PATH TO LIGHT: This Being’s Path to Light (Anonymous)

 

 

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Not quite sure where to start this story. It has been a very long journey—many lifetimes as far as I can tell. However, my memories of past lives are limited only to region and purpose. But none of that is really important. I do know that from the time I was born into this lifetime I have been searching for the Truth—which, in this dualistic world, appears to be quite elusive and abused.

 When I was young I knew that there was something wrong with this world. The wool had been pulled over our eyes. But, why was no one complaining?  Why was no one searching for truth as I was?  I would ask questions of the church I used to attend that would bring answers that made absolutely no sense to me. I knew that there was something out there to find—well beyond the church and well beyond this realm.

 But, finding it was quite a search. Obviously I stopped going to church as the people I met there could not answer my questions and appeared to be quite hypocritical. I searched religions other than Christianity. When in college, I minored in philosophy—learning about as many other religions as I could. The one that I would call closest to the Truth (Gnosis) was Buddhism. But there was still a gap.

 After college, I went on to try to live a “normal” life (LOL). But, the seed inside me kept pushing to find answers. I began reading hundreds of books just to get bits and pieces of clues (archaeology, religion, spirituality, new age, aliens—whatever subject would answer my latest question). Then, several major events occurred in my life. I lost someone dearly close to me; I had significant problems at work, and I had major surgery.

 These happened all in the middle of my seeking; however, in retrospect, they were all blessings. After my surgery, I had a lot of time off from work—all to myself, to search and read. I remember the exact day that it happened—the most life-changing event of all. A voice was speaking to me from another world. I did not believe it at first and thought maybe I was either dying or going crazy. The voice told me to write down our conversations so that I would realize this was true and really happening. I did, and I was led through the adventure of a lifetime—learning universal secrets, being in direct contact with God and the other side of the veil. It was like glimpsing or being born into an entirely new world yet being stuck between that world and this one. I barely spoke for six months because this entity was answering every question I had ever had and teaching me what I needed to know about the real spiritual truths of things so that I could continue along this path. My questions were either answered directly by voice or out of synchronicity I would be led to something (a book, a movie, a website) where I would inherently find the answer. It was a magical time. Everything was blessed, I could feel the presence of the Christ Energy in my life and being, and every day felt like a vacation. I now understood what it meant to be in this world but not of this world.

 I began to interact with others online that I felt were closest to finding the Truth; however, eventually there ended up being no one. Then I began to learn through enlightenment the unknown truth:  the closer one comes to God or the Truth, the more one attracts evil in this dualistic world. The onslaught of attacks on this being were unbelievable. My friends said that they had never seen anything like it. Everything in my life was turned upside down. My husband went insane (literally) and blamed it on my spirituality. He has been my bane ever since and is now completely disabled and under my and my friends’ care, although he still causes us a lot of problems.

After so much of this misery, I had become quite dismayed and pretty much hopeless. I could not see the next step on the spiritual journey and was almost starting to wonder if there even was one. Then I was led, as usual, to find an article on sun-gazing and Cosolargy. I eagerly read it, and things immediately became clearer. This explained the solar orientation of all the ancient civilizations like the Egyptians and Mayans!  And, it explained the activation of the pineal gland and the path to full enlightenment. I had not felt this much excitement (really, no excitement) in years. I continued searching the internet on this subject and found that there was actually an organization that taught and utilized these methods. The next step was finally clear, and shortly thereafter I joined The International Community of Christ.

 Initially, though, this did not deter the attacks. They were so intense that I should have died and probably would have, except that, fortunately, my spiritual Guardians found a way to remove me from the evil circumstances for a while—a temporary assignment in a foreign country for just a few months. And, here I am in Japan. I have been here for three months and am just starting to unwind enough to remember the path that I am on and not having to defend/protect myself at every second of every day. I am hoping that the last few years have been what St. John of the Cross calls the dark night of the soul. But, it matters not, because I know why I am here and, no matter what terrible things come my way, I will continue on this path to Light.

