission to republish Lilliputian Lily of the Valley in print or online must be granted by the author in writing.

I've Found a Friend in Jesus
(Lily of the Valley)

I've found a friend in Jesus, He's ev'rything to me
He's the fairest of ten thousand to my soul
The lily of the valley, in Him alone I see
All I need to cleanse and make me fully whole
In sorrow He's my comfort, in trouble He's my stay
He tells me ev'ry care on Him to roll

He's the lily of the Valley
The bright and morning star
He's the fairest of ten thousand to my soul

He all my griefs has taken, and all my sorrows borne
In temptation He's my strong and mighty tow'r
I've all for Him forsaken, and all my idols torn
From my heart, and now He keeps me by His pow'r
Though all the world forsake me, and Satan tempt me sore
Thro' Jesus I shall safely reach the goal

He'll never, never leave me, nor yet forsake me here
While I live by faith and do His blessed will
A wall of fire about me, I've nothing now to fear
With His manna He my hungry soul shall fill
Then sweeping up to glory to see His blessed face
Where rivers of delight shall ever roll

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Flowers A-F ~~ Flowers G-O ~~ Flowers P-S ~~ Flowers T-Z ~~ Flower Meanings Sorted by Word/Phrase

GARDENIA: You're lovely, secret love, joy, sweet love, good luck.

GARLIC CHIVES: Protection, courage, strength.

GERANIUM: Stupidity, folly, comfort, gentility. Associated with the fourth wedding anniversary.

GINGER: Strength, safe, pleasant, warming, comforting.

GLADIOLUS: Strength of character, remembrance, infatuation, splendid beauty, give me a break, I'm really sincere, flower of the Gladiators, admiration, tells recipients that they pierce the heart like a sword. Because the gladiolus has blade-shaped leaves, the name comes from the Latin word gladius which means sword. Also the birthflower for August.

GLOXINA: Love at first sight.

GOLDENROD: Encouragement.

HAZEL: Reconciliation.

HEATHER, LAVENDER: Admiration, solitude, beauty.

HEATHER, WHITE: Protection, wishes will come true.

HEN-AND-CHICKENS: Welcome home husband however drunk you are.

HIBISCUS: Delicate beauty.

HOLLY: Foresight, defense, domestic happiness, enchantment.

HOLLY BERRIES: Christmas joy.

HOLLYHOCK: Ambition, fruitfulness. Associated with the thirteenth wedding anniversary.

HONEYSUCKLE: Bonds of love, generous, devoted affection.

HOPS: Mirth.

HOSTA: Devotion.

HUCKLEBERRY: Simple pleasure.

HYACINTH: Sport, play, games, rashness, flower dedicated to Apollo.

HYACINTH, BLUE: Constancy.

HYACINTH, PURPLE: I am sorry, sorrow, please forgive me.

HYACINTH, RED OR PINK: Play.

HYACINTH, WHITE: Loveliness, I'll pray for you.

HYACINTH, YELLOW: Jealousy.

HYDRANGEA: Thank you for understanding, frigidity, heartlessness, heartless.

IRIS: Wisdom, Fleur-de-lis, emblem of France, valued friendship, faith, hope, valor, my compliments, passion. Associated with the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.

IRIS, BLUE: Faith, hope.

IRIS, PURPLE: Wisdom, compliments.

IRIS, YELLOW: Passion.

IRIS, WHITE: Purity.

IVY: Fidelity, wedded love, friendship, affection, marriage.

IXIA: Happiness.

JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT: Associated with the seventh wedding anniversary.

JACOB'S LADDER: Come down.

JASMINE, WHITE or INDIAN: Amiability , I attach myself to you, sensuality, attachment.

JASMINE, SPANISH: Sensuality.

JASMINE, YELLOW: Grace, elegance.

JONQUIL: Sympathy , love me, affection returned, desire.

JUNIPER: Protection.

LADY'S SLIPPER: Capricious beauty, win me.

LAMB'S-EARS: Support.

LANTANA: Rigour.

LARKSPUR: Fickleness, ardent attachment, levity, lightness. Also the birthflower for July.

LARKSPUR, PINK: Fickleness.

LARKSPUR, PURPLE: First love.

LAUREL: Glory, success.

LAVENDER: Devotion, happiness, success, luck, distrust.

LEATHERLEAF FERN: Fascination.

LEMON BLOSSOMS: Faithful love.

LILAC: Youthful, humility, confidence.

LILY: Majesty, wealth, pride, innocence, purity.

LILY, WHITE: Purity, modesty, virginity, majesty, it's heavenly to be with you. The white lily is linked to Juno, the queen of the gods in Roman mythology, by the story that while nursing her son Hercules, some excess milk fell from the sky creating the group of stars we call the Milky Way, and lilies were created from what milk fell to the earth. The Easter lily is also known as the symbol of the Virgin Mary.

LILY, ORANGE: flame, I burn for you.

LILY, YELLOW: I'm walking on air, false, gay.

LILY OF THE VALLEY: Return of happiness, purity of heart, sweetness, tears of the Virgin Mary, you've made my life complete, humility, happiness, love's good fortune. The legend of the lily of the valley is that it sprang from Eve's tears when she was kicked out of the Garden of Eden. It is also believed that this flower protects gardens from evil spirits. Also known as the flower of May.

LIVE OAK: Liberty.

LOTUS BLOSSOM: Estranged love.

MAGNOLIA: Dignity, love of nature, nobility.

MAPLE: Reserve.

MARIGOLD: Affection, cruelty, grief, jealousy. The marigold was called Mary's Gold by early Christians who placed garlands of marigolds by statues of the Virgin Mary.

MARIGOLD, POT: Grief, despair.

MARJORAM: Blushes.

MIMOSA: Sensitivity.

MINT: Virtue, warmth, protection.

MISTLETOE: Kiss me, affection, to surmount difficulties, sacred plant of India.

MONKSHOOD: Beware, a deadly foe is near, danger.

MORNING GLORY: Loves you, affection. Associated with the eleventh wedding anniversary.

MOSS: Maternal love, charity.

MULBERRY TREE: Wisdom.

MUSHROOM: Suspicion.

MYRRH: Gladness.

MYRTLE: Love, Hebrew emblem of marriage.

NARCISSUS: Egotism, conceit, self love, self admiration, formality, stay as sweet as you are. Also known as the birth flower for December.

NASTURTIUM: Conquest, victory in battle, patriotism. Associated with the fortieth wedding anniversary.

NIGHTSHADE: Truth.

OAK LEAVES: Bravery.

OAK TREE: Hospitality.

OLEANDER: Caution.

OLIVE BRANCH: Peace.

ORANGE BLOSSOMS/FLOWERS: Purity, innocence, eternal love, marriage and fruitfulness, fertility, pure loveliness, chastity.

ORANGE, MOCK: Deceit.

ORANGE TREE: Generosity.

ORCHID: Rare beauty, love, refinement, beautiful lady, Chinese symbol for many children, mature charm, beauty, long life. Associated with twenty-eighth wedding anniversary.

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Archangel Gabriel

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(Saint Gabriel Archangel, Angel Gabriel)

The Archangel Gabriel is the exalted Messenger of God, whose name means "The Strength of God" and whose deeds are recorded in the Jewish scriptures, where the spirit aided the Prophet Daniel in the interpretation of his dream-visions. Although an important Jewish angel, Gabriel has touched the lives of those of different religions as well.

In the Christian Bible, it is Gabriel who brings important news to Zachary and the Virgin Mary concerning their children-to-be, and many Christians believe that at the Last Judgement Gabriel will blow a sacred trumpet horn.

Furthermore, according to Muslims, Gabriel dictated the Koran to Mohammed over a period of 23 years and also accompanied the Prophet on his Night Journey.

Some people believe that Gabriel is a female spirit; others hold that angels have no gender.

Because of Gabriel's role as a communicator and mediator between Heaven and Earth, Catholics hold the Archangel to be a Patron Saint of broadcasters, telecommunications workers, diplomats, messengers, postal workers, and stamp collectors. Because Gabriel helped the prophet Daniel interpret his dreams, those seeking similar aid with their own dream work may petition the Archangel for help. Additionally, because Gabriel announced the births of both John the Baptist and Jesus Christ, women hoping for heavenly assistance in trying to conceive children have reported benefits from keeping an Angel Gabriel novena candle burning in the home.

The picture of the Angel Gabriel on this page is taken from a Lucky Mojo brand Catholic novena candle label and shows the spirit appearing as an annunciator, a bringer of good news and understanding.

Because of Gabriel's eminent position, holy cards, candles, and anointing oils bearing the likeness of this archangel have long been available in the marketplace. These are used by spiritual practitioners who wish to keep the image of Gabriel before them as a simple adjunct to their prayers and devotions. It is said that those who light a novena candle to the Archangel Gabriel will receive news they have been awaiting.

There are a total of seven Archangels according to ancient Jewish beliefs -- of whom four are most commonly petitioned, those being Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel. In African American hoodoo folk magic or rootwork, two of them are associated with a powerful natural curio called Angelica Root or Archangel Root. Archangel Michael, the eldest, is used with Angelica Root as a defender of women. Archangel Gabriel who is concerned with the announcements of pregnancy, is allied with this root in its role as an herbal tonic for women's reproductive health.

It is my hope that the following prayer to the Archangel Gabriel will be of use to all, and will find service among those who request the intercession of this great and powerful heavenly being.

PRAYER TO ARCHANGEL GABRIEL

Alleged to Help in Communication and Conception

Beloved Gabriel,
Glorious Messenger of the Court of Heaven
and most excellent Saint and Archangel,
first minister of God,
interpreter for Daniel the Prophet,
instructor of Zachary the Priest,
annunciator to our Holy Mother Mary,
bringer of the word of truth:

Please favor my devotions and help me to love and serve you, and, through you, to love and serve the Lord.

O Gabriel Archangel, grant me what I most earnestly desire and humbly ask for with this prayer, for the honor, glory, and fulfillment of my soul.

Amen.

Stand In The Strength Of God

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Articles - Victory
by Jesse Duplantis

The Bible exhorts us to be strong in the Lord, yet many Christians have never learned how to stand in the strength of God.

Ephesians 6 says:

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.
(Eph. 6:10-18)

Our struggle is not against flesh and blood. Our struggle is against rulers, powers, and forces of darkness. There are different kinds of devils just as there are different kinds of angels, but the devil doesn't have anything new.

The same things he tricked Eve with are what he uses today. We must be wise enough to stand against the schemes of the devil and not each other.

We fight God when we fight each other, because we are fighting the same spirit that should be bearing witness with the Holy Spirit. When we stand in God's strength, we are on alert for the Body of Christ.

Instead of helping the devil tear down the Body, we completely quench his flaming missiles with the light of God.

The strength of God is joy, and the joy of the Lord is your strength. If you are standing in the strength of God, joy should be evident in your life.

Some people attribute the growth of my ministry to my personality. They say, "You are an exciting individual. You know how to stir people up!"

They believe that my personality has opened up doors for me. The truth is that the Lord Jesus Christ opens up the doors as I stand in His strength.

I never stand in my own strength; I can't handle it. Jesus said to His disciples, "Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak" (Matt. 26:41).

So I don't stand in the realm of the flesh; I crucify it daily and stand in the strength of God.

Source: The Ministry Of Cheerfulness by Jesse Duplantis.
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers

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The Strength Of God Is Joy,

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Articles - Christian Living
by Jesse Duplantis

When we stand in God's strength, we are on alert for the Body of Christ. Instead of helping the devil tear down the Body, we completely quench his flaming missiles with the light of God.

However, there are many people looking for the shout to produce the light in their lives instead of letting the light and joy in their lives produce the shout!

They think emotion and excitement will produce light in them. But the light of God is available to us right now. We don't need to shout, scream and beg to get it. All we need to do is put on the armor of light, and the light will produce the shout.

Romans 13:12 says, "The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light." The armor of light on you blinds Satan. Light comes from all around, and he can't tell whether it's you or God.

Don't turn off the light and begin to stand in your own strength!

I've heard people say, "Bless God, if it kills me, I'm going to get healed." Well, you are going to die, because you are standing in your own strength. Strength comes from God, not from the way you do things. It's the Father in you who should do the work.

Jesus said, "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me" (John 5:30). Again in the Garden of Gethsemane He said, "Father…not my will, but thine, be done" (Luke 22:42).

Jesus did not enjoy the terrible things that were done to Him. He was punched in the face and spit on. His beard was pulled out and a crown of thorns was placed on His head. A scarlet cloak was thrown over Him and they kicked dust in His face and mocked Him.

He didn't like any of that, but He did it so that you and I could have the light of life…His glorious life of redemption.

In the midst of spit, blood, cursing and degradation, He said, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" (Luke 23:34). That took strength. Jesus was standing in the strength of His Father.

Preaching The Gospel
There have been times I've thought I'd hung on a cross. I've had people wag their heads at me, spit, scream, and holler. I've had people pull knives on me. My first thoughts were, "I could have stayed home. I don't need this mess. I don't have to put up with this trash."

The Lord said, "Preach the Gospel." So I stood in the strength of God. That makes all the difference.

Now my flesh didn't like it, but that' s all right. My flesh will never like anything I do when it comes to the Spirit of God.

Romans 7:18 says," For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not." So instead of trying to appease my flesh, I just crucify it daily.

Whatever you preach, you should produce.

You can talk your talk, but what is going to happen when the test comes? Anyone can get angry and sin. Your flesh wants to sin. You might get aggravated and feel like your wife is running you up a tree.

You think, "That's it, Jack, I'm gonna get me a bottle of booze and slowly slide down this tree." That's when you must crucify your flesh and say, "No, I'll not do that, in the name of Jesus." Does your confession become your possession?

Like I said, whatever you preach, you should produce.

The strength of God is joy, and the joy of the Lord is your strength. If you are standing in the strength of God, joy should be evident in your life. Let God's light and joy be your strength. Because with it, you'll not only be able to quench the enemy's flaming missiles, you'll then be able to shout about it as well!

Source: The Ministry of Cheerfulness by Jesse Duplantis
Excerpt permission granted by Faith Library Publications

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Lighthouse Chapel International

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Did You Know..

Lighthouse Chapel International currently has over 1,000 branches

Our Beliefs

That God Almighty is the one and only true God.

That He is three-in-one, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and Creator of all nature.

That Jesus Christ, born of the Virgin Mary is the only begotten son of the Father.

That He is God manifested and dwelt among men.

That all men have sinned and need redemption from their sins in order to have everlasting life in Heaven as opposed to eternal death in Hell.

That Jesus Christ died for the sins of all mankind on the cross and that salvation is available through Him alone.

That a Christian is someone who has consciously and willingly accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour.

That all activities in the lives of believers must be guided and directed by the Word of God which is the Bible.

That the ministry and gifts of the Holy Spirit to believers, as experienced by the early Church, is for us today.

That in accordance with the Scriptures, Jesus Christ will come again to reign on Earth and at the final judgement will judge each man individually for what he has believed, done, said and thought.

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Modeling An Incredibly Positive Attitude

2010-04-24T14:07:00.000-07:00

A Young Widow Needs Your Help

Thank you for what you're doing. I'm a recent young widow myself and I know there is very little support available to us. My husband was killed in Afghanistan this past May. - Lisa V., West Virginia

While there are many agencies and organizations serving the needs of single moms, and a significant number of organizations serving the needs of mature widows, there are very few support organizations that provide specialized assistance to widows with dependent children.

Sylvia's Foundation, Inc. is a non-denominational, non-profit organization that develops programs that will improve the quality of life and make a difference for young, widowed moms and their children. These programs include educational aid and stipends and automobile and home ownership assistance grants.

This link may seem a little strange for this site but it's in keeping with James Allen's philosophy. In "The Path to Prosperity" he writes, "As you rise above the sordid self; as you break, one after another, the chains that bind you, will you realize the joy of giving, as distinguished from the misery of grasping...you will then understand that it is indeed "more blessed to give than to receive.""

Sylvia Fanelli was widowed at 36 with five children under the age of 10. She had an eighth-grade education, no skills, she never owned an automobile (and never had a driver's license), and received very little government assistance. Despite her obstacles, she managed to raise her children into responsible and productive citizens while modeling an incredibly positive attitude --- it is an attitude that still lingers today among those who were touched by her. This non-profit organization is named in her memory. She was also my grandmother :-) ....so I would really appreciate you checking this site out.

- Vic

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Overcome Fear & Doubt

2010-04-24T14:02:00.000-07:00

From: Vic and Lisa Johnson
Date: Monday 6:57 PM
Melrose, Florida

Dear Friend,

It's enough to make you sick.

It causes some people a constant and gnawing pain in the pit of the stomach.

Others drink more or smoke more because of it.

It's killed more dreams and ruined more careers than all other causes combined.

Fear, and all of its cousins, doubt, worry and anxiety may be the worst enemies of the human species.
Sure Signs That Your Life is Controlled By Fear and Worry

Our fears impact us physically, mentally and emotionally. They enhance our negative thinking and impair our normal perception, rationality and comprehension. They cause us to limit our expectations and to avoid taking undue risks or face complications. Although our fears are intended to be part of our survival instinct, they become a problem when they begin to interfere with our normal functioning,

We can see their negative impacts on our results and our relationships. Over the course of our lives we become so habitually accustomed to our fears that we may not even notice their presence in our consciousness. As we learn to ignore our fears by pushing them down deep into our subconscious, we develop strange habits and self-limiting behavior under the illusion of leading normal lives, without feeling impaired or uncomfortable. In other words, we learn to how to rationalize (which is another way of saying we learn how to tell ourselves "rational lies")!

Do you find yourself with any of these conditions caused by fear, worry, doubt and anxiety:

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Carry around a gnawing feeling of impending doom?

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Irrational behavior (any kind of binge, ie., shopping, eating, drinking) followed by dark and gloomy guilt?

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Prefer to stay in the same job or in the same unhappy relationship even if they are bankrupting you emotionally?

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Avoiding deep communications with others for fear of exposing your weaknesses?

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Undersell yourself due to the poor opinion and low expectation of yourself?

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Physical symptoms like physical and mental tension, knot in the stomach, sweating, sleeplessness, indigestion or increased blood pressure, among others?

Fear is the cause of many of our mental and physical diseases, ranging from phobias to asthma, high blood pressure, strokes and nervous conditions. Fear-filled words have the power to destroy, tear down, discourage, depress, malign, and even call into being death and disease.

Left unchecked, fear (and all its cousins) will keep you in a state of discouragement, frustration and denial. In it's worst state it can destroy your business or career, your marriage, your health and your happiness.

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Fear, doubt and worries are constant problems for many people even during the best of economic times. But now, with the biggest financial catastrophe since the Great Depression affecting many people, fear and worry have reached epidemic proportions.

We've heard from so many subscribers who've experienced some incredible and painful anxiety about what the future holds that we decided to pull together our very best trainings on the subject of How to Overcome Fear & Doubt.

As A Man Thinketh

2010-04-24T13:33:00.000-07:00

Open Up The Door!

Let Love Come In!
Lonely Hearts Cracked Open!
Let Out The Pain!
Let Light Fill The Room!
Let Life Fill The Room!
Let Love Fill The Room!
You Are Not Alone!
Your King Or Queen
Await You!
Open Up The Door!
JMM

Today's Message

MY FRIDAY STORY
The Room Filled
by Michael Smith

I ran home from school, stomped up the worn wooden steps, slammed open the front door and yelled,

"Mum! Mum, I'm home!"

"Michael, I'm right here!" Mum appeared around the corner. "Stop yelling. What if your father had been sleeping? You know he works nights."

"Sorry, Mum." I mumbled and hung my head in shame. "I didn't mean to yell."

"If you had woken him, you know how mad he would have been."

"I just wanted to show you my spelling test." I handed her my test. "I got a gold star."

"You got another one?" She smiled. "Good for you! You always study so hard, but you have to remember not to yell when you come in the house ."

"I know, Mum, but I was exited and wanted to show you." I lied. Dad drank a lot. If he had too much, he'd argue with Mum. I was afraid she'd leave. My two older brothers and I would be alone with him. What if I came home and she was gone? It was a fear I lived with most of my childhood. I needed to know she was there.

Years later, I moved away for my first job. Each evening, I'd open the door to a lonely, empty room. I didn't callout for Mum. I knew she wasn't there. I spent evenings alone. There were no computers, only books and a television. It was a temporary situation.

Three months later, I was home again. Mum and I sat at the kitchen table, played cards, and talked. It was nice to have someone to share my day with - someone who loved me.

A year later, I sat in my car. The back seat and trunk were full of my belongings. My mattress was tied to my roof. Mum stood beside the car.

"Well, you're off on your own again."

"This is it." I smiled up at her. "I can't believe I have my own house."

"You'll do fine, Michael." Her eyes glistened. Tears threatened to spill down her cheeks.

"Thanks for everything, Mum. Without your support, I wouldn't be going where I'm going today." I pulled away and wiped my own tears from my eyes. I'd miss coming home to her, but there was another woman I'd be coming home to soon.

A few hours later, Georgia and I sat in the living room of my new home. I knelt on one knee and asked her to marry me. For many years, I came home from work to my wife. We had two children - a boy and a girl. Georgia and I shared our days and love. My home - my life - was full. I was happy.

Disaster struck. My manager announced major layoffs. Fifteen years of seniority were not enough to save me. A new job took me to another city. Georgia and our kids stayed behind to sell the house. I opened the door to a rented room. There were no hugs, no children yelling "Daddy", and no one to share my day with. I was alone.

