בְּרֵאשִׁית: “In Beginning”

Posted on May 24, 2024 by cdsmiller17

At Creation, “Let There Be Light”

Bereshit: this is the other word my optometrist and I discussed, yesterday. There is speculation about how it should be translated because we cannot know what happened before God’s first thought.

Rabbi Jonah taught in the name of Rabbi Levi that the world was created with a letter bet (the first letter in Genesis 1:1, which begins בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים‎, bereishit bara Elohim, “In the beginning God created”), because just as the letter bet is closed at the sides but open in front, so one is not permitted to investigate what is above and what is below, what is before and what is behind. Similarly, Bar Kappara reinterpreted the words of Deuteronomy 4:32 to say, “ask not of the days past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth,” teaching that one may speculate from the day that days were created, but one should not speculate on what was before that. And one may investigate from one end of heaven to the other, but one should not investigate what was before this world. Both Rabbi Joḥanan and Rabbi Eleazar (or other say Resh Lakish) compared this to a human king who instructed his servants to build a great palace on a dunghill. They built it for him. Thereafter, the king did not wish to hear mention of the dunghill. Similarly, the Mishnah taught that one should not teach about the Creation to more than one student.

Wikipedia

You can see why this is so fraught. And every version of English translation starts Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning…” I’ve written about this before, here and here:

When I first realized that the start of Genesis was echoed in the beginning of John’s gospel in the New Testament, I wrote the following poem.

In-beginning

A beginning, we are told, is the start:

Recognizing the initial fiat

Can be more confusing than the lead cart

Horses must follow; amen — so be it.

Either the word be said or all hidden:

Truths only halfway told lead to defeat,

Yet, in Genesis 1:1, who’s kidding`…?

Put wisdom into the principle seat.

In beginning was the Word, so says John:

Could this be our clue to dig deeper still

And make sense of the past, long gone?

Lend your spiritual ear and get your fill:

Listen to the sound current of our earth,

You will know God’s First Breath gave us our birth.

Sonnet VII

Cryptic Code

There are some who think that God’s first word may have been ‘just’ him breathing. That’s an interesting thought. Why I’m sharing this idea now is that the beginning of life was his breath, just like ours is.

I think that was my first clue to the mystery of JHWH’s name.

Cryptic Code

Symbolic words conceal from prying eyes
Yesterday’s truth wrapped up in parable:
Meanings which help to spiritualize
Beginners, to make life more bearable.
Of course, the intent may be to mislead,
Like in the case of the word ‘atonement’:
Insiders see clues outsiders misread;
Could be a tone meant and/or at-one-ment.

Consider, now, Jehovah’s Hebrew name,
Initialled: can you hear His Holy Breath?
Maybe the Greek equivalent’s the same:
Becomes, in fact, the birth of Life and Death
As “I am the Alpha and Omega”.
Listen to His Voice, It speaks: ΙΑΩ.

Sonnet II

Or, in my words, “No Thing”. Herein lies the mystery of Creation.

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גלגול הנשמות: “Cycle of Souls”‎

Posted on May 24, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Gigul Neshamot: Reincarnation

I had an interesting discussion with my optometrist, yesterday. He asked what I do on my computer everyday, and I told him about writing these posts. For ten minutes we shared Jewish knowledge and he said the phrase that’s in the title of this post. Isn’t it funny how the cycle turns?

In early 1984, I wrote a poem about it.

The Kabbalah is Jewish esoteric knowledge wrapped up in interesting concepts. Metempsychosis is essentially an explanation for reincarnation. See the following:

Gilgul

Moses and Jethro were Abel and Cain;

Eve and Adam, David and Bathsheba;

The Serpent became known as Uriah;

Even Job’s Abraham’s father again.

Metempsychosis was used to explain

Perplexing problems in the Kabbalah:

Some said that Adam, David, Messiah

Yielded ADaM’s name as from the same vein.

Commonly, reincarnation was used,

Heresy to some, sacred to others,

Only the Gnostics really knew for sure.

Since the 5th century it’s been abused

In Catholics, erased by the Fathers;

Saved by the Perfect: Humanity’s Cure!

