Month: February 2018

 New Orleans and the River, Holocaust Remembrance Day, St. Valentine’s St. Valentine’s Day, 

Channeling with

Figure 1  Photo from the wall of the New Orleans, LA Amtrak train and Greyhound Bus Terminal

Received a reply from the Pope’s office in the Vatican and His Apostolate thanking me  for sending him a copy of our 2018 prayer calendar with some of our favorite Saints, Christian and Jewish with their Psalms to pray with during the new year.

Figure 2 Looking across the Mississippi River from a point on the New Orleans Riverwalk which starts at Jackson Square and goes to the Aquarium on Canal St. and beyond.

Had an enjoyable Christmas Valentine’s day train trip from Jackson Ms down to New Orleans and return by train , peace walk through the riverfront wilderness park and Holecaust remembrance river viewing circles.,

Arrived from Jackson on the train, Saturday morning January 21 with a Scottish sheep herder’s white cap covering my yalmulka which was underneath on my head. You are not supposed to travel on the Sabbath as a Jew, but if you let others do the driving it is probably safe, each situation is different and has to be carefully thought about before you decide what to do, travel or not.

It’s a beautiful train trip coming down the state following basically the Pearl River route, through some small MS towns, and then across the Lake Ponchetrain causeway and Bonnet Carre Spillway. There are some aerial photos from previous small plane flights travelling down following this route, around 2009 maybe, posted at this blogs’ News from Vicksburg, URL link.

Stayed at French Quarter Hotel Chateau at corner of St. Phillip and St. Chartres St.

That evening went out to the  New Orleans Penguins pro basketball game, then left as halftime as it wasn’t much of a game.

Took the cab to the Bombay club, 830 Rue Conti, around the corner from the Ritz Carlton where I have stayed before a lot. They have excellent piano jazz players and Saturday night there was a the Leroy Jones trio New Orleans Jazz with a women trombone player and a trumpet player, Mr Jones, and an excellent improntu Jazz piano whose wife and I sat and listened to both along with a man at the bar with Huntingtin’s disease. Had a long, two hour discussion with the man trying to help him just by listening and talking to him. You can check out their jazz calendar at BombayClubNewOrleans.com . It is really good place to go for dinner and music in the French Club, and somewhat away from most of the streets full of  large crowds of drunk people and who knows what else.

Finished one and half glasses of the house special drink: Brandy milk punch. Walked back to the hotel and ran into professional violinist and street musician Ms Tanya Huang playing on the corner of Jackson Square and Royal St..

Her music stopped me in my tracks.

It was from her recent CD:
“Things about me only my plants know.”

Here is a list of song titles on the CD, along with my additions in parenthesis

1)Gravity
(love among the stars)
2)All I ask
3)A thousand years
(and more)
4)It will rain
(and our seeds of faith and hope and love will be watered)
5)Overjoyed
(that we met)
6)I can’t make you love me
(But, cheer up, it may happen anyway)
7)Million reasons
(and one good one)
8)Hurt
(It will heal)
9)Proud
(of YourSelf)
10)When we were young
11) Human
(Divine)
12)One last cry
13)Song for you
(thanks)
14)Wild in the Wind
(forever)

you can order or just listen to it by clicking on the song titles, at http://www.tanyahuang.com

It was magnificent.  Soul stirring, and uplifting, as explained below. I started starting like a tree there for 30 minutes and tried to blessed her and a short man helping her at her music stand on the corner

Figure 3 Another part of the mural in the New Orleans Amtrak, Greyhoud station. It portrays 19th century settlers and planters in the MS Delta. Steamboat, boll weivel.

success in their music, it happened. I hoped. Bought her CD and left before some drunk people could start harassing me more for standing still like that.

But, the intense spiritual encounter of standing still there for 30 minutes listening to her transcendental performance left me thinking about what her name was, what it meant. Where had I heard that name before?

What is the Tanya in Hasidic Judaism. It is the main Kabbalistic teaching in a lot of books some going back almost a 1000 years.

Are they Christians? After studying  a lot of their teachings and discussing it with people like Rabbi David Cooper for 20 years I would say no. But, Jesus Christ said “we shall know them by their fruits”. And, the fruits, the beautiful music of Tanya Huang, whether she is a Kabbalist or not, are wondelful.

However, most Hasidic Kabbalists and David Cooper teach that YHWH the Name of God is a Verb.

See the YHWH School of Christianity URL http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/prayers/message.cgi?411

For discussion with Jason, Rabbi Cooper’s student about this.

If you go to amazon and look for a nice short summary of their teachings you probably will end up buying Tanya:The Masterpiece of Hasidic Wisdom: Selections.

As to why they make the teaching “God is a Verb” a centerpiece, they give the example of Saint Moses who has taught us that YHWH the Name of God is the verbal statement, the Way and the Life “I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE”.  But, Jesus Christ has taught us more than that, He has taught us that YHWH GOD, Himself dwelling in Himself for the Sake of His and Her Self, is the Way, the Life, and the Truth. Moses, if he is a Saint in Heaven now, and I believe he is, would not have anything to do with a Jewish theology that taught only that God and His Name are One in as they express themselves in us are will and power and not One in Eternal Truth.

