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REVELATION
ON THE REVELATIONS: PART ONE
Advanced “Ascension
Physics” in Ancient Scripture and
its Meaning For Today
Part One:
Fatima Sightings and Book of Matthew
Tuesday, October 2, 2001
By David Wilcock and Francois
Masson
In the harbor of America’s
greatest city, facing the Statue that
has called forth so many “tired,
poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe
free,” the mighty towers of Western
finance have collapsed to dust –
and the “First World” continues
to reel in the aftermath. As financial
markets plummet to unknown depths, “America’s
New War,” the “Crusade”
of “Operation Infinite Justice,”
as it was briefly called, is now officially
underway – and many believe that
this could easily escalate into a much
wider conflict, which would then gain
the inevitable title of “World War
III.” News and media sources are
now openly discussing the threat of nuclear
or bio-chem attacks on American soil,
and the essential message is that no one
knows when or how devastating such an
event could be, nor if anything can be
done to prepare for it.
Fear is a choice that appears
to be railroaded into the mass psyche
of television-watching humanity as never
before, as what was once America’s
favorite tool for escapism and distraction
has become a homing beacon for the gut-wrenching
belief that “we’re all going
to die.” Meticulously coiffed talking
heads on the newscast spew the latest
updates in a stream of flat, emotionless
prose, while late-night talk show hosts
apologetically try to return to humorous
content (such as Conan O’ Brien’s
“The Pooping Robot,” seen
on Monday, Sept. 24,) so that we can “all
get back to normal.”
And yet, underneath the
ever-present veneer of denial, everyone
knows that life will never be the same.
It is for this very reason that the following
article, some of which was originally
written in January and April of this year,
has finally gained enough significance
to be posted. Had we put this article
up even in August, it would have seemed
largely irrelevant to today’s issues,
but now the words of Matthew, the Book
of the Revelation of St. John the Divine
and other Biblical sources have an urgency
that has never before been realized. Furthermore,
we have now taken the time to put all
the necessary background information into
this one article, so that the reader does
not have to read our published books in
order to understand what we will be discussing.
THE SHIFT OF THE
AGES
By this point, no one can
doubt that we are in a unique and pivotal
moment in human history, and many ancient
cultures around the world ascribe special
meaning to the fact that we are at the
end of the Age of Pisces and the beginning
of the Age of Aquarius. It is believed
that as this Shift of the Ages is complete,
the world will have become a much more
harmonious and joyful place to live, but
before this moment can arrive there must
be a grand cleansing of our present ways,
with some measure of cataclysmic activity
involved. With the recent event of the
bombing of the World Trade Center on September
11, 2001, we have seen a sudden increase
in the confirmation of many of these aspects
of prophecy.
After the bombing occurred,
the financial markets were shut down for
the longest period of time since the Great
Depression, and in the following week,
the markets experienced their largest
weekly percentage loss since the Great
Depression. It is estimated that 1.4 trillion
dollars of value was eliminated during
this time, which is equivalent to the
economies of Germany, France and Japan
combined. And this was just in the first
week! Certainly there will be a few sporadic,
weak rallies, as were seen in the following
week, but the inevitable trend at this
point is extremely bearish.
ADVANCED DISCUSSIONS
Here at DIvine Cosmos,
our team has assembled two pivotal books
that discuss the changes now occurring
in these times, The Shift of the Ages
and Convergence III, both of which can
be accessed directly from the home page.
Many of you are also aware that we have
an advanced multimedia seminar tour as
well, entitled The Time of Global Shift,
which was advertised with two appearances
on the Art Bell Show and has already appeared
in Chicago and Boulder earlier this year.
Barring unforeseen circumstances, we are
set to arrive in Santa Fe, New Mexico
on the weekend of October 26, 2001.
BIBLICAL DISTORTIONS
Our efforts have truly
reached millions of people, thanks to
Art’s program. And yet, despite
all of this work that we have done to
provide a needed perspective for these
times, we have thus far avoided delving
into Biblical prophecy with any real detail.
One good reason for this is that so many
others have contorted the meanings of
Biblical passages for their own agendas
and desires. Another reason is that many
people focus on the Biblical predictions
of apocalypse without really giving much
thought to the nature of the peace prophecy
that comes thereafter.
SECRET KNOWLEDGE
OF THE INITIATES
However, the fact of the
matter is that there is an entire backdrop
to the Judeo-Christian Bible that the
vast majority of people are unaware of,
because it has been totally kept secret
from them. Without this context, it is
impossible to truly understand the deeper
messages that were being conveyed, especially
in the book of Revelation, which is the
most openly “encoded” book
of all. The source for these secrets can
be traced back to an advanced ancient
civilization that was lost in the mists
of antiquity. Many have referred to this
civilization as “Atlantis,”
but names are relatively unimportant in
lieu of the overwhelming physical evidence
that exists. This has been extensively
documented by many authors, and we cover
some of the pertinent data in The Shift
of the Ages. For the purposes of this
article, we will give just enough information
to understand the key Biblical passages
in question, and leave it up to our readers
to investigate further for themselves.
This advanced civilization
possessed an entirely different way of
understanding ‘fundamental reality’
than that which most of our current world
identifies with. In our book Convergence
III, we have gone in and extensively shown
how we have made many scientific errors
that have robbed us from seeing this ancient
viewpoint clearly. In the Biblical context,
we now know that there are many passages
in the Bible that were specifically written
for Initiates – those who are aware
of the deeper esoteric mysteries contained
within secret orders such as the Essenes,
the Gnostics, the Knight Templars, the
Rosicrucians and others. Jesus openly
admitted that he would only speak to the
people in parables, but would teach his
disciples without mystery in secret. (Matt.
13: 10-13) These secret passages could
effectively conceal the deeper Mysteries
from uninitiated readers, while keeping
the hidden messages alive for later Initiates
who would follow.
THE CHAKRAS
There are a tremendous
number of “pieces” to this
puzzle, but one of the most important
aspects of this suppressed knowledge is
the understanding of the human system
of chakras. These are a series of seven
energy centers that rise in sequential
order from the pubic area to the top of
the head. As most of us know, this knowledge
was not hidden in the Hindu / Vedic and
Buddhist traditions, and now in modern
times it is quite well known. However
we should never forget that in the past,
these secrets were considered so powerful
that many people died under torture rather
than reveal what they know to the common
public.
