Why would someone produce such a publication?

 

 

It's apparent to me that what eastern culture calls "Tao" is the actual supernatural God. Unfortunately, over the centuries people began to confuse the Tao with their physical creators, those beings the Hebrews referred to as the Elohim, and this is one of the main problems with western religion in general.  I hope to separate these two "gods" and help re-mystify western theology.  Theology, after all, is to believe in and worship God using symbols and rituals in an effort to mimic the mystics.  Mysticism is to know God without belief and to be a symbol (or image, if you prefer) of God

 

My intent here is to support my postulation, through cross-referencing ancient art and scripture, that God, as described in them, is indeed a race of physical extraterrestrial or interdimensional beings (with a highlighted authority figure among them - YHVH in the case of the Hebrew Elohim) who created humans through blending their genes with a particular native species of ape. They then cross-bred with their creations and produced unintended genetic mutations which were then wiped out through the cataclysmic event described in Genesis 6, spared only the desired end genetic products, and moved on to the next M-class planet after declaring the experiment a success; However, evidence suggests that “Our Fathers Who Art In Heaven” still come down to create an occasional hybrid to serve as their spokesman.

 

And, in this way, they propagate themselves and their ideals (or the closest possible facsimile thereof) throughout the cosmos, and they were created by another race in the same fashion, backwards into infinity.  Incidentally, we will evolve to the same status and eventually begin to continue the same cycle of re-creation and our creations, and theirs, will extend themselves/ourselves forward into infinity.

 

At the same time, I hope to expand on the true Divine Spirit, which is eternal, omnipresent, and the Source of all things, but has been confused with the physical God(s) of the Hebrews, the Sumerians, The Greeks, and many other cultures.

 

The following is a compilation of related bible verses and ancient pictures followed by a related acticle from Timeless Voyager press, some feedback and discussions with a curious reader, some of my original poetry, and a great interpolation of The Tao Te Ching.

 

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed researching and compiling it. Email any questions or comments to [email protected] or chat with me on AOL Instant Messenger under the screen name “KidReality.”

Keys To The Kingdom

Compiled & Arranged by James E. Fincher II

Cover Art by Jon Day

Copyright 2003

 

Biblical Synonyms for the UFO: CLOUD, WING, THRONE, PILLAR, CHERUBIM, CHARIOT, HORSES, ROLL, FURNACE, LAMP, HOST (plural), SANCTUARY, BUSH, DARKNESS and HABITATION.

 

Words associated with the activity/appearance of the UFO: FLY, DESCEND, ASCEND, FIRE, BURNING, TRUMPET, GLORY, TEMPEST, STORM, LIGHTNING, ARROWS, WHIRLWIND, AMBER, and BRASS (color).

 

HEAVEN is the sky.

 

Baptism of Christ – 1710

 

 

Associated Bible verses (in order of appearance in The Bible):

 

GENESIS  1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27.  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

 

GENESIS  6:2  That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and they took them wives of all whom they chose.

 

GENESIS  6:4  There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came into the daughters of men, and they bore children to them the same mighty men, who were of old, men of renown.

 

GENESIS  15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

 

EXODUS  3:2  And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3  And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.  4  And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, here am I.

A Sumerian God in His flying ship – 4000 B.C.

 

 

EXODUS  13:21 And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: 22  He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.

 

EXODUS  14:19  And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:  20  And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.

 

EXODUS  16:4  Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather  a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

 

EXODUS  14:24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians.

 

EXODUS  16:10  And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.

 

EXODUS  19:4  Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.

 

EXODUS  19:9  And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the Lord.

 

 

Abydos Hieroglyphic - 2000 BC

Ancient painting of Mary

 

EXODUS  19:12  And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: 13  There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.

 

EXODUS  19:16  And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.

 

EXODUS  19:18  And Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. 19  And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.

 

EXODUS  19:21  And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.  22  And let the priests also, which come near to the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break forth upon them.  23  And Moses said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.  24  And the Lord said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them.  25  So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.

 

EXODUS  20:21  And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was

French medallion – 1680

 

EXODUS  24:18  And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

 

EXODUS  33:9  And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses. 10  And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.

 

EXODUS  34:5  And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.

 

EXODUS  40:34  Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.  35  And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.  36  And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:  37  But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.  38  For the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

 

NUMBERS  9:16  So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

 

NUMBERS  9:17  And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.

 

Moses – 17th century

 

NUMBERS  9:18  At the commandment of the Lord the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the Lord they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents. 19  And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the Lord, and journeyed not.  

 

NUMBERS  9:20  And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the Lord they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the Lord they journeyed.  21  And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed. 

 

NUMBERS  9: 22  Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining hereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.

 

NUMBERS  10:11  And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony. 12  And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.

 

NUMBERS  10:34  And the cloud of the Lord was upon them by day, when they went out of the camp.

 

NUMBERS  14:14  And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.

 

Angers, France 842 AD

 

DEUTERONOMY  1:33  Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.

 

DEUTERONOMY  4:11  And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

 

DEUTERONOMY  4:36  Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

 

DEUTERONOMY  5:4  The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire.

 

DEUTERONOMY  5:22  These words the Lord spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.

 

DEUTERONOMY  5:23  And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

 

DEUTERONOMY  5:24  And ye said, Behold, the Lord our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth. 25  Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, then we shall die.

 

Tomb in Palenque, Mayan, Central Mexico

 

DEUTERONOMY  10:4  And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gave them unto me.

 

DEUTERONOMY  26:15  Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

 

DEUTERONOMY  31:15  The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,

 

JOSHUA  5:13  And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?  14   And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face  to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?

 

JOSHUA  24:7  And when they cried unto the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.

 

Ancient Indian flight

 

2 SAMUEL  22:10  He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.  11  And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.

 

2 SAMUEL  22:12  And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies. 13  Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled. 14  The Lord thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice. 15  And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.

 

1 KINGS  18:44  And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down that the rain stop thee not.

 

2 KINGS  2:11  And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. 12  and Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

 

2 KINGS  6:17  And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. 18  And when they came down to him,  Elisha prayed unto the Lord, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

 

Annunciation – 1486

 

2 KINGS  1:10  And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

 

2 CHRONICLES  5:13  It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord;  14  So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.

 

2 CHRONICLES  6:1  Then said Solomon, The Lord hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

 

2 CHRONICLES  6:21  Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.

 

2 CHRONICLES  6:30  Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men).

 

2 CHRONICLES  6:33  Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

 

2 CHRONICLES  18:18    Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the Lord; I saw the Lord sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.

 

NEHEMIAH  9:12  Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go. 13  Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:

 

Cave Petroglyph of unkown age

 

 

NEHEMIAH  9:19 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies for sookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.

 

JOB  26:9  He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.

 

JOB  38:1  Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

 

JOB  40:6  Then answered the Lord unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

 

JOB  37:15  Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?

 

PSALMS  18:10  And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

 

PSALMS  18:12  At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

 

PSALMS  18:11  He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

 

 

The Magnificat – 17th century

 

PSALMS  27:5  For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock

 

PSALMS  31:20  Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

 

PSALMS  33:13  The Lord looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men  14  From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.

 

PSALMS  36:7  How excellent is thy loving kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

 

PSALMS  45:6  Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.

 

PSALMS  57:1  Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.  2  I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.

 

PSALMS  68:17   The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place. 18  Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them.

 

PSALMS  68:34  Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.

 

PSALMS  77:18  The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

 

PSALMS  78:14  In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

 

PSALMS  78:23  Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,  24  And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.  25  Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.

 

PSALMS  83:13  O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. 14  As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; 15  So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

 

Assumption – painted in 1490

 

PSALMS  91:4  He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.  

 

PSALMS  97:2  Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.

 

PSALMS  99:7  He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.

 

PSALMS  102:19  For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the Lord behold the earth;

 

PSALMS  103:19   The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.

 

PSALMS  104:3   Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:

 

Madonna

 

PSALMS  150:1  Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.

 

ISAIAH  2:2  And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

 

ISAIAH  4:5   And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

 

ISAIAH  6:1  In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

 

ISAIAH  14:12   How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!  13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

 

ISAIAH 14:29  Rejoice not thou, all Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a basilisk, and his fruit shall be a flying fiery serpent.  

 

ISAIAH  19:1  The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

 

ISAIAH  60:2  For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

 

ISAIAH  60:8  Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows.

 

ISAIAH  63:15  Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained.

 

ISAIAH  66:1 Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?

 

UFO in Hamburg – 1697

 

ISAIAH  66:15   For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

 

JEREMIAH  4:13  Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.

 

JEREMIAH  14:21  Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.

 

JEREMIAH  17:12   A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.

 

JEREMIAH  23:19  Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

 

JEREMIAH  25:32  Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

 

JEREMIAH  30:23  Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.

 

LAMENTATIONS  3:44  Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

 

EZEKIEL  1:4  And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

 

EZEKIEL  1:5  Also from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures.  And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.

 

EZEKIEL  1:13  As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

 

EZEKIEL  8:2  Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the color of amber.

Le Livre Des Bonnes Moeurs - 1338

 

EZEKIEL  8:3  And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door fo the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

 

EZEKIEL  10:1  Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a  throne.

 

EZEKIEL  10:2  And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in my sight.

 

EZEKIEL  10:6  And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.

 

EZEKIEL  10:7  And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went out.

 

EZEKIEL  10:13  As for the wheels, it was cried to them in my hearing , O wheel.

 

EZEKIEL  10:15  And the cherubim were lifted up.  This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Kebar.

 

EZEKIEL  10:16  And when the cherubim went, the wheels went by them and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels turned not from beside them.

 

EZEKIEL  10:17  When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted themselves up also for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

 

EZEKIEL  10:18  Then the glory of The Lord departed from off the threshhold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.

 

EZEKIEL  10:19  And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east-gate of the Lord's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

 

LeTebaide – 1460

 

DANIEL  7:9  I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.

 

DANIEL  7:13  I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

 

JOEL  2:2  A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.  3  A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

 

JOEL  2:4  The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. 5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

 

JOEL  2:30  And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.  31  The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come.

 

AMOS   2:l2  But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.

 

NAHUM  1:3  The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. 

 

ZEPHANIAH  1:15  That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

 

Summer’s Triumph – 1538

 

ZECHARIAH  5:1  Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.  2  And he said unto me, What seest thou?  And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.

 

ZECHARIAH  6:1 And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.

 

ZECHARIAH  9:14  And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.

 

MATTHEW   2:9  When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.

 

MATTHEW   5:34  But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne.

 

MATTHEW  17:5  While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved  Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

 

MATTHEW   23:22  And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.

 

MATTHEW  24:30   And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

 

MATTHEW  24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

 

MATTHEW   25:31   When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

 

Ancient Indian ston bas-relief carving

 

MATTHEW  26:64   Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

 

MATTHEW  28:2  And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.  3  His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:  4  And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.

 

MARK  9:7  And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him. 8  And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no man any more, save Jesus only with themselves.

 

MARK  13:26  And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.  27  And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.

 

MARK  14:62  And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

 

Miracle In The Snow – 1400

 

LUKE  9:28   And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into  a mountain to pray.  29  And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.  30  And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias:  31  Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.  32  But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.  33  And it came to pass, as they departed from him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said.  34  While he thus spake, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them: and they feared as they entered into the cloud.  35  And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.  

 

LUKE  21:27  And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

 

John  8:23  And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.

 

ACTS  1:9  And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

 

Crucifixion, Svetishoveli Cathedral – 17th Century

 

ACTS  7:30  And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.

 

ACTS  7:48  Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,  49  Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?

 

ACTS  9:7  And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.

 

ACTS  10:11  And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:

 

ACTS  10:16  This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven.

 

ACTS  11:5  I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:

 

1 CORINTHIANS  10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;  2  And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

 

1 CORINTHIANS  15:52  In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

 

2 CORINTHIANS  5:1  For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.: 2  For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

 

1 THESSALONIANS  4:17  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

 

2 PETER 1:18  And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.

 

Crociate – 15th century

 

REVELATIONS  1:7  Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

 

REVELATIONS  1:10  I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, 11. Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. 12. And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; 13. And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.  14. His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;  15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.  16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.  17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:  18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

 

REVELATIONS  4:2  And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

 

REVELATIONS  10:1  And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

 

REVELATIONS  11:11  And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. 12  And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

 

Japanese painting - 900 A.D.

 

REVELATIONS 12:5  And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. 

 

REVELATIONS  14:14    And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.  15  And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.  16  And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.

 

REVELATIONS  20:11  And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

 

Cave painting 10,000 B.C.

Ascension Of Christ, Salvadore Dali, 1958

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keys To The Kingdom

James E. Fincher II

Copyright 2003

 

A Reader’s Feedback:

And Further Clarificaion

 

Please pardon all typos, misspellings, and grammarrical errors

since these are unedited online chats.

