New
Orleans and the River, Holocaust Remembrance Day, St. Valentine's St. Valentine's Day,
Channeling with
Channeling with
The Archangel Gabriel.
,
Figure 1 Photo from the wall of the New Orleans, LA
Amtrak train and Greyhound Bus Terminal
Received a reply from the Pope’s office in the Vatican and
His Apostolate thanking me for sending
him a copy of our 2018 prayer calendar with some of our favorite Saints,
Christian and Jewish with their Psalms to pray with during the new year.
Letter from Francis, received January 16,2017 via
the Papal Nuncio in Washington, DC
"Vidimus gloriam eius." John 1:14
Signed,
Francisimus in Nativitte Domini
"Vidimus gloriam eius." John 1:14
Signed,
Francisimus in Nativitte Domini
Christmas Valentine's Day 2017-18 letter
answer
Franciscus,
English translation of this verse from the Gospel John 1:14 which itself was prophesied earlier as Gospel by the
Jewish prophet Isaiah, according to Amplified Bible:
""And, the Word(Christ) became flesh(human, incarnate) and tablernacled (fixed his His Tent of flesh, lived
awhile) among us; and we (actually) saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only begotten son
receives from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth, cf. Isaiah 40:5..."And, the glory(majesty
and splendor) of the Lord (the Name of God, YHWH), and all flesh shall see it, together; for the mouth of the Lord
(see Psalm 29 and Luke 3:5,6 for more on the mouth of the Lord and the fulfillment of his words) has spoken it."
YHWH School of Christianity thanks you for seeing glory in our names and speaking the same out
into the World during Christmas.
Ego Andrew
Andrew Sumus
Andrew Caritate
Sit Dieus in nobis Christus videntis.
Lovingly, Hopefully, Faithfully,
Andrew W. Harrell
no. 555.2
Franciscus,
English translation of this verse from the Gospel John 1:14 which itself was prophesied earlier as Gospel by the
Jewish prophet Isaiah, according to Amplified Bible:
""And, the Word(Christ) became flesh(human, incarnate) and tablernacled (fixed his His Tent of flesh, lived
awhile) among us; and we (actually) saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only begotten son
receives from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth, cf. Isaiah 40:5..."And, the glory(majesty
and splendor) of the Lord (the Name of God, YHWH), and all flesh shall see it, together; for the mouth of the Lord
(see Psalm 29 and Luke 3:5,6 for more on the mouth of the Lord and the fulfillment of his words) has spoken it."
YHWH School of Christianity thanks you for seeing glory in our names and speaking the same out
into the World during Christmas.
Ego Andrew
Andrew Sumus
Andrew Caritate
Sit Dieus in nobis Christus videntis.
Lovingly, Hopefully, Faithfully,
Andrew W. Harrell
no. 555.2
Figure 2 Looking
across the Mississippi River from a point on the New Orleans Riverwalk which
starts at Jackson Square and goes to the Aquarium on Canal St. and beyond.
Had an enjoyable Christmas Valentine’s day train trip from
Jackson Ms down to New Orleans and return by train , peace walk through the
riverfront wilderness park and Holecaust remembrance river viewing circles.,
Arrived from Jackson on the train, Saturday morning January
21 with a Scottish sheep herder's white cap covering my yalmulka which was underneath on
my head. You are not supposed to travel on the Sabbath as a Jew, but if you
let others do the driving it is probably safe, each situation is different and
has to be carefully thought about before you decide what to do, travel or not.
It’s a beautiful train trip coming down the state following
basically the Pearl River route, through some small MS towns, and then across
the Lake Ponchetrain causeway and Bonnet Carre Spillway. There are some aerial
photos from previous small plane flights travelling down following this route,
around 2009 maybe, posted at this blogs’ News from Vicksburg, URL link.
Stayed at French Quarter Hotel Chateau at corner of St.
Phillip and St. Chartres St.
That evening went out to the
New Orleans Penguins pro basketball game, then left as halftime as it
wasn’t much of a game.
Took the cab to the Bombay club, 830 Rue Conti, around the
corner from the Ritz Carlton where I have stayed before a lot. They have
excellent piano jazz players and Saturday night there was a the Leroy Jones
trio New Orleans Jazz with a women trombone player and a trumpet player, Mr
Jones, and an excellent improntu Jazz piano whose wife and I sat and listened
to both along with a man at the bar with Huntingtin’s disease. Had a long, two
hour discussion with the man trying to help him just by listening and talking
to him. You can check out their jazz calendar at BombayClubNewOrleans.com . It
is really good place to go for dinner and music in the French Club, and
somewhat away from most of the streets full of
large crowds of drunk people and who knows what else.
Finished one and half glasses of the house special drink:
Brandy milk punch. Walked back to the hotel and ran into professional violinist
and street musician Ms Tanya Huang playing on the corner of Jackson Square and Royal St..
Her music stopped me in my tracks.
It was from her recent CD:
"Things about me only my plants know."
Here is a list of song titles on the CD, along with my additions in parenthesis
1)Gravity
(love among the stars)
2)All I ask
3)A thousand years
(and more)
4)It will rain
(and our seeds of faith and hope and love will be watered)
5)Overjoyed
(that we met)
6)I can't make you love me
(But, cheer up, it may happen anyway)
7)Million reasons
(and one good one)
8)Hurt
(It will heal)
9)Proud
(of YourSelf)
10)When we were young
11) Human
(Divine)
12)One last cry
13)Song for you
(thanks)
14)Wild in the Wind
(forever)
you can order or just listen to it by clicking on the song titles, at http://www.tanyahuang.com
It was magnificent. Soul stirring, and uplifting, as explained below. I started starting like a tree there for 30 minutes and tried to blessed her and a short man helping her at her music stand on the corner
It was from her recent CD:
"Things about me only my plants know."
Here is a list of song titles on the CD, along with my additions in parenthesis
1)Gravity
(love among the stars)
2)All I ask
3)A thousand years
(and more)
4)It will rain
(and our seeds of faith and hope and love will be watered)
5)Overjoyed
(that we met)
6)I can't make you love me
(But, cheer up, it may happen anyway)
7)Million reasons
(and one good one)
8)Hurt
(It will heal)
9)Proud
(of YourSelf)
10)When we were young
11) Human
(Divine)
12)One last cry
13)Song for you
(thanks)
14)Wild in the Wind
(forever)
you can order or just listen to it by clicking on the song titles, at http://www.tanyahuang.com
It was magnificent. Soul stirring, and uplifting, as explained below. I started starting like a tree there for 30 minutes and tried to blessed her and a short man helping her at her music stand on the corner
Figure 3 Another part of the mural in the New Orleans Amtrak, Greyhoud station. It portrays 19th century settlers and planters in the MS Delta. Steamboat, boll weivel.
success in their music, it happened. I hoped. Bought her CD
and left before some drunk people could start harassing me more for standing
still like that.
But, the intense spiritual encounter of standing still there
for 30 minutes listening to her transcendental performance left me thinking
about what her name was, what it meant. Where had I heard that name before?
What is the Tanya in Hasidic Judaism. It is the main
Kabbalistic teaching in a lot of books some going back almost a 1000 years.
Are they Christians? After studying a lot of their teachings and discussing it
with people like Rabbi David Cooper for 20 years I would say no. But, Jesus
Christ said “we shall know them by their fruits”. And, the fruits, the
beautiful music of Tanya Huang, whether she is a Kabbalist or not, are wondelful.
However, most Hasidic Kabbalists and David Cooper teach that
YHWH the Name of God is a Verb.
See the YHWH School of Christianity URL http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/prayers/message.cgi?411
For discussion with Jason, Rabbi Cooper’s student about
this.
If you go to amazon and look for a nice short summary of
their teachings you probably will end up buying Tanya:The Masterpiece of
Hasidic Wisdom: Selections.
