Sin leads to blindness John 9 and death.Rom. 6:23
We do not die of disease, cancer, heart failure or stroke, as modern medicine claims. The bible says we die of sin.
Everyone is a sinner. Everyone dies. No one is immune. By the bible’s logic, I know I am a sinner because I am aging. I am dieing. I can tell this because my hair is turning grey at the temples. My back occasionally aches in the morning. I am dieing. Therefore, I must be a sinner. But I’m not alone.
Paul, in the book of Romans, discusses sin. He shows that everyone, both Jew and Greek, is under sin.Romans 3:9 He shows that sin is not simply something that is done, but a condition of the heart.Romans 3:10-12 This heart condition leads to death.
In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus teaches that sins come from the heart.Matthew, 15: 19-20 Christian preachers preach that through a change in heart the Lord can clean us up and make us feel like a new person! They tell us that it does not matter what we have done; 2,000 years ago God sent His Son, Jesus Christ to come to this earth and die on the cross to pay the penalty for your sin.
The bible says: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”John 3:16
In Ephesians Paul says that we are “by nature children of wrath”Eph. 2:3 Yet, “while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly”.Romans 5:6
It makes no difference how much or how little you’ve sinned, or what sin you committed, you still fall equally short of God’s perfection. There’s no middle ground.
The Bible says: “For all have sinned; all fall short of God’s glorious standard.”Romans 3:23
In other words, even though you are separated from God because of your sin, God made a way for you to come back to Him. And, He is offering this salvation to you as a free gift. All you have to do is receive it is to admit your spiritual need, “I am a sinner.” Second, you must believe that Jesus Christ died for you on the cross to take away your sins. Thirdly, you repent. In other words, be willing to turn from your sin. Finally, you must receive, through prayer, Jesus Christ into your heart and life.
THE HEART OF THE MATTER
I do not believe in these conditions.
Instead, I believe the bible is describing the functioning of our mystic anatomy, particularly that of the heart.
What is required to overcome sin is belief and love. Both develop in the heart, and the heart is the House of Eternal knowledge, as the Prophet Mohamed said: “Consult your heart and hear the secret ordnance of God, discovered by the inward knowledge of the heart which is faith and divinity.”
Astounding new medical research has discovered an independent wisdom inherent to the heart that is not governed by other systems of the body. The heart has neural cells similar to those found in the brain pointing to an innate logic to the heart. The heart is ‘autogenic’, it has its own intelligence (gennii, genius). It does not require a signal from the brain to beat, meaning it truly is separate, independent. The impulse to beat originates in the heart muscle itself in a small bit of specialized tissue called the sino-auricular node, embedded in the wall of the right auricle. New research reveals this is not dependent on ANY external stimulus, and no other part of the body controls this function. You can be brain dead and your heart can still maintain the cells. When the heart stops beating the bones of the temple begins to crumble.
HEART INTELLIGENCE
Christ is a tone or vibration that alters our heart, mind and soul or heart/mind/soul. Some of the most prestigious doctors and researchers in the medical community are providing the details of this alteration process. The research is focused on the heart’s amazing properties and influences over other bodily systems. It is making the connection between science and spirituality. “Heart Intelligence” is a phrase used to describe numerous attributes of the electrical and magnetic energy waves radiating from the heart that influence functions and systems, including the brain. When the waves of these energy fields are “Phi coherent” or in phase with Phi relationships, specific beneficial results occur within the mind and body. Phi is a number, approximately 1.618, known as the Golden Proportion, the Golden Ratio, the Golden Mean and the Divine Proportion. The progression or development of the whole of nature, from the subatomic to the supergalactic, follows this ratio. Temples such as Athena’s Parthenon are books in stone containing volumes of knowledge about this ratio. The human body/temple is a template in-formed by Phi.