Sonnet X (Spiritus Sanctus)

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Do Not Be Deceived: Christians are Not the Chosen Ones

Posted on May 23, 2024 by cdsmiller17

False Messiahs

It pains me to write this, because the West think that Jesus Christ will be coming again to save them. No, he will be coming again for the Jewish race, to save them from permanent destruction and annihilation.

The signs are clear:

Why Have We Got It So Wrong?

Simple, the Christian Church became the state religion of Rome. This whole Messiah thing was a way to win over the world to the idea that the Emperor of Rome was their true god on earth. The destruction of Jerusalem was the proof that he was stronger than Yahweh in 70 AD. The Jews were scattered throughout the world and only with the creation of the State of Israel were the sheep gathered together again. May 14, 1948 marks the return of the people to their home and native land. Everything stems from that point forward. We are witnessing, with the Israel/Hamas war, a resurgence of hatred for the Jews. Oh, dear. Bible prophecy has come back to haunt us all.

World Messiahs

Every race and religion has a Messiah figure. The fact that Christians have co-opted a Jewish one is part of the mix-up. It’s like being a Jehovah’s Witness, we are pseudo JWs. Maybe we need to re-examine our motives when it comes to the End of the Age. Everyone, and his uncle, wants it all to end. Really?

The New Jerusalem

Yes, exactly. Why would there even be a New Jerusalem if the Revelation of St. John was intended for Christians? We definitely have got it back-to-front, and no amount of wishful thinking will change that.

Here is an extreme viewpoint from someone who has thought about this:

Hmm.

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The Hints Were Always There, If You Paid Attention

Posted on May 22, 2024 by cdsmiller17

The Gateway Experience (2023)

Back in 1996, when I was writing “The Star of Bethlehem”, I came to a strange conclusion about the Second Coming of Christ: I imagined that the LGBTQ+ movement was in fact the true second coming.

How I made that ‘leap of faith’ is now lost to my own consciousness, but I recognize that the Holy Spirit was trying to get the story out somehow, and I just happened to be one of those people who picked up on it. In fact, over the years since, I have become more convinced of the truth of the concept.

Since October 2017, when I saw a star-like orb in a photograph I took of a sunset, I have decided that a balance of energies, as evidenced by the Merkaba, is the only was to ‘fly’.

The work by the Monroe Institute came to a similar conclusion, without exactly understanding what they were accessing. Balancing the sound through the ears so that, for the most part, the left-hemisphere of the brain is damped down to be almost exactly equal the input into the right hemisphere can bring about an out-of-body experience.

This illustration is the flattened equivalent of the torus I shared this past weekend. It also reminds me of the lemniscate that I featured at the start of my post “The Refiner’s Fire”. It’s all connected.

So, if the Gospel of Thomas can be believed, Jesus gave us these hints more than 2,000 years ago.

I suspect that we have now coming full circle in our understanding.

Bless.

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Judge Juan Merchan: “Clear the Courtroom!”

Posted on May 21, 2024 by cdsmiller17

I wanted to demonstrate what a specific moment in time can look like astrologically.

Yes, folks, that is a Yod (Finger of God) pointing to the Moon in Libra (in the 1st House of Personality). The inconjuncts forming this Yod are the Sun/Venus/Jupiter conjunction (in the 8th House) and Neptune on its own (in the 6th House). Note that the South Node is conjunct the Libra Ascendant opposite the Mars/North Node conjunction in Aries. Something tells me that this was fated to happen.

The judge in Donald Trump’s hush-money case chastised Trump’s key defense witness on Monday for muttering under his breath during testimony.

After prosecutors rested their case Monday afternoon, the defense called Robert Costello, a pro-Trump attorney who prosecutors claim was part of a pressure campaign to keep Trump’s then-personal lawyer Michael Cohen from cooperating with authorities.

Costello tested the patience of New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan almost instantly, shaking his head and muttering in earshot of his microphone during sustained objections from prosecutors.

“Geez,” Costello expressed audibly after one objection.

Merchan finally acknowledged his antics.

