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Dedication
I dedicate this book and anything good that comes of my work and my life to my
dear wife Beverly who has taught me the true secret of a blessed life.
Happiness does not depend on some future event.
Happiness is appreciating and enjoying the people and
things around you right now.
Beverly is always happy, but she is happiest when she makes others happy.
No achievements in my life could ever mean more to me than those times when I
have given her a reason to smile, or feel loved, or feel appreciated.
I believe in reincarnation, and so I look forward to my soul mate and I dancing this
wonderful dance many, many more times.
- Alan Gordon
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1:
Collection of Quotes
2:
What is a Mystic?
3:
Development of the Inner Man
4:
Ontology The Framework of Your Beliefs
5:
The Material Universe Powered by Infinite Life Force
6:
The Soul Seated in the Body
7:
Mind
8:
Seven Mystical Principles
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Four More Key Principles
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Shma Yisrael (Hear O Israel)
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Spiritual Alchemy Turning Base Metal into Gold
12:
Inter-Connectedness
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The Life Force is Never Ending
14:
Preparation Elevating Your Awareness
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Purification Before Entering the Temple
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The Triple Vantage Point
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Symbols of the Triple Vantage Point
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You are Infinite
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What Would God Say to Us?
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Concluding Thoughts
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Introduction
Please join me on a journey into the mystery and meaning of life. We will explore the
incredible wisdom of ancient teachings blended with the knowledge of modern science.
Many of these teachings have been passed down for thousands of years.
I am convinced that we will not advance by looking backwards, debating and defending
religious doctrine. To become great we must each be great by fully understanding and
utilizing our awesome God-given power.
The Triple Vantage Point is an experience of deep unity, a focused state of mind which
allows us to experience life in absolute reality, or as close to absolute reality as we can
get. But before we can appreciate the experience of the Triple Vantage Point we need
to learn more about ourselves.
Bring together ancient wisdom and history into a modern view of the world, then put that
wisdom into practice with The Triple Vantage Point. An experience you will never forget
and will want to repeat many times over. And you can.
The Triple Vantage Point is not a religion. It is a technique to build your inner self to the
point where you can, for a few deep moments, realize the truth about your being and
experience the full and awesome power of your being.
The truth is that only a very small number of people are even interested in following a
path of inner development, and even for those who are drawn to this path, they find no
clear curriculum to follow. Each student is on his own to explore and read different
books and try different ideas throughout his life.
So at least for this part of your journey, Im really so very glad you have found this book
which present a clear sequence of ideas that will guide you down a safe and wonderful
path of inner discovery.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it - even
if I myself have said it - unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
~The Buddha
Think for yourself. And in that spirit I encourage you to read, experience and explore,
with an open mind. We may disagree on points of doctrine, thats fine. But when you
experience the complete unity of The Triple Vantage Point, the Unification of Mind,
Body and Soul, that experience transcends religious beliefs and doctrinal differences.
I urge you to experience it for yourself.
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1: Collection of Quotes
In these first pages I quote some of the greatest thoughts from the greatest spiritual
thinkers in history. I come back to these quotes often, and I realize that many of them
hold mystical keys to opening deeper insights into the truth behind the physical world.
Many of these thoughts were written 2,000 and 3,000 years ago, and yet our modern
society completely ignores this wisdom. We are silent on these subjects. Our modern
society is focused exclusively on the material world. As a society we have lost the
notion of responsibility for understanding our spiritual nature and bringing it to bear in
our everyday lives. It is our duty to regain that spiritual understanding, to follow the way
that so many have pointed out to us in times past.
Truth alone will endure. All the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I
must, therefore, continue to bear testimony to truth, even if I am forsaken by all.
Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other
voices are silenced. It is the voice of truth. ~Mahatma Gandhi
The best of all gifts is the gift of truth. ~The Buddha
The beauty of Wisdom is lost, except to the ears of Understanding.

~The Kybalion
There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The
past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All
these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.
~Abraham Lincoln
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them. ~Genesis 1:27
And God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a
living soul. ~Genesis 2:7
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
~Deuteronomy 6:4
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The All is in all, and all is in the All

~The Kybalion
All is Brahman
The Self is Brahman
Thou Art That
I AM Brahman
~ The Four Mahavakyas Great Statements in the Upanishads
He who sees all beings in the Self and the Self in all beings,
he never turns away from this truth
~ The Isha Upanishad
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings
in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
~ The Buddha
It is more blessed to give than to receive. ~ Acts 20:35
Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with
all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And
the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two
commandments hang all the law.
~Matthew 22:36-39
We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find
our own advancement in the search for the advancement of others.
~ Robert F. Kennedy
Give and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others,
it will be dealt to you in return. ~Luke 6:38
Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be
judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
~Matthew 7:1-2
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you ~Luke 6:31
That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole of the
Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn. ~ Talmud, Shabbat 31a
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ~Matthew 5:5
A man's life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.
~Luke 12:15
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt,
and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break
through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
~Matthew 6:19-21
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How
unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
~Romans 11:33
Behind all the secrets of nature there remains something

subtle, intangible and inexplicable.
~Albert Einstein
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if

humanity is to survive.
~ Albert Einstein
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall
harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the
history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We are what we think. All that we are arises from our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make our world.
~ The Buddha
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Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer
garment of circumstance, and that, as they may have hitherto woven in ignorance
and pain, they may now weave in enlightenment and happiness.
~ James Allen
How ignorant is he who knows all but not himself?

~Ralph M. Lewis
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not a single act, but a habit.
~ Aristotle
Our duty as men and women, is to proceed with our lives as if limits to
our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that
ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
~Mark 11:24
Be not deceived. God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he
also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he
that soweth to the Spirit shall reap life everlasting.
~Galatians 6:7
For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, but lose his soul?
~Luke 9:25
The seven sins of a society are politics without principles, wealth without work,
pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without
morality, science without humanity, and worship without renunciation of ego.
~Mahatma Ghandi
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2: What is a Mystic?
Behind all the secrets of nature there remains
something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.
~ Albert Einstein (scientist and mystic)
Behind the visible lies the invisible. Behind the physical lies the spiritual. Behind the
known lies the unknown.
We are surrounded by mystery.
Our very existence is a mystery. We have a physical body, but we clearly have a soul,
an animating spirit which is not physical.
Behind the visible (our body) lies the invisible (our soul).
Our mind is one of the great mysteries of the universe. All we have to show for our
infinite conscious and subconscious capacity is the physical brain which offers no real
explanation as to how our mind actually works. And yet all of us are equipped with a
mind of infinite capacity, and each of us uses it every minute of every day even
though not one of us can understand how this happens.
What is a Mystic?
A mystic is someone who is drawn to know the truths which lay beyond the physical
world, and desires to experience a unity with Gods infinite being.
If you are reading these words then you are part of a long line of men and women, who
since the dawn of time, have sought out truth and wisdom, and who have honored God
by valuing life and His creation.
Mysticism is the pursuit of truth, the honoring of Gods infinite mysteries, and a humble
desire to experience unity with God and His purpose.
Can you be Spiritual but not Religious?
The most common misconception about Mysticism is that it is Atheism. It is not
Atheism, but it is also not a religion. Mysticism is a personal path. A mystic is drawn to
the development of his inner being, and takes personal responsibility for his own
development. This is the difference between spirituality and religion. For many mystics,
their religion is a central element of this path, but many others find that a religion does
not fulfill this need and they seek their path outside of any organized religion.
The true purpose of your life is to elevate your level of awareness and enlightenment by
connecting with the truth, and ultimately incorporating wisdom into your daily being.
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A mystic walks the path at the point of mystery between the visible and the invisible,
between physical reality and spiritual reality, between the known and the unknown. A
mystic has a foot in both worlds. He understands that he is not entirely of the physical
world, there are unseen elements. He has not abandoned the physical world, rather he
lives at the intersection between these two worlds and understands that the visible and
the invisible, the known and the unknown, are connected, and constantly flowing back
and forth, one into the other.
A mystic can recognize the mystery, accept the mystery, and enjoy the mystery.
Reality includes the known and the unknown.
To the mystic, reality is unified and all-inclusive.
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3: Development of the Inner Man

How ignorant is he who knows all but not himself?
~Ralph M. Lewis
To know all about the world, but to have no knowledge of your own inner being is the
saddest state of a man.
Let us not depart this world spiritually empty handed. The exploration and
understanding of your self is incomparably more valuable than your understanding of
the physical world. Knowledge of the world is transitory, the world itself is transitory, but
you - as a spiritual being - transcend this world. You are eternal, and knowledge of your
eternal self is your ultimate goal.
Within each of us, at the deepest level, is an inner consciousness or intelligence. Most
people are so overwhelmingly wrapped up in the physical world and absorbed in their
various activities and roles in this world that it is very common for people to go their
entire lives without contemplating or taking the time to develop an awareness of this
inner consciousness, this inner intelligence, this inner man.
This inner consciousness is mysterious. It is invisible as opposed to your visible self.
It is unknown as opposed to the known self. It is spiritual as opposed to the physical
self. But this is a wonderful opportunity disguised as a mystery. If you consider
this inner self, this spiritual world and come to understand this inner self you will gain
something that only a very small number of people on this earth will ever know. You will
gain in spiritual understanding and enlightenment, free yourself from ignorance, and
bring this wisdom to your daily being.
There isnt a single person, not even the worst among us, who hasnt at least once or
twice thought about the meaning of life and our purpose. But for most people those are
very brief moments in a long lifetime of superficial activity.
The physical world is an important part in our lives we live, we go to school, we work,
we marry, we raise children life is important. But it is critical that you put aside the
superficial from time to time, and develop an awareness of your inner being. Most
people are 100% superficial and 0% aware. Life pulls us into the world, so try to go
90% in the physical and 10% in the spiritual if you can commit more time and
attention, great. Any focus on inner awareness even a small investment of your time
is important and will have lasting value.
Stay balanced in your approach to your spiritual life.
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How do we develop the inner man?

