CONCERNING
THE COVENANT
(or another
bible story)
Most spiritual events and world religions involve a 'shamnic journey',
a spiritual walkabout if you will. A person questions a pardigm,
leaves the paradigm (usually physically), and enters a 'wilderness', which
in most cases means going out into a physical wilderness. When they
come back into the the original paradigm, they use examples from the paradigm
-- allegories or parables -- to help express what they found (which may
be something that is unexpressable). (see Allegory of the Cave,
Plato's Republic)
In other words, traditionally, a person goes out into the wilderness to
find God/Goddess and comes back to others to express what they have found.
In Abraham's time, there were large cities and temples throughout these
cities. Many of these temples served a pantheon of deities -- a number
of different god's. Traditionally, there would be offering plates
before or regarding each deity. Individuals would usually perform
some ritual which involved something like, "God of _blank_, if you
give me _blank_, I will give you _blank_. In other
words, try to strike a bargain with the 'divine' in order to get a specific
desire.
With the Covenant, this a case where the Namless Desert God comes out of
the wilderness and strikes a deal with a man -- Abraham. What's the
deal? "If you worship me and follow my laws, I will take care of
your children's children's children as long as you worship me and follow
my laws." The Judaic religion is the only contract religion in the
world. From this Covenant we get the Judaic, Christian, and Islamic
religions.
Because the Namless Desert God was namless, formless, everywhere..., there
appears to be a physical intermediary -- the priest king Melchizedek.
It is a reasonable assumption that Abraham's dialogues with God's angel
where dialogues with Melchizedek.
It is also a reasonable assumption that it was Melchizedek (or of his entourage)
who went to Sodom and Gommorah. Sodom and Gommorah appears to serve
two major purposes in the Covenant. One was to show what is unacceptable
behavior within the Covenant. The other major effect that the destruction
of Sodom and Gommorah had was it drove home the point, to Abraham, about
Who he just made a deal with.
Where is this going? The bible is pretty much accounts of, with a
number of exceptions, how God kept his part of the bargain and Man blew
his side. Some of the fulfilled promises are:
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A promise was made
to Abraham that a great nation would be made from him and Israel is a world
power to be reckoned with.
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A promise was made
that they would be given a king in the tradition of Melchizedek -- a priest
king -- and Christianity is born.
There were a number of other promises that were kept along the way and
these are some of the major ones. In the process the Namless One
gets a name -- I AM -- and a family grows into a multitude.
With the second appearance of priest king -- Jesus, the Covenant was extended
to everybody and simplified with only two laws: Love God with all your
heart, mind, and soul and extending that Love by doing onto others...
Jesus also introduced an interesting concept. When somebody was passing
through, doing what Jesus was doing (teaching and healing), and they where
not doing it in the Hebrew God's name, but in a different religion, his
disciples wanted to beat the person and drive him away with sticks.
Jesus responded with leave him alone. Those who aren't against me
are with me, was his response.
Which implies that if you worship a God/Goddess/Universe with Love being
its primary element and you use the above two rules, then you are in the
Covenant whether you believe it or not.
So, what about the promise of the third appearance of the priest
king within the Covenant? That may be difficult to call. First
off, something that Jesus said, "No one knows about that day or hour, not
even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father -- Matthew
24:36. That can mean even the person who may be playing the 'title
role' won't know how the 'song' goes. This makes it very difficult
to call who, what, where, when...,
Tack on something from Revelations -- letters to the congregations
-- the title role appears to be up for grabs. Each letter has a phrase,
"He who has an ear, let him hear..." before or following a sentence like,
"He who conquers shall sit with the Father as I sit with the Father --
Rev. 3:21. With the last part of the "he who conquers..." changing
in each letter.
The overall impression is that the third appearance of the priest king
within the Covenant will go to the person who conquers himself. Or
like a verse from the song I'm Free from the rock opera Tommy,
by The Who goes:
If I told
you what it took to reach the highest highs,
You'd laugh
and say nothing's that simple.
And you've
been told many times before,
Messiahs pointed
to the door,
And no one's
had the guts to leave the temple.
I'm free.
You see, it appears that music is involved as well.
We will return to this one later.
Leaving that track of clues alone for awhile, what about other clues?
One sign is Israel becoming a nation. Which, at least sets a time
reference. This is because of something that Jesus -- the previous
priest king -- said and that was that the generation that witnessed
this unique sign, would be the generation that would witness His -- priest
king -- return and all of the prophecies fulfilled -- Matthew 24:32.