 




Services for the Week of April 26, 2014

 

 

 

Saturday, April 26, 2014
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RC Elizabeth Reece
Cantor: Rev. Ben Hubbard
Reader: Rev. Gary Huss, Sr.

Sunday, April 27, 2014
5:57 AM NEW DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Pentecost
Leave: 5:00
Gate: 5:40
Sunrise: 6:12
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Assistants:
RC Roger Weld
RC Robert Petrovich
Rev. Barbara Snyder
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Golden Age              RM Carol Ann Crabb
Church of the Universal Theocracy                 RC Elizabeth Reece
Church of the New Covenant              Rev. Barbara Whitney

 Wednesday, April 30, 2014
12:00 N COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
RC Robert Petrovich

 9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RC Robert Petrovich




April 19, 2014: Chapel Readings

 

PHOTO: Roger Weld

PHOTO: Roger Weld

In recognition of the annual celebration of the Easter season according to the Western church calendar, Bishop Gene Savoy Jr. delivered a homily message First Dispensation Holy Saturday, April 19, 2014, in the Chapel of the Holy Child preceding the commemorative service of communion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIRST DISPENSATION HOLY SATURDAY HOMILY:

< Click here to listen to this week’s homily (21 minutes). >

ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AND WISDOM SAYINGS

25th Ode of Solomon:

 

I was rescued from my bonds and unto thee, my God, I fled: For thou art the right hand of my Salvation and my helper. Thou hast restrained those that rise up against me, and I shall see them no more: because thy face was with me, which saved me by thy grace. But I was despised and rejected in the eyes of many: and I was in their eyes like lead, And strength and help from thee were mine. Thou didst set a lamp at my right hand and at my left: and in me there shall be nothing that is not bright: And I was clothed with the covering of thy Spirit, and thou didst remove from me my raiment of skin; For thy right hand lifted me up and removed all ailment from me: And I became mighty in the truth, and holy in thy righteousness; and all my adversaries were afraid of me; And I became admirable by the name of the Lord, and I was justified by His gentleness, and His rest is for ever and ever.

 




April 18, 2014: Second Advent Easter Observed

 

 

Second Advent Easter Sun at sunrise PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Second Advent Easter Sun at sunrise PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

 

Pannuches Meal Rite
The 85th Pannuches Meal Rite was held Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 6:00 PM. Jubilee Sunrise Divine Service was held in Sanctuary the following morning.

Bishop Gene Savoy Jr and Reverend Mother Carol Ann Crabb during performance of Pannuches Meal  PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Bishop Gene Savoy Jr and Reverend Mother Carol Ann Crabb during performance of Pannuches Meal PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

 

Second Advent Easter (April 18)
On Thursday April 18, 2013, a concelebrated Sunrise Divine Service was performed at the Cathedral Church of the Americas. A light breakfast was served at the Sanctuary Chapter House following the service.

 

Concelebrants play "singing" bowls at sunrise

Concelebrants play “singing” bowls at sunrise

 

April 18 is celebrated as True Easter in the Second Advent Church in a twofold manner: first, we commemorate the spiritual resurrection of Jesus on this date in keeping with the solar calendar, which, unlike the lunar calendar used by First Dispensation churches, is fixed; second, we remember the Revelations received in Sanctuary on this date in 1982, an event that served to confirm the importance of this date in the Sacred Calendar of the Church. Revelations received on this date are recorded in The Book of God’s Revelation.

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On April 18, 1982, The Church received a revelation confirming the Second Appearance of God when the Angel of the Lord in the form of Jesus manifested in visible form at the Sanctuary of Revelation and entrusted The Church with the keys to open the Seals of the Book of Revelation. The date of Second Advent Easter was established as part of the Sacred Calendar following the series of Revelations that The Man received on that day as he climbed the Seven Mountains of Metal.