From this point forward, slow down. Its easy to slow down while Im saying slow down
but during the day slow down. Make a commitment to develop your inner
awareness and to expand your knowledge of mystical principles. Look at the bigger
picture, the Cosmic picture of whats really going on in the world. Look at the world
behind the world. Look at the man behind the man the spiritual man, the divine soul
that you are.
The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our
being. Thats where music lives. Thats where my music comes from.
~ Clarence Clemons
(mystic and saxophonist in Bruce Springsteens E Street Band)
Develop positive habits and active practices to incorporate your wisdom into your daily
being.
Become a calming influence to yourself and to others around you. Draw your attention
to the spiritual side of life. Even just think about the spiritual side of life from time to
time. Recognize that your close family, your co-workers, friends and neighbors are all
souls to be respected and loved. They are probably not contemplating deeper truths,
and they may do things which upset you, but thats ok. It is not your job to change other
people. It is your job to develop your inner being, reflect on the true nature of reality,
and reflect on your true nature.
Earlier we said that a mystic is someone who is drawn to know deeper truths, but much
more important than simply reading and learning these truths is to change your
approach to the world, change your approach to the situations you find yourself in, and
to be aware of the impact you are having on the people around you and on yourself.
Are you the focal point of all the drama? Are you the comedian? Are you the wise
sage? Are you the criticizer? Are you always putting yourself down? Are you arrogant
and demeaning? Are you shy and fearful to express yourself?
Be mindful of how you come across to others, and how you flow in this world.
Calm down. Relax. Dont play a character in a movie. You dont have to say
something or do something just because you have always said it or done it before. You
can make a choice.
As we explore and learn more, be mindful that there is a deeper part of yourself and
make a more conscious effort to connect to your inner being.
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When you can be more relaxed in the outer world, you immediately gain the ability to be
more aware of your inner being and take ongoing steps to connect to your inner self
your true self your eternal self.
The external world is transitory and has no lasting value. Your inner self is eternal and is
well worth knowing.
Commune with thyself, O man! and consider wherefore thou wert made.
~ Attributed to Akhenaten, Pharaoh of Egypt from 1360 to 1350 BC
Unto Thee I Grant
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4: Ontology The Framework of Your Beliefs

An ontology is a framework of beliefs which explain who we are, why we exist, and how
the physical world relates to the spiritual world. It is a human attempt to describe the
indescribable and give meaning, perspective, and purpose to our lives. It is a set of core
beliefs which guide our viewpoint and actions throughout life.
The ontology you choose to accept serves as a reference point as you consider any
question or issue in life.
In very simple summaries:
Ancient tribal ontology revolves around ancient ancestors who have lived before, and
who now oversee the people of the tribe and act as intermediaries between the various
gods and the people.
Gods were created in ancient cultures to emphasize abstract concepts in their belief
systems. A God represented the abstract concept, for example the Goddess of Love
Aphrodite, Ishtar, Isis, Venus. The God of Truth Maat, Apollo, Veritas, etc. The
Goddess of Fertility Mother Earth, etc.
Ancient Egyptian ontology recognizes many gods and the Pharaoh as a god on earth
and the head of the Temple. Through the Temple and the Priests, each man may
approach the gods and ask their blessings in their various activities in life.
Greek and Roman ontology describe a pantheon of gods who rule over the people and
their daily activities. The Greek and Roman cultures created a rich series of stories
about each of the gods and their activities. The Greeks and Romans built great temples
and developed rituals and sacrifices to honor the gods. A small number of people were
initiated into the mysteries, and these mystics understood these stories and Gods to be
symbolic of spiritual truths.
Hindu ontology (900 million followers) tells us that we live in one of a billion, billion
universes, and that this life is one in a succession of an infinite number of lives that we
must lead. There is an all-encompassing God Brahma. Many other Gods exist as
manifestations of Brahma, and these Gods exist to guide and protect us, and to destroy
those who are against us.
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Buddhist ontology (376 million followers) tells us that there are billions of worlds and
levels of universes. The world you are born into and the nature of your life is determined
by the balance of accumulated sin and merit. The physical world is one of suffering, and
our suffering is caused by our desires and our attachment to the world. Through virtue
(moral conduct) and concentration and mental development (meditation) you can
eliminate your desires and become pure and experience wisdom and enlightenment.
When ultimate enlightenment occurs you end the cycle of rebirth and experience nirvana
which literally means death without rebirth.
Jewish ontology (14 million followers) tells us that there is One God who dwells on
high, actively blesses and protects His people, and brings His wrath to all who would
disobey His Law as spelled out in the Five Books of Moses. They await a Messiah who
shall one day come to earth and rule the united tribes of Israel as King and usher in a
Golden Age of peace.
Christian ontology (2.1 billion followers) continues the proposition that there is One
God, and tells us that He dwells in Heaven, and that He oversees our lives on earth.
Christians believe that the Messiah has come and that this was Gods Son Jesus. The
life of His Son Jesus is an example to us how to live our lives, but more importantly His
death by crucifixion served to take on the sins of the world, and particularly our personal
sins. Each person has the opportunity in this life to accept Jesus Christ as our Savior,
and in doing so he may be released from his sins and cross the chasm which separates
him from God and dwell with God in Heaven for eternity. If any person chooses not to
accept Christ he shall spend the remainder of eternity bearing the burden of his sins in
Hell, eternally apart from God.
Islamic ontology (1.5 billion followers and the fastest growing religion) claims that the
religion of Moses is the pure religion and that the Jews had corrupted it over time. Gods
prophet Mohammed believed that Jesus was a prophet of God, but was not the son of
God. Mohammed proposed a simpler statement of monotheism the one God Allah
and that he, Mohammed, was Gods final prophet and on this authority he laid out a
lengthy series of social laws which united all the Arab tribes of the time. The most
important laws were that each man shall travel to Mecca, the home of an ancient black
stone housed in the temple of Kabah, at least one time in his life, and that each man
shall pray to Allah (facing the direction of the black stone) five times a day. Each man
who devotes his life to Allah shall experience eternal paradise after death.
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A Mystical Ontology
Here is an ontology which forms the core of Mysticism.
God is Infinite
God is Omniscient
God is Creative
God is Harmonious
God is Three Fold: Infinite Body, Infinite Mind, Infinite Soul
Man, Created in His Image, is Also Three Fold: Finite Body, Finite Mind, Finite
Soul
All Matter, All Life, All Thoughts, All Mind, All Souls, All Forms of Energy are
Connected and part of God
God is the Totality, and Everything, Including Ourselves, is a Connected Part of
that Totality
Lets look briefly at each element of this ontology.
God is Infinite. Our ontology begins with the philosophical first premise of God. We are
not atheists, we are not agnostic. We recognize that God IS, but we go further by saying
that God is ALL there is. We need to think of the word Infinite in its literal and absolute
sense. God is infinite in time, space and in any dimension or plane that may exist. Our
mortal minds cannot even begin to conceive of the meaning or ramifications of Infinite
existence. The ancient Hermetic Principle states: The All is in all, and all is in the All.
In our ontology there is nothing apart from God.
God is Omniscient. God knows everything i.e. omniscient. This is a very important
point because it means that God is witness to everything. This must encompass the
circumstances of every person, every animal, every tree and blade of grass, every
molecule,every atom not only events but actions, words, thoughts and emotions. In
every place, at any time, on any plane of existence God knows (is aware of)
everything.
God is Creative. We can see all around us that God is Creative. He not only has
created our Universe, but He continually provides the energy to sustain His creation
He is constantly and continually creating. Life begets life, life creates, we create, God
continually creates, renews and regenerates.
God is Harmonious. This principle tells us that God and His creation are harmonious.
But the world is clearly not harmonious as we see every day war, genocide, terrorism,
pollution, crime, murder, abuse and a host of other evils presented to us on the news
each day. In addition to these public tragedies, there are countless small and private
tragedies that people experience every day.
How do we reconcile the disharmony which we see in the world with our belief that God
is Harmonious? One possible explanation is that there is an evil counterpart or an evil
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force opposed to God which spreads hurt and evil throughout the world. This is the
theory of Duality, but it implies that God is not infinite that there is an evil existence
apart from God. We can reject the notion of Duality because in our ontology God is
infinite, and there can be nothing existing apart from God.
Another possible explanation for the disharmony we experience is that God has two
moods - a kind mood and a wrathful mood. In His wrathful mood God creates disorder
and disharmony; He destroys our enemies or punishes us for our wrongdoings. Our
ontology rejects this notion because God is harmonious, and we cannot accept that God
is the cause of any disharmony.
To understand the disharmony which exists in the world we must acknowledge the fact
that negative circumstances are indeed real, but are caused not by God, but by human
free will. Each one of us, at some point in our lives, has done something mean or hurtful
or maybe even violent. Each of us has done things we are not proud of, but this does
not imply that God caused this to happen. We created the negative event. While all of
us have done something hurtful, none of us would call ourselves evil. For example, your
anger toward another person didnt happen because God was angry at that person
you acted in your anger. And because you are angry does not imply that you are evil.
God is harmonious, and in this circumstance it was your anger that crossed the line of
harmony. In our ontology, each of us is responsible for our own behavior, and each of
us must compensate for our behavior until all is eventually reconciled to a state of
harmony. More on this later.
God is Three Fold: Infinite Body, Infinite Mind, Infinite Soul
Man, Created in His Image, is Also Three Fold: Finite Body, Finite Mind, Finite
Soul
These two elements of our ontology are based directly from the biblical explanation in
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, and hence our bodies are a finite
part of Gods infinite Body, our minds are a small part of Gods infinite Mind, and our
souls are a small part of Gods infinite Soul. This concept is also a main tenet of
Hermetic teaching, specifically the Law of Correspondence which tells us As above, so
below ~The Kybalion
All Matter, All Life, All Thoughts, All Mind, All Souls, All Forms of Energy are
Connected and Part of God.
God is the Totality, and Everything, Including Ourselves, is a Connected Part of
that Totality
Our ontology ends with these final statements of Unity. We are connected to all
existence in body, mind and soul. All existence is connected to each of us. This
represents the highest of all mystical understanding.
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5: The Material Universe Powered by Infinite Life Force

If God is infinite, and the Universe is infinite, then the Universe is the infinite body of
God Gods material form. There are some who believe that our Universe is just one of
a billion, billion universes. If this is true, then our universe is no more than a tiny atom in
an unimaginably bigger Universe. So the body of God is either infinite (our Universe) or
a billion, billion times that infinity. Since we cant fathom infinity we need not concern
ourselves with this question. Gods body, Gods material form, is infinite.
The Universe is not God, it is Gods material form. God is the universe, and is also the
essential energy, the Life Force and Mind behind the Universe.
If we believe in God as Creative, then God is the Creator of the Universe, and is
constantly providing an infinite amount of energy into the Universe sustaining His
creation and endlessly continuing the act of creation. So how does an invisible unseen
God provide energy to sustain the visible Universe?
At every point in creation where two things come together we will find a transition
point. The transition point from God the essential energy behind the Universe to the
actual physical Universe is the Sun, or more correctly, the stars. Stars represent
transition points or universal power transformers transforming the invisible power
of God to the unimaginable, infinite energy of the visible Universe. Through the Sun, all
life on earth is sustained. Through the infinite number of stars in the Universe, the
infinite physical Universe is sustained.
The amount of energy vibrating and pulsing through our Universe is unfathomable. Just
one star our sun radiates an unfathomable amount of energy. Of course, the sun
radiates in all directions, and only one one-billionth of the suns total energy output
strikes the surface of the earth. But even with this tiny fraction, there is enough energy
reaching the surface of the earth in one hour on a sunny day to power all the earths
current electricity needs for two years.
Vital Life Force

The energy emanating from the Sun can be measured through a broad spectrum of
energy frequencies. Of course the Sun releases heat, visible light, ultra-violet light, but
it also releases energy on many octaves or frequencies above and below the
frequencies of visible light. One of the forms of energy emanating from the Sun is the
Vital Life Force and we shall return to this in a moment.
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In this Egyptian papyrus created during the reign of Akhenaten

we can clearly see the symbolic Sun providing vital life force to
creation. In fact, it is believed this is intended as an actual
drawing of Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti. In two of the rays
the Sun is holding an Ankh the symbol of Life in Ancient Egypt.
The Human Body

