Saturday, December 24, 2022
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RC Robert Roy
Cantor: Rev. Shinobu Fuelling
Reader: Claudia Grady

Sunday, December 25, 2022
6:24 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:00
Gate: 6:50
Sunrise: 7:20
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrants:
RC Robert Petrovich
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION

Suspended for Christmas Day

Wednesday, December 28, 2022
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RC Robert Roy

Friday, December 30, 2022
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
Suspended

Sunday, December 25 to Thursday, January 5
Christmas – Epiphany vigil
6:24 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:00
Gate: 6:50
Sunrise: 7:20
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrants:
RC Robert Petrovich
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney

“Beloved Soul, if thou will be earnest without intermission, thou shall certainly obtain the favor of a kiss from the noble Sophia (or Divine Wisdom) in the Holy Name of Jesus; for she stands ever before the door of the Soul, knocking, and warning the sinner of his wicked ways. Now if once thou desires her love, she is ready for it and kisses it with the Beams of her sweet Love, from whence the heart receives joy. But she does not presently lay herself in the marriage bed with the Soul, that is, she does not presently awaken the extinguished Heavenly Image in herself, which disappeared in Adam in Paradise. No, there might be danger in that; for if Adam and Lucifer fell, having it manifest in them, the same may easily happen to Man, who is still so strongly enthralled in Vanity.

“The bond of thy promise must be firm and steadfast. Before she will crown thee, you must be tempted and tried. She lets thee stands as it were aloof, and answers thee not so much one look of her love. For before she will crown thee, thou must be judged. … Thou must come before the gates of Hell first, and there show forth the victory for her in her love, in the strength where she upholds you in opposition to the Devil’s influence.” ~Jacob Boehme¹

Earnest Without Intermission

Boehme doesn’t say here what it is we must be earnest in, but since his writings are all about spiritual growth and development, we can assume that is what is meant here. Being earnest in our spiritual development techniques means that we don’t think of it as some game or something to occupy space-time, but rather the most important thing in our lives. After all, most of us spend hours a week caring for our temporary bodies in one way or another, shouldn’t our eternal spirit get at least as much recognition and care?

Kiss from Sophia

What Boehme is calling “a kiss from the noble Sophia” is just another way of saying God’s Grace or God’s Light. It is through awakening and developing our spiritual faculties with the help of that Light that eventually leads to the Wisdom of Sophia that the Gnostics call Gnosis. This should not be confused with intellect. It is a Wisdom of the Soul unknown to the brain, it is consciousness, not intellect.

If One Desires Her Love

While it may be true that Sophia tries to warn the sinners of their errant ways, it is clear that they have closed those channels of communication and don’t hear her pleas. On the other hand, the one who truly desires to awaken and develop their spiritual faculties, Sophia is ready to help. More accurately, God’s angels and Holy One who have left the Eathly plain offer their help first. Sophia comes somewhat later.

Beams of Her Love

This is an important choice of words Boehm has made her hint at something he couldn’t say outright without getting into trouble with the religious authorities of his time. Sending beams of Love is his way of telling us that Light is involved, as it is Light that travels in beams. Specifically, Sophia’s Kiss comes in the Light of the Spiritual Sun that awakens and nourishes the spirit.

Before She Will Crown Thee

This is another case where Boehme has carefully chosen his words to hint at something he couldn’t say outright in his time. It would be nice if those who had awakened the Gnosis within were chosen as the leaders of the world, but in this materialistic age, it is simply not so. But before political leaders in the form of kings and queens stole the idea of wearing a crown of gold, they were worn by the high priests and prophets of the great spiritual schools to symbolize their closeness to God and to Sophia. The gold crown with the points on it represented the sun, so such priests were showing that they were one with the Spiritual Sun. So Boehm is telling us that if we want to be “crowned” by the truth and wisdom of Sophia, we must turn to the Spiritual Sun. It was, after all, the Light of the sun reflecting off a metal bowl striking him in the eyes that gave Boehm his spiritual awakening.

PHOTO CREDIT: NRL/NASA. Movie processed/compiled by Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher (NRL).

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP) has flown closer to the Sun than any spacecraft before. Over 24 scheduled orbits, PSP will journey closer and closer to our star with the aim of flying as close as 8.86 R? from the solar surface by 2024. PSP, which launched on 2018 August 12, was designed, built, and now operated for NASA by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. It has completed the first 3 of its 24 scheduled orbits about the Sun (perihelia on 2018 November 5, 2019 April 4, and 2019 September 1). All three orbits had roughly the same perihelion distance of 35.7 R? from the Sun center. On 2019 December 26, the spacecraft flew by Venus for the second time since launch. This maneuver reduced the perihelion to 27.8 R?, which was achieved on 2020 January 29.