As to why they make the teaching “God is a Verb” a
centerpiece, they give the example of Saint Moses who has taught us that YHWH
the Name of God is the verbal statement, the Way and the Life “I WILL BE WHO I
WILL BE”. But, Jesus Christ has taught us
more than that, He has taught us that YHWH GOD, Himself dwelling in Himself for
the Sake of His and Her Self, is the Way, the Life, and the Truth. Moses, if he
is a Saint in Heaven now, and I believe he is, would not have anything to do
with a Jewish theology that taught only that God and His Name are One in as
they express themselves in us are will and power and not One in Eternal Truth.
Yes, God is a Verb in some sense of our common everyday
experince, “God is the One life Present in all Creation…The Tanya, chapter 20”,
But, God is more than just this One Life
indwelling in us in the Present Moment, He is Life and Death, and being reborn
in It, and hence He is not just present day Eternal Life, but everlasting
Eternal Life, He is the Sentence that’s says our Dying and Rising once again
will continue Eternally “Dying He Destroys Our Dying, Rising He Bring New Life
Again” Catholic Resurrection Mass Hymn.
God is not the One Life present in all creation. That is who
I am, a man of God, Andrew, and prophet of the mountaintops like Moses was and
still is. We spiritually channel the archangel Gabriel who announces the birth
of God’s One Son Jesus unto you Saint Mary, Miriam sister of Moses, prophet of
the MountainTops also. This is beingAndrew, a man of God. When you hear my call please
do not turn away and reject it. It is God calling to you saying, “May there be
another One of You.” I AM the River of
Eternal Life that flows from God’s Throne in Heaven on Earth, and you are the
good fruit of His Tree of Life indwelling
with Him in the human heart inside of Him and you.
Figure 4 God our Creator looking down on us
But, be still and know that I AM God, I AM the Lord God of
Hosts and His Son YHWH YESHUA.
It is not as it says in Chapter 21 of the Tanya, “But, there
is nothing outside of God, and ‘no place empty of Him”. There is something
outside of God, and It is God and It is not God. There is a place empty of Him, It is called
bohu and tohu, emptiness and chaos. He created the World out of it,
nothingness and chaos, but us out of something, Himself... Genesis chapter 1. Not only are the shells of
the Self not other than God, but also God created these shells out of Himself.
This is what it means to know that YHWH is Elohim, not what it says in the
Tanya chapter 21, and does not say in the Torah.
Figure 5 God our
Creator separating the waters in the heavens above
The painting above from
the previous ourprayergroup blog, a private photo from a trip to NYC, Princeton
NJ, Washington DC July 2017, depicts God from below as He separates light from
darkness during the first stage of the creation narrative. By choosing to
depict God god from below Micheangelo violated all image conventions valid at
the time.
Being God to someone else is not being “I WILL BE WHO I WILL
BE “ to them. Being God is not “TO LOVE” them. Being God is being “LOVE” to
them.
Being the LOVE OF GOD in two ways is not being two truth truths to someone else. But, there are always "two ways", "two truths", ours and anothers, in GOD's LOVE as it expresses itself in us to each other.
Being the LOVE OF GOD in two ways is not being two truth truths to someone else. But, there are always "two ways", "two truths", ours and anothers, in GOD's LOVE as it expresses itself in us to each other.
God’s Love is like the love of YHWH Elohim, who created the
material physical universe and the four seasons.
“God’s Love blesses our life in many ways. The beauty of
new-fallen snow in winter, fresh blossoms in spring, songbirds in summer, and
brightly colored leaves in autumn—these are just a few reminders of God’s
blessing, a few of our favorite things.” [1 letter from Unity School of Christianity, January 2018]]
When God’s Love shines through us as joy and peace like
this, ‘We want to pass it on.’
God’s Love is beautiful and good like nature and its four
seasons. But, is it beautiful and good in a more important ways, a logical,
divinely ordered way?
What distinguishes God’s Love from other Love, logically? It
is not affirming our own wills or even
us as representing His will, as one word in Hebrew. But, God’s Love logically
comes from YHWH Adonai, it is a seed fallen during the ground, a Man of God or
a Woman of God, who has God Love growing like a Tree of Life inside of them
during our experiences of the four
seasons that God has just created in us.
It has grown into an overwatching
Presence inside of this Man of God or Woman of God praying for itself and others,
through the four seasons trying understand itself above itself
and in God and down in itself and through God in itself God.
. When you mantra pray YHWH OM HARI RAM, YHWH HARI RAM OM here at this point you are praying I WILL BE
WHO I WILL BE.
When you in your mantra, sing, contemplate, realize, pray
YHWH HARI RAM OM TAT SAT you are praying I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE and I AM WHO I AM, I AM THAT I AM (ie the God
inside of myself, created by God, a Holy Spirit, in me, and trying to know
Itself).
A prophet, who lived in the 8th Century BC, the first in our
trilogy of Isaiah, Jeremiah 7th Century, Ezekiel 6th Century. Is Isaiah, whose
name also means, Jeshua, or God saves, foretold the coming of and the
sacrificial death of Jesus or Joshua. In this painting he has placed the
fingers of his right hand between the pages of his book, as if he wants to
carry on reading shortly. His attention, however, is focused on the small
angelic figure standing behind him. In these depictions of prophet, these
figures are considered to be conveyors of God's message.
Figure 6
When we attend a Jewish funeral as a Christian Jew, and
someone says, “There will never be another one, like him… or her” that is not
to be interpreted as saying that the bodily soul will not resurrect itself with
God’s help. Nor, does it mean than the
purposes, goals that the person engaged in during his life are not redeemed,
remembered, resurrected by God… in addition to his or her will toward doing
them. For as God created us on the sixth
day of creation, in the image and likeness of Himself, a Self that includes all
the purposes and goals He has helped us engage in while we were living this
life, so He and His Son, helped by our Eternal faith in them can so can help us
now and in the future if necessary recreate them in US, an US made up of our
Eternal Individual Spiritual bodies living forever in God and Christ. The
profit Isaiah understand this, even if the prophet Moses did not before he
became a Saint. God understood all of this even before it happened, that is why
he gave Isaiah’s a name that means He, I God, YHWH Saves.
There are two important verses in the Old Testament which
defines it, firstly ” I AM the Eternal God and underneath are the everlasting
arms”, and secondly, “Be still and know that I AM God.”The two archangels,
Gabriel and Michael, the left and right hands of God, which Moses placed on top
of the ark of the Covenant, represent these two mantra verses. On the Sabbath
eve, we pray and sing to these two ArchAngels, and light two candles, one for
each one, asking God to send us messengers of Peace and Sabbath Joy, we do not
pray for miracles to happen by understanding just the verbs in this song, but
the whole sentences.:
Our Prayer upon lighting the Sabbath Candles is the
Shalom Aleichem: it is transliterated as follows:
mi-melech malachei
ha-melachim ha-Kadosh Baruch Hu.
Bo'achem le-shalom
malachei ha-shalom malachei Elyon,
mi-melech malachei
ha-melachim ha-Kadosh Baruch Hu.
Barchoni le-shalom
malachei ha-shalom malachei Elyon,
mi-melech malachei
ha-melachim ha-Kadosh Baruch Hu.
Tzeitchem le-shalom
malachei ha-shalom malachei Elyon,
mi-melech malachei
ha-melachim ha-Kadosh Baruch Hu.
The
words to the song translate as follows:
Peace unto you,
ministerial angels, messengers of [the] Highest,
from the King, king(s)
of the kings — the holy, blessed He.
[May] your coming [be]
to peace, messengers of the peace, messengers of [the] Highest,
from the King, king(s)
of the kings — the holy, blessed He.
Bless me for peace,
messengers of the peace, messengers of [the] Highest,
from the King, king(s)
of the kings — the holy, blessed He.
[May] your departure
[be] to peace, messengers of the peace, messengers of [the] Highest,
from the King, king(s)
of the kings — the holy, blessed He.
