Blessed Night, Loves 😊

I Pray All Is Well With Everyone… And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion… For All God’s Children… And All God’s Creation! Now Look… We Go On And On And On In Toxic And Unproductive Repetition In This Country… Day After Day… Year After Year… While This Nation Allows Its Own Collapse – As If There Is No Love, Sense, Or Dignity Here! But There Is!

And Instead Of The So-Called Powers That Be Putting A Stop To – At Least – Some Of The Corruption, Destruction, And Nonsense Emanating From The Present Administration… They Would Rather Commit Treason Against The Living God Within Them – Their Very Own “Mighty I AM Presence”; Than To Oppose The Evil And Tyranny Imposed Upon Their Own Sense Of Morality, For One; This Nation That They Claim To Love… And All Life Everywhere.

Yet, All The Money And Greed In The World Can’t Save Souls Or Stop The Adverse Repercussions From Impacting Generations – Present And Future! And Yes… It Matters!

So It’s Not That The Living God Has Left Us To Stew In Our Own Bullshit; For The Solution Is Here – The Power, The Knowledge, The Light – Within Each And Every One Of Us… And Always Has Been! So Stress Not; But Know This… This Is The Age… Now Is The Time… And We Are The Generation… Of Transformation!

Thus… In The Midst Of It All… We Must Remember To Stay Focused On Our Own “Mighty I AM Presence”. In Silence, We Must Listen – There May Very Well Be Higher Communication; And Remember… If It’s Loving It’s God… If It’s Hateful It’s Not! We Must Find And Serve Our Divine Purpose On This Earth, And Not Another’s – And We All Have One! And With Love, Wisdom And Knowledge… Lend A Helping Hand Whenever We Can. And Stand Up Straight… For What We Believe In! Amen…  15.1emoji-timelineemoji-timelineemoji-timeline

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“The Law of God and also the way to life is written in our hearts; it lies in no man’s supposing, nor in any historical opinion, but in a good will and well-doing. The will leads us to God or to the Devil; it avails not that you have the name of a Christian, salvation does not consist therein. A heathen and a Turk is as near to God as you who are under the name of Christ. If you bring forth a false ungodly will in your deeds, you are as much without God as a heathen that has no desire nor will to him. And if a Turk seeks God with earnestness, though he walks in blindness, yet he is of the company of those that are children without understanding, and he reaches to God with the children which do not yet know what they speak; for this lies not in the knowing, but in the will.

We are all blind concerning God; but we put our earnest will into him and into goodness and so desire him; then we receive him into our will, so that we are born in him in our will. Do you boast of your calling, that you are a Christian? Indeed, let thy conversation be accordingly, or else you are but a heathen in the will and in the deed. He that knows his Master’s will, and does it not, must receive many stripes.

Do you not know what Christ said concerning the two sons? When the father says to one of them, Go and do such a thing, and he said he would; and the other said, No. The first went away and did it not, but the other that said No went away and did it, and so, did the will of his father. The one that was under the name of obedience did it not. And we are all such, one and another; we bear the name of Christ and are called Christians and are within his covenant: we have said, Yes, we will do it. But they that do it not, are unprofitable servants and live without the will of the Father.

… If we consider ourselves according to the true man, who is a similitude and image of God, then we find God in us, yet ourselves without God. And the only remedy consists herein, that we enter again into ourselves and so enter into God in our hidden man. If we incline our wills in true earnest singleness of mind to God, then we go with Christ out from this world, out from the stars and elements, and enter into God.

For in the will of earthly reason, we are children of the stars and elements, and the spirit of this world rules over us. But if we go out from the will of this world and enter into God, then the spirit of God rules in us and establishes us for his children. Then also the garland of paradise is set upon the soul, and it becomes a child without understanding after this world. It has lost the ruler of this world, who once ruled it and led it in the earthly reason.

O man, consider who leads and drives you, for eternally without end is very long. Temporal honour and goods are but dross in the sight of God; it all falls into the grave with you and comes to nothing: but to be in the will of God is eternal riches and honour; there, there is no more care, but our Mother cares for us, in whose bosom we live as children. Thy temporal honour is thy snare and thy misery; in divine hope and confidence is thy garden of roses.

Do you suppose again, that I speak from hearsay? No, I speak the very life in my own experience; not in an opinion from the mouth of another, but from my own knowledge. I see with my own eyes; which I boast not of, for the power is the Mother’s. I exhort you to enter into the bosom of the Mother, and learn also to see with your own eyes. So long as you do suffer yourself to be rocked in a cradle and do desire the eyes of others, you are blind. But if you rise up from the cradle and do go to the Mother, then you shall discern the Mother and her children.

