Tsunami
Alert: Terrorists
Target US with Nukes - Restore
School Prayer Before it's too Late.
The looming danger of a terrorist attack against major
American
cities using nuclear weapons — a prospect which national security experts agree
has reached the level
of inevitability — is the subject of Homeward Bound Journal'sFront
Page for January
2007.
Please make note of this important fact. There are no
purely
human solution to this problem. The only possible solution is to quickly establish a cooperative
working
relationship between the people of this nation, and God our Father. And the only way for our
nation to
do that, is to restore prayer to the public schools. It is, therefore, imperative that we move
quickly
to restore prayer to the public schools. It is imperative that we do this now. This is
now one of the most sensitive national security factors that we have ever faced. And it becomes
more sensitive every day as the terrorists move inexorably forward in their planning for these
horrific attacks. Every delay will bring us closer to national disaster. Indeed, the time for
debate on this point is past. The time for the nation to ask God our Father for help is now
at hand.
The constitutional amendment which will save this
nation
is set forth in a Flash Movie with interspersed photos of 911, a labor of love to be sure, including
some very
well done music, and it is discussed in some detail. Not a lot of detail, but some detail. This
amendment will
re-establish the original paradigm of the founders which was intended to safeguard our nation.
Restoring it
will give the holy angels the authority to grab the nation by the ears, and hoist her right out of the
frying pan.
When John Adams wrote in his journal (1770):
"Ambition is one
of the more ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and
uncontrollable ... There
is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living
with power to
endanger the public liberty." He was talking exactly about this situation, in which a few
men, sitting upon
a "supreme" court, the passion of their misguided hearts trampling all over the original intent of
the founders,
deciding it "wise" to prohibit prayers in the public schools, literally drunk with the enthusiasm
associated with
the possibility of doing so much "good" for a whole nation, indeed, with just a simple stroke of a
pen, ironically,
something that the First Amendment was supposed to guard against. The right of the people in
each State to make
that determination for themselves was supposed to be safe-guarded by the First Amendment. It
was never supposed
to be used as a justification to take an inherent liberty out of the hands of all the people in every
single State!. Don't
ever forget this. When it comes to the subject of religion, the First Amendment was designed to
keep the
power of the federal government from controlling what the people chose to do in regards to
matters
of belief and practice within their own States.
Please, wrap your mind around this important truth
before it's too late.
When the First Amendment was adopted by Congress, and ratified by the States, several States
had officially
sanctioned State churches, including Massachusetts, and that amendment was intended to make
sure that
the federal government could not interfere with those State establishments.
A second article highlights the use of daily prayer in
both chambers of the U.S.
Congress. If the children of this nation could do what our law makers do every day, as a group,
asking God for his
help in carrying out the nation's business, our nation will dodge this bullet. The third article sets
forth a blueprint for
student initiated prayer in the public schools which will meet the need of all hyper-sensitive
constituencies for no government
involvement in participation issues or prayer content. In some states such an approach will be
necessary, in others a simpler
approach will do. But this is a matter for the people of each State to decide for themselves.
To serve as a prescient reminder, I have gathered
together four of the most
important videos of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The first, showing the plane
hitting the first tower.
The second showing another plane hitting the second tower. That is really dramatic. The third
showing the collapse
of the first tower. The fourth showing the collapse of the second tower. This is the message.
Our nation has allowed
our shield of divine protection to drop. That is why these terrorists were able to weave their way
through all national
security barriers, which has so many holes in it, you would be casting an undeserved character
slam upon Swiss cheese
if you were tempted to use that metaphor. Prayer in the public schools, has everything to do
with our national shield
of divine protection, which is practically non-existent at this point, which is a very relevant fact
when you are
considering how likely it is that the terrorist will be able to succeed in their plan to detonate one
or more nuclear weapons
in major American cities.
This shield must be raised. Now is the time for
Captain Kirk to say, "Shields Up!"
I am providing, for the first time on the publically
accessible internet, the
text of the New York State Prayer Cases, in three lower New York State Courts, affirming the
use of the Regent's Prayer,
1959, 1960, and 1961, and the (infamous) text of the 1962 U.S. Supreme Court decision banning
the use of the
Regent's Prayer. The lower court cases you will not find anywhere else, other than in law books
on the shelf in
a law library, or through Nexus/Lexus, a subscription for which most lawyers have to mortgage
their homes. I call
them a trilogy of wisdom, pillars in the temple of divine common sense which was extent in our
nation in that day,
which the U.S. Supreme Court knocked down.
As an example of the divine common sense that was
part of the national
mind in the 1950's, I am republishing my original presentation of the Stained Glass Window on
the Altar of the
Prayer Room in the U.S. Capitol. I polished up the presentation, and did some work to clarify
the images, many
details are clickable, and magnified, so they are considerably sharper than the original
presentation. This window
depicts General George Washington kneeling in prayer. Again, this stained glass window hangs
above the
Altar of the U.S. Capitol Prayer room. A prayer room set up in the 1950's for the use of the
members of
the U.S. Congress. This information is accessible in the context of the Tsunami Alert article.
Let us unite around this cause right now, and
forevermore leave behind that kind of sickly sweet and short-lived unity that we felt in
the aftermath of 911. Let us not look forward to feeling that kind of unity again. That
is a very foolish kind of unity. Do you remember the members of the U.S. Congress
standing on the steps of the U.S. Capitol singing "God Bless America"? And as you
can see, that kind of unity is flare that burns for a time, but inevitably it will sputter out.
Sing the song now, before the storm on the horizon comes any closer, and act on it,
do what is necessary for that blessing to come home to us before our homeland
peace is disastrously shattered again, but a thousand times worse.
Now, for the members of this particular spiritual
organization, I would
please ask you to wake up now, and wake up fast. Do you believe that the Masters were
whistling Dixie when
they warned us of the karma related to legal abortion? Take a look around you. This
horrendous slaughter is
still going on. And moreover, it looks to me that it is even more entrenched as a national virtue
than it was ten
years ago. To be realistic, abortion will not be turned around in time to stop the terrorists from
succeeding in
their mission to detonate nuclear weapons in major American cities. The only hope we have is
to work
with a monumental level of determination for the restoration of school prayer while we have the
lever of
the terrorist nuclear threat to literally pry the stiff necks of the American people around
to a posture
of wakefulness. This is a powerful lever by the way. It is a truly bi-partisan area of consensus.
Experts on
both sides of the aisle see the intelligence reports, and they all conclude, that a nuclear attack by
terrorists
is inevitable, in as far as they understand that it is impossible to stop 100% of any smuggling
activity. Against
the clear backdrop of this gathering storm, the people are capable, when they start to pay
attention, of
understanding the possibilities for national protection associated with an additional 60-70
million prayers
for divine assistance every day. Their hearts will be able to register a sense of realistic hope as
their minds
and imaginations are infused with the idea of what the angelic hosts could do with tens of
millions of
additional prayers every day. That is a significant level of divine intercession. This is, in fact,
the intermediate
step that will both hold the terrorist threat at bay, at least in terms of nuclear weapons, and allow
a level of
divine intercession that will begin to soften the hearts of the American people when it comes to
the abortion
issue.
And besides, all of you should be able to understand
this,
that school prayer will be a reality in St. Germain's Great Golden Age. Let us move quickly to
establish at least this one gold plank on the wide suspension bridge, that will take us from where
we are today, to where the Master wants us to be tomorrow.