 

Session 1:

 

iminaquichephase: hey Kid... i was reading Keys to the Kingdom... got a couple questions
KidReality: Shoot.
iminaquichephase: what is your explaination of the Transfiguration
KidReality: In what context?
iminaquichephase: biblical? alien?
KidReality: Just consider this: to the ancient Hebrews, any technology (including a spotlight) would appear to be magical or God-like.
iminaquichephase: good point : )
KidReality: I think alien is the wrong word when referring to the Elohim.
KidReality: And so is the word God.
KidReality: Western culture tends to confuse the Creator God(s), the Elohim and the supernatural God.
iminaquichephase: how would you define Elohim?
KidReality: Our Fathers, who art in Heaven......
KidReality: Is how they did....
iminaquichephase: i see
KidReality: But who created the Elohim?
iminaquichephase: that's what i was wondering... : )
KidReality: That's what I see as a deep confusion in western religions.
KidReality: The Elohim are not God.
KidReality: The eternal God is present in both species, here and now.
iminaquichephase: and do all Elohim have the same sort of conciousness as Jesus?
KidReality: I don't know, since I never met either.
iminaquichephase: ok
KidReality: I'm only going on hunches and decades of poring thru ancient texts and art. Religion is another hobby of mine.
iminaquichephase: perhaps a result of evolution... like Chardin's model
KidReality: Religion is to cling. Faith is to let go.
 iminaquichephase: i love the way everything links together kind of synchronistically
iminaquichephase: that’s what first turned me onto Jung
iminaquichephase: then when i saw that mentioned in the Celestine Prophecy i sorta freaked
KidReality: <shudders at any reference to modern psychology>
iminaquichephase: baaah hah!!
iminaquichephase: no good?
KidReality: They're worse than the Christians.
KidReality: Frickin arrogant, egoistic, unspiritual, absolutist bastages.
iminaquichephase: jeeze! never heard someone go off like this : )
KidReality: I, with my highly unusual model of the universe, am in danger from them.
iminaquichephase: what do you have against Jung?
KidReality: Nothing in particular. It's the power and authority of the Psychiatric Empire I fear.
iminaquichephase: i can understand that...
iminaquichephase: you ever hear what Watts has to say about that?
KidReality: Yep, and others.
iminaquichephase: forming some understanding of the human mind is good, no?
KidReality: I have nothing against Jesus, either, but his modern religion sure is stupid.
KidReality: An eye cannot see itself except in a mirror.
iminaquichephase: but we can see similar eyes in others
KidReality: Understanding is fine. Control is not.
iminaquichephase: werd to that
iminaquichephase: on another topic, why does an individual feel the need to live "in the now"?
 KidReality: Most do not.
KidReality: Most do nothing but dwell on the past and worry about the future.
KidReality: That is the reason for the perpetuation of organized religion.
KidReality: Just the possibility of an eternity in Hell keeps millions coming back every Sunday.
iminaquichephase: fear
iminaquichephase: not too fun
KidReality: It rules the world.
iminaquichephase: is "living in the Now" more common in the general eastern population?
KidReality: Yep. There, Heaven hasn't evolved from a spiritual polar state into a place you go after you die. It's called Nirvana, Satori, and a host of other names, and is direct union with the Divine.
KidReality: Here and now.
iminaquichephase: so the more of the masses acheive this state in the east?
KidReality: The Hindus have the "most correct" idea of God, I think.
KidReality: More try.
iminaquichephase: i see
KidReality: But they're all full of shit, too.
KidReality: Any organized religion is.
KidReality: God can only be experienced without the use of symbology or ritual.... only here and now while still and quiet.
iminaquichephase: you think the symbolism is just used for those who arent ready to accept the truth?
KidReality: Like I said: Religion (which is symbol/ritual-based) is to cling; Faith (which is not) is to let go.
KidReality: It is words themselves that distort the models they convey.
iminaquichephase: yeah
iminaquichephase: no matter what i've been told about reality it doesnt make sense until i experience it
KidReality: Quiet and still, here and now.
iminaquichephase: the words are useless but when i get there i can look back and see the meaning
iminaquichephase: now, looking back, "here and now" makes sense
iminaquichephase: before i would just shake off the words and say i get it without a real understanding
iminaquichephase: if that makes sense
KidReality: It's only without words, symbols, ritual, desire, or ego, that you can be like Jesus when he said "I and the Father are one."
iminaquichephase: yeah
iminaquichephase: does getting in the Here and Now grow easier with practice?
KidReality: The Christian word "grace" is closely related to this issue. It's not something that you acheive by practice. It is simply a matter of letting go of EVERYTHING.
iminaquichephase: i see
iminaquichephase: i remember having my first Here-Now experience during puberty along with many other "trippy" feelings off infinity
iminaquichephase: it seems other guys seem to have had these feelings...
iminaquichephase: does the experience come as easily to females?
KidReality: Nope.
KidReality: But it does.
iminaquichephase: and this is the reason for the male hierarchy in the christian church and other religions?
KidReality: Of course.
KidReality: My most successful protege' so far is female.
iminaquichephase: Lace?
KidReality: Unfortunately, no. But she has gotten there on occasion and understands that's where I spend almost all my time.
iminaquichephase: so is the difference in ability to experience this due to chemicals?
iminaquichephase: the kind made during puberty on up?
KidReality: Chemicals aren't necessary, but they do help in the correct setting.
KidReality: Especially Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 25.
iminaquichephase: LSD?
KidReality: Yep. All the plants containing LSA are good, too, but not as potent.
KidReality: Lysergic Acid Amide, that is....
iminaquichephase: and DMT is similar?
KidReality: No, DMT is an entirely different thing.
KidReality: And, I believe is not a good drug for out-of-ego experiences.
iminaquichephase: isnt Dmt in the spine?
KidReality: Not that I know of.
iminaquichephase: what do you know about enlightenment by "direct transmission"?
iminaquichephase: i think Watts said it like: an enlightened person passes enlightenment directly from himself to anyone ready to recieve it
iminaquichephase: without words, without nothin
KidReality: That's true.
KidReality: To be enlightened is to be the very image of God.
KidReality: God knows God.
KidReality: But the vast majority are never to know.
KidReality: This is how We keep ourselves entertained, after all.
iminaquichephase: until recently, i've been seeing these mysterious people everwhere i go... seems that one person (them of myself) takes a passive role in the spontaneous eye-contact that takes place... then, after a few days, i notice my reality is changing
KidReality: It's awfully boring sitting around for milennia, knowing everything, being all-powerful, all pervading, and all.
iminaquichephase: lol, yeah
KidReality: You must forget Yourself.
KidReality: And here W E are.
iminaquichephase: what color are your natural eyes?
KidReality: An orangish-green.
KidReality: Yours?
iminaquichephase: it seems those people i mentioned above have the same physical traits
iminaquichephase: grey-green-blue (changing slightly from time to time)
KidReality: Everywhere I go, I see the heads turn en masse.
iminaquichephase: the female always have dark, dark brown-black hair and matching color hair
iminaquichephase: i know just what you mean!
iminaquichephase: heads turning
iminaquichephase: i mean matchin eye color
KidReality: Seekers always recognize the Enlightened.
KidReality: And vice versa.
iminaquichephase: i see, one truely interesting game : )
KidReality: It's better than the alternative.
iminaquichephase: lol, well said
KidReality: Being God is like being nothing.
KidReality: It's like being dead.
iminaquichephase: but those who arent seeking never seem to understand...
KidReality: "he died so that we may live" and all that...
KidReality: Most will never understand. If most did, the game would be over.
iminaquichephase: "certain things to be revealed when the curtain comes down"
iminaquichephase: jesus said some stuff about that...
iminaquichephase: oh yeah, seek and ye shall find.... i can truely understand that now
KidReality: Most people would kill you for opening their eyes. Just ask Jesus.
iminaquichephase: lol, yeah
KidReality: Even if they ask you for answers, most don't really want to hear the truth.
iminaquichephase: true
iminaquichephase: well, i best be goin
iminaquichephase: school's early :-\
KidReality: Ok, then. Nice chat. Sleep well.
iminaquichephase: thanx man, it's been real. you too
iminaquichephase: W3rd
iminaquichephase signed off at 11:46:26 PM.

 

 

Session 2:

 

