A prominent lightworker has surprised me by implying that only Christians can be the recipients of grace. He recently wrote, in part: “None of the denominations (1) matters. The Lord only sees Christians and Non- Christians!”

Is it true? Does the Lord see only Christians and non-Christians?

My impression is that the Lord doesn’t see religious faiths as being separate at all or one better than the other. It’s only we who do.

I asked the question of Jesus on An Hour with an Angel in December 2011. The belief that only Christians matter comes primarily from Jesus having said “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (2) But did Jesus mean “I Jesus”?

Steve Beckow: One of the teachings of yours that I think may have been misunderstood is the saying, ‘I am the truth, the way and the life.’ Did you mean, ‘I, Jesus,’ as has been interpreted by the Church, or did you mean something else, Lord?

Jesus: It was much bigger than any church or ‘ism.’ And yes, I have said, many, many things have been misunderstood or misquoted. But that is all right. When I have used the term ‘I am,’ I was aligning with All, with Source, with Father/Mother One. That is the alignment. And if you, Steve, or listeners, say, ‘I am the truth,’ then you have aligned with that, and you have become that. (3)

If Jesus himself has removed the basis for thinking that only believers on him can be the recipients of grace, how can we as lightworkers perpetuate it?

The “I am” can be interpreted as the Self or All-Self, the Source of all existence. So Jesus is saying that the Self is the only way to the Source. That gives rise to the many statements that we must know ourselves to know God.

Here are some of those statements:

Sri Yukteswar Giri

“The highest aim of religion is … Self-knowledge.” (4)

Ibn Arabi

“To know God is not an easy matter, until one becomes a knower of one’s self.” (5)

Al-Ghazzali

“Knowledge of self is the key to knowledge of God, according to the saying: ‘He who knows himself knows God.’” (6)

Krishnamurti

“Without first knowing yourself, how can you know that which is true? Illusion is inevitable without self-knowledge.” (7)

St. Catherine of Genoa

“My Me is God, nor do I recognize any other Me except my God Himself.” (8)

We speak of enlightenment as Self-Realization, the attainment of the Supreme Self. It’s this “Self” that is God that Jesus was referring to.

If we really want to know who the Christ is, perhaps listen to mystic John Ruusbroec describe it:

“In this darkness an incomprehensible light is born and shines forth; this is the Son of God in whom a person becomes able to see and contemplate eternal life.” (9)

“It is Christ [the Son, the Self, the Atman], the light of truth, who says, ‘See,’ and it is through him that we are able to see, for he is the light of the Father [the All-Self, Brahman], without which there is no light in heaven or on earth.” (10)

This light of the Self is the Christ, which Hindus call the Atman and Buddhists our Buddha nature.

This is a time of religious reunification. It’s a time to recover the Perennial Philosophy or Ancient Wisdom at the basis of all the world’s religions. The Perennial Philosophy is simply the truth of Reality, shorn of all dogma.

It’s time to let go of all schemes that see true believers and infidels, members of the tribe and goyim, believers and non-believers. None of this contains a whit of truth and has stood in the way of the development of civilization on this planet for millennia.

It’s time to emerge from the childhood of humanity and be adult enough to see that we were wrong in all our religious divisiveness and it cost us plenty. God loves all sides, equally. Anyone can reach God who puts sincere effort into it.

As Sri Ramakrishna said: “All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food. All, without any exception, will certainly know the real Self.” (11)

God makes no distinctions among his creations. Only we do. And now, having brought ourselves so much pain and misery with the distinctions we’ve made, surely it’s time to stop.

Footnotes

(1) I presume denominations such as Catholic, Protestant or Presbyterian, Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran, etc.

(2) John 14:6.

(3) “Transcript of Interview with Jesus on Biblical Mysteries, Dec. 19, 2011,” Dec. 21, 2011, athttp://goldenageofgaia.com/2011/12/transcript-of-interview-with-jesus-on-biblical-mysteries-dec-1-2011/.

(4) Sri Yukteswar Giri, The Holy Science. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1984, 6.

