By Philip Pullella

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis urged members of all religions and those belonging to no church on Wednesday to unite to defend justice, peace and the environment and not allow the value of a person to be reduced to "what he produces and what he consumes".

Francis, elected a week ago as the first non-European pope in 1,300 years, met leaders of non-Catholic Christian religions such as Orthodox, Anglicans, Lutherans and Methodists, and others including Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus.

"The Catholic Church is aware of the importance of furthering respect of friendship between men and women of different religious traditions," the Argentine pontiff told the religious leaders in an audience at the Vatican.

Speaking in Italian in the frescoed Sala Clementina, he said members of all religions and even non-believers had to recognize their joint responsibility "to our world, to all of creation, which we have to love and protect.

"We must do much for the good of the poorest, the weak, and those who are suffering, to favor justice, promote reconciliation and build peace," he said.

Francis told the religious leaders to fight "a one-dimensional vision of a human person, according to which man is reduced to what he produces and what he consumes," which he said was "one of the most dangerous snares of our times".

While he said history had shown that any attempt to eliminate God had produced "much violence," he reached out to those who seek truth, goodness and beauty without belonging to any religion.

"They are our precious allies in the commitment to defend human dignity, build a more peaceful coexistence among people and protect nature with care," he said.

Francis' description of people who belong to no religion as "precious allies" in the search for truth was a marked contrast to the attitude of former Pope Benedict, who sometimes left non-Catholics feeling that he saw them as second-class believers.

Since his election a week ago, Francis has set the tone for a new, humbler papacy, calling on the Church to defend the weak and protect the environment.

In another sign of his simpler style, Francis addressed the religious leaders while seated in a beige armchair and not the usual elaborate throne used in the ornate hall for audiences.

CATHOLIC-JEWISH COMMITMENT

"I feel a great deal of excitement and optimism and hope," said Jerusalem-based Rabbi David Rosen, International Director of Inter-religious Affairs for the American Jewish Committee.

"He is deeply committed to the Catholic-Jewish relationship," Rosen, who attended the meeting, told Reuters.

Yahya Pallavicini, a leader of Italy's Muslim community, said he was impressed by the pope's insistence of inter-religious friendship.

"Friendship is a core way to increase brotherhood between believers and also to increase the deepness of the dignity of humanity," he said after the meeting.

"We can't consider man only as a consumer or as someone who has to be considered only in terms of the market but as a believer and as a person who has the holiness in his heart."

Before his address, the pope had a private meeting with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew from Istanbul, who attended Francis's inaugural Mass on Tuesday.

It was the first time the spiritual head of Orthodox Christians had attended a Roman pope's inaugural Mass since the Great Schism between western and eastern Christianity in 1054.

At Wednesday's meeting, Francis called Bartholomew "my brother Andrew," a reference to the apostle who was the brother of St Peter and was the first bishop of the Church of Byzantium.

Francis also held a private session with Metropolitan Hilarion, the foreign minister of the Russian Orthodox Church, the largest in the Orthodox world.

Also at Wednesday's meeting was Abe Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League in the United States.

Foxman is a Jew born in Poland in 1940 and saved from the Holocaust by his Polish Catholic nanny, who raised him as a Catholic during the war and then returned him to his family. His parents survived the war but 14 family members were killed.

"I asked him to bless the memory of the Catholic nanny who saved my life and he said he would," Foxman told Reuters.

Archbishop of York John Sentamu led a delegation from the Anglican Communion.

Other guests included World Council of Churches General Secretary Rev Olav Fykse Tveit and Jordan's Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, head of an Islamic group that launched a dialogue with the Vatican after Pope Benedict angered Muslims in 2006 with a speech that implied their faith was violent and irrational.

(Additional reporting by Tom Heneghan; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

Denise Le Fay: 2013 Vernal Equinox

Denise Le Fay: 2013 Vernal Equinox

By Denise LeFay, Transitions – March 19, 2013

http://deniselefay.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/2013-vernal-equinox/

Happy 2013 Vernal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, and Autumnal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.

This is the first Equinox after the 12-21-12 Expiration Date and Shift Point, and because of this it is very important because it’s delivering the start of some NEW higher frequency blueprint energies into this dimension, which obviously means much of humanities consciousness.

These NEW energies are ones that have not been present on the old lower frequency Earth world and reality we all incarnated into so this is a great and grand improvement that’s finally beginning in this dimension on March 20, 2013.

I wrote those last few words in bold because I don’t want anyone to think I’m saying that on and only on March 20, 2013 Earth and humanity is going to come into full, complete and total contact with ALL of these NEW higher frequency energies and then that’s it… done, finished.

It’s necessary to add these explanations because most people are still perceiving through the old Duality consciousness tool of perception, causing them to think things are all one way and then suddenly all the other way with no transitions, no Stair Steps, no safe and more comfortable incremental easement out of the old lower and into the NEW higher frequencies in this dimension in physical bodies.

Mass humanity is not that individually integrated and advanced yet to be able to make such profound instantaneous changes internally/externally so the many Stair Steps are provided for all to incrementally move up safely, one after another and another and another, with less trauma and drama.