A year later they joined me. I opened a door to love and family again. The pattern continued: a new job, a move, a lonely room, and a family that followed later.

I came home one night to another empty room. My daughter didn't move with us this time. She was on her own. My son was home, but he didn't greet me. He wanted to be alone to deal with his feelings. Georgia died the week before.

I faced an empty room. I never understood what empty was. There were many empty rooms I cried in, but not one compared to the room Georgia never filled again.

A year later, I opened the door, and there was Ginny. Her arms reached out and pulled me close. Her lips met mine. Her loved soothed me. Ginny and I have been apart for a month or more a few times. She's had to help her children in other states. I'd enter an empty room when I came home from work and hear my footsteps echo off the walls - the sound of alone. I was sad she wasn't there, but I knew she'd be back.

Ginny knows an empty room. Her husband, Harvey, passed on and left her in one too. We keep those rooms behind closed doors. They remain empty. Like a photo album, we only go there when we want to remember the past.

Ginny and I live in the present room - the room filled.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michael Smith lives in Idaho with his beautiful wife Ginny. Michael writes inspirational stories in his spare time and works full time in the telecommunications industry. To sign up for Michael's stories go to: http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1101828445578&p=oi
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Love For Man

2010-04-24T04:50:00.000-07:00

What the Bible Teaches

Chapter 420

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LOVE TO MAN

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Topic 10: What is Love?

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POINT 10:

Matthew 5:43-47 [43] "You have heard that it was said, `Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' [44] But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, [45] that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. [46] If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? [47] And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?

1 John 3:14, 16-17 [14] We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. [16] This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. [17] If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?

Love for another is a desire for and delight in their good. Love is not mere fondness for another nor pleasure in their society. The character of another may be hateful to me, and his society disagreeable, but still a real desire for his welfare is love.

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Topic 20: The Objects of Christian Love

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POINT 10: We should love the brethren, those born of God, all saints.

1 Peter 2:17 Show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.

Ephesians 1:15 [15] For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, [16] I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.

While, as we shall see, a Christian should love all men, he should and will have a peculiar love for God's children.

Compare Galatians 6:10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.

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POINT 20: We should love our neighbor.

Matthew 19:19 [18] ... Jesus replied, " ... [19] ... `love your neighbor as yourself.'"

Matthew 22:39 And the second is like it: `Love your neighbor as yourself.'

Who is our neighbor?

Luke 10:29-37 [29] But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" [30] In reply Jesus said: "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. [31] A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. [32] So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. [33] But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. [34] He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him. [35] The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. `Look after him,' he said, `and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.' [36] "Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?" [37] The expert in the law replied, "The one who had mercy on him." Jesus told him, "Go and do likewise."

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POINT 30: We should love all men.

1 Thessalonians 3:12 May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.

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POINT 40: We should love our enemies.

Matthew 5:44 [44] But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Enemies are specialized because they are the ones whom we would be least likely to love.

How shall we show our love to our enemies? The remainder of the verse shows. See also:

Romans 12:20 On the contrary: "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head."

QUESTION: Doesn't the Bible teach that Satan and his angels are our enemies? Does this mean that we should love them?

ANSWER: Satan is our enemy, but we should not love him, as we should love human enemies, for there is one crucial difference. Each man will not be judged, and perhaps condemned, until the end of his life. During his life there is still a possibility that our love may be the love that saves a human sinner. Also, we cannot see inside another man's heart. The person we perceive as not worthy of our love may in fact not be the sinner we believe him to be. On the other hand, Satan and his minions already are condemned. They are enemies of God and beyond redemption.

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POINT 50: Husbands should love their wives.

Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

The husband has an especial duty of love toward his wife. The doctrine that a husband should have no more interest in the welfare of his wife than in that of any other woman is totally unscriptural. While Christ has a love for all men, He has an altogether especial love for the Church, and so the Christian husband should love all, but have an altogether special and unique love for his wife.

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POINT 60: Wives should love their husbands.

Titus 2:4-5 [4] Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, [5] to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.

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Topic 30: How Should We Love?

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POINT 10: We should love in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 16:24 My love to all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen.

Christ Jesus is the author of our love. It is for His sake we love. Our special love to the brethren is because of their special relation to Him.

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POINT 20: We should love without hypocrisy. Our love should be genuine, unfeigned.

Romans 12:9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.

Much professed love is a mere pretense. Much calling of one another "brother" is the hollowest formalism and sham.

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POINT 30: We should not love merely in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth; not in saying, but in doing; not in professing, but in practice.

1 John 3:18 Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

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POINT 40: We should love from the heart, fervently - rather, "intensely."

1 Peter 4:8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 1:22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.

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POINT 50: We should love with abundance.

Philippians 1:9-11 [9] And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, [10] so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, [11] filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ - - to the glory and praise of God.

1 Thessalonians 3:12 May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.

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POINT 60: We should love our neighbor as ourself.

Matthew 19:19 honor your father and mother,' and `love your neighbor as yourself.'"

Romans 13:9 The commandments, "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet," and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: "Love your neighbor as yourself."

Galatians 5:14 The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."

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POINT 70: We should love the brethren, even as Christ loved us.

John 13:34 A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

John 15:12-13 [12] My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. [13] Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

1 John 3:16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

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Topic 40: How Love is Manifested

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POINT 10: Love is manifested by abstaining from everything that would injure another.

Romans 13:10 Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

"Love works no ill." There is much here for reflection. The applications are countless.

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POINT 20: Love is manifested by doing good when we have the opportunity.

Galatians 6:10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.

Love is not merely negative -- abstaining from doing injury, it is positive, doing positive good.

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POINT 30: Love is manifested by becoming a servant to others.

Galatians 5:13 You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.

This is illustrated in Jesus Christ:

John 13:1-5 [1] It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love. [2] The evening meal was being served, and the devil had already prompted Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray Jesus. [3] Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; [4] so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. [5] After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

Philippians 2:4-7 [4] Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. [5] Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: [6] Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, [7] but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.

The man who wishes to be served but will not serve does not love. Love seeks lowly places of service.

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POINT 40: Love is manifested by our not seeking our own, but our neighbor's good.

1 Corinthians 10:24 Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others.

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POINT 50: Love is manifested by our not looking after (or caring for, having regard for) our own things, but for the things of others.

Philippians 2:4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

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POINT 60: Love is manifested by our bearing one anothers' burdens.

Galatians 6:2 Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

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POINT 70: Love is manifested by our bearing the infirmities of the weak.

Romans 15:1-3 [1] We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. [2] Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. [3] For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me."

Christ is the great example here also.

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POINT 80: Love is manifested by our bearing not pleasing ourselves.

2 Corinthians 2:7-8 [7] Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. [8] I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him.

In this particular instance the man had gone deeply into sin, the vilest sin.

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POINT 90: Love is manifested by our pleasing others for that which is good unto edifying.

Galatians 6:1 Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.

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POINT 100: Love is manifested by forgiving and comforting the wayward.

1 Thessalonians 5:14 And we urge you, brothers, warn those who are idle, encourage the timid, help the weak, be patient with everyone.

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POINT 110: Love is manifested by restoring in a spirit of meekness the one overtaken in any trespass.

Romans 14:15, 21 [15] If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died. [21] It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.

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POINT 120: Love is manifested by admonishing the disorderly.

Romans 14:19 Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification.

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POINT 130: Love is manifested by encouraging the faint-hearted.

Romans 12:15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.

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POINT 140: Love is manifested by supporting the weak.

Luke 6:35 But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

Lend and keep on lending, hoping against hope.

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POINT 150: Love is manifested by being long-suffering toward all.

Ephesians 4:2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

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POINT 160: Love is manifested by avoiding that which causes a brother to stumble.

Ephesians 4:32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

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POINT 170: Love is manifested by following after the things which make for peace and things whereby one may edify another.

Romans 14:19 Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification.

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POINT 180: Love is manifested by rejoicing with those who rejoice and weeping with those who weep.

Romans 12:15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.

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POINT 190: Love is manifested by lending, never despairing.

Luke 6:35 But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

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POINT 200: Love is manifested by forbearing one another, i.e., suffering wrong and ill without vengefulness and retaliation; overcoming evil with good.

Ephesians 4:2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

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POINT 210: Love is manifested by being kind, being tender-hearted.

Ephesians 4:32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, ....

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POINT 220: Love is manifested by forgiving one another even as God in Christ forgave us.

Ephesians 4:32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

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POINT 230: Love is manifested by giving of our means to meet another's need.

2 Corinthians 8:24 Therefore show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our pride in you, so that the churches can see it.

1 John 3:17 If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?

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POINT 240: Love is manifested by being kindly affectionate one toward another.

Romans 12:10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves.

It is easy to do this in little conventionalities, as e.g., in the matter of passing through a door first; but do we do it in the really important affairs of life?

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POINT 250: Love is manifested by seeking the higher place for someone else, the lower place for oneself.

See Romans 12:10 above.

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POINT 260: Love is manifested by being long-suffering.

Note: Points 260 through 400 are all supported by this verse:

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 [4] Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. [5] It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. [6] Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. [7] It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. [8] Love never fails. ...

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POINT 270: Love is manifested by being kind.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ... love is kind. ...

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POINT 280: Love is manifested by not envying.

1 Corinthians 13:4 Love ... does not envy, ...

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POINT 290: Love is manifested by not bragging about oneself, gloating, swaggering.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 [4] Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. [5] It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

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POINT 300: Love is manifested by not being puffed up, conceited, selfish.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 [4] Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. [5] It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. [6] Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

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POINT 310: Love is manifested by not behaving unseemly.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 [5] It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. [6] Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. [7] It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

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POINT 320: Love is manifested by not seeking our own.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 [5] ... it is not self-seeking ...

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POINT 330: Love is manifested by being slow to anger.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 [5] ... it is not easily angered ...

Some people teach that one should never become angry, indeed, that it is a sin. In fact, the Bible teaches that we should be angered by iniquity. Jesus became angered by the Temple money changers who insisted on charging a fee to convert secular money to "temple money" or for special gifts, e.g., sin offerings and grain offerings.

Matthew 21:12-13 [13] Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. [13] "It is written," he said to them, " `My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you are making it a `den of robbers.'"

John 2:13-16 [13] When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. [14] In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. [15] So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. [16] To those who sold doves he said, "Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father's house into a market!"

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POINT 340: Love is manifested by not keeping a record of wrongs.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 [5] ... it keeps no record of wrongs.

This does not mean that iniquity should be ignored. It has often been said that "The only thing needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." The Bible says "Spare the rod and spoil the child." But there is a difference between combating iniquity and not letting go of prior wrongs.

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POINT 350: Love is manifested by not rejoicing in unrighteousness.

1 Corinthians 13:6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

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POINT 360: Love is manifested by rejoicing in the truth.

1 Corinthians 13:6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

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POINT 370: Love is manifested by bearing all things.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 [4] Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. [5] It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. [6] Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. [7] It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. [8] Love never fails. ...

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POINT 380: Love is manifested by trust.

1 Corinthians 13:7 It ... always trusts ...

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POINT 390: Love is manifested by hoping all things.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 [7] It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

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POINT 400: Love is manifested by persevering.

1 Corinthians 13:7-8 [7] It ... always perseveres. [8] Love never fails. ...

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POINT 410: For a personal wrong, love is manifested by rebuking the person first privately, then before a witness if necessary, and if necessary before the church.

Leviticus 19:17 Do not hate your brother in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in his guilt.

Proverbs 27:5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

Ephesians 5:11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

Matthew 18:15-17 [15] "If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. [16] But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that `every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.' [17] If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

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POINT 420: For a public wrong, love is manifested by reproving the offender in the sight of all.

1 Timothy 5:20 Those who sin are to be rebuked publicly, so that the others may take warning.

Note that this public reproof is by an elder.

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POINT 430: Love is manifested by reproving sharply when necessary.

Titus 1:12-13 [12] Even one of their own prophets has said, "Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons." [13] This testimony is true. Therefore, rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith

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POINT 440: Love for others is manifested by praying for them. There is no way in which we can do more for them.

Matthew 5:44 But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

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POINT 420: Love to the children of God is manifested by loving the offender God Himself and doing His commandments.

1 John 5:2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands.

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POINT 460: Love to the brethren is manifested by our laying down our lives for them.

John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

1 John 3:16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

The manifestations of love specifically mentioned in the Bible are very numerous. As one goes over these he begins to see how love covers every duty to every class of men, and how true it is, as Paul says:

Romans 13:10 Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

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Topic 50: The Importance of Love to Man

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POINT 10: Love is absolutely indispensable.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 [1] If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. [2] If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. [3] If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Eloquence and the gift of prophecy and knowledge and faith and sacrifice of possessions and martyrdom are of no value if love is missing.

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POINT 20: Love is greater than faith and hope.

1 Corinthians 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

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POINT 30: Love never fails.

1 Corinthians 13:8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

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POINT 40: Love is the fulfillment of the law. All individual precepts are but applications of this law.

Romans 13:8, 10 [8] Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law. [10] Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

1 Timothy 1:5 The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

John 15:17 This is my command: Love each other.

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POINT 50: Love to one another is the sum of God's commandment, the original and fundamental message of Christianity, Christ's new and all- inclusive commandment.

1 John 3:11 23; 3:11 [23] And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. [11] This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

John 13:34 A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

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POINT 60: Love is the royal law.

James 2:8 If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing right.

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POINT 70: Love is the bond that unites all the virtues together into a perfect whole.

Colossians 3:12-14 [12] Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. [13] Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. [14] And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

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POINT 80: Love is the supreme and decisive test of discipleship.

John 13:35 By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.

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POINT 90: Love is the supreme and decisive test of our knowing God.

1 John 4:8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

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POINT 95: Love is the one Divine thing.

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POINT 100: Love is the supreme test of our being born of God, and being children of God.

1 John 4:7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 John 3:10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

Ephesians 5:1-2 [1] Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children [2] and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

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POINT 110: Love is the supreme test of our having passed out of death into life.

1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death.

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POINT 120: Love is the supreme test of our abiding in God and God abiding in us.

1 John 4:12, 16 [12] No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. [16] And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

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POINT 130: Love to brethren is the supreme test of love to God.

1 John 4:20 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

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POINT 140: Love is the one thing above all things which we are to seek to have.

1 Peter 4:8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

Paul, John, James, Peter and Jesus, with one voice proclaim the supremacy of love.

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Topic 60: The Blessings that Result from Love to Men

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POINT 10: Love covers a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 4:8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

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POINT 20: Love builds up.

1 Corinthians 8:1 Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

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POINT 30: Love knits together.

Colossians 2:2 My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ,

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POINT 40: He who loves his brother abides in the light and there nothing in him makes him stumble.

1 John 2:10 Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble.

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POINT 50: Love to brethren gives prevailing power to prayer.

1 John 3:22-23 [22] and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him. [23] And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.

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Topic 70: How Love for Men is Obtained.

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POINT 10: Love is of God, and to love we must be born of God.

1 John 4:7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

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POINT 20: We love because God first loved us.

1 John 4:19 We love because he first loved us.

His love to us awakens love in us: first to Him and then to man. If we would learn to love we must believe in and meditate upon His love to us.

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POINT 30: Faith works by love. Love is the outcome of faith.

Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

1 John 3:23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.

Love is greater than faith, but faith is the root of love. Faith is the root of which love is the fruit. To say "it is better to have love even without faith than it is to have faith without love," is much like saying it is better to have a crop of apples without having roots to your apple trees, than it is to have roots without apples. Rootless trees do not bear fruit and faithless lives do not bring forth love.

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POINT 40: Love is the fruit of the Spirit.

Galatians 5:22-23 [22] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, [23] gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Romans 5:5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.

If you wish love let the Spirit work in your heart and bear His fruit in your life. You will never attain unto love by any mere effort of your own. Love is not a fruit that is native to the soil of the human heart.

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POINT 50: We should follow after Love.

1 Corinthians 14:1 Follow the way of love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy.

1 Timothy 6:11 But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.

2 Timothy 2:22 Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

While love is the Holy Spirit's work it should be the object of our desire and pursuit.

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POINT 60: We should provoke spur on one another to love.

Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.

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POINT 70: God teaches us to love one another.

1 Thessalonians 4:9 Now about brotherly love we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.

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POINT 80: God imparts increasing love in answer to prayer.

Philippians 1:9 [9] And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,

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POINT 90: If you wish to learn to love, let Christ in to live His life in your heart. Renounce self, renounce the flesh, crucify it, put it in the place of the curse and let Christ live his life in you.

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

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2010-04-20T00:11:00.001-07:00

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A LAND OF MYSTERY

2010-04-19T22:10:00.000-07:00

A LAND OF MYSTERY

WHETHER one surveys the imposing ruins of Memphis or Palmyra; stands at the foot of the great pyramid of Ghizé; wanders along the shores of the Nile; or ponders amid the desolate fastnesses of the long-lost and mysterious Petra; however clouded and misty the origin of these prehistoric relics may appear, one nevertheless finds at least certain fragments of firm ground upon which to build conjecture. Thick as may be the curtain behind which the history of these antiquities is hidden, still there are rents here and there through which one may catch glimpses of light. We are acquainted with the descendants of the builders. And, however superficially, we also know the story of the nations whose vestiges are scattered around us. Not so with the antiquities of the New World of the two Americas. There, all along the coast of Peru, all over the Isthmus and North America, in the canyons of the Cordilleras, in the impossible gorges of the Andes, and, especially beyond the valley of Mexico, lie, ruined and desolate, hundreds of once mighty cities, lost to the memory of men, and having themselves lost even a name. Buried in dense forests, entombed in inaccessible valleys, sometimes sixty feet under-ground, from the day of their discovery until now they have ever remained a riddle to science, baffling all inquiry, and they have been muter than the Egyptian Sphinx herself. We know nothing of America prior to the Conquest--positively nothing. No chronicles, not even comparatively modern ones survive; there are no traditions, even among the aboriginal tribes, as to its past events. We are as ignorant of the races that built these cyclopean structures, as of the strange worship that inspired the antediluvian sculptors who carved upon hundreds of miles of walls, of monuments, monoliths and altars, these weird hieroglyphics, these groups of animals and men, pictures of an unknown life and lost arts--scenes so fantastic and wild, at times, that they involuntarily suggest the idea of a feverish dream, whose phantasmagoria at the wave of some mighty magician's hand suddenly crystallized into granite, to bewilder the coming generations for ever and ever. So late as the beginning of the present century, the very existence of such wealth of antiquities was unknown. The petty, suspicious jealousy of the Spaniards had, from the first, created a sort of Chinese wall between their American possessions and the too curious traveller: and the ignorance and fanaticism of the conquerors, and their carelessness as to all but the satisfaction of their insatiable greediness, had precluded scientific research. Even the enthusiastic accounts of Cortez and his army of brigands and priests, and of Pizarro and his robbers and monks, as to the splendour of the temples, palaces, and cities of Mexico and Peru, were long discredited. In his History of America, Dr. Robertson goes so far as to inform his reader that the houses of the ancient Mexicans were "mere huts, built with turf, or mud, or the branches of trees, like those of the rudest Indians;''1 and, upon the testimony of some Spaniards he even risked the assertion that "in all the extent of that vast empire," there was not "a single monument or vestige of any building more ancient than the Conquest"! It was reserved to the great Alexander Humboldt to vindicate the truth. In 1803 a new flood of light was poured into the world of archæology by this eminent and learned traveller. In this he luckily proved but the pioneer of future discoverers. He then described but Mitla, or the Vale of the Dead, Xoxichalco, and the great pyramidal Temple of Cholula. But, after him came Stephens, Catherwood, and Squier; and, in Peru, D'Orbigny and Dr. Tschuddi. Since then, numerous travellers have visited and given us accurate details of many of the antiquities. But, how many more yet remain not only unexplored, but even unknown, no one can tell. As regards prehistoric buildings, both Peru and Mexico are rivals of Egypt. Equalling the latter in the immensity of her cyclopean structures, Peru surpasses her in their number; while Cholula exceeds the grand pyramid of Cheops in breadth, if not in height. Works of public utility, such as walls, fortifications, terraces, water-courses, aqueducts, bridges, temples, burial-grounds, whole cities, and exquisitely paved roads, hundreds of miles in length, stretch in an unbroken line, almost covering the land as with a net. On the coast, they are built of sun-dried bricks; in the mountains, of porphyritic lime, granite and silicated sandstones. Of the long generations of peoples who built them, history knows nothing, and even tradition is silent. As a matter of course, most of these lithic remains are covered with a dense vegetation. Whole forests have grown out of the broken hearts of the cities, and, with a few exceptions, everything is in ruin. But one may judge of what once was by that which yet remains.

