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If you have to access a man or a woman for his or her networth, ignore the sounding brass and noise maker. Humility and unassumedness is the off shoot of greatness! Imagine what would have happened in Bethlehem on the night Baby Jesus was born if the wife of the governor of Judea had a baby in the town that night. Sirens may have been blaring and many soldiers would have barricaded several streets adjourning the hospital for security purposes. The nation’s best doctors, nurses and facilities would have been in attendance. On that day, One that one may call a co-owner of our gigantic universe, for want of the right expression, had to be born in a manger where shepherd kept and fed their sheep! Even the only signs which marked Him out as a stranger in our world remained invisible to the high and mighty of that time, including the leaders of religion who fastidiously awaited His arrival as prophesised. There was the dove, spiritually visible sign of the Holy Spirit, above the Head. The cross of Truth, the sign of God, stood behind him. Above the manger stood the star that became known as the star of Bethlehem. It was the Radiant star, which detached itself from its orign in the spiritual realms, paradise , to accompany Jesus on His mission to our earth, as a greeting from the father. Only few men on earth were called to recognise it and what it represented in the Divine Mission to the earth. The cycle of the AGE OF THE Father was closing. In its place, the cycle of the AGE OF THE SON was opening. Some day, this age, too, would close its cycle and usher in the AGE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, which, as Jesus would speak about in the course of His earth Mission, would proclaim the judgement or END TIME.  Didn’t Jesus instruct that whenever he went away, the spirit of Truth would come to remind humanity of His Message, reprove the world of sin and then proclaim the judgement?                          

   In the age of the Holy Spirit, another Spiritual star would detach from the spiritual world in support of the Anchorage on Earth of the WILL OF GOD or justice of God, the holy spirit.  What a semblance it would be with the time of Jesus. Only a wonder in the sky when it probably would have been too late would suggest to humanity that something stupendous is going on. That wonder in the sky is the Great Comet, of which several predictions have been made, including those by Tomkay, in his wonderful book, When The Comet Runs, Prophet Ezekiel,  the Bible’s book of revelations, and in the Grail message In the Light of Truth by Abd-ru-shin.  All these revelations speak of the great star as coming from the abode of the star of Bethlehem, but much, much larger than it, standing by our sun when it enters our world, outshine our sun several times day and night and cause gravitational and other changes in the universe which would have serious influence on the earth.

  Meanwhile, surrounding Baby Jesus in that manger in Bethlehem on Holy night was an Heavenly Host who accompanied Him to the earth for His mission.  Seen  by  the three wise men, what does the scenario teach us?  The “heavenly host”, comprising angels and other non-angelic beings dwelling in “heaven”, were temporarily on earth to which they accompanied Baby Jesus for a purpose.

Bible Stories

Every Christmas season, such as this one, I loosen myself into Bible stories for whatever new deep recognitions of them I may have. This time, I return to my story of creation and the purpose of earthly existence which makes the most logical sense to me. In this story, the Creator of creation predated creation. No one has ever seen him nor will ever do. Thus, he is unsubstantiate in human understanding. From splittings of messages or knowledge passed down to the earth from the “heavens”, we can gleam the following…

1) As the starting point of existence stands the Almighty Creator. He is divine and exists in a divine world in which the Angels also exist. It does not need anyone or anything to exist. Everyone and everything which exists needs the Creator to be. For the Creator is LIFE. No one in existence, including the angels,  has ever seen him or will ever do. Therefore, he is UNSUBSTANTIATE. The Creator dwells in the unsubstantiate part of the Divine world,  separated by a surging ocean of fire from the substantiate part where angels dwell .This ocean of fire spans distances which human understanding cannot fathom.  Angels  existed before THE FIRST creation  came into being. Logically, they were not part of creation.

2)  Angels are Beings who could stand the pressure of the Power of the Creator only far, far from the surging oceans of fire,  where their world exists. Beings who could not withstand the pressure and the power were, literally speaking, like icecream or  ice block in the scorching tropical African sun or in a sauce pan on gas fire. They would be unconscious and exist only in seed germ status. Even the Angels cannot cross the surging ocean of fire without losing consciousness. It is all a question of energy voltage or capacity. A lower energy cannot resist a higher energy, just as the energy of a human body cannot resist high voltage electricity.