For myself, as far as daily contemplative prayer mantra
verses go, after centering and sanctifying God’s Name YHWH in my top chakra, I
prefer saying the Mantra YHWH YHWH OM, or YHWH ELOHIM which is the same, or
YHWH YHWH HARI OM TAT SAT, which adds the breath of the Holy Spirit HA
indwelling you, and the expression of His will RI and the confirmation of the
Truth of what He just said, TAT SAT in Sanskrit. If you practice this mantra
for a long while you will discover that when GOD IS ONE, HIS TRUTH IS ONE, YHWH
CHRIST.
JESUS CHRIST, GOD”S ONLY SON is not YHWH ELOHIM, Our FATHER
GOD CREATOR GOD, but as the Gospel of John teaches us, He was with GOD in the
beginning, He is the RATIONAL WORD OF GOD, THE LOGOS, THE PRINCIPLE OF GOD’S
TRUTH. He is YHWH ADONAI, the LORD GOD AS GOD”S SON, CO_CREATOR AND REDEEMER.
All things were created with Him, through Him, with His help, and without Him
nothing was created. He can be understood
thinking the thoughts when GOD IS TWO, HIS TRUTH IS TWO, YHWH CHRIST, after or
before you think about YHWH ELOHIM.
Looking back on it now, after all the partial
mis-interpretations and propogation of the wrong forms of using the name only
as a verb and not also as truth, not only by Hasidic Jews, but also some
Christians, what happened to them when many people figured out this mistake of
theirs, it seems clear that God should have told Moses at that time that his
full name was both a subject, a verb, and an object: eg. “ I WILL BE WHO I WILL
BE, AND I AM THAT I AM”. And, in fact, it wasn;t until maybe 500 years later
until a prophet came along with the name YHWH SAVES, OR ISAIAH. And, it wasn’t
until 500 years after that when one was fully incarnated, born as God in flesh
with the same name, YESHUA or JESUS.
It has taken me quite a while to figure out the philosophic
arguments demonstrating this based on historical evidence of human experience
believing in different types of God. The beginnings of an explanation follows:
Freidrich Nietzsche, the German Philosopher of at least a
century ago developed a whole metaphysics and ethical philosophy based on the
idea that God is only a Will to Power, and not necessarily Eternal Truth..
Nietzsche was not an anti-Semite, but Hilter who got a lot of comfort from
studying his works definitely was. He was perhaps the most evil person and
worst anti-Semite that ever lived. When the allies were close to reaching
Berlin, because of his belief that he would only be judged by a will to power
and not by Divine Truth he did not think it was necessary for his soul to take
the responsibility of getting caught and accepting defeat. He faked his death, by
shooting somebody else along with his wife and having the bodies burned so they
were unrecognizable, then he had a double fly out of the Berlin airport
to the Jesuit monasteries in Spain that were allies of the Naxi to throw
allied intelligence off. That left either a northern escape route to the
well-defened Nazi submarome HQ in northern Finland where the heavy water for
German nuclear weapons were kept, or the southern route through Austria down
into Italy where they were giving fake passports to SS agents. Then Hilter and chief of staff Martin Bormann, who had all the bank account numbers of more stolen loot and cash than every before in world
history, could go to South America, get the heavy water shipped by submarine,
finish the construction of an atomic weapon. Thus, he could subvert and take over enough of the weak dictatorships in South America ito invade us up from Panama and Mexico to the
South? What you don’t believe it? You better study all these recently released
intelligence. What we do know is that it didn’t happened but it wasn’t stopped
completely and probably in an unrecoverable manner until maybe some time in the
1960s or 1970s. His main successor in this particular philosophic justification
of and belief in the rule of countries by a “will to power”, was not Stalin,
but the student of Hilter’s student the Grand Mufti of Egypt Saddam Hussein
wasn’t stopped until the 1990s.
The
Mufti, after instigating a pogrom against Jews in Palestine in 1920, the first
such pogrom against Jews in the Arab world in hundreds of years, went on to
inspire the development of pro-Nazi parties throughout the Arab world including
Young Egypt, led by Gamal Nassar....
But God and Bob Baer, a retired CIA agent, aren’t going to
let him get away with it. has produced an excellent History Channel TV series
on this using computer database programs to search thousands of pages of US,
British, and other country secret intelligence files that Obama de-classified
for keywords, then sending out teams on the ground to trace the all the
possible explanations of the facts as known backwards and restart the searches
forward in time where we are now. I couldn’t advised him a better way to do it.
It took over three years to produce and is just concluding by the end of next
month, I think.
Figure 6b another part of the historical visual art mural in the New Orleans Greyhound and Amtrak terminal.
Figure 6b another part of the historical visual art mural in the New Orleans Greyhound and Amtrak terminal.
After, pretty much proving that the burned body supposed to
be Hilter in Berlin was not his, Hilter's body, last seaso; then tracing a Nazi Condor
flight from the airport in Berlin either
up in Holland or straight down from there into Spain, and investigating reports
of a person looking like him seen in the Jesuit Monasteries there; then looking
into the escape routes from there via the submarine bases on the Spanish coast; the History Channel team under Bob Baer, tracked two possible escape routes for
Hilter after the war. The reason they now think that he didn’t use this route, the one using the Condor flight to Spain, was that he was sick and after transferring to a submarine from there, would have had to spend 30 days under water to get to
Argentina from there. it is well documented that most of the high ranking Nazi
fleers from justice settled there after the war, although some were allowed to
stay in the Spanish monasteries, probably in exchange for war loot, in Spain by
the Catholic Church. Hilter could have sent his double. Allied
intelligence was well aware of him using doubles there to confuse trackers and probably wasn't fooled then.
This was standard Nazi procedures in special operations of this type. Of the two escapes routes from Berlin, one to the North to Narvik Finland, where there was a German nuclear heavy water production facility and Nazi U-boat command center, along with sea-planes. The sea-planes could have used the submarines for in route refueling making the 8000 mile escape route from their to Argentina possible. This is probably the route Hilter took, because there was another Documentary on the History channel claiming that the Pope had tried to assassinate Hilter and Hilter knew it. Even though the Pope was undoubtably having the Church enabling high ranking SS-officials to escape through the southern, “ratline” route by re-baptising them and giving them valid red-cross passports to make ordinary passage from Italy to Argentina.
Its hard to believe that a successor of St. Peter would stain the reputation of our whole Christian fellowship and community probably for centuries and possibly even millenina by doing this. But, the evidence is now well documented and irrefutable. It even makes the claim that he made a feeble attempt to have Hilter assassinated look like the Church in Germany was in with the Nazi’s all though their rise. And, only when it got out of control, did they try to make a weak attempt to stop them. What a travesty of human justice made in the name of the Nazi being the best of two evils: Fascism and Communism.
If Pope Pius XII had really known the Holy Spirit inside of him he would have known that he would not have had to choose between the lesser of two evils. He could have chose the good in this indwelling Spirit which is greater than any evils inside of any people who seem to be running the world at any moment.
The collusion of facism in Italy with that in Germany and Spain, has also been well-researched and documented. Hopefully honest Christians will never let these corrupt Fascists Christians gain power in the World again, but you wouldn’t have any reason to think that the Vatican agrees with this verdict of human history from studying history and actions they have taken to help in the last several centuries.
This was standard Nazi procedures in special operations of this type. Of the two escapes routes from Berlin, one to the North to Narvik Finland, where there was a German nuclear heavy water production facility and Nazi U-boat command center, along with sea-planes. The sea-planes could have used the submarines for in route refueling making the 8000 mile escape route from their to Argentina possible. This is probably the route Hilter took, because there was another Documentary on the History channel claiming that the Pope had tried to assassinate Hilter and Hilter knew it. Even though the Pope was undoubtably having the Church enabling high ranking SS-officials to escape through the southern, “ratline” route by re-baptising them and giving them valid red-cross passports to make ordinary passage from Italy to Argentina.
