“Violence is the antithesis to understanding. We have to create understanding. Understanding is a positive thing. Man is his Understanding.”

To understand is to Know. To know is to be able to see the cause and effect in all the events in your life.

To understand is to see and know the working out of the Law of Three, (You; the other and the realationship between) in all your relationships.

To become violent to any person, place or event is to not understand the cause of that event, nor to understand your relationship to that person, place or event.

Quantum Physics tells us that thoughts are things. It also tells us that our thoughts create our reality. This is done because our thoughts reach into the infinite ocean of intelligent thinking substance, called the Quantum Ocean, Mind of God. These thoughts then create our physical reality around us.

If there is a person, place or event in your life that is about to move you to violence, then you do not understand. You do not understand the cause of the event. You caused it. You attracted it. You also do not understand your relationship to that event. What is it you have to learn from it?

Therefore forego the violence and with all thy getting get understanding.

There is an old Chinese proverb, which when I first heard it, I did not like it or understand it. It goes like this: “The murdered person is as guilty as the murderer.” Now I understand it.

Winston Churchill said, “Just because you have to kill a man, there is no reason to be angry or violent about it…”

Keep in mind that the Karma attached to every event you cause in your life is judged good or bad by your MOTIVE.

Each of us in the course of our daily living must create understanding. We must understand the cause and the relationship of every person, place, or event that enters our life on a daily basis.

Understanding can only be positive for it follows the Natural Laws of Quantum Ocean, Mind of God.

You are the sum total of your understanding. What you understand you know. What you KNOW you are.

The place that each of us attains in the hierarchy of things is the sum total of our level of being (state of consciousness.) And our level of understanding.

Every time we truly understand the cause and the relationship of every person, place or thing that enters our life, we raise our level of consciousness ever so slightly. One cannot exist without the other. To understand cause and effect, and the Law of Three of Relationships, puts you at a level of unconsciousness above the level of consciousness of Massive Society.

To raise your level of consciousness, even a little, above the level of mass man (unconscious man) is to be able to understand the Laws of Cause and Effect in your life; as well as the Law of Three in Relationships.

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Unique spirituality information tells us that before we entered this physical universe we all made an agreement with God. This agreement is part of our spiritual growth and we can understand this agreement once again when we unite and become one with the source of our existence. It is a very individual journey that allows this spiritual growth to happen.

You might ask why we don’t get this information from our religious institutions and that would be a very good question.

Religions perform an important function as a beacon of light that humans can use in their quest to understand their relationship with God. Unfortunately, religions have resorted to using fear as the tool that unites the parishioner with the parish. Religions have strayed from the teachings of the masters on whom the religions were founded. The spiritual masters who founded the major religions of the world all told us the same message.

The message is that we are one with God. Jesus, Mohammed, Krishna, Buddha, Moses, Abraham, and all the other masters told us this one universal message. We are not separate from God, we are one with God. It is the ultimate message of love. It is a message that unites us with God and with everything that exists. Most religions have found it necessary to deliver a message, or a doctrine, that keeps us separate from God, and this separation mentality is a fear based paradigm from which to live your life.

This does not change the actuality of our beingness, which is that each and every one of us is a spirit child of God possessing the same essence of God. That is who we are. That is who we really are. Always have been and always will be for eternity. Just like God.

Just as God is eternal and all knowing and creative, so are we. God created us in the image and likeness of God as part of God’s master plan when God created the physical universe and the concept of relativity.

Remember, God created the physical universe in order to know experientially all that she knows conceptually. There is only one way for God to accomplish that. God had to create us, her spirit children, to occupy this physical plane in order to experience something that God cannot experience herself. You see, in order to experience herself as God, God has to experience herself as not God.

You see, God is God. God cannot not be God. God is the absolute and that is what God is. So, in order for God to experience herself as not God, she would have to somehow forget that she is God. There is no way for God to do that, except through God’s surrogates, through God’s spirit children, through us.

So, are you ready for a huge Ah-haaaaa? Here it comes.

We, as God’s spirit children, are all made from the same stuff that God is. We all possess the same powers and abilities as God. We are all part of God. That is who we are. That is who we really are.

God’s purpose in creating us, her spirit children, was so that we could experience in the realm of the physical universe all that God knows as concepts in the realm of the absolute. That is our purpose here in the physical relative world. We are in a giant collaboration with God. Our mission is to experience life in all of its different perspectives in order for God to know, through our experiences, all that she knows as concepts in the realm of the absolute.

How do we have these experiences? We create them. God gave us free will to create our lives as we choose. There is no agenda set out for us except what we choose as an agenda. We are free to be whomever we choose to be.

That’s why we were created with the same powers of creation as God. We are creating machines. If this is so, then why don’t we create a more peaceful loving world and why don’t we create our own lives to be abundant and full of love? God would say to us, “Yes, why don’t you? You have the absolute power to do so.”

I agree with God. If we have total choice to create our lives in any manner that we choose, and we do, then why don’t we create our own lives to be in alignment with the highest visions that we hold for ourselves? Why don’t we create a world society that is peaceful and loving and honors the planet that is our home instead of destroying it for short-term profits?