3) We humans belong to the “SPIRIT” species in the radiations of the unsubstantiate core of the Almighty Creator. The Angels dwell in the world above ours, paradise, and belong to the Divine substantiate specie of divinity and  consciously exist where they are because they can withstand the unsubstantiate power and pressure there. Humans, too, that is the spiritual species, have the capacity for conscious existence, but only farther away from the substantiate Angels. In the process of their development in the vicinity of the Almighty Creator, they develop the longing for it.

4)  This longing of the spiritual specie  led to the allegorical statement…”Let us Create Man In Our Own Image”…It is unfathomable that this invitation went to the Angels,  for they have nothing to do with The Will Of  God,  Who carries out His will and is known as the Holy Spirit. That is why, in the Creation story, we learn that ” the spirit of God” hovered over the land.

 Sometime between the 1980s and the 1990s, the leader of one of the most popular christian sects in Nigeria announced in a front page advertisment in The Guardian newspaper that the holy spirit, and not Jesus , created the world and would come to judge it. This fits the alert of The Book of Revelations about Him “…who was, who is, and who is to come, of whom Jesus was a “Faithful Witness”. Jesus himself had suggested that “when the spirit of Truth is come, he would reprove the world of sin and proclaim the judgement.”

5)We learn the command Let There Be Light went out before the creation of man ” in the Image Of God”. The light and power of God shot through a dark and cold void  below the world of the angels to energise and warm it and bring about existence. That was the First Creation. This is the Creation of man and of paradise often spoken about.

6)Thus, in paradise, the pressure of the power of God had been sufficiently stepped down to create a kingdom or world for the spiritual specie longing for consciousness. But not all members of this spiritual specie could exist in the new kingdom given to their specie to experience life. Thus, we earth men and earth women are not the images of God in the first creation. At best, we would become, in our highest blooms, Shadows of  The  Images of God. For it was to these images that the Grace was granted to bring about the huge material worlds, Subsequent Creation, as a soil in which to sow us earthmen and women as human spirit seed germs. Why have we not wondered: Would God’s direct creation be impacted as our material world and we ourselves earth men and earth women? He is Perfection. So is the Paradise he created in which we aspire to spend eternity when we become perfect human spirits. In the state of highest perfection for our species, we would never be able to exist or to “live” in the realms of the images. Their realms are far, far above the realms we aspire to. And that was why Jesus said  that no man born of woman however great he may be, was greater than John the Baptist, an image of God called to be his Forerunner. Whenever I remember this statement, I wonder how Salome who caused the beheading of John the Baptist, and the king who ordered it to please her, would feel in the knowledge of their smallness and abuse of earthly political authority!

Earthman

The material world  is like a soil for the planting of immature spiritual seed germs. So, we earth men and women were planted there to germinate, flower and bear  fruit. Like everything which exists, this soil has a time it came into being, a lifespan and a time it would pass away. The law of the cycle ensures that every beginning flows to an end, which is the beginning. Thus, evaporated water returns as rain, inhailed air is exhaled, blood flows from the heart and returns there. Food and water intakes, return to the soil, and night and day, like the seasons, follow this path, all driven by The Law of Motion which compels everything, even the clouds, air, sea waves etc, to be on the move. For the earth, the End Time is when its cycle would close, and it would be disintegrated, “pass away” as Jesus said, for  its primeval materials to be reconfigured into a new stronger planet.

7) Meanwhile, the spiritual seed germs sown in the soil of matter were not maturing as planned, and the time allotted for this, was running out. They risked disintegration (spiritual or final death) in the disintegration of the earth. Lucifer, stately  and powerful archangel appointed to guide them, had caused many  to “fall” by not tending them with supporting or helpful love as commanded by the Creator, but had introduced the Principle of Temptation. This was a wrong “gardening technique” which despised the weak ones and left them to their fate in an evil sifting of the strong from the weak instead of supporting them all in Helpful  Love. Time was running out. Some souls who did not wish to perish in the oncoming disintegration beseeched the Creator for His help. Granting this prayer, the mission to the earth of the love of God was set up.

