HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

The Twenty-third Saying (Part 7)

“‘Jamil was entirely different from any person I ever knew. People in this Church are different. When people have been touched by God and made immortal, they live in the future after the death of the body. That is why they are not afraid. And that is why they are beyond space and time as we understand it; because if they are in the future, they are already immortal. They must have been created immortal in the Mind of God when He touched them. So they have a very unique and special place in the world. That explains why I saw a vision of Jamil before his birth into the world. Jesus often spoke in such terms. He spoke to his disciples about having been born before the world was. He said, “Before Abraham was I am. Before the world was made, I was with God the Father.” That made people think he had to be the Son of God. He had to be God coming to earth to become material so they could kill him. Not so. He was immortal because God had touched his spirit and made him Divine.

“‘That would explain why a person coming in contact with the Church has an inward inclination to participate in it. That is why our numbers are so limited in the early stages of the Church. It is only for the preordained and not for anyone else. It is not for ordinary people. That may sound somewhat elitist or exclusive, but that is the way it is. In all my years of teaching, I found it does not do any good to teach the person who cannot understand or to teach the ordinary person who has a Darkness of Soul. Persons who understand this Teaching really know it in their heart; they know it in their spirit. They recall things I say. They know it all within themselves. And that is something truly amazing, because they know more than the orthodox clergy in these areas of theology we have been discussing. They know it inwardly. All I do is confirm it. But even though they know it, they do not remember it until I teach them, or until they have read something in our scripture, or until they do something in the Church – until they make an effort in the Church to do something and by that work in the Church they learn by doing. Thus, there is a reward in the Church inasmuch as God’s Word and Image is also within The Community as it is in the Sun. Therefore, The Community becomes a small Image and Word manifest in the world. And in the Church, we call this metanoia.’”

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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This is Convocation week so Services will take that into account.

Saturday, October 8, 2022
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RC Peter Foust
Cantor: Dea. Radheka Savoy
Reader: Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer

Sunday, October 9, 2022
6:24 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:00
Gate: 6:40
Sunrise: 7:09
RC Ted Staver
Concelebrants:
RM Rebecca Willis
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION

Church of the Americas   RC Amanda Buchanan

Church of Universal Theocracy   Claudia Grady

Wednesday, October 12, 2022
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
Rev. Noriko Roy

Friday, October 13, 2022
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
Rev Rob Roy

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Let me say how grateful I am to everyone for making this year’s Community Convocation and Seminar on Color and Sacred Imagery a resounding success! Please mark your calendar for the next Convocation, which will be held the first week of June 2024.

Let us now continue our review of the Twenty-third Saying of Jamil with The Man addressing the Companions of The Way.

The Twenty-third Saying (Part 6)

“‘Jamil often refers to God as ‘the Father,’ because He is active and He is impregnating us with His Energy and with His Light and His Goodness. The masculine title was given to God the Father, the creative spirit. And we, being of the earth, are considered as the feminine aspect because we are receptive. That is why in ancient times, the Soul was referred to as she – Shekinah. The Wisdom of the Soul was always given the feminine designation. Even the sky and the oceans were likened to the feminine aspect. But the Divine Essence, outside of the sky and outside of the world and of the spirit, was likened unto the Father as a masculine power.

“‘Therefore, we make a Divine Marriage in which we give ourselves over to God. He impregnates our being, a conception takes place, and our spirit is reborn and given life as a Soul. We then become Children of God. We live The Way, we look at the sun and reflect to it, we bring about a change in the sun, the change in the sun affects the world and, very slowly, by our Community effort, the world will change and become restored to Light. How long will that require? I do not know. It will require a Community of men and women to achieve this. And that is basically why the religion of our Church is different from any other religion. We are not solely worshiping God, we are not just practicing our religion as a social activity, we are actually involving ourselves with God in a very creative manner in an effort to change the world on His Terms, not ours because we do not know what He is going to do with this world.’