Yes, God is a Verb in some sense of our common everyday experince, “God is the One life Present in all Creation…The Tanya, chapter 20”, But, God is more than just this  One Life indwelling in us in the Present Moment, He is Life and Death, and being reborn in It, and hence He is not just present day Eternal Life, but everlasting Eternal Life, He is the Sentence that’s says our Dying and Rising once again will continue Eternally “Dying He Destroys Our Dying, Rising He Bring New Life Again” Catholic Resurrection Mass Hymn.

God is not the One Life present in all creation. That is who I am, a man of God, Andrew, and prophet of the mountaintops like Moses was and still is. We spiritually channel the archangel Gabriel who announces the birth of God’s One Son Jesus unto you Saint Mary, Miriam sister of Moses, prophet of the MountainTops also. This is beingAndrew, a man of God. When you hear my call please do not turn away and reject it. It is God calling to you saying, “May there be another One of You.”  I AM the River of Eternal Life that flows from God’s Throne in Heaven on Earth, and you are the good fruit of His Tree of Life indwelling  with Him in the human heart inside of Him and you.

But, be still and know that I AM God, I AM the Lord God of Hosts and His Son YHWH YESHUA.

It is not as it says in Chapter 21 of the Tanya, “But, there is nothing outside of God, and ‘no place empty of Him”. There is something outside of God, and It is God and It is not God. There is a place empty of Him, It is called bohu and tohu, emptiness and chaos. He created the World out of it, nothingness and chaos, but us out of something, Himself…  Genesis chapter 1. Not only are the shells of the Self not other than God, but also God created these shells out of Himself. This is what it means to know that YHWH is Elohim, not what it says in the Tanya chapter 21, and does not say in the Torah.

Being God to someone else is not being “I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE “ to them. Being God is not “TO LOVE” them. Being God is being “LOVE” to them.

 Being the LOVE OF GOD in two ways is not being two truth truths to someone else. But, there are always “two ways”, “two truths”, ours and anothers, in GOD’s LOVE as it expresses itself in us to each other.

God’s Love is like the love of YHWH Elohim, who created the material physical universe and the four seasons.

“God’s Love blesses our life in many ways. The beauty of new-fallen snow in winter, fresh blossoms in spring, songbirds in summer, and brightly colored leaves in autumn—these are just a few reminders of God’s blessing, a few of our favorite things.” [1 letter from Unity School of Christianity, January 2018]]

When God’s Love shines through us as joy and peace like this, ‘We want to pass it on.’

God’s Love is beautiful and good like nature and its four seasons. But, is it beautiful and good in a more important ways, a logical, divinely ordered way?

What distinguishes God’s Love from other Love, logically? It is not affirming our own wills  or even us as representing His will, as one word in Hebrew. But, God’s Love logically comes from YHWH Adonai, it is a seed fallen during the ground, a Man of God or a Woman of God, who has God Love growing like a Tree of Life inside of them during our experiences of the  four seasons that God has just created in us.  It has grown into  an overwatching Presence inside of this Man of God or Woman of God praying for itself and others, through the four seasons trying understand itself above itself 

and in God and down in itself and through God in itself God. . When you mantra pray YHWH OM HARI RAM, YHWH HARI RAM OM  here at this point you are praying I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE.

When you in your mantra, sing, contemplate, realize,  pray YHWH HARI RAM OM TAT SAT you are praying I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE  and I AM WHO I AM, I AM THAT I AM (ie the God inside of myself, created by God, a Holy Spirit, in me, and trying to know Itself).

Figure 6  The Prophet Isaiah

When we attend a Jewish funeral as a Christian Jew, and someone says, “There will never be another one, like him… or her” that is not to be interpreted as saying that the bodily soul will not resurrect itself with God’s help.  Nor, does it mean than the purposes, goals that the person engaged in during his life are not redeemed, remembered, resurrected by God… in addition to his or her will toward doing them.  For as God created us on the sixth day of creation, in the image and likeness of Himself, a Self that includes all the purposes and goals He has helped us engage in while we were living this life, so He and His Son, helped by our Eternal faith in them can so can help us now and in the future if necessary recreate them in US, an US made up of our Eternal Individual Spiritual bodies living forever in God and Christ. The profit Isaiah understand this, even if the prophet Moses did not before he became a Saint. God understood all of this even before it happened, that is why he gave Isaiah’s a name that means He, I God, YHWH Saves.

There are two important verses in the Old Testament which defines it, firstly ” I AM the Eternal God and underneath are the everlasting arms”, and secondly, “Be still and know that I AM God.”The two archangels, Gabriel and Michael, the left and right hands of God, which Moses placed on top of the ark of the Covenant, represent these two mantra verses. On the Sabbath eve, we pray and sing to these two ArchAngels, and light two candles, one for each one, asking God to send us messengers of Peace and Sabbath Joy, we do not pray for miracles to happen by understanding just the verbs in this song, but the whole sentences.:

For myself, as far as daily contemplative prayer mantra verses go, after centering and sanctifying God’s Name YHWH in my top chakra, I prefer saying the Mantra YHWH YHWH OM, or YHWH ELOHIM which is the same, or YHWH YHWH HARI OM TAT SAT, which adds the breath of the Holy Spirit HA indwelling you, and the expression of His will RI and the confirmation of the Truth of what He just said, TAT SAT in Sanskrit. If you practice this mantra for a long while you will discover that when GOD IS ONE, HIS TRUTH IS ONE, YHWH CHRIST.