“I’m sorry?” Merchan asked. Costello waved him off.

But after another utterance from Costello on a subsequent question, Merchan excused the jury and laid into the witness.

“Mr. Costello, I want to discuss proper decorum in my courtroom. When there is a witness on the stand, if you don’t like my ruling, you don’t say, ‘Geez,’” Merchan said firmly. “You don’t give me side eye and you don’t roll your eyes. Do you understand that?”

Costello agreed and briefly glared at the judge. The typically poised Merchan was about to bring the jury back in, when he got hot.

“Are you staring me down right now?” he shouted. “Clear the courtroom, please.”

Reporters filed out of the courtroom, which was locked for the next several minutes. In front of only counsel, Trump and the former president’s entourage, the judge continued to chide Costello for his conduct.

“Sir, your conduct is contemptuous right now,” Merchan said, according to court transcripts. “I’m putting you on notice that your conduct is contemptuous. If you try to stare me down one more time, I will remove you from the stand. I will strike his entire testimony. Do you understand me?”

Defense lawyers agreed. Costello tried to get another word in.

“Can I say something, please?” he asked.

“No, no. This is not a conversation,” Merchan said.

When reporters were allowed back inside, Costello stared blankly forward, slumped in the witness chair. His testimony continued after the fiery exchange.

Courthouse News Service

Sometimes, some people can try the patience of a saint. I guess that why it’s called a trial.

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This Man Coined the Phrase “Out-of-Body Experience”

Posted on May 20, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Robert A. Monroe (October 10, 1915 – March 17, 1985)

It was this man’s work with his Monroe Institute that gave purpose and definition for the CIA Gateway Experience. I wanted to see if he was a messenger sent from the Universe.

Here’s his birth chart. The accuracy is confirmed by someone quoting his birth certificate.

I suppose the Moon/Mercury conjunction in Scorpio is our proof of his being divinely inspired to do the research. It is aided by a Mars/Neptune conjunction in Leo, plus Venus (in Libra) inconjunct to Jupiter (in Pisces). It isn’t until you compare this chart with his death chart (set at noon for the day he died) that you see what his purpose may have been.

His ‘fatal’ Moon is conjunct his North Node; his ‘fatal’ Pluto is conjunct his Moon/Mercury conjunction; and his ‘fatal’ Neptune is opposite his Pluto. Yes, he was meant to discover our Cosmic connection…

Amen.

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In Last Night’s Dream, I Lost Sight of Susan

Posted on May 20, 2024 by cdsmiller17
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – APRIL 17, 2015: Crowded sidewalk on Oxford Street with commuters and tourists from all over the world.

Is This Another Warning?

Today is May 20th. Tomorrow is Susan’s birthday. In my early morning dream (before 6 am), Susan and I were walking along a street, not unlike the one shown above, going toward our car at the hotel car park I always see. This time, Susan started walking faster and faster into the distance, until I could not see her anymore. The only reason for noting this is the fact that before the two accidents with our cars, I dreamt of losing them. In each case, they were in that hotel car park. OK, Universe, is this a warning about Susan?

This coming Friday, Susan is scheduled to drive up to spend time with her daughter, to celebrate their joint birthdays. My unconscious may be playing out a ‘what-if’ sequence in answer to my discomfort of this upcoming event. When Susan first awoke this morning, I shared the dream image with her.

Did it make a difference? No. Susan is determined to drive the rental car on her own, there and back again. So, I’ll keep my fingers crossed in the meantime, and hope that nothing bad happens to her.

(dream/time.com, eh?)

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Don’t Laugh: Our Reality is the Back End of Infinity

Posted on May 20, 2024 by cdsmiller17

The CIA Gateway Experience (June 9, 1983)

I couldn’t resist the gif that keeps on giving (shown above). This is a torus. (I can’t believe it’s named that, either, since it implies a connection to Taurus, the Bull.)

I won’t go into the techniques involved in order to ‘escape’ the hologram of our earthly existence. But the three exercises that point you in the right direction are: hypnosis; Transcendental Meditation; and biofeedback. The ‘trick’ is to quiet the left hemisphere of the brain to almost match the right hemisphere.