Naturally, most people
would wonder why such a simple-sounding
and now-commonplace idea would be so carefully
guarded. The answer begins by understanding
that within the chakra system, the keys
to understanding the structure and function
of the entire multidimensional Universe
can be found. Should one harness this
knowledge to empower themselves to do
evil, (which admittedly would take many
years of intense spiritual practice that
would be nearly impossible to duplicate
in our modern world,) then there is indeed
a very credible threat that is presented.
A person could train themselves to stop
another person’s heart by thought
alone, for example.
On the most fundamental
level, the chakras represent different
levels of consciousness. The first three
are related to the physical body, the
self and how the self relates to others.
The fourth is the center of love, the
fifth the center of wisdom and communication,
the sixth the center of compassionate
wisdom and intuitive awareness, and the
seventh is our constant connection to
the instreaming energy of “intelligent
infinity.” Edgar Cayce’s work
has connected these chakras directly to
our endocrine systems, through the gonads,
the leyden, the solar plexus, the heart,
the thyroid, the pituitary and the pineal.
Should a particular area of the body have
difficulties in its functioning, it can
often be traced back to an issue of consciousness
related to the chakra that is in that
area.
Oftentimes we will hear
of New Age healers telling people that
they have “chakra blockages.”
This occurs when the normal rotational
activity of any one center is not functioning
in an optimal manner. According to many
teachings, the majority of people on this
planet have not been able to activate
the higher centers with anywhere near
the full range of ability that is possible.
If those centers were to become unblocked
and mutually balanced, then the person
has a much larger degree of access to
the conscious energy of the Universe,
either for positive or negative purposes
depending on their chosen path.
On a deeper level, the
Hindu teaching explains that each chakra
corresponds not only to a level of spiritual
development, but to an actual realm of
being that is populated with intelligent
entities. Furthermore, they tell us that
we are multi-dimensional beings, complete
with a separate energy body for each of
these planes of existence. The first three
of these bodies can be found within the
immediate physical form that we see and
know. Our first energetic body is composed
of the elemental consciousness of the
minerals and chemicals that make us up.
The second energetic body is composed
of all of our organic functions that continue
autonomically, without our conscious awareness.
The third energetic body is that of our
conscious mind in all of its forms, which
animates the physical body. The higher
energetic bodies are not normally visible
to us, though certain trained people are
capable of seeing them.
Again, each chakra is believed
to be connected to a plane of existence.
As we have explored in detail in The Shift
of the Ages, these planes can be associated
with vibration in three distinct ways:
the seven colors of the rainbow, the seven
basic tones in an octave and a seven-fold
arrangement of simple geometric forms
known as “Platonic solids.”
In the Hindu system, the chakras also
are assigned these colors, sounds and
geometries, going from red at the bottom
up to violet at the top. Each of these
three categories of vibration are very
important to study, as they represent
how the unseen energy source that models
all of Creation, or what the ancients
called ‘aether,’ forms each
plane of existence.
Modern science has come
a long way to accepting the idea that
such a multi-dimensional universe could
be possible. The most cutting-edge ‘Superstring’
physics research into higher dimensions,
as revealed by Dr. Michio Kaku, has shown
that the number 8, (or the Octave of seven
levels with the return to Oneness at the
eighth,) keeps showing up in “mysterious
ways” over and over again in their
mathematical calculations, known as “modular
functions.”
The Initiates understood
the physics of vibration very well, knowing
that it formed the entire template through
which Creation was produced. The geometric
forms of vibration appear on the sphere
of the Earth as what we call the Global
Grid, a network of intersecting straight
lines. On these lines and especially at
points where they intersect, a higher
level of available spiritual energy (known
technically in Russia as torsion fields,
as explained in our upcoming new book,
The Divine Cosmos) is produced. It is
for this very reason that the Russian
team of Goncharov, Morozov and Makarov
discovered that over 4,000 ancient sites
including pyramids, standing stones, stone
cellars, massive stone spheres, megalithic
structures and statues, ancient ritual
sites, temples, pagodas, churches and
cathedrals were all built on this Grid.
Amazingly, they could not find a single
sacred site that didn’t fit on the
Grid – and the Great Pyramid of
Giza, Egypt is at the center of the entire
matrix.
The various sacred structures
were built to harness the effects that
these energy areas have on human spiritual
consciousness, and the cathedral designs
of the Knight Templars are only the most
recent usage of this hidden technology.
The Grid’s usefulness goes well
beyond simply knowing where the spiritual
energies are accelerated, though. In both
books we have demonstrated that the actual
shape and expanding growth of the continents
has been precisely organized by this Grid.
In Convergence III we have gone even further
to show that similar Grid effects can
be found on the Sun and all the planets.
Is there any chance, then,
that we could prove that those who wrote
the Bible were aware of these geometric
forms of Vibration? Indeed, as we covered
in The Shift of the Ages, Stan Tenen demonstrates
that the initial passages of the book
of Genesis give the numerical codes for
a progression of Platonic Solid geometry
just like what we see at work in the Grid.
Furthermore, Tenen has shown that the
letters in the Hebrew alphabet can all
be modeled by putting a spiral inside
the simple pyramid shape of a tetrahedron,
and then drawing the shadow reflections
of the spiral as it moves through 26 different
positions. (The tetrahedron is a four-sided
pyramid made of equilateral triangles,
and it is one of the basic Platonic Solids
that can be produced by simple vibration.)
The connection between
light, sound and geometry can also produce
numbers that correspond to each of these
planes of existence, and this ties back
to the understanding of sound and vibration.
A sound is created by simply vibrating
the air around us. Each sound in the Octave
has a discrete number of vibrations of
air per second, and it just so happens
that they are all round numbers. If the
second were any longer or shorter than
it is at present, there would be an uneven
number of vibrations for each tone in
the Octave, but yet they are all perfectly
round. Furthermore, these numbers have
certain qualities that other numbers do
not. Numbers such as 288, 324, 360 and
432 are known as ‘harmonic,’
because many other numbers can be divided
evenly into them. This also means that
they will sound the best to our ears when
expressed as a certain number of vibrations
of air per second.
GEMATRIA
Another key aspect of Biblical
knowledge that was known to Initiates
is the understanding of “gematria.”
In this system, each letter of the Hebrew
alphabet is given a number. Then, specific
words or phrases can be added up, giving
the Initiate a single number to work with
at the end. Generally the encoded numbers
are harmonic, such as 432, and they have
meanings that are previously understood
and agreed upon. One example of this would
be that 432 means “Consecration.”
Once they are written into the Bible in
this coded form, these numbers can reveal
a hidden symbolic meaning in the text.
