February 15, 2020: Chapel Readings

 

 

Reverend Canon Robert Petrovich

Each week of the liturgical year, a reading from Second Advent Scripture is delivered as part of the Saturday Communion of Fellowship Service held in the Chapel of the Holy Child. This reading follows the Sacred Calendar of the Church; that is, Prophecies and Revelations that have been received by The Church on sacred dates are recalled in a liturgical context during the appropriate season each year. This reading is delivered just before the final blessings. Each service also includes a reading from the ancient scriptures, prayers, or wisdom sayings of various world religions past and present and is usually thematically related to the Second Advent Reading. This reading is delivered by the Reader right after the announcements that begin the service and is thus the first reading of the service. An audio recording of the reading from Second Advent Scripture delivered on the date above is provided here below together with a transcript of the first reading of the service that day.

 

Click here to watch this week’s readings on YouTube. (13:02 minutes)

 

SECOND ADVENT PROPHECY AND REVELATION

A Reading from Prophecy of the New Covenant, Chapter 91: “Testament of the New Covenant” (pp. 971-979).

 

ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AND WISDOM SAYINGS

A Reading from the Testament of Levi:

I , Levi, . . . when I was feeding the flocks, the spirit of understanding of the Lord came upon me, and I saw all men corrupting the way, and that unrighteousness had built for itself walls, and lawlessness sat upon towers. And I was grieving for the race of the sons of men, and I prayed to the Lord that I might be saved. Then there fell upon me a sleep, and I beheld a high mountain, and I was upon it. And behold the heavens were opened and an angel of God said to me, “Levi enter.” And I entered from the first heaven, and I saw there a great sea hanging. And further I saw a second heaven far brighter and more brilliant, for there was a boundless light also therein. And I said to the angel, “Why Is this so?” And the angel said to me, “Marvel not at this, for thou shalt see another heaven even more brilliant and incomparable. And when thou hast ascended thither, thou shalt stand near the Lord, and be His minister, and shalt declare His mysteries to men, and proclaim concerning Him Who shall redeem Israel. And through thee and Judah shall the Lord appear among men, saving every race of men. And from the Lord’s portion shall be thy life, and He shall be thy field and vineyard, and fruits, gold, and silver.

 

 

 

Click here to watch this week’s readings on YouTube. (13:02 minutes)

 




“Christ-Like Nature Within Us All”

 

 

“Spiritual union is a state of the soul very clear in my perception, although I may not be able to give you a definite impression of this state. In order to benefit you, it became necessary for me to enter into your state, to have an experimental knowledge, an endurance and suffering of the same state. By this experience I have been brought into closer relation to God, partaking more fully of the Christ-like nature by being rendered capable bearing the infirmities of others. And I have had, also, a clearer idea of that quality of God, whereby he multiplies holy souls, by the communication of himself. In this experience, the soul appears to be in God, and God in her, as first cause, drawing and penetrating in the soul nearest to himself, and by penetration, in this soul, drawing, through her instrumentality, many other Souls.

“So pure and transparent is this soul, that there seems to be no space between the first Mover and the souls moved by the instrumentality. There is a difference between the ray and the body of the sun, although it is difficult to separate the ray from the sun.” ~Madam Guyon

Spiritual Union

Spiritual union can happen only when the soul becomes one with God or with the All-Soul. The body cannot unite like that, nor can the mind. Only the soul can do it. But only after the soul has been awakened. It is a difficult thing to do and few achieve it while still trapped in the realm of matter. Difficult, but well worth the effort. One who has united with the All knows the why of everything. Such a person knows, if only on a subconscious level, what is real and what is illusion. They are not easily fooled by anyone or anything. They are not likely to be drawn away from the path of ongoing enlightenment.

 

Read the entire article online at spiritsun.net.

 

Original article posted by HAROLD BOULETTE on NOVEMBER 5, 2019

 




“VILCABAMBA: Last Stronghold of the Inca”

 

The Peruvian jungle holds the ancient city of Vilcabamba, the secret center of Inca resistance, which held out for 40 years against Spanish invaders.

The print edition of the January/February 2020 issue of National Geogrpahic History magazine holds an article on the lost city of the Inca, the secret refuge of Vilcabamba: “VILCABAMBA: Last Stronghold of the Inca” by Maria del Carmen Martin Rubio. An insert to the article (pp. 70-71) presents Gene Savoy’s convictions about the location of Vilcabamba.  Images of the insert appears below.