“Upon hearing these words, the same Companion of The Way said, ‘Then, the preordained, those who will come to The Community, are those who originally lived The Way. They saw God face to face. They lived before.’ In reply, The Teacher said, ‘The pre-ordained are those people who have been touched by God. Their Souls, their spirits, have been quickened by God to do this work, to come into The Community. The motivation is spiritual, not human. What other reason would they have for serving in The Community, especially in the beginning of its formation? To join as disciples of a new religion requires vision and foresight. There is no instantaneous gain or glory. Indeed, there is much sacrifice. But the satisfaction gained by mutual association with others of one’s own kind is reward enough.

“‘It is Divine Reason that brings members to The Community, not human reasoning. There is a spiritual beauty about the membership, seen and observed by one another, though perhaps not by the world that loves physical beauty only. As those same people get older, we love them even more. That love is more than physical; it is a real feeling of companionship, of wanting to be with them because they are like we are. Like seeks like.

“‘Once the spirits of the pre-ordained are touched by God – by the Mind of His Spirit or Consciousness, those persons are reborn and are able to work in this Church by the knowledge given them by God, not by what the Head Overseer of the Church says or the books given them. They recognize the reality of that knowledge because they know from within that it is true. Those are the kind of people that are going to be required to build this Church. And they are different from other people.

Very truly yours in Light+,

Gene

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Discovered in 1999 inside an abandoned mine in Southern Spain, Pulpí Geode is the largest crystal ‘cave’ of its kind in the world.

But what exactly is a geode and how do crystals form inside them?

Discover and be amazed by this wonder of nature.

A film by Next Stop Stories

Watch the entire film posted online April 13, 2022 at bbc.com. (5:52)

link submitted by Gene Savoy Jr.

Life emits light. There is even proof our eyes emit light. To a physicist this is possible since all receivers are also transmitters—a radio antenna can send or receive the same signal. The rhodopsin molecules in the retinal cells absorb and emit the same visible light.

Michael Clarage, PhD, Astrophysicist and Lead Scientist of SAFIRE, explains how we could not have organic life without cells, chemicals, light, electricity, or the ecosystems of the Earth and Sun—all levels of the hierarchy communicate and exchange energy.

Watch the video on youtube. (20:45)

link submitted by Robert Petrovich

“Love, this is the first impulse of Genesis, the first impulse of life. Love is the Divine impulse. It is the nicest thing. It is the first thing that comes in life, the first thing that creates the universe.

“We all have to love God. Without love of God, we will be foreign to one another.

“There are teachers now who say, ‘Pray to the Lord and He will listen to you.’ If you pray to Him according to all rules of music, He will listen to you, but if you do not, your prayer will remain here on Earth, It won’t go to the other world. In other words, your prayer must be sent to God with Love. Without love, you cannot get the right tune.

“Musical love must take part in the prayer. These things you do not know. You think you can get to paradise without music. No, no. You cannot get into paradise without music. A person who is not musical cannot get into paradise. He can catch a glimpse from the doorstep, but won’t be able to cross it.” ~Biensa Douno

Pray with Love

Many people pray to God, asking Him for various things, or to help them in various ways, but have no love for God. Real prayer is expressing your love for God, not begging Him to give you things. For starters, God has already given you the greatest gift He has to offer: eternal life in the spirit. He has also shared His creative power with you, although you probably don’t know how to use it wisely. In addition, asking god for material things is pointless because matter is the realm of the Demiurge, not the realm of God. If matter is what you want, talk to Satan.

Love Creates

It is true that love creates and the universe, the spiritual one anyway, was created by God’s Love. Man sometimes creates out of greed, desire, or simple need. God has no needs and no greed. He creates because for Him, creation is an act of Love.

Without Love of God

Douno says that without the love of God, we are foreign to one another. What he means is that we cannot truly know others without love and we cannot truly know ourselves if we do not love ourselves. I am not talking about the narcissist who cares only for himself. That isn’t real love. We need to have a real love for ourselves and others, and the only way to get that is to develop a true love of God. In order to have a real love for God, we must know God, we must connect with God. We do that by awakening our spiritual faculties with the Light of the Spiritual Sun. Then we continue to develop the spirit and soul until we reach the high level of consciousness known as Christ Consciousness or Universal Consciousness. When that happens, we truly know God and we will truly love God once we know Him.