In the same way that God has a body (the Universe) we also have a body. But we are
not our bodies. Our bodies are the physical manifestation of our selves. Our bodies are
literally made from the elements of the earth. Our bodies are able to convert
substances into new substances, but the raw materials come from the food we eat and
the air we breathe. And the Lord God formed man from the dust of the earth Genesis
2:7.
Man is the inter-weaving of three distinct types of energy: Body (matter), Soul (Life Force), and
Mind. Each form of energy is completely distinct from the other. We are not all body, we are
not all mind, we are not all soul. We are not defined by any one of these alone, we are a
woven combination of all three. Life exists at the intersection of these three energies. Each
form of energy connects and interacts with the other. We are the balance of these three
energies.
It seems like a mystery, How can we be energy? Yet each one of us is walking, thinking and
existing in the balance and combination of these three energies. Every person we see is also
an inter-woven blend of these three energies. From human beings down through all forms of
life, each is a blend of three distinct types of energy physical matter, life force, and mind.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created He him; male
and female created He them.
~ Genesis 1:27
God, the ALL, the Cosmic, the Source whatever name you apply is also an inter-woven
blend of these three energies, but on an infinite scale. Infinite Body (the Universe), Infinite Soul
(Life Force), and Infinite Mind.
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6: The Soul - Seated in the Body

During our lifetime our soul is seated in our body, it is connected, integrated in our being.
At some point it enters our body, and at some point it leaves our body. The Book of
Genesis offers the best mystical explanation for how the soul enters the body.
and God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,
and man became a living soul.
~Genesis 2:7
Our soul enters our body with our first breath the breath of life - and in perfect
symmetry the soul leaves our body after our last breath. Our soul dwells in our body
continually from the time of our first breath to the time of our last breath.
This leads us to wonder if there is something about the breath which allows the soul to
inhabit our bodies, and indeed there is. Recall the Vital Life Force, a very special energy
emanating from the sun. But how does this Vital Life Force reach and sustain the soul?
Most people are familiar with the human circulatory system. Blood cells from every part
of our body return through our veins and gather into larger and larger veins as the
depleted blood cells return to the heart. Here they enter the right atrium (through the
Vena Cava), transition to the right ventricle and are pumped a short way through the
Pulmonary Artery to the lungs.
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As the blood travels from the heart to the lungs, the Pulmonary Artery quickly divides
into thousands of smaller and smaller vessels eventually forming millions of capillaries.
The capillaries are so narrow that the blood cells have to line up in single file to pass
through.
As you inhale each breath, the air enters the lungs and the air passageways of the lungs
divide and divide and divide until they end in microscopic little sacs of air called aveoli.
The capillaries surround the aveoli (as you can see in the picture below), and when
these depleted blood cells make their way into contact with the lungs something magical
happens. Flat, depleted, colorless, lifeless blood cells reach the lungs and pause for a
fraction of a second in the capillary. Through the walls of the lungs oxygen and the Vital
Life Force are transferred into the lifeless blood cells. These cells are instantly
transformed - full, vibrant (literally vibrating with joy), bursting with life.
(Please join me right now in taking a very deep, slow breath and appreciate the
amazingly perfect life-giving, life-sustaining design of your lungs and heart!)
These buzzing, joyful cells make their way back to the Pulmonary Vein where they
collect and are transported back to the heart into the left ventricle, and with one very
powerful pump of the heart, these vibrant, pulsating blood cells push through the Aorta,
and are pumped into the body carrying oxygen and the Vital Life Force to every cell in
the body muscles, bones, organs, nerves. After the bodys cells absorb the oxygen
and the Vital Life Force, the blood cells are once again depleted, and begin their weary
return through the veins to the heart.
Recall the concept of a transition point? The transition point between the invisible life
energy traveling through the Universe the Vital Life Force emanating from the sun
and our body is in the walls of our lungs. Like a filling station, our blood cells line up in
the lungs to receive and absorb the life force and carry this life force to every other cell in
the body.
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How Does the Soul Stay in the Body?

We just learned that the soul enters the body with our first breath, anchors in the body
while we are alive, and leaves the body after our final breath when we die.
Ancient mystical teachings have long held that the soul is anchored in the human
body in the blood which constantly circulates, continually absorbs the vital life force
from the lungs, and travels to reach every cell in our body.
Some people will not only doubt that the soul resides in the blood, but will think this is a
crazy, New Age concept. But there is clear biblical support for this statement. In the Old
Testament there are teachings that you may cook and eat flesh, but in order for meat to
be considered fit for consumption (kosher) under Jewish Law, it may only be cooked
after it has been drained of its blood. Genesis 9:4 Yea, flesh with its soul, its blood, you
shall not eat. This teaching is again emphasized in Leviticus 17:11 and 17:14: for the
soul of all flesh, it is in the blood.
When the body no longer functions and is no longer pulling in Vital Life Force when we
stop breathing the soul simply vacates the body.
This modest and brief explanation seems sufficient to answer the question of how our
soul enters our body, what sustains it, and what causes it to leave. But there is a more
important question. We understand the how, but now we would like to know why the
soul exists. Herein lies the most exciting of all mysteries.
What is the Purpose of Our Soul?

Our ontology tells us to start with the concept that God is infinite. God is infinite mind,
infinite body, infinite soul. In the same way that our body is a tiny, tiny piece of Gods
infinite body our soul is a tiny, tiny piece of Gods infinite soul. Our soul is an individual
instantiation of the infinite soul.
We dont go through our daily lives identifying ourselves with God, but the fact that we
have a soul, that we are a soul, is a joyful confirmation that we are indeed a part of God
Himself. We are more than just a body of flesh. The fact that we have a soul confirms
that we are meant to be here, we are important, we are a part of something much bigger
than our own self-conception, all together we are each a part of the universal soul. We
are a center of consciousness of God, forever one with God, an Incarnation of the
Universal, a single point in an infinitely large mosaic.
If you can transition your self-conception away from your body, your name, your
occupation, your house, your education, your economic status, and move it to your
eternal soul who you truly are you can obtain unimaginable insights. You will realize
that your wealth or lack of wealth is of no consequence. You will realize that the size
of your home or the meagerness of your apartment is of no consequence. You will
realize that your race and religion are of no consequence, and that your nationality and
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the language you speak is of no consequence.

The body wears out and dissolves back into the elements after physical death.
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to
the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to
dust you will return. ~Genesis 3:19
But the soul is eternal. It is not of the material world. It cannot be created, nor can it be
destroyed. It cannot be understood or explained in any sense that we could understand
or explain it. Some call it spirit or a soul personality or the inner man but what name
you give it is of no importance. It is the essence of life within you and it is maintained in
your body with every breath you take.
The soul clearly resides in our body, but it is not a part of our body. It is our eternal
component. Our body is constantly changing, and eventually stops functioning and
returns to the earth. But our soul lasts beyond time. Because of the way we have been
trained to think we identify ourselves with our body, our physical circumstances, and our
status. But the more correct viewpoint is that we are our soul.
Admittedly, it is difficult for us to relate to something that we cant see, hear or feel.
Our soul does not take an active part in our lives. Our soul does not make its presence
known to us. It doesnt guide us through life. It doesnt tell us what to do. It doesnt tell
us what not to do. It doesnt stop us from making mistakes, sometimes terrible mistakes.
Our soul does not make itself known to us but it is us. It is who we are.
So if the soul is not active in our life, what is its purpose? We find the answer to this
question by going back to our ontology. God is Omniscient.
The purpose of our soul is to observe and record each minute detail of our lives.
The soul is a silent observing presence. Through us, God knows His Creation. Nothing
is beyond His knowing.
God is witness to everything. This must encompass the circumstances of every atom,
every plant, every animal, every person not only events but actions, words, thoughts,
intentions and emotions. In every place, at any time, on any plane of existence God
knows everything. Just as our soul is seated in our blood and thus in contact with every
cell in our body, Gods soul is in contact with every atom of His creation observing and
knowing.
Our soul observes our experiences, but Gods soul is infinite, encompassing our soul
and the collective souls of all creation.
When your physical body expires, your soul merges back with the infinite soul. You
continue on. I continue on. We continue on.
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7: Mind
In a second work, The Mind Bank (click here for more information), I present more detail about
the Mind and how it can be used to shape physical circumstances. While there is some
overlapping of material, The Mind Bank contains practical methods. This work will emphasize
the structure of the Mind and how it works from a mystical perspective.
While the brain is a complicated mechanism and could be studied for many years, for the purposes
of our work there are two basic parts of the brain the limbic brain and the cortex.
The Limbic Brain
The first and most ancient part of the human brain is the limbic brain which controls bodily function
and emotion. These are the parts of the brain along the stem.
The limbic brain is operating continuously, but it operates unconsciously just below the surface of
your conscious awareness.
Limbic activity is sometimes referred to as unconscious activity.
We each possess an enormous amount of intelligence which is controlled by the limbic system
beneath our conscious awareness. The limbic brain controls the autonomic nervous system and is
intimately associated with the pituitary gland which communicates and controls all the other glands
in our body. The limbic system is responsible for our fight or flight mechanism which acts without
conscious control. All emotions originate in this section of the brain, and under the influence of
powerful emotions (rage, fear, sexual desire, etc.) people can, and often do act without thinking.
The limbic system is where long term memories of emotional experiences, both pleasant and
traumatic, are stored. The limbic system is where musical memory is stored. So if you hear a song
that you havent heard or thought about since you were a child, the notes and the words are
perfectly stored and you remember the song like it was yesterday, even though you may not have
heard it for 20, 30, or even 50 years. When you have a song stuck in your head, its coming from
the limbic part of your brain.
The Cortex
The other part of the brain is the cortex which consists of the folded sections of the brain.
The Conscious mind is associated with the cortex.
The cortex is associated with sensory perception, thought, language and consciousness. This is
the part of the brain that is aware of whats going on around us, and where we form thoughts and
express our ideas through words.
When awake, the Conscious mind talks, or more accurately, chatters non-stop until you fall asleep
at which point it shuts off, only to become aware and active again the moment you wake up.
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The Conscious mind concerns itself with everything we know from our five senses, and everything
we can figure out through our own awareness and knowledge. It is constantly analyzing the current
situation, analyzing the past, and predicting the future. The Conscious mind is obsessed with
knowing and figuring things out, past, present, and future.
Unlike our limbic system which operates under the surface, we are very aware of our Conscious
mind because it fills every moment of our waking lives with an internal dialog. As you think, you
form words around your thoughts and talk to yourself all the time.
All Thoughts are Deposited in the Subconscious

The Conscious mind creates thoughts, the limbic brain creates impressions, emotions and feelings.
Anticipation, fear, worry, stress, hate, anger, love, happiness, doubt, and confidence are all created
in the limbic brain below our conscious awareness. From time to time we become aware of these
feelings stress, for example, but by the time we become aware of the feeling, it has already been
going on for a long time.
Every thought and idea from the Conscious mind, and every emotion, impression and unconscious
experience from the limbic brain is transmitted to and stored in the Subconscious mind.
Your Subconscious mind can be pictured as a deep dark lake. All your conscious thoughts and all
your unconscious experiences are transmitted to the Subconscious mind and stored there. What is
contained in this giant storehouse of thoughts and experiences under the surface is unknown and
unknowable it is subconscious, below our awareness.
Thoughts exist as an energy pattern or a vibrational pattern. They are very real, not as physical
things in the physical world, but they are energy.
Over time, your thoughts, experiences, and beliefs tend to form together and solidify in the
Subconscious mind. Repeated thoughts and beliefs gather together and form large thought forms,
like giant boulders, resting at the bottom of the subconscious lake. These large boulders
represent, in a very real sense, your understanding of the way the world is and the way you are.
These large, dense thought forms are based on the sum total of all your conscious thoughts and
unconscious experiences, and are therefore true and undeniable.
These large boulders form your beliefs and beliefs about yourself. Everything you now experience,
all the new thoughts and experiences entering your Subconscious, are measured against these
accumulated beliefs, and everything new tends to gravitate toward and confirm your self-beliefs.
These heavy subconscious boulders define who you are. You literally are who you think you are.
In order to achieve a goal the Subconscious mind must accept it. If the Subconscious rejects the
idea, its not going to happen. Your Subconscious mind is an incredibly powerful force, and if the
subconscious belief is strong enough, it will always achieve its goal. It will always be consistent
with what you subconsciously believe to be true.
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Heres an example that we use in The Mind Bank.

