Compare the sharpess and level of detail captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope (left) and the James Webb Space Telescope (right).

The James Webb Space telescope has the sharpest perspective on otherwise invisible light in the universe.

The highly anticipated first science images by the world’s premier space observatory aren’t expected until this summer. But recent test images captured by the telescope during its final commissioning phase are providing a glimpse of what’s to come.

“These are the sharpest infrared images ever taken by a space telescope,” said Michael McElwain, Webb observatory project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, during a news conference Monday.

Webb will be able to peer inside the atmospheres of exoplanets and observe some of the first galaxies created after the universe began by observing them through infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye. The images were taken after the successful alignment of the telescope’s massive golden mirror segments. The test images show the clear, well-focused images that the observatory’s four instruments are capable of capturing.

Read the entire article posted May 9, 2022 online at cnn.com.

link submitted by Gene Savoy Jr.

link submitted by Gene Savoy Jr.

“When the inward and God-seeing man has attained to his Eternal Image, and in this clearness, through the Son, has entered into the bosom of the Father; then he is enlightened by Divine truth, and he receives anew, every moment, the Eternal Birth, and he goes forth according to the way of the Light, in a Divine contemplation. And here [is where] our highest blessedness consists.

“You should know that the heavenly Father, as a living ground, with all that lives in Him, is actively turned towards His Son, as to His own Eternal Wisdom. That same Wisdom, with all that lives in it, is actively turned back to the Father, that is, towards the very ground from which it came forth. … But where this wonder is understood and tasted without amazement, there the spirit dwells above itself, and is one with the Spirit of God; and tastes and sees without measure, even as God, the riches which are the Spirit itself in the unity of the living ground, where it possesses itself according to the Way of the uncreated essence.” ~John of Ruysbroeck

Man’s Eternal Image

Why would Ruysbroeck say that something happens when “man has attained to his Eternal Image”? He says that because our Eternal Image is our soul, not our physical body. So when the Bible says that we were created in God’s Image, it has two meanings. One is that it is our soul which is in the Image of God, not our body, and two, created in His image is also a way of saying that God creates everything by forming an image of it in His mind. It is the same way we, as God’s children, create. The difference is that when God creates an image of something in His mind, that thing now exists, whereas, when we create, say a statue in our mind, we still have to go throw the process of carving the statue. So when Ruysbroeck writes of one who has “attained his Eternal Image,” he means a person who has awakened their spirit and developed it into a conscious soul.

Divine Truth

One who has fully developed his or her spiritual faculties does know Divine Truth. This is not found by reading any book or listening to any person speak. It comes from oneness with God and oneness with the All. Such people don’t have to guess at what is true and what is false, they know. This is the Knowing that the Gnostics call Gnosis.

Way of Light

Ruysbroeck says that we achieve this Eternal Oneness and Enlightenment by “going forth according to the Way of the Light.” He is correct that this is the way to spiritual awakening, and eventually full enlightenment, but how does one go forth “according to the Way of Light”? Ruysbroeck couldn’t be specific because of restrictions in his time, but today we can say that this Way of Light is to practice Spiritual Sun-gazing with the Spiritual Sun, which requires instruction from a knowledgeable teacher. It also requires one to be fully devoted to God.

Sees Without Measure

Ruysbroeck adds that one who has achieved this level of enlightenment “ tastes and sees without measure, even as God”. This is possible because when we have achieved oneness with God, then naturally we see, hear, and know everything that God does.

Saturday, October 29, 2022
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RC Rob Roy
Cantor: Rev. Barbara Whitney
Reader: Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer

Sunday, October 30, 2022
6:24 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:15
Gate: 7:00
Sunrise: 7:32
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrants:
RC Robert Petrovich
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION

Church of the Christian Churches   Rev. Peter Foust

Church of the End Times   Rev. Mary Foust

Wednesday, November 2, 2022
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RC Robert Petrovich

Friday, November 4, 2022
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
Rev Francine Petrovich

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

The Twenty-third Saying (Part 10)

“‘It is God’s Will to bring about the redemption of humankind. It is part of His Divine Plan to redeem the world. So, if we work in the Church together, we are naturally bound to benefit more through the added benefit of metanoia. However, looking at the sun but not living The Way nullifies or negates the benefit. Looking at the sun, living The Way, working in Community, participating in God’s Will, which is the Divine Plan for the redemption of the whole race and the world – restoring it to Light – gives us greater power because we are able to assimilate more stimuli, if I can use that term. That is the reason for Community. Community also allows us to pass along to future generations our goodness and knowledge. If we fail to pass along what we have learned to future generations, they must begin all over again.