The Golden Mean spiral and the whirlwind of phi-losophy that surrounds it has been called a doorway that weaves the ethereal and material dimensions together. It is the ratio of the Golden Man exemplified by Leonardo daVinci’s famous drawing, Vitruvian Man. Exploration of the concepts associated with Phi lead to the “Door of Love” in the heart.
The Golden Mean is intimately tied to the number 5 (phive) and the five-pointed star or Solomon’s Key. I find it most interesting that the Golden Mean is used as a symbol or an analogy for spirit in the material, and as an analogy for the thread that ties the material and ethereal dimensions together. This thread sheds new light on the Christian equation of the vine with Christ. The vine bears the grape (the enlightened hearts) that opens the door to other dimensions. Parallel dimensions can be likened to a cluster of grapes all stemming from a healthy Golden-Mean vine. (For more on the mysteries symbolized by the cluster of grapes please see my analysis in Cloak of the Illuminati or Stargate 2012 DVD.)
Continuing, when the thud, thud, thud of the heart (s)wells the lungs at its ‘snail’s pace’ tiny sacs called alveoli, which resemble clusters of grapes, are filled, manifesting a high-pitched whine. In Hebrew the literal name of Jesus derives from Yehoshua, a word that originally meant “breath”, “protection” and “peaceful.” In other words, it describes the breath of life. As J. Nigro Sansonese points out in The Body of Myth, when the Angel of Annunciation tells the Virgin Mary “thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save the people from their sins,” a double-entendre results between a literal sound, that of the breath, and the approximation of that sound, Yehoshua (transliterated in the Vulgate as Jesus).
Within the core of our heart, I propose, is a connection to the heart of the Milky Way, the Great Cosmic Mother of the Sun. Recent images of the galactic core reveal that it resembles a cluster of grapes. As we connect with the energies of the galactic center, through the Phi thread/vine, we begin to embody a revitalizing cosmic energy. This, I believe, is what is meant by Jesus’ miracle of turning water into wine. It is a reference to the transmutation of the waters of our body into wine, a heavenly substance. It begins by attuning, uniting, marrying or (Mari-ring) our consciousness to the Golden Man.
Interestingly, for thousands of years the clockwise spiral ideogram has been strongly associated with water, power and outgoing energy. Starting from the middle it forms a ‘G’ (the Mayan term for ‘love’). Its mirror (twin) image, or inversion, the spiral in its counterclockwise rotation , also a ‘G’, appeared at approximately the same time. It is an Egyptian hieroglyph for thread. A similar Chinese ideogram means return or homecoming. The Tibetans painted the thread on the walls of their homes and gave it the meaning home, the place one returns to.
The counter clockwise spiral of our Milky Way.
There are fascinating Mayan parallels to Egyptian, Gnostic and Cathar hieroglyphics. They used a G with a cross, the stairway to heaven, mounted to it . Its meaning, ‘cross or stairway to the Milky Way’, is easily interpreted in light of Mayan symbolism. Presented here we see a G that spawns a ladder or flight of stairs . In Secrets of Maya Science/Religion Maya ceremonial leader Hunbatz Men says the G stands for the concepts egg, love, Milky Way and zero. A distinct G shape characterizes spiral galaxies such as our Milky Way. How did the Mayans know galaxies are ‘G’ shaped? Probably, the same way Jesus knew.
Following this vine of research explains why the Gnostics portrayed the crucifixion of Jesus as serpent on a pillar. This serpent is a symb
ol for a sine wave, a vibration, that is lifted from the heart to the brain that causes sin to vanish. This image matches the Egyptian hieroglyph ‘shed’, , which means ‘shine’. As the book of Hebrews says, without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. It is clear from our investigation that the shedding of blood is the shining or purification of the blood.
16th century Gnostic thaler.
Some of the results of shedding the blood include: The reduction and neutralization of the stress chemicals adrenaline and cortisol, increases in immune system efficiency. The benefits? Increased longevity. Increased spiritual capacity. Increased intelligence.