8) All realms of existence Jubilated. A heavenly host  chosen to accompany baby Jesus to the earth was sighted by The Three Wise Men On Holy Night. They, like John the Baptist, the forerunner of Jesus,, arrived ahead of him. So did his disciples and other mission members such as virgin Mary, who would be his earthly mother, Pontius Pilate, who would be helped to earthly authority to protect him. The three wise men were blessed with the knowledge of astrology, which made them respectable, and they were endowed, also, with material wherewithal as shepherd. Actually, there were four of them, each representing one of the Four Pillars  of Creation. One had difficulty linking up with the three for their journey to Bethlehem. He arrived  after Joseph and Mary had fled to Egypt with  baby Jesus. In the fufillment of spiritual calls, no excuse such as waiting for others is a tenable excuse if failure occurs at one’s duty post. The three others made a mistake of revealing a prized creation secret, though in ignorance and joy, to King Herod, a minion of Lucifer who sought at every opportunity to abort the mission of Jesus. The early life of Jesus bore no special testimonial of his high mission, to carry the word of God among men,  to shine light  into the darkness spurned by men into the material world in order to help them find their way back home to paradise before the disintegration. Jesus would later find His disciples who, in the higher spheres of existence,  vowed to serve him on earth and, for this purpose had been annointed and prepared for the mission. He linked up with John the Baptist. The Jesus story will continue into the easter memorial all with reminisces of the snares luifer placed in the way to abort it.

Meanwhile, the story of the birth of Jesus affords us the opportunity to review our standing in Subsequent Creation  as we journey into the Age of the holy spirit, the herald of which is the great comet, and of which Jesus forewarned…” Sins against the father and the son will be forgiven, but sins against the holy spirit will not be forgiven.” Does this mean the Holy Spirit is superior to the father and to Jesus? Oh no! . In my view, it only means the Holy Spirit is the Will of God through whom he brought creation to being, administers it and will judge it. Jesus, the love of God, only came to warn us as an emergency act of Grace that danger was impending sooner than thought in the material spheres.

The Great Comet

Memories of the radiant star should be reminders that the Great Comet is on the way. We can also call this comet the star of Bethlehem. They have the same orign, in the spiritual world, and the same content, spiritual essence, but serve different purposes. The star of Bethlehem accompanied the love of God, Jesus, to the earth as a greeting from the father, to open the cycle of the Age of the son. The great comet is coming, to close that cycle and open that of the age of the Holy Spirit, the justice of God, and usher in the millennium during which the free will of man will be  bound and only the will of God will prevail on earth. Jesus foretold it when he said, in reference to the Holy Spirit… When he, the spirit of Truth is come, he will rebuke the world of sin and proclaim the judgement.

   In the book, when the comet runs, American journalist Tomkay pooled biblical and other prophesies of this comet, to which Nostradamus, too, must have made references in his predictions.

 My first encounter with  The Great  Comet was In The Grail Message.  It will come to our world in a straight line from the spiritual world. Closing the cycle of the Age of The Son Of God, it would offer help for repentance and forgiveness to no fewer than three major sets of persons…those, such as in Christian churches, who have distorted the pure and true teaching of Jesus to serve their cravings for earthly power and influence ;those who made the mission of Jesus not only traumatic for him but, also, inconclusive , and those called ones who pledged loyalty to the mission in the higher realms but, on earth, forgot their callings. Such groups included the four wise men, Judas Is Cariot and Pontius Pilate whose wife warned him three times to let Jesus go but feared for his job as Governor of Judea. There are predictions, too, that, before it arrives in our atmosphere, the Great Comet will hold the earth in its grip, suck up the waters and cause several earthquakes. I always remember the warning that All That is dead in Creation will be awakened to pass judgement on themselves. By this is meant that none of us would be able to hide from the judgement radiations of The Great Comet. It will be all about human nature, even those weaknesses or strengths we may no longer remember are part of our make up…envy, adultery, fornication, murder, intimidation, greed etc. They will be roused and energised so we can impact them and, in doing so, encounter persons more destructive than we are. When I hear of man aged 75 or older defiling girls aged 10 or younger, this is the picture I remember. When Russia and Ukraine are at war and the United States is backing Ukraine, that, also, is the picture. When we are hungry and cannot feed ourselves despite endowment with huge, rich arable land, that is the picture. When the world’s economy goes down, that is it. We are told all that is false in creation will inevitably collapse as the free will of man comes under bound. In this light, are not more marriages crashing than before? Is it easier today to find the right spouse? Where are jobs? What about security?  Which government worldwide is solving problems? Didn’t Isaiah say take counsel together, and the world will not stand for God is with us?