With a most flippant unconcern, the Spanish historians refer nearly every ruin to Incal times. No greater mistake can be made. The hieroglyphics which sometimes cover from top to bottom whole walls and monoliths are, as they were from the first, a dead letter to modern science. But they were equally a dead letter to the Incas, though the history of the latter can be traced to the eleventh century They had no clue to the meaning of these inscriptions, but attributed all such to their unknown predecessors; thus barring the presumption of their own descent from the first civilizers of their country. Briefly, the Incal history runs thus:--

Inca is the Quichua title for chief or emperor, and the name of the ruling and most aristocratic race or rather caste of the land which was governed by them for an unknown period, prior to, and until, the Spanish Conquest. Some place their first appearance in Peru from regions unknown in 1021; others, also, or conjecture, at five centuries after the Biblical "flood," and according to the modest notions of Christian theology. Still the latter theory is undoubtedly nearer truth than the former. The Incas, judged by their exclusive privileges, power and "infallibility," are the antipodal counterpart of the Brahminical caste of India. Like the latter, the Incas claimed direct descent from the Deity, which, as in the case of the Sûryavansa dynasty of India, was the Sun. According to the sole but general tradition, there was a time when the whole of the population of the now New World was broken up into independent, warring, and barbarian tribes. At last, the "Highest" deity--the Sun--took pity upon them, and, in order to rescue the people from ignorance, sent down upon earth, to teach them, his two children Manco Capac, and his sister and wife, Mama Ocollo Huaco--the counterparts, again, of the Egyptian Osiris, and his sister and wife, Isis, as well as of the several Hindu gods and demi-gods and their wives. These two made their appearance on a beautiful island in Lake Titicaca--of which we will speak further on--and thence proceeded northward to Cuzco, later on the capital of the Incas, where they at once began to disseminate civilization. Collecting together the various races from all parts of Peru, the divine couple then divided their labor. Manco Capac taught men agriculture, legislation, architecture and arts; while Mama Ocollo instructed the women in weaving, spinning, embroidery and house-keeping. It is from this celestial pair that the Incas claimed their descent; and yet, they were utterly ignorant of the people who built the stupendous and now ruined cities which cover the whole area of their empire, and which then extended from the Equator to over 37 degrees of Latitude, and included not only the western slope of the Andes, but the whole mountain chain with its eastern declivities to the Amazon and Orinoco. As the direct descendants of the Sun, they were exclusively the high priests of the state religion, and at the same time emperors and the highest statesmen in the land: in virtue of which, they, again like the Brahmans, arrogated to themselves a divine superiority over the ordinary mortals, thus founding like the "twice-born" an exclusive and aristocratic caste--the Inca race. Considered as the son of the Sun, every reigning Inca was the high priest, the oracle, chief captain in war, and absolute sovereign; thus realizing the double office of Pope and King, and so long anticipating the dream of the Roman Pontiffs. To his command the blindest obedience was exacted; his person was sacred; and he was the object of divine honours. The highest officers of the land could not appear shod in his presence; this mark of respect pointing again to an Oriental origin; while the custom of boring the ears of the youths of royal blood and inserting in them golden rings "which were increased in size as they advanced in rank, until the distention of the cartilege became a positive deformity," suggests a strange resemblance between the sculptured portraits of many of them that we find in the more modern ruins, and the images of Buddha and of some deities, not to mention our contemporary dandies of Siam, Burmah, and Southern India. In that, once more like in India, in the palmy days of the Brahmin power, no one had the right to either receive an education or study religion except the privileged Inca caste. And, when the reigning Inca died, or as it was termed, "was called home to the mansion of his father," a very large number of his attendants and his wives were made to die with him, during the ceremony of his obsequies, just as we find in the old annals of Rajesthan, and down to the but just abolished custom of Sutti. Taking all this into consideration, the archæologist cannot remain satisfied with the brief remark of certain historians that "in this tradition we trace only another version of the story of the civilization common to all primitive nations, and that imposture of a celestial relationship whereby designing rulers and cunning priests have sought to secure their ascendency among men." No more is it an explanation to say that "Manco Capac is the almost exact counterpart of the Chinese Fohi, the Hindu Buddha, the terrestrial Osiris of Egypt, the Quetzalcoatl of Mexico, and Votan of Central America"; for all this is but too evident. What we want to learn is how came these nations, so antipodal to each other as India, Egypt, and America, to offer such extraordinary points of resemblance, not only in their general religious, political, and social views, but sometimes in the minutest details. The much-needed task is to find out which one of them preceded the other; to explain how these people came to plant at the four corners of the earth nearly identical architecture and arts, unless there was a time when, as assured by Plato and believed in by more than one modern archæologist, no ships were needed for such a transit, as the two worlds formed but one continent.

According to the most recent researches, there are five distinct styles of architecture in the Andes alone, of which the temple of the Sun at Cuzco was the latest. And this one, perhaps, is the only structure of importance which, according to modern travellers, can be safely attributed to the Incas, whose imperial glories are believed to have been the last gleam of a civilization dating back for untold ages. Dr. E. R. Heath, of Kansas (U.S.A.), thinks that "long before Manco Capac, the Andes had been the dwelling-place of races, whose beginning must have been coëval with the savages of Western Europe. The gigantic architecture points to the cyclopean family, the founders of the Temple of Babel, and the Egyptian pyramids. The Grecian scroll found in many places is borrowed (?) from the Egyptians; the mode of burial and embalming their dead points to Egypt." Further on, this learned traveller finds that the skulls taken from the burial-grounds, according to craniologists, represent three distinct races: the Chinchas, who occupied the western part of Peru from the Andes to the Pacific; the Aymaras, dwellers of the elevated plains of Peru and Bolivia, on the southern shore of Lake Titicaca; and the Huancas, who "occupied the plateau between the chains of the Andes, north of Lake Titicaca to the 9th degree of South Latitude." To confound the buildings of the epoch of the Incas in Peru, and of Montezuma and his caciques, in Mexico, with the aboriginal monuments, is fatal to archaeology. While Cholula, Uxmal, Quiché, Pachacamac, and Chichen were all perfectly preserved and occupied at the time of the invasion of the Spanish banditti, there are hundreds of ruined cities and works which were in the same state of ruin even then; whose origin was unknown to the conquered Incas and caciques as it is to us; and which are undoubtedly the remains of unknown and now extinct peoples. The strange shapes of the heads, and profiles of the human figures upon the monoliths of Copan are a warrant for the correctness of the hypothesis. The pronounced difference between the skulls of these races and the Indo-European skulls was at first attributed to mechanical means, used by the mothers for giving a peculiar conformation to the head of their children during infancy, as is often done by other tribes and peoples. But, as the same author tells us, the finding in "a mummy of a fœtus of seven or eight months having the same conformation of skull, has placed a doubt as to the certainty of this fact." And besides hypothesis, we have a scientific and an unimpeachable proof of a civilization that must have existed in Peru ages ago. Were we to give the number of thousands of years that have probably elapsed since then, without first showing good reasons for the assumption, the reader might feel like holding his breath. So let us try.

The Peruvian guano (huano), that precious fertilizer, composed of the excrement of sea-fowls, intermixed with their decaying bodies, eggs, remains of seal, and so on, which has accumulated upon the isles of the Pacific and the coast of South America, and its formation are now well-known. It was Humboldt who first discovered and drew the world's attention to it in 1804. And, while describing the deposits as covering the granite rocks of the Chincas and other islands to the depth of 50 or 60 feet, he states that the accumulation of the preceding 300 years, since the Conquest, had formed only a few lines in thickness. How many thousands of years, then, it required to form this deposit 60 feet deep, is a matter of simple calculation. In this connection we may now quote something of a discovery spoken of in the Peruvian Antiquities.2 "Buried 62 feet under the ground, on the Chinca islands, stone-idols and water-pots were found, while 35 and 33 feet below the surface were wooden idols. Beneath the guano on the Guanapi islands, just south of Truxillo, and Macabi just north, mummies, birds, and birds' eggs, gold and silver ornaments were taken. On the Macabi the labourers found some large valuable golden vases, which they broke up and divided among themselves, even though offered weight for weight in gold coin, and thus relics of greater interest to the scientist have been ever lost. He--who can determine the centuries necessary to deposit thirty and sixty feet of guano on these islands, remembering that since the Conquest, three hundred years ago, no appreciable increase in depth has been noted--can give you an idea of the antiquity of these relics."

If we confine ourselves to a strictly arithmetical calculation, then allowing 12 lines to an inch, and 12 inches to a foot, and allowing one line to every century, we are forced to believe that the people who made these precious gold vases lived 864,000 years ago! Leave an ample margin for errors, and give two lines to a century--say an inch to every 100 years--and we will yet have 72,000 years back a civilization which--if we judge by its public works, the durability of its constructions, and the grandeur of its buildings,--equalled, and in some things certainly surpassed, our own.

Having well defined ideas as to the periodicity of cycles, for the world as well as for nations, empires, and tribes, we are convinced that our present modern civilization is but the latest dawn of that which already has been seen an innumerable number of times upon this planet. It may not be exact science, but it is both inductive and deductive logic, based upon theories far less hypothetical and more palpable than many another theory, held as strictly scientific. To express it in the words of Professor T. E. Nipher, of St. Louis, "we are not the friends of theory, but of truth," and until truth is found, we welcome every new theory, however unpopular at first, for fear of rejecting in our ignorance the stone which may in time become the very corner-stone of the truth. "The errors of scientific men are well nigh countless, not because they are men of science, but because they are men," says the same scientist; and further quotes the noble words of Faraday--"occasionally, and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful and a great fatigue to suspend a conclusion, but as we are not infallible, so we ought to be cautious." (Experimental Researches, 24th Series.)

It is doubtful whether, with the exception of a few of the most prominent ruins, there ever was attempted a detailed account of the so-called American antiquities. Yet, in order to bring out the more prominently a point of comparison, such a work would be absolutely necessary. If the history of religion and of mythology and--far more important--the origin, developing and final grouping of the human species are ever to be unravelled, we have to trust to archaeological research, rather than to the hypothetical deductions of philology. We must begin by massing together the concrete imagery of the early thought, more eloquent in its stationary form than the verbal expression of the same, the latter being but too liable, in its manifold interpretations, to be distorted in a thousand ways. This would afford us an easier and more trustworthy clue. Archaeological Societies ought to have a whole cyclopædia of the world's remains, with a collation of the most important of the speculations as to each locality. For, however fantastic and wild some of these hypotheses may seem at first glance, yet each has a chance of proving useful at some time. It is often more beneficial to know what a thing is not than to know what it is, as Max Müller truly tells us.

It is not within the limits of an article in our paper that any such object could be achieved. Availing ourselves, though, of the reports of the Government surveyors, trustworthy travellers, men of science, and, even our own limited experience, we will try in the future issues to give to our Hindu readers, who possibly may never have heard of these antiquities, a general idea of them. Our latest informations are drawn from every reliable source; the survey of the Peruvian antiquities being mostly due to Dr. Heath's able paper, above mentioned.

II

Evidently we, THEOSOPHISTS, are not the only iconoclasts in this world of mutual deception and hypocrisy. We are not the only ones who believe in cycles and, opposing the Biblical chronology, lean towards those opinions which secretly are shared by so many, but publicly avowed by so few. We, Europeans, are just emerging from the very bottom of a new cycle, and progressing upwards, while the Asiatics--Hindus especially--are the lingering remnants of the nations which filled the world in the previous and now departed cycles. Whether the Aryans sprang from the archaic Americans, or the latter from the prehistorical Aryans, is a question which no living man can decide. But that there must have been an intimate connection at some time between the old Aryans, the prehistoric inhabitants of America--whatever might have been their name--and the ancient Egyptians, is a matter more easily proved than contradicted. And probably, if there ever was such a connection, it must have taken place at a time when the Atlantic did not yet divide the two hemispheres as it does now.

In his Peruvian Antiquities (see the Theosophist for March) Dr. Heath, of Kansas City--rara avis among scientific men, a fearless searcher, who accepts truth wherever he finds it, and is not afraid to speak it out in the very face of dogmatic opposition--sums up his impressions of the Peruvian relics in the following words:--"Three times the Andes sank hundreds of feet beneath the ocean level, and again were slowly brought to their present height. A man's life would be too short to count even the centuries consumed in this operation. The coast of Peru has risen eighty feet since it felt the tread of Pizarro. Supposing the Andes to have risen uniformly and without interruption, 70,000 years must have elapsed before they reached their present altitude."

"Who knows, then, but that Jules Verne's fanciful idea3 regarding the lost continent Atlanta may be near the truth? Who can say that, where now is the Atlantic Ocean, formerly did not exist a continent, with its dense population, advanced in the arts and sciences, who, as they found their land sinking beneath the waters, retired part east and part west, populating thus the two hemispheres? This would explain the similarity of their archæological structures and races, and their differences, modified by and adapted to the character of their respective climates and countries. Thus would the llama and camel differ, although of the same species; thus the algoraba and espino trees; thus the Iroquois Indians of North America and the most ancient Arabs call the constellation of the 'Great Bear' by the same name; thus various nations, cut off from all intercourse or knowledge of each other, divide the zodiac into twelve constellations, apply to them the same names, and the Northern Hindus apply the name Andes to their Himalayan mountains, as did the South Americans to their principal chain.4 Must we fall in the old rut, and suppose no other means of populating the Western Hemisphere except 'by way of Behring's Strait'? Must we still locate a geographical Eden in the East, and suppose a land, equally adapted to man and as old geologically, must wait the aimless wanderings of the 'lost tribe of Israel' to become populated?"

Go where we may, to explore the antiquities of America--whether of Northern, Central, or Southern America--we are first of all impressed with the magnitude of these relics of ages and races unknown, and then with the extraordinary similarity they present to the mounds and ancient structures of old India, of Egypt and even of some parts of Europe. Whoever has seen one of these mounds has seen all. Whoever has stood before the cyclopean structures of one continent can have a pretty accurate idea of those of the other. Only be it said--we know still less of the age of the antiquities of America than even of those in the Valley of the Nile, of which we know next to nothing. But their symbolism--apart from their outward form--is evidently the same as in Egypt, India, and elsewhere. As before the great pyramid of Cheops in Cairo, so before the great mound, 100 feet high, on the plain of Cahokia,--near St. Louis (Missouri)--which measures 700 feet long by 800 feet broad at the base, and covers upwards of eight acres of ground, having 20,000,000 cubic feet of contents, and the mound on the banks of Brush Creek, Ohio, so accurately described by Squier and Davis, one knows not whether to admire more the geometrical precision, prescribed by the wonderful and mysterious builders in the form of their monuments, or the hidden symbolism they evidently sought to express. The Ohio mound represents a serpent, upwards of l ,000 feet long. Gracefully coiled in capricious curves, it terminates in a triple coil at the tail. "The embankment constituting the effigy, is upwards of five feet in height, by thirty feet base at the centre of the body, slightly diminishing towards the tail."5 The neck is stretched out and its mouth wide opened, holding within its jaws an oval figure. "Formed by an embankment four feet in height, this oval is perfectly regular in outline, its transverse and conjugate diameters being 160 and 8 feet respectively," say the surveyors. The whole represents the universal cosmological idea of the serpent and the egg. This is easy to surmise. But how came this great symbol of the Hermetic wisdom of old Egypt to find itself represented in North America? How is it that the sacred buildings found in Ohio and elsewhere, these squares, circles, octagons, and other geometrical figures, in which one recognizes so easily the prevailing idea of the Pythagorean sacred numerals, seem copied from the Book of Numbers? Apart from the complete silence as to their origin, even among the Indian tribes, who have otherwise preserved their own traditions in every case, the antiquity of these ruins is proved by the existence of the largest and most ancient forests growing on the buried cities. The prudent archæologists of America have generously assigned them 2,000 years. But by whom built, and whether their authors migrated, or disappeared beneath victorious arms, or were swept out of existence by some direful epidemic, or a universal famine, are questions, "probably beyond the power of human investigation to answer," they say. The earliest inhabitants of Mexico, of whom history has any knowledge--more hypothetical than proven--are the Toltecs. These are supposed to have come from the North and believed to have entered Anahuac in the 7th century A.D. They are also credited with having constructed in Central America, where they spread in the eleventh century, some of the great cities whose ruins still exist. In this case it is they who must also have carved the hieroglyphics that cover some of the relics. How is it, then, that the pictorial system of writing of Mexico, which was used by the conquered people and learned by the conquerors and their missionaries, does not yet furnish the keys to the hieroglyphics of Palenque and Copan, not to mention those of Peru? And these civilized Toltecs themselves, who were they, and whence did they come? And who are the Aztecs that succeeded them? Even among the hieroglyphical systems of Mexico, there were some which the foreign interpreters were precluded the possibility of studying. These were the so-called schemes of judicial astrology "given but not explained in Lord Kingsborough's published collection," and set down as purely figurative and symbolical, "intended only for the use of the priests and diviners and possessed of an esoteric significance." Many of the hieroglyphics on the monoliths of Palenque and Copan are of the same character. The "priests and diviners" were all killed off by the Catholic fanatics,--the secret died with them.

Nearly all the mounds in North America are terraced and ascended by large graded ways, sometimes square, often hexagonal, octagonal or truncated, but in all respects similar to the teocallis of Mexico, and to the topes of India. As the latter are attributed throughout this country to the work of the five Pandus of the Lunar Race, so the cyclopean monuments and monoliths on the shores of Lake Titicaca, in the republic of Bolivia, are ascribed to giants, the five exiled brothers "from beyond the mounts." They worshipped the moon as their progenitor and lived before the time of the "Sons and Virgins of the Sun." Here, the similarity of the Aryan with the South American tradition is again but too obvious, and the Solar and Lunar races--the Sûrya Vansa and the Chandra Vansa--re-appear in America.

This Lake Titicaca, which occupies the centre of one of the most remarkable terrestrial basins on the whole globe, is "160 miles long and from 50 to 80 broad, and discharges through the valley of El Desagvadero, to the south-east into another lake, called Lake Aullagas, which is probably kept at a lower level by evaporation or filtration, since it has no known outlet. The surface of the lake is 12,846 feet above the sea, and it is the most elevated body of waters of similar size in the world." As the level of its waters has very much decreased in the historical period, it is believed on good grounds that they once surrounded the elevated spot on which are found the remarkable ruins of Tiahuanaco.

The latter are without any doubt aboriginal monuments pertaining to an epoch which preceded the Incal period, as far back as the Dravidian and other aboriginal peoples preceded the Aryans in India. Although the traditions of the Incas maintain that the great law-giver and teacher of the Peruvians, Manco Capac--the Manu of South America diffused his knowledge and influence from this centre, yet the statement is unsupported by facts. If the original seat of the Aymara, or "Inca race" was there, as claimed by some, how is it that neither the Incas, nor the Aymaras, who dwell on the shores of the Lake to this day, nor yet the ancient Peruvians, had the slightest knowledge concerning their history? Beyond a vague tradition which tells of "giants" having built these immense structures in one night, we do not find the faintest clue. And, we have every reason to doubt whether the Incas are of the Aymara race at all. The Incas claim their descent from Manco Capac, the son of the Sun, and the Aymaras claim this legislator as their instructor and the founder of the era of their civilization. Yet, neither the Incas of the Spanish period could prove the one, nor the Aymaras the other. The language of the latter is quite distinct from the Inichua--the tongue of the Incas; and they were the only race that refused to give up their language when conquered by the descendants of the Sun, as Dr. Heath tells us.

The ruins afford every evidence of the highest antiquity. Some are built on a pyramidal plan, as most of the American mounds are, and cover several acres; while the monolithic doorways, pillars and stone-idols, so elaborately carved, are "sculptured in a style wholly different from any other remains of art yet found in America." D'Orbigny speaks of the ruins in the most enthusiastic manner. "These monuments," he says, "consist of a mound raised nearly 100 feet, surrounded with pillars--of temples from 600 to 1,200 feet in length, opening precisely towards the east, and adorned with colossal angular columns--of porticoes of a single stone, covered with reliefs of skilful execution, displaying symbolical representations of the Sun, and the condor, his messenger--of basaltic statues loaded with bas-reliefs, in which the design of the carved head is half Egyptian--and lastly, of the interior of a palace formed of enormous blocks of rock, completely hewn, whose dimensions are often 21 feet in length, 12 in breadth, and 6 in thickness. In the temples and palaces, the portals are not inclined, as among those of the Incas, but perpendicular; and their vast dimensions, and the imposing masses, of which they are composed, surpass in beauty and grandeur all that were afterwards built by the sovereigns of Cuzco." Like the rest of his fellow-explorers, M. D'Orbigny believes these ruins to have been the work of a race far anterior to the Incas.

Two distinct styles of architecture are found in these relics of Lake Titicaca. Those of the island of Coati, for instance, bear every feature in common with the ruins of Tiahuanaco; so do the vast blocks of stone elaborately sculptured, some of which, according to the report of the surveyors, in 1846, measure: "3 feet in length by 18 feet in width, and 6 feet in thickness"; while on some of the is lands of the Lake Titicaca there are monuments of great extent, "but of true Peruvian type, believed to be the remains of temples destroyed by the Spaniards." The famous sanctuary, with the human figure in it, belongs to the former. Its doorway 10 feet high, 13 feet broad, with an opening 6 feet 4 inches, by 3 feet 2 inches, is cut from a single stone. "Its east front has a cornice, in the centre of which is a human figure of strange form, crowned with rays, interspersed with serpents with crested heads. On each side of this figure are three rows of square compartments, filled with human and other figures, of apparently symbolic design. . . . " Were this temple in India, it would undoubtedly be attributed to Shiva; but it is at the antipodes, where neither the foot of a Shaiva nor one of the Naga tribe has ever penetrated to the knowledge of man, though the Mexican Indians have their Nagal, or chief sorcerer and serpent worshipper. The ruins standing on an eminence, which, from the watermarks around it, seem to have been formerly an island in Lake Titicaca, and "the level of the Lake now being 135 feet lower, and its shores, 12 miles distant, this fact, in conjunction with others, warrants the belief that these remains antedate any others known in America."6 Hence, all these relics are unanimously ascribed to the same "unknown and mysterious people who preceded the Peruvians, as the Tulhuatecas or Toltecs did the Aztecs. It seems to have been the seat of the highest and most ancient civilization of South America and of a people who have left the most gigantic monuments of their power and skill" . . . And these monuments are all either Dracontias--temples sacred to the Snake, or temples dedicated to the Sun.