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WEEKLY MESSAGE: February 12, 2020

 

 

HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

 

 

 

 

February 12, 2020

And here is the first portion of the commentary relating to the Eleventh Saying. I apologize for the length, but there was not a good way to shorten it.

The Eleventh Saying (Part 2 of 4)

“When The Man finished reading, he put down the paper and waited. And each of the mariners contemplated his words. And no one spoke for several minutes. Still The Man waited. And after a time the First Mariner spoke saying: ‘Is this to say that we, the adepts of the Community, are to be the observers of the injustices or wrong doings of the world, and to call upon solar forces to administer justice, or just punishment?’

“And seeing some concern on the faces of the mariners, The Man took a copy of the Bible and, leafing through the thin rice pages, came to a section that was marked by a red ribbon. And speaking softly and directly to the seafarer who had asked the question he said: ‘Let me read you chapter 4 of the book of Malachi from the Old Testament:

“‘For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts. Remember ye the Law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgements. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.’

“And laying the holy book down beside him The Man spoke: ‘Men throughout the Christian world have asked and prayed for the Second Coming of Christ. They forget that when Jesus spoke about the final age of the world, when God shall judge it, he said there would be no Light, but Darkness. Men forget that they are to be judged for their crimes, not rewarded by God . The injustices on this planet are not only an abomination to the dignity of Man, but a crime so horrendous that I have no words to describe it. These crimes occur in prisons, institutions and in society. We can recall what took place in the camps during the great war. There were men, God fearing men, who were cremated, tortured, abused, deprived of all dignity and treated like cattle or worse, because other men had chosen to oppress them. These crimes still continue today on a very large scale where politically-minded persons believe they have the right to do whatever they will against the citizenry of the world simply because there is no one to oppose them. The aged are mistreated. Widows and orphans go hungry. The young are exposed to immoral and unrighteous teachings. Crime and unethical ways are encouraged by those given the responsibility of helping the unfortunate. Homes of correction and prisons abuse those sent to them for help. The sick and infirm are exploited by healers and makers of drugs and medicines. Judges misuse their powers. Public media poison the minds of the populace with propaganda. People of power and wealth make commerce of human beings. Politicians and dictators deny Man the right of individual freedom, the right to worship God, or to know the truth.

“‘Who is to judge powerful nations and powerful men who govern and dominate the lives of the populace? They have become powers unto themselves. Are they to be allowed to continue their mistreatment and injury to the human soul? We all should thank God that He has sent the Sun of Justice, the Messianic Sun, to judge the world for its wrongdoings against Man and Heaven. If we believe in law and order, in justice and goodness, then let mankind be judged by a superior power. If we believe in righteousness, then let God, the true King of the world, mete out justice to men and nations. We know from what has been told us that Man is to be judged not by Man, or by the laws of Man, but by God and by God’s laws. When we of this Community see injustice, wrongdoing and crime against individuals, peoples and nations, we should pray to God through the Light of His Sun to judge these wrongdoers by strong Light. By these means they will be burned up, we are told. Whether this is a figurative statement or not, I do not know. But I suspect that individuals who do wrong will be inflamed by an inner Light. Perhaps nations, and the world, will be burnt away by a strong Light from the Sun. To me, it is a wonderful thing that God has sent the means to accomplish a great good in the world. If Man has set himself up above God’s Law then he must answer for it.

“‘No adept has the power to punish Man. But he can observe wrongdoing and pray to God to correct it through the Sun of Justice. I believe that if enlightened adepts of Light fail to serve as humanity’s protectors, if they neglect their responsibility by allowing crime to be committed, then the world is lost. We all know there is no earthly power alone, no individual power, that can assist mankind in the world today.