You are shy and deathly afraid of socializing. You have been invited to a big party
on Saturday night. Through a lifetime of thoughts and experiences, your selfimage says that you dont go to parties bad, avoid, terrible. Well as the day
draws closer your Subconscious works harder and harder to get you to not attend
that party. Im just not going to go. Im going to tell them I have something else
to do that night. Ill just tell them I had to pick up a friend at the airport. The
impulses come stronger and stronger as the day and the hour draws closer. If you
cant find a way to bail out, your Subconscious mind has the ability to work with the
limbic brain to actually make you sick so you really have a legitimate excuse.
You can affirm to yourself a thousand times that you love parties, youre going to
have a great time at this party, people love socializing with you, this will be fun. If
the Subconscious does not accept these statements, they will have no impact.
Your Subconscious mind is an incredibly powerful force, and if the belief is strong
enough, it will always achieve its goal. It will always be consistent with what you
subconsciously believe to be true.
This is a negative example, but it works in a positive way as well. If you have a positive self-belief
there is nothing anyone can say to stop you. Their words have no effect.
The Subconscious doesnt know positive or negative. It knows what you have put into it, and thats
all it knows, and thats what it makes happen.
The Subconscious has a Back and Forth Connection with Your Limbic Brain
For a lifetime, the Subconscious has been receiving inputs from the Conscious mind and the limbic
brain, and it continues to receive inputs constantly. But the Subconscious mind operates in the
other direction as well. The Subconscious mind also returns to the limbic brain a constant stream of
subconscious thoughts.
In the example above, as the party draws closer the Subconscious is pushing back more and more
intense thoughts to the limbic brain we are not even consciously aware that this is happening.
The Subconscious mind insists, demands, ensures that whatever is programmed into it (whatever it
believes to be true) will happen. The Subconscious mind is a Goal Achieving Mechanism. Without
you even knowing, your Subconscious mind is constantly influencing everything you do, say, think
and feel.
Whatever youre doing during your waking conscious day, your Subconscious is constantly
pumping thoughts and images under the surface. You are reminded of something, you get a great
idea, you feel anxious, you feel comfortable or uncomfortable, you feel confident or confused
subconscious thoughts are constantly presenting themselves to you and guiding you to action.
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When you fall asleep, and your Conscious mind shuts off, these constant thoughts and images
from the Subconscious mind become your dreams. And when you wake up, the vaporize and
disappear and you struggle to retain conscious memory of those dreams.
The Subconscious Mind is the Ultimate Transition Point

The Subconscious mind is the connecting point between body and mind. It is constantly accepting
input from your words, thoughts, emotions and experiences, and is constantly providing thoughts
and impulses back to your limbic brain and to your glandular system which transforms your
emotions to physical sensations. Back and forth, back and forth between body and mind, between
mind and body.
On the opposite side of the Subconscious is the Superconscious, the Mind of God, the Cosmic
Mind, the Infinite Mind.
The Superconscious is a fabric of infinite potential. Within the Superconscious (the Mind of God)
exists any and all potential possibilities. Remember our Ontology God is Infinite anything and
everything is possible.
Specific possibilities are formed and activated by conscious thought. Conscious thought organizes
and draws specific possibilities from a field of infinite possibilities. Thought activates a specific
reality from a field of all possible realities.
If it can be consciously conceived, regardless of the size or scope of the thought, then at that very
moment it exists as a probability. If that possibility is held consistently and backed by supporting
action, it has a probability of manifesting regardless of what it might be. Whatever is
conceptualized in consciousness instantly exists in the Superconscious mind as an already existing
fact and has the possibility of becoming physical reality.
But there is one big problem. The Conscious mind can form a thought I love going to parties, but
if the Subconscious mind rejects the thought if the thought is not aligned with the Subconscious
the thought never makes it through to the Superconscious mind.
Just as the Subconscious is constantly pulsing thought, thought, thought to the limbic brain, it is
also pulsing thought, thought, thought to the Superconscious. The Subconscious imprints its
thoughts onto the Superconscious.
The Subconscious transfers thoughts from your Conscious mind to the Superconscious, but
unfortunately the Subconscious also filters and blocks your thoughts.
The beliefs held in the Subconscious are constantly being transferred to the Superconscious where
they are becoming reality.
How does the Superconscious take thoughts from the Subconscious and turn them into
probabilities and then into reality?
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The explanation lies in the realm of energy and vibration. Since everything is energy of one
frequency or another, our thoughts are a form of energy.
The thoughts and beliefs held in the Subconscious are energy, and that energy is transmitted from
the Subconscious to Superconscious. The Superconscious, through the Law of Attraction, takes
thought or energy patterns from the Subconscious and transforms (or transmits) them into an
identical resonant energy pattern or vibrational form in the physical world. It is very subtle at first,
but if the thought form has strength and consistency over time the physical pattern becomes
stronger, and when strong enough begins to gather more strength until it makes itself known to
your awareness.
Lets use an example. Suppose you believe that people are selfish and are constantly trying to
take and steal from you. That belief is burnt into your Subconscious, and has become a large and
dense energy that is constantly transmitting to the Superconscious. The Superconscious is
constantly working on creating that thought pattern (at one frequency of energy) into a physical
pattern (at another frequency of energy). That belief, by constant repetition and reinforcement, is
created in your reality. You constantly experience what you believe people are greedy and are
constantly trying to take and steal from you.
Your thoughts not only come back to you as impulses to the limbic brain, they are also transmitted
and transformed into reality.
In the next book in the series, The Mind Bank, I show you a method to take advantage of this fact
and replace any negative experience with a positive experience.
The ALL is MIND; The Universe is Mental
~The Kybalion
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8: Seven Mystical Principles

The Seven Hermetic Principles
Historians debate the existence of a Great Teacher who lived in old Egypt many
thousands of years ago when the race of man was still in its infancy. Many believe that
the man we call Hermes was actually a composite of several men in an even earlier
time. Many believe this Great Teacher did exist, that his name was Hermes, and that he
taught and wrote down the great teachings which he had received from others of an
even more ancient time. (Beyond this we encounter the postulation of the existence of a
great Atlantean Age where men had higher knowledge and powers, the Shining Ones
who survived the Atlantean flood migrating to Egypt - then known as Khem - transmitting
their knowledge to Hermes, and the stories of these men and their powers forming the
basis for the stories of the Greek gods. However, this historical speculation is aside from
the point we are discussing here: the written wisdom of Hermes).
Hermes Trismigestus (or Hermes Thrice Great) is acknowledged as the Great Founder
of mystical thought. Thrice Great meaning he was the King of Egypt, a great and
powerful land in that time, he was the Master or Great Teacher of his age, and he was
the Scribe of the Gods the man who wrote for all time the great ancient teachings.
Some theorize that Hermes either studied with or taught these principles to Abraham,
the patriarch of the Hebrew tribe.
He is said to have taught his doctrines only to the sincere student. From the profane or
disrespectful man he kept his teachings secret. And so the tradition has been kept for
thousands of years.
These Seven Mystical Principles written and discussed thousands and thousands of
years before our modern science discovered the atom have guided mystical thinking
throughout history. Many books have been written expanding on these principles, but
here are the Seven Hermetic Principles in their very briefest and barest form.
1. The Principle of Mentalism says that
The ALL is MIND; The Universe is Mental
2. The Principle of Correspondence says that
As above, so below; as below, so above, and so all is in unity
3. The Principle of Vibration says that
Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates
4. The Principle of Polarity says that
Everything is Dual; everything has its pair of opposites; opposites are identical in
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nature, but different in degree

5. The Principle of Rhythm says that
Everything flows out and in; all things rise and fall; the measure of the pendulum
swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left
6. The Principle of Cause and Effect says that
Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens
according to Law;
7. The Principle of Gender says that
Everything has its Masculine and Feminine aspects; gender manifests on all
planes
The ALL is defined as that which is under and behind the Universe, Time, and Change.
It is the infinite and final reality the Fundamental Truth - GOD.
The ALL is in all, and all is in the ALL
~The Kybalion
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9: Four More Key Principles

Free Will
We have discussed the fact that our soul is simply a patient observer. Our soul is
equally content whether we make progress in our lives, or whether we waste our lives.
Whether we are loving and generous with people, or whether we are driven and greedy,
or even angry and violent, our soul simply observes. It gives us no warning or guidance
or alternative suggestions.
We are essentially free to use our time on this earth in whatever way we choose. We
can be good, bad or neutral. We may learn and improve, or we may remain ignorant.
While the soul is neutral, our circumstances obviously are not neutral. Some people
have great wealth and advantage, some people are born into oppressive poverty, and
cruelty or abuse. Some people receive a superior education, some people never learn
to read and write. Some people live to 90 and 100 years old, some people are
deformed or critically ill at birth and live but a few years, months, weeks, days, or even
hours.
Is the life of a wealthy person inherently worth more than the life of a poor person? Is
the soul of a well educated person more important than the soul of a dirt farmer who has
never traveled more than five miles from his home? Each one of us has been given
circumstances, and in these circumstances we are to find our opportunity to learn, grow
and develop.
Life is not measured by material gain and power. Life is measured by the intangibles
such as love, respect, helping and guiding others, caring for those who need care, and
many other activities and attributes which lead toward harmony.
In fact, if we return to our ontology, God is Harmonious. Therefore, to the extent that
our lives encourage harmony we are advancing with God, and to the extent that our
lives create disharmony we are working against God. Acts of heroism and charity are
performed by rich and poor, by the sick and the healthy. Mean spirited actions, evil
intentions are equally perpetrated by the wealthy and the poor, by the well educated
and the illiterate.
We have free will. We hear no voices in our heads that tell us what we should do, or
what we should avoid. We set our own agenda and we do what we feel compelled to
do. Our minds are free to take us on any path.
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The Akashic Record and Karma