Of this same character are the ruined pyramids of Teotihuacan and the monoliths of Palenque and Copan. The former are some eight leagues from the City of Mexico on the plain of Otumla, and considered among the most ancient in the land. The two principal ones are dedicated to the Sun and Moon, respectively. They are built of cut stone, square, with four stories and a level area at the top. The larger, that of the Sun, is 221 feet high, 680 feet square at the base, and covers an area of 11 acres, nearly equal to that of the great pyramid of Cheops. And yet, the pyramid of Cholula, higher than that of Teotihuacan by ten feet according to Humboldt, and having 1,400 feet square at the base, covers an area of 45 acres!

It is interesting to hear what the earliest writers--the historians who saw them during the first conquest--say even of some of the most modern of these buildings, of the great temple of Mexico, among others. It consisted of an immense square area "surrounded by a wall of stone and lime, eight feet thick, with battlements, ornamented with many stone figures in the form of serpents," says one. Cortez shows that 500 houses might be easily placed within its enclosure. It was paved with polished stones, so smooth, that "the horses of the Spaniards could not move over them without slipping," writes Bernal Diaz. In connection with this, we must remember that it was not the Spaniards who conquered the Mexicans, but their horses. As there never was a horse seen before by this people in America, until the Europeans landed it in the coast, the natives, though excessively brave, "were so awe-struck at the sight of horses and the roar of the artillery," that they took the Spaniards to be of divine origin and sent them human beings as sacrifices. This superstitious panic is sufficient to account for the fact that a handful of men could so easily conquer incalculable thousands of warriors.

According to Gomera, the four walls of the enclosure of the temple correspond with the cardinal points. In the centre of this gigantic area arose the great temple, an immense pyramidal structure of eight stages, faced with stone, 300 feet square at the base and 120 feet in height, truncated, with a level summit, upon which were situated two towers, the shrines of the divinities to whom it was consecrated--Tezcatlipoca and Huitzlipochtli. It was here that the sacrifices were performed, and the eternal fire maintained. Clavigero tells us, that besides this great pyramid, there were forty other similar structures consecrated to various divinities. The one called Tezcacalli, "the House of the Shining Mirrors, sacred to Tezcatlipoca, the God of Light, the Soul of the World, the Vivifier, the Spiritual Sun." The dwellings of priests, who, according to Zarate, amounted to 8,000, were near by, as well as the seminaries and the schools. Ponds and fountains, groves and gardens, in which flowers and sweet smelling herbs were cultivated for use in certain sacred rites and the decoration of altars, were in abundance; and, so large was the inner yard, that "8,000 or 10,000 persons had sufficient room to dance in it upon their solemn festivities"--says Solis. Torquemada estimates the number of such temples in the Mexican empire at 40,000 but Clavigero, speaking of the majestic Teocalli (literally, houses of God) of. Mexico, estimates the number higher.

So wonderful are the features of resemblance between the ancient shrines of the Old and the New World that Humboldt remains unequal to express his surprise. "What striking analogies exist between the monuments of the old continents and those of the Toltecs who . . . built these colossal structures, truncated pyramids, divided by layers, like the temple of Belus at Babylon! Where did they take the model of these edifices?"--he exclaims.

The eminent naturalist might have also enquired where the Mexicans got all their Christian virtues from, being but poor pagans. The code of the Aztecs, says Prescott, "evinces a profound respect for the great principles of morality, and as clear a perception of these principles as is to be found in the most cultivated nations." Some of these are very curious inasmuch as they show a similarity to some of the Gospel ethics. "He who looks too curiously on a woman, commits adultery with his eyes," says one of them. "Keep peace with all; bear injuries with humility; God, who sees, will avenge you," declares another. Recognizing but one Supreme Power in Nature, they addressed it as the deity "by whom we live, Omnipresent, that knoweth all thoughts and giveth all gifts, without whom man is as nothing; invisible, incorporeal, one of perfect perfection and purity, under whose wings we find repose and a sure defence." And, in naming their children, says Lord Kingsborough, "they used a ceremony strongly resembling the Christian rite of baptism, the lips and bosom of the infant being sprinkled with water, and the Lord implored to wash away the sin that was given to it before the foundation of the world, so that the child might be born anew." "Their laws were perfect; justice, contentment and peace reigned in the kingdom of these benighted heathens," when the brigands and the Jesuits of Cortez landed at Tabasco. A century of murders, robbery, and forced conversion, were sufficient to transform this quiet, inoffensive and wise people into what they are now. They have fully benefited by dogmatic Christianity. And he, who ever went to Mexico, knows what that means. The country is full of blood-thirsty Christian fanatics, thieves, rogues, drunkards, debauchees, murderers, and the greatest liars the world has ever produced! Peace and glory to your ashes, O Cortez and Torquemada! In this case at least, will you never be permitted to boast of the enlightenment your Christianity has poured out on the poor, and once virtuous heathens!

III

The ruins of Central America are no less imposing. Massively built, with walls of a great thickness, they are usually marked by broad stairways, leading to the principal entrance. When composed of several stories, each successive story is usually smaller than that below it, giving the structure the appearance of a pyramid of several stages. The front walls, either made of stone or stuccoed, are covered with elaborately carved, symbolic figures; and the interior divided into corridors and dark chambers, with arched ceilings, the roofs supported by overlapping courses of stones, "constituting a pointed arch, corresponding in type with the earliest monuments of the old world." Within several chambers at Palenque, tablets, covered with sculptures and hieroglyphics of fine design and artistic execution, were discovered by Stephens. In Honduras, at Copan, a whole city--temples, houses and grand monoliths intricately carved--was unearthed in an old forest by Catherwood and Stephens. The sculpture and general style of Copan are unique, and no such style or even anything approaching it has been found anywhere else, except at Quirigua, and in the islands of Lake Nicaragua. No one can decipher the weird hieroglyphical inscriptions on the altars and monoliths. With the exception of a few works of uncut stone, "to Copan, we may safely assign an antiquity higher than to any of the other monuments of Central America with which we are acquainted," says the New American Cyclopædia. At the period of the Spanish conquest, Copan was already a forgotten ruin, concerning which existed only the vaguest traditions.

No less extraordinary are the remains of the different epochs in Peru. The ruins of the temple of the Sun at Cuzco are yet imposing, notwithstanding that the deprecating hand of the Vandal Spaniard passed heavily over it. If we may believe the narratives of the conquerors themselves, they found it, on their arrival, a kind of a fairy-tale castle. With its enormous circular stone wall completely encompassing the principal temple, chapels and buildings, it is situated in the very heart of the city, and even its remains justly provoke the admiration of the traveller. "Aqueducts opened within the sacred inclosure; and within it were gardens, and walks among shrubs and flowers of gold and silver, made in imitation of the productions of nature. It was attended by 4,000 priests." "The ground," says La Vega, "for 200 paces around the temple, was considered holy, and no one was allowed to pass within this boundary but with naked feet." Besides this great temple, there were 300 other inferior temples at Cuzco. Next to the latter in beauty, was the celebrated temple of Pachacamac. Still another great temple of the Sun is mentioned by Humboldt; and, "at the base of the hill of Cannar was formerly a famous shrine of the Sun, consisting of the universal symbol of that luminary, formed by nature upon the face of a great rock." Roman tells us "that the temples of Peru were built upon high grounds or the top of the hills, and were surrounded by three and four circular embankments of earth, one within the other." Other remains seen by myself especially mounds--are surrounded by two, three, and four circles of stones. Near the town of Cayambe, on the very spot which Ulloa saw and described an ancient Peruvian temple "perfectly circular in form, and open at the top," there are several such cromlechs. Quoting from an article in the Madras Times of 1876, Mr. J. H. Rivett-Carnac gives, in his Archaeological Notes, the following information upon some curious mounds in the neighborhood of Bangalore:--7 "Near the village there are at least one hundred cromlechs plainly to be seen. These cromlechs are surrounded by circles of stones, some of them with concentric circles three and four deep. One very remarkable in appearance has four circles of large stones around it, and is called by the natives 'Pandavara Gudi' or the temples of the Pandas. . . . This is supposed to be the first instance, where the natives popularly imagine a structure of this kind to have been the temple of a by-gone, if not of a mythical, race. Many of these structures have a triple circle, some a double, and a few single circles of stone round them." In the 35th degree of latitude, the Arizona Indians in North America have their rude altars to this day, surrounded by precisely such circles, and their sacred spring, discovered by Major Alfred R. Calhoun, F.G.S., of the United States Army Survey Commission, is surrounded with the same symbolical wall of stones, as is found in Stonehenge and elsewhere.

By far the most interesting and full account we have read for a long time upon the Peruvian antiquities is that from the pen of Mr. Heath of Kansas, already mentioned. Condensing the general picture of these remains into the limited space of a few pages in a periodical,8 he yet manages to present a masterly and vivid picture of the wealth of these remains. More than one speculator has grown rich in a few days through his desecrations of the "huacas." The remains of countless generations of unknown races, who had slept there undisturbed--who knows for how many ages--are now left by the sacrilegious treasure-hunter to crumble into dust under the tropical sun. Mr. Heath's conclusions, more startling, perchance, than his discoveries, are worthy of being recorded. We will repeat in brief his descriptions:--

"In the Jeguatepegue valley in Peru in 70° 24' S. Latitude, four miles north of the port of Pacasmayo is the Jeguatepegue river. Near it, beside the southern shore, is an elevated platform 'one-fourth of a mile square and forty feet high, all of adobes or sun-burnt bricks. A wall of fifty feet in width connects it with another'; 150 feet high, 200 feet across the top, and 500 at the base, nearly square. This latter was built in sections of rooms, ten feet square at the base, six feet at the top and about eight feet high. All of this same class of mounds--temples to worship the sun, or fortresses, as they may be--have on the northerly side an incline for an entrance. Treasure-seekers have cut into this one about half-way, and it is said 150,000 dollars' worth of gold and silver ornaments were found." Here many thousands of men were buried and beside the skeletons were found in abundance ornaments of gold, silver, copper, coral beads, &c. "On the north side of the river, are the extensive ruins of a walled city, two miles wide by six long. . . . Follow the river to the mountains. All along you pass ruin after ruin and huaca after huaca" (burial places). At Tolon there is another ruined city. Five miles further, up the river, "there is an isolated boulder of granite, four and six feet in its diameters, covered with hieroglyphics; fourteen miles further, a point of mountain at the junction of two ravines is covered to a height of more than fifty feet with the same class of hieroglyphics--birds, fishes, snakes, cats, monkeys, men, sun, moon, and many odd and now unintelligible forms. The rock, on which these are cut, is a silicated sandstone, and many of the lines are an eighth of an inch deep. In one large stone there are three holes, twenty to thirty inches deep, six inches in diameter at the orifice and two at the apex. . . . At Anchi, on the Rimac river, upon the face of a perpendicular wall 200 feet above the river-bed, there are two hieroglyphics, representing an imperfect B and a perfect D. In a crevice below them, near the river, were found buried 25,000 dollars' worth of gold and silver; when the Incas learned of the murder of their chief, what did they do with the gold they were bringing for his ransom? Rumour says they buried it. . . . May not these markings at Yonan tell something, since they are on the road and near to the Incal city?"

The above was published in November, 1878, when in October, 1877, in my work "Isis Unveiled" (Vol. I, p. 595), I gave a legend, which, for circumstances too long to explain, I hold to be perfectly trustworthy, relating to these same buried treasures for the Inca's ransom, a journal more satirical than polite classed it with the tales of Baron Munchausen. The secret was revealed to me by a Peruvian. At Arica, going from Lima, there stands an enormous rock, which tradition points to as the tomb of the Incas. As the last rays of the setting sun strike the face of the rock, one can see curious hieroglyphics inscribed upon it. These characters form one of the land-marks that show how to get at the immense treasures buried in subterranean corridors. The details are given in "Isis," and I will not repeat them. Strong corroborative evidence is now found in more than one recent scientific work; and the statement may be less pooh-poohed now than it was then. Some miles beyond Yonan, on a ridge of a mountain 700 feet above the river, are the walls of another city. Six and twelve miles further are extensive walls and terraces; seventy-eight miles from the coast, "you zigzag up the mountain side 7,000 feet then descend 2,000" to arrive at Coxamolca, the city where, unto this day, stands the house in which Atahualpa, the unfortunate Inca, was held prisoner by the treacherous Pizzaro. It is the house which the Inca "promised to fill with gold as high as he could reach, in exchange for his liberty" in 1532; he did fill it with 17,500,000 dollars' worth of gold, and so kept his promise. But Pizzaro, the ancient swineherd of Spain and the worthy acolyte of the priest Hernando de Lugues, murdered him, notwithstanding his pledge of honor. Three miles from this town, "there is a wall of unknown make. Cemented, the cement is harder than stone itself. . . . At Chepen, there is a mountain with a wall twenty feet high, the summit being almost entirely artificial. Fifty miles south of Pacaomayo, between the seaport of Huanchaco and Truxillo, are the ruins of Chan-Chan, the capital city of the Chimoa kingdom. . . . The road from the port to the city crosses these ruins, entering by a causeway about four feet from the ground, and leading from one great mass of ruins to another; beneath this is a tunnel." Be they forts, castles, palaces or burial mounds called "huacas," all bear the name "huaca." Hours of wandering on horseback among these ruins give only a confused idea of them, nor can any explorers there point out what were palaces and what were not. . . . The highest enclosures must have cost an immense amount of labour.

To give an idea of the wealth found in the country by the Spaniards, we copy the following, taken from the records of the municipality in the city of Truxillo by Mr. Heath. It is a copy of the accounts that are found in the book of Fifths of the Treasury in the years 1577 and 1578, of the treasures found in the "Huaca of Toledo" by one man alone.

First.--In Truxillo. Peru, on the 22nd of July 1577, Don Garcia Gutierrez de Toledo presented himself at the royal treasury, to give into the royal chest a-fifth. He brought a bar of gold 19 carats ley and weighing 2,400 Spanish dollars, of which the fifth being 708 dollars, together with 11/2 per cent to the chief assayer, were deposited in the royal box.

Secondly.--On the 12th of December, he presented himself with five bars of gold, 15 and 19 carats ley, weighing 8,918 dollars.

Thirdly.--On the 7th of January 1578, he came with his fifth of large bars and plates of gold, one hundred and fifteen in number, 15 to 20 carats ley, weighing 153,280 dollars.

Fourthly.--On the 8th of March, he brought sixteen bars of gold, 14 to 21 carats ley, weighing 21,118 dollars.

Fifthly.--On the fifth of April, he brought different ornaments of gold, being little belts of gold and patterns of corn-heads and other things, of 14 carats ley, weighing 6,272 dollars.

Sixthly.--On the 20th of April, he brought three small bars of gold, 20 carats ley, weighing 4,170 dollars.

Seventhly.--On the 12th of July, he came with forty-seven bars, 14 to 21 carats, weighing 777,312 dollars.

Eighthly.--On the same day he came back with another portion of gold and ornaments of corn-heads and pieces of effigies of animals, weighing 4,704 dollars.

"The sum of these eight bringings amounted to 278,174 gold dollars or Spanish ounces. Multiplied by sixteen gives 4,450,784 silver dollars. Deducting the royal fifth--985,953.75 dollars--left 3,464, 830.25 dollars as Toledo's portion! Even after this great haul, effigies of different animals of gold were found from time to time. Mantles, also adorned with square pieces of gold, as well as robes made with feathers of divers colours were dug up. There is a tradition that in the huaca of Toledo there were two treasures, known as the great and little fish. The smaller only has been found. Between Huacho and Supe, the latter being 120 miles north of Callao, near a point called Atahuangri, there are two enormous mounds, resembling the Campana and San Miguel, of the Huatic Valley, soon to be described. About five miles from Patavilca tsouth, and near Supe) is a place called 'Paramonga' or the fortress The ruins of a fortress of great extent are here visible, the walls are of tempered clay, about six feet thick. The principal building stood on an eminence, but the walls were continued to the foot of it, like regular circumvallations; the ascent winding round the hill like a labyrinth, having many angles which probably served as outworks to defend the place. In this neighbourhood, much treasure has been excavated, all of which must have been concealed by the pre-historic Indian, as we have no evidence of the Incas ever having occupied this part of Peru after they had subdued it."

Not far from Ancon, on a circuit of six to eight miles, "on every side you see skulls, legs, arms and whole skeletons lying about in the sand. . . . At Parmayo, fourteen miles further down north," and on the sea-shore, is another great burying-ground. Thousands of skeletons lie about, thrown out by the treasure-seekers. It has more than half a mile of cutting through it. . . . It extends up the face of the hill from the sea-shore to the height of about 800 feet. . . . Whence come these hundreds and thousands of peoples, who are buried at Ancon? Time and time again the archæologist finds himself face to face with such questions, to which he can only shrug his shoulders and say with the natives--"Quien Sabe?"--who knows?

Dr. Hutchinson writes, under date of Oct. 30, 1872, in the South Pacific "Times":--"I am come to the conclusion that Chancay is a great city of the dead, or has been an immense ossuary of Peru; for go where you will, on a mountain top or level plain, or by the seaside, you meet at every turn skulls and bones of all descriptions."

In the Huatica Valley, which is an extensive ruin, there are seventeen mounds, called "huacas," although, remarks the writer, "they present more the form of fortresses, or castles than burying-ground." A triple wall surrounded the city. These walls are often three yards in thickness and from fifteen to twenty feet high. To the east of these is the enormous mound called Huaca of Pando . . . and the great ruins of fortresses, which natives entitle Huaca of the Bell. La compana, the Huacas of Pando, consisting of a series of large and small mounds, and extending over a stretch of ground incalculable without being measured, form a colossal accumulation. The mound "Bell" is 110 feet high. Towards Callao, there is a square plateau (278 yards long and 96 across) having on the top eight gradations of declivity, each from one to two yards lower than its neighbour, and making a total in length and breadth of about 278 yards, according to the calculation of J. B. Steere, of Michigan, Professor of Natural History.

The square plateau first mentioned at the base consists of two divisions . . . each measuring a perfect square 47 to 48 yards; the two joining, form the square of 96 yards. Besides this, is another square of 47 to 48 yards. On the top returning again, we find the same symmetry of measurement in the multiples of twelve, nearly all the ruins in this valley being the same, which is a fact for the curious. Was it by accident or design? . . . The mound is a truncated pyramidal form, and is calculated to contain a mass of 14,641,820 cubic feet of material. . . . The "Fortress" is a huge structure, 80 feet high and 150 yards in measurement. Great large square rooms show their outlines on the top but are filled with earth. Who brought this earth here, and with what object was the filling-up accomplished? The work of obliterating all space in these rooms with loose earth must have been almost as great as the construction of the building itself. . . . Two miles south, we find another similar structure, more spacious and with a greater number of apartments. . . . It is nearly 170 yards in length, and 168 in breadth, and 98 feet high. The whole of these ruins . . . were enclosed by high walls of adobes--large mud bricks, some from 1 to 2 yards in thickness, length and breadth. The "huaca" of the "Bell" contains about 20,220,840 cubic feet of material, while that of "San Miguel" has 25,650,800. These two buildings with their terraces, parapets and bastions, with a large number of rooms and squares--are now filled up with earth!

Near "Mira Flores," is Ocheran--the largest mound in the Huatica valley. It has 95 feet of elevation and a width of 55 yards on the summit, and a total length of 428 yards, or 1,284 feet, another multiple of twelve. It is enclosed by a double wall, 816 yards in length by 700 across, thus enclosing 117 acres. Between Ocharas and the ocean are from l5 to 20 masses of ruins like those already described.

The Inca temple of the Sun, like the temple of Cholula on the plains of Mexico, is a sort of vast terraced pyramid of earth. It is from 200 to 300 feet high, and forms a semi-lunar shape that is beyond half a mile in extent. Its top measures about 10 acres square. Many of the walls are washed over with red paint, and are as fresh and bright as when centuries ago it was first put on. . . . In the Canete valley, opposite the Chincha Guano Islands, are extensive ruins, described by Squier. From the hill called "Hill of Gold," copper and silver pins were taken like those used by ladies to pin their shawls; also tweezers for pulling out the hair of the eyebrows, eyelids and whiskers, as well as silver cups.