iminaquichephase: wanna play a game?
iminaquichephase: ill be lutheran, you be you
KidReality: Why Lutheran?
iminaquichephase: i want to see how you'd blow a mind... maybe i can battle test it
iminaquichephase: im lutheran
iminaquichephase: my school at least
KidReality: I try not do blow minds. I just deprogram them.
iminaquichephase: ok, wanna play?
KidReality: I guess...
iminaquichephase: are you a good person?
KidReality: I can only do the will of God.
iminaquichephase: have you ever lied?
KidReality: Is that a yes or no question?
iminaquichephase: it is a yes or no question
KidReality: Yes.
iminaquichephase: ever stolen something? no matter how small
KidReality: Yes. I stole a pack of Tums once when I was 6... that's it.
iminaquichephase: ever lusted after a woman?
KidReality: Of course.
iminaquichephase: so that'd make you a lier, thief, and adulterer, at least on some level, right?
KidReality: All people are.
iminaquichephase: and forgiveness is an option for all people
KidReality: Sure.
iminaquichephase: and redemption
KidReality: I would have to believe in a Redeemer.... sorry.
KidReality: It's ALL up to you.
iminaquichephase: what can i do to change what ive done?
KidReality: Nothing.
KidReality: Just don't do it in the first place.
iminaquichephase: we all slip
KidReality: Wrong.
KidReality: Everyone does exactly what they want to do. Nothing else.
iminaquichephase: so you have no regret?
KidReality: None.
KidReality: I've always done the best I had with what I had at every moment.
KidReality: Nothing can go against the will of God.
KidReality: Let go.
iminaquichephase: murder and theft are not against the will of God?
KidReality: All activity is caused by God. What power is equal to God's?
KidReality: What is not God?
KidReality: God loves a killer.
KidReality: In nature, the most efficient killers win and are propagated.
iminaquichephase: then why not kill?
KidReality: You face the consequences of your actions here and now.
iminaquichephase: but in nature killing is not done out of anger or jealousy or hate
KidReality: How do you know that?
KidReality: Actually, many lower animals kill for land, for mates, for dominance, power... all the things we do it for...
KidReality: This is the way of God.
iminaquichephase: where do you draw the line between animal and man?
iminaquichephase: or is there one
KidReality: I don't. Man is carnal.
KidReality: You can't deny being made of meat.
iminaquichephase: of course not
iminaquichephase: but is every one of man's actions taken out of need like the animal's?
KidReality: The Latin root for carnal is "carni," which is, literally, meat.
KidReality: We all do God's will. There is nothing else.
iminaquichephase: why not go on a school shooting rampage?
KidReality: Guilt. Remorse. These keep us in check.
KidReality: I don't need to be threatened with eternity in hell to know better than to do something like that.
iminaquichephase: why have remorse? if any action i make is divine
KidReality: True.
KidReality: But you would.
KidReality: These emotions are what regulate our activity. If not for them, we would overpopulate and destroy ourselves almost immediately.
iminaquichephase: i could condition myself to believe this "truth"... id imagine a lot of mass murderers have
KidReality: you misinterpret.
KidReality: There is no escape from the consequences of your own actions.
iminaquichephase: but there can be escape from remorse
KidReality: True.
KidReality: What you are talking about is generally what Christians call "grace."
iminaquichephase: so then, is the desire to live without consequences of our actions the only reason to restrain ourselves?
KidReality: Desire is the root of all suffering.
iminaquichephase: yes
KidReality: Pride, greed, lust, envy, covetousness.……
iminaquichephase: so remorse and desire cannot be the reasons to respect one another
KidReality: Nope. Fear.
KidReality: Fear regulates our behavior.
iminaquichephase: and fear apears to the masses
iminaquichephase: *appeals
KidReality: Everything people do is to decrease their fear level.
KidReality: They pursue pleasure and escape pain. Simple.
iminaquichephase: but when fear occupies our brains we start building bigger nukes until the fear orgasm wears down
iminaquichephase: cold wars, school shootings, and genocide
KidReality: Yes, we do it on a very large scale.
iminaquichephase: i have the feeling you dont want fear to be your major motivator either
KidReality: I think everything, in the end, is motivated by fear.
KidReality: Greed - fear of being broke. Lust - fear of being alone. Envy - fear of being inferior, etc..
iminaquichephase: all "sins"
KidReality: But fear is the real cause of suffering, not sin.
iminaquichephase: what about desire?
KidReality: And fear is only a by-product of desire.
KidReality: Therefore, if you cast off all your desires, you cannot sin.
KidReality: SIN, as I see it, is only a barrier to enlightenment.
iminaquichephase: what do you feel when without remorse or fear or desire?
KidReality: Be quiet and still, here and now, and you will see.
iminaquichephase: but isnt sin, by definition, going against the will of God? which is not possible (?)
KidReality: Only to the stupid Christian masses.
KidReality: One cannot go against the will of God.
KidReality: Period.
iminaquichephase: what does sin mean to you?
KidReality: Sin is simply a barrier to Enlightenment.
KidReality: Enlightenment is the realization of one's own Godhead.
iminaquichephase: a barrier obstructing the feeling of being one with god
KidReality: Jesus said "I and the Father are one."
KidReality: While Adam "walked with God."
KidReality: there's a difference.
KidReality: True illumination is derived from realization that there is no separation of Creator and creation.
iminaquichephase: Jesus then would allow salvation from sin, from remorse of the past, and allow oneness to be obtained in the Now
KidReality: Bingo.
iminaquichephase: even if just as a symbol
KidReality: When you know you can only do the will of God, you cannot possibly go wrong.
iminaquichephase: but nothing we can say is free of symbolism
KidReality: But with this knowledge comes responsibility.
KidReality: You, youself, are a "symbol" of God.
KidReality: "Let us make man in our own image"
KidReality: Even the direct reality you perceive is nothing but your mind's interior reconstruction of it.
iminaquichephase: so Jesus can serve as a Redeemer for the sins and obstructions of man's past- allowing freedom from remorse of the past and fear of the future.... to live Now, forever, one with God
KidReality: That's the point.
KidReality: Not Jesus, necessarily, but what he represents.
iminaquichephase: so christianity's not so off based
KidReality: No, just twisted.
KidReality: It's taken too literally.
iminaquichephase: yes, we must remember the symbols
KidReality: The main thing the story of Jesus tells me is if you go around making people realize they're God, the carnal powers that be will have you killed.
KidReality: The lesson here being that most are not to know.
iminaquichephase: "I shall chose you, one in a thousand and two in ten thousand, and you shall be joined into one flesh."
KidReality: Bingo.
iminaquichephase: the lotus needs compost
KidReality: Only a very few of us are allowed to see.
KidReality: Good one!
iminaquichephase: i got that from a good article
iminaquichephase: ill give you a link here in a min. if you want
KidReality: It's nothing to be proud of, and is a huge responsibility to be the eyes and ears of God.
iminaquichephase: but shit bro, the hunt is fuuuuuun!
iminaquichephase: better than fiction man
KidReality: I have nothing to hunt for. I'm there.
iminaquichephase: im still workin
KidReality: When you can do nothing and just BE......
iminaquichephase: not as if it's a method or anything
KidReality: I AM.
iminaquichephase: just holding on until i find what i need to let go of
KidReality: Not I was or I will be but I AM.
iminaquichephase: or until i get out of the school system, lol
iminaquichephase: i've felt that many times.... im learning to control it
KidReality: Faith is a constant letting go.
KidReality: Every moment, letting go of fear and desire.
iminaquichephase: what does it mean to "be joined into one flesh"?
KidReality: If you are "righteous" in this way, nothing will stand against you.
KidReality: In what context?
KidReality: It can mean to have sex, to become part of a group, etc...
iminaquichephase: "a body of christ" and in " i shall chose you.... and you shall become one flesh."
KidReality: The physical body of Christ, as presented by the church, is made up of the "cells" of it's members. The spiritual Body of Christ lives on thru their rituals (communion, etc).
KidReality: This is the literal resurrection.
KidReality: But in this way they separate themselves from Christ, when the very thing they need to do is become Christ-like themselves.
iminaquichephase: i can get that " if you are 'righteous' in this way"... "in this way"... like if it is in your nature to know the truth you will find it.... from childhood i new i was different... from childhood i was the one who would know- in a way then, i always knew
KidReality: We always do. And we are compelled to pass it on. Just make sure you are pure-minded before you try to pass it to other seekers.
KidReality: Free from egoistic desire and fear.
iminaquichephase: i think others that knew while i was a child could look at me and know.... i think i see children now who will find it.... sometimes they say "Hi" too me
iminaquichephase: speaking in the spirit?
KidReality: Yep.
iminaquichephase: there were times when id just kinda "zone out" and talk and say the most perfect and helpful things
iminaquichephase: its amazing how the universe aligns to provide the same realizations to us.... thought i was crazy- no one got it... then, to see person after person with the same ideas- man, i new somethin was up
KidReality: It's God's mirror.
iminaquichephase: tell me about the responsabilities of being God's eyes and ears
KidReality: People have been talking about it (and getting killed for it) for thousands and thousands of years.
iminaquichephase: good thing to get killed over... better than for gambling or in fighting or other domesticated primate activities
iminaquichephase: death aint nothin
KidReality: Regardless of what you know, you're still a carnal being (made of meat) and are susceptible to all it's pitfalls.
KidReality: Death means nothing to he who knows he is only an aspect of the Eternal.
iminaquichephase: no remorse, no fear, no desire... only serious agape style love man.... only something beyond me to control me
KidReality: There is nothing beyond you. You are God become flesh.
KidReality: 'I and the Father are one."
KidReality: And not just Jesus....
iminaquichephase: beyond the most controling parts of ego at least
KidReality: Ego is necessary for God to forget Himself.
KidReality: Except in some who are ready to accept who they are..
iminaquichephase: what about then?
KidReality: Eh?
iminaquichephase: what about when someone accecpts the truth, what happens to ego?
KidReality: It can't ever really go completely away or you would cease to exist.
KidReality: You can only fly so close to the Sun without getting burned.
KidReality: Ask Icarus.
iminaquichephase: lol, yeah
iminaquichephase: rock as ego... can i have an ego the size of a rock?
KidReality: All this religion and mythology describes the same thing, but it's always misinterpreted.
KidReality: Ego has no physical properties.
iminaquichephase: i mean, a rock has an ego, in order to exist
KidReality: No, I should have said "self-awareness."
iminaquichephase: ok
KidReality: Existence, as a human, is to be self aware.
KidReality: Something doesn't have to be self-aware to exist.
iminaquichephase: are animals self-aware?
KidReality: I don't know. Ask them.
KidReality: Are you?
iminaquichephase: now there's a question
KidReality: Are you self aware or Self aware?
iminaquichephase: are you aware of your self being Self-aware?
KidReality: There is an eternal awareness that watches It's creation thru my eyes.
KidReality: And only in this way do I have a glimpse of immortality.
KidReality: Because I and the Father are one.
KidReality: This is eternal life.
KidReality: My little ego and meatsack is only a flash in the pan.
KidReality: Just another small peice of fruit on the gigantic God tree.
iminaquichephase: is this Now feeling what emerson meant by that feeling of Transcendence?
KidReality: To transcend means to go beyond a partiucular boundary. What Emerson's boundary was, I'm not sure.
KidReality: To me transcendentalism is to acheive union with the Divine by transcending the ego and it's attachments.
iminaquichephase: yeah
KidReality: But NOW is the only thing that exists. The past and future are constructs of your mind.
iminaquichephase: emerson was a good step in christain-american pop-culture
iminaquichephase: at least
iminaquichephase: i think the Matrix is another jump
KidReality: The Matrix is good mythology.
iminaquichephase: yes, much much more powerful in pop-culture than church
KidReality: Christianity is dying.
KidReality: They have forgotten.
iminaquichephase: millions of people questioning reality, all because of a movie- it's a beautiful thing
iminaquichephase: caught in fear and past
KidReality: Questioning it is the first step towards improving it.
iminaquichephase: exactly
iminaquichephase: a lot of barriers have been thrown down in the past 40 years
iminaquichephase: yeah,
iminaquichephase: but i can still see jesus as a useful image
KidReality: The crucifixion in particular has layers of wonderful symbolism.
iminaquichephase: yeah
KidReality: The book of Genesis is also wonderfully layered with spiritual symbolism and is my favorite religious text, next to the Tao Te Ching.
iminaquichephase: what were your goals in this essay? conversion? deprograming?
KidReality: It's something the enlightened are compelled to do, even at the expense of their own reputations and lives. This is God's will.
KidReality: I'd say that I'm more Taoist than anything.
KidReality: I like hinduism, too, tho.
KidReality: I would suggest you read the entire Tao Te Ching several times.
KidReality: It truly is "The Way Of Heaven."
iminaquichephase: i just bought the Analects and some nietzche today
iminaquichephase: oh yeah, ive read the Tao te Ching once before.... makes more sense everytime i look at it
KidReality: Even Christ referred to it on more than one occasion. It is "The Way" when he says he is the Truth, The Way, and The Light.  Parts of “The Sermon On The Mount” seem to be almost direct quotes from the Tao Te Ching.
iminaquichephase: christians take that to mean that he is the only way to heaven
KidReality: Tao Te Ching translated literally into "The way of water" or "the way of Heaven"
KidReality: All religions were intended to lead people to enlightenment. Unfortunately, it usually just does the opposite. This is also the Will of god.
iminaquichephase: jesus read the Tao Te Ching ?
iminaquichephase: or perhaps just observed the Tao
KidReality: Of course. The Tao Te Ching was written before Christ’s birth.
iminaquichephase: would it be made available to common folk?
KidReality: Christ was a Jewish Rabi and religious scholar. Of course he had access to these types of records.
iminaquichephase: no press, books were very hard to come by, especially to a carpenter boy
KidReality: I'm a sommon man; well versed in world religion.
KidReality: All these same documents have been available throughout the centuries.
KidReality: But the Tao Te Ching says it all.
iminaquichephase: yeah
KidReality: I see Christianity as a hodgepodge of earlier religions, to include Taoism, paganism, and worship of the old Greek and roman gods (as well as records of visitors from another dimension or planet)
iminaquichephase: i began to realize that trying doesnt help sometimes, that sometimes it's best to let it flow..... then i read the Tao Te Ching- new somethin was up
KidReality: To BE, not to Do.
iminaquichephase: yeah
iminaquichephase: i think that's what it felt like to speak in the spirit
KidReality: Right.
iminaquichephase: i think ive got a couple points you might want to address

KidReality: What are those?
iminaquichephase: i think it would be good to address the effectiveness of Jesus as a symbol (at least) to free the mind from past remorse and future worries so that the present may be felt
iminaquichephase: but only when jesus is understood
KidReality: I believe that only living individuals should be viewed as images of God. Not dead people.
KidReality: "Thou shalt not worship any graven image"
KidReality: I believe this includes Jesus.
KidReality: God has no image but us.
KidReality: And we are fleeting images, not graven.
iminaquichephase: i think jesus can be helpful to those that need him at the moment
KidReality: That is weakness. God hates weakness. The strength of God comes from acceptance and letting go, not clinging to symbols for emotional support.
KidReality: God helps only those who help themselves.
iminaquichephase: some people are weak in nature.... accepting jesus maybe be the best he could hope for
KidReality: To be religious is to cling. To have faith is to let go.
KidReality: These types of people are prey.
KidReality: God loves a predator.
iminaquichephase: god loves the weak, they are God as well
KidReality: Correct.
KidReality: And together, we forget Ouselves for a while.
KidReality: You're there.
KidReality: No good and evil, no fear or desire.
KidReality: Standing in between, watching.
iminaquichephase: yep
KidReality: Ta da.
iminaquichephase: are you assuming i cling to jesus?
KidReality: Yes.
iminaquichephase: i cling to the separation of good and evil
KidReality: It is obvious that you do and this is the source of your turmoil.
KidReality: There are no such things.
KidReality: Only your own pain and pleasure.
KidReality: Just because your language splits reality in half doesn't mean it really has two sides.
KidReality: You problem is rooted in your clinging to symbolism, be it the image of the crucifixion or the words you use.
KidReality: Without words, still and quiet, here and now.
KidReality: It's the only path.
KidReality: That's why I say all religions are wrong and always will be.
iminaquichephase: are you right?
KidReality: There is no right.
KidReality: Or wrong.
KidReality: When I said wrong, I meant they are not paths to enlightenment.
KidReality: In fact, they are distractions.
iminaquichephase: yet they have assisted in constructing us
KidReality: We constructed religion, not the other way around.
iminaquichephase: but events tied to religion have brought us to this point
KidReality: Religion is the feeble attempt of the unenlightened to mimic the words and actions of the enlightened.
iminaquichephase: it's all still Us'es and They's
KidReality: But now you're talking historical events. I'm talking everlasting God, here and now.
KidReality: Misinterpretation of scripture is the main problem with our society.
KidReality: And most others.
KidReality: The problem is that most people aren't ready to accept the Truth.
KidReality: And that is also the Will of God.
iminaquichephase: im Here, Now, so there is no problem
KidReality: Nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nowhere to go, nothing to be.
KidReality: How can one with no expectations ever be disappointed?
KidReality: Each moment is a miracle. Why do you think it's called the PRESENT (as in a gift)?

