Forgiveness.

                  

How can we bring an end to all feuds?

Forgiveness.

There can be no resolution without forgiveness.

In South Africa the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was built on forgiveness.

First the perpetrators of crimes were required to admit their guilt then the victims were requested to forgive them.

Without this forgiveness there would have been festering wounds which could have seen a bloodbath.

So forgiveness is vital.

Without forgiveness there can be no peace.


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Heaven.

It is the bane

Of humankind

That we try to make

A heaven for ourselves

On Earth:

Made of mortar and of bricks,

Of wealth and of possessions.

But find in fact

A desert and a prison.

Forgetting first

The Heaven that is

Love.


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Heaven and Earth.

On Earth

We suffer

The society of men:

We work.

We struggle.

We strive.

We compete.

We serve corrupt masters.

We surrender to fear.

We condone the waging of perpetual war.

And ignore the plight of the world's most poor.


But Heaven and Earth

Are full of God's Glory!

Golden wattles bloom.

Majestic clouds drift on high.

Mighty mountains touch the sky.

Fathomless seas surround our land.

Everywhere green plants abound.

A garden world with flowers crowned.

Rapid rivers run.

We bask in Summer sun.

We welcome Winter rains.

Quietly we sit in peace.

Forgetting our world's pains.

And pray humbly for forgiveness

For all the world's disdain.


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False Premise.

                            

Satanism is based on a false premise.

The primary assumption of Satanism is that God is harsh and judgemental.

They say He is a bastard.

This notion originates with the Church which preaches an angry, punitive God.

Neither of them know God.

God is wholly good.
God is benevolent.
God does not punish anyone.

Therefore there is no Judgement - Personal or General.

There is no devil.

And there is no hell.

So Satanism is based on a false premise.


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Positives.

                            

Accentuate the positives.

Satanism in rock music pushes the negatives - the negatives of your star signs, the negatives of your generational group.

If you listen to them or follow their prompt you are feeding the negative side of your personality and this induces intense suffering.

You will hate those who love you.
You will cheat on your partner.
You will break off relationships.
You will indulge in vices.
You will blame the innocent.

All these things are hidden in rock music.

But if you accentuate the positives your life will improve dramatically.

You will appreciate those who love you.
You will be grateful for your blessings.
You will be faithful to your partner.
You will discover new virtues and talents.
You will experience love and happiness.

So don't listen to the negative messages in rock music - overt or covert.

You deserve better than that.

Find the positives.

And feed them.

If you pray God will help you.


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The Compensations of Art.

                            

When life lets us down and we experience disappointment and failure art can be a real compensation.

The joys of art include stimulation of the intellect and of the imagination.

Art can help us understand life.

Art can move us to tears.

Art can touch our hearts.

So do not underestimate the value of art in our quest.

Art can be a real compensation.


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The Flower That Does Not Fade.

                            

When you begin to open your heart and give love to others your heart blossoms like a flower.

But, unlike the flowers of the earth, this flower does not fade.

It continues to blossom and become more beautiful as time goes on.

The more love you give the more love there is to give.

Love flows from an infinite source within our hearts.

And this is because God is Love.

So love God and love others.

Then the Flower of Love will never fade.


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Cherry on Top.

                            

Someone said that if love is the cake then sex is the cherry on top.

But we must remember that sex alone is just a cherry, the cake itself is love.


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Happiness.

                            

The Dalai Lama says that the purpose of life is happiness.

But my experience is that the more you pursue happiness the more it slips away from you - like a mirage.

Certainly if you seek happiness in material things you will be richer materially but you will lose contact with your own soul.

We are happier with less.

The purpose of life is love.

Or more precisely to learn how to love.

Happiness is a side-effect.

The way of the heart leads to both love and compassion.

This is the light of the Buddha and of Jesus.


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A True Home.

                            

When I think of the millions of people trapped in refugee camps in our world I pray that we in the West can open our hearts to them .

This would mean that we don't just provide for them a house but we make for them a place in our hearts.

Then we would provide for them a true home.


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Immigrants.