THE curtain falls today on this series, despite temptation last week to stand  it on a third leg next week.  I spent the week trying to persuade some women offended by the last column that  I am not a one- sided judge in the warfare’s between husbands and wives  which engulf  their children and pit  them against fathers. I know there is a flip side in every battle story, that proverbial  other side of the coin. Best on my counseling experiences in marriage and family quarrels, I was only warning young and aging men caught in tug- of love cul de sacs to not let their corpses be  disgraced  when they are  gone from the earth, and their wives and children are well placed  to call them idiots and to literally or otherwise spit on their earthly remains. Preparing early enough for one’s death and funeral has become  the  trend among men who no longer see eye- to eye with their wives and children. There is no doubt that such men maybe architects of their own  calamities, as some women told me last week. There is no doubt, also,  that they are stupid victims.  Both sides of the coin lead us  to wonder if LOVE no longer is the fundamental  of MARRIAGE. Will the walls crack to let in rodents, where LOVE was the fundation of marriage and each person lives and work with the other to fulfil the high task  of helping the other fulfil the purposes of earthly existence?   Unfortunately, men and women have reduced marriage to respectable  featherhood and motherhood. They do not realise child bearing is not the primary purpose of earthly existence. Nor do they understand that  marriage is a golden opportunity given to man by his Creator to  symbiotically release self,  servicing and helping  the spouse in a high, joint tasks of concious development of the inner person that would eventually lead each person homeward upon earthly death.  Today, most marriages are, therefore, no more than loveless and lifeless social contract which easily collapse, tormenting and poisoning the participants and dragging them earthwards. Thus, a gift from On High which was meant to help them are sent homeward after earth life   had become a burden which chains spouses  to the earth because it fills one with hatred  for the other, whereas love, not hatred, is the passport to the longed for Spiritual Home, Paradise, after earthly life.

A  letter I received from one woman  last week which   summarises the emotion of women who telephoned me or spoke with me sàys:

“All I want to ask Sir, is that isn’t this anti– women?Aren’t these generalisations from a patrilineal society like ours?

Though I don’t doubt the existence of stated cases, aren’t there opposite cases of hardworking women who were abandoned by their husbands who maligned their faithfulness, hardworking wives and turned the children against them? I know of a very pathetic case.

I’m pained when the narrative paints the woman alone as the  devil. I know what happened in my own family.

‘’We the children, inspite of all, gave both our parents good care before their departure and also gave them befitting burials…”.

From  the letter, I will proceed to the funeral wishes of  President Charles  de Gaulle, which made a serious impression on me at 20  in 1970 and inspired me at 35 to make a will for a solemn funeral in which there is no wining, dinning, dancing and bitting of drums.

The  Google  report the fellowing excerpt from President Charles De  Gualle Will for his funeral in 1970:

“I want my funeral to be held at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises. […]The ceremony is to be organised by my son, my daughter, my son-in-law, and my daughter-in-law, with the assistance of my cabinet, in a manner that is to be extremely simple. I do not want a state funeral. Neither the president, nor the ministers, neither representatives of the National Assembly, nor constitutional bodies. The French Armed Forces alone may participate in their official capacity; however, their participation must be very modest, without music or brass bands or bugle calls”.

We returned from Charles De Gualle,a general in Second World War  French Army, to yet another case which spurred this column.

 

Case 2

The way  I saw the first  case last week is the way I also  see the experiences of an 80-year-old man who was a prominent player in Nigeria’s bank system of the seventies. He lived with his wife in Lagos under managed co-existence  until his six children, in unison,  physically through some of them, bundled him to his upcountry home at the request of their mother, with instruction to never return to Lagos. For years, he asked me for nutritional advice about his skeletal condition.  When he became well acquainted enough for him to be able to discuss with me his emotional disquiet, he opened up. He was wheel chair ridden. The problem was spinal curvature from the waist line  which made a  bow of his back bone. His spinal column tilted about 45 degrees side ways from the waist line.

