Cross structure at Paquime, Mexico. PHOTO: Humberto Garcia

Bishop Gene Savoy Jr. and the Reverend Robert Roy will be traveling to Mexico on what might be called a reconnaissance tour of the region. The main objects of the trip are to begin making plans to incorporate Cosolargy International in the country of Mexico and for the two travelers to visit historical sites in the Yucatan that neither have visited before. The two will be traveling through Mexico from March 6 to March 18, 2014.

While in Mexico, the two will visit with a Consociate of the Community who resides in Mexico, Humberto Garcia. The group will be discussing his part in a number of potential projects. Humberto is presently at work translating the Cosolargy Papers series into Spanish, and the translations he completes will make it possible for the Community to begin instruction in the Academy Program to the Spanish-speaking community.

Humberto’s project dovetails into Bishop Gene’s plans to begin taking action toward establishing Cosolargy as a legally recognized entity in Mexico.

Paquime coat of arms

Finally, since Humberto lives a mere ten miles from one of the largest ancient city complexes in Mexico known to have been inhabited by the Pochtecas for hundreds of years, he will be taking Bishop Gene and Rob on a tour of the site. The name of the ancient city is Paquime, and it is located in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

While Bishop Gene and Rob are in Mexico, their “headquarters” will be the city of Mérida, capital of the state of Yucatan and the city where Bishop Gene Savoy Sr. resided with The Child Jamil during one of his sojourns in Mexico.

Community members, and the public, can now visit the Red Rock Consecrated Sanctuary on Facebook.

The Canon Ted Staver, a Sanctuary resident, is inviting everyone to the site, now in its inaugural stage.

Just go to Facebook and search *redrocksanctuary* or follow this link:  facebook.com/redrocksanctuary.

Ted Staver and Michael McIntyre, who will be monitoring the Facebook page, plan to take the page through three stages of development.

Stage one is almost complete. Soon they will be adding a photo slide show tour of the Sanctuary and two photo albums. The intent of the first stage is to further marshal interest of new Community members and Academy students in the fact that when you join the Community you get Red Rock, a place where Consociates and Adepts have been employing solar techniques for generations, and that they will now be part of that tradition.

Michael McIntyre said, “we want new Community members to feel free to speak with their preceptor and to schedule a visit. That perspective is the focus of stage one.”

Saturday, March 8, 2014
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Sean Savoy
Lector: RC Robert Petrovich
Cantor: Rev. Harold Boulette
Reader: Rev. Karen Elliott

Sunday, March 9, 2014
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME BEGINS
7:13 AM NEW DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:30
Gate: 7:00
Sunrise: 7:28
RR Sean Savoy
Concelebrant: RC Robert Petrovich
Assistants:
RC Roger Weld
RC Ted Staver
Rev. Barbara Whitney
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of New Philadelphia                 RC Roger Weld
Church of New Qumran               Rev. Vickie Hewlett
Church of New Bethany              Rev. Karen Elliott
 

Wednesday, March 12, 2014
12:00 N COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
RC Rebecca Willis 

Friday, March 14, 2014
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RR Sean Savoy

Gerald Degerstedt in 2005

Gerald Degerstedt, born April 22, 1938, passed into the Light on December 27, 2014 at his home in Madison, Wisconsin. Gerald entered the Academy Program of the Jamilian University in 2005 and remained an active member of the Community until his passing. Many people in Reno will remember meeting him for the one and only time he was able to visit Reno during Convocation week in 2009. We will miss his wonderful smile and sweet disposition.

In the absence of a published obituary, we are offering below a link to an article on himself and his life posted online at the official web site of Cleft Advocate, an organization he was a strong member of for many years.

< Click here to read Gerald’s 2007 feature page at cleftadvocate.org. >

 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 by the Officiant of the Communion Service (that is, Bishop Gene Savoy, or occasionally in his stead, Bishop Sean Savoy) 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.