iinaquichephase: haha, yeah
KidReality: And ONLY in the present will you find the 'real" God.
KidReality: But to do that, you youself must be completely in the present.
KidReality: And that is faith.
iminaquichephase: **pops a zit**
KidReality: With faith, there is no need for religion.
KidReality: Religion becomes a childish joke.
iminaquichephase: i still think it would be a good idea to point out jesus as a way to separate from past and future to live in Now
KidReality: I disagree.
iminaquichephase: instead of attacking jesus straight out
KidReality: I'm not attacking Jesus, I'm just saying Jesus is a Graven Image of God, and leads people away from the true living God.
iminaquichephase: ok, just tryin to soften the blow
KidReality: If we use Jesus as a symbol of Godhead, that implies it's not available to everyone.
KidReality: And therein lies the main problem.
iminaquichephase: yes, that's what got me looking in the first place- True God should be available to everyone
KidReality: Symbols of God (like Jesus) are hinderances to enlightenment... they don't help at all.
KidReality: Symbols (including words) and clinging to them is another one of the main reasons for all human suffering.
iminaquichephase: and no word-symbols you have heard have aided in your enlightenment?
KidReality: Because in doing so, they no longer represent God themselves and are separated.
KidReality: Only quiet and still, here and now, without words, desire, fear, or attachment.
KidReality: Words that correctly describe enlightenment can only be understood "correctly" by those who are already in the know anyhow. Words don't do it. "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink."
iminaquichephase: ok then, i know what you mean.... only in hindsite can i see the true meaning of "Here" and "Now"
KidReality: Wrong. You are still dwelling in the past.
KidReality: Here and Now, there IS NO PAST OR FUTURE.
KidReality: There is only the eternal now. It is the only thing that exists. Everything else is a construct of your mind.

quichephase: but you mentioning the symbols triggers something
KidReality: Triggers what?
KidReality: What is it you think I'm doing here?
KidReality: I'm leading this horse to water. You have to drink for yourself.
iminaquichephase: you're word-symbols lead me to the water
KidReality: I only use them to point the way, not as symbols of the eternal themselves.
iminaquichephase: that's what they trigger, the instinct to drink
KidReality: You already knew.
KidReality: And just needed confirmation. This is always the case.
iminaquichephase: the man-symbol jesus points
KidReality: "Thou shalt not worship any graven image"
iminaquichephase: i dont worship your words or jesus'
iminaquichephase: but they guide
KidReality: That's what they're for.
KidReality: Literal interpretation of scripture is a stupid thing.
iminaquichephase: maybe you could soften the blows on jesus : )
KidReality: Most of it merely "points" to the Divine Nature.
KidReality: Nope.
iminaquichephase: ok
KidReality: Jesus is a graven image of God, forbidden centuries before Jesus was born.
KidReality: Everyone can be Jesus.
KidReality: He's not the only one.
KidReality: And therefore can't exclusively epitomize God.
KidReality: We all are the sons and daughters of God.
iminaquichephase: ok
KidReality: Although Jesus was obviously enlightened and should be remembered for his sacrifice to point it out to people.
iminaquichephase: do you love jesus?
KidReality: As much as I love myself.
iminaquichephase: ok
iminaquichephase: good answer : )
KidReality: We are one.
KidReality: The Spirit is in you and is emerging into awareness. You will soon be able to weild It's power. what will you do with this power?
iminaquichephase: flow?
KidReality: Ha!
KidReality: All authority comes from God. The closer you get, the more they obey.
KidReality: You become the still and quiet center of the cyclone.
KidReality: And they become your children.
iminaquichephase: was "flow" a good answer or not/

KidReality: Yes.
KidReality: Will you be a good father to them?
 iminaquichephase: in order to understand and to obtain this power i think i'd have to
KidReality: There's a good reason they called Christ a shepherd.
KidReality: So am I.
KidReality: We all are.
KidReality: Once you are "aware," you can choose to be sheep, wolf, or shepherd.
iminaquichephase: why be wolf?
KidReality: And be successful at any...
KidReality: Does not the flock need thinning?
KidReality: And what use is the shepherd without the wolf?
iminaquichephase: the wolf picks off the weak
KidReality: It's The Way of god.
iminaquichephase: are you a wolf? : )
KidReality: I am.
KidReality: But I am also the shepherd.
iminaquichephase: pickin me off, the sick and weak one?
KidReality: No, bringing you into "shepherdhood."
iminaquichephase: how can a sheep be a shephard?
KidReality: Where else would they come from?
iminaquichephase: sheep dont know where men come from
iminaquichephase: and men dont know where god comes from?
KidReality: Your train of thought is a self-distraction.
iminaquichephase: lol, i know
KidReality: It's a big responsibility.
iminaquichephase: it just seemed fun
iminaquichephase: who is a wolf, what does a wolf do?
KidReality: Thin the herd.
KidReality: I have no college degree but make six figures a year as a debt collector.
KidReality: This is my predatorial aspect.
iminaquichephase: i have met a few shepherds, but im not sure about wolves
KidReality: Most are disguised as sheep.
iminaquichephase: more games
KidReality: The problem with being at the top of the food chain is that you must prey upon youselves.
iminaquichephase: what do you mean?
KidReality: What is above a human in the carnal food chain?
KidReality: We have no natural predators except ourselves.
iminaquichephase: oh, i see
KidReality: Thus the wolf, sheep, and shepherd analogy.
iminaquichephase: are you a prophet? can you see fire?
KidReality: I assume no labels.
KidReality: I see nothing special.
KidReality: I simply point in the direction you seek.
iminaquichephase: ever seen something special, then have it come true?
KidReality: Almost every day.
KidReality: When you are quiet and still, here and now, you are open to many things you might've never expected...
KidReality: It's a special form of sensitization.
iminaquichephase: yeah, ive seen things like that
KidReality: It's nothing to be proud of. In fact, pride is a barrier to it.
KidReality: It must simply be let go of to grasp.
iminaquichephase: yeah, i found that out after a while
iminaquichephase: only when im completely passive
KidReality: It humbles me completely. I am nothing.
iminaquichephase: parents christian?
KidReality: Nope, old anarchistic, athiestic hippies. I was raised on a hippie commune, of sorts.
iminaquichephase: i see
KidReality: I had to find things out for myself, and it's made all the difference.
iminaquichephase: for me, i find it easy to accept foreign scriptures with an open mind.... but at this time, it is very hard to view the bible without disowning it and being against it........ i suppose because all my progress had at first been made by moving away from the bible
iminaquichephase: wish i could read it from a fresh perspective
KidReality: The Bible has lots of wonderful pointings to Godhead. It is also filled with twisted bullshit.
KidReality: It's that confusion of the physical God(s) and the eternal God......
KidReality: I can read Genesis over and over and over again.
iminaquichephase: ive got too many years of baggage with it
KidReality: Cast it off. Be here now.
iminaquichephase: maybe if i had some weed....
iminaquichephase: haha ha
KidReality: It's just a mental leap. You don't need any help.
iminaquichephase: thinking's a habit
iminaquichephase: but living Now is more frequent
iminaquichephase: if you know what i mean
iminaquichephase: like breaking an addiction
KidReality: Thinking is a barrier to enlightenment but necessary to exist as a carnal being.
iminaquichephase: does controling the switch become easier?
KidReality: Yes.
KidReality: It's as easy as stopping your line of thought.
KidReality: Divine nature is not linear. Thought is.
KidReality: Thought is just another Self-imposed distraction.
KidReality: But necessary as a carnal being.
iminaquichephase: man, we have been talkin for a while
KidReality: Yeah, I really need to go to bed, since I have to get up in six hours.
iminaquichephase: let's go to bed : )
KidReality: Good idea. Talk to you later.
iminaquichephase: yeah teehe
iminaquichephase: well, do i uhhh.... thank(?) you?

 

 

Session 3:


iminaquichephase: are you familiar with the I-ching?
KidReality: I have a nice hardbound copy and cast readings (using coins instead of yarrow stalks) occasionally. I don't put too much stock in divination.
iminaquichephase: today i got the 64th hexagram...
iminaquichephase: it's always so right on
KidReality: I'd just rather use a Magic 8-Ball.
iminaquichephase: eeeh, that method doesnt usually work
KidReality: None of them do.
iminaquichephase: hmm
iminaquichephase: never worked for you?
KidReality: Nope. Just never really needed 'em, either.
iminaquichephase: why not?
KidReality: I have faith.
iminaquichephase: how is the ego reborn?
KidReality: It's not.
iminaquichephase: is it re-assembled?
KidReality: It never actually dies, it's just put away for a time.
KidReality: You still need it to function as a meatsack.
iminaquichephase: hehe
iminaquichephase: im tired of being a meatsack
KidReality: It's the only way, unfortunately.
iminaquichephase: bummer
KidReality: .....better than the alternative.....
iminaquichephase: i guess
iminaquichephase: maybe i need a gun
iminaquichephase: and a pumpkin
KidReality: "To be or not to be... that is the question..."
iminaquichephase: yep, that's one damn good question
iminaquichephase: im here now, might as well chill for a while- see what happens
KidReality: What can possibly go against the Will of God?
iminaquichephase: turtles in top-hats
KidReality: Nope.
iminaquichephase: anything the mind can conceive is in the will of god?
KidReality: Of course.
KidReality: EVERYTHING.
KidReality: Free will, although seemingly tangible, is an illusion.
iminaquichephase: yeah
KidReality: It is all nothing but the dream of The Brahman.
iminaquichephase: i wonder if the brahman would come over and play Jet moto for playstation if i invited him
iminaquichephase: we could chill
KidReality: Yep.
iminaquichephase: snack packs
iminaquichephase: baaah hah ah!
iminaquichephase: how can i get the brahman to come chill with me?
KidReality: You are He.
iminaquichephase: HEAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
iminaquichephase: everytime i push away the truth my life gets more fucked up
KidReality: Yep.
iminaquichephase: maybe i should accept it by now
KidReality: Faith = acceptance.
KidReality: Faith is the path to Heaven.
iminaquichephase: chaos is settling... i think its time
KidReality: There is no chaos - just the Self-imposed ignorance of the ego.
iminaquichephase: it seems chaotic when something ego-altering is goin down
iminaquichephase: do you believe in "spirit"?
iminaquichephase: seems like it gets confused with emotion and conciousness a lot.. the lines are fuzzy outside
KidReality: There is only one Spirit. It is eternal.
iminaquichephase: and the spirit has become concious sometimes?
iminaquichephase: or carnage becomes concious
KidReality: The Spirit imposes ignorance and limitation upon Itself in order to experience life as a carnal being.
KidReality: Or all beings, if you will...
KidReality: There's nothing that happens that wasn't meant to happen…..
 KidReality: ….the flesh and everything that goes with it.
iminaquichephase: i think im a sleep addict for the same reason
KidReality: It is escape for the ego, like taking on a body is escape for God.
KidReality: Creation takes the traits of Creator.
iminaquichephase: once you realize youre god, what do you do?
iminaquichephase: what does god do to pass the time?
KidReality: That's up to you.
KidReality: You can't do wrong.
iminaquichephase: a shooting rampage aint wrong?
iminaquichephase: cuz dayyym, that kick is sumpin
KidReality: It depends who you're talking to about it.
KidReality: The is no objective right or wrong.
KidReality: Good and evil are purely subjective, abstract concepts.
iminaquichephase: a preference of the ego?
KidReality: There is only the individual's pain or pleasure in reaction to any given stimuli: pain is evil, pleasure is good.
iminaquichephase: like in the garden
iminaquichephase: genesis
KidReality: The Garden is also Heaven.
KidReality: They are the same place.
iminaquichephase: i see... when we pick from the tree of knowledge of good and evil we bump ourselves out
KidReality: Bingo.
iminaquichephase: what about the tree of life?
KidReality: It is actually "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" in the original Hebrew.
KidReality: Eating of it was the cause of the separation of man from God. Get it now?
iminaquichephase: yeah
KidReality: There is no good and evil. It is when we draw these lines that suffering enters.
KidReality: This separation is God's escape from solitude and isolation.
KidReality: Here's my story of Genesis:

KidReality: Generated imperfection
To establish a direction
And gave birth to a perception
Self-aware by Self-deception


iminaquichephase: i've felt and discovered predestination a lot in my own like but it's hard to explain to other people. how do you explain?
iminaquichephase: hey, that;s cool too
KidReality: "Fate vs. Free Will" is a 10,000 year-old argument and still hasn't been settled.
iminaquichephase: i see
KidReality: If you choose free will, there is no God. If you choose Fate, then you have no choices.
iminaquichephase: but my ego continues to make choices because it doesnt understand something outside of linear-life
KidReality: My view is that free will is an illusion Self-imposed by the Divine Nature in order to live in time and space as innumerable points of view.
iminaquichephase: every now and then it looks back, sees everything come together and says, "damn!"
KidReality: Ego is the ignorance God imposes upon Itself in order to forget knowing everything.
KidReality: This is enlightenment. "Damn!" We did it.
iminaquichephase: i think jesus meantions something of that nature in the ol' banned gnostics
KidReality: All this has been written before, and by many more than one prophet. "There is nothing new under the sun."
iminaquichephase: back when i started to see everyting come together like that i had the eyes and heads turning on the streets.... lately, it's been dull for some reason
KidReality: This concept has been explained in hundreds of ways but, as you may now know is an inherent part of the plan, it will always be misunderstood except for just a few of us. Otherwise, the Game would be over.
KidReality: You are learning it is not God's will to cast your pearls before swine.
iminaquichephase: what's that mean?
KidReality: It's in the Bible: "Cast not thy pearls before swine.."
iminaquichephase: i wasnt in the Now as much back then... it seems like im losing something
KidReality: You're losing everything. Don't worry, you'll gain it back.
iminaquichephase: why am i losing it all?
iminaquichephase: i could tell i was progressing before, now it's like im taking a big step back
KidReality: "Unless ye become likened unto a little child, ye shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven."
KidReality: There is no progression or regression.
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THE ELOHIM

 © 1998 Timeless Voyager Press

 

 

In order to unlock recondite secrets of the Bible, such as the identity and origin of the Elohim, it is necessary to discard preconceived notions of religion and reality taught in school, or even religious organizations. Even that gleaned from personal observation cannot be trusted when navigating dark, obscure waters such as these. Instead an open mind eager to discover forgotten truths, and the ability to see things from a new point of view is required. The biblical writings clearly tell us that these "Elohim" cruised the skies of the ancient world in "Heavenly chariots," often cloaked in clouds. But what exactly were these chariots? Were they the UFO's of biblical times? Did the Elohim travel to earth from somewhere else within these "chariots from Heaven?" It is intriguing that modern day UFO's are often described as metallic looking objects hidden within a cloud.