However, with the start of these NEW higher frequency blueprint energies arriving in this dimension via the March 20, 2013 Equinox, it’s going to increasingly become easier for humanity to perceive beyond lower frequency Duality consciousness. What’s energetically now going to be available within this dimension and world finally is what’s been called “Unity” consciousness, or High Heart or “Triality” consciousness (the NEW blueprint energies) instead of Duality consciousness blueprint energies.

Again, this is an ongoing Shift Process that everyone will individually live and learn about at their own pace. Some will make this massive energetic shift of everything much more quickly and easily than other people and that too is normal and there’s zero judgement involved either way. Spiritual growth is spiritual growth and it’s ‘all good’ as they say. We each do what we’re ready and able to do exactly when we are and that is perfect and perfectly wonderful.

First Trimester Recap

12-21-12 was the Expiration Date of the massive old Evolutionary Cycle and its matching energy blueprints; the Expiration of the old roles that the old players played for everyone; the Expiration of the old Collective agreements about “reality” during that old Evolutionary Cycle. It all ended because it had reached its full Expiration Date. (Actually, it’s far more complex than this due to the multitude of different timelines, dimensions, levels of individual focus and development etc. Those other worlds are not my focus now but know that much more exists… much more always exists!)

Now here comes the confusing part because, of course, all this happened/happens/is happening at a quantum level in the Eternal Now Moment yet these aspects of us — you, me, each of us in these bodies in this dimension and timeline — are perceiving, experiencing and living it at a more dense and slower rate of frequency so to these aspects of “us” all of this hasn’t happened yet.

It has however at less dense and faster rates of frequency. This is why there are those Stair Steps, especially at this level or dimension and density, because we need them to make the unfolding linear step-by-step changes out of one Evolutionary Cycle, state, level, frequency and energy blueprints etc. and ease our ways into the next Cycle, state, level, frequency and blueprints etc. (Being able to consciously and intentionally move between these different levels of being, consciousness and frequency or density is what many call “Time Travel”.)

So, 12-21-12 was the Expiration Date of the past Evolutionary Cycle and all that went with it, and during the Three Days — 12-21-12, 12-22-12, 12-23-12 — everyone everywhere had their Life Review with/before Divine Consciousness. In other words, at some point within those Three Days we did what we normally do when we physically die and leave our physical bodies and the third dimension and go to a higher frequency state and level where we experience a Life Review with/before Divine Consciousness.

But, due to the Ascension Process, we remained in our physical bodies and went through this same after physical death Life Review process that usually requires physical death, but we did it while we were incarnate and in-body. Big and profoundly important difference wouldn’t you agree? There’s much more because we’re not done with this Process yet so breath, relax, and expand your sense of self/Self/SELF and your awareness into what all is unfolding since 12-21-12.

As we all went through this Life Review process while we remained in our present physical bodies, we simultaneously crossed the Expiration Date and entered the “First Trimester” or the winter quarter or winter months in the Northern Hemisphere. (And weall went through this Life Review process during the “Three Days of Darkness” whether you consciously remember having done it or not. I only consciously remember small parts of what I personally experienced during those “Three Days” but I know I went through it and I know every other soul did too.)

The First Trimester was rough for me for a number of reasons and I suspect many of you have had a challenging time too since 12-21-12. Nothing wrong with that, in fact that’s why we were given it; time to reevaluate whatever it was that each of us has needed to realize within ourselves after our Life Review.

Also the First Trimester has been much like my actual physical pregnancy with my only child decades ago; it was really miserable and I vomited constantly! Because I’ve always been a “sensitive”, “psychic”, “seer” I could tell throughout my nine monthphysical pregnancy when my son — his nonphysical energetic Self — was nearby me. Never, ever throughout my full nine months of pregnancy was this nonphysical aspect of my son ever In utero physically. Being a sensitive/clairvoyant/empath/psychic etc.

I could always energetically sense and emotionally feel when the nonphysical higher frequency aspect of what would later become “my son” would occasionally come into the environment I was physically existing in at that time. When this sporadically happened throughout my pregnancy, I was very aware that it was a Descending Stair Step Process for the incoming aspect of Soul (my son) of acclimatizing and preparing Itself for entrance into the dense, physical third dimension at the moment when I gave birth physically.

(And even then “he” did not remain in his new physical infant body 24/7 either. He came in and he went right back out of it repeatedly for a long time and all of this is perfectly normal and how physical pregnancies, actual birth, and newborn life for the first physical year (and longer) is for the incoming aspect of Soul — aka the new “baby”.

I’m sharing this information about my own long ago physical pregnancy and higher, multidimensional awareness of it and the energetics and systematic procedure that the incoming aspect of Soul (the baby/person/personality etc.) takes to prepare for entry into 3D only because they accurately parallel what I/you/many of us are currently living through after the 12-21-12 Life Review and during these “Nine Months” of spiritual pregnancy and eventual “birth”.

