11. Wedded to that City
THE PATH OF SEARCH, Chapter 11.
The month of ‘Ilm (Knowledge) 176 BE
Memorising the 11th Paragraph of The Tablet of the True Seeker
As each chapter and Paragraph of the Tablet has come into synchronisation with the Badíʿ calendar, a screen shot of the month of ‘Ilm introduces this chapter, taken from a beautiful arrangement of the calendar, with each month AND the whole 19 months of 361 days arranged into a hexagram, by New York Bahá’í Friend Leland Wright, and available online as a pdf or hard copy decorative wall calendar…
They that valiantly labour in quest of God’s will,
when once they have renounced all else but Him,
will be so attached and wedded to that City
that a moments separation from it
would to them be unthinkable.
They will hearken unto infallible proofs
from the Hyacinth of that assembly,
and receive the surest testimonies
from the beauty of its Rose
and the melody of its Nightingale.
Once in about a thousand years
shall this City be renewed and re-adorned.
12 'Ilm Knowledge 176 BE 27 October 2019 CE
On getting up this morning after a meditation with the Long Obligatory Prayer and starting again to focus on the Words for the month, I made a random entry onto the Javáhiru’l-Asrár Gems of Divine Mysteries and found another direct answer, surely in the City of Certitude, a testimony from the beauty of its Rose and the Melody of its Nightingale, elucidating this same theme of valiantly labouring on the Path of Search and Guidance …in Paragraph 30, p24; O thou who art standing before My Throne and yet remain unaware thereof! Know thou that he who seeketh to scale the summits of the divine mysteries must needs strive to the utmost of his power and capacity for his Faith, that the pathway of guidance may be made clear unto him.
Then the next Words were ones I recognised as I recorded them in my final KF Book number 53, A Plasma Science Phenomenon, (not yet offered to the public) prior to this final one of the Books of Search: which is Book Number 54, The Path of Search, when I started becoming disillusioned with Mr Keshe and began to lose faith in his messages and his science that was not really delivering on promises, and took a random dip into the Crimson Ocean for guidance… And should he encounter One Who layeth claim to a cause from God, and Who holdeth from His Lord a testimony beyond the power of men to produce, he must needs follow Him in all that He pleaseth to proclaim, command and ordain, even were He to decree the sea to be land, or to pronounce earth to be heaven, or that the former lieth above the latter or below it, or to ordain any change or transformation, for He, verily, is aware of the celestial mysteries, the unseen subtleties, and the ordinances of God. At the time the answer to the specific question was such a direct hit between the eyes that it gave me the energy to go on and complete the set of 53 books, and now here it had come up again just when I was again focused on the Kf! It was certainly food for contemplation and could be construed as one of those manifest signs of the Universe by the roadside!
I also noticed, as in chapters and paragraphs past, the theme of the previous month’s Name of God, came up in the 1st sentence for the following month, in this case to the month of Mashíyyat Will, reminding me that it is not my will that is important but His Will - The King of Glory, and Her Will – The Beloved, and all I have to do is let go and flow with the Eternal River of Life, upon which I pray every day in the Long Obligatory Prayer… Thou seest, O my Lord, this wretched creature knocking at the door of Thy grace, and this evanescent soul seeking the river of everlasting life from the hands of Thy bounty!
During the previous 8 days hanging out and deepening with my wife, perceiving with her the presence of an invisible malevolent angel around us, delivering what appeared to be negative synchronicity, signs, which had many times in the past made great trouble for us, now this angel was coming into focus as, in the end, a benevolent angel who taught us to believe in our own intuition and inner sense of what was really going on, and to recognise and then ignore the false interference from outside, whether from people or angels. Now with this new level of intuitive understanding we are beginning to feel the flow of the river, and the manifestation of wealth and abundance from God/The Universe, presenting some exciting new business interests for us.
While at home we had the very first feast in the completed Prayer room at Te Whare Rongoā, the House of Medicine. At the feast I felt blessed by recognising the gentle winds of a new dawn and a new spirit wafting in the Far North, with the announcement of 9 new Maori Baha’is, and the two responsible for this new influx of energy and enthusiasm, Hone and Noel, told their inspiring story at the feast, after I had sang the Ballad of the Báb and read chapter 28 in the last section of Persian Passion, the book I had been reading about the life of the Báb, which I discovered to my delight is only the first of a trilogy – the background historical story of the times and lives of the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh.
I felt it was important to focus on the Báb this month, as this was the month of His 200th Birthday, and the 202nd Birthday of Bahá’u’lláh, on the 14 and 15 ‘Ilm Knowledge. So as I was going to miss the energy of all the new Bahá’ís at the big hui (spiritual gathering) celebrating the 200th birthday at a marae in the Far North, I wanted to share now with the group a taste of this great book, and I read the story of how the Báb managed to get His last tablet to the Shah, and delivered his judgement on the evil corrupt Vazir– Prime Minister or Chancellor – Haji Mirza Aqasi. Muhammad Shah received the letter while on his death bed and it was nice to have the Haji actually hearing the part of the letter addressed to him…on p405. In the dramatic scene as word painted in the book, the Vazir’s chamberlain, against his objections, finally for the first time read a letter from the Báb directly to the King.
“His majesty must rest, Shahfi, this is hardly the time…”
“Hush, Hajshi, hush!” commanded the King. (slurring his words because of the large dose of laudanum or opium recently doled out by his Jewish Hakim (doctor) and mistaking the Haji’s chamberlain for his doctor) Proceed, Hakim.”
“… I swear by the truth of God!” resumed the chamberlain “Were he who hath been willing to treat me in such a manner to know Who it is Whom he hath so treated, he verily, would never in his life be happy. Nay, it is as if he hath imprisoned all the Prophets, all the men of truth and all the chosen ones…
“This is but grand delusion” scoffed the Haji, moving around the royal bedside toward his chamberlain. “His Imperial Majesty cares not to hear some madman’s claim of divinity…”
“Silence, Hajshi” ordered the Shah – “Read on!”