SECOND ADVENT PROPHECY AND REVELATION

A Reading from the Prophecy on the Golden Age of Light and the Nation of Nations, Chapter 84: “On the Golden Age of Light and the Nation of Nations” (pp. 704-708):

< Click here to listen to this week’s reading. (4 minutes) >

ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AND WISDOM SAYINGS

A Reading from the First Letter of Peter:

Blessed be the God and Father, who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God unto the salvation ready to be revealed in these last times. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought to you when Christ is revealed. As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former ignorance: But as he who has called you is holy, so be holy yourselves in your behavior, because it is written, “Be ye holy; for I am holy.” And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges everyone according to his works, pass the time of your sojourning here in reverence: For you know that you were not redeemed with something corruptible, such as silver and gold, from your vain manner of life that you received as tradition from your fathers; but with Christ. Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you. Seeing that you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit, have unfeigned love of the brethren; love one another with a pure heart fervently, since you are born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible seed; that is, by the Word of God, which lives and abides forever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the Word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the Word you have received.

5/24 Friday

Gene Savoy, Yukinori Matsushita, other American guests and some Japanese members left the hotel at 9:00 am and traveled to Saga for a guided tour in Saga. We arrived at Niyama Shrine in Kanzaki, Saga at 10:00 am.

 

 

Niyama Shrine PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

At torii of Niyama Shrine (from left to right) Yukinori Matsushita, Miyuki Okayama, Chieko Nakayama , Shinobu Uwataki, Keiko Inoue PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

We visited the ruins at *Yoshinogari Historical Park at 11:00 am. This visit was planned and coordinated by Saga Members Hiroko Soejima, Keiko Inoue, Shinobu Uwataki, Yoko Taniguchi, Chieko Higashi, Yoko Nishimura, Yasuko Nishimura, Terumi Kuroda, Kahori Sano, and Naoko Tokushima.

 *The Yoshinogari hills were originally slated for one of Saga Prefecture’s industrial areas, but the project was suspended upon discovery of ruins and relics, until further research into the area could be carried out. In 1986, the site was meticulously studied to understand whether it was a truly important cultural site. The concluding result was that this area was one of Japan’s largest moat encircled villages dating from the Yayoi period (c. 3 BCE – c. 3 CE). The location and layout of the village captured the imagination of Japan as it closely resembled the long disputed ancient country of Yamatai mentioned in early Chinese chronicles. The Yoshinogari ruins are of extremely high academic value and are an important cultural asset.

In 1992, the Yoshinogari ruins were designated a NationalHistoricalPark with the surrounding area made into a SagaPrefecturalPark. In April 2001, the initial phase of the Park was opened to the public. The Park, as of April 1, 2009, measures 73.7 hectares (38.3 hectares of national land, 35.4 hectares of prefectural land).

< Visit the Yoshinogari web site. >

Reconstructed buildings PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Reconstructed buildings PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Exhibition of a ritual with a shaman PHOTO: Stephan Fuel

Exhibition of ceremonial dinner. The color of the peoples’s clothes are different based on their official rankings. PHOTO: Stephan Fue

We had a lunch at Saga Retrokan at 1:30pm. This event was planned and coordinated by Saga Members Hiroko Soejima, Keiko Inoue, Shinobu Uwataki, Yoko Taniguchi, Chieko Higashi, Yoko Nishimura, Yasuko Nishimura, Terumi Kuroda, Kahori Sano, and Naoko Tokushima.

(from left to right) Robert Roy, Yukinori Matsushita, Gene Savoy, Sabrina Savoy PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

(from left to right) Chieko Higashi, Ms. Kawasahi, Hichiyo Hukuyama, Yoko Nishimura, Miyuki Okayama PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

We visited *SagaCastleHistoryMuseum with  a volunteer interpreter guide at 2:30pm.

This event was planned and coordinated by Saga Members Hiroko Soejima, Keiko Inoue, Shinobu Uwataki, Yoko Taniguchi, Chieko Higashi, Yoko Nishimura, Yasuko Nishimura, Terumi Kuroda, Kahori Sano, and Naoko Tokushima.

*Saga Castle History Museum is a reconstruction of the main keep (honmaru) of SagaCastle built in 1838, during the last years of the Edo Period. It is one of the largest wooden reconstructions in Japan. Over 700 rush mats (tatami) are laid in the building, providing ample space for a wide variety of exhibits including data, images, and models that depict Saga during the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Meiji Restoration.

