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I find that most people scoff at me when I say I have a great relationship with Jesus, but I study metaphysics. I believe in God, Jesus, and the Holy spirit. I also believe that God can and does communicate with us through spirits and apparitions. I have great faith in prayer, and also in meditation. However, it seems to me that the two are just not allowed to coincide. Why is that?
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On a recent trip to Japan, the author visited Jesus’ and Moses’ legendary tombs and met a series of remarkable personages, including an invincible Aikido master, a modern sennin (forest sage) who offered him the tea of long life, and an extraordinary housewife who is the manifestatioin of the Supreme Buddha. The second half of the book describes attending Michio Kushi’s Spiritual Development Training Seminar at the Kushi Institute, which was devoted to many paralle… More >>
By Donald Swarbrick.
Here is something else to ponder, if you want to compare events in the bible to what we know today.
How would the people from biblical times describe the vision in the picture above?
This is an example of how the star in the east could have come about, when all the time it was an aircraft, never seen in the skies in these times, a simple case of mistaken identity, due to lack of knowledge.
It might not be exactly how we would describe it in this day and age if it were to have taken place yesterday, but it gives one example of how reporters could translate it to the newspapers, given our knowledge now.
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, each give their account of events at the time of Jesus conception, birth and early life, and regardless of the many translations of these gospels, plus the description of four different men of these times, there is a strong indication that the phenomenal occurrences that happened were influenced by superior beings from another planet.
If we take a look at some of the important factors described by these four individuals, we should see how much easier it would have been to prove the existence of space travelers if they had the technology of the world we live in today. If they had the same knowledge as people from the twenty first century or, if the events we are going to look at happened in this day and age everything described would be more clear cut, although the fear of God would still he present. This was the time of King Herod and in his domain so with the prophecies about this new born child’s future threatening his ruler ship he ordered its death. The Wise Men who, had been guided towards the child’s birthplace by what has been accepted as a star, told Herod of the birth, of the importance of the child, of their intention to visit him and present him with gifts.
There are no stars in the sky capable of guiding anyone to a particular place on earth’s surface in such a way, (although sailors in the early days before, the compass was invented used stars for guidance, it was not in the same way as this event recorded in the bible) so my assumption is that the bright light was a small craft or power pack used by an “angel” within earth’s atmosphere which would give the appearance of a star to the more primitive people of that era.
The people around the Middle Eastern countries in these times knew something exceptional was taking place but could not fathom exactly what; making them create the mystique that has been deciphered from the scriptures. The Wise Men were so called in my estimation, because they understood what the light meant, although not what it was, but they had accepted the existence of God hence the reason they were chosen. They had been told of Herod’s plan to kill God’s son, (through mental telepathy) which they describe as a dream, and would most likely have appeared to them as such with God and his crews not wanting to reveal too much of their powers. They disobeyed Herod’s wish for them to return and tell him of the whereabouts of the child, taking another route home.
At the same time an angel (which we have established are God’s crew carrying messages to earthlings from the spaceships above) warned Joseph to flee to Egypt with Mary and the baby, as Herod was going to kill all the boys of two years or under, making sure the baby who threatened his dominance would be exterminated. Joseph and his family had been sent to a land that was well known to God’s crews, to await Herod’s death, the news of which would be relayed to him in the usual way by an angel. This was another strange occurrence Joseph had come to accept proving his belief in God’s existence, although not fully understanding, had complete faith in his guidance, taking Jesus to Nazareth where he would spend his early years. All these events had been foretold by the early prophets, so they came as no surprise to the more intelligent people of the time, one of whom was John or John the Baptist as he was to be known, as it was he who was chosen to baptize God’s son.
John had already been telling the earthlings about God and his crews from Heaven and as their spaceships had been present (although disguised) in the skies, and, they had been influencing life on earth for some time it stands to reason the news of them was beginning to spread, just as they had planned. They wanted their existence to be known, but could never make the earthlings fully understand where they came from and why they were so advanced compared to them, When the myths and mystique grew around them they used it to their advantage as it created the required effect, gaining the attention of the people towards the warnings about earth’s demise and the safe haven of Heaven the space travelers had to offer.