Its hard to believe that a successor of St. Peter would stain the reputation of our whole Christian fellowship and community probably for centuries and possibly even millenina by doing this. But, the evidence is now well documented and irrefutable. It even makes the claim that he made a feeble attempt to have Hilter assassinated look like the Church in Germany was in with the Nazi’s all though their rise. And, only when it got out of control, did they try to make a weak attempt to stop them. What a travesty of human justice made in the name of the Nazi being the best of two evils: Fascism and Communism.
If Pope Pius XII had really known the Holy Spirit inside of him he would have known that he would not have had to choose between the lesser of two evils. He could have chose the good in this indwelling Spirit which is greater than any evils inside of any people who seem to be running the world at any moment.
The collusion of facism in Italy with that in Germany and Spain, has also been well-researched and documented. Hopefully honest Christians will never let these corrupt Fascists Christians gain power in the World again, but you wouldn’t have any reason to think that the Vatican agrees with this verdict of human history from studying history and actions they have taken to help in the last several centuries.
Here are some important dates and events during the period
listed from a soon to be published book on the subject:
171712-1713 The Frenchman Antoine Crozat obtained
a patent for the exclusive trade of Louisiana, A "few miserable
families" settled at the place where New Orleans now stands. There were,
in fact, about 28 French families already at Mobile and Dauphin Island. They
were trading planks, bear, deer, cat-skins and other furs, bartering what
French goods they could get (sugar, tobacco, and cacao) for peltries and
slaves. They learned that the country would produce tobacco, indigo, cotton and
silk. But, there were no hands for all these crops. [i]
De Bienville lent the Spanish at Pensacola a boat to travel to Vera
Cruz Mexico for supplies. Sieur de St. Denys was sent to the Natchitoches, an
Indian tribe on the Red River to build a fort and start a French settlement.
Once there he selected twelve French settlers and conducted twenty day march to
reach the Ceni Indians in present day Texas near where de La Salle was killed.
The ones he found there did not recollect any of the events. From there he
travelled 150 leagues[ii] further to the southwest
before reaching the first Spanish settlements at the Presidio del Norte. He was
received there by the commandant, Don Pedro de Vilesces. They discussed under
which conditions a regulated trade could be conducted between the Spanish and
the French settlements. But, the officers did not have the authority to
conclude such an agreement at that time.
1713 The Treaty of Utrechtwas signed ending the War of Spanish
Succession (Queen Ann’s War). Thousands of seamen and paramilitary privateers
were relieved of military duty. Britain gained the right to export slaves to
the Spanish colonies[iii]. This inaugurated the
“Golden Age of Piracy” in the Caribbean.
1714 Ft. Rosalie was erected by the French at present day Natchez.
1715 St. Deny, having
returned to Natichitoches made the 250 league[iv] journey to the capital of
New Spain in Mexico escorted by 24 horse-men. The Spanish refused his attempts
but offered to give him the hand of the daughter of Don Pedro de Vilescas if he
joined them and returned to Fort San Juan. He refused to accept these terms but
later married her and after six months left her there with a child. St Deny and
de Vilescas returned to Mobile. The governor of Louisiana sent the Sieur de la
Loire to the Natchez with goods to establish storehouses. There he found that
Englishmen from Carolina had come to induce these Indians with the Yazous and
the Chickasaws to declare war on other nations (the French and the Spanish). De
Vilescas was permitted by the acting command, Bienvelle in Mobile to proceed
and from there went to visit the Spanish governor Don Guzman in Pensacola. On
the way he ran into a band of Tomez Indians who had been incited by the Spanish
against the English (Americans from Carolina) and to plunder the Choctaws.
Bienville ransomed in Mobile the prisoners they took.
Choctaws about
4000 according to de Iberville's estimate
Chickasaws- about
1200-2000 families
Natchez- 800 to
900 warriors, 7000 total
Alabamas- about
400 families
Creek Tribes
(Apalachicolas of the Spanish and the Conchaques of d'Iberville)
around the Coosa,
Talapoosa, Chattachoochee, Flint, and Ocmulgee Rivers
Small numbers (on
Pearl River)
Colapissas (near Lake Pontchartrain
Biloxis, Pascagoulas, Moctobys (on Pascagoula
River)
the Mobile and the Thomes (at juncture of the
two branches of the Mobile River).
1715 Louis XIV died.
1715 Remembering the treachery of the Shawnee in 1692, the Cherokee
allied with the Chickasaw to inflict a major defeat on the Shawnee in the
Cumberland basin. In return, the French
sent their Algonquin allies south against them.
By this time British traders were routinely seizing the wives and
children of Catawba warriors and selling them as slaves to pay for debts.
1717 The French built a trading post at Fort Toulouse near
Montgomery, Alabama.
French traders reached the Overhill Cherokee by following the
Cumberland River from its mouth near the Ohio. The Chickasaw, however, made
travel for the French on the Tennessee far too dangerous.
French goods were generally inferior and far more expensive than
that of the British. And, the British had the naval power to blockade Canada in
times of war.
1717 Crozat's patent was relinquished to the Mississippi Co. of
Scotsman John Law during the regency of the Duke of Orleans (successor to Louis
XIV). The European population of Louisiana jumps from 700 to 5000[vi]. Bienville was reappointed
Governor of French Louisiana. The Spaniard Father Augustine Padron de Guzman
restored their mission in Texas among the Adayes[vii][viii].
Madame Mezieres received the first French land grant in the area
around present day Pass Christian and Bay St. Louis MS. Two members of
Iberville’s expedition there, cabin boy Jean Favre and Canadian woodsman Jean
Baptiste Saucier produced many settlers in the region. Both of these gentlemen
married “Cassette girls” who arrived on the ship Pelican in 1704(Frasier,
2006).
10 Lamothe-Cadillac is appointed Governor
of French Louisiana. Sieur Duclos
When you put on our wondelful Tefillim and Prayer Shawl and
wrap the straps of the Shel Yad around your arms, seven, eight, nine times,
carefully remembering how you have unwrapped it, putting on the square head
box, the Shel Rosh, that starts off our prayer day of praying, contemplating,
thinking downward from heaven to earth, so that heaven may dwell inside of
earth inside of us, three times a day,
with God’s Name centered on the mountaintop of His indwelling Intellectual and
Intuitive Truth, Wisdom, Spiritual Understanding, Love, Faith, Hope, Knowledge, then when you say the
Shema you will, in fact, know that WHEN GOD IS THREE, HIS TRUTH IS YOU, YHWH
CHRIST, and all the rest of Israel will know it too. Please say Amen, to what I
AM teaching you at this point. You can believe it, and be certain of it,
certain not just of the verb in the sentence I AM speaking to you, but the what
the whole sentence tells you, so the verses on your head from the Bible tell
you.
Did Jesus Christ wear Tefillim and pray with them on while
in the Garden of Gethsemine before he was crucified? Today, these instruments
of prayer are given to young Jews and taught how to use when they are
Bar-Mitzahed and confirmed in the religion. Learning to use them is an
important way to “Hallow the Name of our Father in Heaven” at the top of our
head, before we begin our prayers. We know from the Lord’s Prayer that Jesus
taught, that this is the way Christians start there prayers, but with words not
acts. I have found that using them can
be key to understanding how to pray the Lord’s Prayer correctly in order to
receive the Holy Spirit. And, I believe
that at some time, probably while being associated with John the Baptist and
the Essenes he was taught how to use them. The way he has ordered the thoughts
in the Lord’s prayer, seems to me to argue for this. They have been found in
the caves of the Essenes, who John the Baptist was associated with. But, there
is an important passage in the Gospel where he criticized the Pharisees for
wearing them so maybe he didn’t. But, we Christian Jews now know more details
about how his Jewish lineage was connected to the various Jewish Christian
groups of the period of the Essenes and rival lineages in charge of the Temple
then from the website http://www.biblesearchers.com. He was in the Davidic line
after all and not some hybrid Samaritan as was
by some Talmudic scholars still trying to discredit him even after he
had been crucified.. Why would he get away with teaching a parable arguing why
we need to treat Samaritan’s kindly, if he himself was one?