“‘I am not speaking here only about crimes of violence and brutality, but of those more sinister crimes against the human Spirit; crimes against humanity by men in power who bend and twist the minds of men away from their dignity and status as children of God. Such powers seek to reshape human souls and turn them away from their own spiritual rights given by God. They would bend men to the Earth, taking away their individual rights as divine beings. Such powers deny that Man has greater rights than those afforded by earthly rulers. They kill the mind and the Spirit and make of human beings playthings of the powers of Darkness whose intent it is to deny mankind forever its immortality. I tell you, gentlemen, these are crimes to be feared more than any other, even those of armies which rule men by force. For Darkness kills the human Spirit silently and it passes away into oblivion as if it had never been. But we know that God’s Light manifest in the Sun of Justice is more powerful than any weapon of war, more powerful than any material power of the Earth. No living thing can withstand the Light that has come in the Sun. And this is what is meant in the biblical passage which says that the Earth shall burn as an oven and all that do wickedly shall burn with it. Not for two thousand years have the prophets of God wielded such a power to do good on Earth. Therefore, it is important that men and women of God unify themselves into an enlightened Order and become the instruments of God on Earth and servants of the people who are crying out for illumination. Who shall help them it not men and women of God? If we could but observe on all the Earth the wickedness and evil promulgated by people of power who are in league with the powers of Darkness because they are so dominated, though to all appearances they are sworn to uphold the law, but for the most part are corrupt, accept bribes, encourage the use of drugs in society, tolerate organized crime, abuse people of all ages, cause whole nations to be armed against their neighbors, forced to build weapons of war and kept in bondage because of the debt thereof, we would want to do something about it – just as the knights of Light and angelic powers in olden times fought for goodness. The time may come, gentlemen, when it will be too late to help.

“‘I don’t believe the Sun of Righteousness is a flaming sword in the hand of adepts that is going to be wielded day by day to cut down the wicked. I believe the Sun works very slowly, but surely. But, the Light of God must be turned on Man’s institutions which are opposed to God, which carry on the work of evil, and the work of the Devil, and the work of Darkness. For those of Light who stand idly by, and watch the world be corrupted by Darkness without doing anything about it, are not fit to look upon the face of the Sun. Think back to Jesus and his actions. Think back to the actions of the apostles, and what they tried to do, to bring about among the peoples of the world. We, as illuminated Souls, must uphold the goodness of God and His Light in the world.”

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

Very truly yours in Light+,

Gene




Services for the Week of February 15, 2020

 

 

 

Saturday, February 15, 2020 
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RC Robert Petrovich
Lector: RM Elizabeth Reece
Cantor: Rev. Barbara Whitney
Reader: Dea. Gary Huss, Jr.
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

 

6:00 PM 129TH PANNUCHES MEAL RITE
Chapel of The Holy Child
RC Robert Petrovich
Concelebrant:
RM Rebecca Willis

 

 

Sunday, February 16, 2020
6:45 AM SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of  New Epiphany
Leave: 6:00
Gate: 6:30
Sunrise: 7:00
RC Ted Staver
Concelebrant: RC Robert Petrovich
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

 

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Golden Age of Light
    Rev. Greg Klinedinst
Church of the Americas    Dea. Radheka Patel
Church of the New Covenant    Dea. Gary Huss Jr.

 

 

Wednesday, February 19, 2020
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RC Peter Foust

 

 

Friday, February 21, 2020
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RM Rebecca Willis

 




February 8, 2020: Chapel Readings

 

 

Each week of the liturgical year, a reading from Second Advent Scripture is delivered as part of the Saturday Communion of Fellowship Service held in the Chapel of the Holy Child. This reading follows the Sacred Calendar of the Church; that is, Prophecies and Revelations that have been received by The Church on sacred dates are recalled in a liturgical context during the appropriate season each year. This reading is delivered just before the final blessings. Each service also includes a reading from the ancient scriptures, prayers, or wisdom sayings of various world religions past and present and is usually thematically related to the Second Advent Reading. This reading is delivered by the Reader right after the announcements that begin the service and is thus the first reading of the service. An audio recording of the reading from Second Advent Scripture delivered on the date above is provided here below together with a transcript of the first reading of the service that day.

 

Click here to watch this week’s readings on YouTube. (11:41 minutes)

 

SECOND ADVENT PROPHECY AND REVELATION

A Reading from Prophecy of the New Covenant, Chapter 90: “Prophecy on the Revelation and the Opening of the Seals” (pp. 964-970).

 

ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AND WISDOM SAYINGS

A Reading from the Prophet Isaiah 66:

For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
And the former shall not be remembered nor come to mind.
But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create;
For as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of My people,
And My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
They shall not labor in vain,
Nor bring forth children in trouble;
For the shall be the descendants of the blessed of the Lord,
And their offspring with them.

As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me,” declares the Lord, “so will your name and descendants endure.

From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me,” says the Lord. “It shall come to pass
That before they call, I will answer;
And while they are still speaking, I will hear.
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together,
The lion shall eat straw like the ox,
And dust shall be the serpent’s food.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,”
Says the Lord.

 

 

 

Click here to watch this week’s readings on YouTube. (11:41 minutes)

 




2020 Advent Day Vigil Observed

 

 

 

Pannuches Meal Rite

The 129th Pannuches Meal Rite was held Saturday, Saturday, February 15, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.