Why dost thou burden thy soul with that which is far more abject than idle deeds of Pharaoh,” read Shahfi Khan, and still callest thyself one of the faithful? Every missive which up till now I have directed unto thee and unto the custodian of thine affairs hath been but a token of my bounty to you both…
“Were there other misshives, Hajshi?” asked the Shah, turning to his Vazir. “He says every missive…”
“A mere memo O asylum of the Universe requesting muhahilih… During your majesty’s pilgrimage… An arrogant request” said the Vazir, fluttering his fingernails at the tablet “That was all… here, Shahfi, here!”
“The prisoner also mentions thyself, my Lord, Mark: I wrote to him who administereth the affairs of the kingdom read the Chamberlain, nodding towards the Vazir, My plea remained unanswered. Evidently His Excellency the Haji is not fully aware of the truth of our cause. By the One in whose hand is my soul, he hath cast no-one but himself into prison. Dost thou imagine him whom thou hast appointed chancellor in thy Kingdom to be the best leader and the best supporter? Nay, I swear by thy Lord… He will bring thee into grievous trouble by that which Satan instilleth in his heart, and verily, he himself is Satan. He comprehendeth…”
“Say what!” exclaimed the Haji…
“He comprehendeth not a single letter from the Book of God and is seized with fear by reason of that which his hands have wrought… that the old impiety which is concealed in his inner being may not be revealed…”
“What impiety!?” exploded the Vazir. “How dare that pretender presume to know? Does he hide within my closet? Your Majesty, you see what wizardry…”
“Hajshi, step back! Let the hakim read!”
“Hadst thou not appointed him as thy chancellor, no-one would have paid him the slightest attention” continued the Chamberlain, “Ere long thou shalt pass away and shalt declare thyself clear of the devil who thou hast appointed as thy chancellor, saying “O would that I had not taken the devil as my Chancellor, nor appointed an imposter as my guide and advisor…” This is indeed my last reminder unto you, and I shall make no mention of you hereafter.”
There was a footnote at the end of the page advising the reader that the Tablet of the Shah cited here was a true transcription as recorded in the book Writings of the Báb page 14-27. I felt that this embroidered account of the stirring history of those times was very powerful, especially in the way the last tablet of the Báb was delivered to the Shah. It was very topical as well, with our discoveries about evil angels, and this was another example, not only of an evil angel but a personification of the biggest baddest evil angel of the lot: Satan. I could see how on this level, which was at the level of the Messianic Spirit, that personification had to be extremely evil as exemplified for us by the actions of the cunning meddling prime minister whose actions were all aimed at increasing his own power over everyone else. But again it was good to realise that this sort of evil was necessary to push the Cause of God on its course of growth, and the greatest periods of growth in the early years of the Faith were caused by evil actions by evil people motivated by greed and evil angels, for example in Bahá’u’lláh’s case it was the incredibly ungrateful actions of his half-brother Mírzá Yaḥyá aka Azál in trying to poison Him that succeeded in fulfilling the ancient prophecies that specified the King of Glory coming to Mt Carmel.
In the background in world events at the moment there was the continued story of the seemingly divinely appointed and guided presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard who during this time got a huge boost in her path from another extremely evil angel, who attacked her out of the blue on a podcast, accusing her of being “a Russian asset”. It was an extremely vicious attack from the previous Secretary of State under President Obama, and the author of many of the recent regime change wars for example in Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and most recently the losing Democratic candidate against Donald Trump, now trying to grapple her way back to power like the evil Vazir did 170 odd years ago. The attack only served to throw Tulsi Gabbard into the limelight on ALL the news channels, as she delivered a powerful and crushing response, and getting a HUGE amount of public exposure thanks to this malevolent angel increasingly known to the public by her real name Killary, a female personification of Satan, the incarnation of Evil among women! Tulsi’s tweets in response to this attack were very powerful and read by millions of Americans, and probably the only thing that Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders can agree on at the moment, serving to throw into contrast the evil and grasping war mongerer against the pure virtuous and moral stance of Tulsi Gabbard against the war machine…
On getting back to the land of Oz I had a few hours spare to catch a movie on the big screen and strangely enough the one that called out to be watched was a new Disney epic, casting Angelina Jolie in the character of another evil angel, one with wings like a great ark-angel, and awesome power: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. Again, it was another repeat of the same story in the 7 Valleys in which the perceived evil angel turned out to be the benevolent and beneficent one, resulting in great rewards coming to the virtuous people, and destruction to the really evil hidden poisonous serpents. Then to add another dimension of existence, on getting back to work and making some more prayers for rain last night to ease the severe drought effecting the country, I went for a sunset run and over about 30 minutes I perceived out of a clear sky, gathering storm clouds showing the form of a giant cloud form that looked like Ms Maleficent, looking down and holding a crystal in her left hand, and with wings visible on either side of her giant head, including talons, and with her heart a sea of storm clouds rippling with the golden light of the setting sun. Was this my imagination? Maybe a little… But I give thanks for the fact that this may be a small glimpse of what is coming yet on this amazing Trail of the True Seeker and giving thanks for this and all the other unspeakably glorious signs … tokens, the revelations and splendours which He who is the King of names and attributes has destined for that City.