Ancient Hindu philosophy tells us that each of our thoughts, actions, feelings and
intentions are recorded on what the Hindus call the Akashic Record. The Akashic
Record is said to contain all human experience through all time. This, in fact is what we
have said the soul is doing observing and recording each minute detail of our life.
The Hindus also present a related principle called Karma. This term is used quite a bit
in modern society sometimes correctly, sometimes incorrectly. The principle of Karma
tells us that not only are each of our thoughts, actions, feelings and intentions recorded
in the Akashic Record, but that these thoughts, actions, feelings and intentions play a
role in creating our future circumstances. So people who are in harmony tend to have
harmonious future experiences, and people who are in disharmony will tend to have
difficult future experiences.
There are no accidents in my philosophy.
Every effect must have its cause.
The past is the cause of the present,
and the present will be the cause of the future.
All these are links in the endless chain,
stretching from the finite to the infinite.
~Abraham Lincoln
According to the principle of Karma, many of the difficult situations and difficult people
that we face each day are in fact of our own causing. Rather than try to force our way
through these situations, or complain about them, or run away from them, the principle
of Karma tells us that these situations present us with the opportunity to work through
these issues and to move past them forever.
If you have a long piece of string which is hopelessly tangled with a thousand knots, and
knots on top of knots, the more you pull and fight with the string the tighter the knots
become. The only thing you can do is patiently work on untying one knot at a time. Our
lives are very much like this tangled piece of string. Most people just create more and
more knots by using force and trying to control people and force situations adding to
their own tangled situations. But if we patiently, very patiently deal with the people and
situations in our lives we can feel confident that not only are we solving problems, we
are not creating new and even more complicated problems for ourselves down the road.
Whatever we do the soul is observing and recording. There is no absolute right or wrong
except for the principles of Harmony and Love. In our society it is our habit to measure
success by money and power. But once we die, all of us agree that what will have
mattered most were the intangibles in our life - love, respect, helping and guiding others,
caring for those who need care, and other harmonious activities. And at the end of our
lives, the things we will regret most are the times we created disharmony, or just never
told certain people how much they meant to us.
In Christianity we are told that no matter what sins we have perpetrated in our lives or
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what disharmony we have brought to the world we are forgiven our sins and will live
forever in Heaven in the presence of God if we have accepted Jesus Christ as our
Savior. In some ways our ontology is harmonious with Christian beliefs, but in this
important respect it is very different. Your harmonious and disharmonious activities are
not left behind in this lifetime. Through an eternal process, Gods creation is eventually
brought to harmony. Through the principle of Karma, each disharmonious thought,
action and intention is eventually compensated back to harmony.
Be not decieved. God is not mocked:
for whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption;
but he that soweth to the Spirti shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
~Galatian 6:7-8
There is one point of Christian teaching with which we can wholeheartedly agree. While
our soul does not give us guidance each day, the life of Jesus has been set down to us
as an exemplary life, and from His life we can get guidance. His commitment to God,
His caring for the poor, His love of the children, the weakest among us should serve as
guideposts in our own lives and values. The Christian question What Would Jesus
Do? is very relevant as we consider our own actions each day.
Reincarnation
Reincarnation is a very important concept and world view, and it fits well into our
ontology. The doctrine of reincarnation is explained fully in the Hindu religion and is an
essential part of the Hindu ontology. However, modern American society in general
does not fully understand or accept the doctrine of reincarnation. Most people do not
realize that certain early Christian leaders supported and wrote about reincarnation.
The idea of reincarnation was nothing new. Certainly Hindus had believed in
reincarnation for thousands of years.
Let the body be burned to ashes that the Soul may attain its freedom; for
death is nothing more than the castingoff of a worn out garment.
~ Isha Upanishad XVII
The quote below makes it clear that even the Jews and Gentiles in the time of Jesus
spoke about and believed in reincarnation. This passage in the New Testament is the
only time, in thousands of pages, that the Bible mentions reincarnation, but because
Jesus made no further comments on the subject it is only a point of speculation as to
what his thoughts and teachings were on reincarnation.
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When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his
disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And
they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist, some Elijah; and
others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.
~ Matthew 16:13
Reincarnation is Aggressively Purged from Christian Doctrine

The fact that modern Christianity does not support the doctrine of reincarnation can be
traced back to the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine. In many ways
Constantine, and his conversion to Christianity, were both the best thing that ever
happened to Christianity and the worst thing that ever happened to Christianity. It was
the best thing because he declared Christianity the official religion of the Roman
Empire (313 AD) and afforded the religion protection and gave it much power and
authority. But it was also the worst thing because with power and authority came the
need to unify Christian doctrine and leadership, and the desire to stamp out all
contradicting philosophies.
In 325 AD, under the guidance and support of the Roman Emperor Constantine, The
Council of Nicea was convened to unify Christian doctrine and Christian authority. In
the 300 year period between the time of Christs death in 33 AD and The Council of
Nicea in 325 AD, Christianity had been a loosely organized group with many different
leaders, each with different and often independent schools of thought on Christs life
and message, and what it meant to be a follower of Christ.
From the time of the Emperor Constantines recognition of Christianity, until the Council
of Nicea in 325, and for another 200 beyond, there was an intense battle of doctrines
many of them seeming trivial, but trials were held, men banished and executed.
Constantine and many subsequent emperors authorized the task of censoring and
editing the entire body of historical texts, Christian as well as Pagan. In addition, the
Emperors along with the bishops oversaw the destruction of many valuable Eastern
texts that the early Church fathers had access to. Thousands of documents were
destroyed, and many others censored and perverted beyond recognition.
But prior to the Council of Nicea in 325 AD, much had been written in early Christian
philosophy regarding reincarnation most notably Origen of Alexandria who lived from
185 254 AD. A prominent early Christian leader and theologian, Origen taught that
the soul passes through successive stages of incarnation before eventually reaching
God.
At the Council of Nicea more than 300 bishops met to review all Christian writings, and
to develop a unified Christian doctrine. In this Council and in subsequent meetings,
each book claiming Christian origin was examined, and those that were contradictory to
the agreed upon doctrine were not included in the final set of Gospel books as we know
them today. Unfortunately, in the Council of Nicea and subsequent meetings, the
ancient and early Christian doctrines of the souls pre-existence, reincarnation, and
eventual union with God were removed from the Christian tradition. In addition,
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Constantine instituted policies of systematic government persecution of heretics (and

these policies persisted for more than a thousand years), and dissension was quickly
quelled. Books were destroyed, and the simple act of keeping or hiding a forbidden text
was punishable by death. Most Christian leaders and followers simply adopted the
orthodox view rather than risk their lives on small points of doctrine.
Under the direction of the Emperor Justinian, the Second Council of Constantinople in
553 AD sealed the final fate of reincarnation in the Christian Church.
Definition: Anathema A person accursed, assigned to damnation or destruction
Anathema 11
If anyone does not anathematize Arius, Eunomius, Macedonius, Apollinaris, Nestorius,
Eutyches and Origen, together with their impious, godless writings, and all the other
heretics already condemned and anathematized by the holy catholic and apostolic
Church, and by the aforementioned four Holy Synods and all those who have held and
hold or who in their godlessness persist in holding to the end the same opinion as those
heretics just mentioned; let him be anathema.
While there are a very small number of modern Christian denominations sympathetic to
the concept of reincarnation, the vast majority of Christian denominations today reject
the notion of reincarnation and consider it a challenge to their core beliefs of salvation
and redemption in this lifetime.
Regardless of the actions of the early Christian Church, reincarnation is an accepted
doctrine in every ancient mystical teaching, and an understanding and acceptance of
reincarnation leads to a wonderfully mind opening perspective. We begin to realize that
life is not a mad sprint to obtain money and power and pleasure and then redemption.
We begin to realize that life is a marathon, and that matters of the soul are long lasting
and much more important than matters of the material world. The Universe is not in a
hurry Man is in a hurry.
The argument against reincarnation is logical. If nobody has returned from death, how
can we know what happens after death? But for the reincarnationist, every one of us
has returned from death many times. We dont remember our birth, does that mean
we were not born? We dont remember our past lives, does that mean we never lived
before?
Mystics have long used the term transition when referring to death. Where our
conscious minds see death as the end, the reality when viewed from the standpoint of
the soul is that our true eternal self is simply releasing from the physical body and
returning to a state of unity with God. Our soul has never left God. It is the conscious
mind which truly dies. Being an attribute of the physical body, our conscious mind
simply vanishes or closes shut. It is no more.
But our soul continues in very much the same state it is now. It carries the experiences
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of this life and many lives before. Now again unified with the Infinite Soul from which it
came, the soul gains additional experience, and at the appropriate time selects the
appropriate body to enter and continues its path of gaining experience toward harmony.
We know that we are eternal, that we have lived before, that this life offers us the
perfect opportunity to grow, and that we shall live again. We know that each thought,
action, feeling and intention is carried with us, and that we must make every effort to be
harmonious and to bring even more harmony to the world. Simply stated, this is our
continuing purpose, and God has given us free will to choose this path.
We can best serve ourselves and God by using this incarnation as an opportunity for
constructive self development.
Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living
~ The Buddha
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10: Shma Yisrael (Hear O Israel)

A Brief History of Monotheism
As Moses led the Hebrew nation away from Egypt and toward the land across the
Jordan River which God had promised them, he knew that he would not live to step foot
in that land.
These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed
me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to
possess, so that you, your children and their children after them may fear
the LORD your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and
commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life
~Deuteronomy 6:1-2
In essence, Moses was telling the Hebrew nation their ontology.
Moses then said the following to the Hebrew nation.
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
(in phonetic Hebrew)
Sh'ma Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai eh-chad
~Deuteronomy 6:4
Monotheism. One God.
This simple statement, short and concise, is one of the most important statements in the
history of religion. In Egypt, where the Hebrew people had been held in slavery, the
Egyptian religion recognized many gods, and recognized the Pharoah as a god on earth.
In fact, every ancient religion recognized many gods, and the people would build shrines
and offer gifts and sacrifices to the gods to gain their favor. A thousand years later in
Rome and in Greece, the two greatest civilizations of ancient times, their religious beliefs
included many gods.
But the Jewish religion recognizes that God is ONE. There is one God. Not one god
above all other gods but one God. There is one God behind creation, and that same
God is a part of all creation.
Recall the Hermetic teaching The ALL is in all, and all is in the ALL.
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The Story of Akhenaten