It is recorded in The Book of God’s Revelation that, while on the fifth mountain, the Mountain of Bronze, The Man was exhorted to instruct the Righteous and the Ordained Ministers in the Sacred Calendar of God’s Word, to let them be knowledgeable in the Days of His Appearances and Blessings, and to let them gather together at the prescribed times so their spirits might be anointed by God’s Comfort and strengthened by His Consolation. Thus Second Advent Easter has a unique and sacred significance to members of the Second Advent Church.

On that day in 1982, while The Man stood on the summit of the Mountain of Iron in the Sanctuary of Revelation, an Angel of the Lord appeared to The Man out of the midst of the Four Luminaries, identified Himself as Jesus and spoke:

All prophecies having been fulfilled, Judgement is now upon the world of the living. The Heavens declare the glory of God in His Final Appearance. He has established His Tabernacle in The Sun whose rays enlighten the Soul of the Righteous, putting them on The Way of holiness.

The blind are made to see His Image. The deaf are made to hear His Word. The dead are made to rise at His Coming. Every Spirit is judged before The Creator. Freedom to err is abolished. The wicked find no sanctuary in Darkness, for it is lit and evil is exposed.

As foretold by The Father in Heaven who revealed understanding of future events to His prophets in visions, the fruit of the vine is abundant. All may drink anew the dew for a blessing as drops from the honeycomb. God pours out His Holy Spirit as from a fountain flowing from a rock over desolate wastes. By the perfection of His Light, God breathes His Word a final time. His utterings bring forth a New Creation. He reveals the Image of His Countenance.

God has opened the gates of the Heavenly Temple. The altar is of Light fashioned by the luster of His Presence on the Throne of His Glory. The tabernacle is lit by the sun, and the Bread of Life is placed thereupon. The Heavens are rolled up like a scroll inscribed with His Statutes and Judgements. His Law is written on the Tablets of Light borne by the Ark of His New Covenant as a rainbow.

I ministered to Israel, to a generation unworthy of redemption, and I was scourged by faithless men. I, a man of sorrows who bore the grief of the people turned to their own ways, did intercede for the transgressors, sacrificing myself not to God but to my people out of my love for them. But Israel understood not my preordained presence, which was my destiny from birth as God’s Appointed One. . . .

Moses and the prophets of the remnant of True Israel spoke of my coming to redeem the people. With the rejection of me, the Light went out from the land. But the precious remnant, shortlived, awaited the Advent of God and the brightness of His Second Coming.

The Day of The Lord is near. He appears out of the Darkness to enlighten the whole Creation with His Image and to judge it with His Word. It is meet that He manifest His Image before His full coming and prepare the Creation with His Word. For I declare unto you that when He comes to restore the creation and reveals Himself, nothing shall live save His Light and those Souls reborn of that Light. . . .

 

Further Revelations received by The Man on April 18, 1986, are recorded with commentary in The Book of God’s Revelation.

In the Second Advent Church, Easter is a fixed date in the Sacred Calendar. The Church celebrates true Easter each year on April 18. On this day The Church honors both the day of Jesus’ Resurrection and the day of Jesus’ Revelations and Appearance at the Sanctuary.

It is known that the Eastern Church had celebrated Easter every year on April 16, the 14th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan, also known as Passover. The day of the crucifixion, a Friday, and the 14th day of Nisan, was recognized as the beginning of the 15th of Nisan. Jesus was resurrected on the following day, Sunday the 16th.

The Church, holding to the solar calendar of the Essaei, maintains that the date of Easter cannot be movable in present-day time reckoning, as it is under the lunar calendar (determined as the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring). The fixed Sacred Calendar of the Second Advent ministry recognizes that an annual alignment of the earth and sun, planets, stars, and the cosmos in general, makes this day cosmically important.

Because the manifestation in Sanctuary took place on April 18, 1982, The Church considers this day to be the day in alignment with the original date of the Resurrection. For these reasons The Church keeps this day sacred.

