Gene Savoy Sr. in a crowd in Peru in the late 1990s PHOTO: Roger Weld

There are twenty-six Sayings recorded in volumes I–VI of The Image and The Word: The Secret Sayings of Jamil. The later Sayings were delivered either onboard the Feathered Serpent II, or during voyages that terminated in America or at the Sanctuary grounds. The object of the Sayings was to reveal to The Community what it must do in the world.

Volume VI, published in 1981, presents the Twenty-Second through Twenty-Fourth Sayings. It is in this volume that Reverend Ted Staver found a passage on Reverend Gene Sr’s life, described by himself, that seemed to fit the format of the “Path to Light” series. Ted suggested the passage to us, and we are posting it for you.

In the passage that follows, Bishop Savoy is presenting the story of his early life as an illustration in response to a question from one of the Companions of The Way regarding the means by which one comes to know who one really is.

“I was adopted when I was three. I lost my natural father and my mother remarried, so I was adopted. And I was raised with half-brothers and with a stepfather who fed me and took care of me and did the best he could as a father. I loved my father very, very dearly, and my brothers and my mother, of course. But my mother was the only person who really understood me. She had a kind of knowledge of me and gave me something that I needed that no one else in the world ever gave me, at least when I was a child. At the age of five I started going to church and by six years of age I was beginning to listen to sermons and getting involved in theology.

“My stepfather did not go to church. My mother was the granddaughter of a Baptist minister, and her father eventually became religious and became active in the Church, though in my own home there was no formal religion. But from the age of six on I went to various Churches: Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Pentecostal, Catholic. I had an urge to enter the ministry, an urge to be spiritual, without knowing why.

“I was different from my brothers and they never really understood me and my religious inclinations. Yet, I never understood the life that we led. Quite simply, I longed for the spiritual life even at that tender age. My mother’s sister influenced me greatly, for she was a Christian Scientist. But the motivation that drove me to worship was an inner compulsion, a driving force that no one understood, not even myself. I did not like school and formal education, not even in later years at business College and University. Like in my earlier home life, there was no spiritual environment. Even the orthodox Church environment was empty, yet it was better than nothing. Still, I longed for a spiritual life of a kind and order not known in the world. No one could instruct me in it. No one was knowledgeable in it. No one I talked to – clergy, teacher, priest, scholar – had the vaguest idea of what I was seeking. I was an alien in a hostile environment, alone, lost, empty.

“The same feeling continued as I got older – I never felt comfortable in the world or that I belonged in it. Though I continued to go to church, was baptized and planned on entering the ministry, I felt alien even to the Christian environment. Like so many, I became interested in Eastern teachings, but again I felt like an alien. I only began to feel comfortable when I discovered the beauty of the ancient religions such as Zoroastrianism and the ancient Egyptian teachings of Hermes Trismegistus. However, I did not become a great student of these religions as I continued to be more inclined toward Christianity.

“Basically, what I am trying to say is that with all my searching in the Christian Church and in the Eastern and Oriental religions, I never became comfortable with religion until I had experienced the visions, and then was able to endure the strong light of the sun. My eyes were no longer blind to the Light of Christ. The world was no longer Dark. For I saw within the light that illuminated the world a greater Light, the Light of God that illuminates the spirits of men, a Light more brilliant than the light of the stars and the moon and the sun combined. That efficacious Light put my heart and mind to rest. It taught me the meaning of religion in a flash, a rapture of spiritual joy. It instructed me in religion more than any rite or ritual, more than any book, more than any sermon. It was a living communion in which I was able to experience the divine Presence of God. I was reborn! Made spiritual, yet I was without instruction, an innocent child, a neophyte awaiting maturity as eagerly as a babe.

“I found the source of Righteousness. I had found the place where God resides, not by my own motivation, but by the vision of Light, and by the Presence within the Light. What clergyman, what Apostle, what biblical scholar had ever seen God face to face? God dwells in a place accessible only to those who are called to it by Him, it seems. And I knew that it was my destiny to serve God in the formation of this Church. I therefore awaited the birth of The Child from whom I would learn with trust, and hope and belief. I gave up all my human motivations of self; that is, pursuit of my human destiny. It was my destiny to serve God within the framework of the Church to come. God would be my Teacher and I would follow Him. My spiritual eye had been opened, and it saw a realm of spiritual beingness. Now that I had been led to it by revelation, I would devote my whole life to teaching it to others.

“Then I began to have recollections and remembrances. It did not all come at once, it came in stages. And as I had experiences and began teaching and moving about in the world, my remembrances increased by the act of working in the Church. Then, of course, when Jamil was teaching, just by looking at him I knew many things. He had the flashing eyes and the touch. He did not have to say much – all he had to do was make a gesture with His hands or look at me with a flash, and I knew. I learned from him by his presence and by looking at the sun, and by recalling and putting things together. And after a while I realized that although I was doing all the work, or so it appeared – writing, teaching, recording the words of Jamil, exploring and holding the Church together as best I could, and suffering, as it were, especially as people could not understand and were leaving – that there was a power over the Church that was outside of my control.”