Usually, these hidden messages are preceded
by a code phrase such as “For he
who has ears, let him hear.” This
would be a signal to the Initiate to begin
adding up the value of the words that
follow that phrase. This science of gematria
has become quite arcane for most, and
yet some of the deepest secrets were encoded
in this very form – secrets that
are bound to cause surprise or even shock
for many people.
THE RENEWED “INITIATE’S”
PERSPECTIVE
So, in spite of the inevitable
controversy that this will produce for
some, we have decided to create this article
to give as best of an Initiate’s
perspective as we can on many key Biblical
passages related to our current events,
shedding light on the times we are now
directly facing. And in order to give
needed context, we will also discuss in
detail the appearances of the Virgin Mary
at Fatima, Portugal in 1917. By all appearances,
the Fatima apparitions were an extremely
important set of events, designed by Higher
Intelligence, to form a bridge between
previous Biblical passages and our experiences
in the modern world.
Probably the most fascinating
aspect of this article series for most
people will be our view of certain prophecies
that have long been interpreted very narrowly
by most authors, including the idea of
the “Mark of the Beast.” Due
to the onset of terrorist activity in
America, certain authorities are already
calling for the issuance of a National
ID Card for each citizen. Certain people
may so strongly believe that they will
“go to hell” if they “accept
the mark of the beast” that they
will risk hunger, starvation or even death
to avoid becoming a part of any new system.
We will show how this thinking is clearly
in error, as it fails to account for many
important pieces of data that are now
known. In short, the mark of the beast
has nothing to do with a micro-chip, a
social security number or an ID card.
If the preservation of your physical body
requires you to accept such a card, you
should do so without any fear of negative
repercussions for your soul.
Perhaps an even greater
source of fascination will be the fact
that the prophetic fall of the “Whore
of Babylon” appears to be very directly
targeted at our present state of affairs
with the collapse of the World Trade Center.
Though the connections were already clear,
we rushed to publish after a letter from
Joe Mason came in on September 26, which
provided staggering additional confirmation
to suggest that the World Trade Center
bombing was prophesied within the book
of Revelation in remarkable detail. The
synchronicity includes a reference to
two “olive trees” and / or
“lampstands” that fell, causing
much dismay to some and great delight
to others. Of course, the Twin Towers
at night would look like quite the majestic
lampstands, with the many windows illuminated
from within. Furthermore, many numerical
coincidences can be demonstrated between
the WTC event and key passages in the
Bible. Even more amazingly, a number very
close to the estimated casualties from
the World Trade Center bombing appears
to have been given in Revelations as well,
as 7000!
Before going any farther,
we must remember that not all is doom
and gloom. It is true that the Bible has
a large number of predictions relating
to the "Apocalypse" and the
end of times, but they also suggest that
a radical transformation of matter, energy
and consciousness on the Earth will occur
concomitant with the “purifying
catastrophes” that we are now beginning
to see in full force. This transformation
would be caused by an increase in the
basic energy vibrations that surround
the Earth at this time, thus catapulting
us into a higher plane of existence, according
to this newly rediscovered system of physics.
To put this in its proper perspective,
one “doom” quote could be
seen in the New Testament, in Matthew
24:4-21, where Jesus said:
“For nation
will rise against nation, and kingdom
against kingdom, and in various places
there will be famines and earthquakes.
But these things are merely the beginning
of birth pangs.”
However, the associated
idea of a sudden, spontaneous energetic
transformation of humanity is given special
focus in an interesting quote from I Corinthians
chapter 15, starting on verse 51:
“Lo! I tell
you a mystery. We shall not all sleep,
but we shall all be changed, in a moment,
in the twinkling of an eye... for the
trumpet shall sound... and we shall
be changed.”
As readers of Shift
of the Ages should recognize, the
trumpet reference could well be to the
increase in the energy vibrations that
create and uphold all of matter and space
around us, and in this case these vibrations
are being shown as a form of sound. As
we shall see, the trumpets are a common
analogy also used in the book of Revelation.
Such an energetic change
is believed by many to occur in regular
intervals of time. In chapter 15 of Shift
of the Ages, we establish a connection
between the prophecies of Edgar Cayce
and The Ra Material to suggest that a
long-term cycle of roughly 25,000 years
in length is now coming to completion.
Many other world traditions have spoken
of the times that we are now in and also
related them directly to the ending of
this long-term cycle. In particular, the
Maya have created a calendar that charts
these periods of time with extreme precision.
These connections are being rediscovered
by many researchers, including Maurice
Cotterell, Graham Hancock and John Major
Jenkins, to name a few.
More recently, in an article
for Spirit of Ma’at magazine,
we gave a preliminary glance at some of
our scientific data that we present in
our Time of Global Shift multimedia seminar
tour, which shows how there is a wide-scale
energetic transformation already occurring
throughout the entire Solar System at
this time. In the new article we also
show how the transformation appears to
have a direct relationship with the spontaneous
evolution of the DNA molecule. Dr. Alexey
Dmitriev, at http://www.millenngroup.com/repository/global/planetophysical.html,
covers much of this information with astonishing
detail, and when Convergence III is finished
we will have a much more complete statement
of these concepts.
In short, we now know that
the Sun, the space between the planets
and the planets themselves are all showing
increased luminosity, increased magnetism
and increased energy. This undeniably
demonstrates that the entire Solar System
is charging up, apparently reaching a
critical threshold. As mentioned in our
SOM article, we have already seen the
following, among many other things:
- a 230-percent increase
in the Sun’s magnetic field since
1901;
- a 500-percent increase
in worldwide volcanic activity from
1875 to 1993;
- a 410-percent increase
in worldwide cataclysmic activity from
1963 to 1993;
- a 400-percent increase
in earthquake activity from 1973 to
1998;
- noticeable pole shifts,
magnetic, atmospheric and luminosity
changes on other planets, and;
- a 400-percent increase
(or higher) in the speed that energy
travels through space from the Sun to
Earth.