Once again the answers to these and all the questions that confound us lies in this beautiful concept called relativity. We know that in order for God to experience all that he knows conceptually, he would have to be able to compare God to something that God is not. God is an absolute. God cannot be what God is not, but God could make an agreement with her spirit children to forget that they are a part of God, made up of the same essence as God.

Okay, all together now, Ah-haaaaa!

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I want to display in this short article how the power of prayer can profoundly affect our lives. Here are few practices we can integrate into our prayer transforming it from superficial worrying and doubt to actually working for us in real and amazing ways. I have personally found these principles to be absolutely true and able to work miracles.

Praying for Others: For one full day try and pray for each person you come across in the day. Say a silent prayer when greeting another person. This may sound strange and mystical, but if you practice, you will notice yourself almost “shooting” a prayer that the other person feels. With DILIGENCE you will become an expert and actually be able to turn a person around on the street to give you a warm look. The key is to become detached from yourself and your own worries and completely concentrate on the other person your are contacting. You will be refreshed and empowered by this exercise while simultaneously helping others.

Pray with Faith: Faith emotionalizes our prayers with unshaken BELIEF in ourselves and our infinite nature. Ask and BELIEVE and you will be the recipient of your demand. This step is the most difficult. Even when we think we BELIEVE something whole-heartedly, one of our chief enemies: DOUBT, seeps into the cracks of our mind. Faith is not something that will come overnight, but must be continually built. The good news is that Faith builds upon itself. Take time to repeatedly build your Faith until it has been etched on your subconscious. With great Faith, the power of prayer is limitless in working miracles in our lives.

Pray for Big Things and all things: There is no limit to what prayer can do. Emotionalize your prayers with unshaken belief and do not limit yourself. The great miracles of the ages have been accomplished using these exact formulas, and the principle is universal. On the other-side of the coin there is no task or object too small for the infinite spiritual realm to completely satisfy.

When it happens you will know. Never GIVE up. Follow these steps and you will work miracles.

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This is in continuation of the articles, ‘Sri Sathya Sai Baba on Himself’, published earlier.

20) Let Me tell you, it is only those who know the scriptures, that can understand Me. I am determined to correct you only after informing you of my credentials. That is why I am now and then announcing My Nature by means of miracles - that is, acts which are beyond human capacity and human understanding. Not that I am anxious to show off My powers. The object is to draw you closer to Me, to cement your hearts to Me.
Getting to know Me is also part of your destiny.

- Discourse at Prasanthi Nilayam on 24-11-1961

21) Remember, Sai does not live in structures of stone or brick and mortar! He lives in soft hearts, warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal Love.

- Discourse during Installation of Shri Sai Baaba idol in the Mandhir, Repalle, on 2-12-1961

22) I gave Kasthuri and Thirumalachar shawls and blessed them at the beginning of this meeting since they wrote My life in English and Thelugu: the book called “Sathyam, Shivam, Sundaram.” Some of you might have wondered why I liked the publication of this book on My Life. Well, I like the production of all kinds of things and so, why should I not like this? I responded to the prayers of devotees and allowed them to write it. “Ramayathi ithi Raama” - He who pleases is Raama. The joy of the bhaktha (devotee) satisfies the Lord; the joy of the Lord is the reward of the bhaktha.

The title “Sathyam, Shivam, Sundaram” is full of meaning. It speaks of Me as immanent in every one of you, remember. Sathyam (Truth) is the basic reality of you all; that is why you resent being called a liar. The real “you” is innocent; he will not accept an imputation that is false. The real “you” is Shivam - joy, happiness, and auspiciousness - but not shavam (corpse). It is Sundaram (beautiful), Nithyam (permanent), Anandham (bliss). How then can you bear being called otherwise? The real “you” is Beauty, and so you resent being called ugly.

- Discourse at Prasanthi Nilayam on 4-3-1962

We will see many more of His sayings in the ensuing article.

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Welcome back to part 4 of this series of articles. In part one I reported that as I was writing that article a number of people were gathering in South London to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the British abolition of slavery, and I asked the question: Would The Lord Jesus Christ have joined in?

Since reporting that event there has been considerable press coverage with images that I found to be the most wretched, phoney and pathetic I have ever witnessed. Young and not so young white men with fake chains and shackles around their legs and wrists wearing T shirts with ‘So Sorry’ emblazoned across the front of them parading themselves for all to see. Some were even down on their knees groveling on the ground. Now this may appear to some of you as OK, even all very fine, but in reality what does it say about them and what does it say about modern Britain (I tend to leave the word ‘Great’ out these days). Furthermore, what does it prove? Has their wretched groveling proved anything and has it changed anything? No. Has their stupid, irresponsible, immature emotional behaviour changed history? No. Will their behaviour make them ‘feel better’? Very unlikely as it’s the permanent guilt that ‘keeps them going’; it makes them ‘feel good’ and feel ‘righteous’. This is how wretched they are. Has this behaviour made a positive impression on the black people of South London? I very much doubt it and if I were a black person I would consider it a patronising insult and treat the whole phony episode with contempt. So what’s it all about and would the Lord Jesus Christ have joined them in their little parade of false remorse for the cameras. I don’t think so, in fact, I know so. The only anniversaries The Lord Jesus Christ will be interested in, if any, will be the future anniversaries of the commencement of His Kingdom here on this earth when He returns. None of man’s activities in this age will be remembered, nor commemorated, by way of an anniversary in God’s Kingdom, if anything The Lord will want them all forgotten!