That City of course, is The City of Certitude, or the 4 Valleys of Unity, into which the seeker finally jumped while running away desperately from the malevolent angel or watchman… This reminded me that a week or two back I had finally watched and taken notes on the Steven Phelps Workshop on the 4th Valley of the 7 Valleys, which he called the Valley of Unity… which I perceive is connected to the TOTTS at Paragraph 7, the midpoint stage of the journey in which the seeker completes the 36 tasks or essential conditions of the true seeker, and then enters the Valleys of Unity and the City of Certitude or the Crimson Ark of Eternity, so now moving to Paragraph 11 we are way late for catching up with Steven Phelps in the Valley of Unity…
The 4th Valley is in fact called in the new edition of the 7 Valleys the First Station of Unity. As also reflected in the Javáhiru’l-Asrár this is the longest and most complex of the Valleys, and each of the Valleys has aspects of a beautiful piece of music, a melody from the Nightingale Who was also the King of names and attributes and was also in this City its Rose. It was another reminder of the 2nd Sentence of Words for this month, in which the seeker will receive the surest testimonies from the beauty of its Rose and the melody of its Nightingale. At 16m SP announced that the seeker is reaching a stage of realisation that ALL signs are from the King and the Lord of Lords. He then gives the example of how the Sun shines it’s light and gets reflected in all sorts of colours and forms according to the attributes of the matter. Everyone is an expression of the light! ‘Abdu’l-Bahá uses the metaphor of water and rain to illustrate the same situation, so the water is an expression of the manifestation according to the shape and form of the container … ‘Abdu’l-Bahá then gives examples of how the Spirit animates matter in the same way as these examples of Sun and Rain – each manifestation according to its attributes, and at 28m to further illustrate this point SP took a reading from a class given by Hooper Dunbar in 1988 on the 7 Valleys, which I am very happy to transcribe one more time…
According to Hooper Dunbar… Material creation is woven out of the divine attributes – the sustaining patterns of everything that exists are derived from unique combinations of the names and attributes of God. The human entity is the only reality that partakes of every one of the Divine Names and is the image and likeness of its maker. This places it at the apex of Creation!
There were more paragraphs with Bahá’u’lláh saying that the light is reflected in people according to their capacity, and that is why he named many of His followers after the Names of God. He then showed how conflict has arisen in the world of men by people seeing only the different colours and not the Divine Unity – without the perfume of the Messianic Spirit… and how this has led to a world of misery and torture, a wilderness of oblivion and error for the last few thousand years, and how limited minds have accumulated a darksome dust within the walk of their own self and passion away from the light. SP then gives a caution about getting proud of progress at this point on achieving the Valleys of Unity, and quoted Bahá’u’lláh in the last few pages of the Javáhiru’l-Asrár giving a dire warning, saying that even if a single thought of pride or vain-glory arises that seeker will be returned to the very beginning of the Path – and without him knowing or realising this! Then in Para 43 of the 7 Valleys, having explained how people have become lost in this way, Bahá’u’lláh gives the way to get back to Unity…
43: O My Brother! A pure heart is as a mirror; cleanse it with the burnish of love and severance from all save God, that the true sun may shine therein and the eternal morning dawn. Then wilt thou clearly see the meaning of “Earth and heaven cannot contain Me; what can alone contain me is the heart of him that believeth in Me” (from a Hadith) And thou wilt take up thy life in thy hand and with infinite longing cast it before thy newly found Beloved.
44: Whensoever the light of the revelation of the King of Oneness settleth upon the throne of the heart and soul, His radiance becometh visible in every limb and member. At that time, the mystery of the famed tradition gleameth out of the darkness: “A servant is drawn unto Me in prayer until I answer him, and when I have answered him, I become the ear wherewith he heareth …” (from another Hadith) For thus the Master of the house hath appeared within His home, and all the pillars of the dwelling are ashine with His light. And as the action and effect of the light are from the Light-Giver, so it is that all move through Him and arise by His will. This is that wellspring whereof the near ones drink, as it is said: “A fount whereof they who draw nigh to God shall drink”. (Qur’an 83:28)
13 'Ilm Knowledge176 BE 28 October 2019 CE
Yesterday and again today I had a block remembering one paragraph in the LOP although I had been reciting it daily most of the last 10 years, and then looking it up I discovered that I had slipped into error and had dropped 1 sentence in the recitation, highlighted here in paragraph 12 of the LOP… Praise be to Thee, O my God, that Thou hast aided me to remember Thee and to praise Thee, and hast made known unto me Him Who is the Dayspring of Thy signs, and hast caused me to bow down before Thy Lordship, and humble myself before Thy Godhead, and to acknowledge that which hath been uttered by the Tongue of Thy grandeur. The little episode of forgetfulness was itself one of these unspeakably glorious signs, and I gave thanks again for the Path of Guidance, in which each and everything however small would be … a revelation!
Continuing the summary in my journal of SP and his 5th Workshop (On the 4th Valley) I wrote about how rich and inspiring the terrain was in this Valley as SP read the precious Words, finally coming to a Hadith, appropriate for this month of ‘Ilm, summarising the knowledge that each and every thing is a reflection of the same Light in its own form and attributes in Para 50: Knowledge is one point, which the foolish have multiplied. Then after a brief but very deep dip into the different Worlds of God, in which SP drew attention to how the Worlds of Malakut and Jabarut etc related to the Names of these Worlds into English, with their different structures of time space eternity beginning and ending… Others have called these the worlds of the Heavenly Court, of the Celestial Dominion, of the Divine Kingdom, and (our own world of dust) of Mortal Existence.
Then at 0104hrs SP came to the phrase of poetry that Bahá’u’lláh quoted in the 7 Valleys from Rumi, relating to Qur’an 18:71:
If Khidr did wreck the vessel on the sea,
A thousand rights are in this wrong concealed.
Looking at the context of this, Bahá’u’lláh had just said there are many utterances of sages and mystics of former times which I have not mentioned here since I mislike copious citation from the sayings of the past: for quotation from the words of others betokeneth acquired learning and not divine bestowal. Then after saying that this was not from pride, but rather a manifestation of wisdom and the revelation of bounty, He gave the quote from Rumi referring to Khidr, whom SP pronounced “Khezr.” This was the Prophet we identified in an earlier chapter with the planet Mercury, in other words another incarnation of Thoth Hermes Enoch among many other Names and Attributes, such as Idris. So Bahá’u’lláh in this was giving deep levels of divine knowledge, indicating that we should steer away from the sages and mystics, towards the True Beauty of the Rose and the Melody of the Nightingale, thus breathing the sweet perfume of the Messianic Spirit, but also letting us know that, not only was Khidr another previous manifestation of the Holy Spirit, but also His act of withholding quotes from others to illustrate His lessons was to be compared with the infinite blessings brought to the world of dust by Khidr’s act of sinking the ship.