(5) Muhyidden Ibn Arabi, Kernel of the Kernel. trans. Ismail Hakki Bursevi. Sherborne: Beshara, n.d., 3.

(6) Al-Ghazzali, The Alchemy of Happiness. trans. Claud Field. Lahore: ASHRAF, 1971; c1964 19.

(7) J. Krishnamurti, Commentaries on Living. First Series. Bombay, etc.: B.I. Publications, 1972; c1974, 1, 20.

(8) St Catherine of Genoa in Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy. New York, etc.: Harper and Row, 1970; c1944, 11.

(9) John Ruusbroec in James A. Wiseman, John Ruusbroec. The Spiritual Espousals and Other Works. New York, etc.: Paulist Press, 1985, 22.

(10) John Ruusbroec in JR, 74.

(11) Swami Nikhilananda, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 818.

The Lost Pyramids of Peru

As promised by those in the non-physical, we continue to learn more about pyramids that apparently pepper the surface of our planet in previously undisclosed or little-known places.

The article below, with outstanding photos from several archeological sites, is really exciting because it exposes more of the lost history of Earth that we have not previously been privy to in our history books.

The evidence supports the theory that there are too many similarities in various pyramids on the planet and their adornment for them to have occurred in multiple cultures over thousands of years, by chance.

I couldn’t help but notice the distinct similarity in the styling of the birds in this complex to this “egg” depicting the “bird man” (below) that we brought back from Easter Island. Both have the same stylized head, and the more human-like kneeling body.

The Bird Man—half man, half bird— is the centre of a key ancient ritual on Easter Island in which the men who were deemed qualified to be the next chief, climbed down a huge cliff to the sea, swam to the bird island, climbed up the cliff, took an egg from a nest in the rookery, placed it in a specially designed cloth pouch on their head and then made their way back to the tribe on the main island. The first man to return with an egg intact was the new chief.

Wouldn’t it be an awfully big coincidence for two primitive cultures separated by roughly 2400 miles of ocean to place such reverence on a bird, particularly one so similar in appearance, in depictions in their art?

Easter Island / Rapa Nui stonework

Inca stonework, Peru

After visiting the ruins of Peru, Mexico, Guatemala and Easter Island, it’s impossible not to note the identical rock cuts and precision fitting of megalithic stones comprising monuments and buildings in those areas.

Whoever built those structures wasn’t limited to one continent, and I don’t personally believe they cut this exceptionally hard rock with stone chisels as the tour guides and books claim.

It’s certainly food for thought to consider that the continents were once either one land mass, or separated by much less water at some point in history—probably pre-Atlantis, before it broke apart and sank.

If you are fascinated by pyramids, ancient culture, archeology and history, I highly recommend visiting the originating web site to read more and see the many outstanding photographs from various pyramid complexes in Peru.

The Caral Pyramid Complex, just three hours north of Lima is one of the largest Pyramid fields in the world and is even officially noted as the oldest city of the Americas. It’s construction is attributed to the Norte Chico civilization, a pre-columbian society that ruled Peru’s northern coast more than five thousand years ago. According to mainstream archaeology the Caral complex was built a millennium after Sumer in Mesopotamia and contemporaneous with the building of the Egyptian Pyramids. Caral predates the Olmec culture by two millennia and is also only one of six places in the ancient world where civilization originated separately. Meaning there was no prior contact and all these civilizations just happened to rise up out of nowhere on their own. And build pyramids no less!

Looking at the ancient pyramid fields of Caral and being free from the chains of having to fit everything into the false timeline of mainstream history, we can clearly see that the pyramids of Peru are far more archaic than five thousand years. Even the civilization that supposedly built them lacked ceramics, writing and apparently had almost no art, yet they somehow built monumental structures, including large earthwork platform mounds and sunken circular plazas. That is because the society archaeology attaches to the Caral complex didn’t build the original megalithic monuments found buried underneath the various layers of rocks that the Norte Chico and later Moche Indians rebuilt.

