Lauren Johnson Wrote:EJ: Why are you including the Aquarian Gospel etc. in your reading list?
At first for personal reasons...
#1) It represents to me a personal challenge in knowing my own beliefs and spirituality, and in sensing the tug and pull of 'the twins of God and politics' in American culture. I was baptized a Presbyterian. After my mother died five days after I was born, my nanny was a Mennonite. I was sent to a Methodist Sunday School by my step-mother, and to a Congregational church by my parents in a new locale. I married a Catholic in a Congregational and, later, Catholic ceremony. My father disowned me. Eight years later, we divorced. My father disowned me again. I met and married a lapsed Catholic. I had already seen and borne witness to the hypocrisies of organized religion. I begun to study Taoism, then a bit of Buddhism, and then expanded a library on religion and spirituality to 80 volumes. And then, suddenly, available through a regular outlet for discounted books while I read the other noted material, was this "gospel" that theoretically filled in the missing years in Jesus' history when he studied with masters from other faiths. Personally, I revere Jesus, and have shared with my children a book limited only to His own words from the Bible. I also find a great deal of resonance in Gaffney's book. Even the Aquarian Gospel -- like a good juicy hunk of propagandistic disinformation -- is appealing and parallels much in the Bible (with errors noted by others). But there's that tug and pull again...
#2) I had a strange encounter (actually, a complete lack of contact) with an individual I met during an extended interaction years ago who claimed to be a "Disciple in Christ"-in-training [I didn't realize it required more than simple reverence and belief!?] and whose secretive motives and controlling actions regarding a third individual of mutual acquaintance I found to be highly questionable and suspect. This concurrence had connections and correlations to some of the text in Levenda's "Sinister Forces" and some of the additional background of the mutual acquaintance.
#3) The description in "The Aquarian Gospel" [Section XI, Chapters 47-59] struck me, on first reading, as having parallel with the process of testing, and degrees, and recognition of attainment or passage of stages, that is found in secret societies. I am by no means an expert or well-read in these matters, especially of Freemasonry.
It should be noted that my great-great-grandfather was, according to the family genealogy, a 32nd Degree Mason. The 32nd Degree ritual from the Authentic Scottish Rite Ritual" is found here. His son, my grandfather, was chiefly responsible for the industrial production of a billion .30-caliber rounds for the US military, as noted in the "Winchester Record", Volume One, Number Two (8/30/1918). (I have some ancestral karma to transmogrify.)
"The only words not spoken and not allowed in the tolerant Luciferian religion of freemasonry is Jesus Christ, Yeshua the Messiah. ... After offering more incense to Lucifer, the seeker of the Royal Secret, in his 32nd degree ritual makes more vows before he gets the Luciferian baptism of the 32nd degree. He vows:
I do most solemnly vow and promise, that I will be until I die the implacable enemy of all spiritual tyranny, (i.e.. conformity to the Authorized scriptures), over souls and consciences of men, resisting all claims of church, synagogue, and mosque to outlaw free conscience and enslave thought and opinion, and compel men to believe what it may prescribe.
The antichrist nature of such a vow is seen ...."
#4) In the book [Section XXII, Tau, Chapter 181, Verse 10], it speaks of the 13th disciple, Matthias, an Israelite "learned in all the wisdom of Egyptian schools, and he had taught the mysteries of Mizraim in Jericho." This struck me as being of interest given Jim Marrs' venture into matters Egyptian in his not-yet-read book "Rule By Secrecy" [which should have been included on the list as well]; here is the related video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3HksCZqmck. I haven't watched that yet either. But the order of Mizraim [ http://www.jrbooksonline.com/HTML-docs/r...izraim.htm ] is mentioned elsewhere. Here is one reference:
"Some years ago, a document to which the reader must be referred, The Protocols of the Wise Men or Elders of Zion{2}, was brought to light. Abstracted from a Jewish Lodge of Mizraim in Paris, in 1884, by Joseph Schorst, later murdered in Egypt, it embodied the programme of esoteric Judaism. Schorst was the son of a man who, in 1881, had been sentenced in London to ten years penal servitude for counterfeiting."
And there is the role of Allen Dulles, in his first foreign posting, in the "outing" of Protocols.
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You, and anyone else, are free to believe what you want to believe, free of mind to read and analyze for your self without my directive or tutelage.
The issue comes to roost for me in the matter of 'direct access to God' and mind control, having had -- and documented -- a number of personal epiphanies, and based on my reading, reflection and meditation, and my personal reading in issues of mind control. As I live, and reflect on Christ, and other masters and methods of mastery, I am interested in understanding this matter of self, God, and society and in placing myself in correct relationship to them.
We haven't even mentioned Evica's book "A Certain Arrogance", or "JFK and the Unspeakable", or Douglass' book "Resistance and Contemplation", but they all form a related cross-section of learning and reflection.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"