Three questions I received on the modern study method of Kabbalah: Question: You wrote that the Mashiach Ben Yosef is the great Ari’s revelation of the modern method of correction, Kabbalah, in the 16th century. Can we make an analogy that the Mashiach Ben David is also a revelation – the one that was made by Baal HaSulam? Or will there be other revelations of the method that will be more complete and have a more powerful effect? My Answer: In Article #102 of Shamati , Baal HaSulam writes the following about the Ari: “That is why the holy Ari, who was the Mashiach son of Yosef, was able to reveal so much wisdom, for he had the permission from ‘the revealed world.’” As for the Mashiach Ben David, there are many mentions of him, but they all indicate something different and can only be understood through personal revelation, but I prefer to quote the primary source texts. Question: What do you think about The Book of Bakhir? My Answer: Baal HaSulam writes the following in the article “Disclosing a Portion, Covering Two”: Ever since the teachings of the Ari were revealed in the world, all Kabbalists abandoned all other books and study only The Book of Zohar and the books of the Ari.” Question: You said that 1995 was the starting point of the current events. What happened in 1995 that you are referring to? My Answer: I felt this because suddenly, the students that started coming to study with me were different: They were serious, diligent, and persistent in their pursuit of the goal. Today they still make up the core of the worldwide Bnei Baruch group. Of course, there were also inner changes that are concealed from the average onlooker - a clearer revelation of new spiritual forces in the world. Related Material: Laitman.com Post: The Coming of the Messiah Laitman.com Post: Worldwide Map of Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Today Article: Isaac Luria - the Holy Ari (1534-1572) Shamati #183: “The Discernment of the Messiah” Share This Less

A question I received: Peace to you. Michael, you are a living sage, though for now you only exist in the virtual world for me. But of course you exist in the real physical plane as well. One of my goals is to affirm Faith in the physical world. How can we join efforts in doing this? I can tell you a little about myself. My Spiritual Birth happened at the age of 27, and there is a stamp on my right hand attesting to this. As I understand it, our plans and goals are the same. I’ve already passed all the main milestones of this path, but I am still driven by the desire to help fulfill the mission of the Upper Light and praise the Almighty. The information that you obtain from various sources, through studying and disseminating the teaching of Kabbalah, has been revealed to me from above without any intermediaries, and I obtain my knowledge directly from the Holy Grail. Nonetheless, our knowledge coincides in many ways, and we have a lot to share for the benefit of humanity. Write to me if you’re interested in my offer and want to collaborate. You know that there are no coincidences. My Answer: I receive many offers like this. The thing they all have in common is a lot of inner confusion. My advice to you is to bring your inner world in order. The best way to do this is by reading Baal HaSulam’s articles. This will put everything in its place and remove everything that’s unnecessary (Faith, Spiritual Birth, the Holy Grail, and so on). After that I invite you to collaborate! Related Material: Book: Attaining The Worlds Beyond Share This Less

Two questions I received on prophecy: Question: You don’t say whether there are any great Kabbalists in our time. What about prophets? My Answer: As my answer I’ll quote the following news report (from livescience.com): “Hours before China’s worst earthquake in three decades, animals at a local zoo began acting strangely. Three days before the earthquake, thousands of toads roamed the streets of Mianzhu, a hard-hit city where at least 2,000 people have been reported killed. The day of the earthquake, zebras were banging their heads against a door at the zoo in Wuhan, more than 600 miles east of the epicenter. Elephants swung their trunks wildly, 20 lions and tigers, which normally would be asleep at midday, were walking around, and five minutes before the quake hit, dozens of peacocks started screeching.” Question: Are these animals prophets? My Answer: A prophet is someone who is connected with Nature (the Creator). If one unifies with Nature, then he perceives it beyond time – not in relation to himself, but the way it truly is. The past, present, and future converge into one. So go ahead and make predictions! A Kabbalist is someone who has restored a part of his connection with the Creator, and to that degree he understands His thought, plan, and goal. He can continue increasing his similarity with the Creator (the quality of bestowal that exists in Nature) to the level where he can fully comprehend Him – the level of a prophet. Related Material: Laitman.com Post: All the Prophets Wrote About Us Kabbalah Today Article: A Prophet in His Own Country Kabbalah Today Article: Isaac Luria - the Holy Ari (1534-1572) Baal HaSulam - Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag Share This Less