The main science goal of the PSP mission is to determine the structure and dynamics of the Sun’s coronal magnetic field, to understand how the solar corona and wind are heated and accelerated, and to determine what processes accelerate energetic particles. PSP explores the near solar environment through in situ and remote sensing observations of the magnetic field, plasma, and energetic particles to: (i) trace the flow of energy that heats and accelerates the solar corona and solar wind, (ii) determine the structure and dynamics of the plasma and magnetic fields at the sources of the solar wind, and (iii) explore mechanisms that accelerate and transport energetic particles. Understanding the heating and acceleration of the solar wind plasma as well as the energization and transport of solar energetic particles has been sought for decades. By exploring the source regions of these fascinating phenomena, PSP will not only help us make major strides in our understanding but will also lead to unforeseen discoveries.

Over the past year and a half, PSP returned an enormous amount of science data that drew a new picture of the source region of the solar wind. The first discoveries of the mission were reported in the Nature magazine on 2019 December 4. This special issue of the Astrophysical Journal Supplement series consists of over 50 science papers that provide more detailed analyses of the data from the first two orbits. The number of discoveries is more than anyone has anticipated.

Read the article and watch the movie (00:14) online.

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Saturday, December 17, 2022
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RC Robert Petrovich
Cantor: Rev. Barbara Whitney
Reader: Rev. Mary Foust

Sunday, December 18, 2022
6:24 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:00
Gate: 6:45
Sunrise: 7:20
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrants:
RC Robert Petrovich
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION

Church of the Golden Age of Light   RC Robert Roy

Church of the Universal Theocracy Rev. Noriko Roy

Wednesday, December 21, 2022
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
Rev. Michael McIntyre

Friday, December 23, 2022
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RM Elizabeth Reece

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

 

The Twenty-fourth Saying (Part 3)

“‘The best way and the only way to teach is by exemplification. Our Order must send forth teachers showing the true advantages of a spiritual religion over the religions of emotion – the religions that worship a god or gods which have been created by the minds of men or have been nurtured by the psychic nature. All too often it is the interpretation of scripture by sects or orders that lead to these errors.

“‘For example, if we make a literal interpretation of the Old Testament writings, we find that Jehovah is depicted as a god of vengeance – a jealous and wrathful god. Of course, not all Hebrew sects of old agreed with this interpretation. Even in the New Testament, we find that a literal rendering of Jesus’ sayings produces a different Teacher than that of the whole Teacher. Jesus was a man of peace who taught The Way and insisted that every person live it. Yet, Christians today, rather than live The Way, place the power in a church and its sacraments to free them of sin, or they simply declare that Jesus is their personal savior who forgives them of every sin, every error, no matter what it might be. Each person interprets the words of Jesus in his or her own way – innovating, altering, speculating, twisting, and reducing Jesus to a scapegoat who died for everyone’s sins. They have reduced a great Teacher to little more than a shadow of what he really was and thrown away his Teachings of The Way, making him a human savior. They have taken Jesus and created him in their own image, put their own words in his mouth, and created a false god.

“‘The Jesus of the Christian religion today is not the Teacher who was Jesus. The clergy would be the first to admit this but are powerless to alter it. There is a false religion in action. How does one explain this to a Protestant? How does one explain it to a Catholic? But this is in fact what we are obliged to do. If we tolerate the Catholic or Protestant view allowing them to continue on as before, reducing our Teachings to nothing more than a mild supplement to amend the older, orthodox teachings, we only empower the churches of the First Dispensation with all of their errors. And we defeat the purpose of the True Religion and the Church of the Second Advent.

“‘We should always remember that The Church is universal. Its message is to be directed to all world religions. Therefore, our problem is compounded, reaching far beyond the Christian religion. If we were to introduce our ideas to a modern Muslim, we would be trying to reach a person whose idea of the Islamic religion is fixed and no less orthodox than that of a Christian believer. All religionists are sincere. Yet: they have a tendency to reject fulfilling ideas introduced into the orthodox and often secular religious view.

“‘The prophet Muhammad was aware that Islam would be fulfilled at a later date by supplemental teachings coming out of the West. These new teachings should not be considered heretical by the orthodox of any world religion for, after all, the Christian religion, as well as the Hebrew, Buddhist, and Brahman religions, all await a messiah – a world teacher – to fulfill them. The coming forth of this revealed religious teaching does not signify that the old religions are false. It simply means that they are to be fulfilled so that all may be united. No holy war will be necessary to bind them together – only genuine love of God will accomplish this union.

“‘The person of God who reflects the Image and Word is not out of accord with any person, regardless of religion or national origin, creed or color. What the person of God does is live and then teach the One Way – The Way of the One Religion – and leads people to the One God through the Image and the Word which is One. The Way unifies people. And once people are involved in the True Religion, they are not at odds with another religion. They simply teach a higher Way for all.’”