< Visit the Saga Castle History Museum  web site. >

Outside view of the Saga Castle History Museum PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Outside view of the Saga Castle History Museum PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Visiting group inside the Museum PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

We visited the *Jofuku Long Life Center in Saga City at 4:30pm, and then the Kannon of the Well. This event  was planned and coordinated by Saga Members Hiroko Soejima, Keiko Inoue, Shinobu Uwataki, Yoko Taniguchi, Chieko Higashi, Yoko Nishimura, Yasuko Nishimura, Terumi Kuroda, Kahori Sano, and Naoko Tokushima.

Painting of Joguku PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

 

 *Jofuku, pronounced Xifu in Chinese, came to Japan during the Jomon Era in the 3rd century B.C. It is said that he landed near Shingu and brought with him much Chinese culture and technology.

 Jofuku was at the time serving as a Taoist shaman to the Emperor Shikoutei of the Xin Dynasty in China about 2200 years ago. He was ordered by the emperor to set out in order to “find the elixir of eternal life which is said to be on the mountain of Horai on the sea to the east.” He eventually arrived in Kumano and with him he brought about 3000 people, men, women, and children. Unfortunately for the emperor, he never returned to China.

Jofuku (known aa Xu Fu in Chinese) was a Taoist monk who sailed from China to Japan in search of the fabled elixir of immortality. He is said to be responsible for the spread of Chinese culture in Japan, including farming methods for irrigated paddy rice cultivation, and many different areas in Japan have local legends which claim Jofuku landed there. Saga, which is said to be the cradle of early mass rice cultivation in Japan, also boasts a great number of Jofuku legends—Jofuku is even enshrined as a god of the harvest at Saga’s Kinryu Shrine.

Outside view of the Center PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

The JofukuLongLifeCenter rests at the foot of Mt.Kinryu, and in addition to introducing the legends of Jofuku to visitors also serves to spread the latest developments in research on Jofuku and his voyages.

Painting of Deity of Mercy created by Kusaba Kazuhisa, using the same technique used to make Arita ware.

< Visit Kusaba Kazuhisa’s web site. > 

We had a casual Sunset Service meeting at MegalithPark at 6:00pm. This event was planned and coordinated by Saga Members Hiroko Soejima, Keiko Inoue, Shinobu Uwataki, Yoko Taniguchi, Chieko Higashi, Yoko Nishimura, Yasuko Nishimura, Terumi Kuroda, Kahori Sano, and Naoko Tokushima. 

Sunset at Megalith Park PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Gathering for sunset at Megalith Park PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

We all had dinner at Umenohana Tofu Restaurant at 7:00pm.

After dinner (front row, from left to right) Sabrina Savoy, Noriko and Joseph Roy, Yukinori Matsushita, Gene Savoy, Yoko Nishimura, Chieko Nakayama, Keiko Inoue. (back row, left to right) Shinobu Uwataki, Robert Roy, Stephan Fuellig, Michiyo Fukuyama, Miyuki Okayama, Kazuno Kawasaki PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Travel notes by Noriko Roy

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Ancient Origins recently interviewed Gregory Sams on his book Sun of God, and the interview appears on YouTube. Gregory Sams is the inventor of the “veggie-burger” and the propounder of other revolutionary ideas.

Here are a few words from the blurb for the book on Sams’ web site:

“In Sun of gOd, cultural pioneer and philosopher Gregory Sams takes a fresh look at our solar benefactor. As Sams sees it cultures throughout the ancient world were right to recognize the Sun as a living, conscious being. The implications of a conscious provider in the sky are startling, though often obvious — and in harmony with science, logic and common sense. Sun of gOd explores exciting new ground, adding a crucial piece to the jigsaw-puzzle picture we have of the cosmos. In the light of a conscious Sun, Sams looks at our hard-wired tendency for religion, notions of god and divinity, our place in the firmament, star formation, intelligent light, electromagnetism, feedback, chaos theory, free will, the four elements, and the near-universal self-organization of systems from the bottom up.”