JESUS CHRIST, GOD”S ONLY SON is not YHWH ELOHIM, Our FATHER GOD CREATOR GOD, but as the Gospel of John teaches us, He was with GOD in the beginning, He is the RATIONAL WORD OF GOD, THE LOGOS, THE PRINCIPLE OF GOD’S TRUTH. He is YHWH ADONAI, the LORD GOD AS GOD”S SON, CO_CREATOR AND REDEEMER. All things were created with Him, through Him, with His help, and without Him nothing was created.  He can be understood thinking the thoughts when GOD IS TWO, HIS TRUTH IS TWO, YHWH CHRIST, after or before you think about YHWH ELOHIM.

Looking back on it now, after all the partial mis-interpretations and propogation of the wrong forms of using the name only as a verb and not also as truth, not only by Hasidic Jews, but also some Christians, what happened to them when many people figured out this mistake of theirs, it seems clear that God should have told Moses at that time that his full name was both a subject, a verb, and an object: eg. “ I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE, AND I AM THAT I AM”. And, in fact, it wasn;t until maybe 500 years later until a prophet came along with the name YHWH SAVES, OR ISAIAH. And, it wasn’t until 500 years after that when one was fully incarnated, born as God in flesh with the same name, YESHUA or JESUS.

It has taken me quite a while to figure out the philosophic arguments demonstrating this based on historical evidence of human experience believing in different types of God. The beginnings of an explanation follows:

Freidrich Nietzsche, the German Philosopher of at least a century ago developed a whole metaphysics and ethical philosophy based on the idea that God is only a Will to Power, and not necessarily Eternal Truth.. Nietzsche was not an anti-Semite, but Hilter who got a lot of comfort from studying his works definitely was. He was perhaps the most evil person and worst anti-Semite that ever lived. When the allies were close to reaching Berlin, because of his belief that he would only be judged by a will to power and not by Divine Truth he did not think it was necessary for his soul to take the responsibility of getting caught and accepting defeat. He faked his death, by shooting somebody else along with his wife and having the bodies burned so they were unrecognizable, then he had a double fly out of the Berlin airport to the Jesuit monasteries in Spain that were allies of the Naxi to throw allied intelligence off. That left either a northern escape route to the well-defened Nazi submarome HQ in northern Finland where the heavy water for German nuclear weapons were kept, or the southern route through Austria down into Italy where they were giving fake passports to SS agents.  Then Hilter and chief of staff Martin Bormann, who had all the bank account numbers of more stolen loot and cash than every before in world history,  could go to South America, get the heavy water shipped by submarine, finish the construction of an atomic weapon. Thus, he could subvert and take over enough of the weak dictatorships in South America ito invade us up from Panama and Mexico to the South? What you don’t believe it? You better study all these recently released intelligence. What we do know is that it didn’t happened but it wasn’t stopped completely and probably in an unrecoverable manner until maybe some time in the 1960s or 1970s. His main successor in this particular philosophic justification of and belief in the rule of countries by a “will to power”, was not Stalin, but the student of Hilter’s student the Grand Mufti of Egypt Saddam Hussein wasn’t stopped until the 1990s.

But God and Bob Baer, a retired CIA agent, aren’t going to let him get away with it. has produced an excellent History Channel TV series on this using computer database programs to search thousands of pages of US, British, and other country secret intelligence files that Obama de-classified for keywords, then sending out teams on the ground to trace the all the possible explanations of the facts as known backwards and restart the searches forward in time where we are now. I couldn’t advised him a better way to do it. It took over three years to produce and is just concluding by the end of next month, I think.

Figure 6b another part of the historical visual art mural in the New Orleans Greyhound and Amtrak terminal.

Figure 7 Some  Early 18th Century Southern US Frontiersman, Soldiers, Indians

Here are some important dates and events during the period listed from a soon to be published book on the subject:

When you put on our wondelful Tefillim and Prayer Shawl and wrap the straps of the Shel Yad around your arms, seven, eight, nine times, carefully remembering how you have unwrapped it, putting on the square head box, the Shel Rosh, that starts off our prayer day of praying, contemplating, thinking downward from heaven to earth, so that heaven may dwell inside of earth inside of us,  three times a day, with God’s Name centered on the mountaintop of His indwelling Intellectual and Intuitive Truth, Wisdom, Spiritual Understanding, Love,  Faith, Hope, Knowledge, then when you say the Shema you will, in fact, know that WHEN GOD IS THREE, HIS TRUTH IS YOU, YHWH CHRIST, and all the rest of Israel will know it too. Please say Amen, to what I AM teaching you at this point. You can believe it, and be certain of it, certain not just of the verb in the sentence I AM speaking to you, but the what the whole sentence tells you, so the verses on your head from the Bible tell you.