“‘The churches of the First Dispensation are kept in a state of ignorance because they do not have access to God’s Power or Christ’s Power. They do not have access to the Light and the Image of Christ. Consequently, members of those churches cannot be God-like or Christ-like. The imitation of Christ has been transformed into a dogma or a doctrine that, basically, consists of “thou shalt do this, thou shalt do that,” or “thou shalt not do this, thou shalt not do that.” Consequently people are expressing themselves on the level of a manmade religion as opposed to a Godly religion which must be controlled by God in Heaven through the sun, not here on earth.

“‘For example, when scholars retranslate, as they have been doing in recent years, parts of scripture that could give different meaning, the whole concept becomes different. Perhaps something that we have believed to be true for hundreds or thousands of years is not true after all. God cannot err. God’s Word must be accurate, authentic, reliable and unchanging. It cannot be so if it is confined to the world or if it comes within the hands of scholars to change. The Divine Word cannot change because it originates from outside of the world and manifests through the sun and is only available to those people living The Way within this Church. That is a simple and hard teaching, but that is what the words of the Twenty-Third Saying tells us.

“‘We are learning that the world is beginning to change. In other words, if the Sun of Righteousness is real, then it is changing the physical sun. That sun is changing the planet. God’s Image and Word, indirectly, is affecting the whole physical universe. By efforts of working together in Community, the world becomes knowledgeable in living The Way. And, as greater numbers of people begin to live The Way, society – politics, economics, the military – must change as a result. Thus, if an individual or the world wants to be Good, they only need to adhere to Good religion and the world will be Good. But, people do not really want the world to be Good; that is why it is not Good. They do not want the Church of Christ to be Good. They do not want the Goodness of God. They want to change things for their own convenience. The problem in the world today is that the world is an image of the mind of Man not an Image of God.’”

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 sun becomes two; left looks to the right; the suns come together as two become one.

The sun becomes two; right looks to the left; the suns come together as two become one.

Look to the North; the suns come together.

Look to the South; the suns come together.

Look to the East; the suns come together.

Look to the West; the suns come together.

Back to the Source, the suns come together.

Two become One, as the suns come together.

This poem was contributed by consociate Bruce KLanzelmeyer

The Egyptians may have the most famous mummies, but they’re not the oldest. The Chinchorro people of Chile’s Atacama Desert were the first to mummify their dead – 7,000 years ago.

In Chile’s Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth, mummies have been found that pre-date the Egyptians’ by 2,000 years. So while the Egyptians may be the most famous culture to mummify their dead, it turns out they weren’t the first to do so.

“The Chinchorro are the very first people that inhabited the north of Chile and the south of Peru,” said Bernardo Arriaza, a physical anthropologist with the University of Tarapacá. “They are the pioneers of the Atacama Desert.” And, he added, they are also the first known culture in the world to mummify their dead, starting around 5,000 BCE.

Read the entire article online at bbc.com.

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Mud buildings are remarkably good at keeping us cool in summer and warm in winter, and withstanding extreme weather. In the search for more sustainable buildings, architects are returning to this overlooked, age-old construction material.

In Yemen’s ancient walled city of Sana’a mud skyscrapers soar high into the sky. The towering structures are built entirely out of rammed earth and decorated with striking geometric patterns. The earthen buildings blend into the nearby ochre-coloured mountains.

Sana’a’s mud architecture is so unique that the city has been recognised as a Unesco World Heritage site.

“As an outstanding example of a homogeneous architectural ensemble reflecting the spatial characteristics of the early years of Islam, the city in its landscape has an extraordinary artistic and pictorial quality,” Unesco writes in its description of Sana’a. “The buildings demonstrate exceptional craftsmanship in the use of local materials and techniques.”