"The coast of Peru," says Mr. Heath, "extends from Tumbey to the river Loa, a distance of 1,233 miles. Scattered over this whole extent, there are thousands of ruins besides those just mentioned, while nearly every hill and spire of the mountains have upon them or about them some relic of the past, and in every ravine, from the coast to the central plateau, there are ruins of walls, cities, fortresses, burial-vaults, and miles and miles of terraces and water-courses. Across the plateau and down the eastern slope of the Andes to the home of the wild Indian, and into the unknown impenetrable forest, still you find them. In the mountains, however, where showers of rain and snow with the terrific thunder and lightning are nearly constant, a number of months each year, the ruins are different. Of granite, porphyritic lime and silicated sand-stone, these massive, colossal, cyclopean structures have resisted the disintegration of time, geological transformation, earthquakes, and the sacrilegious destructive hand of the warrior and treasure-seeker. The masonry composing these walls, temples, houses, towers, fortresses, or sepulchres, is uncemented, held in place by the incline of the walls from the perpendicular, and adaptation of each stone to the place destined for it, the stones having from six to many sides, each dressed, and smoothed to fit another or others with such exactness that the blade of a small penknife cannot be inserted in any of the seams thus formed, whether in the central parts entirely hidden, or on the internal or external surfaces. These stones, selected with no reference to uniformity in shape or size, vary from one-half cubic foot to 1,500 cubic feet solid contents, and if in the many, many millions of stones you could find one that would fit in the place of another, it would be purely accidental. In 'Triumph Street,' in the city of Cuzco, in a part of the wall of the ancient house of the Virgins of the Sun, is a very large stone, known as 'the stone of the twelve corners,' since it is joined with those that surround it, by twelve faces, each having a different angle. Besides these twelve faces it has its internal one, and no one knows how many it has on its back that is hidden in the masonry. In the wall in the centre of the Cuzco fortress there are stones 13 feet high, 15 feet long, and 8 feet thick, and all have been quarried miles away. Near this city there is an oblong smooth boulder, 18 feet in its longer axis, and 12 feet in its lesser. On one side are large niches cut out, in which a man can stand and, by swaying his body, cause the stone to rock. These niches apparently were made solely for this purpose. One of the most wonderful and extensive of these works in stone is that called Ollantay-Tambo, a ruin situated 30 miles north of Cuzco, in a narrow ravine on the bank of the river Urubamba. It consists of a fortress constructed on the top of a sloping, craggy eminence. Extending from it to the plain below, is a stony stairway. At the top of the stairway are six large slabs, 12 feet high, 5 feet wide, and 3 feet thick, side by side, having between them and on top narrow strips of stone about 6 inches wide, frames as it were to the slabs, and all being of dressed stone. At the bottom of the hill, part of which was made by hand, and at the foot of the stairs, a stone wall 10 feet wide and 12 feet high extends some distance into the plain. In it are many niches, all facing the south."

The ruins in the Islands in Lake Titicaca, where Incal history begins, have often been described.

At Tiahuanaco, a few miles south of the lake, there are stones in the form of columns, partly dressed, placed in line at certain distances from each other, and having an elevation above the ground of from 18 to 20 feet. In this same line there is a monolithic doorway, now broken, 10 feet high by 13 wide. The space cut out for the door is 7 feet 4 inches high by 3 feet 2 inches wide. The whole face of the stone above the door is engraved. Another similar, but smaller, lies on the ground beside it. These stones are of hard porphyry, and differ geologically from the surrounding rock; hence we infer they must have been brought from elsewhere.

At "Chavin de Huanta," a town in the province of Huari, there are some ruins worthy of note. The entrance to them is by an alleyway, 6 feet wide and 9 feet high, roofed over with sandstone partly dressed, of more than 12 feet in length. On each side there are rooms 12 feet wide, roofed over by large pieces of sandstones, 11/2 feet thick and from 6 to 9 feet wide. The walls of the rooms are 6 feet thick, and have some loopholes in them, probably for ventilation. In the floor of this passage there is a very narrow entrance to a subterranean passage that passes beneath the river to the other side. From this many huacas, stone drinking-vessels, instruments of copper and silver, and a skeleton of an Indian sitting, were taken. The greater part of these ruins were situated over aqueducts. The bridge to these castles is made of three stones of dressed granite, 24 feet long, 2 feet wide by 11/2 thick. Some of the granite stones are covered with hieroglyphics.

At Corralones, 24 miles from Arequipa, there are hieroglyphics engraved on masses of granite, which appear as if painted with chalk. There are figures of men, llamas, circles, parallelograms, letters as an R and an O, and even remains of a system of astronomy.

At Huaytar, in the province of Castro Virreina, there is an edifice with the same engravings.

At Nazca, in the province of Ica, there are some wonderful ruins of aqueducts, four to five feet high and 3 feet wide, very straight, double-walled, of unfinished stone, flagged on top.

At Quelap, not far from Chochapayas, there have lately been examined some extensive works. A wall of dressed stone, 560 feet wide, 3,660 long, and 150 feet high. The lower part is solid. Another wall above this has 600 feet length, 500 width, and the same elevation of 150 feet. There are niches over both walls, three feet long, one-and-a-half wide and thick, containing the remains of those ancient inhabitants, some naked, others enveloped in shawls of cotton of distinct colours and well embroidered. . . .

Following the entrances of the second and highest wall, there are other sepulchres like small ovens, six feet high and twenty-four in circumference; in their base are flags, upon which some cadavers reposed. On the north side there is on the perpendicular rocky side of the mountain, a brick wall, having small windows, 600 feet from the bottom. No reason for this, nor means of approach, can now be found. The skillful construction of utensils of gold and silver that were found here, the ingenuity and solidity of this gigantic work of dressed stone, make it also probably of pre-Incal date. . . . Estimating five hundred ravines in the 1,200 miles of Peru, and ten miles of terraces of fifty tiers to each ravine which would only be five miles of twenty-five tiers to each side, we have 250,000 miles of stone wall, averaging three to four feet high--enough to encircle this globe ten times. Surprising as these estimates may seem, I am fully convinced that an actual measurement would more than double them, for these ravines vary from 30 to 100 miles in length. While at San Mateo, a town in the valley of the River Rimac, where the mountains rise to a height of 1,500 or 2,000 feet above the river bed, I counted two hundred tiers, none of which were less than four and many more than six miles long.

"Who then," very pertinently enquires Mr. Heath, "were these people, cutting through sixty miles of granite; transplanting blocks of hard porphyry, of Baalbic dimensions, miles from the place where quarried, across valleys thousands of feet deep, over mountains, along plains, leaving no trace of how or where they carried them; people (said to be) ignorant of the use of wood, with the feeble llama their only beast of burden; who after having brought these stones fitted them into stones with Mosaic precision; terracing thousands of miles of mountain side; building hills of adobe and earth, and huge cities; leaving works in clay, stone, copper, silver, gold, and embroidery, many of which cannot be duplicated at the present age; people apparently vying with Dives in riches, Hercules in strength and energy, and the ant and bee in industry?"

Callao was submerged in 1746, and entirely destroyed. Lima was ruined in 1678; in 1746 only 20 houses out of 3,000 were left standing, while the ancient cities in the Huatica and Lurin valleys still remain in a comparatively good state of preservation. San Miguel de Puiro, founded by Pizzaro in 1531, was entirely destroyed in 1855, while the old ruins near by suffered little. Arequipa was thrown down in August, 1868, but the ruins near show no change. In engineering, at least, the present may learn from the past. We hope to show that it may in most things else.

IV

To refer all these cyclopean constructions then to the days of the Incas is, as we have shown before, more inconsistent yet, and seems even a greater fallacy than that too common one of attributing every rock-temple of India to Buddhist excavators. As many authorities show--Dr. Heath among the rest--Incal history only dates back to the eleventh century, A.D., and the period, from that time to the Conquest, is utterly insufficient to account for such grandiose and innumerable works; nor do the Spanish historians know much of them. Nor again, must we forget that the temples of heathendom were odious to the narrow bigotry of the Roman Catholic fanatics of those days; and that, whenever the chance offered, they either converted them into Christian churches or razed them to the ground. Another strong objection to the idea lies in the fact that the Incas were destitute of a written language, and that these antique relics of bygone ages are covered with hieroglyphics. "It is granted that the Temple of the Sun, at Cuzco, was of Incal make, but that is the latest of the five styles of architecture visible in the Andes, each probably representing an age of human progress."

The hieroglyphics of Peru and Central America have been; are, and will most probably remain for ever as dead a letter to our cryptographers as they were to the Incas. The latter like the barbarous ancient Chinese and Mexicans kept their records by means of a quipus (or knot in Peruvian)--a cord, several feet long, composed of different colored threads, from which a multicolored fringe was suspended; each color denoting a sensible object, and knots serving as ciphers. "The mysterious science of the quipus," says Prescott, "supplied the Peruvians with the means of communicating their ideas to one another, and of transmitting them to future generations. . . ." Each locality, however, had its own method of interpreting these elaborate records, hence a quipus was only intelligible in the place where it was kept. "Many quipus have been taken from the graves, in excellent state of preservation in color and texture," writes Dr. Heath; "but the lips, that alone could pronounce the verbal key, have for ever ceased their function, and the relic-seeker has failed to note the exact spot where each was found, so that the records, which could tell so much we want to know, will remain sealed till all is revealed at the last day." . . . if anything at all is revealed then. But what is certainly as good as a revelation now, while our brains are in function, and our mind is acutely alive to some pre-eminently suggestive facts, is the incessant discoveries of archaeology, geology, ethnology and other sciences. It is the almost irrepressible conviction that man having existed upon earth millions of years--for all we know,--the theory of cycles is the only plausible theory to solve the great problems of humanity, the rise and fall of numberless nations and races, and the ethnological differences among the latter. This difference--which, though as marked as the one between a handsome and intellectual European and a digger Indian of Australia, yet makes the ignorant shudder and raise a great outcry at the thought of destroying the imaginary "great gulf between man and brute creation"--might thus be well accounted for. The digger Indian, then in company with many other savage, though to him superior, nations, which evidently are dying out to afford room to men and races of a superior kind, would have to be regarded in the same light as so many dying-out specimens of animals--and no more. Who can tell but that the forefathers of this flat-headed savage--forefathers who may have lived and prospered amidst the highest civilization before the glacial period--were in i the arts and sciences far beyond those of the present civilization--though it may be in quite another direction'? That man has lived in America, at least 50,000 years ago, is now proved scientifically and remains a fact beyond doubt or cavil. In a lecture delivered at Manchester, in June last, by Mr. H. A. Allbutt, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Society, the lecturer stated the following:--"Near New Orleans, in one part of the modern delta, in excavating for gas works, a series of beds, almost wholly made up of vegetable matter, were dug through. In the excavation, at a depth of 16 feet from the upper surface, and beneath four buried forests, one on the top of the other, the labourers discovered some charcoal and the skeleton of a man, the cranium of which was reported to be that of the type of the aboriginal Red Indian race. To this skeleton Dr. Dowler ascribed an antiquity of some 50,000 years." The irrepressible cycle in the course of time brought down the descendants of the contemporaries of the late inhabitant of this skeleton, and intellectually as well as physically they have degenerated, as the present elephant has degenerated from his proud and monstrous forefather, the antediluvian Sivatherium whose fossil remains are still found in the Himalayas; or, as the lizard has from the plesiosaurus. Why should man be the only specimen upon earth which has never changed in form since the first day of his appearance upon this planet? The fancied superiority of every generation of mankind over the preceding one is not yet so well established as to make it impossible for us to learn some day that, as in everything else, the theory is a two-sided question--incessant progress on the one side and an as irresistible decadence on the other of the cycle. "Even as regards knowledge and power, the advance, which some claim as a characteristic feature of humanity, is effected by exceptional individuals who arise in certain races under favourable circumstances only, and is quite compatible with long intervals of immobility, and even of decline,"9 says a modern man of science. This point is corroborated by what we see in the modern degenerate descendants of the great and powerful races of ancient America--the Peruvians and the Mexicans. "How changed! How fallen from their greatness must have been the Incas, when a little band of one hundred and sixty men could penetrate, uninjured, to their mountain homes, murder their worshipped kings and thousands of their warriors, and carry away their riches, and that, too, in a country where a few men with stones could resist successfully an army! Who could recognize in the present Inichua and Aymara Indians their noble ancestry?" . . . Thus writes Dr. Heath, and his conviction that America was once united with Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, seems as firm as our own. There must exist geological and physical cycles as well as intellectual and spiritual; globes and planets, as well as races and nations, are born to grow, progress, decline and--die. Great nations split, scatter into small tribes, lose all remembrance of their integrity, gradually fall into their primitive state and--disappear, one after the other, from the face of the earth. So do great continents. Ceylon must have formed, once upon a time, part of the Indian continent. So, to all appearances, was Spain once joined to Africa, the narrow channel between Gibraltar and the latter continent having been once upon a time dry land. Gibraltar is full of large apes of the same kind as those which are found in great numbers on the opposite side on the African coast, whereas nowhere in Spain is either a monkey or ape to be found at any place whatever. And the caves of Gibraltar are also full of gigantic human bones, supporting the theory that they belong to an antediluvian race of men. The same Dr. Heath mentions the town of Eten in 70 S. latitude of America, in which the inhabitants of an unknown tribe of men speak a monosyllabic language that imported Chinese labourers understood from the first day of their arrival. They have their own laws, customs and dress, neither holding nor permitting communication with the outside world. No one can tell whence they came or when; whether it was before or after the Spanish Conquest. They are a living mystery to all, who chance to visit them. . . .

With such facts before us to puzzle exact science herself, and show our entire ignorance of the past verily, we recognise no right of any man on earth--whether in geography or ethnology, in exact or abstract sciences--to tell his neighbour--"so far shalt thou go, and no further!"

But, recognizing our debt of gratitude to Dr. Heath of Kansas, whose able and interesting paper has furnished us with such a number of facts and suggested such possibilities, we can do no better than quote his concluding reflections. "Thirteen thousand years ago," he writes, "Vega or a Lyræ, was the north polar star; since then how many changes has she seen in our planet! How many nations and races spring into life, rise to their zenith of splendour, and then decay; and when we shall have been gone thirteen thousand years, and once more she resumes her post at the north, completing a 'Platonic or Great Year,' think you that those who shall fill our places on the earth at that time will be more conversant with our history than we are of those that have passed? Verily might we exclaim, in terms almost psalmistic, 'Great God, Creator and Director of the Universe, what is man that Thou art mindful of him'!"

Amen! ought to be the response of such as yet believe in a God who is "the Creator and Director of the Universe."

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NOTES ON "A LAND OF MYSTERY"

To the Editor of the THEOSOPHIST--I have read with much pleasure your excellent article on the "Land of Mystery." In it you show a spirit of inquiry and love of truth which are truly commendable in you and cannot fail to command the approbation and praise of all unbiased readers. But there are certain points in it, in which I cannot but join issue with you. In order to account for the most striking resemblances that existed in the manners, customs, social habits and traditions of the primitive peoples of the two worlds, you have recourse to the old Platonic theory of a land-connection between them. But the recent researches in the Novemyra have once for all exploded that theory. They prove that, with the exception of the severance of Australia from Asia, there never was a submersion of land on so gigantic a scale as to produce an Atlantic or a Pacific Ocean, that, ever since their formation, the seas have never changed their ancient basins on any very large scale. Professor Geike, in his physical geography holds that the continents have always occupied the positions they do now, except that, for a few miles, their coasts have sometimes advanced into and receded from the sea.

You would not have fallen into any error, had you accepted M. Quatrefages' theory of migrations by sea. The plains of Central Asia are accepted by all monogenists as the centre of appearance of the human race. From this place successive waves of emigrants radiated to the utmost verge of the world. It is no wonder that the ancient Chinese, Hindus, Egyptians, Peruvians and Mexicans--men who once inhabited the same place--should show the strong resemblances in certain points of their life. The proximity of the two continents at Behring Straits enabled immigrants to pass from Asia to America. A little to the south is the current of Tassen, the Kourosivo or black stream of the Japanese, which opens a great route for Asiatic navigators. The Chinese have been a maritime nation from remote antiquity and it is not impossible that their barges might have been like those of the Portuguese navigator, Cabral, in modern times, driven by accident to the coast of America. But, leaving all questions of possibilities and accidents aside, we know that the Chinese had discovered the magnetic needle even so early as B.C. 2,000. With its aid and that of the current of Tassen, they had no very considerable difficulty to cross to America. They established, as Paz Soldan informs us in his Geografia del Peru, a little colony there; and Buddhist missionaries "towards the close of the fifth century sent religious missions to carry to Fou-Sang (America) the doctrines of Buddha." This will no doubt be unpleasant to many European readers. They are averse to crediting a statement that takes the honour of the discovery of America from them and assigns it to what they are graciously pleased to call "a semi-barbarous Asiatic nation." Nevertheless, it is an unquestionable truth. Chapter XVIII or the Human Species by A. De Quatrefages will be an interesting reading to any one who may be eager to know something of the Chinese discovery of America, but the space at his command being small, he gives a very meagre account of it in his book. I earnestly hope you will complete your interesting article by adverting to this and giving us full particulars of all that is known about it. The shedding of light on a point, which has hitherto been involved in mysterious darkness, will not be unworthy of the pen of one, the be-all and end-all of whose life is the search of truth and, when found, to abide by it, be it at whatever cost it may be.

AMRITA
LAL BISVAS.
Calcutta, 11th
July.

Scant leisure this month prevents our making any detailed answer to the objections to the Atlantan hypothesis intelligently put forth by our subscriber. But let us see whether--even though based upon "recent researches" which "have once for all exploded that theory"--they are as formidable as at first sight they may appear.

Without entering into the subject too deeply, we may limit ourselves to but one brief remark. More than one scientific question, which at one time has seemingly been put at rest for ever, has exploded at a subsequent one over the heads of theorists who had forgotten the danger of trying to elevate a simple theory into an infallible dogma. We have not questioned the assertion that "there never was a submersion of land on so gigantic a scale as to produce an Atlantic or a Pacific Ocean," for we never pretended to suggest new theories for the formation of oceans. The latter may have been where they now are since the time of their first appearance, and yet whole continents been broken into fragments partially engulfed, and left innumerable islands, as seems the case with the submerged Atlantis. What we meant was that, at some pre-historic time and long after the globe teemed with civilized nations, Asia, America and perhaps Europe were parts of one vast continental formation, whether united by such narrow strips of land as evidently once existed where now is Behring Strait (which connects the North Pacific and Arctic Oceans and has a depth of hardly more than twenty to twenty-five fathoms) or by larger stretches of land. Nor shall we fight the monogenists who claim Central Asia as the one cradle place of humanity--but leave the task to the polygenists who are able to do it far more successfully than ourselves. But, in any case, before we can accept the theory of monogenesis, its advocates must offer us some unanswerable hypothesis to account for the observed differences in human types better than that of "divarication caused by difference of climate, habits and religious culture." M. Quatrefages may remain, as ever, indisputably a most distinguished naturalist--physician, chemist and zoologist--yet we fail to understand why we should accept his theories in preference to all others. Mr. Amrita Lal Bisvas evidently refers to a narrative of some scientific travels along the shores of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, by this eminent Frenchman, entitled--"Souvenirs d'un Naturaliste." He seems to regard M. Quatrefages in the light of an infallible Pope upon all scientific questions: we do not, though he was a member of the French Academy and a professor of ethnology. His theory, about the migrations by sea, may be offset by about an hundred others which directly oppose it. It is just because we have devoted our whole life to the research of truth--for which complimentary admission we thank our critic--that we never accept on faith any authority upon any question whatsoever; nor, pursuing, as we do, TRUTH and progress through a full and fearless enquiry, untrammelled by any consideration, would we advise any of our friends to do otherwise.

Having said so much, we may now give a few of our reasons for believing in the alleged "fable" of the submerged Atlantis--though we explained ourselves at length upon the subject in Isis Unveiled (Vol. I, pp. 590, et seq.).

First.--We have as evidence the most ancient traditions of various and widely-separated peoples--legends in India, in ancient Greece, Madagascar, Sumatra, Java, and all the principal isles of Polynesia, as well as those of both Americas. Among savages, as in the traditions of the richest literature in the world--the Sanskrit literature of India--there is an agreement in saying that, ages ago, there existed in the Pacific Ocean, a large continent which, by a geological upheaval, was engulfed by the sea. And it is our firm belief--held, of course, subject to correction--that most, if not all of the islands from the Malayan Archipelago to Polynesia, are fragments of that once immense submerged continent. Both Malacca and Polynesia, which lie at the two extremes of the Ocean and which, since the memory of man, never had nor could have any intercourse with, or even a knowledge of each other, have yet a tradition, common to all the islands and islets, that their respective countries extended far, far out into sea; that there were in the world but two immense continents, one inhabited by yellow, the other by dark men; and that the ocean, by command of the gods and to punish them for their incessant quarrelling, swallowed them up.

2. Notwithstanding the geographical fact that New Zealand, and Sandwich and Easter Islands, are at a distance, from each other, of between 800 and 1,000 leagues; and that, according to every testimony, neither these nor any other intermediate islands, for instance, the Marquesan, Society, Feejee, Tahitian, Samoan and other islands, could, since they became islands, ignorant as their people were of the compass, have communicated with each other before the arrival of Europeans; yet, they, one and all, maintain that their respective countries extended far toward the west, on the Asian side. Moreover, with very small differences, they all speak dialects evidently of the same language, and understand each other with little difficulty; have the same religious beliefs and superstitions; and pretty much the same customs. And as few of the Polynesian islands were discovered earlier than a century ago, and the Pacific Ocean itself was unknown to Europe until the days of Columbus, and these islanders have never ceased repeating the same old traditions since the Europeans first set foot on their shores, it seems to us a logical inference that our theory is nearer to the truth than any other. Chance would have to change its name and meaning, were all this due but to chance alone.