                            

When I think of the thousands of immigrants in our country I can see that the fear in our population affects them severely.

Chinese immigrants, Indian immigrants, and people from many other countries, including Muslim countries, are frozen out of our culture.

They are outsiders.

And it is cold outside.

So, rather than considering them a threat, we should open our hearts to them and make for them a new home.


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Your Neighbor.

                            

"'"You shall love your neighbor as yourself."'"  Mark 12:31 (NRSV)

Because your neighbor is a human being just like you.

With hopes and dreams just like you.

Who has suffered and who's heart is broken just like you.


[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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Satanism.

                            

Satan is not real.

But Satanism is real.

Satanism is alive and well and living in our popular culture.

A surprising number of people sell their souls to the devil and do his work in the world.

Or so they believe.

This is mostly inspired by the success of 1960s rock legends.

They are famous.

And they use the mass media for their evil purposes.

So unplug your earphones and turn off the T.V..

Turn to God.

He will deliver you.


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Gay.

                            

Because some Satanists are homosexual does not mean that all homosexuals are Satanists.

Neither does it mean that gay sex is Satanic.

Some Satanists are gay but the large majority are heterosexual.

And many are women.

Witchcraft and magic are perceived as power for women in a man's world.

So don't blame homosexuals for the evils of this world.

There are plenty of heterosexuals who do the devil's work.


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Zodiac.

                              

Each sign of the Zodiac is suited to a particular pathway to God:

Aries - Action.
Taurus - Love.
Gemini - Thinking.
Cancer - Caring.
Leo - Creativity.
Virgo - Discrimination.
Libra - Love.
Scorpio - Passion.
Sagittarius - Knowledge.
Capricorn - Discipline.
Aquarius - Enlightenment.
Pisces - Prayer.

Each person must follow the path to which they are most suited.


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Home.

                            

It is not sufficient merely to believe that Jesus is the Christ.

It is not sufficient merely to confess that Jesus is King.

It is not sufficient merely to serve God with your lips.

It is not sufficient merely to obey the rules.

It is not sufficient merely to do good works out of fear.

It is not sufficient merely to love your family and friends.

It is not sufficient merely to turn up on Sundays.

What is required is a commitment to Jesus' teachings of love and forgiveness for everyone.

God punishes no one.

He loves and redeems evil people and apostates.

And we must do the same.

Then we will be Home.


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Scapegoat.

                            

It is the objective of some in our society to make of gays and lesbians a scapegoat.

It is not difficult to persecute a minority group especially when there is fear surrounding them.

The persistence of AIDS makes gays and lesbians a soft target.

So don't listen to those who tell you gays are to blame for our ills.

Gays are no more to blame than anyone else.

And God does not discriminate.


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What Makes the World Go Round?

                            

What is it that makes the world what it is?

It is not money, or power, or violence.

What makes the world go round is fear.

Fear drives those with money.

Fear makes people seek power.

Fear makes people violent.

If they had a tiny seed of faith they would be free of avarice, lust, and anger.

But they say. "God has forsaken the Earth."

And war rages on.


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Status Quo.

                            

If we merely reinforce the Status Quo Religion will die out and the world will be left at the prey of evil people.

We cannot afford to just do things the way they have always been done.

This way has been rejected.

We must invoke a more compassionate God.
A God who forgives.
A God who loves us.

We must banish the God of judgement and vengeance.
We must forget the God of anger and hate.

God does not repay us tit-for-tat for our sins.

This is the way of the world.
It is not the way of God.

God is bigger than that.

He forgives our mistakes.

And He loves us like a Father.


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God's Reign.

Like a gentle rain

from Heaven,

God's Blessing

Surrounds us,

God's Mercy

Confounds us,

God's Grace

Astounds us.

Like a miracle

of Love,

God touches us.

And restores us to Life!


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Generation X.

                            

The truth about Generation X is that they resorted to evil and violence to win.

Rejecting the Baby-Boomers' ideal of peace and love they set about disproving it by force.

And they conspired with Satan to achieve it.

They were infatuated with the devil and the dark side.

They bragged that they were pure evil.