The question now is this: how can I be so sure The Lord Jesus Christ would not join in this celebration? To answer that we need to understand the origins of slavery and ask ourselves why the Lord Jesus Christ allowed it to take place at all? The answer to that question can be found in Genesis 9 where we read of The Lord’s curse on Canaan. This curse, pronounced by the Lord through Noah, came, because of Canaan’s father’s sin - see verses 25-27. Noah’s son Ham, Canaan’s father, ’saw his father Noah’s nakedness which in Biblical language can be interpreted that he had sexual intercourse with his father whilst his father was in a drunken sleep. Some commentators have interpreted these Scriptures to mean that Noah’s nakedness was his wife’s nakedness and Ham, therefore, had sexual relations with his mother. Either way, Ham was in deep, deep, serious trouble and so were his descendants.

OK, am I saying that Canaan and his descendants were and are black? Yes. How do I know that? Easy, Cush, Canaan’s brother was black; the name Cush literally means ‘black’ and all dark and brown skinned people are descended from Ham. OK, back to this curse of The Lord through Noah upon Canaan and here are the verses:

Genesis 9:24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. 25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. 27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

The word ’servant’ here means a ‘bondman’ or a man in bondage - a sold-man - a slave. Canaan and his descendants were to be slaves and even worse than that, slaves of slaves. Notice too, that they were also to be slaves of the descendants of Shem (white people) and slaves of the descendants of Japheth (yellow people). They were also to become slaves of slaves. Many slave masters promoted certain numbers of their slaves to the positions of overseers and managers on their plantations and that meant they had authority over their fellow slaves - Canaan’s descendants became slaves of slaves.

Here is another truth; Africans were sold to white slave traders, but by whom? Other Africans, black people sold their own kind into slavery. Captains or commanders of slave ships didn’t capture the Africans they took on board their ships; they had already been captured by other Africans. This was big business and a lucrative business for all concerned, not just the ship’s masters and owners. These facts are, of course, conveniently forgotten, deliberately played down or just ignored by liberal do-gooders in the west, especially in the media, who seem to want to continually beat themselves, and us, up about a time in our history that we can do nothing about, nor change. The point we have to take from this is that blacks were as guilty as whites in this whole episode of history. Any other view is evil, treacherous, western liberal, manipulation of the truth.

Here is another question; if we were to replace the sin of slavery with the sin of murder and celebrate its abolition, would it make any sense? If these people in South London had been celebrating the 200th anniversary of the British abolition of murder do you think The Lord Jesus Christ would have joined in with that? Do you think He would have joined in, when black youths, in drug gang wars, are being murdered on the very same streets of South London? We need to understand that slavery on this earth has never gone away - it still goes on - especially in the Arab countries of the Middle East. Slavery is also rife in the sex industry. The British abolishing it didn’t bring it to an end.

Here is another question: Is The Lord Jesus Christ interested in man’s ‘achievements’ i.e. all those things that man can do, and does do, under his own strength? Well yes, up to a point but then again no, because The Lord Jesus Christ created man in the first place. He was, therefore, and is, perfectly well aware of what His creation is capable of ‘achieving’; including the past, the present and what they could be capable of in the future.

When man fell in the Garden of Eden he acquired the knowledge of good and evil through eating the fruit of the tree he was commanded not to eat. Now because man has acquired the knowledge of good and evil he is, therefore, quite capable of doing both things. This in turn can depend very much upon outside influences, his mood swings, his general disposition and/or his motives. His motives for ‘doing good’ or what we call ‘do-gooding’ do not come from the Godhead; they come from the fallen man himself. Man, therefore, is very able at doing evil i.e. enslaving people and also very able at do-gooding i.e. abolishing slavery. All this ’slavery’ or ‘abolition of slavery’ amounts to is an active demonstration of man’s behaviour in his fallen condition, nothing else. I hope you can now see why The Lord Jesus Christ would not be celebrating the 200th anniversary of the British abolition of slavery. It is wholly a celebration of man’s achievements. Slavery and its abolition have got nothing to do with The Lord Jesus Christ.

Now here is some information for mainstream Christians who have been sucked into this deceptive worldly liberal phenomenon called “Permanent guilt over slavery.” You see, they haven’t a clue about what the Lord Jesus Christ actually said about slavery? So let’s go to Ephesians now to find out and thereby set the record straight: Ephesians 6:5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

In the above verse we can see another example of translators tinkering with the Word of God. In the Greek, the word for ’servants’ is ‘doulos’ which means slaves. So here we have The Lord Jesus Christ through Paul saying to slaves “be good obedient slaves” not rebellious “I want my freedom” slaves. In verse 9, verse 5 it is then supported with: “And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.” Here we have The Lord Jesus Christ through Paul telling slave masters to be equitable and just toward their slaves. There is neither one jot nor an inkling of the suggestion that the status quo of the slave master/slave arrangement should be changed nor rebelled against.