 

In these days of ever increasing, and now blatant UFO activity, it is obvious to most that something bizarre is taking place in the skies over earth. Something so queer it baffles those who should be making serious inquiries into the phenomena, causing them to react in a peculiar fashion themselves - they simply ignore anyone or anything connected with UFO's. This is unfortunate. For in the black days lying ahead for humankind, these unanswered questions undoubtedly hold answers that may determine our ultimate fate. The wholesale return of "Heavenly Chariots" could be a portent of things to come. A thorough analysis of the ancient texts of the Bible and other archaic documents, clearly yields important electrifying information that will revolutionize the way humanity views his religion and his gods - and even how man must perceive the mystery of the UFO itself.

 

To correctly understand what lies before us, we must take a subjective look at what took place behind us; starting at the beginning, the commencement of all life on earth recorded in Genesis. Man must take an intellectual gaze in the mirror of the past to behold the face of his creator(s):

 

"And Elohim (literally) created man in His own image, in the image of Elohim He created Him (the Adam, or earthling, literally); male and female He created them." Genesis 1:27

 

Most theologians teach that the God of the Old Testament is a solitary, all powerful, omniscient spirit, having no corporeal form; and that he does not possess a flesh and blood body. From a scriptural standpoint, this is simply not the case. Throughout the entire Bible, God is referred to as a male, indicating that he possesses a sex. The above passage hints at the possibility that both male and female "gods" exist. For if the Elohim created the earthlings in their own image, and made them both male and female -- then is humanity not a reflection of its creators, a pluralistic race of beings consisting of male and female entities? Consequently, these plural deities, or beings, are termed the "Elohim," the plural form of God in the scriptures, the prefix "El" meaning God. Though theological scholars are well aware of this plurality, conventional scholars try to pass off the multiple form of God as singular. They state that "Elohim" was intended by the Israelites to refer to the "plentiful all embracing powers of Yahweh." From scriptural evidence alone, we know that the early Israelites and pre-Israelites were anything but monotheistic. And, if one returns to the Mesopotamian roots of Genesis, it becomes abundantly clear that Abraham emerged from a culture that worshipped not one, but many gods, both male and female in nature.

 

Scattered among the various verses in the Bible, we find the diverse pieces of the puzzle describing the physical body of this God in whose image man has been sculpted. Curiously, all the ancient gods and goddesses possessed a human-like physical body. The Greek and Roman gods, as well as the Indian, Egyptian, Hurrian, Hittite, Canaanite, Meso-American, and Norse gods were humanoid in appearance. The Sumerians convey specific, human looking descriptions of their gods, and other ancient pictorial renderings of these beings abound. Couple archaic descriptive evidence, with early Mesopotamian texts, and writings of the Bible, and it is soon obvious we are not dealing with one unseen spirit, but with a race of superior physical beings, both male and female.

 

 

 

Re-examining the Bible with this in mind, it is not unusual that God has a face, eats, can be wrestled with, and even walks: "And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day..." Genesis 3:8 NAS. Not only does God walk around, he appears to be man-like: "And the Lord appeared to him (Abraham)...while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day. When he lifted up his eyes and looked, behold three men were standing opposite him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the earth, and said, O Lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass away from your servant." Genesis 18:1-3.

 

Abraham clearly believes he is seeing a "god." What was so different about these Heavenly visitors that he instantly discerned that they were not humans? These visiting gods behave as average humans; washing their feet (Genesis 18:4), and consuming food provided by their human host; "for Abraham stood by them under the tree as they ate." Genesis 18:8.

 

This God who has eaten a meal beneath the shade tree is obviously not omniscient, since he had to go down and see for himself concerning the goings on at Sodom and Gomorrah: "I will go down now and see if they have done entirely according to the outcry, which has come to Me, and if not I will know." Genesis 18:20-21 NAS.

 

Apparently, the Hebrew God can be argued with, for the remainder of chapter 18 is devoted to Abraham attempting to persuade God not to destroy all of the inhabitants of the two cities. In Genesis 32:34, we again find that God is referred to as a man: "Then Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak." Jacob, victorious in his struggle states: "I have seen God face to face;" Genesis 32:29-30.

 

Jacob also asks the god/man to identify himself, implying that he was aware of the existence of plural deities. Abraham and Jacob were not the only humans to converse with God in a face to face situation, the patriarch Moses also had that unique privilege: "And it came about, whenever Moses went out to the tent, ...the Lord would speak with Moses." Yes, it appears that the Lord used to "speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend..." Exodus 33:9 & 11.

 

Moses was not the only Israelite to go up to God, or to see him. "for Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and they saw the God of Israel; and under his feet there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself. Yet he did not stretch out his hand against the nobles of the sons of Israel; and they beheld God, and they ate and drank." Exodus 24:9-11.

 

The New Testament tells us that Jesus was both the Son of Man and the Son of God. It stands to reason therefore that if he is a combination of someone from Heaven, and someone from earth, then he is in fact a hybrid. The Bible also provides us with a description of what God actually looks like, for Jesus stressed that "...He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how do you say, "Show us the Father?" John 14:9. Logic dictates that if Jesus looked like his father, and Jesus looked like a human being, then this means that God looks like a human being.

 

Genesis 1:27 states that man is created in the "image of God," implying that God looks like a man. Some biblical scholars try to pass the buck by saying that verses which refer to man having been created in the image of his god, are in fact references to his having a spirit like that of God. Though this is true to a certain degree, it is clearly the nature of that spirit that confuses man, for the Lord said, "My Spirit shall not abide with man forever, in his going astray he is flesh;..." Genesis 6:3.

 

Is the spirit of God that which has been incorporated into man in order to make him look like his god? The Hebrew scriptures have consistently rendered the word "neph'esh" as soul; and throughout the Bible, both man and God are referred to as a soul (Genesis 2:7, NAS and Jeremiah 50:14 NWT). Zecharia Sitchin equates the word Neph'esh, or soul, with the spirit in his book The 12th Planet. He points out that the Old Testament exhorts against the shedding of human blood and the eating of animal blood, "for the soul of every sort of flesh is its blood by the soul in it. Leviticus 17:14 , NWT.

 

Apparently, there is a connection between an element in the blood, and the living body of a creature or soul. Curiously, Sumerian and Babylonian texts state that the blood of a god was employed to create man in what appears to be a primitive, yet provocative description of genetic engineering: "Let the one god be slaughtered, then let the gods be cleansed by immersion. Let Nintu mix clay with his flesh and blood. Let that same god and man be thoroughly mixed in the clay...from the flesh of a God let a spirit remain." Note that the gods washed up, or "cleansed" themselves by "immersion," just as modern day physicians would before performing such a procedure. And, it was from the "flesh" and "blood" of the god, that this "spirit" was derived. This enigmatic spirit was to remain in the new type of "man" they were making.

 

Since the DNA of a living creature is found in its blood, this lends credence to the concept that the spirit or soul is synonymous with DNA. If biological engineering took place in the Garden of Eden, then we can clearly understand what the words "in the image of God" really mean. Man, an inferior being, was apparently given a dose of superior genes from his Elohim creators in what must have been an effort to improve him for some reason. And, as the Elohim put their DNA into the bodies of the existing "clay" of the earth, in all likelihood, the homo-erectus or ape-man that may have been in existence when this experiment took place, then they also put their "life force" into man. In other words, it was their divine DNA that provided man with an everlasting spirit, like that of his space fathers. It is this "infinite" spirit that could not strive within finite man forever, according to Genesis 6:3, and it was man's "flesh" that was causing the problem. We know this condition as "mortality."

 

It could be that the holographic energy pattern, or spirit of man derived from the Elohim, continues to live once the human flesh is destroyed, and thus it is this pattern that can be reanimated to raise the dead. The spirit pattern of the Elohim generated a physical body capable of supporting it for a much greater span of time than an earthly derived body could provide, due to evolutionary conditions here on earth. Therefore this meant that once the earthly body was used up, the superior template from which it was made could continue on, in a higher dimension. Since everything in the universe, including our bodies are made up from scalar frequencies, then by subjecting this holographic pattern to the correct scalar frequency, it might be possible to regenerate, or resurrect the dead. This concept may be where the ancient Hebrews and others, derived the concept of eternal life, and the regeneration, or resurrection of the dead spoken of in the Bible. (See Matthew 19:29, 25:46, 19:28, John 3:16, & Acts 24:21).

 

If man does in fact possess an "inner body" made up of holographic electrical impulses, then this may be what is made manifest when one sees a "ghost," or specter. This would be the eternal "spirit" inherited from the DNA of the Elohim. The remaining imprint of this energy pattern might even be the kyrillian field which has been photographed in modern times. Egyptian mummies, missing appendages such as fingers, have been photographed with kyrillian photography. The missing fingers are present in the kyrillian aura of the mummy. Since the mummy has been deceased for thousands of years, it is unlikely that this kyrillian aura is the ghost itself. However, the ghost, or spirit, most likely exists in a different dimension, while an imprint of the auric pattern remains with the corpse.

 

The Bible alludes to the existence of ghosts, or spirits, for King Saul visited a medium at En-dor, and had her call up the spirit of the deceased prophet Samuel. (I Samuel 28:7-20). It could be that this inner, hidden body is capable of having what is referred to as an "out of body experience," in which a person voluntarily, or involuntarily leaves the body temporarily, travels on the astral plane to other destinations or dimensions, then returns. The New Testament refers to this type of astral projection experience in II Corinthians 12:2-4. The Apostle Paul describes a man who traveled to the "third heaven,"* or Paradise, to hear "inexpressible words," concerning God. Paul was unsure of whether this occurred "in the body," or "out of the body." He was convinced however, that the man had indeed traveled to the "third heaven." (It is well established in the UFO literature that many abductee/contactees, claim to have had "out of body" experiences with the occupants of UFO's. This apparently, is not an experience confined to modern times, for it seem to be connected to ET encounters in biblical times as well).

 

Bearing all the evidence discussed so far into mind, it would appear that God is a person, with a physical body, a living, breathing, entity possessing the "breath of life." This implies that he is a being who obeys the laws of physics just as all living creatures and matter within the universe. Because man was created "male and female," in the image of his creators the Elohim, then God would inevitably be able to reproduce.

 

The Elohim are mentioned over 3,350 times in biblical writings. Incredibly enough, in early Israel, Hebrew religion did not seek to deny the existence of other gods. Even Bible translators were unable to totally eradicate their existence from scripture as evidenced by this Psalms in which God (YHWH), decrees death to some other gods:

 

"God takes his stand in the congregation of God; He judges in the midst of the gods, how long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked? Vindicate the weak and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and destitute. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them out of the hand of the wicked. They do not know nor do they understand; they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. I on my part said you are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High. Nevertheless, you will die like men, fall like one of the princes." Arise, O God, judge the earth! For it is thou who dost possess all the nations." Psalm 82, NAS.

 

If no other gods existed, it would be unnecessary to order their deaths, or to chide them for maltreatment of human beings. The beginning of the texts indicate that God was in the place where these deities assembled when he issued his decree of death for the failure on their part to judge their human possessions fairly. It is possible that this text alludes to a military coup in which the God of Israel overthrew errant deities on his home planet. The corresponding Mesopotamian text will be discussed in chapter nine. Numerous Mesopotamian documents exist describing attempted takeovers by various factions among the Sumerian and Babylonian deities.

 

From texts such as the 82nd Psalms, and references to the Elohim, it appears that the ancient Hebrews practiced monotheism, the worship of one particular God, while believing that others existed. It would seem that this is true, since God often had a difficult time keeping his little flock from the clutches of other gods. In fact, the first commandment given to the people after Moses descended from the mountain was this: "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me!" Exodus 20:2.