Even though the buildings in Sana’a are thousands of years old, they remain “terribly contemporary”, says Salma Samar Damluji, co-founder of the Daw’an Mud Brick Architecture Foundation in Yemen and author of The Architecture of Yemen and its Reconstruction. The ancient structures are still inhabited today and most remain private residences.

Read the entire article posted July 5, 2022 at bbc.com.

link submitted by Gene Savoy Jr.

“All the Christian Kabalists understood well the Eastern root idea: The active Power, the ‘Perpetual motion of the great Breath’ only awakens Cosmos at the dawn of every new period, setting it into motion by means of the two contrary forces, and thus causing it to become objective on the plane of illusion. In other words, that dual motion transfers Cosmos from the Eternal Idea into that of finite Manifestation, or from the Noumenal to the Phenomenal plane. Everything that is, was and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their Ideal form. They existed as Ideas, in the Eternity, and when they pass away, will exist as reflections. Neither the form of Man, nor that of any animal, plant, or stone has ever been created only on this plane of ours. It expanded from the sublimated and supersensual essence into its grossest appearance. Therefore, our human form has existed in the Eternity as astral or ethereal prototypes; according to which models, the Spiritual Beings (or gods) whose duty it was to bring them into objective being and terrestrial life, evolved the protoplasmic forms of the finite Egos from their own essence.” ~H. P. Blavatsky

Perpetual Motion

The only motion that can truly be considered perpetual is the motion that happens on the spiritual level since only the spiritual is eternal. No matter how hard you try to make a physical object have perpetual movement, you can never be totally successful because the object itself will eventually decay or somehow be destroyed. So what Blavatsky is calling the “perpetual motion of the Great Breath” refers to the breath of God, which isn’t breath in the physical sense, but a spiritual kind of breath, namely the constant flow of Divine Light from God that gives life to everything spiritual.

Dawn of a New Period

Blavatsky says, quoting, I think from some ancient source, that this Perpetual breath only awakens the Cosmos at the dawn of a new Period. That is a vague way to put it since a period can be anything from a second to a billion years. Most spiritual writers would say “Ages” rather than “Periods” so people understand that we are dealing with a long period of time. In Cosolargy, we call these Ages “Suns”.

So what Blavatsky is saying is that the spiritual energy from the Breath of God changes the Cosmos at the beginning of each age. The breath of God, or Divine Light, is there always, but how much of it reaches us through the sun varies with each age. We are now fortunate enough to have the promised Sun of Righteousness shining down upon us as we are at the beginning of a new age.

Contrary Forces on the Plane of Illusion

The Plane of Illusion is the physical world where things are never quite what they appear to be. It is the level of duality, and therefore contrary (or opposite) forces such as hot and cold, male and female, light and dark, etc.

Everything Eternally Is

This is true only on a spiritual level. We all know that physical things change, decay, and die or rot away. I don’t know what point Blavatsky is trying to make by saying that everything “eternally is,” but to those who care only about the physical (or the phenomenal as Blavatsky calls it), nothing is eternal. The important thing to understand is that we humans have the unique ability to awaken our spiritual faculties while still living in physical form and uniting the physical, mental, and spiritual Self into one whole. Then, and only then, do we become truly immortal.

Existed as Ideas

It is also true that everything that God created existed first as ideas in God’s thought. Some say that God’s thought is all that really does exist. In any case, it is no different for other beings given the creative ability of God. The Demiurge could not have created the realm of matter without first forming the ideas mentally. Likewise, humans don’t create without first forming ideas in the mind. Most of us understand that, but what we don’t realize is that we create far more of the world around us than we usually think (though probably less than those who are fans of manifesting). Our thoughts, combined with the thoughts of all the other people on earth, are largely responsible for the environment we live in here. If we are sending out mostly thoughts of anger, greed, jealousy, etc. we will have a world that reflects that. If we learn to send out thoughts of peace, joy, harmony, etc., then we will get a world that reflects that. Let’s hope that happens soon.