So, if this system-wide
energetic charge keeps showing signs of
continual increase, what eventually will
occur? From our most advanced research,
seen throughout Convergence III, we know
that the Sun is the focal point where
all energy streams into and out of our
Solar System, and therefore it is likely
that the most significant changes will
occur there first. It is hypothesized
from ancient Vedic data and other sources
that the increasing charge will soon reach
an “Omega Point” where the
Sun gives off a sudden burst of energy
and light, which the Hindus called “the
Somvarta fire at the end of an Age,”
as referenced in W. Raymond Drake’s
book Gods and Spacemen of the Ancient
East. Based on our most recent research
findings as detailed in the SOM article
linked above, this energetic “breaking
point” event will apparently do
all of the following things:
- release a sustained Coronal
Mass Ejection from the Sun of unprecedented
magnitude and brightness;
- send a higher vibration
of energy rocketing through the Solar
System and into the planets;
- increase the physical
size of the Earth by a certain amount;
- transform the Earth’s
Global Grid into a more complex geometric
form;
- shift the Earth’s
actual rotational position, creating
great cataclysms;
- extend the distance of
the planets from the Sun;
- produce a new, bright
luminous “proto-planet”
near the Sun, the Hopis’ “Blue
Star Kachina”;
- reorganize the underlying
template of energy that forms DNA into
a higher level of evolution;
- transmute human bodies
into their “fourth-density”
equivalents;
- generate the fulfillment
of the New Heaven and New Earth prophecy
in the Bible;
- create a world civilization
“100 times more harmonious”
than what we now experience, and;
- enable humanity to perform
all of Jesus’ miracles, “and
greater things” as well [John
14:12.]
[Note: For detailed information
on the “Global Grid” and some
of the changes associated with the earth,
read Chapter
13 of the Divine Cosmos.]
Now of course, for those
not familiar with this research, the conclusions
we have just suggested must seem preposterous,
ridiculous and utterly fallacious. There
is a great deal of ‘adjustment’
that must be made to handling such intense
new information, which we like to call
“cracking the shell.” It is
for this reason that all of our scientific
and spiritual work has been devoted to
exploring the reality of this event, and
the background cosmology that supports
it, in as much detail as possible.
As our research has increasingly
uncovered throughout the course of this
year, there is no doubt that Russian scientists
and astrophysicists have made many strides
in these breakthrough areas that Western
researchers have not. It is quite safe
to say that these ideas would be much
simpler for the Russian scientific community
to assimilate as opposed to the American
scientific community, which would probably
never give them a second glance. It is
only in the last few years that some of
this wealth of material has become available
on the Internet, in the wake of the collapsing
of the Iron Curtain. Prior to this point,
Russia had effectively sealed off these
discoveries from Western science for some
40 years, and many of these researchers
still do not speak English. These discoveries
are so vitally important that we are now
in the process of completely rewriting
the existing text of Convergence III to
include information that we have only
very recently discovered, which dramatically
enhances our understandings of the true
workings of the Universe. Our newly projected
end-date for this book is mid-November
2001.
And thus, the apparent
‘reality’ of the physical
world is rigorously enforced by the Western
media, and all the while there is an overwhelming
amount of suppressed scientific evidence
that suggests that we are more than our
physical bodies, and that such an event
could indeed occur, as it has already
in the past. The idea that the physical
world is not “true reality”
is echoed in the violent but informative
movie The Matrix, which suggests that
our current world is but a complex illusion,
“drawn over our eyes to blind us
from the truth.”
As Dr. Scott Mandelker
and this author privately discussed, those
who completely block out the idea that
anything other than 3D reality exists
will invariably have a heavy blockage
of their sixth chakra, located in the
middle of the forehead. To one seeing
this from the energetic level, this would
appear as a dark blotch – and this
appears to be the true meaning of “the
mark of the Beast, as seen on the forehead.”
It is the negative force of ‘the
Beast’ surrounding the earth at
this time that has mass-hypnotized us
into believing that nothing else ‘exists’
besides what we experience with our five
conventional senses.
More and more people have
been metaphorically “escaping from
The Matrix” and coming to realize
that psychic phenomena, past lives, future
lives, extraterrestrials, higher dimensions,
an unseen ‘aether’ energy
that forms all of our Universe and other
such scientifically taboo ideas must indeed
be a reality. More and more of us can
accept that these fantastic changes will
indeed reach a point of fruition, which
we have referred to on our site as “Ascension,”
but some believe that the ‘transmutation’
effect is only preserved for those who
have attained the highest levels of initiation,
as did Jesus when his body burned a photographic
image of itself into the Shroud of Turin.
So if cataclysms are associated with this
event that would surely damage or destroy
most human bodies on the planet, how might
we pass through this event and continue
along? Consider this quote from Matthew
13:39:
“The harvest
is the end of the world, and the reapers
are the angels.”
So we have a harvest, which
is the global Ascension process, and we
have reapers – those who bring the
“harvested” entities into
the higher realms. These concepts emerge
in a clearer form in Revelation, as we
shall see later in the article. The obvious
connection, if one dares to make it in
light of the evidence we will review,
is that participating members of humanity
will be invited to participate in a mass
boarding event. Many people will be personally
greeted by an angelic presence that will
assist them as they ‘ascend’
into ‘heaven,’ and this will
apparently take the form of the transformation
of the physical body into an energetic
form of higher vibration, followed by
a trip into an angelic “mother ship.”
Though these ideas might
seem preposterous to some, the fact is
that millions of people have already seen
this hardware in our skies – and
as we are about to see, these objects
have a clear association with the angelic
forces mentioned in the Bible. No one
will be forced to participate in this
boarding, even if they have already been
invited, and many people who operate from
a place of fear will automatically “sort
themselves out” by not trusting
their experience enough to actually go
through with it. A similar concept of
“sorting” is also referred
to in Revelation, and ultimately appears
to do with how willing each soul is to
be of service to others.
FATIMA: CONNECTIONS
BETWEEN ANGELIC KINGDOM, VIRGIN MARY AND
UFOS
The appearances of the
Virgin Mary that occurred in Fatima, Portugal
in the early 20th century were by far
the most popular of a variety of such
“Marial” apparitions, and
are commonly known as an important “Catholic
miracle.” These remarkable events
and prophecies all centered around the
visions of three young, illiterate Portugese
girls, and were eventually witnessed by
tens of thousands of people on several
occasions. At this time, an undeniable
connection was established between what
would later be called the UFO phenomena
and the angelic kingdoms themselves. For
the purposes of this article, we have
taken some excerpts from Francois Masson’s
book The End of Our Century, posted at
http://ascension2000.com/fm-ch04.htm,
for a detailed analysis of this event.