John the Baptist had the sense to realise what was taking place, he had heard of the prophecies that had been ignored before and knew of “the wrath of the Gods”. It says in Matthew Chapter three verse sixteen that after, Jesus was baptized by John, “the heavens were opened and he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove.” And a voice from Heaven said this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. More reason to believe spacecraft were in the skies above, or would you rather believe in a mystical character floating on vaporized water with feathered wings rather than the more logical explanation of people inside spacecraft, hovering above the earth. I can understand people of two thousand years ago thinking the ridiculous, but it puzzles me why in this day of space travel, primitive as it is, earthlings still believe in the myths of angels with harps and feathered wings floating on clouds.
We have updated the Bible into modern language, but still hold on to the myths and evade the reality. If a true translation were to be written, the events after the baptism of Jesus would read like this, “after the baptism, as Jesus came out of the water, God who had been watching from the spaceship revealed the presence of the craft by sliding back the door underneath it allowing the inner lights to beam down to earth where he then descended from in his smaller craft (used only in the inner hemisphere) to where they were, while transmitting the message through the loudspeakers saying, THIS IS MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED”!
These were the only moments the armada above could be spotted and as the witnesses did not understand fully what they were looking up into, they tried to express it the only way they knew, providing us with the mystique that we have come to connect Heaven with. Jesus was then led out into the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil where his allegiance to his father GOD would be tested to the limit, proving he was without the sinful worldly nature the earthlings possessed even though he was part earthling. When you read through the Bible, you begin to realise why it was interpreted in this way through the years, with present day man still wanting to pretend that he is the only intelligent life in the Universe. A power such as I am unfolding to you now is better thought of as being a spiritual, unrealistic force rather than face up to the fact that they are real and can reappear in our skies at anytime! It’s this fear of the unknown that makes man reject these things, but if he began to accept them for what they really are, they would realise it is only the devil’s ships they have to fear, as they will have a big say, as to where our destiny lies, (the planet Heaven or the planet Hell!)
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By Donald Swarbrick
It is easy to see why certain events, recorded in the bible were classed as miracles when the people who witnessed, and recorded them were so primitive in their ways compared to now.
If you take one of the most important ones, that had the biggest impact on the world, and is still marveled at today, with the outcome being worshiped around the world, then look at it with the knowledge we have today, you have to see that it was no miracle, only a medical operation that is carried out on a regular basis on earth now.
Artificial insemination is carried out everyday around the world with childless couples given help to conceive, and the method is such, that even though the woman has never had sex, she could still give birth to a child.
If the virgin Mary‘s immaculate conception had been carried out today, the world would not think much about it, and certainly not worship her, or the child she bore, as the process she went through to become pregnant would be understood by the people.
Even now, when we know how this virgin birth could have come about, some still think of it as a miracle, performed by God to bring a son into the world who was without sin. The sin supposedly being the act of sex, but could the words “without sin” not just mean, because God’s sperm might have been used, his son, like him would be “without sin?”
The holiness came from the deed of artificial insemination, carried out by a people who were here 2,000 years ago, and had a knowledge so far in advance of us that they knew how to perform this operation then, which would be no big deal to them given the fact that they travelled through space to get here.
Yes, we would still worship the son that was born, because he was the son of God, a vastly more intelligent man from another planet, but would we still worship the mother, as she was only a normal person from earth?
That means that Jesus was born of an earth woman who was made pregnant by sperm donated by a man from heaven, which makes Jesus partly of this earth and partly of another planet, and the only holiness in him was his father, who being so powerful, brough so much exaltation to the world, the people chose to worship him, and everyone involved in the conception.
Nothing holy, just a feat of medical science.
Lazarus was brought back from the dead by Jesus, and Jesus himself came back from the dead, who must have been taught how to use this medical science for the benefit of those who they thought needed it most.
People are brought back from the dead now, although not after such a time dead as Lazarus was, but as our knowledge improves, who is to say that we cannot achieve this in the future.
Everlasting life is promised by God, and he would not have made that promise if he could not attain his goal, and by bringing Lazerus back from the dead, gave us further proof that medical achievements were at such an advanced stage among the heavenly people, and that this promise could be kept.
