A Note From the Writer

The basic premise of this blog is to advance the idea that an alternate human reality exists. It is a reality of thought without substance, boundless in dimension, and unbound by time or space. It is this alternate reality that man has attempted to interface with for many thousands of years. It is a reality that has been called Heaven, Home, The Garden, the Garden of Paradise, Nirvana, the Holy Field, The Nut Orchard, and literally dozens of other names.
The purposes of man seeking to interface with this alternate reality has been varied, but the basis for this particular discussion is man's purpose of obtaining supernatural knowledge, power, and strength to wield against his fellow man.
The problem with such interfacing (man/Heaven) is that the human mind, when having again returned to earthly life after the experience, is separated from "Heaven." He no longer has the expanded consciousness that he had in Heaven. He is ill prepared to conceptually deal with the Knowledge contained within this alternate reality (with the complexities of the Tree of Knowledge). Such interfacing is akin to an old desktop computer (representing man's brain) melding with a super computer (Heaven). The tiny computer, once returned to earthly reality, becomes extremely confused, confounded, and oddly fragged.
Allow me a moment to weave a true story into the premise, so to perhaps explain where I'm going with this. In the early 1980's, I was in a downtown post office picking up the office mail. It's one of those Federal Buildings, built in the 1920's- Corner stone with Masonic emblem, architectural features intended to speak to brother Mason's covertly and speak to the uninitiated subliminally. Granite columns, 200 foot main hallway, 30 foot vaulted ceilings, granite floors and walls, steel mailbox doors- you know the kind of building.... built to look solid and to built to last until Y3K. Anyway.......
I was in the main hallway where all the sounds of activity echoed loudly. I heard a tiny kitten screaming at the top of his lungs. I looked in the direstion of the crying cat and my eyes locked with the eyes of a young girl. She was holding a tiny kitten to her chest and she noticed my glance. She also noticed my furrowed brow. She walked right up to me and asked, "Would you hold him while I get some stamps?"
Without thinking or answering, I took the animal from her as she explained that its mother had been run over and killed. I was looking at kitten for a moment- couple of fleas, umbilical cord almost shriveled, eyes still sealed shut from birth. It squirmed and cried strongly as I held it to my chest. It was then that I looked up to see that the young girl had disappeared. I had been had..... and I felt like I must have had a sign hovering above me saying, "Village Idiot."
About 4 weeks later, my little "Caboose" (the kitten had taken to following me everywhere in my apartment) he was on his back, holding a toy baby bottle on his own and sucking on a much too chewed nipple. I noticed that his bedding was beginning to smell a lot like "cat" and decided there and then that I would have to teach the young-un to use a litter box. Something I assumed his mom would have done had she lived.
I put a large pie pan with low sides on the tile floor in the bathroom and filled it with litter. I put Caboose in the middle of the pan and started to sit on the floor next to him.... to wait until he showed any signs of urgency. Caboose immediately looked facinated with the litter. He sniffed it and studied it for a moment, then began to circle around in the pan. I couldn't believe it. The dern cat seemed to "know" what to do on his own. He stopped his circling and DUG A HOLE! A perfect hole. He then did the unexpected.... He climbed out onto the tile floor, turned to his freshly dug, perfect hole and just stared at it intently. It was then that I noticed that he was piddling on the floor. He then climbed back into the pan and covered up the hole.
And that brings us to the problem of the Tree of Knowledge, There is something that could be called the "serpent's thorn" in the Tree. It is downloaded (implanted with the knowledge) in man's unconscious. This "thorn" has definite purpose: to twist the truth in man's mind... to cast doubts....to give all a negative spin and basically.....lie. To put it another way, the serpent's thorn is the fabled "bringer of light" .... or better put.... the bringer of darkness from the light. It's function is to make man "piddle out of the pan." By any name, this thorn has brought immense suffering, pain, and death to all mankind.
Oh, by the way, Cabosse lived a long and happy life.... as an OUTSIDE cat.

A Word About Interpretation and "The THORN"

Seems a bit odd to start out by saying that I could be wrong, but that's the way of the "Thorn of the Flesh." It's an expression that was used in ancient Greece, used many times by the teachers of the yet to be initiates of the Mystery Schools. It was also used in reference to those who would interpret the will of the gods- Diviners, augers, soothsayers, prophets and such- who would sometimes make pronouncements that were obviously in error. This, they would then say was due to the "Thorn of the Flesh," which indicated that man, by his very human nature, would misinterpret or falsely interpret his "understanding" of his"mystical" encounters with the gods.
In 2Cor 12 we find that St. Paul was a mystic of sorts...having been a visitor to Home..... Paul was a "near death" experiencer. He became "enlightened" by the experience. He freelly admits that he too fell victim to the Thorn.... at least three times. While not overtly admitting that he could be in error, he admitted his status with the Thorn. Read Chapter 12 of 2 Corinthians to see that this Thorn served to temper his spiritual "strength" with humility..... thus perfecting his sppiritual strength and preventing him from boastful arrogance. By doing this, he turned a negative into a positive. He was a brilliant man who actually did visit Home.
The word thorn may be traced back through history to its original root meaning... its etymon. The original word was in Indo European...... glogh, meaning thorn, sharply pointed.... the word evolved to the Greek word glossa, meaning sharp tongued, thorny speech or false interpretation, then to the modern word gloss with a sub meaning of false or misleading interpretation.
A note of interest here is that the man who was least affected by the Thorn .......the man who interpreted Heaven and God most accurately...... was crowned with Thorns as He was crucified.

