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He saw them coming a long way off. He saw Jesus start running all of a sudden and Mary chasing after him. It was a glorious time in all their lives. He suspected that both these kids had made plans just like their parents were doing a long time ago and watched to make sure they were running to come and join their parents. Maybe they had been ritually ‘listening in’ through
astral arts. When he was sure they were coming home Joseph went back inside.
“The kids will be here shortly. What are we going to do to avoid use of name Mary for both of you?”
“I guess we could call my Mary by name Magdalene. There are lots of Marys and she has been called that by other kids who include many named Mary.” J. A. said as he rose to hug his daughter as she came running into house a little winded. “Since when do young ladies run after boys?” He kidded.
“Oh, he thinks he is such a smart guy just cause he was able to summon an angel through Gematria or Hebrew alphabet even while I watched. I had to show him I can still run as fast as he can.”
“I beat you.”
“Yes, and you got a head start too.” The Magdalene said as she pushed him lovingly.
“After Ruth serves us our dinner why don’t you show me how you summon angels, Jesus? Or should I call you Yeshua?”
“You can call me Jesus if you want. There are some of my friends like Judas who insist I am even The Chriost. I have a hard time with that but I can accept Iesa or Jesus because I am all for promoting ‘The Brotherhood of Man’. But I’d rather not do summoning thing twice in one day. Maybe I can do that in a couple of days and make it really special. If I fast for a day and have a bath just before doing it and there is some music while I am lingering in water I find it is more powerful.”
“I too summon angels or ‘One’. I know most people who are learned are adept at this but Magdalene tells me you are best. I know what you mean about fasting first too. We shall wait until you feel moved to do your best.”
“It won’t be more than a couple of days. I shall fast tomorrow. I am very good at it and I don’t need to fast for a week like James does to get his best result. But I don’t want to be seen as showing off so I’d like it to be just you guys if you don’t mind.”
Later that week as sun went down after dinner and some friends went home after a little music they had gathered to play was over, Jesus, Magdalene and their parents gathered in garden courtyard to watch Jesus. A modern scholar by name of Daniel Matt provides us with this description of process. There are forms of meditation in every culture and concept of man and his relationship with soul. Many of them have little to do with symbols or intellectual processes such as Mr. Matt provides in what follows. This particular ritual is contentious to some because it mentions feminine aspect that is incorporated into ancient knowledge of Sphinx and was obliterated for many millennia by Jehovah promoters who wanted men to dominate. The Shekhinah were once female goddesses in Judaic religious complex. Our 'feminine' soul, can open doors to major insights beyond intellectual or social conventions.
"UNSHEATHING THE SOUL PREPARE to meet your God. Prepare to devote your heart. Purify your body and select a special place where no one else in world can hear your voice. Be totally alone. Sit in one spot in room or loft, and do not reveal your secret to anyone. If you can, do this by day, even for a little while, but best way is to do it at night {Melatonin production increases at night-thus 'night-worker' is meaning of melatonin.}. As you prepare to speak with your Creator, to seek revelation of his power, be careful to empty your mind of all mundane vanities. Wrap yourself in your 'tallit' and put 'tefillin' on your head so that you will be filled with awe of Shekhinah, who is with you at this moment. Wear clean garments, all white if you can. All this helps immensely in focussing your awe and love. If it is night, light many candles until your eyes shine brightly.
Then take hold of ink, pen and tablet. Realize that you are about to serve your God in joy. Begin to combine letters, a few or many, permuting and revolving them {This would be good training for people early in life and getting to know new languages.} rapidly until your mind warms up. Delight in how they move and in what you generate by revolving them. When you feel within that your mind is very, very warm from combining letters and that through combination you understand new things that you have not attained by human tradition nor discovered on your own through mental reflection, then you are ready to receive abundant flow, and abundance flows upon you, arousing you again and again.
Now turn your thoughts to visualizing Name and its supernal angels, imagining them as if they were human beings standing or sitting around you, with you in middle like a messenger about to be sent on a royal mission, waiting to hear about it from their lips, either from king himself or from one of his ministers. Having imagined {N.B.} this vividly, prepare your mind and heart to understand many things about to be conveyed to you by letters being contemplated within you. Meditate on them as a whole and in all their detail, like one to whom a parable, a riddle, or a dream is being told, or like one perusing a book of wisdom, pondering a passage beyond his grasp. Interpret what you hear in an uplifting manner, approximating it as best you can {Chant}. Based on what you understand of it, evaluate yourself and others. All this will happen after you fling tablet from your hands and pen from your fingers, or after they fall by themselves due to intensity of your thoughts.
Realize that stronger mental flow, weaker become your limbs and organs. Your entire body will begin to tremble violently. You will think that you are about to die because your soul, overjoyed at what she {N.B.} has attained, will depart from your body. Consciously choose death over life, knowing that such death affects only body and that thereby soul lives eternally. Then you will know that you are capable of receiving flow. If you then wish to honor glorious NAME by serving it with life of body and soul, hide your face, fear to gaze at God, and come no closer, like Moses at burning bush. Return to physical dimension, rise, eat and drink a little, inhale a fragrant aroma. Return your spirit to its sheath until another time. Rejoice in what you have, and know that God loves you.” (1)
Visualizing colours of light and breathing from Yogic disciplines is a much more commonly thought of meditation. There are as many ways to meditate as there are trees in forest. Each one is different if only by fact of each person being different.
When Jesus was through with amazing them all it was J. A. who spoke first. “That was better than any I have witnessed or heard about. I felt presence of ‘One’. Are you absolutely sure you are not The Chriost?”
Author of Diverse Druids Columnist at The ES Press Magazine Guest 'expert' at World-Mysteries.com