When the waves of these energy fields are “Phi tuned”, they are associated with emotional states that are generally perceived as open, receptive, or loving.
With these thoughts about Heart Intelligence in mind let us return to our discussion about sin.
THE BABYLONIAN DOCTRINE OF SIN
In 1905, while Einstein presented the world the gift of the theory of Relativity and Sir Flinders Petrie explored the temple of Hat.Hor/Ishtar in Egypt (which we’ll discuss momentarily), Julian Morgenstern published an amazing book in Germany on the ancient Babylonian religion. The Doctrine of Sin in the Babylonian Religion provides astounding insight that brings new clarity to the concept of sin. As the publisher of the book, Paul Tice, observes in the introduction to the reprint of book, “the recognition of sin and trying to avoid it in ancient Babylon is ironic because Christianity in general considers Babylonia to have been one of the most sinful and depraved societies to have ever existed.”
To begin, religion in Babylon was originally the relation existing between the gods and men. Men did not worship the gods. As in Egypt, they worked for them or as Gardner says they ‘work-shipped’ them.
The duty of man was to bring pure food to the gods. This food consisted of bread and wine. Many frescos from Egypt show priests offering food to the gods. The least impurities in this food caused the sacrifice to be defiled, aborted. It is perhaps for this reason that not every priest could offer sacrifice, the pure food, or participate in the divine service, the serving of the food.
Similar requirements were likely met by any layperson fortunate enough to sacrifice to the gods, and may have included those involved in the Work itself. This is inferred by the fact that the food had to be pure. In order for the food to be pure those manufacturing it had to be pure as well. The worker had to be ritually clean, otherwise the Work would not be accepted.
Therefore, Morgenstern concludes, since it was man’s duty to sacrifice (work), it was first of all his duty to keep himself ritually pure. Any neglect of these duties was sufficient for the food to miss the mark and to cause the anger of the gods. This was sin. Sin was thus originally the transgression of the ritual laws of the Work. Poetically speaking, sin means to ‘miss the merc’, to miss the alchemical teaching of the Merc gods, including Mercury, Hermes, and Thoth.
The usual method, notes Morgenstern, by which the gods visited their anger upon man for not working was through sickness. Sickness was therefore an indication of sin, not doing the Work.
Sickness was a state of impurity, unfitting man for participation in making or serving the food of the Gods. Sickness was, therefore, not only an indication of, but in itself, sin.
Sickness was caused by evil spirits (we now call germs?), the messengers of the gods’ anger. They entered the doomed man’s body, and firmly seated there, carried on their work of evil, undisturbed. Their presence was therefore synonymous with sickness and uncleanliness; consequently also with sin.
In time, says Morgenstern, the evil spirits ceased to be looked upon as messengers of the gods’ anger; became independent of them; the inveterate enemies of their creature, man.
A sick man, one possessed by evil spirits, or possibly germs, was unclean and distasteful to the gods, i.e. a sinner.
Therefore, says Morgenstern, in the Babylonian religious literature the expressions, sin, uncleanliness, sickness, possession by evil spirits, are pure synonyms. They denote an evil or vile state of the body, the result of the divine anger (the opposite of love). It unfitted or disqualified man for participation in religious ceremonies; making him an out cast, a fish out of water.
Thus we read: Mayest thou be freed from transgression, wickedness, curse, sickness sighing, witchcraft, spell, charm, evil machinations of men.
And again: “Uncleanliness has come against me, to judge my cause, to decide my decision; Tear out the evil sickness of my body; Destroy all evil of my flesh and my sinews; May the evil in my body, my flesh and my sinews on this day come forth, and may I see the Light.