Here is concrete evidence that The Lord Jesus Christ did not come to change this world nor did He leave any instructions with His Apostles to do so either. That also means that we as Christians are not to get involved in this world’s political systems, even if they look good and righteous on the outside.

Would Jesus Christ have ‘made a stand’ against apartheid? To answer this and affirm what I have said above, what we have to understand is that the Lord Jesus Christ did not come the first time i.e. in the first century to change this world (age) nor its systems of governance, nor in fact, people’s sinful lifestyles. He came to take away all the sins of mankind and allow the Father time to draw those He had predestined, to His Son - the gift of Gracious Salvation to those being called and to no one else. Apartheid was just another of man’s systems of governance (like the Roman Empire in Christ’s time) and the impetus to change it or abolish it, was from man or from liberal ‘do-gooding’ men - self-righteous zealous men. The misguided issue of ‘human rights’ is also tied up in this apartheid thing as well but I will not go into that here. Here too is another Truth; the Roman Empire was far more evil, ruthless and cruel than the Apartheid governments of South Africa, and yet The Lord Jesus Christ did not say a word nor lift a finger against it, but He did tell Pontius Pilate that this world/age was not His kingdom.

Moreover, what many mainstream Christians also forget is the Barabbas character in the account of The Lord Jesus Christ’s trial. He is mentioned in God’s Word for good reason, for Barabbas was big on regime change, he was a zealot and he wanted the Romans out of Judea!! He wanted freedom and independence for the Jews. Had he been alive during the apartheid era he too would have been big on regime change in South Africa too. He would have fought tooth and nail to get the white man out of power in South Africa and he would definitely have been big on ‘human rights’ too.

Back to the trial of the Lord Jesus Christ and we know the story don’t we? The crowd (representing all of mankind) called out for Barabbas to be released, not The Lord Jesus Christ. Barabbas was a man after their own hearts, a man with whom they had much in common, and a man they could relate to. Barabbas was their hero - a ‘freedom’ fighter. The Lord Jesus Christ was a ‘nobody’ when compared with Barabbas. The Lord Jesus Christ might as well have been a foreign invader from outer space such was their hatred for Him.

OK, so Barabbas was big on regime change, but was The Lord Jesus Christ big on regime change? No He wasn’t, not then, but He will be in the future when He returns to shepherd the nations of this earth with a rod of iron - the biggest regime change you will ever see.

Finally, did Barabbas win in his zeal to remove the Romans from Judea? Not a chance, for in 70 AD, less than 40 years later, the Romans destroyed Jerusalem completely - they razed it to the ground. It will be very interesting to see what becomes of South Africa over the next thirty years or so. If Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) is anything to go by I don’t hold out much hope for it. Keep your eyes on the news folks and witness all the end time results of man’s self-righteous do-gooding!!

Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Would The Lord Jesus Christ have ‘made a stand’ against apartheid, no way?

Will The Lord Jesus Christ bring an end to slavery (because it still goes on today, even in 2007)? Oh yes, but not until He returns to take His Throne as King of kings and Lord of lords and all of man’s ways, his systems, his governments and futile ideas are brought to an end. The Lord Jesus Christ please hurry that day!

Charles Crosby

Revised and edited 12th September 2007

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Before I answer this we need to clear up one very important issue and that is the issue of whom we are talking about. Things that we often think are very straight forward frequently turn out to be not quite as straight forward as we first thought. They are still simple to understand (too simple for some) but not as straight forward.

The issue here is this: which God are we talking about - god the Devil or God the Godhead, consisting of the two personages - The Father God and The Lord Jesus Christ? This issue is crucial, for one is a God (Godhead) of love and the other is a god of hate, e.g. the god of all wars. He is the god that sets men against men and wherever there is a war the Devil is involved through his powerful agents on earth - the real powerbrokers behind the politicians. The fact that mankind in general is oblivious to the fact is by the by.

The Devil god is the god of this world - this age. When people use that expression or exclamation ‘Oh my god!’ they are not blaspheming God’s name, they are making blind reference to the Devil. The Father God is not their God because they do not believe in Him so in their eyes and in their minds He does not exist, yet they are still saying ‘Oh my god!’ This is a god they claim to be theirs and of course he is their god, the god of this world (age) - the Devil.

2 Cor 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Now there he is, as mentioned in Holy Scripture, the one who has blinded the minds of them i.e. those people or rather the great majority of mankind who do not believe and cannot believe. Notice: lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. There we have it, one of the most over read passages of Scripture in the Holy Bible and a Scripture that mainstream Christianity completely ignores. This Scripture plainly tells us that mankind cannot believe and it is not a matter of human choice to believe. Satan the Devil - the god of this world, has blinded them to The Truth i.e. Jesus Christ and His glorious Gospel.