(All the signs would be seen by one generation.) This at least gives
us a 'head's up.
There are lots of clues or signs of the "bad guys"? The idea is to
maybe isolate one sign (one hard to fake) and follow an apparent trail
that was left, and so..................................... |
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Footprints
of the Beast
(Or...a "Days of
Futures Past" Department) |
Footprints
of the Beast - 1
It's 'lights,
action, and camera' as the stage is set with a quote from a prophecy.
One of the first introductions and signs of the Beast that man has in writing
is, "And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to
come down from heaven to earth in full view of men."(1)
Exploding an H-bomb -- thermonuclear device -- is like touching the planet
with a piece of the sun or a star. In addition, since “the kingdom
of Heaven is within you and without you’, and with the 'Lathe of Heaven’
sustaining physical form on a sub-atomic level, any release of atomic energy
is a release of the fire that sustains and is in physical form – the fire
of Heaven.
Next! The
Beast has a ‘coming out party’ and is named.
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Footprints
of the Beast - 2
An exiting president
points out there is an elephant in the room and gives it a handle.
In the fifties, the Beast grew in a nutrient of paranoia and fear of, “those
Godless communists”. At the fifties end, President Eisenhower in
his last speech as president warned America and the world about “something
that has never been seen in the history of man”, the military-industrial
complex.
Next, Mr. Beast
goes to Washington
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Footprints
of the Beast - 3
The Beast does
a “Texas two-step” in a coup de ville. Or, was it a coup de tat?
(It was one of those cars that can take you to Hell in style.)
November, 1963 the Beast takes over in a relatively bloodless coup the
American government. It then creates an environment in which it flourishes
and plunged America into war for the next 10 years, an environment in which
thrives.
Even though there is filmed evidence of the back of Kennedy's head being
blown off, through distraction, misdirection, dis-information, and misinformation
it convinces the American people that their “patsy” did it from behind,
alone, and its "miracle bullet" story is accepted as the true one.
For some of details of the steps of this Texas two-step dance see the movie
JFK (based on factual evidence).
Next, the Beast
has a nesting instinct.
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Footprints
of the Beast - 4
The Beast gets
cuddly with the media and rids itself of some troublesome heroes.
In the years of the Viet Nam war, the Beast appears to have entrenched
itself into the American psyche and it refines the “patsy” concept.
It recognized that one unstable person (under its in-direct direction)
can have the same effect as large organized operations. The result
is those that would oppose their agenda were eventually taken off the playing
field. In the mean time, it fed the America misinformation until
the dead bodies coming home called it a liar.(2)
Next, the Beast
suffers a minor set back and upgrades its “patsies”
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Footprints
of the Beast - 5
A president acts
as a ‘fall guy’ while the Beast goes underground.
Too much attention was being directed towards the Beast; so it gave America
a sacrificial goat – another of its patsies – as a distraction. As
most of the blame of Viet Nam landed on Nixon, the Beast retired to the
shadows. It had to; for the Beast also lost its formerly replenishable
manpower pool – the draft. In these shadows, the Beast appears
to have regrouped and restructured its strategy. Yet, from these
shadows, anybody who conflicted with the Beast's agenda met with an orchestrated
organized resistance.
Next, the Beast
gets intimate with a camera.
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Footprints
of the Beast - 6
The Beast learns
that the best way to get your story told is to own the newspaper.
By this time, the Beast has grown. The pyramid it sits on needs the
people at its base. So it entertains them with what they want to
hear. Tentacles are put into anything that concerns it. This
way if anything comes up that may pose a threat, manipulation can start
early.
(In the early 70’s, there was a ‘Counter Culture’ conference in L.A.
It wasn't big, maybe 100 people. [Some of them were part of the Big
Sur – San Francisco migration – original hippies] The first day,
the people who put on the conference rioted. The reason being was
about one third of their number wasn't who they said they were. Many
of the people there were obviously from agencies.)
A president -- Carter -- whose agenda conflicted with the Beast's agenda
was made to look the fool.
Next, Puppet presidents
and you can't see their lips move.
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Footprints
of the Beast - 7
Politicians come
and go, but civil servants are forever.
To help it work around election agendas the Beast's tentacle's – people
– worked salary. It also worked around whoever was in office.
While, promoting anybody who's agenda was in sympathy with the Beast.