This is achieved by sound. Hmm. Interesting. (And do you ever wonder why music has such a profound influence on your life? This is why.)

I’ll leave it there for now. But it might be informative to see Ellie Dreams Down Under‘s latest YouTube video. Two Tarot cards came up that suggest that there are ulterior motives with the CIA Gateway Experience. Here’s a hint:

“I have my own interpretation: Whether it was accidentally or intentionally left out I don’t know,” Whedbee explains. But she says that “there are people that work in this place that are on another plane and not here in the physical.”

“So what if that page [25] was released 20 years ago?” Whedbee asks. “Could it have backlashed? ‘Cause it talks about religion and that all religions are equal. And what if people feel really powerfully that not all religions are equal. I feel like the generations nowadays, they’re not so wrapped up in that anymore.”

“There’s this whole thing going on where people are awakening,” Whedbee continues. “People become more conscious, people become more awakened—tearing down the monuments in Richmond. Enough’s enough. This has come about at a time when your generation has questions and they want to know and they’re ready to hear the answers without judgment.”

Whitley Strieber

The Event Chart

Hmm.

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I Can’t Remember Laughing So Hard, as Last Night

Posted on May 19, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Peter Pan Goes Wrong (2016)

Christmas pantomime shows are all the rage in the UK. This one got filmed, which definitely sets it apart from other ones. It’s the filmed version that we watched on PBS, last night.

There are a couple of stand-outs in the cast: David Suchet as the Narrator, even does a small turn as Poirot; Henry Shields plays a triple role as Chris the Director, Mr. Darling and Captain Hook, using John Cleese’s Basil Fawlty as his model; and Nancy Zamit playing just about all the ‘other’ female roles with quick change strategies.

Of course, the audience were fully in on the fun, booing the villain, and shouting out things like, “No he’s not!” and “Look behind you!” In the end the Crocodile gets the girl.

It even got to Broadway, that’s how good this show is.

So, if you want a good laugh, catch this one the next time it comes around on your television set.

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Two Hundred People Saw a UFO, None Believed Them

Posted on May 18, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Westall, Australia (April 6, 1966)

I like to think that a crowd of school students and their teacher who witnessed an UFO in 1966 would make the perfect people to tell their story. But they were shut down by the military (implied, Australian) and scorned and ridiculed by the press and scientists. That suggests to me that there is something more to this story, than meets the eye.

Here’s the chart, set for 10 am of the day in question:

Where do I start? Uranus and Pluto being almost exactly conjunct makes me think this was a ‘full disclosure’ event. Those two planets are in opposition to another almost perfect conjunction between Mercury and Saturn. And there are enough inconjuncts to reveal ‘purpose’ behind the event: Mars and Neptune; Sun and Uranus/Pluto; the Moon and Mercury/Saturn; and, finally, the Moon and the Ascendant. The Moon is the apex of a Yod, Finger of God. Only Venus and Jupiter escape the lens of inconjunct aspects.

On Wednesday, 6 April 1966, students and a teacher from Westall High School, now Westall Secondary College, reported seeing a flying object. It was described as round with a domed top, and white, grey, or silver in colour. According to the students, the object descended behind a row of trees and into the Grange, an open area south of the school. Some accounts describe the object as being pursued by five unidentified aircraft. Shaun Matthews was on vacation at the Grange and reported seeing an object with a slight purple hue and about twice the size of a family car.

Some witnesses reported seeing the object take off after landing, and some reported seeing it hover rather than land. When students walked to the Grange after the sighting, some reported a landing site, but the details varied between reports. Students described a circle of grass variously as burnt, “boiled”, or pressed down. One student interviewed by a local newspaper described a vague circular area flattened by the wind. Students also reported varying numbers of circles from one to three. On 9 April 1966, Air Force personnel and UFO enthusiasts visited the field but reported nothing of interest. The landowner burned the field to discourage people from entering the property.

Wikipedia

With physical evidence, what is there to doubt? Even the idea of a weather balloon seems improbable.

What do you think?

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