The Gospel message records Jesus as saying, “For the son of man shall come in the glory of the Father with His Angels; and then He shall regard every person according to his works.” It was written by prophets of former times that God would send His messenger to prepare the way of God’s Second Coming, as promised to Adam and Eve, and come as a fire to refine the world. The Old Testament presents the prophecy of Malachi: “For behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven and all that do wickedly shall be stubble, but unto you that love me, shall the Sun of Righteousness appear with healing in its rays, and ye that do righteously shall grow up as a new people of God. And I shall spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.”

With God’s manifestation in the Sun of Righteousness on February 2, 1962, and the Appearance of Jesus on April 18, 1982, the Second Advent of God and the manifestation of Jesus and the Angelic Host have transpired and are presently at work for the salvation of the righteous.

 

Harpist Elizabeth Reece observing the sunrise sun PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Harpist Elizabeth Reece observing the sunrise sun PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

 

 




April 17, 2014: Homily on First Dispensation Holy Thursday

 

PHOTO: Roger Weld

PHOTO: Roger Weld

In recognition of the annual celebration of the Lord’s Supper according to the Western church calendar, Bishop Gene Savoy Jr. delivered a homily message on the evening of Thursday, March 28, 2014, in the Chapel of the Holy Child preceding the commemorative service of communion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

< Click here to listen to the 2014 holiday message (24 minutes). >

 




“Acclamation of the Life Supreme”

 

Below is a message composed in French by Francine Petrovich, along with a literal English translation.CrossofEnlightenment

 

ACCLAMATION DE LA VIE SUPREME

 

L’Ange de la Lumi re se manifeste et nous enveloppe d’une grande robe de splendeur.

Le Secret Divin annonce l’unitée céleste représentant l’idéal de perfection pénétrant le myst re de l’âme éternelle retrouvée.

La connaissance de Dieu se rév le chaque levée du soleil dévoilant la majesté des réalités spirituelles l’image de la Source Premi re.

Les agents de Dieu, enfants de la terre, refl tent en harmonie la sagesse de l’âme et la conqu te de leur lieu d’Origine.

La Grande Union de soi-m me avec le Créateur de la vie supr me déclare la paix divine, une grâce intérieure sans retour.

Le Soleil de Justice brille la magnitude du Royaume spirituel et proclame les vérités éternelles, les forces créatives de l’Univers.

Les enfants de la terre qui reluisent comme des étoiles au firmament renaissent en allégresse dans la Lumi re victorieuse.. . UN CHANT DE TRIOMPHE… UN TRIOMPHE D’OR…

ALLÉLLUIA

 

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ACCLAMATION OF THE LIFE SUPREME

 

The Angel of Light manifests itself and envelopes us in a great robe of splendor.

The Divine Secret announces the celestial unity representing the ideal of perfection, penetrating the mystery of the eternal soul regained.

The Knowledge of God reveals itself at each rising of the sun, unveiling the majesty of spiritual realities in the image of the First Source.

The agents of God, children of the earth, reflect in harmony the wisdom of the soul and the quest for their place of origin.

The Great Union of our Selves with the Creator of Supreme Life declares divine peace, an interior grace without descent.

The Sun of Righteousness radiates the greatness of the spiritual Realm and proclaims eternal truths, the creative forces of the universe.

Those children of the earth who shine like stars in the firmament find rebirth rejoicing in Victorious Light. . . A SONG OF TRIUMPH. . . A GOLDEN TRIUMPH.