It got a cowboy actor into the white house, one whose agenda had a lot
of points in common with the Beast's agenda; and the Beast appears to grow
in the background like in the 50s.
Next, where did
the party go?
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Footprints
of the Beast - 8
A
curtain falls and the Beast looses a bogeyman.
The fall of the ‘iron curtain’ and the collapse of communism took away
a useful tool. The Beast's ‘bogeyman’ was lost. It had to find
another ‘bogeyman’ to keep people occupied. Fortunately, there was
one already in the wings. The problem was terrorism didn't have the
same impact as communism; it was too esoteric. America had to be
shown that the ‘bogeyman’ is among them; so the government was made a target.
The Beast got everybody's attention in Oklahoma. (trivia: though
the rest of the building was beginning daily activities, the government
offices -- the suspected proposed target, appear to be empty on that normal
business day)
The best way to get sympathy for your agenda is to make yourself look like
the target of some horror.
Next, that guy
has got to go.
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Footprints
of the Beast - 9
The Beast looses
some ground and goes on a diet.
Somebody gets into the white house whose agenda has some compatibility
issues with the Beast and decided to turned “swords into plowshares”.
That president saw that to save money, and with no communistic threat,
the Beast needed to loose weight. This was a no-no. So the
Beast appears to have done everything it could to get a president impeached
for lying about getting a blow-job.
Next, the ‘Texas
two-step’ hits Broadway with full orchestra and choir.
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Footprints
of the Beast - 10
New York dials
911.
There are so many claw marks on 9/11 that it looks like an X-man was there.
The two marks that stand out the most is the shadow on the bottom of the
second plane that shouldn't be there and the hole in the Pentagon being
too small and to clean (not to mention that one of the most ‘secure’ buildings
in America just happened to have its security cameras off just on that
side of the building that day and just happened to be deserted
because it "was under construction"???).
Again, the Beast makes itself look the victim and it garners sympathy to
elements of its agenda. “Upsetting images” are taken off the air
before too many people saw the ‘strings’ and can recognize glitches. Meanwhile,
the public hears and sees what the Beast wants it to hear and see.
Next, a puppet
president plays political policy pieces.
(say that 10
times real fast)
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Footprints
of the Beast - 11
A “war president”
wannabe gets to play with soldiers.
The president who was elected under questionable circumstances becomes
the puppet -- new patsy. Having created a fear, a focus for that
fear, and a solution, the Beast takes America to war – an environment in
which the Beast thrives. (Is this beginning to sound familiar?)
Its tentacle in the white house plays America into working in sympathy
with the Beast's agenda lines. While, the Beast is in seventh heaven
because it gets to play with its toys in two sandboxes -- Iraq and Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, some of the Beast's tentacles begins a strangle hold on the
American Constitution.
Next, it can't
happen here.
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Footprints
of the Beast - 12
Keeping your
head down ain’t gonna help.
By this time and after years of war, the Beast is so entrenched, that politicians
can come and go. Since distraction is one of its major tools, it
distracts elected officials (and the public they must answer to) from non-Beast
friendly issues. When a sequence of disasters hit the gulf, the Beast
has shown that the government no longer serves the people.
While, Beast ‘claw marks’ can be found in every airport security check
point.
Next, where the
story becomes really scary.
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Footprints
of the Beast - 13
A return to the
beginning script, or the original love/hate relationship
Unlike the Death Star, the Beast has a multitude of weaknesses it's overlooked.
And, because how this “Footprint“ sequence began, this "passion play" may
be a little bigger than you might imagine. The first ‘footprint’
set the stage with a quote from the last chapter of a book concerning the
Covenant -- talks about God a lot. Assuming the stage that has been
set is God's play, then anybody and/or everybody can play a role.
Absolute Love allows everybody to be an actor and author in this play.
This includes the people that make up the Beast today.
It is a mistake to underestimate God. Because of this, the details
of how this story ends may surprise everybody.
In addition,
with any successful spiritual quest or intitation, the last step is GOD's.
So, how does the play end in the original script or expressed in other
ways? A some hints may be:
“The
Kingdom of Heaven is within you and without you”
Jesus
“There is no
need for help to enter Heaven for you have never left.”
A Course in
Miracles
“The sleeper
must awaken.”
Dune
“Moses comes
riding up on a quasar.”
Grateful Dead
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“Look out for
those saints are coming through.
And it's
all over now, baby blue.”
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