Friends.

"'You are my friends if you do what I command you.  I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing, but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.'"  John 15: 14,15 (NRSV)

This is Jesus saying that he is equal with his disciples.

This  statement contradicts the notion that Jesus is God incarnate.

Jesus is saying he is a human being like his disciples who has been given the privilege of transmitting God's message to humanity.

And that message - as can be seen from the context* - is Love.


*John 15: 12-17.

[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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Bless You.

God bless you

and keep you.

God guide you

and light your way.

God protect you

and touch your heart.

God save you

and bring you home.


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Pray.

Pray for peace.

Pray for our leaders.

Pray for captains of industry.

Learn how to weep.

Open your heart.


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No Help.

It may seem

that the devil

gives you

an edge.

But in reality

it doesn't help.


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No Devil.

There is no devil

in reality.

You cannot

sell your soul.

Evil cannot win.

So open your heart

to God

and to your neighbor.

And know

that love

is God.


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Him.

Who is

the great dark man?

Who is

the object of desire?

Who is

the one we search for?

He is

The Beloved.

The Love

of God.


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The Door is A Jar.

"'For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven.  For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in, you stop them.'"  Matthew 23:13 (NRSV)

God's representatives on earth have not entered the kingdom of heaven because they do not follow the commandments of Jesus or Moses.

Jesus said, "'This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.'"  John 15:12 (NRSV)

Jesus also said, "'The first (commandment) is....."you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength."  The second is this "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."'" Mark 12:29-31 (NRSV)

So it is clear that both Jesus and Moses state that the way of God is the way of the heart.

The door to the sanctuary is the heart.

And it is the same for Aquarius.

The jar which the Water Carrier holds is symbolized by the Egyptian hieroglyph ab which means the heart.


[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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