I would caution the members of this organization not to
be
sidetracked or distracted by secondary issues. Certainly everyone has a pet concern, but consider
this
truth, if for example you have your emotional body all wrapped around the border security issue,
again
only as one example, consider the possibility that the nation is not making any progress in that
area,
because we don't have a level of divine intercession that can effectively turn back the forces of
darkness
which oppose progress on that front. By turning your attention to the school prayer issue, which
would
unleash a gigantic wave of divine intercession, you will be working for a central solution that
will
impact on your pet concern, which will also have a direct impact on the issue of a terrorist
nuclear
attack. It's like working to fill up a common gas tank, that can be used to fire all the cylinders
of
national priority.
May you pass every test.
Monday, January 29, 2007, 8:35 AM PST
Anti-Semitism, a Thread of Pure Evil,
Has No Common Ground with the
Teachings of the Ascended Masters
I must take a few moments here to make this
case, because I have come into contact with a person, who believes he is a Keeper of the
Flame, and a devotee of the Ascended Masters, who has been, at the same time, drawn
into the vortex of Anti-Semitism in a major way.
The Path of Initiation, under the sponsorship
of the Ascended Masters, shares no common ground, none whatsoever, with the frame of
mind, the frame of heart, even that prison cell of hatred in which this particular soul, has
become tragically trapped. No common ground.
This energy of hatred, so powerfully directed
at the Jews, represents the flow of blood through the collective Luciferian Body of
the False Hierarchy.
I will not say that the Ascended Masters will
have nothing to do with anyone who has fallen to this depth of error. No, that would not
be correct to say. What would be true, is that the Ascended Masters will not spend one
photon of light energy to encourage that state of mind. But, to set a person free from it,
they will definitely rush in to help, if the individual will ask for that help.
I would like to share the most recent letter
that I wrote to him. This sets forth the case in a fairly comprehensive manner I believe.
Dear William,
I mentioned in a previous email the idea that souls
can become so seamlessly intertwined with error that they can come
to believe, and very sincerely, that they are in possession of the truth.
And this condition of bondage to error makes it impossible for them to make any
progress on the Path of Initiation, which means that they will not be able
to find their way home to God. In other words, they remain nailed, as
it were, to the wheel of reincarnation.
Truly every soul is greatly loved of God. But
God cannot love the spirit of error to which some have wedded themselves, and
thus, the need to repeatedly dunk them into the giant wash basin of life
opportunity on earth.
The hope of these souls, is within this wash
basin. It is here that they come into contact with the Teachings of
the Ascended Masters. The Teachings of the Ascended Masters, is like the
cup of Tide poured into the laundry. In this detergent chemistry, the
soul comes into contact with what is actually true, and from that
perspective, there is hope that they will be able to finally see that the error
they have hung on too for so long, is just that, an error, and that they can
safely surrender it into the flame, into the wash water, and move on, with their
heavenly brothers and sisters (the ascended masters) ready to assist them in
every possible way.
Errors that have the most binding power, the power
to polarize and align the feeling world to its geometry, are those which have
POWER associated with them.
There are two types of power that have the capacity
to polarize and align the feeling world.
One is (divine) love. This is the love that
is associated with God, and his ministering servants, the masters, the saints,
the angels and the prophets, and so forth. Compassion, mercy,
kindness, and tolerance are some of its most common manifestations.
It is the power of (Divine) love which aligns the feeling world with
truth. The more pure the love is, the more pure is the matrix of truth the
soul can be in touch with.
The other form of power is human hatred, which has
the power to align the feeling world with error. A complicating factor in this equation, is that human hatred, and human
love, can often be two sides of the same coin, where the individual will offer
his human friendship, his human gratitude, and his human sympathy to one,
because it suits his purposes, and offer his hate and contempt to another.
Organized crime families are a good example of this. They love their
families, yet they will slit the throat of anyone who opposes their "business"
interests.
But that is not the most extreme example we have
before us. We have a far more extreme example of this phenomena in
terrorists, who are filled to the very brim with hatred for a certain segment of
humanity, but can genuinely express what can be taken for love to their
families, and to their friends, to their tribes, and so forth. Those who
they hate, they will kill without mercy. And enjoy it. Yet they will
"love" their fellow tribe members, sect members, or whatever, and treat them in
a respectful and friendly manner. In some cases, they will love them so
much, that when they are killed, it will drive them practically insane with
grief, which gives birth for the desire for revenge.
What is so interesting about this most extreme
example, in regards to the terrorists, is that these individuals, who are filled
so full of hatred, are capable of believing that they serve God by
expressing this hatred, and especially when it comes to the killing of vast
numbers of the "enemy" without mercy, which are most often than not, innocents,
just trying to go about their daily lives.
What this tells us, is that the stronger the
hatred, the more distorted the belief system will become. The stronger the
hatred, the more distant their minds travel from the domain of truth. That
condition of mind which represents the maximum distance from the truth, is
illustrated by the belief, which is sincerely held by these terrorists, that God
approves of the suicide bomb blast that just killed 50 innocent people in the
market square. That God will receive the suicide bomber as some kind of
hero. It is impossible for the mind to become more upside down that
this.
At least the members of organized crime, in
general, know they are doing bad things, and that God certainly does not
approve. I believe that is generally true. At least they have
a germ of honesty in themselves in their disdain for God.
These terrorists, on the other hand, are unique, in
that their hate is seamless. Though again, how the appearance of love, in
relationship to family members, can manifest within an individual who is totally
consumed by hatred, appears to be a paradox. Though I think it can be
explained by God's desire to construct life in such a manner, as to give
those consumed by hate, an opportunity to actually feel what it means to love
and appreciate at least someone. That could be a pathway, potentially, out
of the prison house of hate in which they otherwise reside in totality.
These terrorists of course are trapped inside a
seamless habit pattern of hatred which they have carried with them from life
time to life time. But concerning the great intensity of hatred that flows
through them, the Masters teach us, that this is a level of hatred that has its
origin in the underworld, in the false hierarchy, and the demons which use these
individuals as their pawns. They have explained this to us for a
reason. They want us to understand, clearly, that the indulgence in
any level of hatred, makes us vulnerable to these currents of hatred that are
projected through demonic forces. The power that is projected by these
demonic forces is at the root of what is actually enslaving an individual to a
habit pattern of hatred. That's where the enslaving power comes
from.
And that is why the Master Jesus admonished us to
love our enemies. This is, of course, what all of God's Children deserve,
no matter how far they have fallen, in terms of their enslavement to
error. But this is also a point of fundamental self-defense. If a
soul is obedient to this rule of the Path, then the soul is not vulnerable to
being manipulated by the currents of hate creation that the underworld can throw
into the astral body. And thus is in a position to make progress on the
Path of Initiation, a soul which can entertain a reasonable hope of finding its
way home to God.
While your own habit of hating Jews has not, as far
as I know, taken on a similar intensity as those extreme examples I have just
discussed, the difference can only be a matter of degree. All forms
of hatred align the soul with the underworld, and open the soul to that
manipulation.
I understand, from what you have said, that you are
sincere about your beliefs. And you feel them powerfully. But
sincerity, as you can see, is no sign that a person has a hold of the
truth.