A Jubilee Sunrise Divine Service was held in Sanctuary on the Sunday morning following the Pannuches Rite.

 

Remembrance of The Holy Child

A service in memory of the passing of the Child Jamil was held Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. in the Chapel of The Holy Child. Right Reverend Gene Savoy Jr. Officiated.

 

Advent Day Vigil (February 2-6)

To commemorate the fifty-eighth year since the birth of the Sun of Righteousness and the dawning of God’s Second Advent, Sunrise Divine Services were held at the open-air Church of New Epiphany from Advent Day, Thursday, January 29 through Thursday, February 6, 2020.

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The Advent Day or New Year Vigil was first celebrated liturgically by The Church in 1982. The events of the original Vigil are recorded in “Prophecy on the Revelation and the Opening of the Seals,” chapter 90 of the Prophecy of the New Covenant. During each of the ten days of the original Vigil in 1982, Bishop Savoy received and recorded spiritual information on the building of the Second Advent Church. The significance of this original Vigil to The Church is suggested by a synopsis of the information impressed upon the spirit of Bishop Savoy in those days.

On the first day of the Vigil he recorded the impressions that would be included in The Canon of The Church.

On the second day he recorded the prophecies of Renewal and Transformation and the days and seasons to form part of the Sacred Calendar of The Church.

On the third day Bishop Savoy recorded words concerning The Liturgy of The Second Advent Church.

On February 2, Advent Day, he wrote down the prophecies of things to take place on earth before the final Advent of God, who would make his full Appearance in the Heavens following the Judgment in the End Times of the earth.

On the fifth day of the Vigil Bishop Savoy recorded the means to be applied within the Church to increase God’s Blessings upon it.

On the sixth day, he wrote down all the prophecies pertaining to the matter of the Anti-Christ.

On the seventh day he recorded the means by which the Second Advent Church was to assist God in redeeming the races of the earth.

On the eighth day, Bishop Savoy wrote down impressions to be included in the Litany of The Church in establishing peace on earth.

On the ninth day he received impressions on the means to be used to protect the Church from profanation from within.

On the tenth and final day of the Vigil, Bishop Savoy was told that he would receive the Revelation to the Seven Churches upon the Seven Mountains of Metal of The Sanctuary on the day of Second Advent Easter, April 18.

The Most Right Reverend Gene Savoy, First Disciple of The Child, witnessed the original manifestation of the Sun of Righteousness on February 2, 1962, in Yungay, Peru. The events surrounding the Birth of The Sun of Righteousness on this date in 1982 are described in the Second Advent scriptural text Jamil: The Child Christ. Chapter 27 of this text speaks of the New Sun’s Birth:

All spent the day and night in prayer, fasting and mindful of the events predicted by the Angel. And when the second day of February dawned, the sun shone brightly in the heavens. And they did return to the tomb, and there awaited the promised event. And at noon, when the tomb cast no shadow, behold! a great halo formed around the sun. They stood breathlessly looking in wonder and awe. Then a circle of rainbow colors, like crystal spheres, blue at the center and red at the outer edges, encircled the sun. In the heart of the radiant globe a white Cross appeared. And they feared the Last Day was upon them. And they trembled, forgetting the promise of the Angelic Host, and the message of The Child. For an hour the heavenly blaze burned in the firmament. And The Man looked upon the sun, and the image of Jamil appeared across the sun, radiant beyond words, his countenance bright and his hair white as snow. And The Child was holding the Sun in his arms, over his heart. And The Man saw a gate to another world. Again he saw the four Guardian Angels around The Child, and on the right hand side of The Child he saw the image of Jesus and the Apostles witnessing his appearance. And he heard the voice of Jamil as music, speaking to the Light of his Eternal Soul, saying: “I am resurrected.” And the disciple knew that The Child was redeemed from the earth. . . .

And the risen Child said: “The incarnation of God the Father is come to the world through the Sun of Righteousness, healing and sustaining the human family; and restoring the Life of Righteousness. As the seed of man enters the womb of woman and life cometh forth, so shall a heavenly Seed enter the spirits of men and women, and a new birth shall occur. And the life thereof shall be of God. And death shall not claim this new Body of Light and the Spiritual Consciousness therein. And the Christ transmitted in the Sun of Righteousness, and indirectly on all living things, down to the smallest atom and particle, shall incarnate within the soul of mankind. And every man and every woman shall know that they are one with the Godhead, divine and immortal.