Again, if I may be of any personal service to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Very truly yours in Light+,

Gene

 

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The People of Ukraine
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Liz Jessop
Robert De Ford

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The People of Ukraine
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Tomizou Sonoda
Robert De Ford
Stephanie St. Pierre
Queen Elizabeth, II †

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Martha Reece Curtis

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Kaylea Dowling
Curt Jarzab and wife Angela
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Philadelphia, United States – July 5, 2013: The Love Sculpture by the pop artist Robert Indiana was placed in Philadelphia’s “Love Park”, officially named JFK Plaza, in 1976 as part of the U.S. Bicentennial celebration.

“If you study without Love, your success will be problematic and temporary. Whatever work you do in the world, if you do not put the Divine in it, your success will be problematic and temporary too.

“All those who love God succeed. All those who fail, fail in their love of God. …

“Why is there suffering? Suffering is a refresher. If you have no suffering, twice bigger mishaps will come to you.

“Love is the quality that will connect you with God. A greater good than love you cannot find. And a greater mishap than to lose love you cannot get. When you lose love, you will find death.

“They say: No one can go to God if he is not pure. No one can go to God if he is not good, merciful, and reasonable.

“All tests that we get are to enable us. The difficulties and the stumbling blocks that you meet are an education means. Without suffering and tests, you cannot have any gains.

“In ‘Divine Love,’ I understand the following: I realize that all beings, whatever they may be, have equal rights to Divine Good. That kind of understanding is Divine Love. If you do not understand it like that, it is not Divine Love.

“Happiness can be achieved only when we realize that goal that God has put in life—and that goal is Man’s life in God.” ~Biensa Douno

Study Without Love

When you study materialistic subjects without love, you may have some success, but it will be limited, and incomplete. Only with love can you grasp the full truth of the matter. When you study spiritual subjects, it is unlikely that you will have much success at all if you lack love, especially the love of God.

Put the Divine in Your Work

There is an old story about a wealthy man who hires a local home builder to build a home. The builder does good work, but has not had a lot of success and so does not have much money. He decides to cut corners while building the house for the wealthy man so he will make more profit. When the house is finished, the wealthy man pays for it, then tells the house builder that the home is for him. “I know you work hard but don’t make a lot of money so I decided to build this house for you.” So the builder finds out that the house built in an inferior way is his own.

The point of the story is that we are all building our own homes, our own lives. If we cheat and look for shortcuts, it is ourselves we cheat the most. If we have love and put Divine Love in all we do, that would never happen. We would do our best in all our work. Most importantly, I think Douno is mostly reminding us to do our best with our spiritual growth and spiritual life. To mess up our physical life with bad karma is bad enough, but physical life is short, while spiritual life is eternal.

Connect With God

While some may think of it differently, the goal of spiritual development is to connect with God, learn from God, and ultimately become one with God and one will All. If that is not what we are trying to do, then it isn’t real spiritual development. The spirit is not a part of the body or the mind and it can’t be developed by our efforts alone in the realm of matter. It is only through that connection with God, primarily through the Spiritual Sun, that the spirit can truly awaken and grow. Just reading holy books isn’t enough. Just posting memes about how spirituality is so much better than religion isn’t enough, in fact, it is an indication of egotism, the opposite of spiritual development. So look to the Spiritual Sun and seek that connection with God.

All Beings Have Equal Rights

Douno says that with Divine Love we “realize that all beings, whatever they may be, have equal rights to Divine Good.” I can agree with that. It is important to note that he says all beings, not all humans, not all animals, but all beings which include plants as well. So the holier-than-thou vegans are not doing anything to encourage the growth of their souls, as they to are saying that some beings are more important than others, and eating some beings is just fine, but not others. That is not the truth.

An artist’s impression of the Tanis river site in North Dakota moments after the asteroid strike that doomed the dinosaurs to extinction 66 million years ago.

Picture a calm spring day 66 million years ago in what’s now North Dakota. Perhaps a Triceratops was lying in the sun, while in the river freshwater paddlefish, mouths gaping, were foraging plankton.

Seconds later, a 10-meter-high (33-foot-high) wall of water rushes in from the east and then spheres of glass start to rain down from the sky — some of them still on fire as they hit the river.
These could have been the very last moments of the dinosaur era, which came to a cataclysmic end when a city-size asteroid struck the shallow ocean off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, killing off three quarters of all species on Earth. According to a new study of fossilized fish that were found at North Dakota’s Tanis fossil site and perished as a result of the devastating impact, the asteroid hit in springtime.

Read the entire article posted February 23, 2022 at cnn.com.

link submitted by Gene Savoy Jr.