—from The Image and the Word: the Secret Sayings of Jamil, Volume VI., by The Most Right Reverend Gene Savoy, pp.81-86

 “The Pythagorean doctrine that God is the universal mind diffused through all things, and the dogma of the soul’s immortality, are the leading features in these apparently incongruous teachings. His piety and the great veneration Plato felt for the MYSTERIES, are sufficient warrant that he would not allow his indiscretion to get the better of that deep sense of responsibility which is felt by every adept. ‘Constantly perfecting himself in perfect MYSTERIES, a man in them alone becomes truly perfect,’ says he in Phaedrus.
“He took no pains to conceal his displeasure that the Mysteries had become less secret than formerly. Instead of profaning them by putting them within the reach of the multitude, he would have guarded them with jealous care against all but the most worthy of his disciples.” ~H. P. Blavatsky

“Most people know of Pythagoras as a great math teacher, particularly of geometry, but he was more a philosopher and spiritual teacher than a mathematician. His interest in mathematical formulas and geometric shapes was only for the purposes of helping himself and his students grow spiritually. His idea that God is universal mind is a good one, but this should not be confused with the intellectualism of the human brain. Divine Consciousness and materialistic intellect are two very different things.”

To read the complete blog post, click on:   http://blog.spiritsun.net/2014/04/10/the-secrets-of-mystery-schools.aspx

This is your forum to share higher-level experiences in Cosolargy through the images of your dreams and visions. All postings are anonymous. Send in verbal descriptions and, if you have them, drawings or paintings.

The primary value in these postings is simply to allow others to see that people do have relevant or meaningful dreams and visions. Another value is to see if others find that the dreams and visions we post are similar or identical to their own. This is why we ask for your comments.

Dreams are communications from the unconscious mind and sometimes the higher self. Some are simply compensation for attention directed elsewhere during the day; some are indications of bodily processes, and some help us work through conflicts. Occasionally, they communicate information from higher realms and thus have more than individual value.

As Cosolargists, we are learning to navigate higher realms. Dreams are part of these higher realms. The Worlds of Light, the realm of spirit, sometimes breaks through to the psyche and gives us information. What breaks through deserves our attention and analysis. In this section of the Community Communique, we offer Community members a forum for sharing their dreams and visions for the edification of the Community and themselves.

Vision No. 2

“I experienced the following vision on three separate occasions and know of one other person who had the same visual.

“All three happened at sunrise at the Red Rock Sanctuary. After the Sun had released itself from the horizon it took the shape of the Tao symbol and maintained that appearance for the entire episode, lasting more than five minutes. The symbol was in motion with flares coming off the tails of the Tao.

“It was multicolored, one side red the other side blue.”

“When we look into history we see the life of the spirit, even from its crudest beginnings, closely associated with two movements. First, with the tendency to organize into communities or churches, living under special sanctions and rules. Next, with the tendency of its greatest, most arresting personalities either to revolt from these organisms or to reform, rekindle them from within. …This constant antagonism of church and prophet, of institutional authority and individual vision, is not only true of Christianity but of all great historic faiths. … It is a truism that all such institutions tend to degenerate, to become mechanical, and to tyrannize. Are they then, in spite of these adverse characters, to be looked on as essential, inevitable, or merely desirable expressions of the spiritual life in man; or can the spiritual life flourish in complete freedom?” ~Evelyn Underhill

“Ms Underhill goes on to express her view that we are better off working alone when it comes to spiritual development, and gives hers reasons why. I don’t agree and here are the primary reasons why I thing working with others is not only better, but essential for most of us to grow spiritually.”

To read the complete blog post, click on:  
http://blog.spiritsun.net/2014/02/13/spiritual-study-alone-or-in-community.aspx

“The next task to which the neophyte has to apply himself is the training of his will. It may be thought that for some people this is a hopeless task, for they are naturally weak-willed. The will, however, is not a separate organ of the mind which may function adequately or inadequately. The will does not secrete force as the the liver secretes bile. The will is simply the power to concentrate the available energies. …
“The strong will is really the single-pointed will, as we see all too clearly in the drunkard who is too weak-willed to stick at any work, but shows an amazing tenacity in obtaining alcohol.
“The secret of a strong will, therefore, is to concentrate it upon a single object; this can only be achieved by eliminating all competing objects which divide the attention of the will...” ~Dion Fortune

“I don’t completely agree with everything Ms Fortune says about the will, but in general I do agree. I think it is largely a combination of two things rather than one: how much you concentrate on the thing you want, and how badly you want it. It is true though that conflicting desires can mess things up.”

To read the complete blog post, click on: http://blog.spiritsun.net/2014/02/20/developing-the-will.aspx

“Because the world is increasing in frequency, you may be experiencing reality in a new, faster, more multidirectional way that supersedes the sequential, one-thing-at-a-time, linear processing we’ve come to know so well. Today—right now—we’re shifting to a new inner geometry of perception—one based on the sphere and the hologram. …
“With spherical perception, every point of view can expand and contract spherically to include more or less of the unified field of consciousness-and-energy, with everything contained in the present moment. With holographic perception, any part of the brain, any part of life, and any point of view can contain the entirety of the whole self and whole reality. As I mentioned before, science is gradually discovering that both your brain and the universe are like a hologram.” ~Penney Peirce

“Most of us know that a hologram is a kind of three dimensional image that is reproduced by shining a laser, or lasers, on the film it is recorded on. Not as many are aware that if you cut the recorded holograph in half, unlike a normal photograph, when you shine a laser on each half, each part will show the entire image. This happens even when the film is cut into four, ten, or even twenty pieces. It seems like the whole image is recorded on every part of the film.