What is Heaven Really LIke?

It's a series of sensations. In the first moment of "death," there's an amazing sense of release..... release from being "contained" and separate.... of becoming unbound from your body. Then there's an amazing sense of well being and a sense of being welcomed "Home." Odd, it seems as though you remain to be yourself...... yet you feel to become one with everyone else at the same time...... everyone else both living on earth and in Heaven. You will feel to be somewhere in particular, yet this "somewhere" is Everywhere and Infinite at the same time..... with no bounds. There is no sense of "seeing" familiar people and objects. It's rather more a sense of actually "Being" those people and objects.... a sense of being a part of all matter. There is no sense of time, as we understand time..... rather it seems that the past, the present, and the future is all wrapped into a single Eternal Moment... or maybe better put, Eternal Now.
There's an incredible understanding of it all... as though your mind has expanded to include the brain power of a trillion souls. The overall feeling is one of absolute Ecstasy. To make a home spun comparison, think of the best moment you ever had in your life on earth,.... a moment of total and absolute joy.... now multiply the feeling by a thousand times. If your brain can wrap itself around that concept.... if it can grasp even a tiny notion of what that might feel like..... multiply it all again by a thousand. The feeling is ineffable. But, as I've said before...... once you are free.... once you are unbound and joined to Home.... and as you re-join the consciousness of what seems like a trillion souls....... you will instantly understand it all. Your love becomes boundless, as does your understanding of Everything.
It is at this moment a gentle wave of Love feels to be rolling through you. Then there comes a second wave of LOVE, a thousand times greater than the first.....It consumes you. You, quite literally ....... become the Light.

What's In the Tree of Knowledge?

The Tree of Knowledge is a repository of all that is known and will be known from the past, present, and future. Think of it perhaps as the spiritual Library of Congress.... times a billion or so.
One particular element of this "library" is mathematics. It's not so much about equations and totals, but rather that each individual number is itself a philosophy, with each combination of numbers having a specific resonance, force and energy..... some relatively weak, and some quite strong.
Consider the Golden Cubit of 1.6 feet. The interaction of this number with the duodecimal 12 is the key to converting thought into substance. This was but one of the messages of phase one of Stonehenge (see separate posts below).
Experiencers of the Tree often become overwhelmed with their fascination for numbers. Cabala (alt spellings) makes the interpretation and association of numbers with assumed meanings... as say 144 (12x12) equals Heaven.
The Legion of 12 is actually a Heavenly force of associations representing Love and Good. Another name for the Legion of 12 is the Holy Spirit, or sometimes said, Holy Ghost. The Legion's standard is the T or sometimes the t. Consider now the man who was crowned with thorns (false interpretations) and hung upon his own standard.
The interplay between numbers with biology and atomic structure is within the Tree. The key again is the duodecimal system acting as a biologic emulsifier to enable both weak and strong binding energy. It matters not so much the number as a whole, but rather like DNA sequencing, it matters the sequence and pattern within the extended non whole. Consider pi- 3.14159365 The key match for weak binding may be 365 for one element and 159 for another. If you study the below posts on Stonehenge, you may see the biologic-numeric association.

So Who and/or What is the True God?

Simply put..... God is the sum total of the combined Love within all souls and all things..... God is Love in it's most strong, pure, and undiluted form. Within this Love, there is no darkness at all. God IS the LIGHT. Each and every soul is a part of God, both in Heaven and on earth. The question of being "saved" has nothing to do with your soul, it has to do with your worldly persona.... your square (see Freemasonry post). That is why it is necessary for you to merge with your soul.... why it is imperative that you merge with your circle (see Freemasonry article)..
Some will be disappointed that God is not a Super Hero, filled with wrath and vengeance and armed with a terrible and swift sword against all evildoers...... casting instant miracles to save those distress. Sorry, but we must forgive God for what He is not, and love Him for the Love that He IS. There are MIRACLES all around us...... and for most of these we must give thanks to the Holy Spirit, sometimes referred to as the Holy Ghost. And yes, Jesus is a major part of this Spirit. Some miracles are most clearly seen. Some are subtle and unseen...... for years.

What is Faith?

Faith may be described as an absence, more so than a presence...... an absence of doubt. An encounter in Heaven with the Tree of Knowledge, can absolutely remove all doubt. ... and this is where the entire concept of the "Thorn" comes in. It is quite possible to look directly at something... and feel to be directly connected to God's mind..... and yet walk away with a totally incorrect interpretation.. and even feel to be blessed with a special gift of knowledge....... It is indeed unfortunate that all doubt can be removed... after all, this special knowledge came from a place most "Holy".... only to have absolute faith in a LIE. A twist and trick of the Thorn. Take for instance the person with absolute faith in the idea that God wants them to strap on a bomb and "kill the infidels. This teaching is from the Holy place alright, but only after it's been misintepreted. It is quite possible to "trip" through the Garden by entering through the "Fool's Gate." This gate is sometimes opened by drugs and potions.... primarily from the somniferum papaver (Opium Poppy)... but also by certain meditatioin methods used by a particular "religeous" sect. It is therefore quite possible that the current "radical" religeous zeal .... particularly in the mid-east....has its foundation based on the Lie of the Thorn.
Our True God would never, ever encourage such radical behavior.