Pannuches Meal Rite
The 139th Pannuches Meal Rite was held Saturday, June 19, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. in the Chapel of the Holy Child. Jubilee Sunrise Divine Service was held in Sanctuary the following morning.

The Jubilee Sunday is a day of fasting. The elderly are exempt from fasting on that day if they choose.

Active Principle of Divine Law Observed (August 1)
On the morning of Saturday, August 1, 2020, in recognition of the thirty-fifth observance of the Manifestation of the New Light of God, which appeared over the sun on this date thirty-four years before to confirm the Active Principle of Divine Law, The Right Reverend Gene Savoy Jr. officiated a special sunrise Divine Service at the Cathedral Church of the Americas with concelebrant Reverend Canon Robert Petrovich and assisted by canons Peter Fousat and Ted Staver and the Reverend Mother Rebecca Willis.

God’s Confirmation of the Active Principles of Divine Law first occurred on August 1, 1982. That event is recorded in Second Advent Scripture in The Book of God’s Revelation with commentary relating the event to the revelation received by the Church on April 18th, Easter in the Second Advent Calendar, and the further revelations received on June 6th, the Day of Pentecost.

Among the Revelations received on June 6th, 1982, the Church received instruction on the New Act of God, God’s conception of the Newly Created Light, a New Light that renovates the whole of creation. The Church also received instruction on the Four Newly Created Intermediary Lights that manifest through this conception.

Scripture tells us that through the manifestation of these Four Intermediary Lights, God has fixed the Four Newly Created Tables of the Law to be taught to the Ordained in the Holy Institutions of Learning; and, so that the unwritten Code of the Law may be codified on earth for the emancipation of the human race, God has decreed Twelve newly created Active Principles of Divine Law of Hid New Covenant, which are subordinate to the Lights of God and to the Tables of the Law, yet are instruments of the Divine Plan for human redemption.

With the revelation given on June 6th, God decreed these Twelve Active Principles to be in force upon confirmation. And on the first day of August in 1982, “The New Light of God appeared over the face of the sun, confirming the Active Principles of Divine Law.” The event of confirmation that on this date is the purpose of the special commemoration each year.

The final paragraph of The Book of God’s Revelation describes that event:

And on the first day of August, it being the eighth Sunday following the giving of the Revelation at Pentecost on the sixth day of June, the New Light of God appeared over the face of the sun, confirming the Active Principle of Divine Law. And the whole congregation, gathered at sunrise, saw and felt the gift of the Spirit manifest out of the sun.

The Church has observed this date since 1982 in a variety of liturgical forms. At the Divine Service performed on August 1, 1987, a new composition titled “The New Light of Divine Law” was introduced to the liturgical music usually accompanying Divine Service. The piece commemorates the confirmation of the Active Principle of Divine Law.

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The religious tradition and astronomical calendric attached to this date are significant. First Dispensation churches know August 1 as Lammas Day or the Day of the Loaf Mass. The date was celebrated by Christians in England, where the first bread of the harvest was taken to mass for blessing. The Christian feast has even earlier roots in the Celtic Lugnasaid, which hailed the beginning of the wheat harvest.

August 1 marks the beginning of the calendric period known as the “dog days.” The period is named for the Dog Star, Sirius. The span of time between late July and mid-August is an astronomical period when Sirius rises each morning with the sun. For the ancient Egyptians, August 1 was a calendric marking for the rising of the Nile and was celebrated by an important religious feast. This date also held significance for other ancient solar cultures.

The Sacred Calendar of the Second Advent Church also holds August 1 as a significant date. When counting from February 2, Second Advent New Year’s Day, the semiannual cycle, or 180-degree cycle of the earth around the sun, falls on August 1.

