What we earthmen call LIFE is not money or whatever it can buy… Pleasure, leisure or splendour. It is that inner spark in an earthman from out of the radiation of the Almighty Creator, that radiating treasure or breath of life from his benevolence, which must always be made to glow and to burst into flame irrespective of the cold, icy or other inhospitable existential environment. It is a spirit seed germ entrusted to every earthman to tend and to nurse to become a conscious, flowering and fruiting spiritual ego, the human spirit, who will return to paradise someday, fully conscious of God and His Holy Will, of self, of the structure of creation, and of fellow creatures of different specie in the wonderful household of The Almighty Creator. We are created to be Lords of our environment, surmounting obstacles and becoming stronger with every conquest. We were unconscious spirit sparks in the radiations of God in which exist everything capable of existence outside of him. Earlier parts of this series mentioned the promise of the Lord Jesus of expansions in spiritual knowledge at about this time and suggested ardent Christians oil the lamp of the soul, like the five wise virgins, and light them up for intuitive differentiation between “the Bread of Heaven” and material tinsel. The curtain falls for now today on those endeavours to make Christmas 2023 a living opportunity for us to have better understanding of the mission of the Lord Jesus to the earth and to adapt our existence to it.
The athmosphere of Christmas 2023 is still aromatic on this fourth day of 2024. Everyone made of Christmas 2023 whatever it was thought to be. On Christmas Eve, the night in my neighbourhood was disturbed by heavy club music about 200 meters away. From the high pitch of that noise, I wondered why the patrons would not suffer hearing loss later in life. Many of them must be christians who ought to have buried themselves in solitude somewhere introspecting on what they have made of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND THE LORD’S PRAYER. We may excuse the sanguine teenager, but not melancholics, cholerics and phlegmatics of adult life who should be struggling to know why they exist. Thus, on 2023 Christmas Day, I struggled through this column despite generator noise and blaring music from pleasure seekers even around my house, mindful that one man’s meat is another’s poison.
We live in an amazing country. If you guage the pulse of the nation only from newspaper headline reviews on Lagos radio stations, you would believe outright famine was sweeping through the land and there were corpses on the streets. Where did all the money come from to innundate the Lagos open markets before and even on Christmas Day, I wondered, when I learned the two hind limbs of a goat cost N25,000 at the Abbatoir Market in rustic Agege, downtown Lagos, and some folks bought as many as four. The head went for N3,500 and the neck N7,000.
The new year
There’s nothing new about a New Year. It is just another spartial delienation of a new orbit of the earth around the sun. Nevertheless, the great souls in the beyond who packaged the knowledge for us, and the devoted great minds on earth who received it, deserve our gratitude. Without this information, we would not know how much of our earth life has been expended on triffling and how nearer to the Day of Reckoning we are. Beyond this, I cannot understand all the agitation and vehemence which greets a new year. Many persons are just happy that they are still breathing, eating and walking around, even if they are “walking corpses”. For others, it is another golden opportunity to beg the Almighty Creator for improved material life. Few people think of the real purpose of existence or of the meaning of the song Nearer my God to Thee
I appreciate, nevertheless, the need to be happy for surviving 2023. The earth has been revealed as the only place in the universe we, the spiritual seed grain planted in the material soil, can sprout, germinate, flower and fruit fastest because of the heterogeneity of the impressions or frictions which assail us every moment, the messages they bring and the lessons they teach. Elsewhere, it takes much longer than on the earth to spiritually mature. For example, an earth man possesed by 10 weaknesses such as envy, hate, gossip, lust, thieving, brigandage or murder may encounter all of them from fellow earthmen in one day. If they disgust him, and he is wise, he would discard them from his character and become a purer soul better set for ascent homeward. In the beyond, based on the expansion of spiritual knowledge promised by the Lord Jesus, we now know the soul will have to live in the plane of existence of one weakness at a time to get rid of it. If it takes 10 years to get rid of one, it may take100 years to get rid of 10, whereas a serious soul on earth may get rid of them all in one day or even six months, depending on how seriously it struggles against them in self- purification. In the so-called beyond, we would live in the world of only gossips, if we are one, until we purge ourselves of this spiritual dirt, or in the world of prostitutes, if we are one. Over there, it takes much longer for dirty souls to clean up than on earth. Do many of us who survive survive 2023 see our existence in this light? If we are only happy that we survived 2023, of what use is this to us, to other creatures in creation and to creation as well… We are on earth not only for spiritual maturation but to also pass on to other creatures below our orign, such as the Lords of the elementals, elemental beings, animals from the animistic realms etc, Power from on High which sustains us but they cannot directly draw upon. They built the material worlds to the limits of their abilities. Supporting them with this power would have made the material worlds bigger and better than it is today with probably a new variant of nature, different and better foodstuffs, improved nutrition, health and longevity etc. Didn’t our forebears inherit from them the highest developed animal body which we transformed into the present human body?