The criteria that must be used in evaluating one's
connection to the truth, is in the degree of alignment the soul embodies to the
fundamental teachings of the Ascended Masters, who do not come to judge anyone,
but only with the desire to set the soul, who is precious in the sight of
God, free, finally free, so they can find that place of divine balance,
where they can bask in the actual love that God has for them personally, a state
of being which fulfills every desire the soul can have. The Mountain
top kind of happiness.
From what I can see, I think it is safe to say
that you have come into this embodiment with a certain vulnerability to the
force of hatred, and even a certain momentum, moderate to strong, of feeling
hatred, and thus being comfortable with it, a certain habit pattern in this
regard, which I would point out to you, does not make you anathema in the
sight of the Masters, your brothers and sisters. No, God has sent you into
embodiment to try again, to see if you can wrestle yourself out of those chains
of error, so heavy, so form fitting have they become, that they feel like they
are part of your own body. But they are not. You were given the
opportunity to find the teachings of the Ascended Masters, so you could come
into contact with those principles which would finally expose the truth, that
what you are clinging to, is not in alignment with what God desires for you, or
for anyone.
Now it is true that the Masters do not spend a lot
of time praising the Jewish Culture, that is true enough. I did a search
of Pearls online. As a karmic group, they have their own karma, just like
any other karmic group, and it is a karma of rebellion, just like any other
karmic group. Look at the people of America, who teeter on the very
brink of national destruction, this is spelled out quite clearly, without
ambiguity, in dozens of pearls, because they have allowed the slaughter of the
innocent in the womb to the tune of nearly 50 millions so far. Talk about
karma. Here is a very substantial streak of rebellion, though even so, it
is the lightest, of all the nations of the earth.
To keep things in perspective, we need to remember
the historical foundation which the Masters have given us, which I can
summarize, by saying, that a long time ago, the evolutions of this world became
so dense and so rebellious, that the earth was about to disintegrate.
Sanat Kumara stepped in to save these evolutions. That's right. In
his communion with God our Father, he could see that there was still something
there worth redeeming, and he devoted his entire life momentum to this mission,
and many from the planet Venus came with him. These people had NO
LIGHT. Yet the Master stepped in to save them.
Even when the Masters identify, in their
dictations, a certain evolution as "laggard" we need to recall that these are
the very ones that the Master Sanat Kumara stepped in to save. As long as
his dispensation is still active, and it is, I believe it is fair to say, that
we have no basis to judge any individual, or group of individuals as hopelessly
evil or non-redeemable.
It is also worth noting what makes a certain
culture intrinsically laggard. It is their habit patterns of
hatred which they carry forward from one lifetime to another.
So in regards to your own habit pattern of hatred,
which is specifically targeted at an entire cultural group, the Jews in this
case, I would ask you to please compare and contrast this condition of mind,
with exactly what the Masters have said about the Jews, so you can finally
identify that habit pattern (of hating them) as a pattern of error, as the first
necessary step of making the calls that will invoke the help which you need
to get yourself free from it.
The Teachings of the Ascended Masters are jam
packed full of principles that expose any level of hatred as error. Look
at the teaching of the cosmic clock in this respect. The perversion of the
Aquarian Hierarchy of God-Love, on the 1 o'clock line, is
MILD-DISLIKE. MILD! Whenever we
find
ourselves in a state where we are disliking an individual, simply disliking him,
or her, even mildly, we are misqualifying the light of that hierarchy, which
represents a 4 o'clock line state of rebellion, and a factor of blindness
on the 4/10 axis overall. The posture of your emotional body
is, I think you will agree, far over the line of Mild Dislike.
And so, you can take this principle, all by itself,
and use it to identify that posture of your emotional body, in which it likes to
extend the quality of hatred to the Jews, as a fundamental error.
It's like in ice skating, if the skater is training for the Olympics, but
insists on crawling around on his or hands and knees, because he hates the
heights. The instructor will say to that trainee, your posture is in
error. The instructor will say, now, stop hating the heights, and
stand up. That's the only way you will ever learn how to start skating,
and finally make to the Olympics, which is your dream after all.
On the 1/7/4/10 axis of the clock, what we are
striving for here, in the proper qualification of each of those four
hierarchies, is an attunement with the desire of God our Father when it comes to
all life. What is His desire? What is His desire, when it comes to
all the effort he is putting into giving all of these people yet more life
opportunities? We need to come into an attunement with the truth
in this regard, that generally speaking, God our Father extends great love to
every soul, regardless of the depth of darkness into which they have
fallen, and he extends his hand of love, to try to lift that soul back out
into the light. This is what each additional life opportunity is
about. If a person is in embodiment, then you know that these hopes
of God are associated with that soul. The question is, will they use their
freewill to choose to cooperate? That is always the question. We
must make sure that whatever we do, that we will be helpful. We need
to help them to make the right choice, rather than to drive them away from the
domain of the right choice. Never to put them into a state of despair that
they have no chance of every pleasing God.
As you can see, hatred of the Jews, as a group,
does just that, condemning them all to a condition of eternal damnation, a
judgment which God our Father does not hold himself. After all, he is
causing each of their hearts to beat, and he hopes to have them come home
into His arms, just as much as he hopes the same for you and for me.
Now, you can certainly dislike someone's
behavior. That is fine. And you are allowed to challenge that
behavior, and condemn that behavior if it goes against the purposes of
God. But you can never dislike the individual, not even mildly, because
that robs you of the ability to see and to feel what God our Father is seeing
and feeling about the individual, which is always, generally speaking, a larger
picture, which has at the center, a desire to have the soul come into alignment
with cosmic law, and cooperate with the redemptive program, and thus find their
way home to paradise.
It is clear enough, that when hatred gets a hold of
the mind, suspicions mushroom, greatly distorting and exaggerating the
depth of evil that a particular individual embodies, and one can then
believe anything about that individual. Hatred causes the soul to
completely lose hold of the tether of truth.
The Ascended Masters hold the standard of truth out
before us, even as a torch, as the primary instrument, by which we, the
Children of God, can identify the outlines of error to which we have wedded
ourselves. They only want us to achieve our freedom, and that level
of everlasting happiness the God has in store for every child.
These following points of truth speak to the issue
of the Jews in a comprehensive manner. As you can see, the Ascended
Masters clearly hold open the door of opportunity to those who are called Jews,
in no greater or lesser extent, than any other group among the Body of God in
the earth.
Please consider, in a serious manner, what the
Masters have said on this subject.
Understand that this word has been misused in its
application to only one son of God when it should have been the acknowledged
birthright of every son and daughter in all ages. For did not this Christ
declare through Jesus, "Before Abraham was, I AM"? <3> Once
and for all, let us establish to << Jew>> and <<
Gentile>> , Arab and African, Asian and Caucasian that the Christ is the
Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world <4> that the
Christ is the potential whereby the soul dwelling in the planes of Mater might
realize eternal Godhood in the planes of Spirit.
Abounding in good works, these know the grace of
the Lord. Paul is the great Christian example of the chela anointed by the
Ascended Master Jesus into his path of Christhood. He anointed him his
messenger on the fifth ray of science, truth, and healing. He sent him with
his message of the mystery of salvation to '<< Jew>> ' and
'<< Gentile>> '. And Paul preached the mystery of the indwelling
Christ as "Christ in you, the hope of glory."
