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"To seek Freedom is
the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that Infinity
out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame
of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of
a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to
be more than what it is: a mere candle."
"It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself.
Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power.
If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom
can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference."
Don Juan (Carlos Castaneda)
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"To seek Freedom is
the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that Infinity
out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame
of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of
a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to
be more than what it is: a mere candle."
"It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself.
Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power.
If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom
can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference."
Don Juan (Carlos Castaneda)
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http://www.ubim.org/what-...esus-actually-look-like/
"First, we can see in the following quotes from the Urantia Book that
the celestials do not approve of the way Jesus has been traditionally
depicted:
“The pictures of Jesus have been most unfortunate.
These paintings of the Christ have exerted a deleterious influence on
youth; the temple merchants would hardly have fled before Jesus if he
had been such a man as your artists usually have depicted. His was a
dignified manhood; he was good, but natural. Jesus did not pose as a
mild, sweet, gentle, and kindly mystic.”
In the first part of the preceding quote, the traditional image of
Jesus is completely trashed. The second part of the sentence suggests
that he was physically intimidating – a big man. The last sentence
tells us that he didn’t look sweet, gentle and kindly. This means that
his facial features were nowhere near as delicate and soft as
traditionally painted. Jesus’ face would have, therefore, exhibited a
more rugged, masculine (even stern) appearance, with “piercing eyes,”
like a true king. We can see this pointed out again in the next quote:
184:3.19 His silence is terrible to endure; his speech is fearlessly defiant.
And again…
140:8.20 Could you have had but one look at him, you would have
known that Jesus was a real man of great experience in the things of
this world…you have also held perverted ideas about the Master’s
meekness and humility.
Again and again we’re told that he wasn’t meek, nor did he look it. As to exactly how big he was, we’re told:
128:6.2 Jesus was one of the most robust and refined specimens of manhood to appear on earth since the days of Adam.
The definition of “robust” is:
“strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: strongly or stoutly built:
suited to or requiring bodily strength or endurance.
The preceding UB quote is quite telling. If Jesus was one of the
most robust specimens since the days of Adam, it means that he looked
very different from the rest of the men of his day and age. He would
have been singularly unique in appearance – tall and large, handsome,
with a sculpted physique – which explains why he was:
127:5.1 …very highly regarded by most of the young women.
And why…
152:3.2 Every inch he looked a king…
As a carpenter before electricity,
boat builder, someone constantly on the move who could hike and live for
weeks in the mountains with nothing but a cloak and some bread
(extremely difficult), he would have been muscular, tough and lean."
-Robert
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Said Jesus:
“That which is old and also true must abide. Likewise, that which is new but false must be rejected. But that which is new and also true, have the faith and courage to accept."
- 147:7.3
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So-called 'Holy Books' can be very harmful; paradoxically I will use a book to illuminate upon this.
Imagine a Book written by Inorganic Beings.... what could it be like?
"Words eventually became fetishes, more especially those which were regarded as God’s words; in this way the sacred books of many religions have become fetishistic prisons incarcerating the spiritual imagination of man. Moses’ very effort against fetishes became a supreme fetish; his commandment was later used to stultify art and to **** the enjoyment and adoration of the beautiful.
In olden times the fetish word of authority was a fear-inspiring doctrine, the most terrible of all tyrants which enslave men. A doctrinal fetish will lead mortal man to betray himself into the clutches of bigotry, fanaticism, superstition, intolerance, and the most atrocious of barbarous cruelties. Modern respect for wisdom and truth is but the recent escape from the fetish-making tendency up to the higher levels of thinking and reasoning. Concerning the accumulated fetish writings which various religionists hold as sacred books, it is not only believed that what is in the book is true, but also that every truth is contained in the book. If one of these sacred books happens to speak of the earth as being flat, then, for long generations, otherwise sane men and women will refuse to accept positive evidence that the planet is round.
The practice of opening one of these sacred books to let the eye chance upon a passage, the following of which may determine important life decisions or projects, is nothing more nor less than arrant fetishism. To take an oath on a “holy book” or to swear by some object of supreme veneration is a form of refined fetishism.