In the Holecaust, Hitler must have taken them, the Tefillim,
away from Jews, you had them with them on the trains, hoping to keep using
them, after they left the trains and arrived at concentration camps not all
knowing they were to go to their death there. What a crime, against us, taking
away our prayer tools that we use every day, a crime that we will surely never
forget, for it is beyond a fault, or a mistake, or a trespass, or a simple
human iniquity. And this is true and certain: if we want to be happy ultimately
we will have to lean how to forgive this somehow, by offering it up to God as a
Holocaust, even as we and others are forgiven for our own faults, mistakes,
iniquities, and crimes..
Figure 8 Some Eighteenth Century Southern US Gamblers and
Gentlemen. There is a certainity of Hope in gambling if you know the theory of
Probability. But, the Certainity of Truth comes through Faith, Faith in God,
and Faith in His Help.
Jews for Jesus believe that Jesus is the Messiah, hence they
are Christians. But, as far as I can see the Kabbilists believe that the Name
of God is Transformative more than it is Truthful. That is, they believe like
most Buddhists in looking deeply in the present moment, in order to find its
truth, instead of any eternal realm. They do take the Torah as their guide.
But, they teach that the Torah is the Way, more than that it is the Truth.
[Tanya:Masterpiece of Hasidic Wisdom by Rabbi Rami Shapiro] Which, if they
would listen to what they are saying when they put on the Tefillim, with the fourth part of the Shema in it, they
should already know.
The Tanya is 1000 year old wisdom, but Jesus Christ, Christ
Jesus is 3000 years, happening from 2000 years before and 0f what has already
happened 1000 years before that. She could tell me that she’s a Buddhist
studying the Rev. Thich Nhat Hanhs theology and I would believe her, but, Hack
Bathromew, the sweet trumpet playing evangelist around the corner at the Café
de Monde, who may not be as good a musician, but he has a better understanding
of Christianity, than these people, I think.
And, in the end, is it more important to understand how to
be good at your profession, or how your soul get’s saved. I think if the first will eventually follow
from the second if you get it right with
God’s help. And, the second can help you be a better servant and helper to God,
which I think is ultimately more important.
Although, one can make a good argument that its very important to be good
at what you do for a living first before worrying about what is going to happen
later.
It certainly can make this present life a lot easier.
Therefore I think, and this is just me, perhaps, that God
would want us to know that the Kabbalists representing Him, whether they are
Tanya are not, they are only the YHWH School and not the YHWH School of Christianity.
How Saints appeared to me thinking about their locations as
street names, Had discussions with trumpet player Hack Barthomew at Café de
Monde, Vietnam war veteran Philip Hermann new Orleans travel guide living at
1000 Bourban Street, more discussion of Buddhist theories of re-incarnation in
the Bardo (see last posting of book review “Lincoln in the Bardo” for more on
this ) during NYC, Princeton NJ, Washington DC trip last July.
Figure 2 Riverview of the
two bridges from the city to the other side of the river,
from the New Orleans
Riverfront Walk and Wilderness Park Area
Figure 3 One destination for souls transitioning after
dying up through the river and being resurrected for another life in Christ. A statue of
Andrew Jackson greets them.
President Andrew is now, these days, facing the possibility
of having his name taken off of our US currency after President Obama’s
Treasury Department voted for Harriet Busman instead. Obama and other
Democratic politicians arguing that he was an unrepentant slaveholder and is not a
fit to have his image represent what we hold as our countries monetary wealth.
What would he say in defense of himself?
Maybe,
“Its true, that, doing that, makes me unworthy for such an honor.
Looking back on my life I sure there was a lot that I would change
about it if I could.
And, I do not like bigots and haters and rabble rousing self
servers using my statutes
as rallying points for their demonstrations.
A really good person like Jesus Christ doesn’t need a statue
to remind people of him?
And, that bill you are holding in your hand is worth the
paper it was printed on. It is worth
the paper it is printed on...For, like Jesus Christ, my soul, with His is in it. And, knowing His is in it,
is a helpful Bread of Life eternal concept to eat of. Eat it and you will not hunger for more. For those of us who
live only by the World’s ways, it is, often, eat or be eaten. But, for
those of us who live by Christ’s ways
people can eat out of the supply of goodness and substance in us, and you will be filled with a strength that is in God's body and blood and which can never be exhausted. It is a substance composed of joyous long lasting wealth made
people can eat out of the supply of goodness and substance in us, and you will be filled with a strength that is in God's body and blood and which can never be exhausted. It is a substance composed of joyous long lasting wealth made
up of compassion, understanding, joy, equanimity.
But, you politicians are just trying to come up with a
distraction to keep us away from having us focusing on
other important issues in the debate. These are the issues you
really lost the last election on.
President Grant was married into a slave holding family, and since his
military campaigns
were the main cause of its defeat, slavery ... no one would think
about taking him off
the face of our bills.
I also, am responsible through my military victories for
helping our whole country get completely and finally out of the intolerable
rule, a kind of slavery, of the British.
If I was alive today, and I AM, I might even be a present
day political Democrat. I might be John Kerry, for
instance, whose face looks like me on the bill was in the
military and could have been another good President for us.”
Johnny Horton sings his song on the boat’s speakers, if you
take the steamboat ride down to the Chalmette National Battlefield
Park and return.
Partial lyrics are reproduced from the internet below:
In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty MS a SIP*
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty MS a SIP*
We took a little bacon and we took a little
beans
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans
We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin'
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
Well, we
Yeah they ran through the briers (see photo below) and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
We fired our cannon till the barrel melted down
So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round
We filled his head with cannonballs 'n' powdered his behind
And when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind
We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin'
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
Yeah they ran through the briers and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
Sound off, in cadence:
Hut, hut, three, four
Sound off, three, four
Hut, hut, three, four
Sound off, three, four
Hut, hut, three, four
Writer/s: JAMES MORRIS
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind
“
Why do I like
travelling by train? It is so much like
our experience in what the Buddhists
call the Bardo intermediate soul life that occurs in between. Christians and others call it purgatory,
Figure 9 Some
"brambles and bushes" that I saw from the train, "City of New
Orleans"
travelling between Jackson,
MS and New Orleans, LA
viewpoints of riverfront
park and river at the Holecaust memorial, take a trolley part way back, walk to
Royal St. in the back of the Cathedral, then St. Ann's name greets you.
Standing there on the sidewalk looking at her name made me
think, “Oh, my Annie, I forgot to put your name on our prayer calendar” I resolve to do this next year. For, Annie, the Sun will come up for you
tomorrow. What Psalms should I put to pray with you on your birthday? Let’s go with some Psalm selections the
Venite Psalm 95 and Jubilate Psalm 65 I know you like them. Its July 26, that’s
your spiritual and religious birthday isn’t it?
The sun will come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
'Til tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow!
Tomorrow!
I love ya
Tomorrow!
You're always a day away
When I'm stuck in a day
That's gray,
And lonely,
I just stick out my chin
Tomorrow!
Tomorrow!
I love ya
Tomorrow!
You're always
A day
A way!
We wrote a several page book review of the book “Lincoln and
the Bardo” in last July’s posting about our amateur theological prayer trip to
NYC, Princeton NJ, and Washington DC during the Fourth of July holidays.
Living in the Bardo is like taking a train ride from one
city to another. The environment around you in and out the train determines
mostly what you experience. God is
driving the train. And, while he is doing it he seems remote to you and your
experience. The conductor, who may or may not be friendly is checking to see if
your ticket is valid.
The train does not carry any gamblers, any two time
politicians, any arguers and cursers of God’s name, nobody, like smokers, who
after repeatedly being told they shouldn’t do this keep on doing it.
