Wednesday, April 30, 2025

This past Saturday’s readings were from the Gospel of Thomas and The Book of God’s Revelation, The Opening of the Seven Seals (pp. 61 – 68). Click here to read the first scriptural reading, and click the audio button below to hear the reading from our Second Advent scripture.

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In Light+,

Gene

“O great city, O heart of Egypt, your habitations are overthrown and your sacred shrines lie buried beneath the sands of time. The dust of ages enwraps you, as a dead one is swathed within the tomb. Your temples still stand and ring with noise, but the solemn shrines are silent. They have become an abode for the wild dog and scorpion, and your roads are highways of wickedness.

“Behold, in the days long gone down into dust, the whirlwind came and earth poured out her wrathful breath, so that you were burnt. The evildoers were swept away by the waters, and the wicked ones were

swallowed up in the fires. The days of the years were shortened and the times of all things altered. The seasons were turned around, so that the seed rotted within the soil, and no green shoots came forth to greet the day. All buds withered upon the vines, the land lay dead under its grey shroud. The moon changed the order of her ways, and the sun set himself a new course, so that men knew not where they were and all were afflicted. The stars swam in a new direction, and the whole order of things was changed. Yet, O Egypt, even from those days of calamity you emerged unbroken, your spirit intact,

your heart unshaken. What has happened to you, O land of mine?

“Weep, O land of Egypt, weep for the things that have gone. Weep for the spirit now-departed. Weep for the betrayed gods, weep for The Great God so high above them that you scarcely knew him. Weep for the destruction that has befallen you. Weep for all the beauty and glory that have gone down into the dust. Weep for eternal ages, and sleep for evermore. Your spirit has departed, your life had ebbed away, your vitality has burnt itself out, only the empty corpse remains. The generations yet to tread the Earth will know nothing of you. They will see no more than the dead, dried, mummified thing. The loving life that once vitalized it so gloriously, they cannot know. O Son of Kebew, forgive the people of this land for their ways. Reveal your greatness by serving those who no longer walk in the light of your instruction, even as you served their fathers in days gone by.”

-The Kolbrin Bible (Man:33:1-3)

Sacred Shrines Buried

This quote from the Kolbrin Bible indicates that Egypt was already losing its status as a world leader of spiritual development, even at the time this was written many centuries ago. If you have studied ancient spiritual schools at all, you know that ancient Egypt was a leader in spiritual sciences. Unfortunately, materialism took over, as it did in so many other places. As a result of this loss, crime became common, which is why it says the roads became “highways of wickedness.”

Days Long Gone

It isn’t difficult to understand this part of the quote. The whirlwind and the wrathful breath of the earth probably refer to volcanoes and tornadoes. While there are no active volcanoes in Egypt today, it is believed that there were some in ancient times.

There may also have been earthquakes causing tsunamis, which explains the part about evil ones being swept away by water. But we may be talking about a greater catastrophe than any of this. It may be that either the poles of the Earth reversed, causing the planet to flip over, or the poles of the sun reversed. Either of those things could have caused great catastrophes on earth. Another theory is that a large asteroid may have passed very close to Earth, causing the catastrophes. Whatever happened, the point being made is that the ancient temples of spiritual development were destroyed or damaged to the point where they stopped being used, resulting in a descent into materialism. A recent news article says there is evidence of a major cataclysm in the Nile Delta of Egypt in ancient times.

The Great God

The quote continues by saying the people of Egypt should weep for the betrayed gods and the Great God they hardly knew. Of course, the students, adepts, and masters in the great spiritual schools knew of the Great God, the one and only True God, but only the most advanced students were able to reach the very high level of consciousness that permitted them to communicate directly with God and his Angels., so only they could claim to truly know God.