There is a serious purpose man is on earth. In the Will of the Creator, these beings brought about the constellation of stars, the galaxies, the solar systems, the planets, the myriad of yet unknown cosmic forces and the seven universes. Remember that the book of revealations announces: “… To the seven churches of Asia”. “Asia” is the spiritual name of CREATION in which exists “seven universes” (“churches”). The “seven churches of Asia” does not refer to seven churches in the Continent of Asia but to the seven universes in Creation. Spiritually, our universe is called EPHESUS. The Lord Jesus taught us: “IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE, there are MANY MANSIONS”. Attentive christians with oil in the lamps of their souls, like the Five Wise Virgins, should wonder how “many mansions” can exist in a “house”. The message from the revealation gives us a clue. Everything which exists outside of God exists in creation. The Lord spoke of the “heavens”. In the expanded spiritual knowledge He promised, we now know of several spheres of existence of vast distances from one another unfathomable by earthly knowledge of mathematics, limited by space and time. On earth, we see the hands of the elemental beings and nature beings in forests, mountains, oceans and seas, Rivers and streams, rocks, the climate and the weather, land forms, elements inside the earth, the earthquakes, floods, climate change etc. Man is meant to unite with these forces and, by now, to have made the earth paradise like. He does not require laborious studies of several years in the university to do this. Do the nature beings who move the earth around the sun in 365 (6) days and on its axis in 24 hours go to university? What of the architects and builders of the great pyramids in Egypt? What of the mankind behind the STONEHEDGES of England? Some of them weigh about 20 tonnes and were moved over about 20 kilometers between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago and arranged in a straight line over several kilometers in a geometric marvel which still baffles our generation. Do the water sprites in the village streams or rivers go to university to learn how to make streams or rivers or to direct their current to wherever they flow to? Is the orign of man not higher than that of elemental beings, and is he not capable of higher possibilities?
The bottom line question is: What are we happy to be alive for ? to just occupy space? Can we not relate the PARABLE OF THE SOWER and THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS with the PARABLE OF THE FIVE FOOLISH VIRGINS and THE PARABLE OF THE HUSBANDSMEN to spiritually bestir ourselves?
Clean slate
YEAR 2024, like every New year, is a clean slate. It will bring no one nothing that that person has not written on it in advance or during proceedings. Every year ends up as an unproductive year for us because we do not examine ourselves for the content we loaded into it. In the expansion of spiritual knowledge, we now have inklings that there is a LAW OF THOUGHT. As we think, so it is. We cannot rise beyond our thoughts.The thought, like the spoken word, is inseparable from us. This is what many priests fail to tell their congregations. Of course, there would be no need for a pastor in the life of anyone who knows he can have a direct link with the power of God through connection to and understanding of the expanded spiritual knowledge on earth today in fufilment of the promise of the Lord Jesus. This leads us to the meaning of PRAYER and why so-called “prayers” are not answered.
What is prayer
My Octogenerian friend now knows I do not seek to connect with ArchAngels and angels in my existential struggles. There is room wide enough for us within the kingdom of God called paradise in which, in his wisdom, The Almighty Creator has permitted our specie, the human spirits, to exist, flower and fruit. Paradise is governed by laws, one of which is the law of Sowing and Reaping.
If you tune to Lagos FM radio station from about 4a.m till about 5.30 am, you would feel disgusted. Before I come to them, I must quickly say prayer is not what we say even in the bigger and better structured churches. It is BEGGING. Do we not say the Almighty Creator did not create beggars? Why do we make beggars of ourselves in the halls dedicated to worshipping him? Worship is UNCONDITIONAL FUFILMENT OF HIS HOLY WILL. This means that our thoughts (serious or fleeting) words and actions must always agree with His Commandments. We can learn these commandments from Mother Nature, because everything in Nature obeys this Will. Does the day not gradually break, and does the sun not gradually set? Can we not observe THE LAW OF GRADUALISM in whatever we do?