Bear in mind that these words were written
in 1980 in French, translated by Dr. David
Steinberg and published online for the
first time by David Wilcock earlier this
year. (Another important point to remember
is that by combining cycle analysis and
Nostradamus’ prophecies, Masson
was correctly able to pinpoint the exact
time period for the fall of the Soviet
Union as being between 1990 and 1991:)
The three children of Fatima
did not get the Marial message at one
time. During the latter part of 1916 they
saw three preparatory apparitions of an
angel calling itself the Angel of Peace,
the Angel of Portugal. Here is their description
of these first contacts:
The children had just had
their lunch and were playing with pebbles
when “a strong gust of wind made
them look up. They saw taking shape in
the air and coming toward them a fair
white cloud in human form, looking like
a snow statue that the sun made transparent
as crystal.” This apparition said,
“Fear not; I am the Angel of Peace,”
and urged them to pray for peace. (Remember
that in 1916 Portugal entered the war
on the side of the Allies.) This apparition
reappeared twice.
The first observation to
note, which will recur during all the
subsequent apparitions, is the white cloud,
which was seen by countless witnesses
in 1917.
The first manifestation
of the Virgin Mary was unexpected and
came on May 13, 1917. Two lightning flashes
in a cloudless sky surprised the children
and they saw a beautiful lady who seemed
to be standing on the leafy branches of
a little green oak tree. She asked them
to come there [to the tree] again for
six months, on the 13th of each month.
The next apparition did
occur [at that same spot] on June 13,
1917, and the first other witnesses saw
the lightning flash that signaled each
appearance. At this time the lady told
the children a Secret.
The third apparition took
place [at the same spot on] July 13, 1917
in front of 4500 or 5000 people. During
this one, the most important (together
with the last, on October 13), the Holy
Virgin reaffirmed the great secret, which,
by the Pope's permission, was later disclosed
– but only in part.
Here is what we know to
date:
Text
18: “Continue to come on
the 13th of each month. In October I will
tell you who I am, where I went, and I
shall work a great miracle for all to
see that they may believe.”
Text
22: “The war is nearing its
end but if men do not stop offending the
Lord, in the reign of Pius XI a worse
one will begin. When you see the night
lit up by an unknown light, know that
it is the great sign God gives you that
the punishment of the world is at hand
by war, famine and persecution of the
Holy Father.”
Historians agree that World
War II really began with the war in Spain,
the first military clash between fascism
and communism, and this was during
the reign of Pius XI.
[Note 9/27/01: Lest we
think that this war ended with the conventional
end-date of World War II, we should be
reminded that the “Cold War”
began immediately afterwards, and there
have been ongoing wars, tensions and unrest
ever since, building to the crescendo
point that we are now facing. Since the
Cold War has always been a very important
backdrop for the tension that has gone
on, it is logical for the prophecy to
speak of Russia:]
Text
23: “To prevent it I shall
come to ask the consecration of Russia
to my Immaculate Heart and communions
of reparation every Saturday.”
Text
24: “If my requests are heeded,
Russia will be converted and there will
be peace. If not she will spread her errors
throughout the world, provoking wars and
persecutions of the Church. Many of the
good will be martyred, the Holy Father
will have a lot to suffer, several nations
will be crushed. Portugal will keep the
dogma of the faith, etc.”
The "etc." is
very important; it stands for the undisclosed
part of the secret. Pope John XXIII forbade
the complete publication of the text,
saying that the last part was only about
the papacy.
[Note 9/26/01: It was said
that the remainder of the prophecy was
published in 2000, but Father Malachi
Martin among others have given considerable
evidence that it had to be a hoax. This
included the fact that what they had heard
privately was quite different than the
relatively benign version dealing with
papal assassinations that was released
to the public.]
Text
25: “But finally my Immaculate
Heart will triumph, the Holy Father will
consecrate Russia to me, she will be converted,
and the world will be granted a time of
peace.”
We note that Portugal,
despite its recent revolutions, has kept
the dogma of the faith. This pope will
suffer a lot – could this mean John
Paul II, this pope from the East who strives
to reestablish freedom in the Communist
countries?
As for the part kept secret,
John XXIII did not allow it to be divulged
in 1960 as planned. And yet that very
year, the serious German review of foreign
affairs, Neues Europa, revealed that Pope
John XXIII had communicated the complete
contents to the world leaders Kennedy,
Krushchev and MacMillan. Despite the subsequent
denials, one thing stands out; Krushchev’s
son-in-law had an audience with the Pope.
At the first visitation,
the virgin set the date of the others
on the 13th of each month. The one scheduled
for August 13, 1917 could not materialize
because the children had been arrested.
“Freethinkers” were in power
in the Portuguese government and the notoriety
of Fatima was not to their liking. If
the children could have been convicted
of fraud, everything would have been fine,
but they stuck to their story. Don't forget
that this was August 1917, with rebellion
everywhere, especially in the armed forces,
not only in Russia but in France, Germany
and Italy. The Portuguese authorities,
not knowing how such an affair might turn
out, wanted to nip it in the bud.
And yet the aborted appearance
of August 13, 1917, ironically, had even
more repercussions despite the absence
of the little visionaries. In fact, 18,000
people showed up that day at the appointed
spot – believers and skeptics. The
crowd was disappointed and grew angry
upon hearing of the children's arrest.
But the repetition of the same uncanny
phenomena that had accompanied the previous
visits drew everyone's attention to the
oak tree where the image usually appeared.
First a loud explosion was heard, seeming
to come from the tree itself. Then the
witnesses saw the flash that usually preceded
the appearance of the Lady to the children.
The sun grew dimmer and the air was filled
with magnificent colors. Meanwhile
a fine white cloud came to rest on the
tree, whose branches bent slightly under
the weight. This cloud remained about
ten minutes, then finally rose and disappeared
in the sky.
This extraordinary manifestation,
on August 13, 1917, really contains the
best evidence on these events, since the
children were in prison and the 18,000
witnesses could observe the tangible facts
at their leisure without being distracted
by the children in ecstasy.
The unexplained and repeated
phenomena are: a cloud or globe of light,
a flash and an explosion, and especially
the luminous aura around these things,
dimming of the sun and the magnificent
atmosphere with colors never seen before.
This last phenomenon is reported by all
trustworthy persons who have lived through
a UFO encounter.
Sunday, August 19, 1917,
while the Freethinkers were organizing
a counter-demonstration at Fatima, the
Lady appeared unannounced to the little
seers as they were tending their flock
at Valinhos, a place called “The
Valley,” where the virgin had never
before appeared. She told the children
to persevere and again promised a great
sign on October 13.
We now come to September
13, 1917. This time 30,000 people observed
that exactly at noon, in a cloudless sky,
the blazing sun of that bright day began
to lose its light, until the stars became
visible. Again the air took on a golden
color and the crowd, humbled by the sight,
contemplated this prodigy in silence.