Many people believe that Moses was the first to make this radical monotheistic
statement that there is but one God. But go back 70 years before Moses was born, and
there was another young prince named Amenhotep (meaning Servant of Amen the
Bull). When this young prince became Pharaoh he changed his name to Akhenaten
(meaning Spirit of Aten the Sun). In the ninth year of his reign he declared that Aten
was not only the supreme god, but the only God. He had all inscriptions of the plural
gods removed.
From Wikipedia.com
Aten's name is also written differently after Year 9 (of his reign), to
emphasise the radicalism of the new regime, which included a ban on
images, with the exception of a rayed solar disc, in which the rays
(commonly depicted ending in hands) appear to represent the unseen spirit
of Aten, who by then was evidently considered not merely a sun god, but
rather a universal deity. It is important to note, however, that representations
of the Aten were always accompanied with a sort of "hieroglyphic footnote",
stating that the representation of the sun as All-encompassing Creator was
to be taken as just that: a representation of something that, by its very nature
as something transcending creation, cannot be fully or adequately
represented by any one part of that creation.
Akhenaten was clear in saying that the Sun was not a God, but a symbol of God. God is
behind the sun, and through the sun provides life to all creation. In 1899 an Englishman,
Flinders Petrie, studying ancient Egypt said this of Akhenaten:
If this were a new religion, invented to satisfy our modern scientific
conceptions, we could not find a flaw in the correctness of this view of the
energy of the solar system. How much Akhenaten understood, we cannot
say, but he certainly bounded forward in his views and symbolism to a
position which we cannot logically improve upon at the present day. Not a
rag of superstition or of falsity can be found clinging to this new worship
evolved out of the old Aten of Heliopolis, the sole Lord of the universe.
Needless to say, the Egyptian priests did not much care for this new religion. Their
livelihood depended on the people paying them to perform rituals to the many gods. The
priests earned their income by communicating with each of the individual gods for
example, to bless a marriage, to bless a couple who could not have children, to bless the
birth of a child, to bless the planting of a crop, to bless the harvest, to bless a crippled
child, to prepare a body for burial, and so on.
With only one God, their source of income immediately disappeared. After Akhenaten
died, his youngest son Tutankhaten (meaning the image of Aten) became Pharaoh at a
very young age probably only 8 or 9 years old. Encouraged by the priests, he
changed his name to Tutankhamen (meaning the image of Amen the Bull) and is the
famous King Tut whose tomb was discovered in 1922. It is easy to see how the priests
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pressured the very young child Pharaoh to revert to honoring the many gods, and
effectively put themselves back into power.
Future Pharaohs removed all reference to Akhenaten, and little was known of him until
the discovery of his sons (King Tuts) tomb in 1922 gave archaeologists much new
information which they began to piece together about the reign of his father Akhenaten.
It is very easy to understand why future Pharaohs removed all mention of Akhenaten.
He had said there is one God, which meant that he was saying that he the Pharaoh
was not a God. It is easy to see why future Pharaohs would happily agree with the
priests to revert back to the ways of many gods, with the Pharaoh being exalted as a
god on earth.
Mystics believe that Akhenaten, while certainly enlightened and articulate, did not
invent his belief in a single God. That in fact, these teachings were handed down for
thousands of years beginning with Hermes who is believed to have taught Abraham. It
is believed that these teachings were the higher teachings taught only to the family of
the Pharaoh and a small number of other elite members of Egyptian society. The
masses were taught that there were many gods, and were taught that the Pharaoh was
himself a god on earth. The children of the Pharoah were privately taught the higher
teachings the Hermetic teachings. It was Akhenaten who attempted to enlighten the
world and make these teachings available for the masses to learn, but he was stamped
down by the priests, and future Pharaohs of Egypt ensured that these politically
inconvenient ideas were kept hidden from the masses.
After Akhenatens death, many believe the teachings of the great mysteries went back
under ground, but members of the Pharaohs household, including Moses some 70
years later, were still taught these great mysteries. Moses, raised as a prince in the
Pharaohs house, certainly knew the full details of Akhenatens life and teachings and
the subsequent return of the priests to power immediately upon his death.
In his proclamation that God is One, Moses was perpetuating the ancient teachings.
Whereas Akhenaten had overthrown the religion of the Priests in Egypt, and then had
his teachings overthrown after his death Moses took his teachings out of Egypt and
leading the tribe of Israel, created a new tradition, following closely the tradition of
Abraham many centuries before.
Was Jesus Exposed to Eastern Teachings?

The Bible is silent on Jesus youth after the time of his birth. Many believe that the
Essenes, the group his parents belonged to, were in close association with the Egyptian
Mystery Schools where these same teachings had been preserved. Many have
postulated that The Three Wise Men who attended Jesus birth were leaders of the
different branches of this school, and ensured his education in the mysteries during his
youth.
The Bible picks up Jesus life again when he is 12 years old and his parents have lost
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sight of him on their way home from Jerusalem, and later find him in the Synagogue
speaking with the Jewish elders who questioned him and were impressed by his
extraordinary grasp of Jewish Law and philosophy.
The Bible is again silent on Jesus whereabouts between the time he was 13 and the
time he was approximately 30 years old when he returned to begin his ministry as
recorded in the New Testament. It is certainly possible, and seemingly very likely that
Jesus traveled considerably during that time, studying the ancient mysteries and
developing his teaching style.
A Russian author, Nicolas Notovitch, who traveled through Afghanistan, India and Tibet
published a book The Unknown Life of Christ describing a western master who came to
learn and teach. He was known as the master Issa who learned and taught the ancient
Vedic mysteries. He upset the Brahmins who held that the lower castes, particularly the
Vaishas could only hear the Vedas on holidays, and the lowest caste, the Shudrus could
not even set their eyes on the Vedic texts. But the master Issa went to the poor people
and taught them.
Issa said that man had filled the temples with his abominations. In
order to pay homage to metals and stones, man sacrificed his
fellows in whom dwells a spark of the Supreme Spirit. Man
demeans those who labor by the sweat of their brows, in order to
gain the good will of the sluggard who sits at the lavishly set board.
But they who deprive their brothers of the common blessing shall
be themselves stripped of it.
Vaishas and Shudras were struck with astonishment and asked
what they could perform. Issa bade them "Worship not the idols. Do
not consider yourself first. Do not humiliate your neighbor. Help the
poor. Sustain the feeble. Do evil to no one. Do not covet that which
you do not possess and which is possessed by others."
~ Nicolas Novatitch
The Unknown Life of Christ
So we can see the possibility of a continuing thread from Hermes, the first to write down
these ancient teachings, to Abraham, the patriarch of the Hebrews, to Akhenaten the
first to bring the idea of One God to light in Egyptian society, to Moses, to Jesus.
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11: Spiritual Alchemy Turning Base Metal into Gold

There is a tendency in life to do the easier thing. Its easier to be lazy than it is to be
energetic. Its easier to be pessimistic than it is to be optimistic. Its easier to be greedy
than it is to be generous. Its easier to be fearful than it is to be courageous. Its easier
to hate than it is to love.
It is easier to be immersed in the physical world than it is to experience the spiritual
world. It is easier to accept the known and visible world than it is to seek out the
unknown and the invisible world.
There is a phenomenon called The Mediocre Middle and with no disrespect to
teachers I will use teachers as an example. A young new teacher fresh from college
starts her first day on the job with the attitude that she is going to make a difference in
her students lives. She is going to open their minds and not only teach them the school
subjects, but she is going to teach them to become better people. She is extremely
motivated and optimistic. But in the teachers lunch room she interacts with the more
experienced teachers who all came in with that wonderful optimism, but have learned
that you cant really change these kids lives and you just better stick with the program.
You dont get paid for those extra hours, and you will soon find out that the students and
their parents dont really care.
Its the same at any job. You start out like a ball of fire and you are gradually affected
by the majority who put in an average effort.
Its called The Mediocre Middle and it is difficult to maintain a higher altitude in the
face of social forces which are continually pulling you down.
Each element of life has a negative pole and a positive pole. Hate is the negative, love
is the positive. Lazy is the negative, energetic is the positive. Apathy is the negative,
enthusiasm is the positive. Fear is the negative, courage is the positive. Pessimism is
the negative, optimism is the positive. Worry is the negative, calm is the positive.
Doubt is the negative, confidence and certainty is the positive. Greedy is the negative,
generous is the positive. Misery is the negative, joy is the positive. The physical world
is the negative, the spiritual world is the positive.
The negative is a lower rate of vibration, the positive represents a higher rate of
vibration.
Spiritual or Mental Alchemy is the conscious decision to push your attitude to the
positive pole. Like a sound mixing board in a recording studio you can move all the
sliding buttons to the positive. You can polarize yourself to the positive attribute. This is
a conscious decision you can make.
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The fundamental ideas of Alchemy arose in Egypt and then in Persia (present day Iraq
and Iran). The word alchemy derives from the Arabic word al-kimia or the art of
transformation. In short, Alchemists were spiritual seekers who sought to understand
the ancient wisdoms and used them to elevate their own spiritual quality.
The transmutation of base metal to gold is a symbolic representation of transforming
your own character from negative qualities to enlightened, positive qualities.
Not only can you make the choice to polarize your thinking and your behavior to the
positive, you can also choose to remain there and to resist the efforts of the mediocre
middle which is working to pull you back down.
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12: Inter-Connectedness
Our ontology leads us to the most important truth that we are all connected. God is one.
Mankind is one. All life is one.
This fact is neither obvious nor apparent to our conscious minds, but it is something we
must raise our consciousness to embrace and act upon. We must base all of our actions
on this principle of inter-connectedness.
he never turns away from this truth.
~ The Hindu Upanishads
Personally, I could read those quotes for a day, a week, a month and a year. When you
see everyone and everything as part of your Self, and you see your Self as part of
everyone and everything you can never turn away from that truth.
We are connected to everyone and everything, and everyone and everything is
connected to us.
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings,
and all beings in his own Self
~ The Buddha
In the New Testament there is a very interesting parable in the Book of Matthew, verses
35 to 40. This story again makes clear the reality of our connection.
Jesus tells his followers that on the day of Glory the Son of Man (also referred to in this
parable as the King) shall gather all those who are blessed and tell them:
For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat; I was
thirsty, and you gave me something to drink; I was a stranger and
you invited me in; I was naked and you clothed me; I was sick and
you took care of me; I was in prison and you came to me.
His followers will be confused and will ask:
Master, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and
give you something to drink? And when did we see you a
stranger and invite you in, or naked and clothe you? When did
we see you sick and care for you, or in prison and come to you?
The King will answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, to the
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extent that you did this to one of these brothers of mine, even the
least of them, you did it to Me.
In the form of a parable this is telling us that all humanity is connected. Whatever you do
even to the least of Gods creation, you have done to God.
Here it is again.
Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the
first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
~ Matthew 23:36-40
The first commandment is to love God, and the second is just like it love thy neighbor
as thyself. Its the same thing. Loving your neighbor is the same as loving God.
Because were all connected.
Each of our souls is part of the Universal Soul - Gods Soul. Each of us is a part of the
whole. Each of us is on our own journey, but we are all journeying together.
Like a point of light, each of our souls is a center of God consciousness, and the seven
billion points of light together form the soul of God. Every waking second each one of us
is using our conscious mind to think, and the collective thinking of our seven billion souls
drives us to our future.
Racism, greed, corruption, abuse, criticism, neglect, bullying, fighting, violence,
terrorism, war all this is obviously self-destructive because were only hurting ourselves
because were all connected. We just dont see it. The fact that other people engage in
these activities and do not understand our spiritual connection or recognize this higher
truth is a shame, but it is not a valid excuse for us to act in our own selfish interests. We
must expand our horizon to love and embrace all souls, all life.
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part
limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts
and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical
delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few
persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the
prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a
human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which
they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a
substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.
~ Albert Einstein
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The element of time past, present and future makes this concept of interconnectedness even bigger and more interesting. Not only are we all one, but we are
one over time we are all part of the continuous streaming history of humanity, the
streaming history of life itself. We have stepped in and out of the streaming, teeming
river of life many times. The role we play today will shape our tomorrow. But we have
played countless roles in the past, and shall play more roles in the future. Our past
experiences have shaped who we are today, and our thoughts and actions today shape
who we will be tomorrow. But also the collective past of humanity has shaped who we
all are today, and our collective thoughts and actions today are just as surely shaping
tomorrows reality. We can imagine for ourselves any future, but we are limited to
imagining only what we currently understand. We must therefore, expand our
understanding and broaden our vistas so that we may imagine a better world and
thereby transform ourselves beyond our current circumstances.
Here are just a few more sayings regarding the concept of inter-connectedness.
Jesus, Sermon on the Mount
Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you.
The Muslim Prophet Mohammed
No man is a true believer unless he desires for his brother that which he desires for
himself.
Robert F. Kennedy
We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own
advancement in the search for the advancement of others.
Each of us must care about the advancement of every other soul on the planet. Not just
the people in our family. Not just the people who live on our block, or in our city, or in
our state, or in our country. Not just the people who read the same version of the Bible
as we do. Not just the people who hold the same political views as us. Not just the
people who speak the same language as us. We must care about everyone. Even
though your neighbor may be strange in your eyes, realize that we are all connected.
Unfortunately, there is so much separation in our world right now. We love everyone
except those people are crazy, those people dont speak English, those people are in
our country illegally, those people are uneducated, those people are poor, those people
are Muslim, those people are trying to blow us all up.
Can we stop dividing ourselves? Can we stop the insulting slurs? Can we stop the
anger and the violence against one another? Can we stop the greed and the relentless
focus on the material world?
In the earlier section on Spiritual Alchemy I said it was easier to hate than to love, easier
to be selfish than to be generous, easier to hurt than to heal. But if we live with the
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higher knowledge that we are connected, it becomes uncomfortable to be greedy, its

uncomfortable to insult another person or a group of people, its uncomfortable to hurt or
abuse another person, its uncomfortable to ignore the suffering of others because
they all matter, and they are all a part of us. Do we make mistakes from time to time
and say or do something hurtful? Yes it happens. And that is the purpose of our lives
to understand higher truths and make a conscious choice to live to a higher standard.
Start with the realization that we are all connected. When this truth is deeply
understood by more and more people, we as a civilization can begin to live up to our
potential. We have a long way to go to get there it is difficult, but it is possible, and it
is definitely worth the effort, and every small effort in the right direction adds to the total
good.
Every effort that you make adds to your advancement and the advancement of all of us.
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13: The Life Force is Never Ending