Prepare to meet the All-in-all. All of those
described by the angel messenger of Jesus Christ who spoke to John and gave to
him the seven-sealed Book of Revelation, all of those robed in white gathering
round about the throne of the Lamb and under the altar of the Threefold Flame
are the initiates of the Ruby Ray whose names are written in the Book of Life,
who day by day are getting the victory over the beast by the blood of the Lamb
and by the Word of their testimony. They know the Root of David. They know his
soul who has become the quickening Spirit, the Saviour of the world unto
<< Jew>> and << Gentile>> .
I ask you to invoke fearlessness flame around the nations of the East,
around every individual Moslem, Jew, and Christian who has suffered, and
especially around those who have passed from the screen of life and who have
not been taken to the octaves of light because there are not sufficient souls
living within the Middle East these days to counteract those who have been
passing from the screen of life, some who have been brutally slaughtered, once
again crucified for the Lord Christ. For though they be <<
Jew>> or << Gentile>> or Moslem, one and all
have that Christ Presence, that Real Self, for whom the blood has been shed
since the very release of the Christ Self from the heart of God. Beloved ones,
some of you understand that some of the evolutions of the Middle East have
been those lifewaves who have come from the planet which you call Maldek, the
asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Therefore you see it is the entrenched
forces of the laggard generations who have separated the light of God from the
people and who have not worked diligently for peace, but rather have worked
for power. In and among them there are great lights and souls of stature and
attainment. These souls are the true descendants of the house of Israel, and
they have gathered also in the Middle East for the redemption of all peoples
and especially the evolutions of varying degrees of enlightenment who have
recently and in past centuries evolved there.
Vol. 22 No. 2 - Archangel Gabriel - January 14, 1979
We stand in a vote of confidence around the Darjeeling Council table in
honor of Saint Germain and all servant-sons and daughters who embody the Great
Spirit of Freedom as a mystery of the Holy Grail. We do not bargain with men's
souls. We do not trade a free nation, a free people, for the security of an
alliance with those who have built their empires upon the blood of martyrs,
millions upon millions of souls murdered for the dragon of World
Communism perverting the energies of Alpha and Omega, East and West, through
the governments of the fallen ones in the Soviet Union and Red China. The
silent witness of the slain upon the altar of God is that the crucifixion
which they have endured in the battle of world freedom leads not to the death
of the soul or the death of the flame of freedom that yet burns upon the altar
of the nations, but to a glorious resurrection of the soul and its freedom
through the path of initiation opened to the << Jew>> and
<< Gentile>> nations by the Saviour Jesus Christ.
Vol. 38 No. 10 - The Beloved Maha Chohan - March 5,
1995
Beloved, go not after those fallen ones who lurk on the astral plane and
who would lure you with their baubles and trinkets to pull you away from the
sound and the names of God. For thousands of years many have been forbidden to
pronounce the names of God, for the name of God is power and empowerment and
it is considered that there is danger in its misuse. This restriction has
resulted in the subjection of many to the powers that be of this world and the
underworld. Henceforth, I say, neither << Jew>> nor <<
Gentile>> shall owe his soul to any man, any potentate, any
archdevil seated in the underworld before red flames nay, beloved, because
today I give you certain names of God. And the names of God are given for
lesser and greater states of consciousness and to establish points of light
throughout the universe and places on earth where there must be the return of
the sparks of light by the power of the Great Central Sun Magnet.
Vol. 21 No. 24 - Cyclopea, Elohim of the Fifth Ray - June 11,
1978
Let not your hearts be troubled by outer conditions; for all things come
under the dominion of the power of the Infinite, and in the mind of Christ
there is neither deceit nor limitation. You must understand, then, that the
power of God will bring about such freedom of purpose as has never before been
born as vision in the hearts of the students. As you then have gazed upon the
children, gaze also now upon the forces of darkness as they build dense
pockets of substance in the world of hatred and deceit which is intended to
create a struggle between classes, between people, between capital and labor,
between the Negro and the white races, between << Jew>> and
<< Gentile>> , between bond and free, between America and other
nations of the world, between the power of Communism and the power of
capitalism, between all sorts and manners of varying manifestations. For the
powers of darkness have determined in their own hearts to set brother against
brother, nation against nation, and people against people. They are determined
to create confusion and a maelstrom of darkness everywhere upon the planetary
body. And I want you to be able to see it with me tonight; for this is not the
creation of the Lord Christ, it is the creation of the dark forces of the
world and is sustained by human thought and human consciousness as individuals
entering into a sense of struggle feel a constant need to reinforce themselves
by actually arming themselves against their neighbors and against various
individuals upon the planetary body with the idea that the power of God cannot
deliver them.
Vol. 26 No. 37b - The Beloved Maha Chohan - September 11,
1983
Opportunity is at hand. The gates of the City swing wide, even that gate
where his return is promised to << Jew>> and <<
Gentile>> alike. For the triumphal entry of the Lord in Jerusalem
this day is for the saving of all souls Moslem and Jew and Christian and those
not of any faith. For this is the hour of the healing and the burning of the
way of that consciousness which will not give in to the dissolving fires of
love. Therefore, he who does not surrender the hate and hate creation of the
living Son of God will find that the works that are based upon the
nonsurrender of that hatred will also be consumed in the trial by
fire.
Here Jesus returned, symbolically and actually, to a point of origins, to
the foundation of desire, even to the collective unconscious of the entire
Lifestream of the children of Israel. It mattered not that the woman who came
to the well was of Samaria. <1> For throughout the Piscean dispensation,
both '<< Jew>> ' and '<< Gentile>> ' alike would be
tested as she was tested. And when it comes to you, my beloved, this test will
determine whether or not you are received on the north gate in the Matter
spheres by the Guru Maitreya and by his Mother flame.
Can any man claim the land, the sea, the stars, the sun as his own? Is it
not enough to claim the Light within his heart as the Light that God has
bequeathed to him? After all, their lives are short enough. Is not somehow the
eternal kingdom worth everything and the sacrifice and the laying down of
arms? May not Jew and Arab and Christian embrace one another? Or else are they
the false ones who are of the synagogue of Satan? <20> Are
they not the real? Shall they not, then, be unmasked? And shall they not be
known by their deeds and by their words and by their insults or their praise
unto the Almighty One? Blessed hearts of Light, I appeal to you, for you have
been assembled from all areas of the world. You come from all nations. You sit
together in Love Jew and Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, those who have been
atheist, those who have been Moslem. You are all here in this very
congregation! And through your hearts I direct Light now back to the
congregations and the nations out of which you have come forth in the true
understanding of the I AM Race and of America, where all differences and
shades ought to disappear in the mighty torch of the Goddess of Liberty and
her initiation of your heart by the threefold flame. Therefore I say, let
bigotry and fanaticism and religious persecution and bondage cease in America
this day! For these are the very seeds that beget hatred that begets terrorist
activities and violence.
This is the reason for the founding of America that when it was time for
these white stones to reach the apex they might have the place to graduate
from the exercise of physical freedoms to the consummate spiritual freedom,
the right to ascend to God, the right to earn that ascension and to receive it
by the grace of the Son of God, and the right to preach this path to all
children of God and to all peoples. For the promises are given to <<
Jew>> and << Gentile>> alike, to any and all
evolutions who have come to earth. None are excepted if they will bend the
knee and confess that Light as the Universal Christ. They may receive the
engrafting of the Word. <9> They may be endowed with a divine spark.