On Sunday, after finishing the walk, ate a late Brunch at
the Café Ameilie, there, eating at the bar I met a local women who owns and
runs a Vampire shop around the corner. A
friend of Ann Rice and the Urusilne prayer sisters at the convent. She invited over
to her shop. But, I said, “Black Magic scares me!*” She said, “Its not Black
Magic” and had to leave.
She’s right. After thinking about it, I realized, that, actually,
meditation on blackness, if it is though about as emptiness, not as magic, but as a mindful
contemplation can be healing. I have already written a lot about the Buddhist
approaches to doing this, through prayers like the Prajnaparamita Sutra and
other Sutras. However, as a Christian centering my prayers with God’s Son,
Jesus Christ, who is the “Light inside of the Darkness””, not the “Darkness
inside of the Darkness” its probably best for me not to encourage her and her
husband making money teaching people about Vampires, who are just what the
Buddhist’s call “ hungry ghost, addictive type
souls” who don’t like the Light of Day, the Light of Christ, and commit
their whole lives to it enough to want to center their prayers exclusively in
it.
I then walked over on Royal St., past the Andrew Jackson
Hotel, to the CC coffee shop where
After I sat down at the table to drink my coffee I
immediately ran into fellow US Army
Marine Corps, Special Forces Vietnam era Veteran Phillip Hermann, Phillip is
living on Bourbon St. giving tourist tours and has done a lot of interesting
different jobs, living on his service retirement and social security like most
veterans, contracting, home repairs after leaving the service. He has PSD
flashbacks and believes smoking marijuana together with other veteran friends
and Army buddies for the fellowship helps
him with this. Unfortunately it seems to me there is a growing drug sales
problem in the US South, maybe partly because of this. But, he seemed honest,
although somewhat overly talkative. I promised to give him an email address for
prayers with us and send him a pray calendar.
Thank you Phillip for discussing things with me and praying with me.
Figure 11 Right next to St. Ann's name is a sidewalk plaque expresses the beliefs, in French, of some of her prayer friends.
There is free will and accountability during this realm of
intermediacy , for during the trip you are responsible for what you do and
don’t eat, keeping track of your bags and belongings and being there at the
pick up point of the departing station and arranging for you own transit to and
from your hotel after leaving the arrival station. Also, it is good if during
the trip you try and leave everybody a little better off for travelling with
you.
There was a movie made several decades ago by the Japanese
filmmaker Kurosawa, where he compared the World to a runaway train. For someone
living in it, it appears to be operated remotely from the passengers like a
train locomotive operates trains. And, there seems to be no way to stop it, if
its not going as you like it or think it should go.
And, in fact the Bible tells us that God made the World out
of nothing, nothing but energy and nothingness. Himself and us he made out of
nothingness and a Name, His name YHWH. He and His individuality being the Concept of a Concept He can create
Names in the World and us and thus make a heaven inside of us for us and Him do
dwell in.
When we are doing our part in travelling on the train from
one live to another throughout eternity, we need a map, for as mentioned above
God does not do everything for us.
A map is a conscious
understanding of ways of truth like God’s Holy Spirit has when it dwells inside
of us as wisdom and understanding. This Holy Spirit can, as God’s Name
prioritized our prayers, can, if we follow it and the map it generates for us,
is a map that can help us get where we want to go in eternity. Jesus Christ,
who indwells in us as God’s Only Son, has told us “I AM this Map, I AM THE WAY
THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE.” We Christian Jews even have a prayer we pray something
like the following to affirm this, “The Lord is my Shepherd, my soul shall not
fear, even if it travels through the valley of death…Lead us, forward in
eternity, even beyond this life, dear Holy Spirit of God’s Name as it indwells
in me setting my desires and my priorities.” You may prefer to pray God Son’s
version indwelling in us with its own jots and titles, indwelling as your
understanding of the Jewish Christian Messiah or King David reborn again better…
but both work.
For, when God is One His Truth is One, me, when God is Two
His Truth is Two, you and me, and when God is Three, the Holy Spirit in you and
me, His Truth is you.
Be still and know that I AM God, I and you are Truth.
Text on the New Orleans wilderness park MS River viewing
Holecaust memorial.
The Holocaust Memorial of the City of New Orleans 2003-5713
An artist’s visual prayer in memory of the six million Jews
of Europe who were tortured and murdered by the Nazi’s and their collaborators
from 1933-45. The artist, Jacob Azams, is an Israeli Born in 1928, his work is
included in the collection of major museums.
Not too many people know that you can pray with yourself and
others, with God, pray for yourself and others with God, in the same way Jesus
taught his disciples, by first hallowing God’s Name in your and our spiritual
bodies while we contemplate and realize divine truth in ourselves and others.
I did it this morning while standing like a tree in the
green pastures of the beautiful skies and outdoor weather and grounds around
the swimming pool and putting green here
located at our Vicksburg Country Club.
First I centered the priorities of my thoughts, as every Jew
should do every day in the top most chakra of the Holy Spirit indwelling all of
us in my physical body.
Then I thought about blessing the soul of my yardman’s
half-brother Eddie who raped and murdered last Saturday as I was in New
Orleans, with his body left on the railroad tracks, and whom Tim and I were
praying for yesterday morning, with the English verses and some Names of God in
the 23 Psalm.
The Ten viewpoints of
the visual pictures in the memorial:
1)
The first view, a large yellow star of David,
symbolizes the representation and persecution and humiliation of the Jews by
their Nazi tormentors and collaborators.
You can contemplate God’s spiritual gifts of wisdom and spiritual understanding helping you “Be Still and Know that I AM God, Be still and know that I AM truth “in your thoughts from heaven down to earth inside of this wisdom representing itself inside the Christ Mind inside of you, the Jesus Christ, Christ Jesus Mind.
What came to mind to me here, as I observed my thought
processes projecting themselves downward in Divine Truth, from Heaven above,
through a Star of the Messiah David, the Beloved One, indwelling in my human
heart mid chakra, down to the first root chakra indwelling in me of Divine
heaven in earth, was the priestly blessing of God’s Name indwelling us thought
downward again,
“May YHWH Bless you and keep you.
May YHWH lift up his countenance upon you,
And be gracious to you,
May YHWH support himself, His benevolent and well wishing
Divine Truth
And Blessing, indwelling in you,
And give you peace.”
2) This image (a dark one, devoid of light) expresses the dark period when, for Jews and others was void of light and hope, morality or compassion.
How do we give meaning and definition to what is defined in
this darkness and emptiness?
Here are some thoughts of this in terms of a series of metaphysical
definitions I have posted at:
Meaning---Independently existing spiritual
understanding
Nothing---How we explain or define what the nothing we are talking is
depends on how we are trying to know things. If we are looking at things
from a materialistic, scientific viewpoint... then something is experienced
as a "nothing" if it has no sense impressions associated with it. But, for a
religious person this is not necessarily the case. A practicing Buddhist,
for instance, is able to talk meaninfully about experiencing "nothingness"
from a standpoint of having real knowledge of it. Understanding and knowing
how to experience this "nothingness" in the present moment can be a source
of healing, peacefulness, and liberation.
Reality--- Reality is not something which as the philosopher George Berkeley
has said,does not exist when a tree falls in a distant forest where "no-
body" is there to hear it. It is something which exists because there is
a "no- body" (God and us) inside of us all. Wherever we are it "is", and it
has the potential to be us, wherever it "is." When God created the reality
in the World and the reality in you and I there was nothingness (spiritual
emptiness) inside of nothingness (the wise knowing of this spiritual
emptiness). For there was nothingness inside of him (his or her spirit) and
nothingness (spirit) inside of you and I. For, then, at that time, in those
days, in that place, two or three of us were gathered togethered in his
name. And, he created it and us in him and out there and in us.God created
the World out of nothingness, but he created you and I out of something
(himself or herself).
Spiritual Understanding---Reflection of truth in one's being.