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Are you ready to exchange religion for relationship? In this message Joe Cuda relays 4 areas that will help you to exchange religion in your life to increased relationship with the Holy Spirit. Part 5 is about SURRENDER to the Holy Spirit?All of My Heart for All of Your Heart? Less

We are on the brink of something big in the world and the history of Christianity. Listen and learn how to be poised for the global youth movement that’s coming. Be inspired to action and calling as Jerome shares a prophetic message for the hour we’re living in. Less

October 28, Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time Cycle C Readings: 1) Sirach 35:12-14, 16-18 Psalm 34:2-3, 17-19, 23 2) 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18 3) Gospel: Luke 18:9-14 Father Teody gives a brief homily on how we ought to pray. RT: 14:22 Less

October 21, Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle C Readings: 1) Exodus 17:8-13 Psalm 121:1-8 2) 2 Timothy 3:14-4:2 3) Gospel: Luke 18:1-8 Father Manny discusses the need for persistent prayer. He says that by praying we should steadfastly put our trust in God that He will fulfill our heart’s desires. Less

October 7, 2007 Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. Cycle C. Readings: 1) Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4 Psalm 95:1-2, 6-9 2) 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14 3) Gospel: Luke 17:5-10 Father Teody deals with the gospel in light of contemporary social issues. My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-d2e6d142b74dfe8e8962774254dacf76} Less

“The doctrine of the Trinity that is this convoluted, Hellenistic, philosophical thing where they fight about five words that all mean the same thing…it has something larger behind it than that, something more important than that. It is the church in the 3rd and the 4th centuries’ attempt to express the Christian experience of God, and to safeguard its integrity. So what this day is about is yours and mine, our, experience of God. “What our forebears in the faith had to say is that Yahweh God, the source of all that is, in whom we live and move and have our being, the primordial life force who became the god of the children of Israel, the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and Sarah and Elizabeth and Rachel-that reality, whatever its cosmic, infinite, beyond our minds’ capacity to understand, reality-that thing which people fell on their faces and said ‘Holy, Holy, Holy,’ to—that God somehow was distinctively and decisively present in Jesus of Nazareth, who walked in the midst of human experience and human history, not as some third thing, but as one of us. That there was something distinct and unique about the way god was present in him, and which got extended to all of us. And it was decisive because now history could be divided up into all that went before him, and all that comes after: Anno Domini. “And even more exciting and more unbelievable is that this Yahweh God who was decisively and distinctively present in Jesus of Nazareth is present in you and me and in the community of faith in which we live, as Holy Spirit. “That experience, that incredible, intimate, Trinitarian experience, that hope that someday we will see what John of Patmos saw, not as a vision, not in a dream, but as reality, we will stand face to face with God and share the life of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—that’s the Christian experience of God. Something mystical. Something cosmic. “Yes, Christianity is fundamentally a mystical religion. But we’ve turned it into an ethical religion. “I’ve always been amazed by that. If you find something that you have to fall down in front of and say ‘Holy, Holy, Holy,’ it’s going to change your ethics. But changing your ethics may never bring you face to face with something you’re willing to say ‘Holy, Holy, Holy,’ to.” Less