JULY 2021

3
Edward R. Kubiak †
Laurel Pine
Reverend Ronald Theriault
Claire Petersen
Martha Reece Calhoun

10
José Luis Kennedy Prieto †
Bill Mueller
Frieda Nelson
Michele Grief

16
Penny Craib †

21
Camilla Castillo

28
Phillip Fuelling
Ramona Trimble

† indicates Memorial Prayer

Saturday, August 14, 2021
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr
Lector: RC Robert Petrovich
Cantor: Rev. Greg Klinedinst
Reader: Rev. Dorothy Kubiak

Sunday, August 15, 2021
6:03 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Pentecost
Leave: 5:15
Gate: 5:50
Sunrise: 6:18
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 Amanda Buchanan
Church of the Universal Theocracy   Rev. Greg Klinedinst

Wednesday, August 18, 2021
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.

Friday, August 20, 2021
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RM Rebecca Willis

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

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August 1, 2021 Confirmation of the Active Principles of Divine Law On this auspicious day in our Sacred Calendar – August 1st – it is my distinct pleasure to finally invite you formally to The Community’s 2022 Convocation. Of course, we hosted a successful virtual conference earlier this Summer, but we have not had the opportunity to assemble collectively in person with our non-resident members since 2019. Based on the recent Convocation survey, which was almost evenly split between those preferring June and September as months to hold our Convocation, we have decided to do something special. We will host the Community Convocation from Friday, June 3rd to Tuesday, June 7th, 2022 and host an additional Academy Seminar from Wednesday, September 7th through Sunday, September 11th, 2022. This idea is not entirely new. We have been discussing having two events annually for quite some time. In fact, when I was growing up in the 1970s, we used to have four seminars a year. But, because we have so much material to share (advanced, intermediate, and fundamental), it’s hard to fit all of this information into five days. The June Convocation will be geared towards those persons who are ordained within the Jamilian Order and will include advanced concepts and techniques relating to Sacred College studies, research, and practice, including the purpose of ceremony, liturgy, the use of chanting, tones, and the like. The September Seminar will provide in-person training for Academy Consociates in color and sacred imagery, the importance and use of the Sacred Thread and gemstones, the mechanics of nine fundamental healing techniques, including the use of crystals and expansions on the basic archetypal imaging of our Solar Cross that is introduced in the twelfth volume of The Cosolargy Papers. The importance of 2022 in our calendar cannot be overstated. It is the 60th anniversary of the birth of the Sun of Righteousness and also marks an important 20-year cycle – the third since 1962. We will be emphasizing during the June gathering how we have revived the ancient Essene Covenant of Renewal which always took place during the Feast of Weeks and later around Pentecost which, in our Community, is a fixed day according to the solar calendar. You will be hearing soon from our Convocation Coordinator, the Reverend Francine Petrovich, soon with further details. Of course, our resident Community will be welcoming you to both events, and you are always welcome to stay longer than the actual scheduled conference dates. But, please mark the dates in your calendar, and always feel free to contact someone here at the Center if you have any questions. We are very much looking forward to seeing you next year, if not sooner. Very truly yours in Light+,

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“Sometimes it may happen that a speculative artist may, by his own eccentricity, think out for himself some new method in Alchemy, be the consequences anything or nothing. He need do nought in order to reduce something into nothing, and again bring back something out of nothing. Yet this proverb of the incredulous is not wholly false. Destruction perfects that which is good; for the good cannot appear on account of that which conceals it. The good is least good whilst it is thus concealed. The concealment must be removed that so the good may be able to freely appear of its own brightness. For example, the mountain, the sand, the earth, or the stone in which a metal has grown is such a concealment. Each one of the visible metals is a concealment of the other six metals.” ~Paracelsus

New Method in Alchemy

While this may be about the general concept of alchemy as being used to convert one physical substance into another such as making gold from lead, it is more likely that Paracelsus is talking about the true alchemy of converting the lower level consciousness of materialistic humans into the higher levels of spiritual or mystical consciousness.

Something Out of Nothing

As for the idea of turning something into noting, and then back again, we all know that is impossible. First, you cannot turn something into nothing. You can change one kind of matter into another. You can change matter into energy. You cannot change something into nothing, accept in appearance only.