I AM Uriel. I have wept over the persecution of my Lord and I have
rejoiced in his infinite resurrection. I AM THAT I AM, and my legions of
angels are determined this Eastertide, these five days now, to touch the
hearts of all people upon this planetary body young and old, <<
Jew>> and << Gentile>> , Christian, Moslem, Hindu,
Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Confucian, and all those who walk in the disciplines of
the I AM THAT I AM and are of the I AM Race. For we are determined that the
Great Mediator, the Cosmic Christ, Lord Jesus, and the personal Christ Self
shall have purified vessels and quickened consciousness in the people of God
whereby they shall know that there is an internalization of that Word, they
shall know the victory of the Light!
William, I believe you can see from this, that your
viewpoint concerning the Jews, and that of the Ascended Masters, are quite
different.
I hope you will come to the right conclusion in
this situation, and understand that the Ascended Masters are not the ones who
are in error in this regard.
As they are the perfect embodiment of the Christ
Spirit, to defer to their position, and move yourself into alignment with their
position, is to move yourself closer into alignment with the Christ Spirit
within yourself. That is the goal of the Path of Initiation.
Everything within you, that might resist the process of moving closer to
their position, would by Anti their Christ Spirit which is so clearly expressed
above. That is the stuff that needs to be surrendered into the
flame. True happiness, for every soul on earth, is down this path, of
alignment with the sentiments which the Ascended Masters have expressed.
I hope that my effort here has been helpful to
you. Please write back to me, and tell me how much you have enjoyed
reading what I have written, just for you.
May you pass every test.
Sincerely,
Steven S. Showers
This is the way the letter went out, and I did
not edit it any further in reposting it here. I have not yet received any indication that
William enjoyed reading this. Not any more than Linda Worobec has ever enjoyed
reading my observations on her particular state of enslavement to darkness, which
is not any worse than Williams. Her state of enslavement, I believe is probably
associated with much heavier chains.
May you pass every test.
Friday, January 26, 2007, 4:36 AM PST
The
Sunrise Process
Change of Plans
This exposition has gotten too long and
involved for a Blogger Entry. I have decided to publish it on the Front Page for
April 2007. Front Pages for January, February, and March, are already filled up.
May you pass every test.
Thursday, January 25, 2007, 3:04 AM PST
The Frauds are Being Exposed On Both Sides of the
Aisle
How can you say you support our troops when
you vote against reinforcing them? Indeed, the frauds are being exposed on both sides
of the aisle. Take down their names, nominate each for a prominent place in the hall of
shame.
May you pass every test.
Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007, 8:32 AM PST
Bill
Clinton Brought us 911.
What Will Hillary Clinton Bring Us?
That's all. Just a question to ponder.
May you pass every test.
Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007, 8:23 AM PST
The
Sunrise Process
My next blogger entry is on The Sunrise Process.
I have worked on this nearly every day since December 26, 2006. Currently this exposition
stands at roughly 22,134 words, and 1,453 paragraphs.
However, I do have an unrelated entry I could post
if you don't mind. That's perfectly ok, I don't mind. Are you sure? Yes, I am sure.
May you pass every test.
Saturday, January 20, 2007, 4:44 AM PST
The
Sunrise Process
My next blogger entry is on The Sunrise Process.
I have worked on this nearly every day since December 26, 2006. Currently this exposition
stands at roughly 18,447 words, and 1,211 paragraphs.
May you pass every test.
Thursday, January 11, 2007, 3:20 PM PST
A
Personal Note
I am at Liberty to say this, that
when you give me proof that the Victory Project is complete, photographs
would be sufficient, I will send you the motorized base which is still sitting
on a shelf in my shop, indeed it is gathering dust.
Other than that, when someone has
difficulty taking seriously their own blueprints, long held I might add, they will
be hard pressed to take seriously the project blueprints of others. In several
hundred words, or perhaps that is several thousand words, I have explained
the blueprint for this relationship, as it stands now. I must be faithful to the
blueprint.
The path to victory on all the
assignments given will be characterized by the development of a more
faithful and loyal working relationship between yourself and the Masters.
They are real people, as it were, and desire to be helpful.
If you have a concern on what
might need to be done at a given time, in relationship to a particular
project, and you don't believe that the Masters will want to help you,
then that certainly is a problem of faith, i.e. a lack of faith.
May you pass every test.
Monday, January 8, 2007, 12:53 PM PST
A Sign
of Great Intelligence
A reader has sent me a scan of a
notebook page. What is written on that page is a sign of great intelligence.
This chela has taken seriously the need to
perform the discipline outlined earlier. Everything about the process that goes into
writing this, either on your blackboard, whiteboard, or in your journal, is the operation
of a radiant light in your world. You may not be able to actually see it, but I can
assure you that it is true.
"I must do everything in my power to prepare the way for the day when
the Master El Morya will bring millions of souls into this organization."
(See Original
Entry)
Now, take that bright candle and shine
that light, which is also the light of devotion unto the hopes and dreams of Morya
for the victory of the mission of this organization, onto this great truth which has laid
on a dusty shelf for far too long: It is psychologically very unhealthy for the Children
of God to absorb into their subconscious mind the subliminal face of an ape
overlaid over the form of a mountain, as I have noted previously and at great length
(See Original Entry).
This points to one of the things that must be
done before the Master El Morya will bring millions of souls into this organization. The
ape face in the Chart of the Presence, executed by that repugnant betrayer Norman
Thomas Miller, who has gone over to serve the false hierarchy imposter David C. Lewis,
must be removed. Who is going to make the effort to get that ape face removed? Who
will carry this torch of truth forward onto the battle field, plant it, defend it, and fan
it into a great conflagration of radiant power? Who has the determination that will
be able to penetrate through the shroud of idolatry which acts as an impentrable
shield around that ape face?
May you pass every test.
Sunday, January 7, 2007, 5:11 PM PST
Clearing
Trail
On Christmas Day 2006 (just 12 days ago), and then on
New Years Day 2007 (just 7 days ago), I spent the better part of both days clearing trail
up
to, and over, and then beyond a mountain top to a southern facing scenic overlook from whence
we
can see a wide expanse of the Pacific Ocean, the Channel Islands, and the coast line from about
Pt.
Mugu, up to the City of Ventura. At that point, on the far side of this wide coastal plain, the
inland
mountains march right down to the edge of the water again, obscuring the coast from that point
forward, until it reappears again as it curves north and west beyond Santa Barbara.
During many years past, I looked at this particular
mountain
from afar. It is prominent on the western edge of the Conejo Valley from my vantage point both
from
the top of Rainbow Hill, and also from the top of Tank Top Mountain, and even more so through
a 300mm
telephoto lens! I first became intensely curious about this mountain when looking at it through
my new
telephoto lens. Before that, it was just another feature on the landscape. We have many tall hills
ringing
our valley, and several of which can be classified, from a Southern California perspective at any
rate, as
mountains. I am not going to show them all to you. I will share just the photos that found the
camera
pointing in the right direction when the shutter button was pressed.
The View from the top of Rainbow Hill
(The Mountain in the Distance to the Left of the Water
Tank)
Wide Angle View from the Top of Tank Top Mountain
(Double Hump Mountain on the Horizon
at the Center of the Photograph)
Close-up View from Rainbow Hill
(Through a 300mm Telephoto)
Every time I trained my lens on this mountain, with its
looming electrical towers marching
over it, my curiosity become more and more intense. I wonder how I can get to that mountain?