Did Jesus Christ wear Tefillim and pray with them on while in the Garden of Gethsemine before he was crucified? Today, these instruments of prayer are given to young Jews and taught how to use when they are Bar-Mitzahed and confirmed in the religion. Learning to use them is an important way to “Hallow the Name of our Father in Heaven” at the top of our head, before we begin our prayers. We know from the Lord’s Prayer that Jesus taught, that this is the way Christians start there prayers, but with words not acts.  I have found that using them can be key to understanding how to pray the Lord’s Prayer correctly in order to receive the Holy Spirit.  And, I believe that at some time, probably while being associated with John the Baptist and the Essenes he was taught how to use them. The way he has ordered the thoughts in the Lord’s prayer, seems to me to argue for this. They have been found in the caves of the Essenes, who John the Baptist was associated with. But, there is an important passage in the Gospel where he criticized the Pharisees for wearing them so maybe he didn’t. But, we Christian Jews now know more details about how his Jewish lineage was connected to the various Jewish Christian groups of the period of the Essenes and rival lineages in charge of the Temple then from the website http://www.biblesearchers.com. He was in the Davidic line after all and not some hybrid Samaritan as was  by some Talmudic scholars still trying to discredit him even after he had been crucified.. Why would he get away with teaching a parable arguing why we need to treat Samaritan’s kindly, if he himself was one?

In the Holecaust, Hitler must have taken them, the Tefillim, away from Jews, you had them with them on the trains, hoping to keep using them, after they left the trains and arrived at concentration camps not all knowing they were to go to their death there. What a crime, against us, taking away our prayer tools that we use every day, a crime that we will surely never forget, for it is beyond a fault, or a mistake, or a trespass, or a simple human iniquity. And this is true and certain: if we want to be happy ultimately we will have to lean how to forgive this somehow, by offering it up to God as a Holocaust, even as we and others are forgiven for our own faults, mistakes, iniquities, and crimes..

Jews for Jesus believe that Jesus is the Messiah, hence they are Christians. But, as far as I can see the Kabbilists believe that the Name of God is Transformative more than it is Truthful. That is, they believe like most Buddhists in looking deeply in the present moment, in order to find its truth, instead of any eternal realm. They do take the Torah as their guide. But, they teach that the Torah is the Way, more than that it is the Truth. [Tanya:Masterpiece of  Hasidic Wisdom  by Rabbi Rami Shapiro] Which, if they would listen to what they are saying when they put on the Tefillim, with the fourth part of the Shema in it, they should already know.

The Tanya is 1000 year old wisdom, but Jesus Christ, Christ Jesus is 3000 years, happening from 2000 years before and 0f what has already happened 1000 years before that. She could tell me that she’s a Buddhist studying the Rev. Thich Nhat Hanhs theology and I would believe her, but, Hack Bathromew, the sweet trumpet playing evangelist around the corner at the Café de Monde, who may not be as good a musician, but he has a better understanding of Christianity, than these people, I think.

And, in the end, is it more important to understand how to be good at your profession, or how your soul get’s saved. I  think if the first will eventually follow from the  second if you get it right with God’s help. And, the second can help you be a better servant and helper to God, which I think is ultimately more important.  Although, one can make a good argument that its very important to be good at what you do for a living first before worrying about what is going to happen later.

It certainly can make this present life a lot easier.

Therefore I think, and this is just me, perhaps, that God would want us to know that the Kabbalists representing Him, whether they are Tanya are not, they are only the YHWH School and not the YHWH School of Christianity.

How Saints appeared to me thinking about their locations as street names, Had discussions with trumpet player Hack Barthomew at Café de Monde, Vietnam war veteran Philip Hermann new Orleans travel guide living at 1000 Bourban Street, more discussion of Buddhist theories of re-incarnation in the Bardo (see last posting of book review “Lincoln in the Bardo” for more on this ) during NYC, Princeton NJ, Washington DC trip last July.

Figure 3  One destination for souls transitioning after dying up through the river and being resurrected  for another life in Christ. A statue of Andrew Jackson greets them.

President Andrew is now, these days, facing the possibility of having his name taken off of our US currency after President Obama’s Treasury Department voted for Harriet Busman instead. Obama and other Democratic politicians arguing that he was an unrepentant slaveholder and is not a fit to have his image represent what we hold as our countries monetary wealth.

What would he say in defense of himself?

Maybe,

“Its true, that, doing that, makes me unworthy for such an honor.

Looking back on my life I sure there was a lot that I would change about it if I could.

And, I do not like bigots and haters and rabble rousing self servers using my statutes

as rallying points for their demonstrations.

A really good person like Jesus Christ doesn’t need a statue to remind people of him?

And, that bill you are holding in your hand is worth the paper it was printed on. It is worth

the paper it is printed on…For, like Jesus Christ, my soul, with His is in it.  And, knowing His is in it,

is a helpful Bread of Life eternal concept to eat of. Eat it and you will not hunger for more. For those of us who

live only by the World’s ways, it is, often, eat or be eaten. But, for those of us who live by Christ’s ways
people can eat out of the supply of goodness and substance in us, and you will be filled with a strength that is in God’s body and blood and which can never be exhausted. It is a substance composed of joyous long lasting wealth made

up of compassion, understanding, joy, equanimity.