Theosophist, March, April,

June, August, 1880

1 See Stephens' Central America.
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2 A paper published by Mr. E. R. Heath in the Kansas City Review of Science and Industry, Nov., 1878.
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3 This "idea" is plainly expressed and asserted as a fact by Plato in his Banquet: and was taken up by Lord Bacon in his New Atlantis.
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4 "The name America," said I, in Isis Unveiled, (Vol. 2, p. 591) three years ago, "may one day be found closely related to Meru, the sacred mount in the centre of the seven continents." When first discovered, America was found to bear among some native tribes the name of Atlanta. In the States of Central America we find the name Amerih, signifying, like Meru, a great mountain. The origin of the Kamas Indians of America is also unknown.
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5 Smithsonian contributions to Knowledge, Vol. 1.
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6 New American Cyclopaedia, Art, "Teotihuacan,"
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7 On Ancient Sculpturing on Rocks in Kumaon. India, similar to those found on monoliths and rocks in Europe. By J. H. Rivett-Carnac, Bengal Civil Service, C. I. E., F. S. A., M. R. A. S. F. G. S., &c
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8 See Kansas City Review of Science and Industry, November, 1878.
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9 Journal of Science for February, Article--The Alleged Distinction between Man and Brute."
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~I In You & You In Me ~ We Are ~ Letters to and from Jesus ~

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Dear Jesus, I offer to you my poetry of word through the nights unspoken language of Love. The prayers of unspoken visions of Gods truth in all matters. Not just some but all matters. His voice is speaking when I wake up and when I go to sleep, if you go to sleep. How long will you sleep before he calls you awake again and start all over again. Is this what some think is alien abductions. Of the mind, or voices one who claim to hear. All along its only God trying to talk to me. It freaks some people out to think some one is in their head with them. I know you have always been here with me, Jesus and I know I have been distracted with life and the kids and with others but I always knew you were the one getting me through! It was very difficult to surrender to you and trust every thing would be OK, but we did it, Jesus, you and I got those kids on their way and what great people they are too!
Jesus, the things that have been happening these days with you have been the greatest day of my life I hope to continue being available to you for your glory, I live to serve you in what ever capacity I can! My letters to you are my prayers to you and I Love You and look forward to working together to help our people know you better! I in you and You in me, We are! Thank you Jesus! Joni

Dear Beloved ones, you have come to a time where everything begins to shift and the illusion built by the ego mind must begin to fall away. But even more than this, you are going to see that I Am calling you to “step up to the plate” and consciously fulfill your destiny. The call has gone forth.

I begin to gather up the magnificent hearts that are available for the flow of Love that will support this planet as a conscious being in Her choice to transform beyond supporting the illusion of separation from Me any more. It is not that He/She, the being whose consciousness holds this experience of human hearts, has ever been disconnected from the living whole of Love I Am, but has allowed this experimentation that is what we call human life.

But we have reached a crossroads where the call of destiny is upon you and the experiences that are now showing forth as the joint experiences of humanity are all working toward this goal, including those that might seem negative to the judgments of the ego -- especially what seems to be the economic downturn, confusion, instability. What this really is, is the waves of Love breaking up old patterns in every life and asking each heart, “Are you ready to fulfill your purpose as your way of life? Are you ready to allow God to be your compensation…living in the flow of abundance and Love that becomes the circle of inclusiveness that is the awakening heart of humanity…?”

In other words, for those of you who find yourselves squeezed economically, let Me reassure you, dear ones, that it is perfectly placed in your lives and in the lives of humankind. It is there so that each of you might find yourselves available to examine the opening of your destiny and the merging of the life of the Spirit with that which you do in the world so that you might at last become the fulfillment of who you know you truly are, but have not begun to fully manifest.

For many of you, for many human beings, long-standing careers have been ended or are ending, providing that point of conscious decision-making that offers now the most dramatic opportunities to choose the path of the fulfillment of Love. It is a path so that the truth of your heart might sing your destiny forth into the vibrational sphere that is Earth, and so that all of you now come to encircle and support that decision in each other most fully. With the choices you make on the physical plane, you are fully engaged in the conscious experience of the awakening of all life into the one truth of God.

So I must say to you now that from this point on, the waves of Love and consciousness, Light, that are pouring to humanity, to you now, each of you, are fully charged with the support of your life as the blossoming forth of your purpose, as the unique heart of the Divine and the perfect expression of our communion.

What does this mean right here, right now, as you stand upon this crossroads? Some of you already are here with Me, opening to this new decision to allow the flow of endless life, All That I Am, to support you and to move you forth moment-by-moment into the fulfillment of the highest purpose that is ever expressed through your heart, not through your mind.

When you recognize your destiny and give your all to it, when you give yourself over to trusting Me, you will recognize that there is a flow that if allowed will always support you. It is the flow of life, of destiny, of purpose, passion, creative awareness that comes forth at the highest vibration as the “en-conscious-ment” of the Moment of Creation as you, beloved ones – as the heart of God you are – and moves forth in all dimensions, not only to fulfill itself through giving but to bring back the resulting amplification of Love to Me in waves of endless gratitude and to open again to the next wave of co-creation.

Yet, even to say co-creation creates an image of separation between us when in truth we are one Love and you are My expression in a unique energy flow that is your individual Twin Flame heart, bringing forth as a gift to All That Is the amazing expression of this Love. It is time now to do this in the world – to allow the truth of your being to receive from Me, from the Moment of the Creation of life that is ongoing, every continuing – that great wave of Love and Light that is yours to be, to express, to amplify, that this might become in the world the work of your heart and the work of your hands.

As you recognize this flow, you also become part of the great design that brings your Love to bear as a gift and as power to support the destiny of others, to support their unique gift of Love and Light to Creation. How this manifests now in your life is that each moment you allow Me to move you. You allow Me to command your heart with the living Spirit, the great impetus of living Love and the full opening of consciousness, to receive your perfection and your destiny, allowing it to become your expressions for the awakening of humanity, with the underlying awareness woven into it that it shall be received with open hearted gratitude. That gratitude becomes part of your worship, your circling of Love back to Me.

As you find yourself in this place of shifting, perhaps having created the most perfect opportunities that to the ego mind might seem like desperation or lack…to the heart this is the opening of a doorway that you have waited for all of your life. Dearest ones, tell your mind you have nothing to lose. The old order is passing away and the flow of what is Real is coming forth to name itself as the world through the hearts of humanity, and yours, each of you, is called.

As your hearts say “Yes” and step up, then this great wave becomes held in your consciousness and given forth as many gifts in many ways. As you allow this flow of Love I Am to command you through your open and glorious heart, all those things that have called to you that the old world consciousness didn’t support… these things are what are rising now to be nourished by the Light.

While there may seem to the mind through the experience of its linear processing that there is a time of decision and even perhaps seeming lack while this new flow is being implemented, trust me when I say, it is but a blink, and it is absolutely necessary that you be in place as the waves of change, as the destiny of humankind emerges through your available hearts.

If you are not clear what your purpose is, come to Me, dear ones, to find it. Do not look into the world outside of yourself for that world is made of shadows, insubstantial, that will be washed away by the coming Love. Turn instead within your heart and rise up into this Light of your creating and allow the Will of Love to command your heart. Allow My voice to guide you to your destiny. If you need assistance to hear Me, please find it in each other that you might help each other become this open and functioning doorway for the shift.

There have been many times when you have asked Me: “Should I drop all I am doing, God, and simply do what I feel my heart calls me to?” Many of you have received answers that said, Hold, or Wait, or perhaps the veil of ego wouldn’t let you. So I send forth this message now simply to let you know that now the answer is affirmative. If you hold your heart to Me in trust and open your lives to this guidance, if you let the waves of Love be your impetus moment-to-moment, then you will find that you will recognize that I Am your abundance, and that what you do in the name of God is supported in all ways, always.

It has only been your doubt that has prevented you from experiencing this until now. But now in the greatest way, the world has turned into a new reality, a new expression in which this flow of Love finds itself invariably in the resonance of your hearts and the resulting work of your hands and then, flows forth to appear before you in the symbols of abundant life in every way.

Therefore it is time to return to the Source of your life that I Am and recognize in the deepest way as the experience of your reality that all things come forth from God, first, foremost and forever, and flow through your heart to be reflected in the symbols of the world. So as you make the shift to being alive to your purpose, to allowing the Will of Love from the highest realms of God I Am to fuel your heart, wave by wave, and to moment-by-moment direct it, then you will find that your “reality” changes easily to reflect the abundance of God and My support of life.

It is only the separation from Me that has caused the perception of lack in any way. It cannot be true and your hearts know this. I Am the living All. I Am Everything. If I Am the source of life and I Am your Source, beloved ones, then even to the mind it makes sense that your abundance comes directly from the great explosion of the life I Am into its expression as the reality of the unified cosmos of Love, for lack of a better word. You may call it any name you like. Call it “the matrix,” “the universe,” but the vibration of God I Am is indelible and ever present and ready to pour into each heart that opens itself to this vibration at all.

So let Me be the source of your outward life. Let Me truly command heart and hand in the joyous experience moment-to-moment of fulfilling that for which you came into the world, and that is to support this shift.

The second piece of this awareness is supporting each other. As the flow of this Love comes through heart and hands, allow your abundance to go forth not only to bless other lives directly but to support Love in the choices that you make. The consciousness of humanity now must shift and will… to value those things that hold the vibration of Love, of Light, of God-consciousness, of the choice of each person’s life to move forth on this wave of destiny.

Truly as you have said in many ways, you cast your vote through your experience and your choices in your Earth-life reality. As the consciousness expands and the matrices of Love develop, the way this happens is through these connections of flow-to-flow and heart-to-heart. Therefore, as the symbols of abundance come to reflect to you your acceptance of your life in Me, allow this Light, allow this Love to direct you to those who are also stepping forth as you are.

Make your choices in every way about vibration – about what your heart urges you to do, about becoming the weavers of this New World of Love through the gift of supporting each other. Those things that are the expression of awakening hearts are then brought into the symbols of life on Earth more fully by your vote in the ways that it is expressed in the symbols of your life as humanity.

In other words, what you buy, you recognize as only symbols of a world shifting to Love, and that that which flows through another heart that is held in this vibration of Love is lifted up by your connection in whatever way you are choosing to make it – whatever way I urge you to connect. This might be sending emails on the net of Light, or sending prayers of thanks on the greater Christ grid or sending your appreciation by purchasing those things that are the expression of a person’s God purpose.

It is not about – and let Me say this forcefully – the products, the foodstuffs, the seeming reality of the world. It is totally about supporting hearts that are stepping up to their destiny and raising the consensual reality to a place of appreciating these things that are the artistry of the Spirit, that are the work of the hands that are commanded by the flow of Love of God I Am through the open heart.

Therefore, if you are urged by Love’s movement through your heart, for example, to purchase food that has been grown by one whose heart is dedicated to this awakening, it is not that you need a certain food to nourish a physical body. The body is a reality that is only alive as the result of the projector of the mind. It is rather about supporting Light. It is about making this connection of Love so that that which goes forth from that heart, those hands, is received, and through your gratitude its circle is completed and brought back to Me.

In that exchange, that choice, the world is lifted to a higher vibration. A new strand of the pattern of a world of Love is woven together and connected. Through that strand can come My voice, My presence. It is like laying lines for telephone or internet that create whole world communication. These choices and connections are laying the lines of holographic, spiritual communion among every living being in the world and the whole of God that you are expression. Only the Light moving forth is the force in this Creation, the Light so strong that all shadows fall away, including all perceptions of separation from Me, from the glory of Creation, from the Love and consciousness that are ever being expressed in this explosion of awakening.

The world shall now be connected into the ongoing Moment of Creation rather than a separate “reality.” In all the ways that you are attuned to experience communion with Me, in every way it comes it comes from within into the world and is reflected back as an expression of a reality as the frequency or resonance of your heart and showing to you perfectly your own heart’s beliefs.

As you step forth and say “Yes” to your destiny, as you open your heart to your purpose, as you choose to trust that your life comes from Me, that I Am your source of everything, then you are supported fully by the great River of Life, and that which is expressed is for the nourishment of all, that each beloved one may drink his/her fill and recognize their source as well.

So your choices become the expression of the destiny that you hear from Me, that you feel moving through your heart and expressing itself as your world, and as you support each other through vibration, then this net of living Light, this Christ grid becomes the reality of the world. No longer is it represented as human but rather as the living, pulsing Divine, that intricate weaving of the destiny of the Twin Flame heart of God I Am reclaiming its full expression in all dimensions, including here.

If you find yourself standing on the cusp of change, let it be known what your choice is. Speak the will of your consciousness and open the vibration of your Love and I will support you, that this great wave might rush through you amplified to support the awakening of God I Am as the world. It will take trust, beloved ones. It will take a shift in your inner reality. It will take returning to Me as the source of your life, made manifest as your world, just as your heart believes it.

So if you know I Am the fount of your life, if you know I Am abundance unlimited, if you know that I love you so completely that everywhere I Am you are also…and All That I Am is yours… when you feel this as your truth, you are ready to become the open heart of God. But the steps that you take to turn and to bring yourselves into full alignment are absolutely supported now and valuable. I weave stepping stones of truth beneath your feet, and I bring Love through your hands and speak in your heart your destiny continually.

This choice is before all of humanity. In one way or another it has come to call. Some of you have already heard it, have made the turns and are in the flow. Others are coming into alignment, clearing away the old heart’s beliefs that have kept this great wave of life showing itself before you as duality, as experiences of two things rather than One.

For example, lack and abundance. The truth through your heart when it is open is I Am All That Is, and I Am the abundance of life beyond anything your mind can imagine. To even begin to encompass it takes your heart wide open, as wide as the cosmos.

Feel yourself as that lily in My field whose life is supplied perfectly and know that as your heart believes it, so it shall be as your experience, amplified by this great wave of Love and Light that is right now making its impact on the world. Weave for Me this beautiful shining matrix of connected hearts and streams of destiny that become truly a net of Light that will tenderly hold those others who are just beginning to awaken or who as yet do not know that they have been called. Every heart will be supported in its turn into the flow of its creation and thus, its living present destiny coming forth in the only time there is and that is Now.

Always with you! Jesus

People come into your life for a reason

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People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person..
When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.
They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support,
to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually.
They may seem like a godsend and they are.
They are there for the reason you need them to be.
Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time,
this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.
Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.
Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.
What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done.
The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.

Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn.
They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.
They may teach you something you have never done.
They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.
Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons,
things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation.
Your job is to accept the lesson,
love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.
It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.

Thank you for being a part of my life,
whether you were a reason, a season or a lifetime.

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Train up a child

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Train up a child

In a world where our children are being killed, at an enormous rate, the possibility of reaching adulthood for urban children (especially boys) becomes more and more difficult each day. Children are disrespecting their parents, joining gang, doing drugs, experimenting with homosexual relationships, and ever kind of perversion you can imagine. Grandparents are the parents of the 2K era, not only raising their children, but now raising their children’s children. God has been taken out of the schools and out of the courts and for many Americans, God has been taken out of the living rooms and from the dinner tables as well. Is there any wonder that our children have been given up to a reprobate society.

But no loving parent wants to see his or her child die, and nothing is more tragic than to have a parent bury his own child. Nothing except when a parent has to bury his own child and know within his heart that his child has not been saved, that his child will burn eternally in hell, because his child had never known Jesus. For this reason it is of the utmost importance that we teach our children about Christ, and help them to develop a relationship with Him so that in time of trouble they will be properly equipped with the spiritual things needed to battle this corrupt world.

The bible teaches that we should “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he gets old he will not depart from it” The only question that remains is how do I train up a child? should we read child rearing books by Dr Spock, or some other deep thinker? Or should we take the advice of our friends whom had all their children go to college? Maybe we should just medicate our children to the point that they walk in a state of semiconscious stupor, that’ll teach them to act right! Let’s see what the bible says about this subject.

Deuteronomy 6:1-7 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

In short it says to teach your children the law of God, not that we are justified by the law but that by the law (Ten Commandments) we show our children in simple terms what sin is. Now pay attention to God’s promise when you teach the law to your children verse 2 says that their days may be prolonged! This is the simplicity that is in God’s Word.

Now verse 3 says “observe the law and do it “(here is the promise again) and all will be with well with you, and you will prosper in the land of milk and honey as God has promised. What is important to understand is that of all the promises made to Israel, it is the observing of the law which initiates these promises in their life. Likewise of all the inherited promises to the Christian nothing is it true if we don’t follow the law of God. I know we are taught we as Christian are not under the law and this is true, but if a Christian breaks the law he does so as a sinner and the law was made for the sinner. Can a Christian be a sinner also? Is not a sinner one who sins? Don’t even Christians occasionally fall into sin? But it is the law which convicts the non-repentant sinner and faith in Christ Jesus, which acquits us of our sin.

So God Commands Israel that they teach the law to their children because it is in having a knowledge of the moral law of God (summed up in the 10 Commandments) that gives not just our children but even adults a foundation of what sin is and the realization that without Christ we will never have salvation.

Galatians 3:24 Therefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

It is in teaching the moral law that we show our children what sin 1 John 3:4 tell us “sin is transgression of the law”, and Paul teaches in Romans 7:7 “I would not have known sin, if not by the law”So we have established that what we train our children is in the knowledge of sin through the law. let go back to Deuteronomy 6 to see how we train up our children.

Deuteronomy 6:8-9 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
That is that you should forever have the commandment in front of your children, Not just that you read them occasionally but that they become a tool to teach them all they need to know in life. This is of utmost importance, also that you not just force them on them but have them express to you their understanding of them in daily life.

When a child lies saying thing like “You know its wrong to lie don’t you? (wait for their answer) tell me why you should not lie. Their answer should not be founded in you but in God. by this I mean if their answer is because you will spank me, it may be true but that’s not enough, guide them with patience to see that what they did is a transgression of God law not just mommy and daddy’s rules. Read here how the message bible explains the next two verses of Deuteronomy 6

Deuteronomy 6:8-9 (The Message) Write these commandments that I've given you today on your hearts. Get them inside of you and then get them inside your children. Talk about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in the street; talk about them from the time you get up in the morning to when you fall into bed at night. Tie them on your hands and foreheads as a reminder; inscribe them on the doorposts of your homes and on your city gates.

I hope this helps, I know it may seem too easy, and even as if I had move the complicated task of rearing a child to a few lines in the bible, but the bible says we should not through the hidden things of this world even as Eve was by the serpent, be lead astray from the simplicity that is in Christ Jesus (2 Cor 11:3)

[1] Romans 3:20 (Amplified Bible) for no person will be justified (made righteous, acquitted, and judged acceptable) in His (God’s) sight by observing the works prescribed by the Law. For [the real function of] the Law is to make men recognize and be conscious of sin [^]not mere perception, but an acquaintance with sin which works toward repentance, faith, and holy character]

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Fixing the Broken Wheel of Flawed Teaching

Fixing the Broken Wheel of Flawed Teaching

What do you do when you come to a place where something that you have always been taught about God may not be in line with what God revealed of Himself in the bible? What do you do when God has opened your eyes to see that what was a regular part of how your practice or was taught to practice your faith may not be biblically correct?

I not talking about a falling away of your faith, you still love God and you still have a made up mind to live your life for Jesus, but it is that very love for God, that very made up mind that brought you into the realization that this something is really wrong with the way something (it can be anything) is being taught in your local church.

You are proberly that type of person that is naturally antagonistic, you may be that person that always have to ask why. You fish through scripture after church to make sure what was preached was biblically sound, and even have the guts to say something under your breath, "that just don't seem right to me"

No one else seems to really care that's its not right so maybe it just you being you same old trouble making self, or maybe your are right and God forbid the whole church is wrong. So you are being torn between what is being practiced or taught at church and what you are reading in the bible.

The first time this happened to me was when I came to the realization that the way we witness to the lost is not only biblical incorrect, it may have been producing more false Christians, (those that think they are saved and are not.) than it was real ones.

Now my desire is not to sound like a Ray Comfort mini-me but I’ve seen the type of Christian that is produced from both the modern day way we witness and witnessing using the law. And if my desire is truly build God’s kingdom than I’ve got to stop worrying about how many people I get to mimic a pre-orchestrated prayer, and start working to develop those that would worship God in Spirit and Truth.

But with that being said, the question is what do you do when you know that something your church is teaching does not produce God fearing people? Do you leave and go to another church in hopes that they might get it right? Do you try to bring to the understanding of the heads of the church the error of their ways? Or do you just sit and do nothing; even though you know what you are doing is wrong? How do you fix that broken wheel of a flawed practice in your local body and how many casualties will it have to the faith?

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Friday, January 22, 2010

Why Do You Pray?

Luke 18:1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

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I went to prayer meeting, and tonight just like every other night it finished with our pastor imploring to pray! "Men ought always to pray, and not to faint," he would say as we walked out of the door. For me prayer has never been a task, I enjoy praying, for my family, my friends and even for those that my not like me as much as I love them, but this is not true of everyone.

There are a number of reasons people pray, some out of obedience, some out of love, others out of faith, or fear, and then there are those that pray out of hopelessness. We all know that prayer develops in us a connection with God but on a personal level why do you pray, what does prayer mean to you? Why do you think we should always and not faint?

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Why Righteousness?

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This blog is an answer to a friends blog who was asked the question "Why do I need to be righteousness?"

There is a major problem with the taught gospel today, we see God as a servant to us, rather than our required servitude to Him. Pay attention to the names of God used in most Churches, Jehovah - Jireh – (The Lord will provide [for me]), Jehovah - Rophe (The Lord Heals [me]), Jehovah Nissi (The Lord Is My Banner), and Jehovah-Shalom –( the Lord [our] Peace). All of these names have to do with what God can do for us. Now when you combine this with the accepted witnessing principles, that Jesus love you, and if you come to Him He will heal your sickness, addiction, marriage problems or finances you can see how this feel good, all about what I can get out of the relationship mindset that the world and many Christians have about God.