Nothing---How we explain or define what the nothing we are talking is
depends on how we are trying to know things. If we are looking at things
from a materialistic, scientific viewpoint... then something is experienced
as a "nothing" if it has no sense impressions associated with it. But, for a
religious person this is not necessarily the case. A practicing Buddhist,
for instance, is able to talk meaninfully about experiencing "nothingness"
from a standpoint of having real knowledge of it. Understanding and knowing
how to experience this "nothingness" in the present moment can be a source
of healing, peacefulness, and liberation.
Reality--- Reality is not something which as the philosopher George Berkeley
has said,does not exist when a tree falls in a distant forest where "no-
body" is there to hear it. It is something which exists because there is
a "no- body" (God and us) inside of us all. Wherever we are it "is", and it
has the potential to be us, wherever it "is." When God created the reality
in the World and the reality in you and I there was nothingness (spiritual
emptiness) inside of nothingness (the wise knowing of this spiritual
emptiness). For there was nothingness inside of him (his or her spirit) and
nothingness (spirit) inside of you and I. For, then, at that time, in those
days, in that place, two or three of us were gathered togethered in his
name. And, he created it and us in him and out there and in us.God created
the World out of nothingness, but he created you and I out of something
(himself or herself).
Spiritual Understanding---Reflection of truth in one's being.
3)Out of this darkness appears six colors representing the souls of the six million Jewish victims who perished in the Holecaust. One and a half million were children. The seventh square is added in loving respect of the righteous Gentiles, homosexuals, gypsies, and all of the victims of the Nazi hate.
According to the theory of Laya Yoga, or dissolution Yoga,
which is a subpart of Raja Yoga of Yoga of the will, the I AM or the I AM that
I AM, or the I AM who I AM, as Moses was taught by God, and the contemplation
and realization of it in the conscious human mind or the subconscious Divine
Mind, the Presence of God, its will toward Truth and Realization of ITSELF as a
Name can be understood with seven colors representing the seven chakras or
spiritual centers. Here the six colors plus the black emptiness form up in
seven lokas, or places. The One Buddha, Who is God’s Only Son, Christ Jesus who
is of Healing Understanding of Truth
according to Prajnaparamita Sutra deeply understands all of this in order to
penetrate all obstacles, all barriers to the penetration of the Self knowing
Itself, with God’s help in this way.
1st After
mindfully and faithfully directing our attention to them, we need to spend time
fixing them interiorly and touch the experience of these colors interiorly to
our thoughts understand the colors as bases or foundation parts of this inner
wisdom.
2nd Then we need to investigate their dharmas
deeply. Dharmas, according to Buddhist theory are objects of the mind, as
opposed to just objects of thought. They contain Truth when they are realized
in our timeful or eternal experience of our souls as Truth.
3rd Then, we mediate for a while on the parts of
the experience in the present moment that we are having that is composed of the
outside sense datums of the experience we are trying to understand mentally, by
slowing down the fast moving parts of it, along with how our minds perceive.
“Yoga Cittam nirodiha” is the first and perhaps more important Sutra of
Patanjali’s book on Raja Yoga. The nirodiha part of the meditation is the part
where we realize how all the dharmas are composed of, marked by , and only
emptiness. It is preceeded normally by a period of ekagrata or thought
meditation flowing contemplatively like a river.
If we do all of this continually over a long period of time
we will learn how to not only meditate on God’s Truth as it is occurring in our
experience, but also to prophesize it and realize it in ourselves and outside
of ourselves in the World.
This is Raja Yoga.
According to the chapter in Patanjali’s book on Raja Yoga,
and the Rev. Thich Nhat Hanhs translations of Buddhist sutras, “Breathe You Are
Alive”, “Transformation and Healing: Sutra on the Four Establishments of
Mindfulness”, “The Blooming of a Lotus” by conducting this process intensively
in the present moment, grounding our thoughts first as thoughts about the body
in the body, then as feelings in the feelings, then as the mind in the mind,
then as truth in truth, or objects of the mind inside of objects of the mind,
what Plato and I call concepts, great spiritual powers for healing and help can
be achieved. I would only add that I have not tried this without God’s help and
would not recommend you to either.
4) Behind the seven colors appears a symbolic representation
of societal destruction a disintegrating Yellow star of David can be seen in
the background. The mood is one of complete devastation and desperation.
5) This chaotic view expresses human absence of empathy and religious and moral values, including reverence life itself.
6) Out of this chaos emerges a rainbow the biblical sign of
hope, renewal and the reassertion of life’s worth.
Another Mountaintop prophet of God, who followed Moses and
Miriam, Elijah, has taught us that God is not God’s River of Eternal Life that
flows through our lives of experiencing Him. God is not the Rain, not the Wind,
not the Fire, not catastrophes of nature, not ourselves experiencing those
catastropes of nature, of living in God’s World that He has created for us to
experience,
The Bible teaches us in 1 Kings chapter 18, 19 that the prophet Elijah prayed for God to send the wind and the rain, and then the "Lord passed by": "A great and strong wind rent the mountains and broke into pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, and the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, and the Lord[ that is our God YHWH Saboath] was not in the fire; and after the fire [ a sound of gentle stillness and] a still small voice." Amplified Bible
He is not yourself experiencing those problems, that death, that hopeflessness, but He is in those experiences and when He is reborn in them, if you keep faith with Him while he is reborn in them, he brings His Heaven to Your Earth, to This Earth, upon which you were born and will live forever Eternally, if you believe in Him and His Son as Eternal parts of Their Holy Trinity of Truth indwelling in us as a Holy Spirit to which even they must die and be reborn, still are, and ever will be, World without end, AMEN.
The Bible teaches us in 1 Kings chapter 18, 19 that the prophet Elijah prayed for God to send the wind and the rain, and then the "Lord passed by": "A great and strong wind rent the mountains and broke into pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, and the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, and the Lord[ that is our God YHWH Saboath] was not in the fire; and after the fire [ a sound of gentle stillness and] a still small voice." Amplified Bible
He is not yourself experiencing those problems, that death, that hopeflessness, but He is in those experiences and when He is reborn in them, if you keep faith with Him while he is reborn in them, he brings His Heaven to Your Earth, to This Earth, upon which you were born and will live forever Eternally, if you believe in Him and His Son as Eternal parts of Their Holy Trinity of Truth indwelling in us as a Holy Spirit to which even they must die and be reborn, still are, and ever will be, World without end, AMEN.
7) We now see the color of the sky that represents human hope and Divine holiness. Out of this color of hope appears in all its majestic colors a sacred Menorah.
8)Out of this color of hope, appears in all its majestic colors, a sacred Menorah, symbolizing the faithfulness and spiritual values of the Jewish people. The Menorah that stood in the Temple of Jerusalem represents also the miracle of the Hanukkah lights,a timeless emblem of human liberty and victory over tyranny, The Menorah here is represented by a rainbow and a reverse rainbow
This year, on December 2 through 0, the eight days of Hanukah Our Prayer
Group, YHWH School of Christianity prayers will contemplate some traditional Hanukah prayer Psalm verses
119:142, 71:19, 36:7 teaching us that “Your Righteousness, O Lord God is
righteousness”. During the 7th day of Hanukah we will pray Psalm 99,
celebrate the beginning of the Jewish Month of Teves where we spend the month
thinking and contemplating “correct judgement.” You might want to think about
this now at this point in our Houlecaust Rembrance in order to prepare our
thoughts then for a better appreciation of their fulfillment and help for us
all.
Many Orthodox, as well as Reform and Conservative and
Christian Jews believe in meditating on the seven candles as they are lit,
thinking about the souls of the seven shepherds of Israel as they have seen
them, experienced talking with them in their relatives and people they have
known. The eight candle can be thought as representing the final Messiah, whom
some belive has not come yet, But, I believe has and is Jesus Christ.
