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All of this is only God, but our minds call
it the world. That's something the great mystic Muji has said,
and something that Emmanuel Swedenborg the scientists turned, a mystical
thinker who inspired Helen Keller, Emerson Blake, William Blake, and
on and on, also said when he pointed out that
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through his spiritual awakening, his shall we call it an
ongoing near death experience for well over a decade, showed
him that everything is made of God is a part
of God. It's interesting to think that everything could be
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part of God, given all the destruction in this world.
But we're told through many of the world's religions that
God has a purpose for our failings, for our disorderings,
and it's not because something good will happen to someone later,
but that we can learn from these failings. We can
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learn from these disorders and grow stronger because of it.
In fact, you could say that evolution uses this principle
at the core of what it means to evolve. To overcome.
We run into obstacles, things that seem opposed to our motives,
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to our needs, and we have to overcome them, and
that's what allows us to grow. In fact, that's what
has allowed human beings to be here as we are,
and the rest of life around us as well. Now,
I'm not saying that God and the grace of the
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spirit of the Creator isn't a big part of that. Indeed,
that is life itself. But part of that is, you know,
just running into obstacles that we sometimes call bad and
unfortunately in this world, human beings have developed a type
of selfishness that's so clearly disordered we are right to
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call it evil. Thankfully, our scriptures say something about that
as well, that the future, the near future, in my beliefs,
is going to overcome all these disorderings. It's going to
overcome the evil leanings of many folks and lead to
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a great paradise, a great growing, learning, evolving paradise, so
to speak, known by many names throughout the world's traditions.
I mean, seriously, we like to laugh at these things,
but every religion talks about this, that there are end
times where human beings will be so selfish and disordered.
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All the stuff that we're seeing right now is going
to happen in these prophecies, right and we're seeing it.
But from that comes a great awakening of the human
spirit of consciousness that uses all these things from the
beginning of humanity, actually reaching back to what terrible things
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have happened to your great grandparents, even and further and
further back, and coming to a greater beingness, a greater
embodiment of all the good things from the past without
the unfortunate drama. Now that can be hard to swallow.
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And I was researching this a bit, trying to figure
out in modern history where we can see some of
the roots of this prophecy come from. And I found
that probably the most well documented and definitely the only
living tradition that's as old as it is that talks
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about this is zoro Astrianism. I don't know if you've
heard about zoro Astrianism, but it's an ancient, ancient tradition
that really is a precursor for a lot of the
things we tend to take for granted in modern spiritualities
and religion, including a lot of the same messages that
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we hear from Jesus Christ and the Gospel Jesus Christ,
and you could say more gnostic gospels as well, and
even in the Qur'an, what we hear from Mohammad and
other prophets before and after him that have shared a
message of hope for the people that God will overcome.
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And zoro Astrianism, full of hims, full of tale and stories,
goes even deeper about this future than I think we
have often gleaned from our more known modern traditions. Indeed,
it talks about not only one savior at the end
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of time coming to help lead us out of these
evil situations, to a paradise, to the resurrection of all
the dead that has ever lived, and a paradise from
then after. Once people are rehabilitated and made ready for
this new earth, things spring and new, and manifestation, as
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we like to use the word now becomes kind of
our general mode of being in almost instantaneous sort of fashion. Now,
I don't think that means we do everything through manifestation.
Folks who like to grow things more naturally may have
that space, I'm sure if they really desire it. But
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I think it's interesting that so many traditions speak to
such a magical way of living, starting as far as
I can tell, with maybe the more ancient cultures that
we see in Egypt, that we see around the world
that share a lot of iconography, a lot of stories
about the power of the human spirit, especially the human soul.
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You know, Egypt was really big on what it meant
to be a spirit throughout their entire three thousand year history.