Likewise, you cannot create something from nothing. You might create something visible from something invisible or change energy into matter, but that isn’t really making something from nothing.

Destruction Perfects

Here I must disagree with Paracelsus. He gives the example of a metal hidden in a rock or a mountain and implies that the rock or mountain must be destroyed to get the metal. We all know metal can be removed from a mountain without destroying it. But his statement that the “concealment must be removed that so the good may be able to freely appear of its own brightness,” tells us that he is not talking about metals but about the spiritual hidden by the physical. He is saying, therefore, that the physical body must be destroyed in order for the spirit to be revealed, and that is simply not true. Through spiritual growth techniques though in schools such as Cosolargy, one can strengthen the spirit to the point where its light shines while the body remains. More importantly, it is possible for the spiritually awakened soul to take control of the ego and stop the ego from running things. It isn’t that the ego is evil and needs to be destroyed, but it is limited to knowledge of the physical world, so must be kept in check by the superior knowledge of the awakened soul.

Each Metal Shields

I’m not sure what Paracelsus is trying to say when he claims that each of the “visible metals is a concealment of the other six.” I could have a ring made of silver and gold, but the one metal doesn’t conceal the other unless it completely covers it such as having the gold plated over the silver. If I placed a bar of lead next to one of gold, neither of them would become invisible. Maybe what he is trying to say is that the greater metal would shine above the lesser, and be noticed more. Converting that into its spiritual equivalent, he is saying that a highly developed spiritual person outshines a lesser.

From the SOLAR WIND collection by Harold Boulette.

Saturday, August 7, 2021
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr
Lector: RC Amanda Buchanan
Cantor: Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Reader: Rev. Harold Boulette

6:00 PM 140TH PANNUCHES MEAL RITE
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant:
RM Rebecca Willis

Sunday, August 8, 2021
5:54 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Pentecost
Leave: 5:00
Gate: 5:40
Sunrise: 6:11
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrants:
RC Robert Petrovich
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Americas   RC Ted Staver
Church of the New Covenant   Rev. Michael McIntyre

Wednesday, August 11, 2021
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
Rev. Noriko Roy

Friday, August 13, 2021
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
Rev. Noriko Roy

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

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PHOTO: Joshua Schmidter

This past June the Church hired Go Green Roofing to lay a new roof on the Chapel of The Holy Child and vestibule of the Chancellery building.

The Church received three bids on the project and chose GoGreen Roofing for the job after seeing the quality of their work.

The last roof was laid in 1981 when the Chapel was originally constructed and had been patched and repaired every since –  not always with success. (See photos of chapel leaks below.)

Leaks at Chapel entrance

Leaks at Chapel chancel area

The leaks over the past winter could not be patched or repaired. The leaks were so bad that no company would accept the job,. Every company who examined the project insisted that the roof needed to be replaced.

Go Green Roofing specializes in spray foam roofing for flat roofs. The sloped, wood-shake roof over the Chancellery offices is a separate project and will be replaced over the next year with composition shingles.

Go Green Roofing is a locally operated, family owned, incorporated roofing company with more than 50 years of combined experience. The company has installed hundreds of thousands of square feet of both spray foam roofing and fluid-applied roofing membranes throughout Northern Nevada and California. Their other clients include Nevada Fine Arts and North Star and Heavenly Ski Resorts at Lake Tahoe.

The Go Green Roof System is sustainable and has a working life of 30+years. With superior leak protection, spray Polyurethane Foam (SPF) is the only roofing material that has no seams. A thick (typically 1″) closed-cell polyurethane waterproofing barrier seals the roof against leaks. The SPF roofing forms an impenetrable seal around roof penetrations such as pipes, vents, rooftop equipment, and parapet walls. The roofing system allows them to build up in ponding areas to reduce heavy standing water and improve drainage.