 

If there were no other gods, then why would God need to worry? Surely, after meeting with, and witnessing the miracles of their God, idols of mere wood and stone would have seemed passe. We conclude that other man-like deities did exist, and that those who initially recorded the messages from these beings did not try to remove them completely from the one God scenario. Apparently, these beings communicated with earthlings, just as the God of the Old Testament did, in attempts to woo humans into their domain for their own personal agendas.

 

Psalms 82 indicates that the God of Moses was the most benevolent of all the Elohim in his dealings with the men of earth. From this we ascertain that the Hebrew God is a being of feeling and emotions. He has a sense of right and wrong. He exhibits kindness toward earthlings by defending them from the harsh treatment of "other gods."

 

In conclusion, it is obvious that the Hebrew Deity possessed a physical body (soul) like ours. (He most likely possesses a spirit similar to man's as well). According to ancient writings including the Bible, God originally came from "the kingdom of the Heavens."** He, therefore, appears to be a member of a non-terrestrial race of beings the Bible refers to as the Elohim; beings that Sitchin traced back to the Sumero-Babylonian deities. Which of these deities was the God of the Old Testament, and what was his Sumerian name? If He is an alien being, we are left with other puzzling questions. Just where is this "kingdom of the Heavens"? Where are the Elohim now? Will they ever return?

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Split

James E. Fincher II, Copyright 2003

 

 

 

 

 

Eternal isolation

Led the One to contemplation

Of It's own emancipation

Through an other's generation.

 

 

Polar separation,

The initial operation,

Though produced by Self-negation,

Was a self-perpetuation.

 

 

After segregation

By opposer-activation,

The Observer's observation

Had begun his education.

 

 

So, predestination,

As a further complication,

Bore the victims of temptation

And the means of their salvation.

 

 

True illumination

Is derived from realization

That there is no separation

Of Creator and creation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

All, Undivided

James E Fincher II, Copyright 2003

 

 

 

 

Everything done means there's nothing to do,

Everything said, and it's quiet,

Everywhere visited blocks all escape;

Everything sold and who'll buy it?

 

 

No space between won't allow deviation,

No evil means no more right,

No other choice after all has been chosen;

No pain is no more delight.

 

 

Something designed takes the traits of Designer,

Something redundant makes new,

Something to do is escape from the stillness;

Something, as one, must be two.

 

 

Everything done and there's nothing to do,

Everything said and why speak?

Everything equal means absence of food,

Everything strong eats the weak.

 

 

All things are one but maintain opposition,

All life, persisting, must kill,

All forms are shapeless and useless alone;

All, undivided, is still.

 

 

 

 
The Veil

James E Fincher II, Copyright 2003

 

 

 

 

 

Transcendental hide and seek

And Supersoul denial

Provide the all-pervading One

A challenge and a trial.

 

 

Man became the child of God,

The multitude of faces,

Escaping lonely nothingness

From nowhere to all places.

 

 

Conceived af First Division,

The Awareness had decreed

That freedom through imprisonment

Was the only way, indeed.

 

 

Being is impossible

Unless it's validated

By Something that created it,

And by what It created.

 

 

Ignorance perpetuates

The lie that is the Truth

And lets the Ancient One, again

Experience It's youth.

 

 

 

 

 

Anarchy, Freedom, And Death

James E Fincher II, Copyright 2003

 

 

 

Anarchy, Freedom, and Death:   Why is it people can't seem to notice that these three words (among many others like them) represent extreme theoretical states that do not exist?

 

     I heard about a schoolgirl in West Virginia who was suspended for attempting to form an organization of local "anarchists," and had even drawn up a charter to govern their behavior.  Since a state of anarchy, by definition, would require a total lack of organization, this is a completely self-contradictory endeavor.  Only when every single human being upon the Earth is self-sufficient and independent of any other will anarchy have a chance to become a tangible reality.  Otherwise, an attempt to impose "anarchy" on humanity would result only in mob rule.

 

     For years, I've wondered exactly what people mean when they use the word freedom.  Some see it as the same thing as anarchy:  freedom from government.  These tend to be the stronger, independent ones; however, a person who's a bit more dependent upon the collective usually has a slightly more liberal interpretation of what the word means.  My idea of true freedom would mean detachment from all of my desires and even my body itself.  But this language is deceptive as well, since it implies that I am something separate from my body and do not necessarily require it to exist.  If this is true, it stands to reason I would have no need for a body in the first place!

 

     This being the case, why do I hear so many talking about death as if it were something that could actually be experienced?  They speak of an "afterlife" where their bodies are no longer necessary.  If this is really what people believe about death then why don't they call it "metamophosis" or "transition?"  And why do they cry at funerals?  If my (soul or consciousness or ego or whatever it is) marches endlessly on after my body malfunctions or is destroyed, where was it before my body was conceived?  Personal identities, as phenomena which are "more than the sum of their parts," are dependent on their "parts" to exist; therefore, death cannot be directly experienced by the dead.  Why worry about what happens to you when you die when there will be no "you" to which things can happen?

 

New Religion?

James E. Fincher II, Copright 2003

 



 

I just finished watching a clip of Billy Graham in the seventies.  He went on and on about reaping what you sow, citing several natural examples.  He then proceeded to explain how this concept applied to The Great Beyond and how Jesus Christ can save you from reaping hell in the afterlife.  It was nothing I haven't heard before, but the hateful look in Mr. Graham's eyes as he talked about the love of God and neighbor was a poignant reminder of the hypocrisy inherent in popular Christianity and the negative spiritual effect it has on Christian society, which also happens to be MY society.

 

          Don't get me wrong, it's a good idea to tell most of these morons that they're going to have to pay for what they do.  If we didn't, we'd have a bunch of cretins with absolutely no fear of the consequences of their own actions running around destroying everyone and everything before they finally destroyed their idiot selves.  I firmly believe that's the reason organized religion exists: crowd control.  Excluding this purpose, I see religion (all of them, not just Christianity) as merely a set of symbols which were originally designed to guide one towards union with the Divine.

 

          At this point, someone would inevitably ask "Union with the Divine?  What's that?" and, besides saying the same thing Jesus did, "I and the Father are one," I would have to resort to religious symbolism in an attempt to explain it.  There's the main problem. Words are inadequate at best and gravely misleading at worst, and you have to wade through a whole lot of deception to get to the truth.  The deception I speak of is the way organized religion uses one's own guilt and fear against him to keep him coming back for forgiveness and insuring himself against a trip to Hell.  The deception I speak of is the proclamation by the church that an individual or group can somehow escape the inevitability of reaping what they sow, in the afterlife or here and now, by accepting their messiah, an image of God forbidden centuries before.  The deception I speak of is the turning of the hearts of men away from this very moment, which is the only time in which God lives.

 

 

 

 

          So, if crowd control or behavior modification is the true purpose for the continued existence of organized religion, then we must devise a way to convince even the most barbaric ruffian that he will reap what he sows here and now, or at least within his lifetime.  At the same time, we must generate a set of symbols (without an image of God) that point the way to the true Heaven, the one that is reaped here and now with the Living God and is also called Enlightenment, Satori, Nirvana, Union, and a host of other names.  This set of symbols would also, necessarily, be one that was invulnerable to misinterpretation or twisting and utilization by any church, thereby rendering any surrounding religious organization purposeless and harmless.

 

          So where do we start?  Any ideas?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Tao Te Ching

An Interpolation by Peter Merel

 

Part 1

 

1. The Way

 

The Way that can be experienced is not true;

The world that can be constructed is not real.

The Way manifests all that happens and may happen;

The world represents all that exists and may exist.

 

To experience without abstraction is to sense the world;

To experience with abstraction is to know the world.

These two experiences are indistinguishable;

Their construction differs but their effect is the same.

 

Beyond the gate of experience flows the Way,

Which is ever greater and more subtle than the world.

 

2. Abstraction

 

When beauty is abstracted

Then ugliness has been implied;

When good is abstracted

Then evil has been implied.

 

So alive and dead are abstracted from nature,

Difficult and easy abstracted from progress,

Long and short abstracted from contrast,

High and low abstracted from depth,

Song and speech abstracted from melody,

After and before abstracted from sequence.

 

The sage experiences without abstraction,

And accomplishes without action;

He accepts the ebb and flow of things,

Nurtures them, but does not own them,

And lives, but does not dwell.

 

3. Without Action

 

Not praising the worthy prevents contention,

Not esteeming the valuable prevents theft,

Not displaying the beautiful prevents desire.

 

In this manner the sage governs people:

Emptying their minds,

Filling their bellies,

Weakening their ambitions,

And strengthening their bones.

 

If people lack knowledge and desire

Then they can not act;

If no action is taken

Harmony remains.

 

4. Limitless

 

The Way is a limitless vessel;

Used by the self, it is not filled by the world;

It cannot be cut, knotted, dimmed or stilled;

Its depths are hidden, ubiquitous and eternal;

I don't know where it comes from;

It comes before nature.

 

5. Nature

 

Nature is not kind;

It treats all things impartially.

The Sage is not kind,

And treats all people impartially.

 

Nature is like a bellows,

Empty, yet never ceasing its supply.

The more it moves, the more it yields;

So the sage draws upon experience

And cannot be exhausted.

 

6. Experience

 

Experience is a riverbed,

Its source hidden, forever flowing:

Its entrance, the root of the world,

The Way moves within it:

Draw upon it; it will not run dry.

 

7. Complete

 

Nature is complete because it does not serve itself.

 

The sage places himself after and finds himself before,

Ignores his desire and finds himself content.

 

He is complete because he does not serve himself.

 

8. Water

 

The best of man is like water,

Which benefits all things, and does not contend with them,

Which flows in places that others disdain,

Where it is in harmony with the Way.

 

So the sage:

Lives within nature,

Thinks within the deep,

Gives within impartiality,

Speaks within trust,

Governs within order,

Crafts within ability,

Acts within opportunity.

 

He does not contend, and none contend against him.

 

9. Retire

 

Fill a cup to its brim and it is easily spilled;

Temper a sword to its hardest and it is easily broken;

Amass the greatest treasure and it is easily stolen;

Claim credit and honour and you easily fall;

Retire once your purpose is achieved - this is natural.

 

10. Harmony

 

Embracing the Way, you become embraced;

Breathing gently, you become newborn;

Clearing your mind, you become clear;

Nurturing your children, you become impartial;

Opening your heart, you become accepted;

Accepting the world, you embrace the Way.

 

Bearing and nurturing,

Creating but not owning,

Giving without demanding,

This is harmony.

 

11. Tools

 

Thirty spokes meet at a nave;

Because of the hole we may use the wheel.

Clay is moulded into a vessel;

Because of the hollow we may use the cup.

Walls are built around a hearth;

Because of the doors we may use the house.

Thus tools come from what exists,

But use from what does not.

 

12. Substance

 

Too much colour blinds the eye,

Too much music deafens the ear,

Too much taste dulls the palate,

Too much play maddens the mind,

Too much desire tears the heart.

 

In this manner the sage cares for people:

He provides for the belly, not for the senses;

He ignores abstraction and holds fast to substance.

 

13. Self

 

Both praise and blame cause concern,

For they bring people hope and fear.

The object of hope and fear is the self -

For, without self, to whom may fortune and disaster occur?

 

Therefore,

Who distinguishes himself from the world may be given the world,

But who regards himself as the world may accept the world.

14. Mystery

 

Looked at but cannot be seen - it is beneath form;

Listened to but cannot be heard - it is beneath sound;

Held but cannot be touched - it is beneath feeling;

These depthless things evade definition,

And blend into a single mystery.

 

In its rising there is no light,

In its falling there is no darkness,

A continuous thread beyond description,

Lining what does not exist;

Its form formless,

Its image nothing,

Its name silence;

Follow it, it has no back,

Meet it, it has no face.

 

Attend the present to deal with the past;

Thus you grasp the continuity of the Way,

Which is its essence.

 

15. Enlightenment

 

The enlightened possess understanding

So profound they can not be understood.

Because they cannot be understood

I can only describe their appearance:

 

Cautious as one crossing thin ice,

Undecided as one surrounded by danger,

Modest as one who is a guest,

Unbounded as melting ice,

Genuine as unshaped wood,

Broad as a valley,

Seamless as muddy water.

 

Who stills the water that the mud may settle,

Who seeks to stop that he may travel on,

Who desires less than what may transpire,

Decays, but will not renew.

 

16. Decay and Renewal

 

Empty the self completely;

Embrace perfect peace.

The world will rise and move;

Watch it return to rest.

All the flourishing things

Will return to their source.

 

This return is peaceful;

It is the flow of nature,

An eternal decay and renewal.

Accepting this brings enlightenment,

Ignoring this brings misery.

 

Who accepts nature's flow becomes all-cherishing;

Being all-cherishing he becomes impartial;

Being impartial he becomes magnanimous;

Being magnanimous he becomes natural;

Being natural he becomes one with the Way;

Being one with the Way he becomes immortal:

Though his body will decay, the Way will not.