O how good it is to see with one’s own eyes! We are all asleep in the outward man, we lie in the cradle and suffer ourselves to be rocked asleep by the outward reason; we see with the eyes of the dissimulation of our play-actors, who hang bells and baubles about our ears and cradles, that we may be lulled asleep or at least play with baubles, and they may be lords and masters in the house.

Rise up from thy cradle; are you not a child of the Mother, and moreover a child and lord of the house and an heir to its goods? Why suffer you your servants thus to use you? Christ says: I am the Light of the World, he that follows me shall have the light of the eternal life. He does not direct us to the play-actors, but only to himself. With the inward eyes we must see in his light: so we shall see him, for he is the Light; and when we see him then we walk in the light. He is the Morning Star and is generated in us and rises in us, and shines in our bodily darkness.

O how great a triumph is there in the soul when he arises! Then a man sees with his own eyes, and knows that he is in a strange lodging, concerning which I here write, what I see and know in the light. I declare unto you that the Eternal Being, and also this world, is like man. Eternity brings to birth nothing but that which is like itself. As you find man to be, just so is Eternity. Consider man in body and soul, in good and evil, in joy and sorrow, in light and darkness, in power and weakness, in life and death. All is in man, both heaven and the earth, stars and elements, also the threefold God.

O man! seek yourself and you shall find yourself. Open the eyes of your inward man and see rightly. This is the noble precious stone, the philosopher’s stone, which wise men find. O thou bright crown of pearl, are you not brighter than the sun? There is nothing like you; you are so very manifest, and yet so very secret that among many thousand in this world you are scarce rightly known of anyone. Yet you are borne by many that know you not.

Christ says, Seek and you shall find. The noble stone must be sought for; a lazy man finds it not; though he carries it about with him he knows it not. To whomsoever it reveals itself, he has all joy therein, for its virtue is endless. He that has it does not give it away; if he does impart it to any, it is not profitable to him that is lazy, who dives not into its virtue to learn that the seeker finds the stone and its virtue and benefit together. When he finds it and knows that he is certain of it, there is greater joy in him than the world is able to apprehend. No pen can describe nor any tongue express it in the manner of the world.

It is accounted in the world’s eyes, the meanest of all stones, and is trodden under foot. If a man light upon it, he casts it away as an unprofitable thing. None enquire after it, though there is none upon earth but desires it. All great ones and wise seek it. Indeed they find one and think it the true stone; but they mistake it. They ascribe power and virtue to it and think they have it and will keep it. But the true stone is not thus; it needs no virtue to be ascribed to it, all virtue lies hid in it. He who has it, and has knowledge of it, if he seeks, may find all things whatsoever in heaven and in earth. It is the stone which is rejected of the builders, the chief cornerstone.

O you Sophisters, that out of envy often revile honest hearts according to your own pleasure, how will you be able to stand with those lambs whom you should have led into the fresh green pastures of the way of Christ, into love, purity, and humility?

I speak not this out of a desire to reproach any man; I discover only the smoky pit of the Devil that it may be seen what is in man, as well in one, as in another unless he be born anew and resists the spirit of the Devil and thrusts it away from him.

There is another Devil more crafty and cunning than this, a glistering angel with cloven feet. He, when he sees a poor soul afraid, and desiring to repent and amend, says, Pray, and be devout; repent for once in a way. But when the poor soul goes about to pray, he slips into his heart and takes away the understanding of the heart, and puts it into mere doubting, as if God did not hear it.

So the heart stands and repeats over the words of a prayer, as if it were learning to say something without a book; and the soul cannot reach the centre of nature; it has only rehearsed words, not in the spirit of a soul in the centre where the fire is kindled, but only in the mouth, in the spirit of this world. Its words vanish in the air, or as those wherein God’s name is taken in vain.

There belongs great earnestness to prayer; for praying is calling upon God, entreating him and speaking with him, going out of the house of sin and entering the house of God. If the Devil offers to hinder it, then storm his hell! Set yourself against him as he sets himself against you, and then you shall find what is here told you. If he opposes strongly, then OPPOSE YOU, THE MORE STRONGLY! YOU HAVE IN CHRIST, GREATER POWER THAN HE!!!”

The Confessions of Jacob Boehme, Jacob Boehme, 1920

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