Their entertainment was horror and violence.

They were blasphemous and they were bad.

And they tried to lie and cheat their way out of it.

But this supernatural duplicity is not the truth.

They cannot lie to God.

They cannot cheat Heaven.

They are living backwards.

And they are suckers for Satanism.

So sooner or later they will have to eat humble pie.

They have massive egos.

They are moral relativists.

And they are spiritual cowards.

So there you have it:

The truth about Generation X.


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The Fathers.

God's Reign

Descends

upon us.

Blessing us.

Reviving us.

Setting us free.

And opening

before us

The hearts of the Fathers.


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Our Corporate Masters.

                            

Not only does Satanism feed the negatives of each generational group but they corrupt our corporate masters.

At the Barcelona Olympics the Opening Ceremony included something called The Devil's Rain  which showed all manner of evil and horrors from hell.  This was conducted by Japanese rock musician Riuichi Sakamoto.

At the London Olympics the Opening Ceremony featured the (evil) Rings of Power and a segment called Pandemonium which is the name of the capital of hell in Milton's Paradise Lost.
It also depicted cigar smoking plutocrats from the Industrial Revolution.
The rest was rock music.

These are evil things designed by the guilty to tempt those in positions of power - i.e. those rich enough to make up the audiences at those Olympic Ceremonies.

And I'm sure there are many other ways in which Satanists in our culture corrupt older generations.

This is why the world is becoming darker. more violent, colder, more unjust and unforgiving every day.

And no one seems to know why.


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The Way of Peace.

                            

When Jesus was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane one of his followers drew his sword and cut off the ear of the slave of the High Priest.

"Then Jesus said to him, 'Put your sword back into its place, for all who take up the sword will perish by the sword.'"  Matthew 26:52 (NRSV)

So it is clear that Jesus' way is not the way of the sword.

This contradicts all who follow The Book of Revelation and all who practise Spiritual Warfare.

It contradicts even the theory of a Just War.

So, if we are not to fight against evil, what are we to do?

"'You have heard that it was said, "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."  But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer.  But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also.'"  Matthew 5:38,39 (NRSV)

This is Jesus' teaching.

It is the way of non-violent benevolence.

It is the Way of Peace.


[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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Celibacy.

                            

Rather than thinking of celibacy as a Christian doctrine that superseded the Pagan attitude, which was much more accepting of sex as a part of nature, we should realize that attitudes involving abstinence from sex are far more ancient than St. Paul.

In fact St. Paul's attitude towards sex was nurtured by the strict sect of celibate Pharisees to which he belonged before his conversion to Christianity.

You will not find this doctrine in Jesus' teachings.

Ascetics existed in the Ancient World.

In fact they are one of the oldest manifestations of religion.

One of the first characters to appear in the Mahabharata - Bishma - vows to abjure the love of women, for which he is praised by heaven.

But the Bhagavad-Gita states that the way of the heart is greater than those who mortify the body, greater than the learned, greater than the doers of good works.

So it is not essential to abstain from sexual activity to attain spiritual enlightenment.

God accepts us as we are.


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Pleasure in Heaven.

                            

When I say that gay sex is O.K. with God there are serious implications.

One theory of Salvation claims that you cannot have pleasure on Earth and still go to Heaven.

As if it was a trade - pleasure on Earth for pleasure in Heaven.

But does this mean that married couples - who have sex an average of 2 to 3 times a week - don't go to Heaven?

Obviously not.

So why would this rule apply to others - to homosexuals and people who are not married?

This is a double standard.

And God does not deal in double standards.

So this theory of pleasure on Earth for pleasure in Heaven is bankrupt.

I believe that all people go to Heaven.

Regardless of their pleasures on Earth.


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Tai/Peace.

                                      

The 11th hexagram of the I-Ching is Tai/Peace.

This corresponds to the first month of the year which is February.

The Chinese New Year is always on the Aquarius new moon.

So this hexagram has a close association with the 11th sign of the Zodiac - Aquarius.

In the commentary on this hexagram it states that it represents an end to all feuds.

And this is great news.