So why is the devil the god of hate? He is the god of hate because we human beings are destined to hold positions of higher authority than him and just the thought of this makes him wild with jealous anger? Some of us (The Elect) will actually judge angels: 1 Cor 6:3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? The Devil also knows that his days are numbered as the god of this world (age). He knows his days of power are soon to come to a dramatic end and his power taken away from him. We are now living in the last days of the last days and he knows it and his hatred for mankind grows stronger each day.

OK, that’s enough about the Adversary, but what about The Father God, does He hate anything or anyone? He doesn’t hate people, but He does hate the things people do. What things - sinful things? The Father God hates sin - all sin. There is not a sin that He does not hate and that is why He sent His Son The Lord Jesus Christ to deal with sin once and for all.

Hang on a minute, what about all those people who died in the flood - men women and children? What about all those Canaanites The Lord told Joshua and the Israelites to slaughter and wipe out, again, men women and children? If that’s not hateful, what is? Then there were all the first born males in Egypt at the time of the Exodus, followed by the Pharaoh’s army in the Red Sea, and all the people of Sodom and Gomorrah - this all sounds very hateful to me I hear you say. Yes and there are many in mainstream Christianity that think that way too - especially their clergy. These Biblical historical events give them all kinds of problems and that is because they do not understand The Godhead, they do not understand the “potter and the clay” arrangement, nor do they understand The Godhead’s plan for mankind or the “big picture”. In their deluded narrow view and mindsets they think the ‘God is Love’ portrayal of God’s character is a contradiction of the God that brought about the above cataclysmic events. 1 John 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

The Father God’s vengeful acts also go against their insipid liberal contaminated minds. Minds that have been corrupted and poisoned by a hate filled false gospel on one hand, and liberal politics on the other. Many of these liberal ideas originated with the ideology of the liberal reformers and do-gooders who came to prominence in 19th century Britain and the USA. Am I saying liberal reformers were/are bad people? No, they were well meaning people, totally misguided yes, if they thought they were doing God’s will, but misguided just the same. For a fuller explanation of this topic and on man and his ‘achievements’ please see my article “Was Jesus Christ an effeminate looking wimp? - Part 4″

We can now see from the events that took place in Old Testament times why people in general think God hates mankind or at best they think He is capable of very hateful actions. Now because they do not believe in God and cannot believe in God they can never understand God. What about ‘Christians’ though, for there are many them who have a similar opinion of God and also consider Him hateful? In theory they are supposed to know God and know Him personally, yet when you quiz them about The God that destroyed all those people in times past they are usually stumped for an answer. Why, they’re believers aren’t they!? Well yes in theory they are but in reality they’re not. How do I know this? I know this because they believe a lie and part of that lie is the lie of the teaching that all unbelievers will be thrown into hell fire - about 95%+ of mankind!!

Just recently I was made aware, via a TV documentary, of the teachings of a so called minister of God in the USA who states quite clearly, on bold colourful placards, that God hates America, God hates Britain and God hates Sweden too. According to this ‘minister’, God hates all these countries because of their tolerance towards homosexuals and their lifestyles. In brazen ignorant boldness, this ‘minister’ sends forth his followers (mostly his own family) across the USA instructing them to tell their fellow Americans that God hates America, God hates fags (homosexuals) and God hates those in power who send their young men to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. This family group actually attends the funerals of deceased military personnel to tell their loved ones they died because God hates America and because God is not blessing their military campaigns. Needless-to-say God will also send them all to hell unless they turn from their evil ways. This is what this so called minister of God preaches and teaches. The thing is, is any of this stuff Biblical, is any of it The Truth or is it just evil religious bluster, hogwash and hot air? To find out we need to turn to the Scriptures:

Scripture 1 - Romans 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

And so all Israel shall be saved, this means that all the Israelites and all the Jews that have ever lived from the time of Jacob/Israel to this day will be saved. Now the question we have to ask ourselves here is this. How many of these Israelites and Jews will have been homosexuals in this life and yet will be saved? How many of these homosexual Israelites and Jews will have been Americans? Answer, thousands upon thousands of them and all of them will be saved. There it is, a complete contradiction of everything this ‘minister’ is saying.

To expound further, here we have a little conundrum. This ‘minister’ is telling us that God hates all these homosexual Americans and is going to throw them all into hell - a fiery hell no doubt. Now this is very interesting because while he is saying that, The Lord Jesus Christ has promised that His Father will enable them all to be saved. How will He do that, by giving them new hearts of flesh instead of hearts of stone and turning ungodliness (which includes homosexuality) from Jacob? It looks as though what this ‘minister’ is saying is the opposite of what the Godhead is saying and planning on doing!! Well would you believe it - I hope so?

I will continue with the remaining Scriptures in Part 2 and reveal whether or not this so called minister is a minister of God or a minister of the Devil.