ALLELUIA

 




Spirits and Souls

 

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“Truly, says Cudworth, the greatest ignorance of which our modern wiseacres accuse the ancients is their belief in the soul’s immortality. Like the old skeptic of Greece, our scientists—to use an expression of the same Dr. Cudworth—are afraid that if they admit spirits and apparitions they must admit a God too; and there is nothing too absurd, he adds, for them to suppose. In order to keep out the existence of God. ..
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The preexistence and God-like powers of the human spirit were believed in by most all the sages of ancient days. The magic of Babylon and Persia based upon it the doctrine of their Machagistia. The Chaldean Oracles, on which Pletho and Psellus have so much commented, constantly expounded and amplified their testimony. Zoroaster, Kebes, Euripeded, Plato, Euclid, Philo, Boehius, Virgil, Marcus Cicero, Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus, plessus, Synesius, Origen, and, finally, Aristotle himself, far from denying our immortality, support it most emphatically. … As says Henry More, ‘Aristotle expressly concludes that the rational soul is both a distinct being from the soul of the world, though of the same essence,’ and that ‘it does preexist before it comes into the body.’” ~H. P. Blavatsky

“It is curious, sometimes quite humorous, how some scientists will tie evidence into ridiculous knots to prevent even hinting at the idea of God or a spiritual world from which the material is generated. I sometimes watch those shows on the H2 channel where ‘experts’ tell us how all the ancient stories about angels, fairies, gods, nymphs, sprites, etc. are really about aliens, by which they mean material beings from other planets who traveled here on very material space ships and showed off their very materialistic sciences which were so advanced that our ancestors considered them magic or miracles. There only proof of this theory is that it must be true since, obviously, spirits are not real.

“Yet, as Blavatsky points out, many great philosophers, teachers, and leaders have always said that spirits are very real, and so is God. . . .”

To read the complete post, click on this link: http://blog.spiritsun.net/2014/03/07/spirits-and-souls.aspx

 

 




“Color Plays Musical Chairs In the Brain”

 

 

PHOTO: BigThink.com

PHOTO: BigThink.com

 

“Isaac Newton defined the optical spectrum, but it was Goethe who first understood that color is more than just a physical problem. In Theory of Colours (1840), the German writer and painter examined phenomena like colored shadows, refraction, and chromatic aberration, as well as the psychology of color, ‘marvelling at color’s occurrences and meanings’ and hoping to uncover its secrets. His great insight: color vision is shaped as much by human perception as it is by mechanical functioning.”

 

 

< Read the complete article by Megan Erickson posted online August 12, 2012 in the Think Tank at bigthink.com. >

 

 

link submitted by Frieda Nelson

 




You Are Invited to the 2014 Nevada Prayer Breakfast

 

2010-ANN-NevadaSeal The Nevada Clergy Association requests your presence at the 2014 Nevada Prayer Breakfast, “A Future Together,” to be held on Tuesday, April 29, 2014 from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. at the Paradise Ballroom on the second floor of the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa Reno, Nevada.

The Keynote Address will be delivered by Melissa Holland, Founder and Director of Awaken Communities United to End Sex Trafficking.

The Nevada Clergy Association will present the Vision Award to the Honorable Peter Breen and to Marge Sill, Nevada’s “Mother of Wilderness.”

The Nevada Prayer Breakfast is a gathering of citizens — as well as civic, business, and community leaders — who wish to pray on behalf of our State and bring the spiritual resources of the community together to bear on issues that face Nevadans.

The Nevada Clergy Association is a non-profit, interfaith network of religious and spiritual leaders in Nevada.

 

< Download a copy of the invitation here. >

 

 




Services for the Week of April 19, 2014

 

 

 

Saturday, April 19, 2014
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RC Roger Weld
Cantor: Rev. Herman Aggenbach
Reader: Rev. Amanda Buchanan

 

 

Sunday, April 20, 2014
6:07 AM NEW DIVINE SERVICE
FIRST DISPENSATION EASTER
Church of New Pentecost
Leave: 5:15
Gate: 5:50
Sunrise: 6:22
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Assistants:
RC Roger Weld
RC Ted Staver
RM Carol Ann Crabb
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

 

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Suspended Due to Easter Brunch

 

 

 Wednesday, April 23, 2014
12:00 N COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
RM Carol Ann Crabb 

 

 9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RM Carol Ann Crabb