But, you politicians are just trying to come up with a distraction to keep us away from having us focusing on

other important issues in the debate. These are the issues you really lost the last election on.

President Grant was married into  a slave holding family, and since his military campaigns

were the main cause of its defeat, slavery … no one would think about taking him off

the face of our bills.  I also, am responsible through my military victories for

helping our whole country get  completely and finally out of the intolerable rule, a kind of slavery, of the British.

If I was alive today, and I AM, I might even be a present day political Democrat. I might be John Kerry, for

instance, whose face looks like me on the bill was in the military and could have been another good President for us.”

Johnny Horton sings his song on the boat’s speakers, if you take the steamboat ride down to the Chalmette National Battlefield

Park and return.  Partial lyrics are reproduced from the internet below:

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Why do I  like travelling by train?  It is so much like our  experience in what the Buddhists call the Bardo intermediate soul life that occurs in between.  Christians and others call it purgatory,

Figure 10 If you walk down to the Aquarium, take some time to study the different

Standing there on the sidewalk looking at her name made me think, “Oh, my Annie, I forgot to put your name on our prayer calendar”   I resolve to do this next year.   For, Annie, the Sun will come up for you tomorrow. What Psalms should I put to pray with you on your birthday?   Let’s go with some Psalm selections the Venite Psalm 95 and Jubilate Psalm 65 I know you like them. Its July 26, that’s your spiritual and religious birthday isn’t it?

And Grin,

We wrote a several page book review of the book “Lincoln and the Bardo” in last July’s posting about our amateur theological prayer trip to NYC, Princeton NJ, and Washington DC during the Fourth of July holidays.

Living in the Bardo is like taking a train ride from one city to another. The environment around you in and out the train determines mostly what you experience.    God is driving the train. And, while he is doing it he seems remote to you and your experience. The conductor, who may or may not be friendly is checking to see if your ticket is valid.

The train does not carry any gamblers, any two time politicians, any arguers and cursers of God’s name, nobody, like smokers, who after repeatedly being told they shouldn’t do this keep on doing it.

On Sunday, after finishing the walk, ate a late Brunch at the Café Ameilie, there, eating at the bar I met a local women who owns and runs a Vampire shop around the corner.  A friend of Ann Rice and the Urusilne prayer sisters at the convent. She invited over to her shop. But, I said, “Black Magic scares me!*” She said, “Its not Black Magic” and had to leave.

She’s right. After thinking about it, I realized, that, actually, meditation on blackness, if it is though about as  emptiness, not as magic, but as a mindful contemplation can be healing. I have already written a lot about the Buddhist approaches to doing this, through prayers like the Prajnaparamita Sutra and other Sutras. However, as a Christian centering my prayers with God’s Son, Jesus Christ, who is the “Light inside of the Darkness””, not the “Darkness inside of the Darkness” its probably best for me not to encourage her and her husband making money teaching people about Vampires, who are just what the Buddhist’s call “ hungry ghost, addictive type  souls” who don’t like the Light of Day, the Light of Christ, and commit their whole lives to it enough to want to center their prayers exclusively in it.

I then walked over on Royal St., past the Andrew Jackson Hotel, to the CC coffee shop where

After I sat down at the table to drink my coffee I immediately ran into fellow  US Army Marine Corps, Special Forces Vietnam era Veteran Phillip Hermann, Phillip is living on Bourbon St. giving tourist tours and has done a lot of interesting different jobs, living on his service retirement and social security like most veterans, contracting, home repairs after leaving the service. He has PSD flashbacks and believes smoking marijuana together with other veteran friends and Army buddies for the fellowship  helps him with this. Unfortunately it seems to me there is a growing drug sales problem in the US South, maybe partly because of this. But, he seemed honest, although somewhat overly talkative. I promised to give him an email address for prayers with us and send him a pray calendar.  Thank you Phillip for discussing things with me and praying with me.

Figure 11 Right next to St. Ann’s name is a sidewalk plaque expresses the beliefs, in French, of some of her prayer friends.

There is free will and accountability during this realm of intermediacy , for during the trip you are responsible for what you do and don’t eat, keeping track of your bags and belongings and being there at the pick up point of the departing station and arranging for you own transit to and from your hotel after leaving the arrival station. Also, it is good if during the trip you try and leave everybody a little better off for travelling with you.

There was a movie made several decades ago by the Japanese filmmaker Kurosawa, where he compared the World to a runaway train. For someone living in it, it appears to be operated remotely from the passengers like a train locomotive operates trains. And, there seems to be no way to stop it, if its not going as you like it or think it should go.

And, in fact the Bible tells us that God made the World out of nothing, nothing but energy and nothingness. Himself and us he made out of nothingness and a Name, His name YHWH. He and His individuality  being the Concept of a Concept He can create Names in the World and us and thus make a heaven inside of us for us and Him do dwell in.