The problem is we don’t tell them about the full council of God’s Salvation. We must give them God’s word not the Gospel, Gonna say that again, we must give them God’s word not the Gospel Matthew 7:6 tell us "Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs”. And what is sacred, what your pearls are is the Gospel.

If we tell people Jesus will bring happiness, then our witnessing becomes an issue of quality of life and the fact is that there are many people who are going to hell and are perfectly happy with their present way of life. The modern gospel end result is to get them recite this sinners prayer, which is totally unbiblical. Did Jesus or Paul or any of the Apostles cause a person to recite a sinner’s prayer? If a person could be saved by saying a sinners prayer than Ephesians 2:9 which says “Not of works, lest any man should boast” is a lie.

However if we show them using God’s word that they are in transgression of God’s law and God is just in punishing them with eternal death to burn in hell, then we can bring them to a biblical state of repentance, and teach them the value of righteousness.

The bible tell us that God law, not our life, not what God has done for me, but God’s law is perfect in converting the soul (psalm 19:7) So we must give the law to show them they are in sin. I know you will say but they already know they are in sin and they ok with it. So you think, Paul says in Romans 7:7 “I would not have known sin, but by the law; for I would not have know lust except the law said thou shall not covet.”

I was shocked when I found that most people do not know they are in sin, or they have devalued their sin to such a level that it means nothing to them, they say words like “little white lie” or “everyone is doing it” But we have a God that sees even one lie as a liar, taking a pen from work as a thief, looking a women with lust as adultery, and being angry with a men for no reason as murder. No one that does not think they are in biblical sin will ever have a reason for repentance. The punishment is great, and we must bring to the sinners attention that they are in sin. Take away quality of living when we speak to them and let them know the reason for righteousness is without it you go to hell!

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Friday, December 11, 2009

When We can't See God’s Work at Hand.

When the king of Edom, and the king of Moab, and the king of Ammon, and the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon, and Josiah king of Judah were taken into subjugation under Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon many prophets falsely prophesied the quick restoration and the return of those in exile. But the prophet Jeremiah with a Yoke of wood he wore on his own neck until the prophet Hanniah throw it to the ground and broke it, did not receive this prophecy from God

So God spoke to Jeremiah and said that the yoke that Hanniah broke was of wood, but God had put a yoke of iron around the nations and had given Nebuchadnezzer dominion over all they had, even the beast of the field.

So Jeremiah wrote a letter to those in exile rebuking the false prophecy of the other prophets, and reminding those in exile that even in times of difficulty, God still had a better plan for them. Rather then complain because of their situation, Jeremiah suggested that they should strengthen themselves, in the present, that they may be fully able at the appointed time of God’s deliverance.

Jeremiah 29:11-14 (KJV) For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

Sometimes we feel that God has left us all alone that he has forgotten us or may not know the severity of our problem. But God want us to know that even when we can only see the evil, He has plans for our good. And when we get serious about finding God and want to be in his presence more than life itself. He will hear our prayers and will not forsake us.

Here is my prayer for such an occasion as this.

My Heavenly Father, in Jesus' Name I come to You in Prayer. Oh God sometimes I get confused Heavenly Father, when I’ve done everything I can and trouble and calamity still follows me. Father you said you will make me the head and not the tail in every situation, but sometimes it just don’t seem that way. Your Word says You’ll never leave me, and that Your Spirit dwells in me, but oh Jehovah Shammah, sometimes I feel all alone.

It’s hard dear God, leaning on You when all my life I have had to do things on my own, make my own way, be my own man. But calamity is all about me; and I just can’t fix what’s broken in my life, I’ve got to depend on You, and You alone to bring me out of my exile, to restore all the vessels that the King of Babylon has taken from me.

Help me God to be strong because I just can’t do this by myself. Father, if you don’t save me, I can’t be saved, if you don’t deliver me, I will not be delivered. If You don’t stretch forth Your Omnipotent hand and snatch me from the grasp of the enemies of this world. They will surely devour me like a roaring lion.

So with a sorrowful and contrite heart I call on You in prayer, hearken Your ear to my supplications; and save me; make the evil which was intended for me to be as a blessing, and let my trials and tribulations, be testimony of Your Glory

In Jesus’ Name I pray Amen

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Monday, December 7, 2009

Appearance of Evil

Appearance of Evil

In 1^st Thessalonians Paul gives some very sound advice on how to walk daily as a Christian. We often forget these very sound precepts and assume that we can attain to a standard of Christianity on our own. In verse 16 though 22 the Apostle gives a seven step process whose simplicity has outlasted anything man has up to this point thought of.

If we follow these steps there will be no condemnation in those that are in Christ, from the world be they in church or on the street. Today we will address only the last one found in verse 22 “Abstain from all appearances of evil”

1 Thessalonians 5:16-22 Rejoice evermore. ¹⁷ Pray without ceasing. ¹⁸ In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. ¹⁹ Quench not the Spirit. ²⁰ Despise not prophesyings. ²¹ Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. ²² Abstain from all appearance of evil.

When we consider this verse we must realize that Paul is not asking us to abstain from evil but even the appearance of evil. Not just that which is wrong but that which seem wrong in the eyes of others! As ambassadors of God that which we do that even appears wrong in the eyes of a non-believer, be it wrong or not it defiles God’s Name. this is why Samuel said to King David after his issue with Bathsheba “You have caused the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme his name” (2 Sam12:14)

Just because a thing does not appear to be wrong, in any way, and does not break any law, does not make it acceptable for God’s Ambassadors. It can still be improper for men and women of God because it is inconsistent with the respectability (Higher Standard in God) that we must attain to as Sons and Daughters of the Almighty God.

When we do not carry ourselves in a way that correctly represent God or put into question our love for God, we are putting God’s Name in judgment of the world, we have through our action allowed others to blasphemy the Name of God we have through our behaviors blasphemed the Name of God ourselves

This is why Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 10:23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. If our actions, or our behaviors, or if we find ourselves in places, or situations and conditions were our Christianity is questioned; if we are not doing what will openly edify God’s Glory then we are not avoiding the appearance of evil.

Now because men (people) can not see our motives, what our intentions are is of very little importance, it makes little difference if we are motivated by Godly intentions, if what we do appears to be wrong in the eyes of the world; we have blasphemed God’s Name.

It is always safe to lean to the side of virtue, therefore we don’t get so caught up on the action being right or wrong the virtue of the action should cause us to abstain, and the desire to rightly represent God reframe from any indulgence.

Because we represent God, when there is a possibility of misinterpretation of our motives, or actions we are presenting a defiled picture of God. God requires us to aim at living our life Holy, to be different form the rest of the world. Therefore how we conduct ourselves, where we find ourselves, whom we associated with will do more to bring a true believer to God then all the witnessing in the world when they do not see you living the life you are witnessing

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On Prophecy
Prophecy 101
What is it?

The gift of prophecy is the ability to speak the will of God into the lives of others. It has the purpose of bringing edification, exhortation, and encouragement to the Body of Christ, either individually or as a corporate body through knowledge of God’s Will

1 Corinthians 14:3 (KJV) But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

Who is a Prophet?
Now it is important to understand that there is a difference between the Gift of Prophecy and the Office of a Prophet, one is a Gift of the Spirit and the other is a specific ministry office given to the body of Christ.

Ephesians 4:11 tells us that there are 5 ministry offices each one with a purpose and anointing on that office, they are;

1. Apostle,
2. Prophet,
3. Evangelist,
4. Pastors, and
5. Teachers.

Respectively there are 9 Gifts of the Holy Spirit they are;

1. Word of Wisdom,
2. Word of Knowledge,
3. Faith,
4. The Gift of Healing,
5. The Working of Miracles,
6. Prophecy,
7. Discerning of Spirits,
8. Divers Type of Tongues and
9. Interpretation of Tongues.

Just because a person has the gift of prophecy does not mean that person walks in the office of a prophet, Because God can and will use anyone to express His will toward the Body of Christ we can not assume that just because someone prophesize does not mean he or she is a prophet. This confusion my lead us to honor a person because of an office for which they do not hold. Also pride may lead even a man of God to assume he is greater than he is operating in an office for which he has no anointing.

1 Corinthians 14:31 (KJV) For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.

When Paul speaks of the offices of the ministry he makes clear that Apostle, Prophets, Evangelist, Pastor and Teachers are separate and distinct offices. A person may have the ability to teach, and evangelize and even be given to prophecy, but can only walk in the office of that which his has the anointing to walk in. Just because a prophet can preach does not make him or her pastor. A prophet is called to prophesize, a teacher is to teach, and likewise an evangelist is to evangelize. If a person decides to walk in the office of pastor as well as prophet he will surely fail at the office for which he has no anointing. This is important because God may have given him to become a teacher.

All of us can have prophecy from God but not all of us are prophets, all saints are called to evangelize but not all of us are evangelist. We must walk in the office for which there is an anointing. Being in the proper position, and function in the right office in the body of Christ is absolutely necessary for a healthy body. Consider this, if our liver tried to the job of our brain we would all be blithering idiots because the liver has no ability to generate thought, nor control actions of our limbs or any of the things that the brain must do. Likewise the brain can not function as the liver because it can not filter toxins from our blood stream nor signal the pancreas to produce insulin so that we may assimilate the foods that we eat. If the brain tried to do the things of the liver we would quickly die from the poisons of our own body, or suffer from starvation even while eating three square meals a day.

Romans 12:6 (KJV) Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

Counterfeit Teaching on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Some teach that apostles and prophets don’t exist today, they say things, they even teach to the congregation that the Gifts of the Holy Spirit and even the Office of the Apostle and Prophet died when the first apostles died. This is completely non Scriptural there is nowhere in the bible that says the gifts of the Holy Spirit or certain offices ended while other offices remained at the death of the original twelve or any other time for that matter. This is the doctrine of men not of God in Christ Jesus.

Likewise there is a powerful teaching that is counterfeit which has changes the Gift of the Holy Spirit. So that we would have no power, this is the work of Satan toward man to deceive you. If anyone tell you anything about the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, what they are, if they are still in working today, or anything which they can not back with scripture run away from them as fast as you can. The bible and the bible alone is the authority of the gifts and promises of God not what a person opinion says.(Deuteronomy 4:2).

On Free Will and Prophecy
Because God has given us free will prophecy can be inaccurate, or what is prophesized may not come to past because the prophet of God is only speaking God Will. We as creatures of free still have the ability to move out of God’s Will. This allow us to buffer harsh prophecy and fulfill prophecy which we love by our obedience to God. So we say that prophecy is God's will for a person's life or a local Body of Christ.

The Ways of receiving Prophecy
Sometimes the Holy Spirit reveals to the prophet what needs to be said at the instance it need to be said, there is no thought or premeditation of what God reveals to the prophet. this is one of the ways a prophet recieves prophecy from God

1 Corinthians 2:12 (KJV) Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
A prophet may receive prophecy through visions, when this happens he or she may see what God has revealed even though others around see nothing.

1. Acts 9:10 (KJV) And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord.
2. Numbers 24:4 (KJV) He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:

Through dreams and night visions a prophet may receive the word of God. Dreams are one of the ways God said he would reveal His Will to prophets. of all ways to recieve God will dreams are the most common way and is experienced at least once by almost every beliver.

1. Daniel 7:1-28

A prophet may also receive prophecy through angels. The act of seeing an angel manisfestation in flesh is called theophany. Almost every time there is a theophany in the bible prophey is given to the individual that experienced the theophany.

1. Revelation 1:1 (KJV) The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John
2. Acts 10:22 (KJV) And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.

The Different Types of Prophets
Not all prophet receive God Will the same way, and because they receive differently that are often named or called by the way they recieve the Word of God

1. Some prophet receive their message from God through visions and dreams these prophets are called “Seers”
2. Some hear the voice of God speaking directly to them, they are called “Hearers”;
3. If a prophet receive God’s Will through the perception of their spirit these prophets are called “Sensors;”
4. And a very few prophets do not actually recieve God's Will but instead just know what it is God wants to reveal to his people that are called “Knowers”

`Different Ways a Prophet Disseminates Prophecy
Prophecy can be given in a number of ways two of which are the lower level prophecy (anyone may give prophecy this way) and the higher level of prophecy given only to those operating in the office of a prophet.

1. Lower level Prophecy
lower level prophecy is a way in which God gives prophecy to those not walking in the office of a prophet. However, someone who is walking in the office of a prophet may receive from God prophecy in this way as well. It is important to know

1. By simply speaking under the unction of the Holy Spirit God will give his world to whomever he desires for the edification of the local body of Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:4 (KJV) He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.

2. Through prophesying in song or with music:

1 Chronicles 25:3 (KJV) Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD.

Ephesians 5:19 (KJV) Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

2. Higher Level Prophecy;
Higher level prophecy is prophecy which comes from a prophet that is walking in the office of a prophet. Because the office of prophet is an office that God alone can call one to, God speaks to him that walks in the office of prophet more freely and set him apart from others that prophesize.

Numbers 12:6-8 (NIV) …he said, "Listen to my words: "When a prophet of the LORD is among you, I reveal myself to him in visions, I speak to him in dreams.But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house.With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD…

1. Higher level prophecy may be expressed through acting out in parables this is exclusively done through the office of the Prophet.

1 Samuel 15:27-28 (KJV) And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou.
Acts 21:10-11 (KJV) And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus. And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

2. Higher level Prophecy may also be expressed by writing down the prophecy, this is almost exclusively give to congregations and always for the edification, exhortation and encouragement to the Body of Christ. In this way God give prophecy to the prophet in advance and the prophecy is held until God desires to have it delivered.

Please note that prophecy written in a book is not in any way an addition to scripture, nor is it to be considered for anyone except whom it was given to.

Revelation 1:11 (KJV) Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

Jeremiah 36:18 (KJV) Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

Hope you enjoyed this little section on prophecy, there is so much more to cover, please drop me a line and let me know what you think.

Reference:

The Holy Bible through BibleGateway

The BlueLetter Bible with Strong’s Concordance

Hope for Glory Ministries

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Thursday, October 8, 2009
Word of Knowledge

Word of Knowledge 101

I guess I’m going to try to do the impossible, which is to address Word of Knowledge without addressing Word of Wisdom. Most of the time these two gifts of the Holy Spirit are address together. I think the reason for addressing them together is that they flow so well from one to another. In this article I will try to sever the flow at the point where Word of Knowledge ends, and Word of Wisdom begins.

So, have you ever solved a problem or gave a person right advice concerning their spiritual situation, and as you were answering them, thought to yourself “How in the world did I know that?” If so, it may very well have been the Holy Spirit working in you in the form of the spiritual gift of Word of Knowledge. Word of Knowledge is one of the less recognized of the spiritual gifts and unlike Prophecy, Word of Knowledge can sometimes be overlooked or confused with other spiritual Gifts.

For the Christian there is a real need, and even a requirement to be able to correctly discern all spiritual gifts, the Apostle Paul tells us that concerning spiritual gifts we should not be ignorant. (1Cor 12:1), Knowing not just spiritual but intellectually knowing the spiritual gifts of the Holy Spirit is necessary for us to be able to identify, utilize, and grow into these gifts. Therefore, that we might not be ignorant concerning this spiritual gift, let us examine just what this gift Word of Knowledge really is.

I think it’s very important to understand it is called the Word of Knowledge, not gift of knowledge, which is because we are given only a fragment of the Knowledge of the Holy Spirit concerning a specific person or specific situation. Consider this, God is All Knowledge, not God has all knowledge, or God attains to all knowledge, God is all Knowledge. And through the works of the Spirit of God, God imparts a single Word of His Omniscience into us at a specific time for a specific person or a specific situation as He desires us to impart.

What is the Word of Knowledge?

The Word of Knowledge is knowledge received from the Holy Spirit to which we would not have otherwise any access to. This spiritual knowledge enables us to more effectively minister to the Body of Christ. When the Holy Spirit gives you His Word of Knowledge you are then able to know and understand the situations, circumstances, and strategies of the enemy or whoever may come up against the Body of Christ. You can then confidently speak on situations with knowledge, which can baffle, the enemy, make known the deceptions of the principalities and powers, as well as bring healing and understanding to those that have been targets of the enemy.

John Wimber defines Word of Knowledge as a supernatural revelation or fact about a specific person or situation, which is not learned through the efforts of the natural mind, but is a fragment of knowledge freely given by the Holy Spirit disclosing the truth which He wishes to be made known concerning a particular person or situation.

Word of Knowledge almost always deals with the present or past, however, in a very few cases it may express itself in the future tense. Key indicators that the Word of Knowledge is being imparted are words like “have been,” or “are going through,” or “in the past” Word of Knowledge will reveal a problem, or an attack of the enemy, however the knowledge of the attack may not always be enough to form a spiritual solution.

Tools of a Prophet

The revelation gifts, Word of Knowledge, and Word of Wisdom often operates in synergy with one another, with Word of Knowledge being the raw materiel and Word of Wisdom being the application of the raw material.

Even though Word of Knowledge and Word of Wisdom are revelation gifts, they by definition of their name are vocalized or spoken since the Greek word “logo” means spoken. The fact that these two revelation gifts are spoken can cause confusion to the hearer when trying to distinguish between prophecy and the synergy of Word of Knowledge and Word of Wisdom.

When Word of Knowledge and Word of Wisdom are correctly used by a true prophet, the imparting of these two revelation gifts flow from Word of Knowledge to Word of Wisdom in a seamless application as through they were prophecy. True Prophets (those living in the office of a prophet) often operated in at least two of the revelation Gifts while simultaneously operating in the Gift of Prophecy.

To better understand this lets imagine God puts a Word of Knowledge into your spirit (You know something about a specific person or specific situation you would not otherwise be able to know) in addition to that Word of Knowledge, God gives you instruction as to what you should do to correct the problem or avoid whatever attack the Word of Knowledge has warned you of. When these two gifts are verbalized it often appears to be prophecy and more often then not the Holy Spirit uses a prophet to impart this knowledge. So it may seem as though prophecy and the synergistic working of Word of Knowledge and Word of Wisdom are the same but they are not.

Run of the Mill Prophecy

Let’s get this clear prophecy is not simply the vocalizing of the revelation gifts. Absolutely not! Prophecy, by definition is for the edification, and exhortation, and comfort of the Body of Christ;(see blog Prophecy 101) while revelation gifts almost always are for the correcting of erred spirits (Acts 10:9-17), and the revealing of deceptions, lies (Acts 5:1-3 )and the hidden intents of principalities and powers that set themselves against Jesus and the Body of Christ. Furthermore Word of Knowledge is always specific never generalized, while prophecy can be at times generalized

Here are a few biblical examples of Word of Knowledge as appear in the bible

1. John 4:15-19 (Jesus to The Samaritan women at the well)

2. Matthew 16:13-1( Simon Peter’s Revelation knowledge of who Jesus really was [is])

3. Acts 5:1-3 (Simon Peter knowledge of the sin of Ananias and his wife)

4. Acts 9:10-18 ( Ananias conversion of Saul of Tarsus)

5. Acts 10:9-17 ( breaking the bigotry against the Gentiles)

6. Acts 22:17-21 ( Paul warned to leave Jerusalem)

7. 2 Kings 8:1-2 ( Elijah’s Warning of Famine)

8. 1 Samuel 9:15-27 (Calling of Saul)

So in conclusion we can say that Word of Knowledge is a spiritual gift given by the Holy Spirit. When working with Word of Wisdom it appears to be like prophecy, accept Word of knowledge is for the revealing of lies and deceptions that may attack the body of Christ, while Prophecy is for the exhortation, edification and comfort of the Body of Christ, while Word of Knowledge is a revelation gift that is verbalized ( spoken)

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The Omniscience of God” (part 2 )

Spiritually Discerning Omniscience

Romans 11:33 (KJV) O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

When last we addressed the Omniscience of God (part 1) we dealt with two arguments that atheist and open theist contend are true of God. For the atheist with the goal of disproving the existence God is a fair stance, that is who they are and they are very upfront with their goal. However the stance taken by the open theist scares me in that to the casual observer they (open theist) appear to be true believers, and without a discerning eye can so easily be mistaken for true believers by a new convert. The open theist may not have the goal of humanizing God but their atheistic mindset unwittingly puts them on the same path of destruction.

Rather then act as an atheist or a theologian I’m going to do something very profound I’m going to act as a believer.

God Knowledge and Man’s knowledge

Francis Turretin. In his discussion of the doctrine of God knowledge writes;

Concerning the intellect of God and the disquisition of his knowledge, two things must be attended to above all others: the mode and the object. The mode consists in his knowing all things perfectly, undividedly, distinctly and immutably. It is thus distinguished from human and angelic knowledge: perfectly because he knows all things by himself or by his essence (not by forms abstracted from things--as is the case with creatures--both because these are only in time with the things themselves, but the knowledge of God is eternal, and because he can have no cause out of himself).[1]

I know he is a theologian but I’m moving from that point as quickly as I can. So what is the point here? Simple God does not perceive knowledge as we perceive. As I said in the previous blog that the atheist tries to humanize God by putting the limitations of man on God. Man perceives though his senses but there are limits to what we can perceive even in senses that work excellently.

Consider this two people can watch a sudden car accident at the same time, from the same vantage point but when asked the chronology of the event they will give you two different stories, one may even leave out or add something to the actual event. But God does not perceive things with his senses like man does; God’s perception is the Work of the Holy Spirit therefore it can have not limitations because it is God.