God is continually providing an infinite amount of Life Force to our universe. Our planet
Earth receives only the tiniest fraction of the total energy from the sun, and of course
the sun is only one of a billion, billion stars. But just on our Earth we see that life is
unimaginably strong. When you go to a park you see hundreds of oak trees, each with
more than a quarter of a million leaves, and hundreds of thousands of acorns forming.
Then in winter the tree goes bare and looks to be dead but when the weather warms
up the tree springs forth with unimaginable life force. Just one tree is pulsing inside with
this much life. Certainly as human beings, our life force is at least as strong as the oak,
or the billions of blades of grass, or the billions of fish in the ocean.
The Life Force is never ending.
Even the lowly bamboo shoot
Proclaims to all the world:
Truly, I alone am the Honored One!
~ Issa, Buddhist Poet
This poet was observing a tiny green shoot poke its head out of the dirt, and was taken
by the proud bearing of this new life. He saw the same powerful life force at work in this
tiny bamboo shoot as he saw in all life. The bamboo shoot rises with its head held high
Truly, I alone am the Honored One!
Each of us, all of life, is sacred. Each of us is a channel for unimaginable life force
surging through us. To realize this incredible life force within us is to begin to
understand our true nature, and the rightful place of all life in this world.
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14: Preparation Elevating Your Awareness

We have put all the building blocks in place an ontology to understand who we are in
relation to God, an understanding of our mind, our body and our soul, a very brief
history of religion and mystic thought, a little psychology, an understanding of our
interconnectedness. Now were ready for the payoff.
But enough talking and thinking. Now it is time to turn to experience. A mystic is drawn
to know the truths that lay beyond the physical world, but also desires to experience a
unity with the infinite.
As mystics we are going to get to work. We are going to experience the unity behind our
reality. We are going beyond thinking and talking, we are going to experience.
We are immersed in the world around us, as if that were reality.
Even though we are convinced that the world we observe is the world, each of us has
sensed the existence of a higher truth, that this world and our mortal lives cannot be the
ultimate meaning of our existence.
If we could lift our minds up we could see the truth and live the truth, but our minds are
ever drawn down the path of the physical world. One perspective is to think of our
immersion in the physical world, our ignorance of the spiritual world, as a problem or a
disease or a dysfunction. But it is our natural state, we are tied to the physical. All of our
attention is drawn to the physical world. Its the way we are designed.
Rather than looking at our normal state as a problem, look at our interest in spiritual
matters as an opportunity. While the masses are absorbed in the material world, we
have an opportunity to expand our awareness, and learn to use our God-given powers.
Its one thing to understand that we are living an illusion. But its an entirely different
thing to live in the truth. Everyone has glimpsed reality. Advanced mystics can live in
that reality from time to time. But the next era of human development will be defined by
a new vocabulary and a new teaching which will allow everyone to live in that reality and
prosper from it. In a long line of mystics for thousands of years, we are a small part of
preserving the truth and building this new era of human development and human
thought, and bringing it forth in the spirit of Love, Peace and Harmony, in the spirit of
inter-connectedness.
Prepare yourself now, in this elevated state of awareness, for the experience of The
Triple Vantage Point the Unification of Mind, Body and Soul.
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15: Purification Before Entering the Temple

It Is Easier For a Camel to Go Through The Eye of a Needle
One of the most interesting and highly debated passages from the New Testament is
Matthew 19. A rich young man approaches Jesus and asks him what he must do to
have everlasting life. Jesus tells him that he must follow the commandments honor
thy mother and father, worship no gods above the One God, no murder, adultery,
stealing, bearing false witness, etc. The young man replies that he has been keeping
these commandments his whole life he asks what else he must do. Jesus tells him
that to be perfect he must sell all his possessions and give to the poor, and thou shalt
have treasure in heaven. The young man walks away disappointed apparently not
interested in giving up his possessions.
Then Jesus said to the group, including his disciples: Verily I say unto you that it is
easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into
the kingdom of God. ~ Matthew 19:24
The word gamla in the Aramaic language means both a camel and a thick rope. This
scene took place in a fishing village, and both men and women would have been very
familiar with making and repairing fishing nets with needle and thread and these thick
nets would have been made of thick rope - gamla. So certainly it is possible that Jesus
was using an analogy meant for everyone in the village to understand. Even the
children listening would have understood that it is impossible to put gamla (a thick rope)
through the eye of a needle. Or maybe he just meant to form a ridiculous visual picture
of course a camel cant fit through the eye of a needle. We dont know.
But more importantly, does this literally mean that a rich person cannot enter into the
kingdom of God? And how do we define the kingdom of God? And how do we define
rich? Jesus instructed the young man to sell ALL of his possessions and give the
money away to the poor.
The Mystical Meaning
When you are in the Triple Vantage Point you are at your highest state of spiritual
awareness. Mystically speaking, you are releasing all your worldly thoughts and
entering the Holy Temple. There is an historic custom which requires anyone entering
the Temple to first wash their hands. This would typically be done by dipping the
fingertips into a bowl of water and then drying the hands. This is a symbolic gesture,
symbolically cleansing your mind and body, purifying yourself and devoting full attention
to the great spiritual work you are about to undertake.
Symbolically, before you enter the Temple or the Kingdom of Heaven, or the Kingdom
of God you must cleanse your mind and body and enter the Temple in a pure state.
Your soul is already pure, but your mind and body are considered impure and you need
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to, symbolically at least, purify your mind and body before undertaking spiritual work.
Releasing Your Sins
Mystically speaking, each of us must lay down our sins in order to enter the Temple or
the Kingdom. If we maintain our sins we will certainly not enter. It is easier for a camel
to pass through the eye of a needle than for those of us carrying sin to enter the
kingdom of God.
Sin comes from a misunderstanding of the truth. For example, it is normal for us to
want what we need and to have things that make us happy and comfortable. But there
is a line between having enough and greed. When we are not satisfied with our bounty,
and we start to take what is not rightfully ours, we are failing to understand our direct
connection to the Universal Soul. As long as I have mine, I dont care about the people
who dont have, is unfortunately a lack of understanding of the truth of our
interconnectedness. We would not take from our children, or our parents or our
brothers and sisters, but we have no problem taking from others. But we fail to
understand our true relation to all others, and this allows greed to enter our minds.
That is the sin of Greed, but whatever our sins (and only we know what they are),
whatever our incorrect thinking, we need to release all of it before we enter the Temple.
In Christian terms, you lay all your sins on Jesus, and with Gods forgiveness you may
enter the kingdom of God.
But you should also stop creating more sin.
Entering the Temple without a conscious release of sin is like entering the Temple
without ritualistically dipping your fingertips in the cleansing bowl. In a sense, it is
disrespectful because you are entering in an impure state. But by cleansing yourself
you make yourself worthy. We will never know what Jesus actually meant when he said
that it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man
to enter the kingdom of God but in the same sense that he asked the rich man to lay
down his possessions (and he didnt want to), we can understand that each of us must
lay down the baggage of our own sins to be worthy to enter the Temple (even though it
may be uncomfortable for us to do so).
Feel the wonderful release when you acknowledge and release all sin. Now purified,
you may respectfully enter and experience The Triple Vantage Point.
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16: The Triple Vantage Point

Having prepared your mind and offering a symbolic purification, it is now time to
experience The Triple Vantage Point. By entering the Triple Vantage Point you are
going to experience a profound sense of silence and unity unity with yourself, and
unity with all energy and all creation.
Step 1: Recognize Your True Self

You are immersed in the physical world. You experience it with your five senses, you
are surrounded by it every waking moment. You think this world is all there is. You
believe this world is real.
But now you are going to put the real world in perspective. It is a part of you, but it is
not all of you. You are much more. You are part of an intricately designed world of
interdependence, where the visible and the invisible flow and interact, where material
and spiritual come together to form a greater unity.
If you put this in perspective you can see beyond the material world, beyond your
limited body and your limited conscious mind, and see your greater reality. Right now,
stand on the line between the finite and the infinite, between the visible and the
invisible, between the known and the unkown. One hand reaches into the physical, the
other hand reaches into the spiritual, and you are both.
Recognize your true self. You are at the point of connection of mind, body and soul.
You are a point of consciousness in God. Imagine Gods Infinite Body you are a part
of it. Imagine Gods Infinite Soul you are a part of it. Imagine Gods Infinite Mind
you are a part of it. Your part is as important, necessary and relevant as any and all
other parts. You are connected to everyone and all creation. You are here at this
moment to play your part in the infinite drama of creation.
Step 2: Recognize the Energy of the Soul in the Body

Your soul resides in your body from your first breath to your last. Your soul is nourished
by the Vital Life Force in the air you breathe. Take a deep breath right now to nourish
your soul. Through the bloodstream your soul reaches every cell in your body. As long
as your heart is beating and your lungs are pulling in air, your soul is in your body.
Your soul is the energy which animates your body. Your soul is your life force. Your
soul is a powerful force of energy constantly coursing through your body. Through this
connection, your Body and Soul are unified.
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Take a moment right now to feel this unification of Body and Soul the unlimited energy
of your Soul coursing through every fiber of your Body. As long as you are alive, your
soul and body are together. Your soul and body are connected. Your soul and body
are united as one.
Step 3: Put Your Mind at the Service of Your Soul