When we are doing our part in travelling on the train from one live to another throughout eternity, we need a map, for as mentioned above God does not do everything for us.  A  map is a conscious understanding of ways of truth like God’s Holy Spirit has when it dwells inside of us as wisdom and understanding. This Holy Spirit can, as God’s Name prioritized our prayers, can, if we follow it and the map it generates for us, is a map that can help us get where we want to go in eternity. Jesus Christ, who indwells in us as God’s Only Son, has told us “I AM this Map, I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE.” We Christian Jews even have a prayer we pray something like the following to affirm this, “The Lord is my Shepherd, my soul shall not fear, even if it travels through the valley of death…Lead us, forward in eternity, even beyond this life, dear Holy Spirit of God’s Name as it indwells in me setting my desires and my priorities.” You may prefer to pray God Son’s version indwelling in us with its own jots and titles, indwelling as your understanding of the Jewish Christian Messiah or King David reborn again better… but both work.

For, when God is One His Truth is One, me, when God is Two His Truth is Two, you and me, and when God is Three, the Holy Spirit in you and me, His Truth is you.

Be still and know that I AM God, I and you are Truth.

Text on the New Orleans wilderness park MS River viewing Holecaust memorial.

The Holocaust Memorial of the City of New Orleans  2003-5713

An artist’s visual prayer in memory of the six million Jews of Europe who were tortured and murdered by the Nazi’s and their collaborators from 1933-45. The artist, Jacob Azams, is an Israeli Born in 1928, his work is included in the collection of major museums.

Not too many people know that you can pray with yourself and others, with God, pray for yourself and others with God, in the same way Jesus taught his disciples, by first hallowing God’s Name in your and our spiritual bodies while we contemplate and realize divine truth in ourselves and others.

I did it this morning while standing like a tree in the green pastures of the beautiful skies and outdoor weather and grounds around the swimming pool and putting green  here located at our Vicksburg Country Club.

First I centered the priorities of my thoughts, as every Jew should do every day in the top most chakra of the Holy Spirit indwelling all of us in my physical body.

Then I thought about blessing the soul of my yardman’s half-brother Eddie who raped and murdered last Saturday as I was in New Orleans, with his body left on the railroad tracks, and whom Tim and I were praying for yesterday morning, with the English verses and some Names of God in the 23 Psalm.

 The Ten viewpoints of the visual pictures in the memorial:

1)   The first view, a large yellow star of David, symbolizes the representation and persecution and humiliation of the Jews by their Nazi tormentors and collaborators.

You can contemplate God’s spiritual gifts of wisdom and spiritual understanding helping you “Be Still and Know that I AM God, Be still and know that I AM truth “in your thoughts from heaven down to earth inside of this wisdom representing itself inside the Christ Mind inside of you, the Jesus Christ, Christ Jesus Mind.

What came to mind to me here, as I observed my thought processes projecting themselves downward in Divine Truth, from Heaven above, through a Star of the Messiah David, the Beloved One, indwelling in my human heart mid chakra, down to the first root chakra indwelling in me of Divine heaven in earth, was the priestly blessing of God’s Name indwelling us thought downward again,

“May YHWH Bless you and keep you.

May YHWH lift up his countenance upon you,

And be gracious to you,

May YHWH support himself, His benevolent and well wishing Divine Truth

And Blessing, indwelling in you,

And give you peace.”

2) This image (a dark one, devoid of light) expresses the dark period when, for Jews and others was void of light and hope, morality or compassion.

How do we give meaning and definition to what is defined in this darkness and emptiness?

Here are some thoughts of this in terms of a series of metaphysical definitions I have posted at:

3)Out of this darkness appears six colors representing the souls of the six million Jewish victims who perished in the Holecaust. One and a half million were children. The seventh square is added in loving respect of the righteous Gentiles, homosexuals, gypsies, and all of the victims of the Nazi hate.

According to the theory of Laya Yoga, or dissolution Yoga, which is a subpart of Raja Yoga of Yoga of the will, the I AM or the I AM that I AM, or the I AM who I AM, as Moses was taught by God, and the contemplation and realization of it in the conscious human mind or the subconscious Divine Mind, the Presence of God, its will toward Truth and Realization of ITSELF as a Name can be understood with seven colors representing the seven chakras or spiritual centers. Here the six colors plus the black emptiness form up in seven lokas, or places. The One Buddha, Who is God’s Only Son, Christ Jesus who is of  Healing Understanding of Truth according to Prajnaparamita Sutra deeply understands all of this in order to penetrate all obstacles, all barriers to the penetration of the Self knowing Itself, with God’s help in this way.

1^st  After mindfully and faithfully directing our attention to them, we need to spend time fixing them interiorly and touch the experience of these colors interiorly to our thoughts understand the colors as bases or foundation parts of this inner wisdom.

2^nd Then we need to investigate their dharmas deeply. Dharmas, according to Buddhist theory are objects of the mind, as opposed to just objects of thought. They contain Truth when they are realized in our timeful or eternal experience of our souls as Truth.

3^rd Then, we mediate for a while on the parts of the experience in the present moment that we are having that is composed of the outside sense datums of the experience we are trying to understand mentally, by slowing down the fast moving parts of it, along with how our minds perceive. “Yoga Cittam nirodiha” is the first and perhaps more important Sutra of Patanjali’s book on Raja Yoga. The nirodiha part of the meditation is the part where we realize how all the dharmas are composed of, marked by , and only emptiness. It is preceeded normally by a period of ekagrata or thought meditation flowing contemplatively like a river.