The vicar general of Leiria,
the capital of the diocese that includes
Fatima, was incognito among the spectators.
He described what he saw:
“Not a cloud
in the sky. I look up and examine the
heavens. My friend says to me in a snide
way: “You too, you are starting
to look,” and to my great surprise
I see clearly and distinctly a globe
of light moving from east to west, gliding
slowly and majestically through space.
My friend turned to look and was lucky
enough to behold the same unexpected
and startling sight. Then we saw a thin
mist form around the tree and –
miracle – from the open sky began
to rain flowers which evaporated before
reaching the ground.”
Here is a new story –
white flowers, more prosaically described
by UFO observers as gelatinous filaments
which dissolve rapidly.
The series of apparitions
ended, as promised by the Virgin Mary,
on the great day of October 13, 1917.
It started under bad auspices: the sky
was overcast and it was raining heavily.
But that didn’t prevent the arrival
of 70,000 to 90,000 people, all awaiting
the celestial sign promised by the Holy
Virgin. Their patience was rewarded, for
they all saw a grandiose and unforgettable
sight. Here is a witness's report:
“Suddenly
the clouds were torn apart, uncovering
a great expanse of blue and in this
vast cloudless space we saw the sun
at its zenith. But, strangely, although
not veiled by any cloud, it was brilliant
but not dazzling – we could stare
at it without blinking.
Suddenly the sun trembled,
shook, made brusque movements and finally
began to spin dizzily like a wheel of
fire, throwing in all directions enormous
jets of light – green, blue, violet,
etc. After about four minutes the sun
stopped for a moment, then resumed its
fantastic motion and its magical dance
of light… After a short rest the
sun once more began its show, more colorful
than ever… During the whole spectacle
the crowd stood transfixed and entranced.
Then came the terrifying, dizzying fall
of the sun, the climax of the miracle.
Yes, in the middle of its wild dance,
the sun detached itself from the
firmament and zigzagging from side to
side, dived at the crazed multitude,
looking as if it would strike the earth.
A loud clamor arose from the crowd,
composed of cries of fear and prayers,
which were suddenly stilled when the
sun halted in its headlong fall and
climbed back to its place, zigzagging
as before.”
Now here are the same facts
related by Dr. Almeida Garret, professor
in the Faculty of Sciences at the University
of Coimbra, who writes:
“I was a
little over 100 meters away... The rain
was pouring down on our heads and streaming
down our clothes, we were soaked to
the skin. Finally it was 2 o'clock (noon
by the sun). A moment earlier the sun
had come out from behind the thick cloud
curtain. All eyes were raised to it
as if pulled by a magnet. I too
tried to stare at it and it looked like
a disc with sharp edges, luminous and
lucent but not dazzling. I heard people
around me compare it to a disc of dull
silver, but the comparison did not seem
apt. It shone with a clear and changing
color like the luster of a pearl. It
did not look anything like the moon
at night. It had neither the color nor
the markings. You could call it a burnished
wheel cut from the nacre of a shell.
This is not a cliché of poesy;
thus my eyes saw it. Nor could you confuse
it with the sun shining through a slight
fog. There was no trace of fog, and
anyway the sun was not opaque, diffused,
or veiled, but shone clearly in its
center and at its rim… This resplendent
color-splashed disc seemed to move dizzily.
It was not the twinkling of a star.
It was spinning, whirling rapidly...
Suddenly a great outcry burst from the
whole crowd. The sun, retaining
its rotary motion, left the heavens
and dove at the Earth for a few terrifying
moments… All the phenomena I have
reported and described I observed personally,
coolly, calmly, with no emotional
upset. I leave to others the job of
explaining or interpreting them.”
Now here are the same facts
related by other observers at distances
often and 50 kilometers:
The first witness, who
later became the missionary Father I.L.
Pereira, relates this amazing event as
follows:
“I was nine
years old and I was at the primary school
of my village, on a hill 10 or 11 kilometers
from Fatima. Around noon we heard shouts
from passersby. Our teacher ran out
into the plaza and we followed her.
People were crying and pointing to the
sun. It was the great miracle.”
Second witness, reported
by academician Marques da Cruz: The brilliant
Portuguese poet Alfonso Lopes Vieira saw
the phenomenon from the balcony of
his house in Sao Pedro de Muel, 50 kilometers
from Fatima. He stated:
"On October
13, 1917, I had completely forgotten
the prediction of the three little shepherds,
and I was surprised and delighted by
a really dazzling show staged in Heaven,
for which I was lucky to get a balcony
seat.”
Add to all this the odd
fact that all the spectators, although
completely soaked by the rain, as Professor
Garett remarked, were surprised to
find their clothes completely dry when
the phenomenon ended – and yet,
it lasted only about 15 minutes.
[Note 9/26/01: Let us not
forget that Prof. Garett was the same
person who said that they had been “soaked
to the skin” before the apparition
began.]
Everyone reported this
and it makes the events of that day even
stranger, if possible.
[End of Francois
Masson excerpt]
So, as we have just read,
there were a great number of outrageous
events that occurred on the 13th of the
month from May to October of 1917 in Fatima,
Portugal. It is quite important to note
that one of the earlier sightings on August
13, 1917, a white cloud was seen to descend
on the tree where the children had experienced
their visions. There are several passages
in the Bible that refer to clouds in a
very central way, surrounding this time
of Harvest, Ascension or Global Shift.
The final event of October 13, 1917 featured
Dr. Almeida Garret, professor in the Faculty
of Sciences at the University of Coimbra,
saying that she and others witnessed “a
disc of dull silver… with sharp
edges” as the true form of what
others thought was the Sun, which rotated
quickly, emitted dazzling colors and then
shockingly dove towards the crowd with
a zigzagging motion before again rising
into the heavens. It is certainly not
difficult to see that this was a UFO sighting.
And Dr. Garret also indicated that clear
signs of an advanced technology were apparent,
including a force that removed all excess
water from the spectators’ rain-drenched
clothing in the brief span of 15 minutes.
Interestingly, the crop
circle phenomenon has also been associated
with the removal of large amounts of water
beneath the ground where the formations
appear. This water is ostensibly being
removed to keep the crops from catching
fire from the microwave-style energy that
Dr. Gil Levengood and others have associated
with the construction of these formations.
Many have wondered if this next Biblical
passage from Acts 2:19 could be a reference
to events like Fatima in the skies and
formations like "crop circles"
in the earth:
"And (it shall
come to pass in the last days,) I will
show wonders in heavens above, and signs
in the Earth beneath."