But it does represent real evolutionary progress to advance from the fetish fear of a savage chief’s fingernail trimmings to the adoration of a superb collection of letters, laws, legends, allegories, myths, poems, and chronicles which, after all, reflect the winnowed moral wisdom of many centuries, at least up to the time and event of their being assembled as a “sacred book.”
To become fetishes, words had to be considered inspired, and the invocation of supposed divinely inspired writings led directly to the establishment of the authority of the church, while the evolution of civil forms led to the fruition of the authority of the state."
-Urantia; FETISHES, CHARMS, AND MAGIC; EVOLUTION OF THE FETISH
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“When physical conditions are ripe, sudden mental evolutions may take place; when mind status is propitious, sudden
spiritual transformations may occur; when spiritual values receive
proper recognition, then cosmic meanings become discernible, and
increasingly the personality is released from the handicaps of time and
delivered from the limitations of space. ”
Urantia 65:8.6
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Diamond Unicorn wrote:
"To seek Freedom is
the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that Infinity
out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame
of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of
a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to
be more than what it is: a mere candle."
A candle is nothing. Likewise, a star is nothing. In fact billions of stars are nothing. Infinite stars are nothing. So, how can a candle and star be anything but equal? Yet, also, a star, by its mass and size and nature of what it is, is a far more powerful energy source then a mere candle. Yet also, the only constant is change. A candle, a star, an anything, is not a fixed object, ever. Power is not a fixed quantity either.
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Ravenmoon wrote:A candle is nothing. Likewise, a star is nothing. In fact billions of stars are nothing. Infinite stars are nothing. So, how can a candle and star be anything but equal? Yet, also, a star, by its mass and size and nature of what it is, is a far more powerful energy source then a mere candle. Yet also, the only constant is change. A candle, a star, an anything, is not a fixed object, ever. Power is not a fixed quantity either.
"Personality is that feature of an individual which we know,
and which enables us to identify such a being at some future time
regardless of the nature and extent of changes in form, mind, or spirit
status. Personality is that part of any individual which enables us to
recognize and positively identify that person as the one we have
previously known, no matter how much he may have changed because of the
modification of the vehicle of expression and manifestation of his
personality.
Creature personality
is distinguished by two self-manifesting and characteristic phenomena
of mortal reactive behavior: self-consciousness and associated relative
free will.
Self-consciousness consists in intellectual awareness of personality
actuality; it includes the ability to recognize the reality of other
personalities. It indicates capacity for individualized experience in
and with cosmic realities, equivalating to the attainment of identity
status in the personality relationships of the universe.
Self-consciousness connotes recognition of the actuality of mind
ministration and the realization of relative independence of creative
and determinative free will."
The Seven Master Spirits : Urantia
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Seers are divided into two categories. Those who are willing to exercise self-restraint and can channel their activities toward pragmatic goals, which would benefit other seers and man in general, and those who don't care about self-restraint or about any pragmatic goals. The latter have failed to resolve the problem of self-importance.
Self-importance is not something simple and naive. On the one hand, it is the core of everything that is good in us, and on the other hand, the core of everything that is rotten. To get rid of the self-importance that is rotten requires a masterpiece of strategy.
In order to follow the path of knowledge one has to be very imaginative. In the path of knowledge nothing is as clear as we'd like it to be. Warriors fight self-importance as a matter of strategy, not principle.
Impeccability is nothing else but the proper use of energy. My statements have no inkling of morality. I've saved energy and that makes me impeccable. To understand this, you have to save enough energy yourself.
Warriors take strategic inventories. They list everything they do. Then they decide which of those things can be changed in order to allow themselves a respite, in terms of expending their energy.
The strategic inventory covers only behavioral patterns that are not essential to our survival and well-being.
In the strategic inventories of warriors, self-importance figures as the activity that consumes the greatest amount of energy, hence, their effort to eradicate it.
One of the first concerns of warriors is to free that energy in order to face the unknown with it. The action of rechanneling that energy is impeccability.