In terms of the Egypt that we tend to talk
about when it comes to the hieroglyphics and the hieroglyphs
and all the stories there, they focused on the journey
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after death and the paradise that came once we overcame
the challenges of that process and overcame some of you know,
some of the roadblocks that especially appear when we're more selfish,
when we're more disordered, and Zoroastrianism talks about this as well,
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talks about overcoming selfish addictions that we all tend to
have genetically and through our learning and society, and that
changes our bodies. We know that now in modern history
that having different mindsets and different habits literally changes our
genetic expression and our epigenetics, something that a lot of
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us haven't digested because people don't talk about it very often,
but is well documented in the science. Even having a
positive outlook in your day changes your gene expression. I mean,
imagine the implications for how much we might change given
a change of heart and mind, or at least a
return to our true and deeper spiritual sunlight that's at
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the core of each of us. And so Zoroastrianism talks
about that, but it talks about these saviors that will
uplift this and not just that final one, but two
before that final one, including one that is born of
a virgin. Believe it or not, so Zoroastrianism might have
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foretold Jesus Christ is one of the three final prophets
of Earth before the Paradise comes. Now we hear a
lot about prophets nowadays, and I wouldn't really suggest we
believe any one specific one is being an embodiment of
this end time savior, whether it's the first, second, or
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third version of this savior, not saying it's the same spirit.
I don't think Zoroastrianism says that either. It does have
some things to say about that, but I'll leave that
to you in your research. A good way to find
out more is chat GPT. Just ask chat g because
Zoroastrianism has so many texts throughout their corpus that it's
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hard to really find one that'll touch on everything. So AI,
despite what we feel about it sometimes and how it
can be used, can also be a great tool, right.
So it's interesting to hear about this and to really
connect the dots between Zoroastrianism and Christianity, and Judaism and
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Islam and many others throughout the world behind it's interesting
to see that we share this core message that's less
about get each profit right, know God in all God's
forms or in one specific form. Really well, there's this
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so it's kind of beautiful to see these connections between
all these fades. And I don't think they've necessarily stolen
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from each other or just borrowed. I do think there's
a greater history of carrying traditions forward, as we see
in the Christian Bible, the Hebrew texts as well, the
Torah and the Pentitook. It's interesting to see that there
are cultures and traditions before that that had the same stories,
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maybe even more in depth than you've heard from the
Sumerian tablets and such. That instead of using the term
alohem for God, that uses a term we translate to
sky people. So sky people hovered over the earth and
fix things up. It's crazy to really dive into these histories,
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but I think no matter our beliefs about who's doing what,
it's God. It's God doing greatness, and even the evil
is allowed as kind of a byproduct of God allowing
the process of growth to have its day to lead
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us to something that will be worth it, that will
be worth it, as hard as that is to believe sometimes,
and it is hard to believe sometimes, but really we're
not asked to believe anything blindly. We're asked to settle
in our peace. That's what Jesus called on us to do,
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of turnaround. People use us the word repent, which is
often the translation, but Jesus, it says in the Christian texts,
had a gospel, a ministry of turning around, turn around
within ourselves. One hundred and eighty degrees repent, so to speak,
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but not in the way we often think of it.
He's calling us to return to look and see what
is the source of life we share it. And further,
he says, heaven is that life within you. Heaven is
your life. God is the only thing that makes heaven heaven.
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So what is our life? It's God. When Jesus talked
what seems so arrogantly to some of us who aren't Christian,
he was just saying the truth. He came to know
him self to be that way, that truth, that life
that we all ultimately are and will come to know
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ourselves to be. I mean, Jesus said that exactly. And
yet I think often we want to be so humble
for those of us who follow the Gospels that we're
not willing to lean into this. We're saying, no, that's
left for Jesus, and then we miss out on Jesus's
whole message, which is one of spiritual growth. Cough. To
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make my point more clear, Yes, it's worth emphasizing that
was the core of Christ's message. We like to think
it's about getting God's name right, It's about Jesus is
the only Savior. But Jesus knew better than to think
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everyone would follow Christianity, that everyone in the universe would
follow Christianity. And yet the real Christianity is something that
we're tesked with following, because it's not about getting a
historical figure right, even if Christ knew the fullness of
what it means to be divine, even if Christ embodied
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the sacred Scriptures, even if Christ is symbolized through all
these prophecies and overcame all the hells, as the mystic
Swedenborg believed, overcame every hell and even the opposite leanings
of the angels that they still carried, but distantly, as
we do when we cast aside our bad habits. He
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overcame all of that, perhaps, according to the mystic, to
embody Divinity purely and to resurrect his physical body into
the spirit. I can believe it. I don't think we
have to undermine a reality of a messenger of God.