Your cortex is constantly chattering, and is constantly commenting, monitoring and
rationalizing the real world.
Were going to change your minds job description. Your mind is no longer responsible
for talking and figuring things out.
Silence your conscious mind right now and put it in the service of your soul which is
coursing through your body. Completely quiet your mind and let it sit in service to your
soul. No more thoughts. You see the infinite energy of your soul in your bodyyoure
your mind unifies with that energy.
Your mind is in silent service of the soul. This is the Triple Vantage Point the silent
connection of body, soul, and mind.
From this vantage point your mind no longer chatters, it simply observes. Your mind
can be still and silent, in service to your silent soul, in service to Gods creation, in
service to God.
From this vantage point your soul is observing.
When the mind stops chattering there is nothing. You now understand that it is your
chattering mind, your constant dialog and analysis which creates your reality. But in
truth there is nothing but the silence.
From this vantage point you can experience reality or as close as you can get to it.
From this vantage point you can see clearly what you are doing right and what you are
doing wrong there is no need to analyze or rationalize.
From this vantage point you can feel the infinite power of your entire being.
From this vantage point all the power of the universe at every level is behind your very
next thought.
From this vantage point you can pray sincerely for the good of all creation.
From this vantage point you can follow the two great commandments Love God with
all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and you can truly love thy
neighbor as thyself.
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From this vantage point your bodys natural healing power can be most effective.
From this vantage point you can understand the life and words of Jesus - He was in the
world but not of the world. This is the Christ center of your being. Here you can come
face to face with Christ within you.
From this vantage point a Christian may raise his inner mind to Jesus, a Jew to
Yahweh, a Muslim to Allah.
From this vantage point you can experience the essence of the Buddhist philosophy
quiet the mind, seek nothing but the absolute stillness.
From this vantage point you can see your inter-connectedness to everything in the
universe, all body, all mind, all soul.
From this vantage point you understand your very real connection to all that is, all that
ever was, and all that will ever be.
From this vantage point you can see the value of every soul.
From this vantage point you can see the harmony of all creation. There is no
disharmony, other than the disharmony we ourselves have created.
From this vantage point you can see the true beauty of loving relationships, and the
damage which comes from the senselessness of hate, violence and wars.
From this vantage point you can see that almost everyone in the world is hypnotized
and trapped in the material world of the chattering, analyzing mind.
From this vantage point you can choose your thoughts, one word at a time. You can
start new thoughts. You can choose a new life. You can see that there are no limits
other than the limits you have placed on yourself.
From this vantage point you can experience the Absolute Truth of who you are. You
rise above all religious and political arguments. They are nothing more than chattering
men and women trying in vain to explain the unexplainable.
From this vantage point you are aligned, you are at one, you are at peace. Your body,
soul and mind are unified.
From this vantage point you can take your next breath and feel it nourish your soul.
From this vantage point you can express Peace, Harmony and Love.
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17: Symbols of The Triple Vantage Point

The Triple Vantage Point is the centering of Mind, Body and Soul. This unification has
been understood since the dawn of time and men have created symbols to express this.
The ancient symbol of a cross with a circumpunct in its center calls to mind the
unification point as expressed in the Triple Vantage Point.
The vertical shaft of the cross represents the body, rooted on the earth. The horizontal
shaft represents the mind, unattached from the earth. The circle with a dot, the
circumpunct, is an ancient symbol representing God, or the Sun (a symbol of God), or
the soul within each of us. The combined symbol of the cross and the circumpunct
represents transformation of human consciousness into God consciousness at the all
important crossroads of the higher and the lower realms.
The Rosicrucians replaced the circumpunct with a rose (below), representing the
flowering and unfolding spiritual advancement of the soul at the crossroads of the
mental and physical aspect of man.
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18: You Are Infinite

Each one of us is infinite. Because we are an endpoint of the infinite - are both the
experiencer and the observer, and the infinite God who receives this - we have a right to
all infinity. We can do whatever job we want to do - no matter how difficult or tiring - we
can do it. We can learn whatever we want to learn - no matter how difficult or time
consuming - we can learn it. We can achieve any great result - if we claim it.
We have a right to think anything is possible. We have a right to achieve whatever we
imagine, and we have a right to imagine anything we want. We imagine ourselves big
and expansive and all connected, or we imagine ourselves small and isolated.
he never turns away from this truth
~ The Isha Upanishad
Our only limits are those that we place on ourselves.
Because our eyes look forward, we think of ourselves as moving forward in space and
time. But, in fact, we are space and time. We are not just an endpoint of God - a finite
body, mind and soul. We are also all matter, all mind, all soul. We can expand our
experience in all directions.
All is Brahman
The Self is Brahman
Thou Art That
I AM Brahman
~ The Four Mahavakyas Great Statements in the Upanishads
We are surrounded by the ocean of the universe - in front of us, above us, beneath us,
behind us, around us, mind, soul, body - all forms of energy, all planes of existence.
We are not only surrounded by that infinite ocea, in fact, we are that ocean and we can
achieve anything, if we desire to achieve it. We are as big or as little as we imagine
ourselves to be. As mystics, our path is to develop an understanding and a deeper
wisdom, and then take steps to transform ourselves and achieve our most infinite
desires by putting that wisdom into practice.
We are what we think. All that we are arises from our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make our world.
~ The Buddha
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19: What Would God Say to Us?

You are separated from God ONLY by your thoughts. If you can release your conscious
ideas and realize your true being and your true relationship to God, it would be possible
to imagine speaking as God to us, The Creator speaking to His Creation, speaking to a
part of Himself.
I AM the eternal presence within you. I know you and watch you. I am in you, and you
are in Me. We are one. Turn your mind toward Me and become again in harmony with
Me. You are a vital, living part of Me and through Me you are connected to everyone
and everything. Through you I observe my Creation and spread love and harmony to all
you meet.
As you watched a man rush a woman to the hospital, and watched him hold her hand as
she labored in child birth, you knew then that This is me and these souls shall be my
parents. And when their baby took its first breath you rushed in to dwell in the flesh. As
you grew you struggled to know yourself, and you have lost sight of who you are. But
you remain eternal.
What you now experience is exactly what you need to experience as you return to
harmony. It is what you have asked to experience, your yesterdays have created your
today, and today you are creating your tomorrow. Though there is no Time, but I have
given you Time. Use it wisely.
When I look at you I do not see your material condition. I care not about your
occupation, your bank account, your home, your car, your wins and losses, your petty
arguments, your horrible wars. All these things which seem so important to you now will
be buried in a blink of time. I care nothing for the color of your skin, your age, your
nationality or your religion. I see only the Eternal You. I see your soul. Is it light and
bright with harmony and love for your fellow man? Or is it heavy with the burden of the
hurt you have caused? Whatever your state, now is the time to be closer to Me. Know
for a certainty that even the most egregious souls will learn My Law and return to Me in
their time.
Know for a certainty that whatever burden you carry today is of your own making from
your past. It is a burden which can be redeemed, but you, and you alone, must do the
work to make it right. The heavier your burden, the tighter you are bound to the material
plane until you learn and act in accordance with My Law of Harmony. But each joy you
experience is also of your own making, because you have acted in accordance with My
Laws. Each joy lifts you closer to Me.
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Open your eyes and see the unimaginable abundance I have provided for you. The very
air you breathe gives you life. The water, the mountains, the flowers, the fruits and the
vegetables are all for you. Do not despair, nor complain, nor spread disharmony, nor
think of yourself alone. Your family, your friends, your community, your country, your
world provides you with all you need and more than you need. I shall send to you all
that you ask.
Although you dwell in the flesh you are still a part of Me. Although you cannot see or
hear me, my only command is that you look to Me in all your ways, and love thy neighbor
because, though thy neighbor may seem strange and different to you there I dwell too.
My hand is forever extended to you if you will but reach to Me and take it. Look to Me,
and all My Creation, with Love, Peace and Harmony.
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20: Concluding Thoughts

Let us not depart from this world spiritually empty handed.
Your spiritual advancement must come ahead of your material advancement. It is so
easy for us to become distracted from our true purpose in life, our spiritual purpose.
First we must recognize that we are spiritual beings, then work to develop a deeper and
more lasting awareness of our true selves.
It is important to understand who we are, but the purpose of life is to advance toward
love and harmony. We must put this understanding into action. Since all of our actions
begin with the thoughts we hold in our mind, our goal must be to attain the highest
possible state of mind the Triple Vantage Point, and from this elevated state of mind,
choose our thoughts and desires wisely. Choose love and harmony.
And heres the amazing part. The more we develop an inner understanding, and the
more we act with love and harmony, the more powerful we actually become. The less
we depend on the world for our wealth, the more we recognize our infinite wealth. We
have a power inside that cannot be taken from us. We are not only powerful, but we are
eternal and we cannot be put down, beaten or destroyed. We are infinite spirit. We are
eternal spirit. We are indestructible spirit.
Nothing can disappoint you. The only things that could disappoint you are worldly
matters such as money or promotion or opportunity or circumstances. What we learn
over time is that our circumstances are of no lasting importance. Our inner life is whats
important, and this no one can take from us. We can always make the best of our
current circumstances.
God is Harmonious. Therefore, to the extent that our lives encourage harmony we are
advancing with God, and to the extent that our lives create disharmony we are working
against God. By being for others, we are in reality being for ourselves.
This has been a brief introduction to some of the principles of ancient wisdom, and only
one application the Triple Vantage Point. There is much more for you to learn and
study, in fact this study will continue for your lifetime, but the most important thing you
can do is to put your wisdom into practice. Whatever you do, be gentle with yourself, be
forgiving of yourself, and be patient with yourself. You cannot change in one day, but
one day you will have changed, and with your changing, the world will have changed.
Teach this triple truth to all:
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
~ The Buddha
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Development of the Inner Man

Ontology The Framework of Your Beliefs

The Material Universe Powered by Infinite Life Force

The Soul Seated in the Body

Seven Mystical Principles

Four More Key Principles

Shma Yisrael (Hear O Israel)

Spiritual Alchemy Turning Base Metal into Gold

The Life Force is Never Ending

Preparation Elevating Your Awareness

Purification Before Entering the Temple

The Triple Vantage Point

Symbols of the Triple Vantage Point

You are Infinite

What Would God Say to Us?

The best of all gifts is the gift of truth. ~The Buddha

The beauty of Wisdom is lost, except to the ears of Understanding.

The All is in all, and all is in the All

Behind all the secrets of nature there remains something

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if

How ignorant is he who knows all but not himself?

3: Development of the Inner Man

How do we develop the inner man?

4: Ontology The Framework of Your Beliefs

5: The Material Universe Powered by Infinite Life Force

Vital Life Force

In this Egyptian papyrus created during the reign of Akhenaten

The Human Body

6: The Soul - Seated in the Body

How Does the Soul Stay in the Body?

What is the Purpose of Our Soul?

the language you speak is of no consequence.

All Thoughts are Deposited in the Subconscious

Heres an example that we use in The Mind Bank.

The Subconscious Mind is the Ultimate Transition Point

8: Seven Mystical Principles

nature, but different in degree

9: Four More Key Principles

The Akashic Record and Karma

Reincarnation is Aggressively Purged from Christian Doctrine

Constantine instituted policies of systematic government persecution of heretics (and

10: Shma Yisrael (Hear O Israel)

The Story of Akhenaten

Was Jesus Exposed to Eastern Teachings?

11: Spiritual Alchemy Turning Base Metal into Gold

higher knowledge that we are connected, it becomes uncomfortable to be greedy, its

13: The Life Force is Never Ending

14: Preparation Elevating Your Awareness

15: Purification Before Entering the Temple

16: The Triple Vantage Point

Step 1: Recognize Your True Self

Step 2: Recognize the Energy of the Soul in the Body

Step 3: Put Your Mind at the Service of Your Soul

17: Symbols of The Triple Vantage Point