It means feuds between individuals, family members, generations, political positions, nations, religions, denominations, races, sexes, even humans' feuds with God will be resolved.

So the Age of Aquarius will see an unprecedented period of peace on earth.

All humanity will be reconciled to each other and to God.

This is the Rainbow - which represents peace between humanity and God.


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Virgo/Scorpio.

What we have to realize is that each consecutive generation has been sabotaged by their rock stars. 

Generation X have been cursed with the negatives of their generational astrological signs - Virgo and Scorpio.

The negative traits of Virgo are: destructive criticism, holier than thou approach, hypocrisy, squeamishness, schismatism, judgementalism, whorishness, and perfectionism.

The negative traits of Scorpio are: violence, intimidation, lies, criminality, jealousy, possessiveness, competitiveness, obsessiveness, vindictiveness, retaliation, hate, and evil.

But Virgo and Scorpio have positive traits.

The positive traits of Virgo are: virtue, meticulousness, discrimination, manners, neatness, cleanliness, work, helping, love of animals (pets), love of the environment (green), analysis, health, exercise, diet, and logic.

The positive traits of Scorpio are: passion, transformation, concentration, loyalty, depth, psychology, and energy.

They are intuitive even psychic.

It is possible for them to manifest their birth signs positively.

I pray for that.

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Jordan Express.

We come

to bathe

in

the River of Life!


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Paths to God.

                            

The bane of the world's religions is that one of the many paths to God will harden into rules to which are attached rewards and punishments, heaven and hell.

This inspires fear which assumes that all the other pathways are in error and therefore lead to hell.

This makes them aggressive and violent.

They vie for supremacy.

But the truth is that there are many pathways to God and we should not assume that our path is the only way.

This would suggest that tolerance is the hallmark of the Aquarian Age.

We must allow people to find God in their own way.


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Honey.

Your

Words of Life

are like

Honey

on my tongue.


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Many Ways.

                            

An ancient Pagan text says that your experience of the Divine depends on which god's chariot you rose up to the heavens in.

The Bhagavad-Gita says that there are many Yogas or paths to God.

Within each religion there are many ways:

Good Works.
Asceticism - Self-Denial.
Knowledge (Study).
Prayer (Devotion).
Compassion.
Altruism - Selflessness.
Meditation or Contemplation.
Morality (Honesty etc.).

But the greatest is the way of:

Love.

Which leads to all others.


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My Heart.

I love you.

And I hold you to my heart.


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May.

Like

the flowers

of Spring.

May I

Love you.


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(The Greek Islands.)

Pass It On.

                            

To those of you who believe me when I say that rock music is Satanic I say this: "Pass it on."

Tell your friends, tell your family, tell anyone who will listen.

Because this is the great secret of our time: that rock bands since the 1960s have sold their souls and poisoned three generations of youth.

Satanic curses and negative suggestion are hidden in all rock music.

So take out your earplugs.

And throw away your C.D.s.

Turn to God.

And He will heal you.


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Satanism Today.

                            

You may wonder what relevance Satanism has to your life today.

You may think that it is marginal.

But Satanism is rife in the music and entertainment industries.

This curse is hidden in much of our popular culture.

So watch out for: flames, black, death, darkness, night, skulls, skeletons, graves, snakes, spiders, drugs, daggers, demons, horns, Hitler, hell.....

These things betray the Satanism which is hidden beneath the surface.

These influences will drag you down.
They will poison and sabotage you.
They will stab you in the back.

So be aware that Satanism is common in our culture today.


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Beyond Dualism.

                            

Dualism is like theological primary school.

It is simplistic and provisional.

If you think about it not all things are dual.

Some things are 1s, some things are 2s, some things are 3s, some things are 5s etc.....

For example: 5 is considered the human number because there are 5 fingers, 5 toes, 5 limbs, 5 senses.

So to reduce everything to dualism, especially when we are talking about God, is ridiculous.

God is all numbers at once.

God is holistic.

That is He is all things and more in one.

But to say that God is transcendent does not mean that God is a combination of the pairs of opposites.

God is beyond dualism.


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