For me, the souls in people I have known, or my own
ancestors that I think about are:
1st candle
The mountaintop prophet Noah
2nd candle
Saint Abraham
3rd candle
Saint Isaac
4thcandle Saint
Jacob
5th candle
Saint Joseph
6th candle
Saint Moses
7th candle
Saint Joshua
In the above image the Menorah is pictured as dwelling in
Heaven and reflected down to Earth.
I like to contemplate it as being reflected from Heaven
already inside of Earth or God’s Eternal River of Life that we are
experiencing., surrounding us, enfolding itself in us, protecting us, while the
full Presence of God Himself, in Heaven separated from it, overwatches it,, and
the fullness of His Only Son in it and us looking down from Heaven..
Our Creator God YHWH Elohim redeemer Himself and the
material elements that compose the World
He has created as wisdom in each of us and in it objectively and
collectively in the World he made out of nothingness through Love, is what I
call the beginning of God’s Love for us. But, then it can if we have faith in
it express itself as an individual person, for this act of grace He becomes
YHWH Adonai for us, YHWH YESHUA, Jesus Christ, and then when it happens for the
second time, returning as Christ Jesus. Not to many people realize that three
times is needed for His Holy Spirit to dwell in this way truthfully in us, When God is Three, His Truth is You, YHWH
Christ.
What is the nature of this Love that requires three times to
express itself in this way in us?
It is grace, or Love that gives. But, what are the degrees
in terms of which it gives itself to us?
St. Bernard of Clairvaux, believed that there are four
levels of it, four levels of love between our Trinitarian God, YHWH YHWH, and
our Divine Self. And, the last time I talked to Him in prayer He told me He
still believes it.
Level 1 Loving
yourself for your own sake
Vedantist’s call this knowing the Self in the Self
God our Father in Heaven indwelling you.**
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Vedantism, according to Wikepedia, is Hindu philosophy based on the doctrine of the Upanishads, especially in its monistic form.
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The word used in Indian scriptures for Self is Atman. The Atman in Vedanta is Self- existent as well as Self-luminous. Divine power is not a mere formless, impersonal material principle. It is a living dynamic conscious force that can assume a concrete personal form.
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At this point God in you is doing what the Vishnu Swami and His Guru Swami Sivananda call nirvitarka, (without words) savitarka (with words), savichara (with essences), sabija (with seed) Samadhi on yourself and us.
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Savitarka, with words, could also mean, with concepts. The idea of what the logical relationship of how we conceive the concept as it is transformed from an idea to an independently existing thought that is self-existing, in time, and beyond time in us is key to this stage of our meditations. See the Philosophy of Religions discussion postings on a Concept of a Concept Pt. 1, II, III at http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/discussionboard/index.cgi for much more on this fascinating area of divine self thought analysis.
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At this point God in you is doing what the Vishnu Swami and His Guru Swami Sivananda call nirvitarka, (without words) savitarka (with words), savichara (with essences), sabija (with seed) Samadhi on yourself and us.
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Savitarka, with words, could also mean, with concepts. The idea of what the logical relationship of how we conceive the concept as it is transformed from an idea to an independently existing thought that is self-existing, in time, and beyond time in us is key to this stage of our meditations. See the Philosophy of Religions discussion postings on a Concept of a Concept Pt. 1, II, III at http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/discussionboard/index.cgi for much more on this fascinating area of divine self thought analysis.
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Level 2 Loving God
for your own blessing
The Self indwelled by God
God His Only Son indwelling you.
This happens when God in you is redeeming the above
blessing, doing it again in order that it become truthful in yourself and
others.
All this happens logically at this point, Because Jesus
Christ is the logos, the Word of God.
What is this Logos, or God’s Principle of His Own Truth
indwelling us?
We can only describe the logical structure of our experience
of it.
1)
It is a Peaceful surrounding of Light and Truth
expressing itself beautifully and joyfully in the four seasons.
2)
It is a Peaceful, bright enfolding of Truth from
our past and into our future
3)
Finally, it is a Peaceful Endless and Eternal
supply of Goodness, Joy, Compassion, Kindness, Equanimity,
Level 3 Loving God
for God’s own sake
God indwelling the Self.
You indwelling and loving Him, His Only Son.
This happens when God as a Holy Spirit in you is redeeming
itself for a second time and becoming Eternally Truthful in yourself and
others.
Level 4 Self Love for
God’s sake (Being united completely with God and His Love)
God the Holy Spirit indwelling Himself
This usually only happens only when God in you is doing what
the Buddhist’s call liberating, freeing
or nirvanic (blowing out, quenching) nirodiha (formless, aimless) Samadhi on yourself and other you are trying
to heal and help..
May all these types and levels of God’s Love, a Love that
saves souls and redeems them, and satisfies them peacefully, endlessly and
Eternally with its joy, compassion, loving kindness, equanimity, indwell all
the people of the Nation of Israel, endlessly, peacefully, and Eternally and
also other countries of the World.
9) Behind the Menorah appears a double rainbow representing heaven and earth, a call to all people from all faiths, races, and nations that never again anyone must anyone experience such horror in the earth, Behind it appears the biblical rainbow , the sacred covenant between God and man.
10) Looking back, the symbol of the victums’ oppression and destruction can be seen. Behind the Yellow Star of David are the chaos murder, and destruction of those torturous years The Holecaust 1933-45
New Orleans has a nice Amtrak and Greyhound bus station.
Travelling by train this visit brought back memories of visiting Grand Central
Station in NYC and Philadelphia during my trip to NYC, Princeton NY, and
Washington DC in July 2017.
The Amtrak trains that depart from the station are:
City of New Orleans,
departs for Chicago daily 145 pm, arrives from Jackson and Chicago
322pm.
Sunset Limited,
departs 9am Sat.M.W. arrives Sat 9:40pm Fri, Sun. Tues.
New Orleans Cresent, departs 7 am arrives 732 pm, daily.
Figure 12 Women (holding the child) who asked me to watch her
bags as we waited for the train in New Orleans. I asked if she minded me taking
a picture of her and her babies, and she said no. Then we started talking after
she came back.
Her ticket from Houston, TX
to Jackson,MS wouldn’t work, so she had to borrow a phone from the
security person (who is facing and smiling) to call her mother in the hospital
to pay for it. It turns out Mother, who is in her 40s, discovered she has colon cancer, after going
to the hospital for stomach pains. Mother does not want to die. She is not
tired of life. We said a prayer together for her mother. She said, “Hopefully my mother will be
alright.” I said, “You need hopefully,
but faithfully also, The doctors can give hope, because they are scientific and
hope is based on science, but God gives faith.” Do you believe in God? “Yes,
she said.” I said, the God you believe in, He could be inside or outside of
you. But He will give you faith if you ask Him for it. I said a prayer for her
and her mother to this God, that hopefully and faithfully they will both be
alright for their sake and the sake of the children.
On the South and West walls between the ceilings and the
entrances to the departing gates are a series of well thought out historical
paintings and murals. They represent colorfully the exploration, settlement of
the area 1680 to 1820, which I am writing a book about, as well as later
periods. There are settlers, military officers, kings and courtiers from back
in Europe, black and indian slaves, priests, carpenters, gamblers, natural
scientists, wild beasts of the area, mardi gras revelers, medical doctors,
cartographers, lumberman, pirates, steamboats,
slaves dying and blessed by the Ursuline nuns, representatives of the different crowns in the Kingdoms of Europe, traitors being executed by firing squads, romantic settlers just arrived and married and kissing,
slaves dying and blessed by the Ursuline nuns, representatives of the different crowns in the Kingdoms of Europe, traitors being executed by firing squads, romantic settlers just arrived and married and kissing,
Some of the scenes of the historical period after that
include: settlers trying out new
agriculturical methods and machines, steam engines representing historical wheels
of progress, 19th century French and Napoleonic soldiers., prophetic
looking Louisiana legislators arguing about states rights and slavery,
confederate soldiers saying goodbye to their wives while the four horsemen of
the apocalypse overlook.
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