Visualization from the Great Central Sun Tube of Light from Saint Germain Discourse brought forth by ~Gurudevi, Shri Swami Maha-Shaktiananda who refers to herself as Miama (me-a-ma) August 25th, 2006 Emmett, Idaho US Greetings, Beloved One. With reverence, devotion, and humility, we give ourselves to God, the “I Am That I Am”. In the heart of the Great Central Sun, of the cosmos, is a pillar of fire. It’s flaming ribbons of Light stream from the center like billions of sunbeams. Crystal cords that can be traced to the I Am Presence of every Son and Daughter of God connecting soul both embodied and dis-embodied. God’s many Mansions (man-sons). In Love and Light, ~Gurudevi. Affirmation: Violet Fire and Tube of Light. O my constant, loving I AM Presence, thou light of God above me whose radiance forms a circle of fire before me to light my way: I AM faithfully calling to thee to place a great pillar of light from my own mighty I AM God Presence all around me right now today! Keep it intact through every passing moment, manifesting as a shimmering shower of God’s beautiful electric circle of divinely charged energy. Direct a swift upsurge of the violet fire of freedom’s forgiving transmuting flame! Cause the ever expanding energy of this flame projected downward into the forcefield of my human energies to completely change every negative condition into the positive polarity of my own great God Self! Let the magic of its mercy so purify my world with light that all whom I contact shall always be blessed with the fragrance of violets from God’s own heart in memory of the blessed dawning day when all discord-cause, effect record, and memory-is forever changed into the victory of light and the peace of the ascended Jesus Christ. I AM now constantly accepting the full power and manifestation of this fiat of light and calling it into instantaneous action by my own God-given free will and the power to accelerate without limit this sacred release of assistance from God’s own heart until all men are ascended and God-free in the light that never, never, never fails! by Ascended Master Saint Germain Less

[ *Isvara – Sanskrit name for the Lord Discourse brought forth by Gurudevi, Shri Swami Maha-Shaktiananda who refers to herself as Miama (me a ma) August 22th, 2006 Emmett, Idaho US] Greetings, This is Miama, and it thrills me this very day to speak God’s name. The Sanskrit name for the Lord in his His aspect of the cosmic ruler, from the root ‘is’ , (is), to rule. Is-vara. Isvara is He by whose Will all universes in orderly cycles are created and dissolved. I Am Isvara, I Am Light. As a very young child, I set out upon looking at the first few pages in the Bible that I was handed, and I held the book in my hands, and I was told that it was a very special book. I’d held other books in my hands. But this book, this was a special book. And so I open up the book to the first page that it fell upon. I felt that that would be important and I let my eyes travel through these words until I felt like I was supposed to stop. Because there before me, were words on the page, standing out larger than any of the other words in living fire and I never will forget these words, and they were, I Am That I Am And I held the book in my hands and I could feel the weight of it. And my soul spoke to me and it said the word ‘NOW’. That all I needed were these words of living fire and the understanding of applying those words in the NOW, and that the book itself was like a history book, but if I understood those few words, ‘I Am That I Am’, that God’s Presence had spoken to me, and that I had seen this living script right before my eyes; living fire, text; alive with God’s Presence. And I knew this was true and no one could ever take that that away from me. So from a very, very small child I determined that for me, my church would always be the church of NOW. To love God NOW, to realize Light is God, and that there is no man-made church or doctrine that can replace that. But always remember to go to that one source; go inward; into that center of yourself; to your inter-soul connection. There’s where you will find the answers. That is where it will sit true; or it will sit untrue with you. The conscience is actually your Christ Self, your connection with the mediator between you and your I Am Presence. God in the perfect state of being that you have been created to reflect in your I Am Presence. God’s Presence given to you as your own I Am Presence is in a perfect state of being, of perfect wholeness. This is your causal body, your super-conscious mind. And the seven layers of spheres of rings of hue coming out of the center of, of your being in the causal body is a sight to behold. Anyone that’s ever looked up and seen their causal body and the crystal cord descending through the Christ Self into the back of the neck where the medulla oblongata is seated just at the base of the skull. And the crystal cord comes down the spine. This is the umbilical cord that we have to our higher causal body, and our Christ Self, the mediator, our etheric body also has seven layers of consciousness, of Light hues; levels and planes of consciousness. And when we go to sleep at night we travel in our Christ Self. Our physical body also has rings of Light; hues of Light manifesting, depending upon the person’s consciousness in the body temple. And those may reflect the higher colors and they may not. But everything about us is recorded, and so with the daily process we go through this transmutation of energy as it is given to us, so that we can handle it more isn’t given to us. The benefits that once life completely starts to unfold your divine plan, your perfect blueprint, when you leave the false identity and the synthetic parts of yourself behind; you remove them from your real Self; you let them fall off. And you take on the garments of Light of the Christ, and you become in perfect balance and harmony. It is wonderful to live in a state of oneness and joy with God. Iswara. I Am Iswara. I Am Light. Om Om Om Om Om Om Om Om Mani Pagni Hum (Gurudevi chanting) Brought forth by ~Gurudevi, Shri Swami Maha-Shaktiananda. [ *Note: Iswara – Sanskrit name for the Lord in His aspect of Cosmic Ruler; from the root ‘is’, to rule. Iswara is He by whose Will rules all universes, in orderly cycles, which are created and dissolved. I Am That I Am. There are many names for the Creator, Lord, our God. ] Less