If we do all of this continually over a long period of time we will learn how to not only meditate on God’s Truth as it is occurring in our experience, but also to prophesize it and realize it in ourselves and outside of ourselves in the World.

This is Raja Yoga.

According to the chapter in Patanjali’s book on Raja Yoga, and the Rev. Thich Nhat Hanhs translations of Buddhist sutras, “Breathe You Are Alive”, “Transformation and Healing: Sutra on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness”, “The Blooming of a Lotus” by conducting this process intensively in the present moment, grounding our thoughts first as thoughts about the body in the body, then as feelings in the feelings, then as the mind in the mind, then as truth in truth, or objects of the mind inside of objects of the mind, what Plato and I call concepts, great spiritual powers for healing and help can be achieved. I would only add that I have not tried this without God’s help and would not recommend you to either.

4) Behind the seven colors appears a symbolic representation of societal destruction a disintegrating Yellow star of David can be seen in the background. The mood is one of complete devastation and desperation.

5) This chaotic view expresses human  absence of empathy  and religious and moral values, including reverence life itself.

6) Out of this chaos emerges a rainbow the biblical sign of hope, renewal and the reassertion of life’s worth.

Another Mountaintop prophet of God, who followed Moses and Miriam, Elijah, has taught us that God is not God’s River of Eternal Life that flows through our lives of experiencing Him. God is not the Rain, not the Wind, not the Fire, not catastrophes of nature, not ourselves experiencing those catastropes of nature, of living in God’s World that He has created for us to experience,

The Bible teaches us in 1 Kings chapter 18, 19 that the prophet Elijah prayed for God to send the wind and the rain, and then the “Lord passed by”:  “A great and strong wind rent the mountains and broke into pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, and the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, and the Lord[ that is our God YHWH Saboath] was not in the fire; and after the fire [ a sound of gentle stillness and] a still small voice.”  Amplified Bible

He is not yourself experiencing those problems, that death, that hopeflessness, but He is in those experiences and when He is reborn in them, if you keep faith with Him while he is reborn in them, he brings His Heaven to Your Earth, to This Earth, upon which you were born and will live forever Eternally, if you believe in Him and His Son as Eternal parts of Their Holy Trinity of Truth indwelling in us as a Holy Spirit to which even they must die and be reborn, still are, and ever will be, World without end, AMEN.

7) We now see the color of the sky that represents human hope and Divine holiness. Out of  this color of hope appears in all its majestic colors  a sacred Menorah.

8)Out of this color of hope, appears in all its majestic colors, a sacred Menorah, symbolizing the  faithfulness and spiritual values of the Jewish people. The Menorah that stood in  the Temple of Jerusalem represents also the miracle of the Hanukkah lights,a timeless emblem of human liberty and victory over tyranny,  The Menorah here is represented by a rainbow and  a reverse rainbow

This year, on December 2 through  0, the eight days of Hanukah Our Prayer Group, YHWH School of Christianity prayers will contemplate  some traditional Hanukah prayer Psalm verses 119:142, 71:19, 36:7 teaching us that “Your Righteousness, O Lord God is righteousness”. During the 7^th day of Hanukah we will pray Psalm 99, celebrate the beginning of the Jewish Month of Teves where we spend the month thinking and contemplating “correct judgement.” You might want to think about this now at this point in our Houlecaust Rembrance in order to prepare our thoughts then for a better appreciation of their fulfillment and help for us all.

Many Orthodox, as well as Reform and Conservative and Christian Jews believe in meditating on the seven candles as they are lit, thinking about the souls of the seven shepherds of Israel as they have seen them, experienced talking with them in their relatives and people they have known. The eight candle can be thought as representing the final Messiah, whom some belive has not come yet, But, I believe has and is Jesus Christ.

For me, the souls in people I have known, or my own ancestors that I think about are:

1^st candle     The mountaintop prophet Noah

2^nd candle    Saint Abraham

3^rd candle    Saint Isaac

4thcandle    Saint Jacob

5^th candle    Saint Joseph

6^th candle   Saint Moses

7^th candle     Saint Joshua

In the above image the Menorah is pictured as dwelling in Heaven and reflected down to Earth.

I like to contemplate it as being reflected from Heaven already inside of Earth or God’s Eternal River of Life that we are experiencing., surrounding us, enfolding itself in us, protecting us, while the full Presence of God Himself, in Heaven separated from it, overwatches it,, and the fullness of His Only Son in it and us looking down from Heaven..

Our Creator God YHWH Elohim redeemer Himself and the material elements that compose the World  He has created as wisdom in each of us and in it objectively and collectively in the World he made out of nothingness through Love, is what I call the beginning of God’s Love for us. But, then it can if we have faith in it express itself as an individual person, for this act of grace He becomes YHWH Adonai for us, YHWH YESHUA, Jesus Christ, and then when it happens for the second time, returning as Christ Jesus. Not to many people realize that three times is needed for His Holy Spirit to dwell in this way truthfully in us,  When God is Three, His Truth is You, YHWH Christ.

What is the nature of this Love that requires three times to express itself in this way in us?

It is grace, or Love that gives. But, what are the degrees in terms of which it gives itself to us?