The most effective strategy for rechanneling that energy consists of six elements that interplay with one another. Five of them are called the attributes of warriorship: control, discipline, forbearance, timing, and will . They pertain to the world of the warrior who is fighting to lose self-importance. The sixth element, which is perhaps the most important of all, pertains to the outside world and is called the petty tyrant.
A petty tyrant is a tormentor. Someone who either holds the power of life and death over warriors or simply annoys them to distraction.
Petty tyrants teach us detachment. The ingredients of the new seers' strategy shows how efficient and clever is the device of using a petty tyrant. The strategy not only gets rid of self-importance; it also prepares warriors for the final realization that impeccability is the only thing that counts in the path of knowledge.
Usually, only four attributes are played. The fifth, will , is always saved for an ultimate confrontation, when warriors are facing the firing squad, so to speak.
Will belongs to another sphere, the unknown. The other four belong to the known, exactly where the petty tyrants are lodged. In fact, what turns human beings into petty tyrants is precisely the obsessive manipulation of the known.
The interplay of all the five attributes of warriorship is done only by seers who are also impeccable warriors and have mastery over will . Such an interplay is a supreme maneuver that cannot be performed on the daily human stage.
Four attributes are all that is needed to deal with the worst of petty tyrants, provided, of course, that a petty tyrant has been found. The petty tyrant is the outside element, the one we cannot control and the element that is perhaps the most important of them all. The warrior who stumbles on a petty tyrant is a lucky one. You're fortunate if you come upon one in your path, because if you don't you have to go out and look for one.
If seers can hold their own in facing petty tyrants, they can certainly face the unknown with impunity, and then they can even stand the presence of the unknowable.
Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to stand the pressure of the unknowable.
The perfect ingredient for the making of a superb seer is a petty tyrant with unlimited prerogatives. Seers have to go to extremes to find a worthy one. Most of the time they have to be satisfied with very small fry. Then warriors develop a strategy using the four attributes of warriorship: control, discipline, forbearance, and timing.
-CASTANEDA
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In the realm of religious experience, spiritual possibility is potential reality. Man's forward spiritual urge is not a psychic illusion. All of man's universe romancing may not be fact, but much, very much, is truth.
Some men's lives are too great and noble to descend to the low level of being merely successful. The animal must adapt itself to the environment, but the religious man transcends his environment and in this way escapes the limitations of the present material world through this insight of divine love. This concept of love generates in the soul of man that superanimal effort to find truth, beauty, and goodness; and when he does find them, he is glorified in their embrace; he is consumed with the desire to live them, to do righteousness.
Urantis 196:3 THE SUPREMACY OF RELIGION
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In
the realm of religious experience, spiritual possibility is potential
reality. Man's forward spiritual urge is not a psychic illusion. All of
man's universe romancing may not be fact, but much, very much, is truth.
Some men's lives are too great and noble to descend to the low level of
being merely successful. The animal must adapt itself to the
environment, but the religious man transcends his environment and in
this way escapes the limitations of the present material world through
this insight of divine love. This concept of love generates in the soul
of man that superanimal effort to find truth, beauty, and goodness; and
when he does find them, he is glorified in their embrace; he is consumed
with the desire to live them, to do righteousness.
Urantia 196:3 THE SUPREMACY OF RELIGION
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*intended more to open my mind than to explain anything in a rational manner*
"The aim of the new seers is to reach a state of total awareness in order
to experience all the possibilities of perception available to man.
This state of awareness even implies an alternative way of dying."
"The Power Of Silence" - Carlos Castaneda
This is something I would like to focus on, the implications and meaning of an 'alternative way of dying''. Do you think it is possible? Is there any evidence that this is an actual potential human experience?
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"Natural death becomes less frequent as the Adjusters
increasingly fuse with their subjects during the lifetime in the flesh."
-Urantia 52:7.4
Adjuster = Double/Nagual (connecting link to Intent) :: What this quote is saying is as the human collective evolves spiritually, more and more people will 'fuse' with their (Thought) Adjuster (the Nagual), they will then experience 'Burning with the Fire from Within' (an alternative way of terrestrial escape other than old age, sickness, or violent death).