This is the beginning and creative geometric pattern of the Light of God. The Divine Wholeness of the Father-Mother God affirmed as “the beginning and the ending” by the Lord Christ in Revelation. Ascended twin flames of the Cosmic Christ consciousness who hold the balance of the masculine-feminine polarity of the Godhead in the Great Central Sun of cosmos. Thus, through the Universal Christ, the Word incarnate, the Father is the origin and the Mother is the fulfillment of the cycles of God’s consciousness expressed throughout the Spirit-Matter creation. ~Gurudevi, Shri Swami Maha-Shaktiananda Less

“Studies of the Human Aura” by Master Kuthumi. “For the strengthening of the aura involving a threefold action, visualize the Threefold Flame (blue, pink & yellow) expanding within your heart. Seal yourself and your consciousness in a globe of white fire and recite the following words with humility and devotion: I Am Light, glowing Light, radiating Light, intensified Light. God consumes my darkness, transmuting it into Light. This day I Am a focus of the Central Sun. Flowing through me is a crystal river. A living fountain of Light, that can never be qualified by human thought and feeling. I Am an outpost of the Divine. Such darkness as has used me is swallowed up by the mighty river of Light which I Am! I Am, I Am, I Am Light. I live, I live, I live in Light. I Am Light’s fullest dimension; I Am Light’s purest intention. I Am Light, Light, Light! Flooding the world everywhere I move. Blessing, strengthening, and conveying the purpose of the kingdom of heaven.” ~Gurudevi, Shri Swami Maha-Shaktiananda Less

"Of the Maltese Cross, the two points at the end of each arm, eight in all, represent Beatitudes; humility, obedience, comfort, justice, mercy, purity, peace, gratitude. By holding an attitude makes it become a reality. Beatitude = be the attitude. Be living and becoming these Beatitudes, possessing these virtues, one can become the mature Man which Saint Germain represents to this planet. Maltese Cross – circa mid 16th Century – introduced in use to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem during their time in Malta." ~Gurudevi, Shri Swami Maha-Shaktiananda Less

Welcome. The Season after Pentecost is a time for growth in faith under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Easter’s celebration gives way to the hard work of Christian discipleship in grateful response to God’s love. Our text today recounts an extraordinary experience of comfort and promise in the midst of fear and challenges. Our community gathers also this evening in Church Conference session to consider exciting updates to the Comprehensive Plan for Relocation. How does God’s comfort and promise speak to each of us, and to the congregation as a whole? Are we aware of God’s calming presence-even in the midst of our fears-as we reach out and grow in love and service in God’s world? Less