 

17. Rulers

 

The best rulers are scarcely known by their subjects;

The next best are loved and praised;

The next are feared;

The next despised:

They have no faith in their people,

And their people become unfaithful to them.

 

When the best rulers achieve their purpose

Their subjects claim the achievement as their own.

 

 

18. Hypocrisy

When the Way is forgotten

Duty and justice appear;

Then knowledge and wisdom are born

Along with hypocrisy.

 

When harmonious relationships dissolve

Then respect and devotion arise;

When a nation falls to chaos

Then loyalty and patriotism are born.

 

19. Simplify

 

If we could discard knowledge and wisdom

Then people would profit a hundredfold;

If we could discard duty and justice

Then harmonious relationships would form;

If we could discard artifice and profit

Then waste and theft would disappear.

 

Yet such remedies treat only symptoms

And so they are inadequate.

 

People need personal remedies:

Reveal your naked self and embrace your original nature;

Bind your self-interest and control your ambition;

Forget your habits and simplify your affairs.

 

 

 

 

20. Wandering

 

What is the difference between assent and denial?

What is the difference between beautiful and ugly?

What is the difference between fearsome and afraid?

 

The people are merry as if at a magnificent party

Or playing in the park at springtime,

But I am tranquil and wandering,

Like a newborn before it learns to smile,

Alone, with no true home.

 

The people have enough and to spare,

Where I have nothing,

And my heart is foolish,

Muddled and cloudy.

 

The people are bright and certain,

Where I am dim and confused;

The people are clever and wise,

Where I am dull and ignorant;

Aimless as a wave drifting over the sea,

Attached to nothing.

 

The people are busy with purpose,

Where I am impractical and rough;

I do not share the peoples' cares

But I am fed at nature's breast.

 

21. Accept

 

Harmony is only in following the Way.

 

The Way is without form or quality,

But expresses all forms and qualities;

The Way is hidden and implicate,

But expresses all of nature;

The Way is unchanging,

But expresses all motion.

 

Beneath sensation and memory

The Way is the source of all the world.

How can I understand the source of the world?

By accepting.

 

22. Home

 

Accept and you become whole,

Bend and you straighten,

Empty and you fill,

Decay and you renew,

Want and you acquire,

Fulfill and you become confused.

 

The sage accepts the world

As the world accepts the Way;

He does not display himself, so is clearly seen,

Does not justify himself, so is recognized,

Does not boast, so is credited,

Does not pride himself, so endures,

Does not contend, so none contend against him.

 

The ancients said, "Accept and you become whole",

Once whole, the world is as your home.

 

23. Words

 

Nature says only a few words:

High wind does not last long,

Nor does heavy rain.

If nature's words do not last

Why should those of man?

 

Who accepts harmony, becomes harmonious.

Who accepts loss, becomes lost.

For who accepts harmony, the Way harmonizes with him,

And who accepts loss, the Way cannot find.

 

24. Indulgence

 

Straighten yourself and you will not stand steady;

Display yourself and you will not be clearly seen;

Justify yourself and you will not be respected;

Promote yourself and you will not be believed;

Pride yourself and you will not endure.

 

These behaviours are wasteful, indulgent,

And so they attract disfavour;

Harmony avoids them.

 

25. Beneath Abstraction

 

There is a mystery,

Beneath abstraction,

Silent, depthless,

Alone, unchanging,

Ubiquitous and liquid,

The mother of nature.

It has no name, but I call it "the Way";

It has no limit, but I call it "limitless".

 

Being limitless, it flows away forever;

Flowing away forever, it returns to my self:

 

The Way is limitless,

So nature is limitless,

So the world is limitless,

And so I am limitless.

 

For I am abstracted from the world,

The world from nature,

Nature from the Way,

And the Way from what is beneath abstraction.

 

26. Calm

 

Gravity is the source of lightness,

Calm, the master of haste.

 

A lone traveller will journey all day, watching over his belongings;

Only safe in his own bed may he lose them in sleep.

 

So the captain of a great vessel should not act lightly or hastily.

Acting lightly, he loses sight of the world,

Acting hastily, he loses control of himself.

 

The captain can not treat his great ship as a small boat;

Rather than glitter like jade

He must stand like stone.

 

27. Perfection

 

The perfect traveller leaves no trail to be followed;

The perfect speaker leaves no question to be answered;

The perfect accountant leaves no working to be completed;

The perfect container leaves no lock to be closed;

The perfect knot leaves no end to be ravelled.

 

So the sage nurtures all men

And abandons no one.

He accepts everything

And rejects nothing.

He attends to the smallest details.

 

For the strong must guide the weak;

The weak are raw material to the strong.

If the guide is not respected,

Or the material is not cared for,

Confusion will result, no matter how clever one is.

 

This is the secret of perfection:

When raw wood is carved, it becomes a tool;

When a man is employed, he becomes a tool;

The perfect carpenter leaves no wood to be carved.

 

28. Becoming

 

Using the male, being female,

Being the entrance of the world,

You embrace harmony

And become as a newborn.

Using strength, being weak,

Being the root of the world,

You complete harmony

And become as unshaped wood.

 

Using the light, being dark,

Being the world,

You perfect harmony

And return to the Way.

 

29. Ambition

 

Those who wish to change the world

According with their desire

Cannot succeed.

 

The world is shaped by the Way;

It cannot be shaped by the self.

Trying to change it, you damage it;

Trying to possess it, you lose it.

 

So some will lead, while others follow.

Some will be warm, others cold

Some will be strong, others weak.

Some will get where they are going

While others fall by the side of the road.

 

So the sage will be neither extravagant nor violent.

 

30. Violence

 

Powerful men are well advised not to use violence,

For violence has a habit of returning;

Thorns and weeds grow wherever an army goes,

And lean years follow a great war.

 

A general is well advised

To achieve nothing more than his orders:

Not to take advantage of his victory.

Nor to glory, boast or pride himself;

To do what is dictated by necessity,

Not by choice.

 

For even the strongest force will weaken with time,

And then its violence will return, and kill it.

 

31. Armies

 

Armies are tools of violence;

They cause men to hate and fear.

The sage will not join them.

His purpose is creation;

Their purpose is destruction.

 

Weapons are tools of violence,

Not of the sage;

He uses them only when there is no choice,

And then calmly, and with tact,

For he finds no beauty in them.

 

Whoever finds beauty in weapons

Delights in the slaughter of men;

And who delights in slaughter

Cannot content himself with peace.

 

So slaughters must be mourned

And conquest celebrated with a funeral.

 

32. Shapes

 

The Way has no true shape,

And therefore none can control it.

If a ruler could control the Way

All things would follow

In harmony with his desire,

And sweet rain would fall,

Effortlessly slaking every thirst.

 

The Way is shaped by use,

But then the shape is lost.

Do not hold fast to shapes

But let sensation flow into the world

As a river courses down to the sea.

 

 

33. Virtues

 

Who understands the world is learned;

Who understands the self is enlightened.

Who conquers the world has strength;

Who conquers the self has harmony;

Who is determined has purpose.

Who is contented has wealth;

Who defends his home may long endure;

Who surrenders his home may long survive it.

 

34. Control

 

The Way flows and ebbs, creating and destroying,

Implementing all the world, attending to the tiniest details,

Claiming nothing in return.

 

It nurtures all things,

Though it does not control them;

It has no intention,

So it seems inconsequential.

 

It is the substance of all things;

Though it does not control them;

It has no exception,

So it seems all-important.

 

The sage would not control the world;

He is in harmony with the world.

 

35. Peace

 

If you offer music and food

Strangers may stop with you;

But if you accord with the Way

All the people of the world will keep you

In safety, health, community, and peace.

 

The Way lacks art and flavour;

It can neither be seen nor heard,

But its benefit cannot be exhausted.

 

36. Opposition

 

To reduce someone's influence, first expand it;

To reduce someone's force, first increase it;

To overthrow someone, first exalt them;

To take from someone, first give to them.

 

This is the subtlety by which the weak overcome the strong:

Fish should not leave their depths,

And swords should not leave their scabbards.

 

37. Tranquillity

 

The Way takes no action, but leaves nothing undone.

When you accept this

The world will flourish,

In harmony with nature.

 

Nature does not possess desire;

Without desire, the heart becomes quiet;

In this manner the whole world is made tranquil.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part 2

 

38. Ritual

 

Well-established hierarchies are not easily uprooted;

Closely held beliefs are not easily released;

So ritual enthralls generation after generation.

 

Harmony does not care for harmony, and so is naturally attained;

But ritual is intent upon harmony, and so can not attain it.

 

Harmony neither acts nor reasons;

Love acts, but without reason;

Justice acts to serve reason;

But ritual acts to enforce reason.

 

When the Way is lost, there remains harmony;

When harmony is lost, there remains love;

When love is lost, there remains justice;

And when justice is lost, there remains ritual.

 

Ritual is the end of compassion and honesty,

The beginning of confusion;

Belief is a colourful hope or fear,

The beginning of folly.

 

The sage goes by harmony, not by hope;

He dwells in the fruit, not the flower;

He accepts substance, and ignores abstraction.

 

39. Support

 

In mythical times all things were whole:

All the sky was clear,

All the earth was stable,

All the mountains were firm,

All the riverbeds were full,

All of nature was fertile,

And all the rulers were supported.

 

But, losing clarity, the sky tore;

Losing stability, the earth split;

Losing strength, the mountains sank;

Losing water, the riverbeds cracked;

Losing fertility, nature disappeared;

And losing support, the rulers fell.

 

Rulers depend upon their subjects,

The noble depend upon the humble;

So rulers call themselves orphaned, hungry and alone,

To win the people's support.

 

40. Motion and Use

 

The motion of the Way is to return;

The use of the Way is to accept;

All things come from the Way,

And the Way comes from nothing.

 

41. Following

 

When the great man learns the Way, he follows it with diligence;

When the common man learns the Way, he follows it on occasion;

When the mean man learns the Way, he laughs out loud;

Those who do not laugh, do not learn at all.

 

Therefore it is said:

Who understands the Way seems foolish;

Who progresses on the Way seems to fail;

Who follows the Way seems to wander.

 

For the finest harmony appears plain;

The brightest truth appears coloured;

The richest character appears incomplete;

The bravest heart appears meek;

The simplest nature appears inconstant.

 

The square, perfected, has no corner;

Music, perfected, has no melody;

Love, perfected, has no climax;

Art, perfected, has no meaning.

 

The Way can be neither sensed nor known:

It transmits sensation and transcends knowledge.

 

42. Mind

 

The Way bears sensation,

Sensation bears memory,

Sensation and memory bear abstraction,

And abstraction bears all the world;

Each thing in the world bears feeling and doing,

And, imbued with mind, harmony with the Way.

 

As others have taught, so do I teach,

"Who loses harmony opposes nature";

This is the root of my teaching.

 

43. Overcoming

 

Water overcomes the stone;

Without substance it requires no opening;

This is the benefit of taking no action.

 

Yet benefit without action,

And experience without abstraction,

Are practiced by very few.

 

44. Contentment

 

Health or reputation: which is held dearer?

Health or possessions: which has more worth?

Profit or loss: which is more troublesome?

 

Great love incurs great expense,

And great wealth incurs great fear,

But contentment comes at no cost.

For who knows when to stop

Does not continue into danger,

And so may long endure.

 

45. Quiet

 

Great perfection seems incomplete,

But does not decay;

Great abundance seems empty,

But does not fail.

 

Great truth seems contradictory;

Great cleverness seems stupid;

Great eloquence seems awkward.

As spring overcomes the cold,

And autumn overcomes the heat,

So calm and quiet overcome the world.

 

46. Horses

 

When a nation follows the Way,

Horses bear manure through its fields;

When a nation ignores the Way,

Horses bear soldiers through its streets.

 

There is no greater mistake than following desire;

There is no greater disaster than forgetting contentment;

There is no greater sickness than seeking attainment;

But one who is content to satisfy his needs

Finds that contentment endures.

 

47. Knowing

 

Without taking a step outdoors

You know the whole world;

Without taking a peep out the window

You know the colour of the sky.

 

The more you experience,

The less you know.

The sage wanders without knowing,

Looks without seeing,

Accomplishes without acting.

 

48. Inaction

 

The follower of knowledge learns as much as he can every day;

The follower of the Way forgets as much as he can every day.

 

By attrition he reaches a state of inaction

Wherein he does nothing, but nothing remains undone.

 

To conquer the world, accomplish nothing;

If you must accomplish something,

The world remains beyond conquest.

 

49. People

 

The sage does not distinguish between himself and the world;

The needs of other people are as his own.

 

He is good to those who are good;

He is also good to those who are not good,

Thereby he is good.

He trusts those who are trustworthy;

He also trusts those who are not trustworthy,

Thereby he is trustworthy.

 

The sage lives in harmony with the world,

And his mind is the world's mind.

So he nurtures the worlds of others as a mother does her children.

 

50. Death

 

Men flow into life, and ebb into death.