But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 1 Corinthians 2:10 (KJV)

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Hebrews 4:13 (KJV)

For the man of God spiritual understanding of God’s knowledge brings us comfort, because we can spiritually discern the Omniscience of God. We don’t have to intellectually know God is Omniscience we can unlike the rest of the world let his Holy Spirit reveal to us his Omniscience. This becomes true when we began to act on the spiritual knowledge of His Omniscience, when we are in doubt we cry out “Search me, 0h God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting” (Psalm 139:23,24)

This is the Spiritual knowledge of God’s Omniscience that the world can’t comprehend. We discern the infinite knowledge of God which fills us and unctions us to exalt His heavenly name. Way above even the wisest man is the simplest knowledge of God, as the heavens are above the earth so is the knowledge of God above man.

We wrestle with what even this day may bring for us, but all futurity is open to His omniscient gaze. The infinite knowledge of God fills the man or women of God with holy awe. Nothing we can do, nothing we can say not even anything that we can think, escapes the cognizance of God The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Proverbs 15:3 (KJV) And because we know in the depths of our spirit that our every action is naked before the omniscient God we are fearful in his presence, rejoicing with trembling. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Psalms 2:11 (KJV)

This is a knowledge that the carnal mind of this world can not comprehend so we waste our time when we try to give them that understanding. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Romans 8:7 (KJV) But because we are not of this world, God has given us these secret understandings. The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant. Psalms 25:14 (KJV)

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen. Romans 11:33-36 (KJV)

References

1. Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology (Philipsburg, New Jersey: P & R Publishing, 1997), 1:207

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The Indwelling of Omnipresence

God's Omniprensence in Us

When we think of Omnipresence we think as God being everywhere this was addressed earlier in the “Everywhere of Omnipresence” or as God incarnating God’s self for man to interact with, this was addressed in the “Theophany of Omnipresence” but there is another form of omnipresence that I think should be cleared up. And it is even more complicated than all the rest and of all the Attributes of God this is the one that we have power over.

This being the incarnation of God which is beyond the physical to the spiritual, it lives in us, and speaks to us, and through us, it exists to comfort us, and guide us into full maturation in the works of God. This incarnation is called the Holy Spirit (Ruah HaKodesh; Hebrew) (Pneuma Hagios; Greek) it is given to the believer of Christ as a promise from Jesus Christ. And because every man, woman, and child that walks on this earth has within him the free will to accept Jesus Christ as his Savior, none is excluded from the possibility of having the Holy Spirit dwelling in him; this is the Indwelling of Omnipresence.

Now with the Holy Spirit indwelling in us our body becomes as Paul says in a temple where God

dwells.

“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you,” 1 Corinthian 6:19

Pay attention to the way this is written, the apostle Paul did not say that if you have received the Holy Spirit, then your body is a temple where God dwells. What he was trying to do was draw to the attention of the Church of Corinth that because they have accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, their bodies are a temple.

Now this becomes wholly important in our understanding that the Holy Spirit is not an option in the life of the believer, but rather (help me Holy Spirit) without the Holy Spirit dwelling in you there is no salvation! This is important because we are told that all we have to do is say that we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior and we are saved, but this is far from the truth. I will write on the deeper understanding of parable of the sower in another blog. You can agree with me on that last statement about salvation or not.

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. Romans 8:8-9 (KJV)

Let me break down these two verses written by the Apostle Paul. The Apostle says that "those of the flesh can not please God, but you (he was speaking to the Church of Corinth ) are not of the flesh but of the spirit." Now pay close attention to these next two words. Paul writes “if so” if you truly are of the spirit, "be that the Spirit of God dwell in you." That was a statement of confidence, not a question. What the Apostle was saying is that, if so you are truly living your life after God then I am confident that the Spirit of God dwells in you. This is important because Paul understood that even then there were phony Christians among the Church of Corinth , just as it will be in your church.

Now the next line seals the deal the apostle writes "If any man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his." Now who are those that belong to Christ, those that have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal savior, not just with their lips but also with their hearts? Because anyone can say “I accept Jesus Christ as my savior” and not have the contrite heart and they are not saved!

False Converts

In second Timothy 4:10 The apostle Paul writes “For Demas hath forsaken me having loved this present world.” You see Demas had accepted Christ as a savior with his lips but the desires of the

flesh (they that are of flesh can not please God) he esteemed greater than the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. In John 6:70 Jesus in speaking of Judas reply “One of you is a devil” You see Judas had promised to follow Christ but the desires of his flesh (lucre) was greater than his salvation. I’ve

heard people say that Judas could not go to heaven because he hung himself. Let’s be real now Judas won’t get to heaven because he is a devil! Christ words not mine.

So both Demas and Judas did profess a Love for Christ but the Spirit of God never dwelled in them because they never accepted Christ with their hearts. Time after time the bible makes it clear that salvation is a product of the heart but we as Christian teach that it is a product of our lips, even though we see two biblical examples of false converts those that had professed a love for Christ with their lips, but whose heart was still desiring the things of this world

* The bible says that God saves those of contrite spirit (broken hearted) Psalm 34:18;
* God will not despise a contrite heart Psalm 51:17; ·
* I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit Isaiah 57:15

So this incarnation of God is different in that God indwells in our very heart. This incarnation of God is not external to us but is the very spirit that guides us in righteousness, by giving us perfect interpretation of God’s word in the way that is specific to the individual person.

And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Acts 2:7-8 (KJV)

Now of all the Attributes of God, only the Indwelling Omnipresence do we have power by our action to defile. So be it drugs, homosexuality, adultery, fornication, effeminate, overeating, smoking, or excessive drinking, anything in which the body is directly affected we dishonor God by submitting to the lust of flesh. More importantly we defile the Holy Temple of God and place ourselves under a curse of destruction.

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God , and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God , him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 (KJV)
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
The Theophany of Omnipresence

Psalms 139:8 (KJV) If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
The above verse is an expression of the omnipresence of God. It addresses God being everywhere at the same time. This is the first thing that comes into the average person’s mind when we think of God’s Omnipresence and the very thing addressed in the last blog Omnipresent God .
In the next two blogs on omnipresence we will address The Theophany of Omnipresence, and the Indwelling of Omnipresence. Today we address the Theophany of God’s Omnipresence, and there is no better place to start than to ask the question what is a theophany? A theophany is an appearance of God by man. In the Hebre Text (Old Testament) God appears as an angel of the Lord, in physical form, in visions and dreams and as a burning bush.

Exodus 33:20 (KJV) And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

John 1:18 (KJV) No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

Is this a contradiction of the bible? If Moses or Abraham has seen God than John 1:18 contradicts what is written in the old testament about these theophanies. So is the bible wrong or am I wrong in my thinking? For those that desire to have no truth there is a contradiction, but for those desire to a deeper meaning read on because the bible has wonderful harmony in its scripture.

The Trinity

Let’s work with what we know about God; though it may be limited it is the only thing we can work with at this time. God is a Triune God, meaning that we recognize God as God the Fathe

r, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, and in that recognition each God is a perfect and complete God but there is not three Gods only One. Therefore our prayer is towards only one God, which is three persons in one; this is what we call the Trinity.

Now God the Father is Spirit, and God the Son is Spirit, and The Holy Spirit is Spirit, and each God are One. Therefore being One, that which is true of God the Father, must be true of God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, and likewise anything which true of the God, but be true of God in all His Persons.

Now armed with this knowledge of the Trinity let us look at the first chapter of the book of John for clarification, and understanding of this problem of theophany.

John 1:1 (KJV) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:3 (KJV) All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

John 1:14 (KJV) And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

1 Timothy 3:16 (KJV) And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

In John 1:1 we see that the Word was with God since from the beginning. John 1:3 tells us that even everything that was created was created by “God the Word” and that nothing that was created, was created except by Him (The Word). In John 1:14 we see “the Word” was made flesh. And since John 1:18 says no man has ever seen the father, we can only deduce that any previous theophany of God was of the pre-incarnated Son.

Why the pre-incarnated Son? Because one of the Attributes of God is His Immutability and that means God never changes, since God never changes we can say that even from the beginning that God the Son was both Flesh and Spirit. In john 8:56 Jesus acclaims his Eternalness which reflect this immutability with a simple statement.

John 8:58 (KJV) Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

Since God the Son has always been both all man, and all God, both flesh and spirit therefore any incarnation of God seen by Abraham or Moses was in fact the pre-incarnated Jesus Christ.

A very enlightening verse concerning this theophany of Christ or in this case pre-incarnated Christ is found in

Amos 4:10-11 (KJV) 10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the LORD.

11I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the LORD.

In verse 10 we have very common interpretation of His Act as they are spoken By the Lord “I have” done this, or that or the other, and verse 10 ends with saith the Lord (Lord, being Jehovah, or Yahweh, or YHWH by Strong’s concordance # H3068) However verse 11 gives us a very unique twist, it starts off in the first person “I” but moves to the 3rd person “God” which would lead us to believe that God is speaking of another personage of the Trinity, in fact this is as though one personage of God was taking credit for some acts and giving credit for other actions to another personage of the Trinity. With this is mine we can see how both Exodus 33:20 and John 1:18 can be correct and not contradict the other.

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2010-04-17T00:33:00.000-07:00

THERE IS HOPE !!

Andy Rooney and Prayer

Folks, this is the year that we RE-TAKE AMERICA & Canada
********* Get Ready *********

Keep this going around the globe. Read it and forward every time you receive it.. We can't give up on this issue.

Andy Rooney and Prayer

Andy Rooney says:

I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I'm not going to sue somebody for singing a Ho-Ho-Ho song in December. I don't agree with Darwin , but I didn't go out and hire a lawyer when my high school teacher taught his Theory of Evolution.

Life, liberty or your pursuit of happiness will not be endangered because someone says a 30-second prayer before a football game. So what's the big deal? It's not like somebody is up there reading the entire Book of Acts. They're just talking to a God they believe in and asking him to grant safety to the players on the field and the fans going home from the game.

But it's a Christian prayer, some will argue.

Yes, and this is the United States of America and Canada, a country founded on Christian principles. According to our very own phone book, Christian churches outnumber all others better than 200-to-1. So what would you expect -- somebody chanting Hare Krishna?

If I went to a football game in Jerusalem, I would expect to hear a Jewish prayer.

If I went to a soccer game in Baghdad, I would expect to hear a Muslim prayer.

If I went to a ping pong match in China, I would expect to hear someone pray to Buddha.

And I wouldn't be offended. It wouldn't bother me one bit.

When in Rome .......

But what about the atheists? Is another argument.

What about them? Nobody is asking them to be baptized. We're not going to pass the collection plate. Just humor us for 30 seconds. If that's asking too much, bring a Walkman or a pair of ear plugs. Go to the bathroom. Visit the concession stand. Call your lawyer!

Unfortunately, one or two will make that call. One or two will tell thousands what they can and cannot do. I don't think a short prayer at a football game is going to shake the world's foundations.

Christians are just sick and tired of turning the other cheek while our courts strip us of all our rights. Our parents and grandparents taught us to pray before eating, to pray before we go to sleep. Our Bible tells us to pray without ceasing. Now a handful of people and their lawyers are telling us to cease praying.

God, help us. And if that last sentence offends you, well, just sue me.

The silent majority has been silent too long. It's time we tell that one or two who scream loud enough to be heard that the vast majority doesn't care what they want. It is time that the majority rules! It's time we tell them, "You don't have to pray; you don't have to say the Pledge of Allegiance; you don't have to believe in God or attend services that honor Him. That is your right, and we will honor your right; but by golly, you are no longer going to take our rights away. We are fighting back, and we WILL WIN!"

God bless us one and all...Especially those who denounce Him, God bless America and Canada, despite all our faults We are still the greatest nations of all. God bless our service men who are fighting to protect our right to pray.

Let's make 2010 the year the silent majority is heard and we put God back as the foundation of our families and institutions. And our military forces come home from all the wars.

Keep looking up.

: Andy Rooney and Prayer

Folks, this is the year that we RE-TAKE AMERICA & Canada
********* Get Ready *********
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Keep this going around the globe. Read it and forward every time you receive it.. We can't give up on this issue.

Andy Rooney and Prayer

Andy Rooney says:

I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I'm not going to sue somebody for singing a Ho-Ho-Ho song in December. I don't agree with Darwin , but I didn't go out and hire a lawyer when my high school teacher taught his Theory of Evolution.

Life, liberty or your pursuit of happiness will not be endangered because someone says a 30-second prayer before a football game. So what's the big deal? It's not like somebody is up there reading the entire Book of Acts. They're just talking to a God they believe in and asking him to grant safety to the players on the field and the fans going home from the game.

But it's a Christian prayer, some will argue.

Yes, and this is the United States of America and Canada, a country founded on Christian principles. According to our very own phone book, Christian churches outnumber all others better than 200-to-1. So what would you expect -- somebody chanting Hare Krishna?

If I went to a football game in Jerusalem, I would expect to hear a Jewish prayer.

If I went to a soccer game in Baghdad, I would expect to hear a Muslim prayer.

If I went to a ping pong match in China, I would expect to hear someone pray to Buddha.
cid:6B3BF540FDD34EC1A52EC989D183C861@MomSchool
And I wouldn't be offended. It wouldn't bother me one bit.

When in Rome .......

But what about the atheists? Is another argument.

What about them? Nobody is asking them to be baptized. We're not going to pass the collection plate. Just humor us for 30 seconds. If that's asking too much, bring a Walkman or a pair of ear plugs. Go to the bathroom. Visit the concession stand. Call your lawyer!

Unfortunately, one or two will make that call. One or two will tell thousands what they can and cannot do. I don't think a short prayer at a football game is going to shake the world's foundations.

Christians are just sick and tired of turning the other cheek while our courts strip us of all our rights. Our parents and grandparents taught us to pray before eating, to pray before we go to sleep. Our Bible tells us to pray without ceasing. Now a handful of people and their lawyers are telling us to cease praying.

God, help us. And if that last sentence offends you, well, just sue me.

The silent majority has been silent too long. It's time we tell that one or two who scream loud enough to be heard that the vast majority doesn't care what they want. It is time that the majority rules! It's time we tell them, "You don't have to pray; you don't have to say the Pledge of Allegiance; you don't have to believe in God or attend services that honor Him. That is your right, and we will honor your right; but by golly, you are no longer going to take our rights away. We are fighting back, and we WILL WIN!"

God bless us one and all...Especially those who denounce Him, God bless America and Canada, despite all our faults We are still the greatest nations of all. God bless our service men who are fighting to protect our right to pray.
cid:45D3ABC1A8664CBFB314BC70C85E335C@MomSchool
Let's make 2010 the year the silent majority is heard and we put God back as the foundation of our families and institutions. And our military forces come home from all the wars.

Keep looking up.

An Innocent Man

2010-03-05T00:48:00.000-08:00

I see my way ahead one step at a time, through the fog, through the night of darkness into the light of day, into the light of understanding, that we can only do what is put in front of us! God, gives each a gift! That gift is so often kept hidden from the sight of others for fear that if it be seen, it will be met with hostile brutal condemnation! Fear keeps the door shut, the curtain drawn, fear will lead us no were, but to the brink of death, alone! A knowable well kept secret given in one word, "Hope" will keep that magic gift alive! Believing I lay fear aside, pick up the instrument God gave me, the one string, I have left, I play my heart out! I keep plucking, singing, dancing, telling my story of how the truth is so misconstrued, one more voice speaking out to set the story strait! I make a Grand Stand for The Righteous Innocent who have been let and left, down! I stand and sing for An Innocent Man, you! JMM

An Innocent Man Lyrics
Artist(Band):Billy Joel

Some people stay far away from the door
If there's a chance of it opening up
They hear a voice in the hall outside
And hope that it just passes by

Some people live with the fear of a touch
And the anger of having been a fool
They will not listen to anyone
So nobody tells them a lie

I know you're only protecting yourself
I know you're thinking of somebody else
Someone who hurt you
But I'm not above
Making up for the love
You've been denying you could ever feel
I'm not above doing anything
To restore your faith if I can
Some people see through the eyes of the old
Before they ever get a look at the young
I'm only willing to hear you cry
Because I am an innocent man
I am an innocent man
Oh yes I am

Some people say they will never believe
Another promise they hear in the dark
Because they only remember too well
They heard somebody tell them before

Some people sleep all alone every night
Instead of taking a lover to bed
Some people find that it's easier to hate
Than to wait anymore

I know you don't want to hear what I say
I know you're gonna keep turning away
But I've been there and if I can survive
I can keep you alive
I'm not above going through it again
I'm not above being cool for a while
If you're cruel to me I'll understand

Some people run from a possible fight
Some people figure they can never win
And although this is a fight I can lose
The accused is an innocent man
I am an innocent man
Oh yes I am
An innocent man

You know you only hurt yourself out of spite
I guess you'd rather be a martyr tonight
That's your decision
But I'm not below
Anybody I know
If there's a chance of resurrecting a love
I'm not above going back to the start
To find out where the heartache began

Some people hope for a miracle cure
Some people just accept the world as it is
But I'm not willing to lay down and die
Because I am an innocent man

I am an innocent man
Oh yes I am
An innocent man

The Audacity of Hope
G.F. Watt
http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/watts/paintings/12.jpg

"with her clothes in rags, her body scarred and bruised and bleeding, her harp all but destroyed and with only one string left, she had the audacity to make music and praise God ... To take the one string you have left and to have the audacity to hope ... that's the real word God will have us hear from this passage and from Watt's painting."
Hope

George Frederick Watts RA (1817-1904)

1885

Hare's caption: "At the first glance it is rather strange that such a picture should bear such a title, but the imagery is perfectly true. The heavens are illuminated by a solitary star, and Hope bends her ear to catch the music from the last remaining string of her almost shattered lyre. The picture was painted in 1885 and given to the nation in 1897"

"To Watts, the serious man of fifty years, Love and Death, Faith and Hope, Aspiration, Suffering, and Remorse, were not, as to the eighteenth-century rhymester, merely Greek ladies draped in flowing raiment; to him they were realities, intensely focused in himself. Watts was giving of himself, of his knowledge and observation of what Love is and does, and how Death appears so variously; and who but a man who knew the melancholy of despair could paint that picture 'Hope'?"

Today

I took on the smoking Nazi, God, gave me the words as I trusted,it was well excepted. I may have gotten at the least an out side shelter for the smokers to use while out in the elements smoking. I was told by this manager that she knows no one with a heart like I have, I told her,it is the heart of God, it is a heart that wants the innocent to have a voice! God's use of me, will be Great, if I trust my inner voice, where Gods true plan will manifest! Letting fear fall away from in front of my eyes. I doubt not the breath in me and I see clear the plan that has been laid out for me all along. May I be as true as the arrow that has pierced my heart by God Himself! May I play my one last string sending a vibration of one heart, one accord or a cord, one breath, one love, one acknowledgment that the heart needs balance in giving and in receiving. Balance of the positive and negative energy flowing into the heart. Creation of God Himself, reflected back onto the whole universe bring harmony and peace! One string can, make a sound and can, free the cord of fear and misunderstanding, blindness, hunger, and replace it with understanding, sight, fullness and Hope! "I am" that "I am", I am enough, I make beauty before, beauty behind, beauty all around!" "May God lead me with a means to say what is, in a way that is beautiful and beneficial!" May my songs be of light to lead those in darkness beyond the night to sight of day where one might find the path set forth by the one who mapped it out in the first place. Trust brings joy! Doubt lays open a wounded heart! The wounded heart is healed by trusting God! Faith! Faith is seeing beyond the dark night! With the light of Love! JMM

2010-02-14T13:04:00.000-08:00

Letter To A Single Mom

2010-02-11T17:57:00.000-08:00

Hi dear, I hope this note finds you and your loved ones well and enjoying this new time of your lives! The evolution of life is a mysteries as is our own life as it unfolds in front of our very own eyes! Sometimes to our surprise the river bends and the rapids get strong so we must let go and let the current take us! The more we fight it the more we sink! I know the walk you are on I walked it my self, so if ever you need a helping hand just call on me! Yes kind of like Jesus isn't it! That is the voice of He who calls my name! He gives me the strength to stand firm in what I believe! Alway Believe!

I have been on a very healing journey for the past year and with the help of God, I have come a long way back to finding my health again! I am enjoying living that life again! I have even been able to go back to Church! God, this time for what ever reason, which He has yet to fully revel to me, is leading me into the Catholic Church! I find Him every where, it is not that I go to the church to find Him but to be of service to Him. I know he is calling me to speak up on His account and He has been reveling things to me in a very synchronized way lately. I am writing like never before and doors are opening up to me I never new were there. In Gods time all things will be reveled and we can only trust Him when He says "Come with Me by your selves to a quite place and get some rest!" His voice is there in the stillness, seek the stillness of your heart and He will be there always waiting for you to listen, He whispers your name and wants you to enter into His rest and He will carry you when you feel weak! This is what he does for me! This is how I was able to make my way through this life of changing tides! Keep Faith In Love! All else will manifest in the time and place it is meant too!

Be sure and take time for your self, sweet heart! You are a wonderful mother your children are very fortunate to have you as their mommy! I love seeing you every time I am able to attend the gatherings. We are all One any way so why do we worry so! We gather in the name of love and that is what matters!

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Train up a child

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Now because men (people) can not see our motives, what our intentions are is of very little importance, it makes little difference if we are motivated by Godly intentions, if what we do appears to be wrong in the eyes of the world; we have blasphemed God’s Name.

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