St. Bernard of Clairvaux, believed that there are four levels of it, four levels of love between our Trinitarian God, YHWH YHWH, and our Divine Self. And, the last time I talked to Him in prayer He told me He still believes it.

Level 1  Loving yourself for your own sake

Vedantist’s call this knowing the Self in the Self

God our Father in Heaven indwelling you.**

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 At this point God in you is doing what the Vishnu Swami and His Guru Swami Sivananda call nirvitarka, (without words) savitarka (with words), savichara (with essences), sabija (with seed) Samadhi on yourself and us.
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Savitarka, with words, could also mean, with concepts. The idea of what the logical relationship of how we conceive the concept as it is transformed from an idea to an independently existing thought that is self-existing, in time, and beyond time in us is key to this stage of our meditations.  See the Philosophy of Religions discussion postings on a Concept of a Concept Pt. 1, II, III at http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/discussionboard/index.cgi for much more on this fascinating area of divine self thought analysis.

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Level 2  Loving God for your own blessing

The Self indwelled by God

God His Only Son indwelling you.

This happens when God in you is redeeming the above blessing, doing it again in order that it become truthful in yourself and others.

All this happens logically at this point, Because Jesus Christ is the logos, the Word of God.

What is this Logos, or God’s Principle of His Own Truth indwelling us?

We can only describe the logical structure of our experience of it.

1)   It is a Peaceful surrounding of Light and Truth expressing itself beautifully and joyfully in the four seasons.

2)   It is a Peaceful, bright enfolding of Truth from our past and into our future

3)   Finally, it is a Peaceful Endless and Eternal supply of Goodness, Joy, Compassion, Kindness, Equanimity,

Level 3  Loving God for God’s own sake

God indwelling the Self.

You indwelling and loving Him, His Only Son.

This happens when God as a Holy Spirit in you is redeeming itself for a second time and becoming Eternally Truthful in yourself and others.

Level 4  Self Love for God’s sake (Being united completely with God and His Love)

God the Holy Spirit indwelling Himself

This usually only happens only when God in you is doing what the Buddhist’s call liberating, freeing  or nirvanic (blowing out, quenching) nirodiha (formless, aimless)  Samadhi on yourself and other you are trying to heal and help..

May all these types and levels of God’s Love, a Love that saves souls and redeems them, and satisfies them peacefully, endlessly and Eternally with its joy, compassion, loving kindness, equanimity, indwell all the people of the Nation of Israel, endlessly, peacefully, and Eternally and also other countries of the World.

9) Behind the Menorah appears a double rainbow representing heaven and earth, a call to all people from all faiths, races, and nations that never again anyone must anyone experience such horror in the earth, Behind it appears the biblical rainbow , the sacred covenant between God and man.

10) Looking back, the  symbol of the victums’ oppression and destruction can be seen. Behind the Yellow Star of David are the chaos murder, and destruction of those torturous years The Holecaust 1933-45

New Orleans has a nice Amtrak and Greyhound bus station. Travelling by train this visit brought back memories of visiting Grand Central Station in NYC and Philadelphia during my trip to NYC, Princeton NY, and Washington DC in July 2017.

The Amtrak trains that depart from the station are:

City of New Orleans,  departs for Chicago daily 145 pm, arrives from Jackson and Chicago 322pm.

 Sunset Limited, departs 9am Sat.M.W. arrives Sat 9:40pm Fri, Sun. Tues.

New Orleans Cresent, departs 7 am arrives 732 pm, daily.

Her ticket from Houston, TX  to Jackson,MS wouldn’t work, so she had to borrow a phone from the security person (who is facing and smiling) to call her mother in the hospital to pay for it. It turns out Mother, who is in her 40s,  discovered she has colon cancer, after going to the hospital for stomach pains. Mother does not want to die. She is not tired of life. We said a prayer together for her mother.  She said, “Hopefully my mother will be alright.” I said,  “You need hopefully, but faithfully also, The doctors can give hope, because they are scientific and hope is based on science, but God gives faith.” Do you believe in God? “Yes, she said.” I said, the God you believe in, He could be inside or outside of you. But He will give you faith if you ask Him for it. I said a prayer for her and her mother to this God, that hopefully and faithfully they will both be alright for their sake and the sake of the children.

On the South and West walls between the ceilings and the entrances to the departing gates are a series of well thought out historical paintings and murals. They represent colorfully the exploration, settlement of the area 1680 to 1820, which I am writing a book about, as well as later periods. There are settlers, military officers, kings and courtiers from back in Europe, black and indian slaves, priests, carpenters, gamblers, natural scientists, wild beasts of the area, mardi gras revelers, medical doctors, cartographers, lumberman, pirates, steamboats,

slaves dying and blessed by the Ursuline nuns, representatives of the different crowns in the Kingdoms of Europe, traitors being executed by firing squads, romantic settlers just arrived and married and kissing,

Some of the scenes of the historical period after that include:  settlers trying out new agriculturical methods and machines, steam engines representing historical wheels of progress, 19^th century French and Napoleonic soldiers., prophetic looking Louisiana legislators arguing about states rights and slavery, confederate soldiers saying goodbye to their wives while the four horsemen of the apocalypse overlook.

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