Later in chapter 27, the text refers to the coming of The Comforter that took place on February 6, eight days after the passing of The Child:

And on the fourth day of February, the sun and six planets conjoined in Aquarius. And The Man saw great signs in the heavens. And the Anti-Christ was manifesting. Whereupon, his body and mind and soul suffered turmoil. And the struggle continued through the sixth day, it being the eighth day following the passing of The Child Christ. But The Man prayed to God, looking upon the New Sun and asking the Light to assist him. The Child Christ heard him and sent an Angel to comfort him in his dreams. And the Darkness lost its power over him.

Thereafter, The Man began the Great Work east of the Andes.

 




“The Sun and the World Energy Supply”

 

Image credit: NSO/NSF/AURA

 

“Every two minutes, the energy reaching the Earth from the Sun is equivalent to the whole annual energy use of humanity. All the energy – the cars, lighting, and air conditioning of the world – in one year is equivalent to two minutes of the Sun.”

Sadly, we lack the technology to capture, store and distribute this amount of solar energy.

What if we really understood how the Sun worked? Could we then replicate its functions in a man-made device and supply the world’s needs in natural, safe, non-polluting way? Surprisingly, despite all the technological advances made over the past few centuries, the Sun has hitherto kept its inner workings secret from us.

You may have seen the picture at the top of this page as it was featured in the media over the past week, hailed as a great achievement for the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) – the world’s largest solar telescope built on Haleakala, Hawaii. The image is a close-up view of the Sun’s surface, and the project aims to map & measure the magnetic fields within the Sun’s corona.

An article from The Watchers News website titled World’s largest telescope takes most detailed image of Sun (30 January 2020), points to what little we really know about the great solar Orb, which keeps us all alive. It includes this quote from Matt Mountain, president of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (which manages the DKIST): “Our predictions lag behind terrestrial weather by 50 years, if not more. What we need is to grasp the underlying physics behind space weather, and this starts at the Sun…” Over four hundred years since Galileo first aimed a telescope at the Sun in 1612, mainstream scientists are still struggling to understand how stars and their planets are magnetically connected, and hope that by peering into those “structures” in the photograph, they might unravel “the Sun’s biggest mysteries.”

 

Read the entire blog article by Paul Young online February 2, 2020 at SouthernSunlight.com.

 




“Spirit of Art for a Harmonious World”

 

 

“The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which my inquiry is directed. The course of events has given a direction to the genius of the time that threatens to remove it continually further from the ideal of art. For art has to leave reality, it has to raise itself boldly above necessity and neediness; for art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity of spirits and not by that of matter. But in our day it is necessity, neediness, that prevails, and lends a degraded humanity under its iron yoke. Utility is the great idol of the time, to which all powers do homage and all subjects are subservient. In this great balance on utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time. The very spirit of philosophical inquiry itself robs the imagination of one promise after another, and the frontiers of art are narrowed in proportion as the limits of science are enlarged. The eyes of the philosopher as well as of the man of the world are anxiously turned to the theater of political events, where it is presumed the great destiny of man is to be played out. … I hope that I shall succeed in convincing you that this matter of art is less foreign to the needs than to the tastes of our age; nay, that, to arrive at a solution even in the political problem, the road of aesthetics must be pursued, because it is through beauty” ~Frederich Schiller

Spirit of Art

Schiller is correct in saying that real art is as much a spiritual thing as it is a physical one. Art that simply reflects the status quo of a materialistic society is not really art at all but simply a form of newspaper. Art needs to be more than a mirror reflecting what is around it. While such art can be useful in making us see things about ourselves that we don’t want to face, it has to be spiritual art, at least a little, when it does that.

Spirit of Art in Architecture

When the ancients designed buildings they often followed spiritual principles. They were built to be in harmony with man and nature. They were designed to stimulate spiritual thoughts and ideals. Awakening the spirit and soul was too much to ask of them, but they were one of many tools that aided that process. The great buildings of ancient Greece and classic Egypt are among the best examples of spiritual art in architecture. Today, however, architects are more concerned with showing off how they can stretch the limits of design and function with modern technology. There is nothing wrong with the technology, but it would be better utilized to make buildings that are harmonious and spiritually stimulating.

 

Read the entire article online at spiritsun.net.

 

Original article posted by HAROLD BOULETTE on NOVEMBER 11, 2019

 




Cosolargy Newsletter 2020 Issue 2: February

 

 

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