This is Convocation week so Services will take that into account.

Saturday, October 1, 2022
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RC Peter Foust
Cantor: Dea. Marilyn Taylor
Reader: Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer

Sunday, October 2, 2022
6:24 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Cathedral of the Americas
Leave: 5:45
Gate: 6:30
Sunrise: 7:01
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrants:
RC Ted Staver
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION

Golden Age of Light   RR Elizabeth Reece

Universal Theocracy   Rev. Barbara Whitney

Wednesday, October 5, 2022
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
Dea. Radheka Savoy

Friday, October 7, 2022
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RR. Elizabeth Reece

How black holes can swallow stars

Millions of elusive black holes hide in plain sight across the Milky Way galaxy, only giving away their presence occasionally through bursts of X-ray light when they feed on stars.

Astronomers have been able to pin down the locations of eight rare pairings of black holes and the stars orbiting them, thanks to the X-ray echoes they release. Previously, there were only two known pairs emitting X-ray echoes in our galaxy.

Black hole binaries occur when these celestial phenomena are orbited by a star, which they sometimes use to siphon gas and dust as a snack.

The echoes have been converted into sound waves that just may keep you awake at night.

Read the entire article and watch a couple amazing videos at cnn.com.

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“If we consider now (in the Light of Nature) of Man, the Image of God, of his beginning, and of his eternal enduring being, and then of the breaking of his body, how body and Soul part asunder, and whither the Souls go, when the spirit of their breath does break in them, and the moving in the tincture of this world does cease, then we find the ground of the Unquietness of the Soul, when it is separate from the body, being unregenerated; frow whence lamentation and desiring arise; from whence then the Babel of Confusion has risen, so that many things have therefore been invented to ransom Souls. Many of which things have no foundation in the Light of Nature, but were rather invented for covetousness, and for a filling of the belly, and for deceit, upon which the antichrist kingdom is founded. From thence is a right Babel of Confusion come to be, out of which then also the fierce, cruel enmity and hatred has arisen.” ~Jacob Boehme

Body and Soul

It seems that what Boehme is saying here is that the body and soul (or spirit) were initially a single whole, but have been separated into two different things. Exactly what caused that to happen, he doesn’t say, but we know that the answer is man’s sinking deeper and deeper on the physical level into materialism, and moving further and further away from the spiritual. Yet despite this division, the body and soul remain connected in most of us. Only when someone commits a horrendous crime such as murder does the soul completely separate itself from the body and mind, leaving the person as a kind of spiritual zombie.

The Babel of Confusion

Even without a true separation of body and soul, nearly all of us have lost the ability to listen to the soul and hear only the limited intelligence of the mind. Unscrupulous people have taken advantage of that situation to make up tales of how the soul is lost, or how it may be regained. We have all read stories or seen movies in which a person sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for fame and glory. Such tales undoubtedly originate with those who are jealous of the success that others have. Others say that if you join a specific church or religion, your soul will be saved. None of this was taught in the ancient mystery schools. It isn’t necessary for the Devil to barter for souls, he gets enough of them by default.

The ancient schools, and a few modern ones, taught that the only way to get to Heaven and get out of the Babel of Confusion is to awaken and develop the spiritual faculties. This hasn’t changed. Some new schools of spirituality think such schools were overkill, and that simply desiring to be spiritual and meditating regularly will get you to heaven. O legitimate school has ever taught such a simplistic path to enlightenment.

Enmity and Hatred Have Arisen

It is true that this loss of communication between the mind and Soul has resulted in much enmity and hatred. We wage war against our brothers and sisters (all of humanity is our brothers and sisters,) we claim ownership of things that rightfully belong only to Nature, we take what is natural and good and turn it into things that are unnatural and unhealthy. We get diseases, and spread them to others. We feel we deserve something that others have, so we attack them and take it. This is not the way God wants us to Live. It is not the way we should want to live. If we make the effort to awaken and develop our spiritual faculties, and learn to communicate with them, we will leave the Babel of Confusion, and learn how to live together in peace, health, and harmony.