Charles Crosby

The subtle battle of good versus evil has been waged periodically since the earliest times. It is once again been fought in the subtle world during the years 1999 - 2006. After 2006 as the intensity of subtle battle has reduced, a gross battle on Earth will ensue. Thereafter, the world will undergo a period of flux recovering from the battle on Earth and preparing for a new era. This new era will be known as the Divine Kingdom and with it humanity will see a thousand years of peace and Righteousness. The times we live in are very significant, as the ramifications of this battle will be felt by the entire universe. However the current times are also highly conducive for spiritual practice to attain God-realization (the highest spiritual state).

The definition of good and evil

From a Spiritual science standpoint, people who are living or who have passed on, who have an intense desire to do spiritual practice with the goal of surrendering everything including ego unto God and aligning their life with attaining God are defined as ‘good’. On the other hand, evil persons (living or subtle bodies) are raja-tama or tama predominant, unrighteous and have a high ego.

Where do good and evil come from?

Everything in the universe has originated from One God. The God principle permeates everything in the universe and also exists beyond it. From this perspective both good and evil have originated from the God principle. They have both existed since the creation of the universe. However the evil was in seed or latent form at that time. Since both good and evil come from the Supreme God principle, they also get their spiritual energy from God.

What is the mission of good and evil?

The mission of the good forces is to establish an order across all the regions of the universe based on the sattva http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/spiritualresearch/spiritualscience/sattva_raja_tama/ component. On the other hand, evil forces strive to establish a demonic kingdom based on the raja and tama components. This demonic kingdom is a kind of kingdom that is most conducive for demonic forces to fulfill their desires. These desires have a wide range, right from indulging excessively in sensual pleasures and the inappropriate use of power, to troubling seekers of God, to wiping out spiritual practice for God-realization.

Where is the battle fought?

The battle between good and evil is fought mainly in the subtle worlds between the subtle good and subtle evil forces. After the subtle battle is won by the subtle good forces, it is followed by the battle in the gross (physical) i.e. on Earth. This gross war affects the entire world. At first the battleground manifests on Earth in people’s minds and it seems like we are living in a world that has gone crazy. This is pretty much like the world in recent times. This is primarily because of ghosts (demons, devils, spirits, etc.) possessing or affecting mankind. Along with this there is an increasing intensity of natural disasters (floods, tsunamis, epidemics, drought, etc.).

Later the battle in the subtle manifests on our material plane and escalates on Earth. It finally presents itself as a major world war along with natural disasters of a monumental level. The primary reason for this is because of the increase in the subtle tama component that is associated with evil i.e. ghosts (demons, devils, spirits, etc.) and a society that lacks in spiritual practice and a lifestyle of Righteousness.

The scale of the physical battle will be unlike anything one has seen before and entire mankind will be affected. This is nature’s way of cleansing the planet of the tama predominant elements, making way for a better world.

Conclusion

The period between the years 1999 - 2022 represents a twilight period between two eras as we move from a darker age (mini-kaliyuga) to a better one (mini-satyayuga) within the main era of Kaliyuga. During this twilight period of 23 years, any spiritual practice undertaken by one according to the basic principles of Spirituality http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/spiritualresearch/happiness/spirituality/basicpricinples_spirituality_d.php/ will benefit one immensely.

In fact, each year of spiritual practice in these 23 years is equal to 50 years during the course of an era. Taking adulthood to be about 50 years in an average human’s lifespan; spiritual practice undertaken in these 23 years would approximately be equivalent to 1000 years. Another way of looking at it would be that we would be getting the benefit of 20 lifetimes of spiritual practice in just one lifetime.

Hence, despite these times being really challenging there is a way to make the best of it and achieve maximal spiritual progress by undertaking spiritual practice.

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Are you a Christian? Honestly, how many prayers have you prayed that have come true the way you wanted? Those really important prayers where you really need God’s help. You pray and wait… pray and wait… and nothing seems to happen. There may be a reason why…

The first question we should ask ourselves is why does the bible tell us to pray? The primary reason is to develop and maintain a relationship with God. The bible also tells us to pray and ask God for the things we want or need and he will help us. In fact, the bible says:

Mar 11:24 therefore I say to you, Whatever things you desire when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.

Then why aren’t our prayers answered? The answer is simpler than you might think. How do you pray? Do you pray regularly to God? Or do you just pray when you need something? Do you read the bible? Or do you just read the bible when something is wrong and you need help?
When you pray, do you say meaningless repetitions of the same prayer over and over again?

Keep in mind that God is a person. He’s a spiritual person, an infinite God, but he has a personality, he is not just some cosmic force, he is a person who desires to have a relationship with you all the time, not just when you need something.

Can you imagine talking to your friends like most people talk to God? What if your friends called you once in awhile and said “I need you to do this and that and this and that, goodbye”… would you be inclined to help someone who only called you when they wanted you to do something for them? Or would you want somebody to call you and ramble about the same request for help over and over and over again? No, you wouldn’t. You would want them to say “hello! How are you! I was wondering if you could help me? You would want dialog… you would want a conversation… you would want a relationship!