This theme is repeated throughout history when the subject of an ancient or forgotten culture leaves behind unexplained monuments. For example, the mysterious Mounds that litter the Ohio valley and Southeastern America are attributed to local Natives despite the Indians themselves claiming they never built the mounds and that a lost race had built them ages ago.

Mainstream archeology ignores this fact, dismisses indigenous traditions and continues writing their own version of history anyways. This scenario is repeated at Caral, as the Indians associated with the site seem to have just moved in and occupied the place and then vanished at some point in the past. But bones and pottery shards discovered near the pyramids does not prove the people associated with them actually built the original complexes. There are more pyramid sites found within the general area of Caral, and because of the close proximity of the ocean it makes sense that these sites were built in an era when the shoreline was closer. Caral also exhibits archeological similarities with ruins found in Ancient turkey. Even examples of Cyclopean Greek architecture show up in Caral. Some of the ruins even look like they could be sitting in a desolate desert in Egypt.

I personally believe that these days today are those which the prophet Isaiah spoke of when he wrote:

“Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain.

“And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.” (1)

I recommend we hear Isaiah’s words as if they’re directed to us personally. Let’s consider each sentence individually.

“For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.”

How many times have we heard from our sources that Ascension is a Divine Plan? I’d say endlessly.

“The Mouth of the Lord” is the Divine Mother. The Lord does not have a mouth. The Lord does not speak. He is formless and has no direct relation to materiality. She is his mouth and his voice, the Voice in the Silence, the Voice crying in the wilderness, who spoke what Isaiah recorded. She is the one who does everything in the world of matter, mater, Mother.

She’s spoken of her Divine Plan in our presence on a number of radio shows such as An Hour with an Angel and Heavenly Blessings. (2)

“And all flesh shall see it together.”

How many times have we heard that Ascension is available to all who choose it and have assimilated enough light to live in that vibration?

How many times have we been told that the large events of these times, like Disclosure, NESARA and Ascension itself, will be seen and known by all, whether they choose to accept them or not?

I regard that statement as also referring to these times.

“And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed.”

The glory of the Lord shall be revealed – outside and inside of us. To my way of thinking the Glory of the Lord, also known as Royal Glory to the Zarathustreans, is the Holy Spirit or Divine Mother.

But Jesus could also be called the Glory of the Lord as could Ascension itself.

We also are the glory of the Lord, not like other things are not as well. But out of this Ascension we become the glory of the Lord. At least that’s how I see it.

It’s the remainder of the rest of the prophecy that remains unfulfilled, in my judgment, although not totally. We’ve attended to some of it.

“Every valley shall be exalted.

“Every mountain and hill shall be made low.”

I think we’ve done this work. I think we’ve climbed out of our pits of despair and depression and leveled our high hills of arrogance and judgment.

I think we’ve raised our self-esteem by an order of magnitude over the the time when it was last measured. The incredible energies we’ve been basking in have left many of us with our valleys exalted.

And as for bringing the mountains and hills low, I know this is an area that I’ve paid attention to. I can’t speak for anyone else.

Let each of us ask whether he or she has brought the high hills low.

Here’s where I think the work remains.

“The crooked shall be made straight.

“And the rough places made plain.”

Anything not quite up to snuff, anything that’s “out” in its integrity, any unaddressed wrongs we’ve done – I think this is the preordained time to acknowledge them to ourselves.

I don’t think it has to be slow or public or ugly. It can be a simple acknowledgement of what we’ve done, an apology sincerely made, and an experiencing through to completion of the imagined experience of those we’ve harmed so that we understand what the lesson in it may be for us.

I think that’s all that’s required. Or else we’ll be late for our own Ascension! The doors of the bridal chamber would have shut and the marriage would be in progress.

“And the rough places made plain.”

I don’t know what would make the rough places plain. That for me remains largely unexplored territory.

I do know that the use of neutral language would go no small way to make the rough places plain. So I do have at least an opener in that area.

It’s so important for me today to listen to the voice of reason, the still, small voice that comes from within, from above. It guides me and I ask it to inspire my action always.