At that point I ceased my study of SP’s 5th Workshop meaning to come back to it at a later date, and during that same period last month, I enjoyed the blessings of very lucid and vivid REM sleep dreams which became even richer through the practice of writing them in my dream journal on waking, and associated with my growing fluency in recitation of the Words for that month. At the same time, I watched and re-watched the Videos from William Henry on his key, then started into the first two of his 18 books that called out for reading, The Secret of Sion, SOS, and The Watchers TW. I was delighted to find that there were many incredible discoveries and advances in knowledge in these books and videos, with many of them relating to the same figure, which the Jews including the Essenes knew as Enoch, and turned out in these books again to be associated with Khidr…
So as that weekend on 10 Mashíyyat 6 October I had received what could have been construed as a knock back and change in plans, it turned out to be an incredible gift from the Universe as WH’s key arrived… What a feast it turned out to be with detailed allusions and descriptions from many different traditions to the Seraphim, the 6-winged Perfected humans, particularly from an Essene point of view, with the Essenes coming into focus as having been here for “thousands of ages” according to Pliny. From the stories in the Dead Sea Scrolls the Essenes were actually living with some of these exalted beings at Qumran, and their ultimate aim was to have what WH referred to as a CE9, a Close Encounter of the 9th Kind, which he described as an encounter with a real live Ark Angel or Exalted being which brings one into that same condition – a Plasma Being – a Perfected One – Human Transformation into a Celestial Being – whose home is the City of Sion, or the New Jerusalem.
Through the weekend and the week following I took notes on the WH teachings, culminating, like the recent SP study, in another reference to Khidr… A few of these notes I will copy here… The First Video of about 4 hours was entitled The Arrival of the Cosmic Christ – The Jesus Starchild Disclosure, the Watchers and the Essenes, in which WH illustrated his discoveries and breakthroughs with awesome examples of art works from many traditions, Essene, ancient Egyptian, Christian, and Tibetan. One of the things WH was a great promoter of and distressed at its loss from many branches of the Abrahamic religions, was the use of Icons, or artistic depictions to assist with open eyed meditation, as in this amazing picture of Padmasmbhava in His Rainbow Body above…
This was in fact preserved in Christian iconography across the East and the West, but particularly present in ancient Tibetan practice, with glorious depictions of rainbow cloaked beings, and it also turned out that the Tibetan teachers, including an earlier embodiment of Padmasmbhava, were actually living in Alexandria in about 250 to 150 BC and thus the tradition of sacred art that came down from the Essenes into the religious traditions of Christianity, but largely lost in the Islamic culture who did not believe in idols or images of God or His Messengers, and thus painted over many of the previous art works, as my wife and I had witnessed in the Pistis Sophia church in Istanbul/Constantinople.
The ones referred to in the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls as the Watchers, are the Angels, which means Messengers, and these were classically depicted in Christian art for example of Christ’s resurrection where Mary Magdalene found the stone rolled away from the doorway and discovered two angel watchers sitting at the head and feet of where Christ had been laid. Mary said the angels’ appearance was as lightning, and their raiment as white as snow, which WH interpreted as them being Seraphim, beings of pure light and pure love, though I am not sure whether they were Cherubim, two winged angels as opposed to the 6-winged seraphim. Humans were on this level in the past, WH maintained, and humanity on planet Earth at present are human beings that left the Celestial Realm of their own will and volition. The Watchers, according to the New Testament in Jude 6, are: the angels which kept not their ‘first estate’ but left their original habitation and are now bound by everlasting chains of darkness, awaiting the great day of Judgement. WH on this tape thinks that these chains are actually the human DNA, which has trapped the angels into a place of malignant materialism, i.e. the hellish torture chamber that has been this planet for the last few thousand years…
The depiction of angels that fell from the Celestial realm was also described in the Tablet of the Holy Mariner, in which the Holy Mariner was instructed to teach the inmates of the Crimson Ark to soar upon the wings of spirit unto that station which the Lord hath exalted … and wing through space even as the favoured birds in the realm of eternal reunion, and know the mysteries hidden in the Seas of light. In the Tablet Bahá’u’lláh described how the denizens of the Ark had been at this station before, but then they desired to ascend unto that state which the Lord hath ordained to be above their stations, whereupon the burning meteor cast them out from that abode in the Kingdom of His presence.
In Michael Sours’ book there was this great art work depicting the fall of these celestial angels into matter, and then reading on through the Tablet the way out of here is also given by the maid of heaven who looked out from her exalted chamber, and as the radiance of her beauty shone upon the people of the dust, all beings were shaken in their mortal graves, and she then raised the call which no ear through all eternity hath ever heard:
31 And thus proclaimed. “By the Lord!
He whose heart hath not the fragrance of the love
Of the exalted and glorious Arabian Youth,”
Glorified be my Lord, the All-Glorious!
32. “Can in no wise ascend unto the glory of the highest heaven”
Glorified be my Lord, the All-Glorious
Here we are given clear guidance that the only way out of these chains, and the path for us to return to the celestial realms, is by focusing on Bahá’u’lláh Himself, the Blessed Beauty, the King of all names and attributes, referred to in this month’s Words as the One who provides the surest testimonies from the beauty of its Rose and the melody of its Nightingale.
There is no way that I can distil the essence of 13 hours of Video into just a few pages, but the Video watching was full of surprises and new knowledge so I will try and digitise a few of my notes here, not necessarily in the order the Videos came in… WH thought that the term “first estate” in the Biblical reference above was the original Rainbow light body which is also the Rainbow Light body of the Resurrected Christ. The Tibetans teach us that we spin our Merkaba to allow a 5-coloured rainbow body of light, which was the whirlwind of Elijah. The Essenes wore white raiment and were in the lineage of these ascended beings who actually resided with them. The Dead Sea Scrolls report Close Encounters of the 4th and 5th Kind, then 6th 7th 8th and 9th Kinds, in which Celestial beings take humans into their realm and help them to become Celestial beings themselves, exemplified by Jesus, raised an Essene. Christian prophecy talks about ‘the last trump’ which will mark the ascension of ALL humankind in the twinkling of an eye!