I wonder
where that road leads? And I wonder if one can capture a nice view of the ocean just beyond
it?
The first step I took to find my way to this mountain
was
to access the satellite photography that is offered through "Keyhole" which has subsequently
been acquired by Google, and which is now called "Google Earth". The basic version of the
software, under the name Google Earth, is now free. With this you can look at practically
any place on earth. With this I could see exactly where the dirt roads went, and how to get
on them.
This area of our valley had been called Dos Vientos
Ranch, and is still so called. There was a real ranch there since at least the 1920's. Over most
of that time, this whole section of the valley was rural and undeveloped, and inaccessible. But
the owners of Dos Vientos Ranch (Two Winds) finally sold out to the developers, who have now
built two thousand or so upscale homes on that wide expanse of land, pristine, as you can see
from the photo above. And this has made the area accessible. You can drive back into that area
on paved suburban streets to the western edge of the development, park your car, and then walk
in
on the dirt access roads.
A couple of preliminary trips into that area revealed an
easily accessible overlook spot that was only about a 20 minute walk. The view of the ocean
from this point is still east of the mountain that I have my eye on.
View of Coastal Power Station
(Through a 300mm Telephoto
From First Overlook Site)
Closeup of Coastal Power Station
I took these photographs on my first
visit to the area. That's the Pacific Ocean, and one of the Channel Islands in
the background. The electrical power that runs through the high tension lines
that are draped on the towers that march over the mountain we are interested
in, originates in this power station. The sky was particularly interesting that
day, October 12, 2006. So, if you don't mind, I will digress somewhat in
an upward direction.
Mountain Top Power Towers Against the Evening Sky
More Evening Sky
And Some More
And Some More
All of these were taken from the east side of the mountain,
either
approaching or at the first overlook spot. This would be about a half mile to the east of the
Power
Tower Mountain. The last shot shows one of the channel islands with an off shore oil rig
discernable
out in the channel (the photo was taken through a gap in the descending ridge line, with Power
Tower
Mountain outside of the frame to the right). The power station shown above would be down the
coast
off to the left side of this photo.
My first attempt on Power Tower Mountain was made
on October 18, 2006. But before I turned my attention in that direction, I had to explore further
north somewhat, to figure out what those two big dark spots were on the aerial photo. I assumed
they must be ponds, but I had to make sure. I was not aware that the Conejo Valley had any
bodies of water. Of course we have Westlake (lake) to the east, but that is not technically in
the Conejo Valley, and we have Lake Sherwood to the South East, but that is in Hidden
Valley. No, having moved here in the early 1960's, for all the years that have passed, I
had always thought that this was a dry valley, as far as I ever knew. The first thing I
confronted was a beautiful white fence. Very sturdy. Someone had spent
a fortune building it.
This White Fence Surrounds Both Ponds
The Best Kept Secret in the Conejo Valley
Water Pouring into the South Pond
View of North Twin Ponds From Above
Ducks Live Here
These Too
Quite a Character
After visiting the ponds, and feeling something
like Christopher Columbus might have felt with the taste of new discoveries resting upon
the palate, I turned my attention to Power Tower Mountain, and my assault upon it.
From Twin Ponds, we can take clearly marked
Southern California Edison service roads up to a wide and flat space just behind Power
Tower Mountain. This is a photo of Power Tower Mountain from behind! If you look
closely, you can see the electrical lines off to the left and to the right. The service
road continues around to the right, and descends to the area where the power
towers are mounted in the mountain side.
Our Electric Peak from the Backside
Actually, it is quite a hike up to this point, in terms of
being steep. That service road that we walked up to the left there, rises steeply, and it is quite
harrowing in some places, as the mountain side falls abruptly away right down to the valley
floor, some
1,200 feet below I would estimate, and phobia invoking those drop offs are. Believe it or not,
there is a
cemetery way down there, with nice green lawns and fields of brightly colored flowers that I
assume
they sell to people who would like to put them on the grave stones. Personally, I tried to keep
close to
the rock wall and keep
my eyes on the ground directly in front of my feet as we climb up to the area where the trail will
take us higher yet. The day I hiked up for the first time, there was a group of tiny birds which
kept
about 30 feet in front of me, who seemed to be finding something to eat along this very high
road.
That is the only reason I had my camera out at this point.
Looking North Over the Road Side
Please Stay to the Left
Even though I had seen this area through my
telephoto lens, and I should've known better to be sure, I was really hoping
that I would be able to see the other side of the mountain from this point. But
no, there was another mountain to climb on the other side. I did not take many
photos from this point forward, but this is the view of the next stage of the climb.
Do you see a trail?
The Climb Ahead - No Trail
On my first trip up to this mountain, there did
not appear to be any trail at all. It was rough going, and this made for quite an anxious time
as I remember.
Looking Back from the First Promintory
I had to press through very thick tangles of brush all
the way up to the top, and then over the top to get to the western side, which was my goal.
It is perhaps difficult to relate to for someone that was not actually there, but for some reason,
when you are trying to press your way through tangled brush, which each new scratch
upon one's skin, one's determination is actually reduced! After the first few dozen
scratches, one really doubts the wisdom of any forward movement at all, and especially
when there is no sign of a trail, and thus no obvious hope that things are going to get
easier. By the time I had reached the top, 95% of my mind wanted to go back, only
5% wanted to go forward.
Where that determination came from to continue
to press through, well, I am not really sure. But I did. And therefore, I can say, that on my
first assault onto this mountain, I did finally make it to where I could see the wide coast stretch
out to the west and north below, but I was totally embraced by sharp clinging branches all
around, I was not enjoying myself at that point, I can assure you, and there was simply no
place to sit down to enjoy what view I could get a glimpse of there. I held the camera up
over the bushes, clicked off a few shots, and retreated quickly. Really, when there is no
trail, and the vegetation is opposing every forward step, hiking is no fun. Not really.
Unobstructed View North West
I was all scratched up, wearing just shorts,
and a short-sleeved shirt. There is a kind of a tree that grows up there, that is very tough
tenacious and sharp. Almost like brambles or a thorn bush. I was sort of like a maniac
pressing through that underbrush way up there on top of this mountain, obsessed with
getting through it, to what I believed would be there, which was a nice open area of warm
rocks on which I could sit down and take some nice photographs. I certainly did not find
that on my first trip.
To tell you the truth, in regards to the wide open
space I expected to find, where I could sit down and relax, there was no sign at all of that. Any
place one chose to sit down, vegetation pressed in closely, and loomed up well above one's
ability to see anything.
Clearing Trail - Christmas Day
But in the weeks that passed, something inside
of me wanted to try again, and that meant that I had to be serious about clearing trail,
because I did not want to come back all scratched up again. So I shelled out nearly
$100 for a Woodman's Pal, which is a cross between a machete and a hatchet, a tool
that was issued to members of the U.S. military during WWII for the purpose of trail
clearing during war time. They still make it. When it arrived in the mail, I hung it
on the door of my sanctuary.
And it came to pass, that on Christmas Day
2006, my feet again moved in the direction of this mountain. This was the day ordained
for my next attempt on this mountain. On that day, I spent several hours on the south
east side of the mountain only, clearing trail, from the trail head up.