So, based on the evidence,
the apparitions of Mother Mary at Fatima
were among the top UFO sighting events
of the entire 20th century. Prophecies
were given that urged humankind to become
more loving and strive for world peace,
or else great calamities would follow.
Many have believed that the suppressed
portion of the visionary data indicates
the catastrophes associated with a shift
of the Earth’s axis, and were covered
up for that very reason. Arguably,
If something like the Fatima
mass sightings were to have happened in
the modern age of camcorders and international
television media, it would have been the
final, complete disclosure of extraterrestrial
intelligence that humanity has been waiting
for.
But more importantly,
It now appears to have
been a cornerstone event to establish
a clear connection between the occupants
of the UFO and the angels of the Judeo-Christian
Bible.
First we have a remarkable
apparition of a cloud appear in clear
view of some eighteen thousand people,
and the final apparition, seen by seventy
to ninety thousand people, was undeniably
that of a UFO. There could be no more
direct of a message to tell us the following:
When we see “cloud”
written in the Bible, we should always
investigate the possibility that it was
the best word available at the time to
describe some form of advanced flying
craft.
This appears to be one
of the teachings of the angelic kingdom
at Fatima, and it will become a very important
point as we proceed.
Despite the miraculous
grandeur of this event and the sheer number
of witnesses, those who are strict adherents
to fundamental Christianity appear not
to have assimilated the point, as it is
quite common for UFO phenomena to be associated
with evil activity and / or the Anti-Christ.
And thus,
Even with the best efforts
of the angelic kingdom to pass along information
without violating our collective free
will as a planet, their true identity
has remained a mystery to the majority
of humanity.
POLE SHIFT?
The Fatima prophecy foretold
great cataclysms if humankind did not
change their ways, and the prophecies
in the end portion were apparently too
intense to even be released by the papacy
without causing a worldwide panic. As
we have covered near the end of The Shift
of the Ages, many researchers agree that
the Earth is very likely to experience
a cataclysmic shifting of the magnetic
poles in its near future. This information
would not appear to have been available
to anyone at the time that the Bible was
written. And yet, researcher Gregg Braden
discusses the following quote from the
Gnostic gospel of Enoch, chapter 64 in
his book Awakening to Zero Point. First,
the book of Enoch says that, quote, "Earth
became inclined on its axis" just
prior to the time of the great Flood.
Then, we hear the following:
"...and everything
done on Earth shall be subverted and
disappear in its season... In those
days the fruits of the Earth shall not
flourish in their season,... heaven
shall stand still. The moon shall change
its laws, and not be seen at its proper
period."
Clearly what we are seeing
is a description of a physical change
in the Earth's axis and rotation, which
would obviously affect our observations
of the Moon. As we have already indicated
above, our new scientific understanding
of the “Omega Point” event
that will occur in our future predicts
that the shifting of the Earth’s
axis will occur at the same time that
the Sun releases a bright burst of energy
and light.
EXCERPTS FROM MATTHEW
The two areas of the Bible
that speak most directly of the changes
now upon us are arguably the book of Matthew
and the book of Revelation. We will begin
with Matthew and illustrate this with
a sequence of selected quotations from
chapters 24 and 25:
"And Jesus
said unto them, See ye not all these
things? Verily I say unto you, There
shall not be left here one stone upon
another, that shall not be thrown down...
And ye shall hear of
wars and rumors of wars: see that ye
be not troubled: for all these things
must come to pass, but the end is not
yet.
For nation shall rise
against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom: and there shall be famines,
and pestilences, and earthquakes, in
divers places. All these are the beginning
of sorrows...
and then shall many be
offended, and shall betray one another,
and shall hate one another. And many
false prophets shall rise, and shall
deceive many. And because iniquity shall
abound, the love of many shall wax cold...
"For then
shall be great tribulation, such as
was not since the beginning of the world
to this time, no, nor ever shall be...
but for the elect's sake, those days
shall be shortened...
For as the lightning
cometh out of the east, and shineth
even unto the west; so also shall the
coming of the Son of man be..."
Based on our new research,
it certainly appears that this reference
to a bright light seen in the skies
refers to a physical burst of luminous
energy from the Sun, which also has
qualities of spiritual energy. This
burst, as we said above, is to be expected
as the end-product of the long-term
cycles that have led to the solar-system-wide
increase in energetic charge that we
are now witnessing. The final burst
of energy from the Sun appears to have
been referred to as a “trumpet
blast” in the Bible, among other
metaphors, such as “the sign of
the Son of man.”
Then, this passage from
Matthew continues:
"Immediately
after the tribulation of those days
shall the sun be darkened, and the moon
shall not give her light, and the stars
shall fall from heaven, and the powers
of the heavens shall be shaken:
And then shall appear
the sign of the Son of man in heaven:
and then shall all the tribes of the
earth mourn, and they shall see the
Son of man coming in the “clouds”
of heaven with power and great glory.
And he shall send his
angels with a great sound of a trumpet,
and they shall gather together his elect
from the four winds, from one end of
heaven to the other..."
Once again, we see clear
signs of major Earth Changes, the likes
of which have been predicted in the Edgar
Cayce readings and many other sources.
The vibrations of the “trumpet blast”
are directly associated in these scriptures
with the “gathering of the ‘elect.’”
This may well be another simplified metaphor
for the sudden change to a higher level
of energy vibration that occurs on the
Earth at this time. It is interesting
to note the use of the word “clouds”
in the above passage, since Fatima showed
us that it can be directly associated
with UFOs. If this were the case, then
it would appear that a gigantic fleet
of unidentified flying craft will be the
final sighting of “the Son of man
and his angels” at this pivotal
time.
We should also note here
that the usage of the term ‘elect’
has become highly distorted in today’s
society, where many different apocalyptic
Christian groups and cults have contorted
these passages to believe that they are
the only ones who will “make it”
through this transformation. On a more
benign and truthful level, it would appear
that the term ‘elect’ simply
translates into, “those who have
elected to follow the Golden Rule, loving
their neighbors as they love themselves.”
Though this simple Rule
is taught to every school child, many
spiritual sources insist that the great
majority of people on this planet still
have not elected to focus on service-to-others
(STO) to a greater degree than service-to-self
(STS). And according to the entity Ra,
it is this ‘Choice’ of at
least 51-percent STO (the positive path)
or 95-percent STS (the negative path)
that all entities must make at this time,
or else they will be transported to a
new third-density planet that is now being
terra-formed elsewhere. Though some may
think that this movement to a new 3D planet
is a form of “hell,” it simply
represents the fact that those who have
been moved will continue to live in an
environment that is most suitable for
them, so that they can again be presented
with the opportunity to make the Choice.