SOS is a work with a wonderful collection of Art on the Ascension of Jesus, in which His body was transfigured into a sphere of plasma that can travel the Universe or the Cosmos. Part 2 of the 1st Video focused on the Annunciation, in which Gabriel the Ark Angel brought the Spirit of the Divine Starchild Christ child to Mary – in some art, for example a painting by Botticelli, Gabriel had some white flowers for Mary, so the process was almost a ‘courting’ of Mary, who was a highly trained Essene initiate. In ancient Egyptian art there was a similar portrayal of courting with blue lilies. Gabriel’s Words were Hail Mary full of Grace! Christian art shows a portal or stargate in the sky and a dove coming down in a ray of light to Mary.
14 'Ilm Knowledge176 BE 29 October 2019 CE
As much as I’m drawn to the study of WH’s 18 books full of incredibly interesting discoveries, today, a very special Holy Day, being the Báb’s 200th Birthday celebrated with excitement by Millions of Bahá’ís around the planet, I’m rather drawn to the Báb and His 18 Letters of the Living, and His 18 Terraces above and below His resting place on Mt Carmel. For the first time I actually read most of Michael Sours’ book on the Tablet of the Holy Mariner, and discovered some amazing correspondence and deepening understanding of the true nature of the Báb, particularly related to what Bahá’u’lláh was teaching in last month’s words about the unbelievably great pleasures delivered between the peaks of the Valleys of Unity and within the walls of the City of Certitude, wherein its wondrous tulips unfold the mysteries of the undying fire in the Burning Bush and its sweet savours breathe the perfume of the Messianic Spirit.
Michael Sours wrote in his book on p55: In the Báb’s writings there are also statements very similar to Christ’s words. The Báb writes, I am the Flame of that supernal Light upon Sinai in the gladsome Spot, and lay concealed in the midst of the Burning Bush. In this verse the Báb identifies Himself with the flame of the Burning Bush itself, but in other passages he speaks of the Burning Bush entrusting Him with a mission. This is parallel to the biblical account wherein Moses is entrusted with a mission from the Burning Bush. Give ear unto God’s Holy Voice proclaimed by this Arabian Youth [the Báb] Whom the Almighty hath graciously chosen for His Own Self. He is indeed none other than the True One, Whom God hath entrusted with this Mission from the midst of the Burning Bush. In this passage the Báb has become a new Moses. In another passage the Báb uses the same metaphor in the Qur’an when he writes… Indeed We conversed with Moses by the leave of God from the midst of the Burning Bush in the Sinai and revealed an infinitesimal glimmer of Thy Light upon the mystic mount and its dwellers, whereupon the Mount shook to its foundations and was crushed into dust. Similarly, Bahá'u'lláh says that people today are hearing from Him what Moses “heard upon the Sinai of divine knowledge”. By this He is not asserting that it was Him in person who spoke to Moses, but rather that the voice in the Burning Bush is the same Spirit of God that now speaks through him.
MS also referred to the name of the Burning Bush, which Moses asked of the Bush, and the answer was “Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh” in the Hebrew, translated in the KJV as I Am That I Am, famously interpreted in a Neale Donald Walsh film as “I Am That, I Am!” Meditating on this I realised that That might have been another Name for Thoth Hermes Enoch Khidr Idris etc as His name in ancient Egypt was apparently Tehuti or Tahat, pretty close to That. Also remembering my discoveries in The Heart of The Hurricane that Thoth in divine numerology was the 9, the enlightened human being, the Perfected One. WH in many of his 18 books wrote that this Perfected One was one of the Seraphim, a Hebrew word meaning “Burning Ones” and showed many amazing examples of Christian art depicting these beings, such as this one on p4 of his book The Watchers and the Rainbow Body of Light, in this stained glass window photographed by him in Salisbury Cathedral with a 6-winged Seraph purifying the lips of the prophet Isaiah.
Amongst many amazing works of Christian art recorded by WH, in SOS p27 is this detail of the Altar of the Last Judgement by Rogier va der Weyden, Hotel-Dieu, Beaunne, France, according to WH shows the Christ-judge, archangel Michael weighing souls, angels sounding trumpets and carrying the implements of the Passion; Saint Mary and Saint John the Baptist.
This depicts a relationship in which the Christ figure is the Seraph above, flanked below by Mary and John, and with the peacock eye winged Ark angel Michael beneath, one of the Cherubim, the guardian angels that keep humanity out of the Garden of Eden chained by their own DNA, but not for much longer now as we all wake up to our nature as True Seekers in the Worlds of God.
Reading in WH’s book The Watchers, I found some more illumination on page 183: Islam has a remarkable tradition about our Rainmakers founder, Phineas, saying he reincarnated as Elijah (who is also John the Baptist)! He also incarnated as St. George the Dragon Slayer, and Al Khidr, one of five blessed figures whom the Islamic tradition recognises as being ‘alive’ or ‘immortal’, meaning they were taken up into heaven while still alive and can return to this world at will. They are translated, transformed or perfected humans. The other three being Idris (Enoch), Ilyas (Elias), Isa (Jesus) and Maryam (Mary).
In the incredibly interesting history as traced out by WH, Phineas was a grandson of Aaron, and the 3rd one in the lineage after his father Elazar to be the high priest designated to work with the Salvation ointment and the Ark of the Covenant and the Cherubim, between the wings of Whom would appear the Holy Pillar of Fire, representing the Seraph – the Burning One, the Feathered Serpent. It was interesting to work out where the Báb fit into this historical picture, as he had special relationship with Elijah on Mt Carmel, and therefore with John the Baptist, all forerunners of even greater Manifestations of the Messianic Spirit following them. Another flash of understanding came when I realized that these figures in history had the power over death – in other words they were one of those upon whom the City of Certitude had conferred Immortality without Death. The Báb indeed was one of those rare company who was witnessed by thousands of people in Tabriz in the amazing story of His execution by 750 Muskets, in which he had not yet finished a last communication to his amanuensis, and so was not ready to let go his physical body just yet.