Of the evil spirits it is said: They put a woeful fever in his body; A ban of evil hath settled in his body; An evil disease they have put in his body; An evil plague hath settled in his body; An evil venom they have put in his body; An evil curse hath settled in his body…Which have been put in the body of the sick man…”
These later passages describe a vaccination of some sort, putting the germ in the body so that it can repel it. Together with the earlier passages they prove that sin, evil, sickness, possession by evil spirits, witchcraft and misfortune are all the same thing in the Babylonian religion; something material, that has entered the body of the sinner.
THE CRAFT: THE ONLY CURE FOR SIN
The curing of sickness, the expulsion of evil spirits, and the expiation of sin, are identical, and must be so treated. The treatment is the Work, the Magnum Opus, the Craft.
Consider these words penned long ago by the prophet Isaiah, “Come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isa. 1:18 (The colors white and red are the colors of mushrooms and alchemy.)
Omitted, however, was a full explanation of sin in the light of the Craft.
As servants of the gods, the completion of the Work and the consequent transformation of the human out the evil or sinful status (realm), ignited the divine nature or particle within the body. As Morgenstern states, “It made the human, for all purposes, gods of inferior rank.”
Therefore, to overcome sin meant we became gods or were apotheosized. Viewed in this light when MM overcame sin she became a goddess. We can now say that performing the Great Work made her a Pure One with a Pure Heart. It prepared her to walk the stars with the Lord.
In Tower of Alchemy David Goddard says those who perfected the Divine Work are easy to spot. When spiritual practitioners have achieved a relatively high level of development, their etheric bodies are transformed into gold. They have developed, to a certain degree, the GOLDEN BODY. The gold first manifests externally, then it gradually manifests inwardly into the physical body. This is why some saints of different religions are sometimes depicted with a golden garment or a golden body. It also explains the golden coffins of Egyptian pharaohs.
The alchemists’ furnace, the athanor, was given the shape of a tower to signify that the Craft involved a process of transformation and ascension. Practitioners of Alchemy build their Tower of the Art. Goddard notes in The Tower of Alchemy that the “thought form” of the inner tower or castle has been used by alchemical adepts for centuries.
It is my premise that Mary Magdalene and Jesus cannot be understood without the acknowledgement that (s)he embodied the chief elements of a suppressed, older religion and ancient wisdom tradition called theurgy and that this was what brought both of them into conflict with the religious authorities of Rome.
Jesus and MM were theurgists (from theo, ‘God’, and ur ‘light’). Theurgy, according to R.T. Wallis, “is a system of ritual purification based on a magical view of the universe and derived from the Chaldean Oracles”. Mainly assembled in Alexandria, Egypt two millennia ago, theurgy contains elements of Persian, Greek, Babylonian and Egyptian religions mingled to form a new elixir for the soul. It was taught in Athens until the fifth century AD.
These specialists in the holy initiated s
tudents in profound secrets that led to the soul’s salvation. The stairway to heaven and the doorway symbolized salvation. They wielded supernatural powers to influence events and to reunite followers with God or Ultimate Reality. ‘Mystic’ was the term applied to those who had made this ultimate cosmic connection. Jesus became the embodiment of the “way,” or “path” or “door” to enlightenment and the example, or target, of the “perfected man”. He achieved the goal of all human psychophysical and psychospiritual evolution.
GOD MAKING
The term theurgy means not only “divine work” but also perhaps “god-making” or “making gods of men”, and was intended as a contrast to theology, which merely talks about the gods, and theoria, the purely philosophical intuitive contemplation advocated by Plotinus.
I have noted many times that despite the diversity of bibles, the KJV, NewKJV, and the New American Standard, and now the New New American Standard (can you believe that!) and the hundreds of variations of the modern Christian faith (Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Protestant, Lutheran, Church of Christ, Reformed Baptist, etc.) there is actually only two forms of Christianity: the religion about Jesus and the religion of Jesus.
The religion about Jesus is the descriptive story of a being who came to earth, healed the sick, preached a message of love, was persecuted by the religious and political authorities of his time and who died at their hands, but promised to return. This is Christianity for the masses.
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