"Seers who deliberately attain total awareness are a sight to behold.
That is the moment when they burn from within. The fire from within
consumes them. And in full awareness they fuse themselves to the
emanations at large, and glide into eternity."
-The Fire From Within (Castaneda)
What is Total Awareness? It is God, Spirit, Infinity, Intent, the Eagle, Consciousness, the Indescribable Force...
"Natural, physical death
is not a mortal inevitability. The majority of advanced evolutionary
beings, citizens on worlds existing in the final era of light and life,
do not die; they are translated directly from the life in the flesh to
the morontia existence."
Urantia 55:2.1
Again these Inorganic Beings 'reveal' to us that physical death is not the only option. I intuit impeccability, saving energy, intent and desire all play a part in determining if this could be a potential experience for someone.
"Breaking the barrier of perception is the culmination of everything
seers do. From the moment that barrier is broken, man and his fate
take on a different meaning for warriors.
What you are going to do is to make this world vanish. But
you are going to remain somewhat yourself. This is the
ultimate bastion of awareness, the one the new seers count on. They
know that after they burn with consciousness, they somewhat retain
the sense of being themselves.
This street, like all others, leads to eternity. All you have to do
is follow it in total silence."
The Fire From Within (Castaneda)
"...superb mortals are exempt from natural death."
"...which provides for the immediate fusion of the Adjuster and the
morontial soul. This fusion during physical life instantly consumes the
material body; the human beings who might witness such a spectacle would
only observe the translating mortal disappear “in chariots of fire.”
-Urantia 110:7.2
"The new seers burn with the force of alignment, with the force
of will , which they have turned into the force of
intent through a life of impeccability.
Intent is the alignment of all the amber emanations of
awareness, so it is correct to say that total freedom means total
awareness.
Freedom is the Indescribable Force 's gift to man.
Unfortunately, very few men understand that all we need, in order to
accept such a magnificent gift, is to have sufficient energy. If
that's all we need, then, by all means, we must become misers of
energy in order to accept the Indescribable Force 's
gift ourselves."
-The Fire From Within (Castaneda)
"...the spiritual fires
of consuming grandeur and ascending glory.
...occasions of supreme joy, profound
satisfaction, and inexpressible hope."
"..the blazing glory of the consuming fire
which so completely obliterates the physical bodies of those mortals
who therein experience final fusion with their divine Adjusters." (Urantia 55:1.5)
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So I think they are talking about the same thing here just in their own terminologies.
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"The God-knowing individual is not one who is blind to the difficulties
or unmindful of the obstacles which stand in the way of finding God in
the maze of superstition, tradition, and materialistic tendencies of
modern times. He has encountered all these deterrents and triumphed over
them, surmounted them by living faith, and attained the highlands of
spiritual experience in spite of them. But it is true that many who are
inwardly sure about God fear to assert such feelings of certainty
because of the multiplicity and cleverness of those who assemble
objections and magnify difficulties about believing in God. It requires
no great depth of intellect to pick flaws, ask questions, or raise
objections. But it does require brilliance of mind to answer these
questions and solve these difficulties; faith certainty is the greatest
technique for dealing with all such superficial contentions."
-Urantia_102:7.6
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God is the Ultimate Ally... atheists and materialists cannot understand that.
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God is the Ultimate Ally... materialists and anti-Theists cannot understand that, they just do not believe...
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"Thou shalt not debase Love. It is the sacred gift of thy Heavenly Father.
Thou Shalt not trade thy Soul, the priceless gift
of the loving God, for the riches of the world, which are as seeds sown
on stony ground, having no root in themselves, and so enduring but for a
little while."
-ESSENE BOOK OF MOSES
"And Jesus spoke to them:
"To lift your eyes to heaven
When all mens' eyes are on the ground,
Is not easy.
To worship at the feet of the angels
When all men worship only fame and riches,
Is not easy.