Moving on in my logical process, a little overwhelmed by the mass of data, but depending on Seraphic guidance on the path of guidance to proceed, I was taking in the WH teachings in which he detailed in his book The Judgement Day Device, about a set of spiritual tools which he identified in many of the Eastern (but not Western) Christian art showing the Ascension of Jesus and where he stood in the Celestial hierarchy, not only with His Throne as the Ark of the Covenant, but indeed with a whole kit that this priesthood worked with, an Immortality device known to the Greeks as the Etimasia... which was also the Osiris device of ancient Egypt. It was interesting to hear him say to an initiated audience how he’d had to take this book off the market because there was way too much interest from an Iranian intelligence agency, and he had realised that President Ahmadinejad in 2012 was waiting for the coming of the Mahdi– not knowing that He had already come almost 200 years earlier, and that there was a prophecy not only in Judaism and Christianity, but also in Shia Islam that the Promised One would unlock the secrets of the lost Ark of the Covenant, which no doubt Ahmadinejad and the others were looking upon as a potentially very effective weapon!
So, if these 3 religions expected the Promised Messiah to unlock the secrets of the lost Ark, why then did not the Báb reveal these secrets? WH had the answer to this question indirectly as well, as he pointed out somewhere else in his vast body of teachings, that ultimately this technology was internal technology, and the way to learn how to travel through the stargates in our rainbow bodies was to incorporate the Ark of the Covenant in the 3 lower chakras, and then activate the rainbow light body to become a whirlwind as Elijah and Enoch did all those millennia ago. It was the prophet Jeremiah who consigned the Ascension technology back to the custody of the Earth till the gathering of the Beloved, and I can now see that the technology will emerge as enough hearts become purified and souls sanctified on the path lit by the lamp of search detailed in the TOTTS.
The true way ahead was revealed by the Blessed Twin Manifestations, Seraphim of the Messianic Spirit, and their successors, and I was struck by the understanding that the activation of the Rainbow body, the travelling body, depends on the lower 3 Chakras for the Fire that heats and generates the vortex. I then had a flash of understanding and gratitude for the guidance that had me intuitively choosing the correct colours to represent the 3 main figureheads of the Faith, realising that these were the same as the 3 lower chakra colours: Crimson Red for the Root Chakra, rooted in the blood of the Martyrs and the Crimson Ark of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh, then Orange Carnelian for the generative energy in the Exemplar ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the Servant of Baha, referred to by the Blessed Beauty as the Great Mystery of God, and then Golden Yellow for the Blessed Guardian Shoghi Effendi, the Great Golden Eagle of the Bahá’í Covenant seen in the Apocalypse of John.
Then moving on another step and recognising that Bahá’u’lláh identified the Most Great Spirit of God in the divine female form described as The Maid of Eternity or the Maid of Heaven, or the Beloved, over-lighting Him, as he is flanked by Gabriel one of the Cherubim meaning also he has Michael on the other side, a whole new hierarchy with the centrality of the Divine female 0ver-lighting everything comes int0 focus. This then was the reason why Tahirih took off her veil and shocked all the other Letters of the Living, the coming forth back to primacy of the Beloved Female spirit. In this way moving ahead in history we are coming more into resonance with the ancient Ark of the Egyptians, who had a much greater presence of the female forms identified in the Celestial realms, as in this wall carving preserved of Isis and Nephthys with the Osiris device.
Looking again at ancient Egypt, I recognised that the Messianic Spirit is born by the one known as Tahat, Thoth, Al Khidr, Idris, who is also the Lord of the First and the Last and so seen in the Blessed Beauty also, as he said in the 4th Valley, The First Station of Unity, where we already met Khidr, the First, and now recognising in the Blessed Beauty the Last as He quoted the Seal of the Prophets in the Qur’an 57:3 “He is the First and the Last, the Seen and the Hidden! Reading and hearing the Qur’anic stories filled in a lot of details untold in the Christian stories and I was intrigued by the fact that Moses in His early life was taught by Thoth, which is probably why His real name was Tuthmosis 4, a Royal Pharaoh of the late 18th dynasty, the times of the Shepherd Kings, of mixed Semitic and ancient Egyptian lineage, and His younger brother Aaron Akhenaten.
Speaking of Thoth brought a resonance with the last sentence of Words to memorise during this month of ‘Ilm… Once in about a thousand years shall this City be renewed and re-adorned. What I remembered were the lines in the Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean by Michael Doreal, a book that had brought a LOT of magic into my life for decades and was now more and more proving to be exactly on the mark in its history and stories from Thoth the Atlantean. In this case with his lines in one of His Tablets saying that about every 1000 years he would renew his body, …
I then remembered the stories in the Old Testament about the lineage from Adam, known to be the original Divine Manifestation, down to Enoch and then Noah, also in the Messianic line, and then wondered if that was why the ages of these patriarchs were all more or less getting up to about the 1000 years mark!? Maybe it was because this was the history of many tens of thousands of years, and these were the holders of the Messianic Spirit for each period of approximately a thousand years, as in these Words in the TOTTS. Maybe this was also the story of the ancient lineage of Gods in ancient Egypt who according to WH’s research reigned for 23200 years followed by the Shemsu-hor, Horus Kings of ancient Egypt, whose story was written over another 13400 years of history! Talking to my wife about this she remembered stories from the East, about Great Masters living for hundreds and thousands of years in a similar way, as exemplified in the set of 6 books entitled Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East.
It also comes to mind that on my recent journey back to NZ I met with our friend ET who is a scientist and inventor of divine technology, and he reported that finally there have been replicated experiments producing large amounts of electricity from particular arrangements of the Rodin Coil, designed by Bahá’í scientist Marco Rodin, who came up with his coil by studying the Greatest Name of God i.e. Bahá! So, the technology really is coming forth on all sides, and it is worth remembering that this is also the technology of the Rain makers, like the prophet Elijah, who could bring fire and storms down from heaven but moistly remembered as a rain maker in the secret tradition discovered by WH. So, in this dispensation it is the Báb Who is the rain maker, and then the rain is there for us in the form of the Blessed Beauty introduced in the new Mystical study book The Call of the Divine Beloved, as the Rashh-i-’Amá – The Clouds (or the Misty Rain or Veil) of the Realms Above!