(Let me add here that not everyone on Earth is now spiritually pregnant and experiencing this Ascending/Descending/Sacred Union and eventual birthing Process. Why? Because everyone on Earth is not ready or wants to do this now and all remaining issues and options were thoroughly reviewed by every individual during their Life Review chat with Divine Consciousness on 12-21-12 or at some point within the Three Days.

These many millions, billions, trillions of different levels of focus and development is why the upcoming Separation of Worlds and Timelines commencing at the end of these “Nine Months” (September 22, 2013 Equinox) needs to happen. A variety of appropriate frequency classrooms — different worlds, dimensions and timelines — are absolutely necessary for all aspects of all Souls to continue learning and awakening within; not just one… not just two… not even three but many.

A spirit, an aspect of one’s High Self would never and does not Descend into the Mother’s physical womb at conception, nor does it remain there throughout the nine months of physical pregnancy. As spiritual beings we have much more that we carry out during those nine physical gestation months. Nesting cramped inside Mommies womb waiting for physical birth is not what the incoming aspect of Soul does; it is preparing itself — with a lot of help from many other nonphysical beings — for entrance into dense 3D and that requires a lot of prep work on a lot of levels! Taking a nap inside Mommies tummy is not what happens during those important transitional nine months.

Start of the Second Trimester

I and my physical body have been incrementally and repeatedly (those Stair Steps) transmuting and Ascending vibrationally these past fourteen biological Ascension years (all that transmuting ballast cutting work). Now that we’ve past the 12-21-12 Expiration Date, Shift Point, and Life Review, this higher aspect of my Self/Soul is in the process of Descending and at the end of these “Nine Months” the two of us will fully merge, unite, wed, coalesce and become a NEW individual unified ONE.

This is the Alchemical Ascension phase of reuniting the aspects of self with greater Self and Higher SELF which naturally produces a very different individual that is Unified within his/her self and is the Mother (1), the Father (2) and the Sacred Child (3). Individual Triality (3 ▲) happens first which naturally and eventually produces a world(s) of similarly developed, like-frequency individuals that are each individually and equally integrated and unified; put these unified individuals (Leo) together and you have the start of a fifth dimensional “Group” (Aquarius) which is evolved Aquarian/Leo Age energetics.

All of us living this Ascending/Descending integration Process now will give birth to this NEW aspect of our Ascended Selves at the end of the Nine Months period later this year. How’s that for a whopper of an Alchemical Process all done while remaining in-body and on planet?!

Another reason why I sense the First Trimester was difficult and confusing for many of us was because what we’re actually pregnant with isn’t yet developed and individuated enough for us to perceive that developing being/awareness that we’re growing inside us and towards. I strongly sense that we will begin to increasingly sense It, feel It, and remember It with the start of the Second Trimester – the March 20, 2013 Equinox.

Again, allow this sacred Alchemical Ascension pregnancy the linear time all aspects of it needs to develop and fully embody and merge. Give the Sacred Process time and try to enjoy and learn from each Trimester because each will be very different from the previous one. Happy March 20, 2013 Equinox everyone and welcome to the Second Trimester.

Aisha North: The Manuscript of Survival – Part 287

As channeled by Aisha North – March 20, 2013

http://aishanorth.wordpress.com

So here we are dear ones, on this day of joy and celebration. For many of you, this day has already begun during the darkest hours of the night, as we wager that more than a few have had some visitations from some rather intense energies during your otherwise more restful sleeping hours.

Well, let us just say that you will have many more encounters like this in the next few hours and days, but know that although some of these visitors may seem to be a little bit disturbing to your physical system, they are all benign.

But we have to say they are nothing if not effective, as they charge through, bringing so much awakening in their wake. For this is what is happening to you all now, dear ones. Just as with Sleeping Beauty, one by one you are taken in hand, and gently, or in some cases, not so gently, being risen from that deep slumber you have been in for so long.

For you have been somnambulants long enough now, and it is indeed time to become fully awake and survey your new surroundings. For you have grown to expect nothing but sad news and bitterness wherever you turn, but now, as your eyes get used to this new daylight, you will see how the sun has drawn out so much happiness and beauty all around.

That is, if you seek it through the right channels, and do not depend on the mass media to enlighten you. For now you will know that they never will, as they are all still embroiled in the same old, same old. But you will know better, for you will feel the heat from this sun warm not only your face, but also your heart, and you will see a smile of recognition on so many other faces around you.

So again we say, take time to celebrate today, and take time to connect, for that is why you are all here. For you are a vast net of enlightened beings covering your globe now, and this time, it is up to you to haul that net even tighter and thereby avoid letting any single one of you fall through the openings. So know that all is well, even if your nighttime and maybe even some of your waking hours will seem to be a bit tumultuous in the time ahead.

For you have just started to come to, so your whole system will feel a little bit as someone who has overslept for suddenly to be jolted awake again without much further ado. So let us just leave it at that, but not before we give you all a standing ovation. For you certainly deserve it, and it is resounding throughout All of creation. For you are closely watched by us all, and we are indeed more than pleased by your progress. So thank you again dear ones, for doing what you do and for being who you are, the bravest of the brave in All of creation.

Suzanne Lie: Pleiadian/Arcturian Alliance – The Landing Party, Part 1