To summarize: It’s our responsibility to prepare the inner space, to make straight the way of the Lord. That is a non-negotiable agreement, a part of the Plan.

Quiet the storms.

Trust ourselves.

Rely on ourselves.

Seek God within and see him (her, it) within.

Emulate the divine qualities.

Follow the divine procedures, whatever we deem them to be.

Come out from the rough places, the high hills and the low valleys.

Come out into the glory of the Lord and share in it as a revealed Son and Daughter of the Lord.

This to me is Ascension.

Footnotes

(1) Isaiah 40:3-5.

Emerald Tablets Of Thoth, 50,000 Year Old Tablets Reportedly From Atlantis

Posted on July 18, 2013 by BH
Source: BryanHallsAwakening
I believe BH is the same BH who comments here on my own blog! My thanks to him and to M for bringing this to my attention !

June, here is more info about this complicated story that will add to your mind-boggle

Also, here are two other links concerning this story:
http://www.andrewcollins.com/page/articles/lostcity.htm
http://badarchaeology.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/an-underwater-city-west-of-cuba/

Hugs,
~J

Friends: I’ve been meaning to post this article, which I found on Before It’s News, as things like this boggle my mind and are most certainly part of our awakening, in my opinion. You may also find subjects like the Baltic Sea anomaly, the VAST network of pyramids and mounds around our world, the Gulf of Aden portal, the discovery of crystal pyramids in Bermuda, and many other similar things both fascinating and synchronous to your own education and awakening. Be sure to take the time to listen to the videos as well … You’ll be glad you did, I’m sure. Enjoy! Much love! <3 ~ b ]

The Tablets of Thoth are imperishable, resistant to all elements, corrosion and acids. In effect, the atomic and cellular structure is fixed, and no change can take place, thus violating the material law of ionization, according to Bibliotecapleyades.

Upon them are engraved characters in the Ancient Atlantean language; characters which respond to the attuned thought waves of the reader and which release much more wisdom and information than the characters do when merely deciphered. The Tablets are fastened together with hoops of a golden colored alloy suspended from a rod of the same material.

Dr. M. Doreal has translated this Work, and has published through the Brotherhood of the White Temple, a translation of ten of these twelve Tablets. He has divided the ten into thirteen parts for the sake of convenience. The last two Tablets are found in the “Interpretation of The Emerald Tablets”, also by Dr. Doreal.

The Heart is the Center is the Stillpoint

Posted by Steve Beckow on July 21, 2013

There is no way to depict the heart, which is not physical

I had a conversation with a reader yesterday on the matter of the stillpoint. I realize I’ve discussed aspects of this before but there are few topics more important so please forgive my repetition.

Archangel Michael once said to me in a reading: “You don’t much like to repeat yourself, do you?” And I said no. And he replied: “Can you imagine how I feel?” And no, I had not thought about it. He must have to repeat himself endlessly! And yet he’s always good-natured.

It’s about the center. Well, no, it’s about the heart. No, it’s about the stillpoint. The balance point, the middle, the point of origin, the destination.

Well, no, it’s about them all because they’re all one and the same thing.

I could pretend that they’re not and write an article on each, but the work these days is to unify religion and simplify subjects that have been purposely made complex by the planet’s controllers. So I’d rather keep it simple and say: They are all names for the same thing.

The spiritual heart or, as Hindus call it, the hridayam, has been described by Ramana Maharshi as smaller than the point of a pin. It is not the same as the heart chakra. Here is Sri Ramana:

“[The] Heart is the seat of Jnanam [wisdom] as well as of the granthi (knot of ignorance). It is represented in the physical body by a hole smaller than the smallest pin-point, which is always shut.” (1)

Sri Ramama says that “the location of this Heart is on the right side of the chest, not at all on the left,” (2) just two thumb widths right of the breastbone.