In the Ancient Origins interview, Sams states that the sun is a conscious being and that, while moderns have a hard time admitting the concept, ancients founded their religions on it. The concept is not new to us, but it is seemingly revolutionary today.

Read the introduction, watch the video, and tell us what YOU think. What would you as a Cosolargist say to Mr. Sams? And what could you add to his comments?

< Watch the video of the interview posted on January 14, 2014 by Ancient Origins on YouTube (25 minutes) >

(Please note that the book discussed above is not to be confused with the book familiar to many Community members, Jesus Christ, Sun of God: Ancient Cosmology and Early Christian Symbolism by David Fideler (1993). Jesus Christ, Sun of God reveals many of the sources for the early Christian Gnosis and places special emphasis on the Hellenistic doctrine of the “Solar Logos” and the early Christian symbolism that depicted Christ as the Spiritual Sun—the illumination source of order, harmony, and spiritual insight.)

link submitted by Robert Anderson

 “In the interaction between the different levels of consciousness and the corresponding planes of manifestation lies the essence of occultism. The psychic is one who functions negatively in this interaction; he reacts to the conditions he contacts, and thereby perceives them, but he exerts little or no influence on them. The adept, on the other hand, while perceiving, does not react, and therefore functions positively in his relations to the subtle worlds, sending out his influence upon them instead of receiving their influence into himself. … The true adept is not dependent upon the intervention of spirits, whether divine or diabolical, but himself works directly on the plane of his choice; …
“But in addition to his studies of subjects which are essentially occult, there are other sciences with which the student aught to be acquainted if he is to do justice to his task, …” ~Dion Fortune

“While I agree in general with what Ms Fortune is saying, there are some specifics in this quote that I disagree with.

“While she considers psychics and their passive approach to other realms negative, I think it is more often neutral. They are not trying to make a positive influence on them, but neither are they making things any worse. The main problem with psychics is that they look beyond only to the fourth dimension where they gather information that may or may not be true because the demons, or diabolical influences, as Ms Fortune calls them, operate on this level. This is kind of like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz stopping and staying with the scarecrow instead of continuing on to the Emerald City. This is not necessarily wrong, as long as the psychic is aware that the fourth dimension is not a true spiritual plane, but they usually are not.”

< Read the entire article online at Solar Wind. >

< Visit and bookmark Harold Boulette’s blog Solar Wind at: http://blog.spiritsun.net/ >

contributed by Harold Boulette

In the quantum optical laboratories at the Niels Bohr Institute, researchers have conducted experiments that show that light breaks with the classical physical principles. The studies show that light can have both an electrical and a magnetic field, but not at the same time. That is to say, light has quantum mechanical properties. PHOTO: Niels Bohr Institute.

“With simple arguments, researchers show that nature is complicated! Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have made a simple experiment that demonstrates that nature violates common sense – the world is different than most people believe. The experiment illustrates that light does not behave according to the principles of classical physics, but that light has quantum mechanical properties.”

Even though this article is a year old, it reveals in summary form some new and groundbreaking information.

< Read the complete article posted online June 11, 2012 at spacedaily.com. >

link submitted by Frieda Nelson

JANUARY 2014

4
Frank Burkitt
Bill Birley
Noriko Roy
Joseph Roy
Kevin Myota †
Orville & Martha Calhoun

8
Frank Burkitt
Yvonne Wheeler
Rev. Vickie Hewlett

11
Frank Burkitt
Yvonne Wheeler
Rev. Vickie Hewlett
Janice Dennis
Verna Weber †

15
Yvonne Wheeler
Christy Potzner †

18
Yvonne Wheeler
Christy Potzner †
Marvin Yates †
Tracy Reinert
Brian Kernan
Brian Kernan, Jr.

22
Yvonne Wheeler
Christy Potzner †
Marvin Yates †
Tracy Reinert
Brian Kernan
Brian Kernan, Jr.
Enrique Venerio Teran

25
Enrique Venerio Teran
Rev. Ruth Harris

29
Enrique Venerio Teran
Rev. Ruth Harris

 † indicates Memorial Prayer