I’ll bet God gets really bored with prayers from people who never call him for anything else.
When was the last time you prayed to God to thank him for everything? When was the last time you told God you loved him? When was the last time you read the bible simply to learn what God says to people, out of genuine interest? Can you imagine how lonely God must be? Billions of people living on the planet and so few people talk to God out of love, just to say hello and thank you without a prayer request or a need. God knows your needs before you even ask him. That’s not the point, the point is that God is a person who wants to be treated like a person, like your friend, like your brother, like your father, like you love him.

And I think that when we read the bible and talk to God when things are going good and we just say “hello, it’s me again and I just wanted to say thank you and I love you and I am glad you are my God” that would mean something to him.

And I would bet that if we had more of a relationship with him BEFORE we need his help, he would be a lot more inclined to help us. Why? Because he has a relationship with us! We’re his friends! We call and say hello often, like we would any other friend!

So the next time you are praying to God, pray to him like a person, pray to him like a friend, because he is your friend and he loves you. He loves you so much that he died for you. He desires to have a relationship with you.

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People are always looking hard to find the answers to things that are quite simple. Take life for example. How many times have you heard someone ask, “What’s the secret to life?” You sit there scratching your head saying to yourself that if you knew the answer, you wouldn’t be where you were today. However, you and I do know the answer to this question; we just might not have been exposed to its effects enough, and for this very reason, are not able to experience the power of its knowledge. The secret, you see, all lies in a word.

As the famous songster Dionne Warwick crooned, “What’s it all about, Alfie?” you wonder what it is really all about. As a mathematician, I’ve learned that the higher up you go to find answers to things lower down on the ladder of complexity, you find that the solutions depend on the basic building blocks. Of course, this does not necessarily simplify the complicated solution as the building blocks to the answer are often woven together in such intricate patterns that it takes a genius to be able to separate the forest from the trees, so to speak. However, you cannot get to the solution without treading over each of these basic stepping stones. And such is the case with life.

Life on the surface is very complicated. Even kids know this intuitively. They see their parents scrambling to get things done, balancing work and play, and trying to do all they can to provide a good life for their families. If you were to construct a mathematical equation to describe all the interacting forces in one individual’s life, you would probably need such a complicated equation
that Einstein’s tensor equations used in relativity theory would look easy. Now imagine an equation involving a family, a neighborhood, a community, a town-you get the idea.

Yet in all of their intricate complexities, equations have certain “white knights” that occasionally come to the rescue and help lead to a solution. These “helpers” could be constants (numbers like 0, 1 and -1) or variables which simplify the complex equation and, based on the conditions of the problem, allow one to come up with the solution. Well, life too, has a “white knight” which comes and helps solve the problem, “What’s it all about?”

This helper, in a word, is love. Love simplifies everything. Love breaks down every barrier, no matter how big. Love annihilates conflicting forces wherever they be found; love shatters all negative force fields and causes peace to emanate; love erases hate. Yes. The secret to life is love. If you keep this in mind, your joy will be full.

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One of my dearest friends found her way to Reiki and trained to become a Reiki Master Teacher. I am fascinated, as she has shared much of her learning with me. In fact, I am fascinated by all forms of Holistic Healing. I am so fascinated I took on the project of creating a website for my friends who are very involved in all types of Reiki, Children’s Reiki, Shamanism, Archetypes, Healing Soul Work and Spiritual Therapy.

As with my other three websites, I have vowed to try my products. I am constantly trying out new sheets and duvet covers on my bed for one of my sites and carrying the classiest green laptop bag in town for another. Talk about a sparkly purse-yes, it is mine. It’s also from my second site. So now to truly be able to give a testimonial to Reiki, I had to really understand it and try it.

Actually, I never really experienced a true Reiki treatment until last Wednesday. Yes, I have had a mini treatment and wrote down all the information my clients handed me about Reiki, but I needed that full “I’m the client treatment.”

I had to renew in my mind what Reiki is, and do some reading to feel even more comfortable with the idea of it. No-it’s not a massage. No-it’s not a religion. No-it doesn’t take the place of medical treatment for disease and ailments and no-it is not a belief system. It is pronounced Ray-Key. It comes from the Japanese words: Rei meaning “God’s Wisdom” or the Highest Guiding spiritual consciousness and Ki (”Chi” in Chinese) meaning “life force energy.” So it is actually “Spiritually guided life force energy.”

It is a noninvasive gentle type of energy work. It has been known to treat all illnesses from a simple headache to cancer. It works beautifully with all medical and therapeutic techniques for promoting recovery. Reiki is done by a gentle placement of the practitioner’s hands on the client who is fully clothed and lying down in a comforting environment. The hand positions are held for several minutes from the crown of the head to the feet, focusing on areas to get energy flowing evenly that may have become restricted by negative thoughts or habits which may be subconsciously causing stress, illness or weakness. Reiki relaxes, rejuvenates and calms the emotions by strengthening and re-balancing the body’s energy centers (chakras) promoting healing on the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual levels. It leaves one feeling calm and well-balanced. I studied, I understood and I was ready.