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I'm not saying we're always right in believing someone who's
a messenger of God, but really, what are we getting to.
We're getting to the power of the Holy Spirit of
the Divine Creator. What are we trying to tap into
we're trying to tap in to our own reality that
we are, this infinite being everything that we experience. Where
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do we find it? We find it in our consciousness.
Name a being big or small that has ever found
the universe outside of their consciousness. It's impossible. And yet
we like to think there's this reality outside of the
light of consciousness, the light of God, the light of love.
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But there's no proof. You can't do it, can't prove it.
And in fact, our science is telling us without consciousness,
things are in a nebulous haze of problem ability. States
So funny enough, even the science supports this idea that
really the core of reality that we should return to
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is understanding our consciousness. What is it that the mind
of Corey arises and all my reactions, all my feelings.
What is it that actually has the will power? We
often give it to that mind that arises in our consciousness,
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But what is it that actually has the will to
give it power to change our attention from that thought
to that thought? What is it that gives so much
emphasis to certain feelings and others, certain thoughts and not others.
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What is it that allows the mind to wreak havoc
in our lives and to lead us to a state
of disordered fear and agitation, anxiety and over lustfulness. It's
what always sees. It's just what you are. It's what sees,
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and it's a big topic today awareness in modern circles.
It should be. It's something that so many traditions took
very seriously, from Buddhism to Hinduism, and they knew that
it was an embodiment of perfection. And we each have it.
It is perfection already and we're looking somewhere else for it.
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But where do we look. It's always in consciousness. It's
always in our awareness. Buddhism, which is said not to
be a religion by many and not to have a god,
spoke a lot about the perfection of awareness and a
paradise that is to come. Many Buddhist traditions or just
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speak of the paradise not only to come, but of
just finding what we really are. That the savior we're
looking for may manifest one day or in the past
or in the future as a certain being may show
the qualities more beautifully to everyone in some amazing fashion.
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But who's the savior for you? It's always your consciousness.
It's always God working through your spirit. Where else do
we find peace? Where else do we find grace? You
can use other words for life, the universe, the cosmos,
awareness itself, peace, stillness, silence, but it's always the same thing.
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It's when we start deriving away from what it really is,
that openness, that peace, that prince of peace, that princess
of peace, when we start deriving it to terms and
getting a book right, but not just getting the book right,
getting this part right, not just getting this part right,
not doing this in this but ignoring that other stuff
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that it says not to do and going to the
right building enough each week. Then you're saying, but only
if you do this thing the priest wants you to
do at the right time, because they can kick you out. Really,
we're doing this to ourselves, and ultimately we find often
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that when we're kicked out, we find the greater peace.
We realize, Oh, I can still be Catholic, I can
still be Jewish, I can still be Swedenborgian, I can
be whatever. It's a term. It's a term, and I'm
a being wherever I go. I'm the center of the universe.
It's not a selfish thing to think and realize when
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we think about it in terms of other pe they're
the center of the universe. Wherever they go, they're nowhere
near the edge. I promise you that you're always in
the middle, and what's always in the middle of each
of us? Dare I say life itself the only place
we find other life? Dare I say love itself the
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only place we find what it means to love and
embrace others for how they already are in that moment,
and not need them to change. Dare I say understanding
and truth. So it's cool to see that we're all
sharing a tradition known by many names, and even those
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of us more scientifically oriented without any spiritual pinnings, we
find that the material world is spirit, a manifestation of spirit.
So the more we learn about it, guess what happens?
We become more dare I say materialist, but in a
good way, in other words, spiritual. So thank you so
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much if you got it this far, I really have
to thank you. Hats off to you, folks, I love you.
I'm peace