“So when we consider the physical universe as a hologram, this has some interesting implications. . .

To read the complete blog post, click on: http://blog.spiritsun.net/2014/02/26/the-holographic-model.aspx

“Let us avoid staying in towns and villages; it is better for their inhabitants to come and visit us. Let us seek the wilderness and so draw after us the people who now shun us. For scripture praises those who ‘leave the cities and dwell in the rocks, and are like the dove’ (cf. Jer. 48:28). John the Baptist lived in the wilderness and the population of entire town came out to him. … For holiness is held in higher honor than wealth;how many rich men there were at that time, proud of their glory, and yet today they are quite forgotten; whereas the miraculous life of this humble desert-dweller is acclaimed until this day, …Let us abandon sordid commerce, and so acquire the ‘pearl of great price’ (Matt. 13:46).” ~The Philokalia

Today, we would say avoid cities and the suburbs of big cities rather than towns and villages. In most areas now, there is little wilderness left, and even if there is, trying to live in it is impractical. Still, the idea remains a sound one for a number of reasons. One reason is because we are benefited by regular contact with nature which people living in large cities rarely get. Not that, as some claim, nature and the natural world is holy in some way, but because nature obeys the Law of God, while many men try to avoid it. Another reason is that there tends to be a lot more negative energies, angry energies in cities or crowded areas simply because they are so crowded, and those low-frequency energies make it more difficult for the spiritual aspirant to raise her frequencies to allow contact with spiritual beings. Another is that spiritual techniques should be practiced outdoors, but in a place where you are not being watched, especially by doubters.

If, however, you do live in a large city or suburb and it is not practical for you to move, you can get around this problem. . . .

To read the complete blog post click on the link: http://blog.spiritsun.net/2014/02/28/cities-and-the-wilderness.aspx

Contributed by Harold Boulette

“Now instead of thinking life is separate from you, you experience it as occurring inside you. The further you allow your consciousness to radiate, the higher your frequency becomes, the larger your sphere becomes, and the more time, space, and knowledge your personal field, or your reality, includes. You see that you are part of the unified field, and if you want to, you can expand to become the entire unified field. You understand how the field is your original master organ of perception.You experience yourself as all the centerpoints and the field simultaneously. Wow! That is the stuff mystical experience has always been made of, but now it is to become the stuff of normal life. Though it may seem dizzying, you can have all these leaps of perception today and still be your physical self.” ~Penney Peirce

“Sadly, many people think they have to wait until after they die to experience any significant changes in their consciousness and reality, when the truth is just the opposite. If you don’t at least start the process while you are physically alive, you won’t get the opportunity to do so after you die.

Others think that such shifts in consciousness is nothing more than hallucinations brought on by drugs or some sort of malfunction (I was very disappointed in the ending of the movie Phenomenon starring John Travolta where it’s revealed at the end that his strange psychic visions and other unusual powers are caused by a brain tumor, not something spiritual). Of course, it is true that some people take drugs and have hallucinations that they mistake for a spiritual awakening, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t people having real spiritual awakenings by following real spiritual enlightenment techniques as taught in a legitimate spiritual school. . . .”

To read more, click on the link: http://blog.spiritsun.net/2014/03/04/the-illusion-of-seperation.aspx

“Evolution, most of all, means that we are not in a static world. We are in a world that is always being born again in new divergent forms. This is significant in that it shows the status quo never lasts; …

“Yet despite all the bad idea evolution has spawned and beyond the details of the many different forms life has taken, the realization of evolution as a whole and later theories that some kind of force must be seen as part of the Organic Shift. What is that force? Why has life become increasingly complex through its many species, and why have these species become increasingly conscious?” ~Michael Schacker

“In a very general sense, there is no doubt that evolution is real, but that doesn’t mean everything that is suggested by it is true, nor does it mean that it is true for all species on Earth.

While Darwin wrote about the survival of the strongest or the fittest, leading to the unfortunate idea that we should all function as if we are in competition with each other to get a bigger piece of limited resources so we can be the ones to survive, and the sick idea of awarded greed almost to the point of worshiping the greediest among us, others have a different idea. Bergson said that evolution is not survival of the fittest, but a movement from the simple to the complex and from very limited consciousness to an expanded consciousness. Bergson believed there was a guiding force to evolution which he called theelan vital. In fact, if you think about it, you can easily see evolution as a diseased organism attempting to heal itself, and in a sense that is exactly what is happening. . . .”

To read Harold’s complete post, click on: http://blog.spiritsun.net/2014/03/05/the-story-of-evolution.aspx

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.