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Yesterday was the 202nd Birthday Celebration of Bahá’u’lláh’s birth in Tehran in 1817 and I woke from some troubled sleep after a busy morning at work with a critical life-threatening emergency at about 4-5am and felt depressed with no energy. So, I took a couple more hours of sleeping on the couch and decided it was one of those rare occasions when I would have to consult Falco Tarrassico’s Tarot deck to see what was going on. Falco was his usual accurate self when I got 32 Company– with key words being Group, Society, Organisation, Community Fellowship, Affiliation to something… Band, Organised Masses, Cohort, Legion, School Class, Sect, Practiced Philosophy, Religion for the Few, Selective…
Of course! It was the Báb’s Birthday Celebration of the Far North Maori community at Uncle Ephraim’s marae! He was recognised in NZ as the first Rangatira, Maori Chieftain, to recognise the Blessed Beauty, and we had celebrated Bahá’u’lláh’s birthday there two years prior, when we had only 5 or 6 physical visitors, but the visitors and cohorts of the Concourse on High were very palpable, even causing hair-raising and skin-prickling encounters for some of the people there! This year 2 years later there were over a hundred people gathered for the day to celebrate the Báb’s 200th Birthday… So, my soul longed to be there with my family and Friends, and I had an emotional feeling of sadness, missing out, not being with my loved ones, etc … However picking the card cheered me up immensely and I perceived it was time to immerse myself in Bahá’u’lláh on His birthday as I had with the Báb the day before, labouring valiantly and eventually succeeding in igniting the flame in my heart chakra and feeling the rapture and bliss of the Love of This Wonderful Seraph, knowing that in this City of Certitude He is the Trunk of the Tree of Life, the central stalk of the Hyacinth of that assembly and realising how easy it was in that assembly to receive the surest testimonies from the beauty of its Rose and the melody of its Nightingale.
So the thing to do was to have another dose of Steven Phelps, and pick it up where I’d left the trail, meeting Khidr and breathing with His essence the sweet perfume of the Messianic Essence, realising once again with the last words for this month the continuity of this Blessed Spirit of God, evidences of an Everlasting Manifestation, through tens and hundreds of thousands of years, punctuated at times by meteors falling to Earth, causing pole shifts and deletion of history to where humanity then has to spend another 12000 years or so to remember their true nature and come into maturity as intergalactic star gate travellers on the Rainbow Web of the Universe. This is how I got to write the Words seen above behind the Tarot card, as they called out to be transcribed…
Bahá’u’lláh’s Words about Khidr were mentioned right at the end of SP's 5th Workshop on the 4th Valley of Unity, and so I went and found the next Workshop and started listening to it while tending to some other tasks. About 45 minutes into this workshop my attention was so seized by the Words that I had to sit down immediately and transcribe them… SP had now moved into the next two Valleys of Unity, the Valley of Contentment and the Valley of Wonderment, and at this point was talking about the fact that Bahá’u’lláh was also the Divine Physician, and sometimes a Physician had to withhold secrets from people for their own good, as to give these secrets to the people it would be like feeding meat to babies… I picked up the transcription at about 47:47 minutes… I could not recognise the Tablet from which SP made the reading, maybe it too was one of those secrets only revealed to the true seeker? Neither did Google get me what I wanted so I had to listen to SP, sentence by sentence, and type them out from the written to the digital Words…
…As the law of generosity as enacted upon all who are in the heavens and on the earth hath been set to the level of their comprehension and rank, know thou that unto the wayfarer who journeys to God and emigrates to Him, detaching himself from the transitory abode, seeking to ascend to the eternal home, shall be revealed hidden mysteries and well-guarded truths, the essence of unity and the manifestations of eternal might shall appear to him. And should he arrive at that most exalted station and transcendent home, it behooveth him to be the keeper of the treasures of God’s Knowledge, and to be the guardian of the pearls of His wisdom. It behooveth the wayfarer to preserve this Knowledge that is deposited in the receptacle of enlightened hearts by God the Creator of mankind, to protect it with his very eyes and to conceal it within his breast. For were he to reveal 1 Letter of these secrets to those who are unworthy, he will have perpetrated 3 grievous crimes!
The first is betrayal as much as he hath betrayed God by exposing His Mysteries to those unsuited to hear them. The second is Injustice inasmuch as he hath conferred this station upon the undeserving and weighted him down with a burden he is unable to bear, therefore the verdict of “oppressor” hath been pronounced upon such a wayfarer, and what oppression can be greater than this? The third is Murder because he mis-led that wretched soul and killed him by killing his faith, for inasmuch as he was unable to comprehend this divine knowledge, his feet slipped from whence he had progressed in the cause of his origin and return…
As Steven Phelps commented… This is really serious stuff! It’s possible to do spiritually destructive damage to people by saying things that they’re not ready to hear! Perhaps I should leave the topic here and not try to delve into it? Put the book down and walk away… slowly… Thus far and no further!? (SP’s group had a good laugh at his dramatic question) This is the Sin of Adam, by the way, Adam’s sin was wanting to know! (The secrets of the tree of knowledge of good and evil)… and his punishment for that knowledge was expulsion from Eden! (By two fiery Cherubim or Seraphim)
At 5224minutes SP went on to say that it was at a VERY advanced level of development and initiation - in the Valleys of Contentment and Wonderment - that these words applied. They actually ran counter to one of the great Principles of the Bahá’í faith – the Importance of an Independent Search for the Truth – and therefore it was quite difficult for us to take the instruction that there is a wall over which we should not look… WH in his work had been allowed to look over that wall and delve deeply into hidden and sacred knowledge, thus demonstrating a pure soul I’m sure, and he too looked at this subject of the Sin of Adam and found it was actually the Sin of Lucifer who wanted to Be God, and above His creations… specifically, in the ancient Judaic scriptures, he wanted to have His station above Adam, but Adam was another Manifestation of the Messianic Spirit, therefore one of the Seraphim, Perfected humans. SP went on to suggest and propose that the answer to where we should stop searching, and especially publicly teaching, is actually in the 7 Valleys, and in fact ALL the important answers to ALL the important questions are contained in the Text of this amazing guidebook for the Mystical Path of search leading to the Knowledge of the Ancient of Days.