 

Some are filled with life;

Some are empty with death;

Some hold fast to life, and thereby perish,

For life is an abstraction.

 

Those who are filled with life

Need not fear tigers and rhinos in the wilds,

Nor wear armour and shields in battle;

The rhinoceros finds no place in them for its horn,

The tiger no place for its claw,

The soldier no place for a weapon,

For death finds no place in them.

 

51. Nurture

 

The Way bears all things;

Harmony nurtures them;

Nature shapes them;

Use completes them.

 

Each follows the Way and honours harmony,

Not by law,

But by being.

 

The Way bears, nurtures, shapes, completes,

Shelters, comforts, and makes a home for them.

 

Bearing without possessing,

Nurturing without taming,

Shaping without forcing,

This is harmony.

 

52. Clarity

 

The origin of the world is its mother;

Understand the mother, and you understand the child;

Embrace the child, and you embrace the mother,

Who will not perish when you die.

 

Reserve your judgments and words

And you maintain your influence;

Speak your mind and take positions

And nothing will save you.

 

As observing detail is clarity,

So maintaining flexibility is strength;

Use the light but shed no light,

So that you do yourself no harm,

But embrace clarity.

 

 

 

53. Difficult Paths

 

With but a small understanding

One may follow the Way like a main road,

Fearing only to leave it;

Following a main road is easy,

Yet people delight in difficult paths.

 

When palaces are kept up

Fields are left to weeds

And granaries empty;

Wearing fine clothes,

Bearing sharp swords,

Glutting with food and drink,

Hoarding wealth and possessions -

These are the ways of theft,

And far from the Way.

 

54. Cultivate Harmony

 

Cultivate harmony within yourself, and harmony becomes real;

Cultivate harmony within your family, and harmony becomes fertile;

Cultivate harmony within your community, and harmony becomes abundant;

Cultivate harmony within your culture, and harmony becomes enduring;

Cultivate harmony within the world, and harmony becomes ubiquitous.

 

Live with a person to understand that person;

Live with a family to understand that family;

Live with a community to understand that community;

Live with a culture to understand that culture;

Live with the world to understand the world.

 

How can I live with the world?

By accepting.

 

55. Soft Bones

 

Who is filled with harmony is like a newborn.

Wasps and snakes will not bite him;

Hawks and tigers will not claw him.

 

His bones are soft yet his grasp is sure,

For his flesh is supple;

His mind is innocent yet his body is virile,

For his vigour is plentiful;

His song is long-lasting yet his voice is sweet,

For his grace is perfect.

 

But knowing harmony creates abstraction,

And following abstraction creates ritual.

Exceeding nature creates calamity,

And controlling nature creates violence.

 

56. Impartiality

 

Who understands does not preach;

Who preaches does not understand.

Reserve your judgments and words;

Smooth differences and forgive disagreements;

Dull your wit and simplify your purpose;

Accept the world.

 

Then,

Friendship and enmity,

Profit and loss,

Honour and disgrace,

Will not affect you;

The world will accept you.

 

57. Conquer with Inaction

 

Do not control the people with laws,

Nor violence nor espionage,

But conquer them with inaction.

 

For:

The more morals and taboos there are,

The more cruelty afflicts people;

The more guns and knives there are,

The more factions divide people;

The more arts and skills there are,

The more change obsoletes people;

The more laws and taxes there are,

The more theft corrupts people.

 

Yet take no action, and the people nurture eachother;

Make no laws, and the people deal fairly with eachother;

Own no interest, and the people cooperate with eachother;

Express no desire, and the people harmonize with eachother.

 

58. No End

 

When government is lazy and informal

The people are kind and honest;

When government is efficient and severe

The people are discontented and deceitful.

 

Good fortune follows upon disaster;

Disaster lurks within good fortune;

Who can say how things will end?

Perhaps there is no end.

 

Honesty is ever deceived;

Kindness is ever seduced;

Men have been like this for a long time.

 

So the sage is firm but not cutting,

Pointed but not piercing,

Straight but not rigid,

Bright but not blinding.

 

 

59. Restraint

 

Manage a great nation as you would cook a delicate fish.

 

To govern men in accord with nature

It is best to be restrained;

Restraint makes agreement easy to attain,

And easy agreement builds harmonious relationships;

With sufficient harmony no resistance will arise;

When no resistance arises, then you possess the heart of the nation,

And when you possess the nation's heart, your influence will long endure:

Deeply rooted and firmly established.

This is the method of far sight and long life.

 

60. Demons

 

When you use the Way to conquer the world,

Your demons will lose their power to harm.

It is not that they lose their power as such,

But that they will not harm others;

Because they will not harm others,

You will not harm others:

When neither you nor your demons can do harm,

You will be at peace with them.

 

61. Submission

 

A nation is like a hierarchy, a marketplace, and a maiden.

A maiden wins her husband by submitting to his advances;

Submission is a means of union.

 

So when a large country submits to a small country

It will adopt the small country;

When a small country submits to a large country

It will be adopted by the large country;

The one submits and adopts;

The other submits and is adopted.

 

It is in the interest of a large country to unite and gain service,

And in the interest of a small country to unite and gain patronage;

If both would serve their interests,

Both must submit.

 

62. Sin

 

The Way is the fate of men,

The treasure of the saint,

And the refuge of the sinner.

 

Fine words are often borrowed,

And great deeds are often appropriated;

Therefore, when a man falls, do not abandon him,

And when a man gains power, do not honour him;

Only remain impartial and show him the Way.

 

Why should someone appreciate the Way?

The ancients said, "By it, those who seek may easily find,

And those who regret may easily absolve"

So it is the most precious gift.

 

63. Difficulty

 

Practice no-action;

Attend to do-nothing;

Taste the flavorless,

Magnify the small,

Multiply the few,

Return love for hate.

 

Deal with the difficult while it is yet easy;

Deal with the great while it is yet small;

 

The difficult develops naturally from the easy,

And the great from the small;

So the sage, by dealing with the small,

Achieves the great.

 

Who finds it easy to promise finds it hard to be trusted;

Who takes things lightly finds things difficult;

The sage recognizes difficulty, and so has none.

 

64a. Care at the Beginning

 

What lies still is easy to grasp;

What lies far off is easy to anticipate;

What is brittle is easy to shatter;

What is small is easy to disperse.

 

Yet a tree broader than a man can embrace is born of a tiny shoot;

A dam greater than a river can overflow starts with a clod of earth;

A journey of a thousand miles begins at the spot under one's feet.

 

Therefore deal with things before they happen;

Create order before there is confusion.

 

64b. Care at the End

 

He who acts, spoils;

He who grasps, loses.

People often fail on the verge of success;

Take care at the end as at the beginning,

So that you may avoid failure.

 

The sage desires no-desire,

Values no-value,

Learns no-learning,

And returns to the places that people have forgotten;

He would help all people to become natural,

But then he would not be natural.

 

 

 

65. Subtlety

 

The ancients did not seek to rule people with knowledge,

But to help them become natural.

It is difficult for knowledgeable people to become natural.

 

To use law to control a nation weakens the nation.

But to use nature to control a nation strengthens the nation.

 

Understanding these two paths is understanding subtlety;

Subtlety runs deep, ranges wide,

Resolves confusion and preserves peace.

 

66. Lead by Following

 

The river carves out the valley by flowing beneath it.

Thereby the river is the master of the valley.

 

In order to master people

One must speak as their servant;

In order to lead people

One must follow them.

 

So when the sage rises above the people,

They do not feel oppressed;

And when the sage stands before the people,

They do not feel hindered.

 

So the popularity of the sage does not fail,

He does not contend, and no one contends against him.

 

67. Unimportance

 

All the world says,

"I am important;

I am separate from all the world.

I am important because I am separate,

Were I the same, I could never be important."

 

Yet here are three treasures

That I cherish and commend to you:

The first is compassion,

By which one finds courage.

The second is restraint,

By which one finds strength.

And the third is unimportance,

By which one finds influence.

 

Those who are fearless, but without compassion,

Powerful, but without restraint,

Or influential, yet important,

Cannot endure.

 

 

 

 

68. Compassion

 

Compassion is the finest weapon and best defence.

If you would establish harmony,

Compassion must surround you like a fortress.

 

Therefore,

A good soldier does not inspire fear;

A good fighter does not display aggression;

A good conqueror does not engage in battle;

A good leader does not exercise authority.

 

This is the value of unimportance;

This is how to win the cooperation of others;

This to how to build the same harmony that is in nature.

 

69. Ambush

 

There is a saying among soldiers:

It is easier to lose a yard than take an inch.

 

In this manner one may deploy troops without marshalling them,

Bring weapons to bear without exposing them,

Engage the foe without invading them,

And exhaust their strength without fighting them.

 

There is no worse disaster than misunderstanding your enemy;

To do so endangers all of my treasures;

So when two well matched forces oppose eachother,

The general who maintains compassion will win.

 

70. Individuality

 

My words are easy to understand

And my actions are easy to perform

Yet no other can understand or perform them.

 

My words have meaning; my actions have reason;

Yet these cannot be known and I cannot be known.

 

We are each unique, and therefore valuable;

Though the sage wears coarse clothes, his heart is jade.

 

71. Limitation

 

Who recognizes his limitations is healthy;

Who ignores his limitations is sick.

The sage recognizes this sickness as a limitation.

And so becomes immune.

 

72. Revolution

 

When people have nothing more to lose,

Then revolution will result.

 

Do not take away their lands,

And do not destroy their livelihoods;

If your burden is not heavy then they will not shirk it.

 

The sage maintains himself but exacts no tribute,

Values himself but requires no honours;

He ignores abstraction and accepts substance.

 

73. Fate

 

Who is brave and bold will perish;

Who is brave and subtle will benefit.

The subtle profit where the bold perish

For Fate does not honour daring.

And even the sage dares not tempt fate.

 

Fate does not attack, yet all things are conquered by it;

It does not ask, yet all things answer to it;

It does not call, yet all things meet it;

It does not plan, yet all things are determined by it.

 

Fate's net is vast and its mesh is coarse,

Yet none escape it.

 

74. Execution

 

If people were not afraid of death,

Then what would be the use of an executioner?

 

If people were only afraid of death,

And you executed everyone who did not obey,

No one would dare to disobey you.

Then what would be the use of an executioner?

 

People fear death because death is an instrument of fate.

When people are killed by execution rather than by fate,

This is like carving wood in the place of a carpenter.

Those who carve wood in place of a carpenter

Often injure their hands.

 

75. Rebellion

 

When rulers take grain so that they may feast,

Their people become hungry;

When rulers take action to serve their own interests,

Their people become rebellious;

When rulers take lives so that their own lives are maintained,

Their people no longer fear death.

 

When people act without regard for their own lives

They overcome those who value only their own lives.

 

76. Flexibility

 

A newborn is soft and tender,

A crone, hard and stiff.

Plants and animals, in life, are supple and succulent;

In death, withered and dry.

So softness and tenderness are attributes of life,

And hardness and stiffness, attributes of death.

 

Just as a sapless tree will split and decay

So an inflexible force will meet defeat;

The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground

While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.

 

77. Need

 

Is the action of nature not unlike drawing a bow?

What is higher is pulled down, and what is lower is raised up;

What is taller is shortened, and what is thinner is broadened;

Nature's motion decreases those who have more than they need

And increases those who need more than they have.

 

It is not so with Man.

Man decreases those who need more than they have

And increases those who have more than they need.

 

To give away what you do not need is to follow the Way.

So the sage gives without expectation,

Accomplishes without claiming credit,

And has no desire for ostentation.

 

78. Yielding

 

Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water,

Yet nothing can better overcome the hard and strong,

For they can neither control nor do away with it.

 

The soft overcomes the hard,

The yielding overcomes the strong;

Every person knows this,

But no one can practice it.

 

Who attends to the people would control the land and grain;

Who attends to the state would control the whole world;

Truth is easily hidden by rhetoric.

 

79. Reconciliation

 

When conflict is reconciled, some hard feelings remain;

This is dangerous.

 

The sage accepts less than is due

And does not blame or punish;

For harmony seeks agreement

Where justice seeks payment.

 

The ancients said: "nature is impartial;

Therefore it serves those who serve all."

 

 

 

80. Utopia

 

Let your community be small, with only a few people;

Keep tools in abundance, but do not depend upon them;

Appreciate your life and be content with your home;

Sail boats and ride horses, but don't go too far;

Keep weapons and armour, but do not employ them;

Let everyone read and write,

Eat well and make beautiful things.

 

 

Live peacefully and delight in your own society;

Dwell within cock-crow of your neighbours,

But maintain your independence from them.

 

81. The Sage

 

Honest people use no rhetoric;

Rhetoric is not honesty.

Enlightened people are not cultured;

Culture is not enlightenment.

Content people are not wealthy;

Wealth is not contentment.

 

So the sage does not serve himself;

The more he does for others, the more he is satisfied;he more he gives, the more he receives.Nature flourishes at the expense of no one; So the sage benefits all men and contends with none.