Here is what I experienced. First, I entered a lovely office setting with several individual rooms housing Reiki, massage, reflexology and more. The office was professional and soothing with soft colors, a comfortable sitting area, and quiet restful music. As I entered my friend’s office, it was also peaceful and calm with lovely pictures, more calming music, and a small bubbling fountain. It was inviting, and I felt warm and at peace and ready to begin.

Margret’s table looked like a massage table covered with sheets and a pillow. Unlike a massage, I did not undress before lying down: I just removed shoes and jewelry and lay on my back to begin. I felt a little apprehensive. What if I felt nothing?

Since I am very open to holistic healing, I asked Margret to be open with me. She gets visual messages as she works on a body, and I wanted to know what she saw or felt as she worked on me. She said that not everyone wants feedback, and many just want the room to be totally quiet. From my reading and Margret’s sharing, I know that Margret is like a channeling system, and that her energy has nothing to do with mine. Reiki is guided by a Higher Intelligence and this works through Margret. She “picks up” messages, images and thoughts, and I find this interesting while others may find this frightening or too extremes. I wanted to know everything, so she began my treatment.

Margret held on to the crown of my head as she sat behind me. I closed my eyes and relaxed as she held the position for several minutes. She told me my energy was “scattered” as I knew it was. I felt scattered that day. She said she could visualize me at my desk and that I had papers scattered and I needed organization. Amen to that one! She has never seen this mess, and I don’t want her too! She went on to say in a very quiet voice that I have a novel waiting to be written, and my calling is to write it. This has been on my mind so much recently, and I have been writing but have not been persistent about it. In fact I began this novel seven years ago and have been waiting for retirement to finish it. Now I am retired and it is time. She said fear was holding me back.

Soon I felt myself capturing deep breaths and sinking into more heavy relaxation. Margret would take in my energy and cough and yawn to eliminate my negative energy and disperse my good energy.. She moved to my face, neck and arm, holding my hand for a small period of time. She told me what she saw and felt and about the conflict and sadness I have with my sister. I found myself feeling some emotion and continuing to have to breathe deeply and evenly. I felt extremely relaxed as I sunk into the massage table. As Margret moved to my energy centers, (chakras) she gave me excellent examples of what each chakra is for and how it must be moving in a clockwise manner. I was surprised when she questioned my digestive system and asked if I ache in my stomach. She said I had old memories and worries and she would help release those. Seriously, I felt nothing, but then there was a pop of pressure released from my stomach. I felt like the baby had suddenly burped, and the feeling was relief.

I continued to breathe hard, and suddenly, I started to cough. She said I was releasing negative energy and thoughts that were harbored in my second chakra.

I loved this: the music, the quiet information, the whole calming effect.

As I turned onto my stomach, I suddenly felt some new lower back pain. Where was that coming from? As Margret pressed on my back, she felt heat rising depicting tension and pain and questioned it. Yes, it hurt, but just starting a few minutes back. Margret left her hands positioned on my back, stating that lower back pain comes from financial concerns and worries, either past or present. She released the tension there.

The only thing that did not ring true to me was as Margret placed her hands on my feet and saw me spinning on my toes as a ballerina. Ballet has certainly not been in my cards although I do love to dance. (maybe not as gracefully as a ballerina!)

The beautiful spiritual side of this was Margret seeing several angels protecting me with my dearest grandmother at the forefront saying things to me she always said as I grew up in her presence. (She read tea leaves and attended a Spiritualist Church sometimes) I felt a glow and a warm inexplicable connection to light, warmth, energy and God. Margret said my energy was in tune at this point as she finished where she began: at the crown of my head.

As we finished, Margret asked me to remain lying down and to get up slowly as I was ready. I felt as though I had just had a massage. I was rejuvenated yet a little worn out and very quiet. As I got up, I was given water to revitalize me and wash out released toxins. As with a massage, I was told to drink lots of water that day.

I was left feeling whole and refreshed the whole day, and of course, I have an appointment for next week.

I am pleased to have experienced one on “my products,” and I would recommend it to everyone with an open mind and heart. If you doubt, leave this alone or read more about it. I found the experience amazing and very spiritual, but doubt would cloud the experience.

I truly feel that maintenance is so necessary to our lives, and Reiki is great for that. With routine care, we can eliminate the negative flow of energy and create a positive flow throughout our bodies. We can rid our bodies and minds of the negative impact of stress even though sometimes we do not feel the tensions. Reiki is a positive experience to fight illness and depression. There is definitely a strong place for Reiki in dealing with pain, injuries and illness combined with modern medicine and many other alternative therapies.

Diane Willbrandt encourages you to find out more about Reiki and other forms of holistic healing on her site:http://www.spiritenergyhealers.com Diane is a retired teacher enjoying writing and website marketing now that she has the time. She also enjoys reading, skiing, traveling, golfing, scuba diving and tennis. Her love of travel gave her reason to create the site:http://www.equippedtogo.com featuring travel and business products such as luggage, laptop carriers, tote bags and more. Her third site is http://www.sheetsandsets.com featuring sheet sets, duvet cover sets and fine bed linens. Diane is in the process of writing her first novel regarding the high points of being a single person.