My Woodman's Pal was absolutely
indispensable. Without it I could not have gotten past several sections of trail in which
many large branches had totally obscured the path. In several places the brush was so
thick, I couldn't figure out how I had made it past on the first go around. Perhaps I
had skirted those sections, I just don't remember. I was baffled in that regard. In one
place where the trail was totally blocked, I looked to the left, and I look to the right. This
was a narrow section of ridge line, and it was very steep to the left and to the right. Did
I go around that way? I would have been crazy. But somehow I got past that section
on my first visit.
On this first day of trail clearing, it became
quite clear that a trail did exist, that it was built by somebody many years ago, and
most importantly, that it had not been used for many years. In some sections, I would
estimate that there was probably six to seven years worth of growth over the trail
proper, making it appear at a cursory glance that there was no trail there at all.
I remember one section of the trail with
great fondness. From the trail head, the trail rose to a first promontory, and I had
cleared that section, up and over it, where it wanted to travel along a ridge top for
a distance headed in the direction of the second promontory, which was significantly
steeper and higher. Along this section of the trail, the path traveled at the very center
of the ridge, and was fairly easier to clear. In myriad places, bushes to the left and
to the right of the trail had simply grown into the path, obscuring it, but once all of these
overgrowths were cleared, what was left was a very straight trail that headed directly
to the base of the second promontory.
However, the trail appeared to stop
abruptly at a very dense tangle of trees at the base of this promontory. If
you looked down at the ground underneath this barrier, you could see that the
ground was flat and it was clear, and that this is where the trail went, years ago.
It was simply amazing to see how these trees and bushes had sealed it completely.
Cutting all of that tangle away revealed a fifteen foot long corridor that led directly
to a trail section that then climbed steeply toward the top of the second promontory.
This did not need a lot of clearing. Vegetation was sparse on the open face of this
slope. But when I came close to the top of this promontory, I could see again, that
the section of trail that had risen through this area before, was now completely
overgrown. The overgrowth included thick branches that I had to hack through
with my Woodman's Pal. I should have asked them to send me a bottle of strength
when I first ordered this. I think it took me more than an hour to clear that section,
revealing a very nice trail that curved gently up to the left where it emerged at the
very top. The trail had dense vegetation to the right, and a very friendly rock face
to the left. Even though this was very high up, it appeared at this point that the
rocks and the bushes wanted to hold safe the traveler at this point. Well, by
this time, I had to sit down for a rest, I was really pooped, and I took the
opportunity to eat my banana, and drink some water, and look out over
the Conejo Valley to the east. This was a very peaceful place.
I am reflecting upon a very interesting
phenomena, that when you are way high up, and you have some ground stretching off to
your left and to your right, with solid vegetation growing there, is it quite comforting. The
thing that unsettles us most, I think, is when there is nothing standing in between us, and
a shear drop off. There is just one section of the higher trail that skirts right up to a shear
drop off on the southeast side of the mountain, but there are some large bushes growing up
on the edge of the trail, in the couple of feet that separate the trail from the drop off, and
that makes it much easier to pass that section, as compared to the situation that would
obtain if they were not there. A bush can be very comforting in those situations. But before
that section of the trail was cleared, there was another large tree-like bush to the other side of
the trail that had sent, over the years, many large branches into the trail, largely obscuring it,
which forced you out closer to the trail edge and the cliff, as your tried to squeeze by. Cutting
those particular branches away to clear that section of the trail was very satisfying I can tell you.
That is the most harrowing part of the upper trail, and now it is easy to get by without a thought
for one's safety. Though I am getting ahead of myself here, as this particular section was not
cleared until New Years Day.
As for this day, even after resting at that
nice quiet spot near the top of the second promontory, I noticed that it was getting
quite late in the afternoon, and I realized I didn't have much energy left to go further.
I scouted ahead, and cleared some easy sections, ones that did not require that
I had to swing my Woodman's Pal any more. I was quite close to the top
section of the mountain, but before me was that section of the trail I have
just mentioned, where that big bush had sent a bunch of branches into
the trail at the point where the trail skirted the cliff on the south eastern
side of the mountain. These branches could not be snapped with bare
hands, nor could they be attacked with a Woodman's Pal, because there
was no room to swing the tool. That was a natural stopping point. Late
in the afternoon, hardly any energy left, facing an obstacle for which I
did not have the correct tool. I decided to call it a day. I was still
on the eastern side of the mountain, and still some distance, perhaps
30 yards or so, from what would be called the top of this mountain.
Clearing Trail - New Years Day
The following day, my body
was aching like so many sirens. But that's ok. These are the good kinds
of aches which tell you that you've pushed the envelope, and your
body is busy making the necessary adjustments for the next effort.
If you did this kind of work every day, eventually you would have
a body like Hercules.
After a few days, it was clear
that the next attempt on the mountain had to be accomplished on New
Year's Day. And that I must have another kind of tool that would help
to make the work go easier and faster. The day before, on New Years
Eve Day, Sunday, December 31, 2006, I went over to the local Home
Depot and bought a pair of loppers. They have 26 inch handles, and a
solid steel limb-cutting scissor-like arrangement that I knew, from prior
experience, could make quick work out of 99% of anything else I
would face up on that mountain. In my first foray, I did not encounter
anything over about an inch and a quarter in diameter, and I knew this
kind of tool could cut through that with about 1% of the effort that the
Woodman's Pal required. This tool uses the principle of leverage to
produce a lot of power in a small cutting space. Though it was an
awkward fit in my day pack. It would have to stick way up out of the top.
On New Years day, I set
out in the mid morning, to the top of this mountain, carrying with
me my chair, my tripod, both in bright blue carrying bags, my camera,
and my lunch, along with my gloves, my Woodman's Pal, and my
26 inch loppers. Today I was determined to reach my goal.
Arriving at the work site
up on the eastern side of the mountain, I took out my loppers and
went to work. Within an hour, I had cleared all trail up to the
summit area, and I felt exhilarated. The loppers really made this
work far easier, and I was making good progress. I was distinctly
happy, and even elated at the task of clearing that one section that
skirted the southern eastern cliff. Before clearing it, that section of
the trail confronted the traveler with a sense of worry and anxiety.
After it was cleared, it was completely different. It was like a
superhighway by comparison, where one could pass freely and
unencumbered with a nary a thought of the steep mountain side
that fell away just a few feet to one's left, or right, depending
on whether you are coming or going.
Now, the summit area
is completely overgrown as you can see from this photo.
You can see the trail cleared right up
to the grove area. This is at the very top of the mountain. Just on the other
side of this view, the mountain side sweeps down abruptly to the Oxnard plain
1,300 feet below.
If you were down at sea level on the
coastal plain, and looking southeast towards these mountains, and the range
on which I stand, they would appear to rise abruptly and directly out of the
coastal plain, in the same manner that the Tetons rise from floor of the valley at
Jackson Hole.
Of course, this is not the Grand Tetons.
The elevation of this mountain top is just 1,380 feet above the plain. And it is
not snow capped! It is in Southern California after all, and near the coast. Looking
over the side however, as I noted before, one certainly gets the feeling of a great height.