We are told that this Choice is the foundation
upon which all further progress in higher
realms is measured, and it can only be
made in 3D.
SPONTANEOUS TRANSFORMATION
Our next quotation from
Matthew, chapter 24, verse 40, speaks
most specifically to the outstanding idea
that certain people may spontaneously
disappear or be "taken up" as
these changes occur:
"Then shall
two be in the field; the one shall be
taken, and the other left. Two women
shall be grinding at the mill; the one
shall be taken, and the other left."
Typically, this is associated
with “faith:” you either believe
it or not. Most who would be prone to
believing it would simply consider it
as a “miracle of God” that
we could never hope to understand in any
other way. In our published scientific
works we have diligently parted all the
“clouds” surrounding this
issue, (pun intended,) by showing how
our mainstream scientific paradigms have
made several significant wrong turns that
have blinded us to true reality and continued
to reinforce the “3D illusion.”
What we come to is that this apparently
fantastic idea of “transformation”
is a simple scientific fact: at the close
of these cycles, certain human beings
who have raised their overall level of
soul vibration to a high enough level,
(either through STS or STO,) will be moving
on to the next level of experience. The
Earth is also moving into the fourth-density
positive, so only those who are above
50-percent in their motivations to be
of service-to-others will stay with the
Earth as this transformation is performed.
AT A MOMENT’S
NOTICE
Then at this point in the
text, Jesus warns that these changes could
occur very quickly and advises people
to be prepared and watchful:
"Watch therefore:
for ye know not what hour your Lord doth
come. But know this, that if the goodman
of the house had known in what watch the
thief would come, he would have watched,
and would not have suffered his house
to be broken up. Therefore be ye also
ready: for in such an hour as ye think
not, the Son of man cometh."
It is all too easy for
us to assume that these changes will take
a long time to develop, and will be easily
predicted in advance. However, few of
us could have imagined that the Twin Towers
explosion could have occurred, even though
there were prophecies made in advance
that covered it, some of which we featured
in our two “Attack of America”
articles:
Attack
on America: Part I
Attack
on America: Part II
PENT-UP ENERGY
FINALLY RELEASED
It shouldn’t be difficult
for us to realize that the actual energetic
change itself could similarly occur in
a moment’s notice, with no apparent
warning beforehand. The Wilcock Readings
have repeatedly advised us that the final
moment of change has everything to do
with a critical mass of humanity reaching
a higher vibrational level, recognized
as love or service to others. As many
are becoming aware, the main “attraction”
point for these changes surrounds the
end-date of the Mayan Calendar, Dec. 22,
2012. This doesn’t mean that the
change itself couldn’t occur several
years before this window of time, as Edgar
Cayce’s readings originally predicted
it could occur as early as 1998-2001.
Interestingly, Cayce also said that sunspots
were a manifestation of humanity’s
resistance to love. This resistance creates
tension in the Sun, where energy is not
allowed to be released in a healthy fashion,
and black spots form in areas when the
extra pent-up energy is finally released.
As many heliophysicists are becoming increasingly
aware, sunspots are usually followed by
X-ray bursts or other large-scale energy
releases, possibly even including the
epic “Coronal Mass Ejections,”
where billions of tons of ionized gases
can be released in one full-halo burst
all at once.
On a much deeper level,
humanity as a whole has been resisting
the energy of love for thousands of years,
which is that quality of “fourth-density”
that the Earth is now moving into. This
resistance has produced an energetic phenomenon
akin to the ever-increasing tension of
a bear trap before it snaps shut. Most
Earth people resist the onset of this
loving energy, but the higher vibration
of these cosmic forces cannot be held
back indefinitely; the entire Solar System
is showing signs of increasing charge.
When enough people have made the shift
over to love and service, the energetic
‘clamp’ that humanity has
produced on the Sun will be released,
and the glorious “Somvarta fire,”
or “the coming of the Son of Man
as the light shineth from the East to
the West,” will blast forth as would
a Divine trumpet. In this event, the Sun
will become far brighter than it is at
present, creating a blinding light that
will be visible from horizon to horizon.
THE DIVIDING OF
HUMANITY
Then in Chapter 25 of Matthew,
beginning at verse 31, we have a metaphor
of the population of Earth being divided
by their level of spiritual growth, followed
by an illustration of the traits of kindness
and compassion that are required for those
who will be going forward into the higher
vibration:
"When the
Son of man shall come in his glory,
and all the holy angels with him, then
shall he sit upon the throne of his
glory: And before him shall be gathered
all nations; and he shall separate them
one from another, as a shepherd divideth
his sheep from the goats: and she shall
set the sheep on his right hand, but
the goats on the left.
"Then shall
the King say unto them on his right
hand, Come ye blessed of my Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world:
For I was an hungred,
and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty,
and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger,
and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed
me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I
was in prison, and ye came unto me."
So to reframe the above
sentences, those “blessed of the
Father” who shall “inherit
the kingdom” are those who were
of service to others, caring for those
hungry, thirsty, homeless, naked, sick
and imprisoned. But the King refers to
these very people as “I”!
Exactly how can this be? The King, or
the Son of man, implies that it was he
who was visible in the forms of many people,
even those most degenerate. Most of us
this would never think that the King would
appear in such a form – and this
includes the ‘righteous,’
which simply refers, again, to those people
who have made the choice to be of service
to others. Thus, a question is raised
in the reader’s mind, so it is then
answered:
"Then shall
the righteous answer him, saying, Lord,
when saw we thee an hungred, and fed
thee? Or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
When saw we thee a stranger, and took
thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison,
and came unto thee?
And the King shall answer
and say unto them, Verily I say unto
you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto
one of the least of these my brethren,
ye have done it unto me."
This last statement
from Jesus is an apt description of what
is often called the Law of One, which
advises us to realize that God is in everyone,
and that by serving others we are serving
God. No one should be excluded, seen as
second-best or derided once the Law of
One is understood. We must exact tolerance
for others’ religious and spiritual
beliefs, love them as ourselves and encourage
them to be healthy and safe so that they
can in turn learn to love and serve others.
This trait of service to others is what
the Bible and many other sources insist
will be the key to participating in the
New Heaven and New Earth that is now imminently
arriving.
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