This issue was a subject I looked at right at the beginning of this Path of Search, the issue of what the Christians would call “casting pearls before swine”, or publishing onto the world wide web mystical secrets kept deeply hidden by Mystics over thousands of ages… At the beginning of the path the guidance had been clearly to proceed, albeit with some warnings to my main encourager and special Bahá’í friend and supporter, who fell over and fractured her shoulder while I was in the Valley of Love whose steed is Pain! Now she was all healed up and still supporting me on every step of the path, and I was sharing every Chapter around the time of the Feast of every Badí month, by publishing it in a public blog, read by almost nobody, but still in the public domain. These Words rising to attention like this remind me that we are only two paragraphs away from completing this Path, and therefore it might be time to back away from the Hidden Knowledge, just like WH who unpublished his book The Judgement Day Device but still kept it available for initiated people who might like to research the interesting subjects of the Return and Revival of the Angelic technology to mankind. I was looking forward to reading right through WH’s 18 books over the next year but would not dig any deeper at this point for this Path of Search. I certainly did not want to be responsible for murdering anybody!
Then this morning I reached a new level of knowledge of the REM sleep dream time, which was very appropriate as I was contemplating the Valley of Wonderment, when I woke up from a dream, and then realised I was still in a dream, which I then left to wake up to physical reality… So, it was indeed as promised, the REM sleep time was a learning tool for travelling and negotiating the Worlds of Space-Time, and there were different levels! I felt immensely better than yesterday on rising, and feeling a lot gratitude for the insights I went straight to The Call of the Divine Beloved to have another look at the context for that stern reading yesterday… Was it in the Valley of Contentment?? Or Wonderment?? I could not immediately see on reading the actual text so went and had another look at SPs 6th Workshop, finding that it was on entering the Valley of Contentment that the secrets were encountered, in para 63…
The tongue faileth in describing these three valleys, and speech falleth short (note: 3 Valleys of Unity showing a divide into the 7th Valley) The pen steppeth not into this arena, the ink leaveth only a blot. In these stations, the nightingale of the heart hath other songs and secrets, which make the heart to leap and the soul to cry out, but this mystery of inner meaning may be whispered only from heart to heart, and confided only from breast to breast. Then Bahá’u’lláh dipped into two quotes from Mystic Persian poets, this one from ‘Attar, whose poem Conference of the Birds the 7 Valleys is an answer to…
The bliss of mystic knowers can be only
told from heart to heart
A Bliss no messenger can bear and no
missive dare impart.
Listening again to SP’s workshop Number 6 today I also discovered that it was ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Words that introduced the Blessed Beauty as the divine physician who had to keep secrets from his patients and had His own Words about the idea of sharing advanced Knowledge, and also some Words of advice to any physician wanting to learn the perfect method of the skilful physician.… from Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: Number 214:
Follow thou the way of thy Lord and say not that which the ears cannot bear to hear, for such speech is like luscious food given to small children. However palatable, rare and rich the food may be, it cannot be assimilated by the digestive organs of a suckling child.
Not everything that a man knoweth can be disclosed, nor can everything that he can disclose be regarded as timely, nor can every timely utterance be considered as suited to the capacity of those who hear it. Such is the consummate wisdom to be observed in thy pursuits. Be not oblivious thereof, if thou wishest to be a man of action under all conditions. First diagnose the malady, then prescribe the remedy, for such is the perfect method of the skilful physician.
It struck me later that it was likely the Messianic Spirit of Al Khidr, Thoth, Tuthmosis, The Báb & Bahá’u’lláh, etc etc – name a thousand prophets the stature of a Moses… that prevented the widespread knowledge of the Osiris resurrection device, as very likely if Nikola Tesla had been allowed to develop it in the early 20th Century the men fighting WWII (Part 2 of Armageddon) may well have decided to use it like they did the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and that could well have been curtains for the planet Terra! I also reflected on the fact that the plant I had come to think of as the Tree of Knowledge, as it gives about 6-8hrs of conscious REM sleep and kick starts the Worlds of sleep and dream, Iboga, also had a way of killing people unexpectedly even under the hands of (relatively) skilled physicians, thus preventing its widespread use for the public!
Reading on in the new translation into the Valley of Wonderment, wherein were the paragraphs about the Worlds of sleep and dream, I came across some more understandings, filling my heart with gratitude to replace the sadness of the day before. Looking back over my notes for the last two months I had noted several times when seeming mistakes or feelings of depression and sadness guided me inwards and led to great discoveries and more understanding on the path. Now I read in Paragraph 65 how and why these feelings occurred and why even these seemingly negative or upsetting stages of the Journey were important parts of the journey lost in the hidden valleys between the high peaks and mountain tops of the Valley of Wonderment.
Now is he struck dumb with the beauty of the All-Glorious; again is he wearied out with his own life. How many a mystic tree hath this whirl-wind of bewilderment snatched by the roots, how many a soul hath it worn out and exhausted. For in this Valley the traveller is flung into confusion, albeit, in the eyes of him who hath attained, such signs are esteemed and well beloved. At every moment, he beholdeth a wondrous world and a new creation, and goeth from astonishment to astonishment, and is lost in awe before the new handiwork of Him who is the sovereign Lord of all.
All that remains is to write out now the penultimate paragraph of the TOTTS containing more Words on the subject of the Ark of Eternity and the Eternal City of Certitude which is renewed and re-adorned about every thousand years…
Wherefore, O my friend,
It behooveth Us to exert the highest endeavour
to attain unto that City, and,
by the grace of God and His living-kindness,
rend asunder the “veils of glory”;
so that, with inflexible steadfastness,
we may sacrifice our drooping souls
in the path of the New Beloved.
We should with tearful eyes, fervently and repeatedly,
implore Him to grant us the favour of that grace.
That city is none other than the Word of God
revealed in every age and dispensation.
In the days of Moses it was the Pentateuch,
in the days of Jesus the Gospel;
in the days of Muhammad, the Messenger of God the Qur’an:
in this day the Bayan,
and in the dispensation of Him Whom God will make manifest
His own Book–
the Book unto which all the Books
of former Dispensations must needs be referred,
the Book which standeth amongst them all
transcendent and supreme.
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