But the most difficult of all
Is to think the thoughts of the angels,
To speak the words of the angels,
And to do as angels do. "
The first Communion is with the Angel of Sun
The Angel of Sun,
She who cometh each morning
As a bride from her chamber,
To shed her golden light on the world.
O thou immortal, shining, swift-steeded
Angel of the Sun!
There is no warmth without thee,
No fire without thee,
No life without thee.
As green leaves of the trees
Do worship thee,
And through thee is the tiny wheat kernel
Become a river of golden grass,
Moving with the wind.
Through thee is opened the flower
In the center of my body.
Therefore will I never hide myself
From thee.
Angel of Sun,
Holy messenger of the Earthly Mother,
Enter the holy temple within me
And give me the Fire of Life!
-Essene Communions
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Communion with the Angel of Water
The Angel of Water,
She who makes the rain
To fall on the and plain,
Who fills the dry well to overflowing.
Yea, we do worship thee,
Water of Life-
From the heavenly sea
The waters run and flow forward
From the never-failing springs.
In my blood flow
A thousand pure springs,
And vapors, and clouds,
And all the waters
That spread over all the seven Kingdoms.
All the waters
The Creator hath made Are holy.
The voice of the Lord
Is upon the waters:
The God of Glory thundereth;
The Lord is upon many waters.
Angel of Water,
Holy messenger of the Earthly Mother,
Enter the blood that flows through me,
Wash my body in the rain
That falls from heaven,
And give me the Water of Life.
Communion with the Angel of Air
The Angel of Air,
Who spreads the perfume
Of sweet-smelling fields,
of spring grass after rain,
of the opening buds of the
Rose of Sharon.
We worship the Holy Breath
Which is placed higher
Than all the other things created.
For, lo, the eternal and sovereign Luminous space,
Where rule the unnumbered stars,
Is the air we breathe in
And the air we breathe out.
And in the moment betwixt the breathing in
And the breathing out
Is hidden all the mysteries of the Infinite Garden.
Angel of Air,
Holy messenger of the Earthly Mother,
Enter deep within me,
As the swallow plummets from the sky,
That I may know the secrets of the wind
And the music of the stars.
Communion with the Angel of Life
The Angel of Life,
She who gives strength and vigor to man.
For, lo, if the wax is not pure,
How then can the candle give a steady flame?
Go, then, toward the high-growing trees,
And before one of them which is beautiful,
High-growing and mighty,
Say these words:
'Hail be unto thee! O good, living tree,
Made by the Creator!'
Then shall the River of Life
Flow between you and your Brother,
The Tree,
And health of the body,
Swiftness of foot,
Quick hearing of the ears,
Strength of the arms
And eyesight of the eagle be yours.
Such is the Communion
With the Angel of Life,
Holy messenger of the Earthly Mother.
Communion with the Angel of Joy
The Angel of Joy,
She who descends upon earth
To give beauty to all men.
For the Lord is not worshipped with sadness,
Nor with cries of despair.
Leave off your moans and lamentations,
And sing unto the Lord a new song:
Sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Let the heavens rejoice
And let the earth be glad.
Let the field be joyful,
Let the floods clap their hands;
Let the hills be joyful together Before the Lord.
For you shall go out with joy
And be led forth with peace:
The mountains and the hills
Shall break forth before you into singing.
Angel of Joy,
Holy messenger of the Earthly Mother,
I will sing unto the Lord
As long as I live:
I will sing praise to my God
While I have my being.
-THE COMMUNIONS
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Urantia 23:4.6
We incline to the belief
that the eternal future will witness phenomena of universe evolution
which will far transcend all that the eternal past has experienced. And
we anticipate such tremendous adventures, even as you should, with keen
relish and ever-heightening expectation.
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The career of a God-seeking man may prove to be a great success
in the
light of eternity,
even though the whole temporal-life enterprise may
appear
as an overwhelming failure,
provided each life failure yielded
the
culture of wisdom and spirit achievement.
Do not make the mistake
of confusing knowledge, culture, and wisdom.
They are related in life,
but they represent
vastly differing spirit values;
wisdom ever
dominates knowledge
and always glorifies culture.
Urantia 160:4.16
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