Healing the sick was a way for Jesus to convince the people of this earth just how powerful the heavenly people were, while carying out feats like, giving sight to the blind man, healing the leper, making the crippled man walk, all of which can be performed in todays world, although maybe not as fast or efficiently as them. YET!
Turning the water into wine is one of the so called miracles lots of people would like to achieve, and I am sure it will be possible one day with dried powdered grapes being used, or some similar method.
The five loaves and two fish, feeding the five thousand is a trick we will need to learn, as the population of the world increases, putting food stocks at risk, incase nature does not take its course and cull the people of the world, as it has in the past.
If and when you read your bible again, think of the deeds that were classed as miracles then, and count how many are achievable now, and how near we are to performing other tasks that would have been classed as miracles then.
It baffles me why, as each step forward mankind takes, most people on earth would still rather believe in the mystique of God and the bible, never wanting to relate our progress to us catching up on a people who are so far in advance of us that they can travel here through space, perform all kinds of deeds that are so outwith our capabilities.
Its OK believing in God, but why hold the ghostly, mystical images they have been brainwashed into believing, instead of realizing, God was no mystical being, he is just an ordinary person who was lucky enough to have originated on a planet that evolved long before earth, giving its people time to achieve the perfect life, the life they have on heaven, for all eternity.
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By Donald Swarbrick.
When you look at the rituals and dress code most religions have today, you have to wonder why they continue to do so as it has nothing to to with preaching God’s word.
When Jesus and his disciples spread the word of God, they dressed in the clothes of their time, that suited the climate they were in, with no need for fancy robes or headdresses, so why do most churches of today have rituals that involve heavy robes, and attire that serve no purpose in their quest of telling us God existed?
Clothes and possessions do not make us holy, or any more of a believer in God, it is how we live our lives down here that counts, after all we will all stand naked in front of God when the day of judgement comes.
Tall hats and different uniforms for your given rank, whether in church or work, will hold no favour when it comes to judging our characters.
The churches, and their leaders seem to think that carrying on the traditions and dress from medieval times makes them more holy, and by continuing these trends will encourage us to believe what they are preaching is the be all and end all of life and death.
WRONG!
The way the churches convey the word of God in this day and age, drives away the very people they want to encourage.
In medieval times the robes and rituals were part of life then, uniforms of the rich and head of state, to separate them from the common people, giving them power to extort money through fear, from the poor under the guise of religion.
They put the fear of God into the people from all walks of life, using God’s word to better themselves, and prevent them from suffering some of the torturous fates that befell those who disobeyed the crown, which in the end gave the churches the power and wealth they wanted.
Wealth and power was the be all and end all of the church leaders in these days, grabbing religion to feather their own nests, while keeping favour with whoever was reigning monarch at the time, which all added up to a better life for them.
The churches still want wealth and power which has become more important than spreading the word of God, and prove this by interfering in matters that should not concern them, like politics, or the laws of the country.
Their faith in God overseeing these matters should be enough for them without interfering, leaving them to concentrate on what they studied for, mainly preaching the gospel.
If they were doing the job they were supposed to be doing, giving it the attention God wished them to, then we would have more people listening to them instead of facing the empty churches we have today.
All the pomp and ceremony practised in most churches are a nonsense, having nothing to do with God, and the people carrying out these rituals should get back to the basics Jesus and his disciples preached by, with the only gain being the satisfaction of carrying out God’s wishes.
Some religions do dress in everyday clothes to spread the word of God but are frowned on by the heads of churches who still dress in their ridiculous garb, and are still closely connected to the head of state, but in each and every one of them, the leaders who might thing they are superior, and the ordinary folk who attend these churches are all equal in the eyes of God, and will be judged according to their deeds down here on earth.
They are all human, and ALL have the badness instilled in them from birth, and no matter what they chose to wear, be it fancy dress or not, they are just like us, and will have their sins to answer for too when we all stand at the gates of heaven naked.
As I have said before God originated out of the same energy in the universe as we did, and it is only because he has been around much longer than us that he rules the universe, owing to the knowledge he has accumulated in his time.
As we originated from energy, that energy will always be in the universe, we will always be in the universe, so it is up to each individual to make sure we conduct ourselves in a manner that will ensure a satisfactory lifestyle throughout that journey, whatever your faith.
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