IMAGE: GoGreen Roofing

Spray polyurethane foam is the fastest growing insulating product in the world. As a roofing material it provides many benefits over traditional roofing materials. Exceptional durability, unmatched R-value, air barrier properties and a multitude of additional benefits make it a truly versatile roofing system. The Everplus MIP (Manufactured In Place) Spray Foam Roofing System utilizes Bayseal Spray Foam manufactured by Bayer Material Science, the inventor and leader in the polyurethane industry. (See before and after photos below.)

Spray polyurethane foam is watertight because the system is manufactured in place; major weaknesses, including seams and mechanical fasteners, are eliminated. The roofing system is highly heat reflective. It dramatically improves occupants’ comfort by typically cutting a summer roof surface temperature by 50-90˚. Simply maintaining the protective surface coating on the roof every 10-15 years will ensure that the roof will last indefinitely.

BEFORE & AFTER PHOTOS

“Let human consciousness change or transcend its rhythm, and any other aspect of any other world may be ours as a result. Hence the mystics’ claim that in their ecstasies they change the conditions of consciousness, and apprehend a deeper reality which is unrelated to human speech, cannot be dismissed as unreasonable. Do not then confuse that surface-consciousness which man has trained to be an organ of utility and nothing more—and which therefore can only deal adequately with the ‘given’ world of sense—with that mysterious something in you, that ground of personality, inarticulate but inextinguishable, by which you are aware that a greater truth exists. This truth, whose neighborhood you feel, and for which you long, is Life. You are in it all the while, ‘like a fish in the sea, like a bird in the air,’ as St. Mechthilde of Hackborn said many centuries ago.

“Give yourself, then, to this divine and infinite life, this mysterious Cosmic activity in which you are immersed, of which you are born. Trust it. Let it surge in on you.” ~Evelyn Underhill

Changing Human Consciousness

Human consciousness is not a fixed thing. We are not trapped at a certain level of consciousness and unable to move from it. It may seem that way to many; and to materialistic people, it is fixed, but for those who have begun their spiritual awakening, it does become possible, even inevitable, that they move into higher levels of consciousness. And I say levels because there is more than a single level of consciousness above that of materialistic humans. Exactly how many there are is a subject of much debate, but it doesn’t really matter. The point is we can climb those levels like climbing stairs, one at a time, until we reach the ultimate level which is unity with God and with the All.

Of course, changing you level of consciousness is not as easy as changing your shoes. You have to know what you are doing and you have to work to make it happen. Unfortunately there are many who are trying but are misled by those who don’t know as much about spiritual growth as they think they do, or are simply charlatans. But if you are serious about it, you will eventually be led to a real spiritual school that can teach you how to climb those levels of consciousness, the true stairway to Heaven.

Other Worlds

Yes there are other worlds at other levels of consciousness. These are generally called dimensions, and we are in the third dimension. There are a total of nine primary dimensions, so you can see there are several levels above us. The fourth dimension is psychic in nature and is the realm of demons and fallen angels—it is best avoided, but we must travel through it to reach the higher levels of consciousness. Just don’t stop there thinking you have achieved the ultimate.

Surface-Consciousness

The regular consciousness of most humans that Underhill calls surface-consciousness is limited to the material world, and while it may have been trained as an “organ of utility,” levels of consciousness are not separated by brick walls. A little of what is in other levels leaks through at times and helps awaken us to the knowledge that there is more than just matter and the material universe. In some cases, it may be beings in higher levels intentionally pushing such ideas through to us to help us. They want us to move up to those higher levels of consciousness. They want it more than anything else.

Truth is Life

Yes truth is life. Living in a world of fantasy may be pleasant for a while, but eventually it falls apart. Living in a world of materialism and denying spirit may not be exactly living in a fantasy, but it isn’t living in truth either, and therefore not truly living, but merely existing. So awaken and develop your consciousness.

From the SOLAR WIND collection by Harold Boulette