In actual fact, as he points out many times, there is no physical location for the heart because the “heart” itself is not physical. “Heart” and “soul” are identical terms. And the soul has no physical existence. (3)

Ultimately, the soul or Self (the All-Self) is all there is so how can it be said to exist a few thumb widths right of the breastbone? It cannot.

But we pretend that it can for the sake of understanding. Much the same as Vedantic scholars would say that the Atman (Christ, Self or soul) was the size of the thumb; it helped to give an image for meditation.

So if I were to say to you: come back into balance, return to the center, focus on your heart – in every instance I’m saying the same thing.

And the request is also simple. It isn’t a vague or mystical process I’d be referring to. It doesn’t take eight hours of Vipassana meditation to do it. It’s simply the act of centering or returning your attention to the middle of your body, where the hridayam is said to reside, and then holding it there.

That act calms the mind and the emotions. When we swing out from the center to the peripheries of wild emotion and jumbled thought – say, when a vasana goes off – that’s when we lose our anchor. When we bring our attention back to the heart/stillpoint/center, etc., that’s when we regain it.

(With one exception: We can be wildly ecstatic in our love for God. That does not harm us.)

I know my interpretation of balance is somewhat different from that of others. Others represent balance as having two sides of a scale equally weighted. I don’t agree that that is spiritual balance. Balance for me is returning the attention to the heart or center or stillpoint.

The heart will open permanently when we ascend. Sahaja is the level of enlightenment associated with a permanent heart opening, as Sri Ramana tells us:

“When the mind drops down in Kevalya Nirvikalpa [samadhi], it opens but shuts again after it. When sahaja [nirvikalpa samadhi] is attained it opens for good.” (4)

The Divine Mother and Archangel Michael have both confirmed that sahaja is the level of enlightenment that ushers in Ascension. (5) If we combine Sri Ramana and the Divine Mother, then Ascension results in a permanent heart opening. That, I would imagine, releases a flood of bliss.

The reason I say all this is that we hear the injunction all the time to come back to the center, remain in your heart, regain your balance, etc. And all of these injunctions are saying the same thing. They counsel us to bring our attention back to the place in our form where the heart is located and to anchor it there.

You can do this right now before you sip another mouthful of orange juice or before you get up from your chair. This is not rocket science. It’s an act purely of will and, as far as I know, it’s advisable to repeat again and again throughout the day.

I regularly bring my awareness back to the heart, the center, the stillpoint, the soul.

Well, maybe I haven’t said all that before and so maybe I didn’t repeat myself all that much but this is all so important that I beg your forgiveness if I have.

Footnotes

(1) Ramana Maharshi, S.S. Cohen, Guru Ramana. Memories and Notes. 6th edition. Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanasramam, 1993, 96.

(2) Ramana Maharshi in Vasistha Ganapathi, ed., Sri Ramana Gita. Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanashramam, 1977.

(3) “The Heart is used in the Vedas and the scriptures to denote the place whence the notion ‘I’ springs. Does it spring only from the fleshly ball? It springs within us somewhere right in the middle of our being. The ‘I’ has no location. Everything is the Self. There is nothing but that. So the Heart must be said to be the entire body of ourselves and of the entire Universe conceived as ‘I.’ But to help the practiser (Abhyasi) we have to indicate a definite part of the Universe, or of the body. So this Heart is pointed out as the seat of the Self. But in truth we are everywhere, we are all that is, and there is nothing else.” (Sadhu Arunachala [A.W. Chadwick] in Sadhu Arunachala (A.W. Chadwick), A Sadhu’s Reminiscences of Ramana Maharshi. Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanasramam, 1961, 81-2.)

(4) Ramana Maharshi, GR, 96.

(5) “The Divine Mother: Come to Me as I Come to You – Part ½,” Oct. 17, 2012, athttp://goldenageofgaia.com/2012/10/the-divine-mother-come-to-me-as-i-come-to-you-part-12/. “Archangel Michael: Detailed Instructions for Dec. 21, 2012 and After,” athttp://goldenageofgaia.com/2012/12/archangel-michael-detailed-instructions-for-dec-21-2012-and-after/.