My original view of the objective,
was that there had to be a place at or near the summit of this mountain
where the space was clear, and where one could comfortably sit
down, set up your tripod, and take some nice photographs of the
coast to the west and north. But on the first time through, as I
noted before, I saw no such space. I was hoping that once I had an
opportunity to clear the trail through this grove of these tree-like
bushes, which stand about 8 to ten feet tall, that I would be
able to see more clearly where the trail might branch off to
the destination I was looking for.
But, after clearing the
original path through this area, I came to what appeared to be
a dead end. Truly it was a very nice, and quiet, and sheltered
space, just beyond what appeared to be the highest point of the
mountain. The cleared trail was clearly going down in elevation,
and what I was looking for, was supposed to be at the top, or at
least I had imagined that it would be at the very top. It seemed
more of a dead end on this day, than it did the first day, because
I had clear trail behind me, but only a total tangle of undergrowth
ahead of me. There was nothing at the mountain top itself, that
suggested that the trail veered to the left, it would have to be the
left, to the south, that might lead to the kind of overlook space
that I had in mind.
On the first day up here, as
I noted at the onset, I did press through this area perhaps another ten
feet further, where I could finally glimpse the north western coast
line and the Pacific Ocean. But on that day, there was no sense of
any trail, and being immersed in a clinging set of branches, my
determination was at a low ebb, wherein I decided there was no
point going further, that what I was looking for was not there, but
back towards the top of the mountain.
But on this day, having
cleared trail over the top of the mountain, and being free to stand
in the midst of that vegetation, in a cleared space, and look intently
to the left, and to the right, there was no sense of any trail that might
lead to some kind of clear space near the top.
Standing at the dead-end,
facing in the direction which the cleared trail pointed, I could see only
a total tangle. This was part of the trail before? Hard to believe.
But looking closer, at the surface of the ground, one could again
discern flat ground underneath the tangle that bore witness to
the likelihood that indeed the trail did go in that direction at
one time, and I was hoping, that perhaps if I continued on with
the clearing process, that it might approach the summit from
another angle, perhaps from the south. This was a point
where I really had to talk myself into going forward, because
the amount of work that faced me at that point was daunting.
There was a least forty feet of tangle that I had to get through
before there was any kind of space that opened up.
Setting aside all previous
doubts, I found that once I had cleared the trail through that section,
that there again appeared the form of a trail moving south across
the western side of the mountain. In most cases, it was only
obscured by growth that had entered into the trail space from
bushes to the left, or to the right of the trail. As I continued to
clear, I was looking for any indication at all that the trail might
turn back towards the summit, but there was no indication. I
was despairing considerably, after all of this work, that the trail
I had cleared was not going to lead to any summit vantage point,
as it continued south, with no sign of return to the summit area.
And to top this off,
at one point, the trail seemed to come to another dead end. It was
very perplexing to say the least, that someone had built a trail to
nowhere, and that I spent all of this time clearing it.
I went back over the trail
that I had cleared, to see if there was anything I had missed. Anything
at all suggesting a trail back up to the summit area. No, nothing. Back
to the dead end, I decided to try exploring further south, having to press
through undergrowth, just like on my first trip up here. After wandering
around for ten minutes are so, I picked up what looked like another
trail leading further south, and pressing through, to my utter surprise
and amazement, I had stumbled into exactly the kind of space I had
been looking for!
I came out at a place on the south
west side of the mountain that had been cleared, a nice wide open space, that
commanded a view of the entire coast, exactly what I was looking for, still high
enough on the mountain, that one could still see the ocean over the top of some
short peaks to the south, which presented quite a dramatic picture to my eye
at that point.
I was elated that I had found what
I was looking for, but an elation that was tempered by the fact that I would have
to spend far more time clearing trail to this spot than I would have ever
anticipated. Everything in life is like that I suppose. Whatever goal you
have in front of you, you can never accurately predict what you are going
to run into on your way, and how much time and effort it will eventually
take to achieve it, a fact of life the Democrats certainly ignore in the Iraqi
situation.
Well, I was already exhausted by
this point. So I can't say that I was having fun clearing that last section of trail
to link up with the trail already cleared. A lot of things in life are just like that
too. This was about another 40 yards of trail to clear, and it took about 2
additional hours. I was not able to say "finished" until about 3pm, when I
could finally go back and get my pack, my chair, my tripod, my camera, and
carry them up to the end of the trail, and set them up at the scenic overlook. The
space depicted here did not require any clearing. It was wide open and
unobstructed. Though no human being had set foot thereon for perhaps
6 or 7 years I would estimate.
Looking West North West
Looking South South West
In this nice space, I finally got to sit down, and
bask in the warm afternoon sun, it was still quite warm, with my camera attached
to the tripod, and trained on the coastline. I had a nice lunch, and got a few
photos of a hazy afternoon ocean, nothing worth sharing as far as that goes.
At this time of the afternoon, the sun is low to the horizon, mostly in
the south, and out over the ocean, pinging massive amounts of photons
in our directly off the surface of the water, providing a kind of lighting that
does not produce much to marvel at. Most things are washed out, and the
haze makes it worse. But there will be better days, and better times. For
this scene, I think one must be up here in the early morning, so the light
is shining across the scene from the east. And a clear atmosphere would
be really nice too. That we can expect during the upcoming winter months
more so than in the summer time.
Once the afternoon advanced past
4 o'clock, it was getting too cold to stay up there any longer, so I packed up,
and upon walking out, it was quite fulfilling to see that I could make it back
down to the service road in less than 15 minutes, even carrying this load.
With my eye upon an early morning
return to catch a better light, I am grateful that this scenic overlook, that was
for all intents and purposes heretofore inaccessible to anyone but a bobcat, is
now a fairly easy 15 minute walk and climb (from the top of the service
road). It would be about 45 minutes all together from the Twin Ponds
area.
In closing out this blogger entry, I would
observe that those who walk this trail will never comprehend what it took to clear it.
That is the nature of things. That is the nature of all things. All of the things that we
take for granted in our lives, we have no sense of the blood, sweat and tears that went
into the trail clearing that was necessary for each major component of our lives. That's
why I was not inspired to take a lot of photos of the cleared trail. You cannot tell from
a cleared trail what it took to clear it. After it is cleared, it looks like cleared trail. It
looks like it has always been cleared!
But those who walk it will certainly
reach their destination much faster, much more safely, with the least about of
annoyance and delays.
The thing that struck me in the most
profound manner out of this whole
experience, was the great satisfaction I experienced associated with looking
at a portion of the trail cleared, while the picture of what it looked like before
is still clear in one's mind. That is a very unique and fleeting window on
our physical existence. If you record those experiences in your journal, you
have a way of going back to that window, and looking through it, with the
possibility of appreciating the view. If you don't record them, they will
be lost.
May you pass every test.
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I Am the pearl of God realization that you wear on your
finger. A man should be able to say that to his twin flame. Though I suppose, that years ago,
this would not have been true, in as much as a pearl takes time to develop, incrementally, as it
has been said before. In this work of art, the diamonds, 12 in number, signify the purity of the
Will of God manifest on each of the twelve lines of the Cosmic Clock; even as indestructible
determination. How else can all the layers of the pearl represent purity and luminosity? It is the
only way.
May you pass every test.
"O God, my Beloved Father,my Beloved Mother,
I Am That I Am, please allow the sacred fire that you have placed within
the fabric of my consciousness to radiate out into the world great beams of light, to bring hope,
and the promise of God- Victory, to the hearts of your children in every nation."
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