The writhing of hands, stamping of the feet on the floor, shouting at the top of voices, moving up and down pointificating, hitting hands in the air on fellow congregants is nothing but BEGGING and makes us no better than BEGGARS in a place we call the House of the Lords. It is THANKSGIVING we are meant give there. Did we forget that, before the creator sent us to the earth, he had prepared for all our needs in his Wisdom and Love? Where should we turn, if not into ourselves, if anything goes wrong with our lives? This is where a conception of prayer different from Begging should make some sense. Over the years, I have come to the recognition that whatever we do with our thoughts, tongues and hands constitute PRAYER. Didn’t the Lord teach us that WHAT WE SOW, WE SHALL REAP? If we send thoughts of envy or hate to other persons, we sow seeds of envy and hate. These seeds of envy and hate develop into thought forms of the nature and intensity of the seeds. Clairvoyants see these thought forms attached to their authors and attracting similar thought forms to themselves and to their authors. Thus, if your environment swells in envy or hate against you, blame no one but yourself. If you stop sending thoughts of envy or hatred to other persons, your negative environment should become purified. That is the law of Sowing and Reaping. These thought forms are either demons or phantoms. We encounter them even in dreams. It suggests to us the type of “heaven” in which we may find ourselves after “earth life”. It mirrors, also, our self created earthly environment. Some people are shot at in their dreams. How many times in one day do we not kill the reputation and the livelihood of other people with our tongues either through gossip, slander, bearing of false witness etc, thereby directly or indirectly instigating negative physical and spiritual activity against them? The Lord Jesus cast out demons in one man and warned him to not let them return. This man received helped only because, like the repentant thief on the cross, he was willing to change his ways. Indeed, phantoms and demons are attracted to one another and may move in armies in which the group helps the individual to achieve its objective after it has helped some group members to achieve theirs. They do constitute themselves into “power centres” which some Christians call principalities. There are beautiful power centres, too. A power centre is like a broadcasting radio or television station. The earthman is like a radio or television receiving set. A soul prone to fear, envy or hatred etc, or to heroism, admiration or love is automatically tuned to the appropriate power centre which reinforces his ideas with mega ideas and promptings. Some persons say suicide thoughts always cross their minds. They may be despondent persons. In despondency, the will to live is almost lost. The soul is thereby tuned to power centres of despondency from where there may be streaming ideas or promptings to end it all, and how to. Some women mention “SPIRITUAL” husbands, suggesting that, subconsciously, in dreams, they are taken by men. This may not be a spiritual event. Many persons cannot distinguish between the spirit and the soul or the external layer of the soul, the astral body, which connects with the physical body. Their tormentors may be astral demons and phantoms generated towards them by the lustful thoughts of “dirty” men which found appropriate soil in the auras of such women and, accordingly, firm anchorages therein.
If you remember the story of Balaam in the old testament, you may easily fathom existence of elemental beings assumed by him to be angels. These beings are everywhere. They are responsible for the soil, rocks, rivers, ocean, seas, forests, earthquakes, the sun and the stars, rain and air etc. A special breed of them weaves our thoughts, words and deeds into our carpet of fate on earth and in the beyond.
On MELODY 107.7 FM radio station in Lagos last forthnight, a dejected woman appealed to the government to re-open the borders for more rice to come into the country and force down the price. She said the borders could be shut after. Her concern was for more rice imports to crash Christmas season price. Another caller replied her that it was shameful that smaller nations were feeding Nigerians who were cursing their land and refusing to tend it, whereupon the land gave them back the harvests of their thoughts, tongues and lazy hands. That is a prayer answered which begging cannot forestall.
In the radio sermons I earlier spoke of, the so-called prophets dictated their bank account details to the audience. They ask listeners to bring out N2000 as convenant money, lay hands on it and ask the creator to fufil whatever convenant they make with him when they pay the money into the said bank account. In some cases, listeners are asked to pay money into other special accounts for business doors to be opened for them on that day. They are to symbolically hold the doors of their sitting rooms and open them wide as the priest, on radio, is shouting on the Almighty Creator to open the doors of business to His complying children that day. There is more to say which space does not permit today of this cash and carry and beggarly christianity which an inwardly well spent Christmas season should strenghten an upward striving Christian to turn away from and do away with.