This gentleman admits infidelity in his hey days of youthful exuberance which his wife refused to forgive. It is unclear to me if it was from this situation  that their ranks so split that  their children turned their backs on him. Whenever they were alone, she would speak to him in a parable he did not understand until he lost all six children, including grown and married men, to his wife. The parable was that they were both in the bush to gather firewood (presumably for cooking fuel back home), but it was in the evening, when they would be set to return home, that either of them would know who gathered more  firewood than the other.

This was a Yoruba parable too deep for him to understand until the family split began to deteriorate. Whenever any of his children came on a visit to them, he or she spent no more than five minutes with him in the sitting room, standing. They could spend hours with their mother in her bedroom. On their way out, they merely bade him bye. He said he was pained because he sent all of them to the university.

Then, one day, the children came home and invited him to a made up special engagement  in their home town. Once the country-home, they informed him he had been relocated from Lagos for good to give their mother deserved peace of mind in old age. He couldn’t find the tears to relieve himself of  agony. On top of his travails, they told him to not will any property to them in the event of his passing.

This was the most troublesome aspect of this man’s emotional suffering. He had discussed it with many friends and the clergy in his home town. He did not see anything he had done all of his life to make him deserve all of these travails from his children, and wondered if he should not beseech the creator to call him away from the earth.

I couldn’t support that venture.We are permitted earthly existence to gather all the experiences we need for our maturation in the course of seeking, discovering and fulfilling the purpose of our earthly appearance and existence generally in His wonderful Creation. In our subconscious state where we existed before we came here, we beseeched Him for the priviledge of full conscious existence. The entire seven universes, unimaginably gigantic as each one is, were created to support our dream. Would forced or premature departure from the earth bring joy to all those beings who helped to bring these world’s about in the Will of our Creator for each of us?.  I couldn’t bring a curse upon myself by inferring that all these creation efforts were a waste in every way. He must learn to weather the storms of his life, calmly learning the lessons they teach him.

In any case, who tells us we live only once? If we glean that from the scriptures, the reference is to Spiritual or Final death, not material death. We are told in the same scriptures that the renegade “generation” of those days would not “pass away” until final judgement prophesies had come to pass. Thus, it is inferable  that, renegade”generation” is still cycling in and out of the earth in repeated re-incarnations. In this regard, do we all know who our siblings, spouses or children or neighbours or work mates are? Reincarnation affords us the opportunity to cast off old debts we may owe one another. Karma, which enables us to do this is, therefore, a great gift in our lives, no matter from how many earth lives away it may have trailed us to the present one.

My friend accepted this explanation. He is to not play the blame game, exonerating himself and blaming his wife and children. They are sowing new seeds which they, too, may reap in the fullness of time, maybe this time around or some earth lives away.He should forgive them and wish them all well.

Regarding his property, which he wanted them to inherit but against which they turned their backs, he could make his church the Administrators. He could still will it to his children as he feels strongly and inwardly advised with a 10-year provisor that the inheritors could be charities he would name, if,after 10 years, his children still maintained their position. He should not stay in the property beyond to wait for the end of this.Whatever we own is not ours, but property held in trust for creation, the provision from which we could take some for our sustenance while we turn the remainder to the needy. It should not hold us down like the biblical Lot’s wife. Additionally, this gentleman was advised to prepare for his funeral, for his children may boycott the body. This may be the most painful aspect of his experiences on the other side if he witnesses the ignominy his memory is subjected to. Who would like to touch his earthly remains from which his children pull away? Who would like to go swimming in a possibly stormy and angry ocean? The answer to that is that he lay out his funeral  in his will and make financial provisions for them. Soon after, the once jubilant and triumphant wife of this man was knocked over by a vehicle in the Lagos traffic and killed. He could not attend her funeral, given the state of family affairs. But, recently,a silver lining began to show up in the dark clouds. One of the children, whose own daughter was about to get married, scheduled the “introduction” and ” engagement” ceremonies to the country home to which they all once banished their father, who, meanwhile, has become vision challenged by glaucoma in both eyes.

Traditional belief in their part of the country blame this condition on some or emotional stress bottled up for long and not released. Is this why some psychiatrists and psychologists say sorrowful persons should cry their hearts out? Whatever it is, we both shouted hallelujah at the news and pray that more of the prodigal children do likewise. Today, there is no time to explain why women seem to have total control over their children and turn them against their fathers. In all the stories I have listened to, women bottle up annoyance in marriage and wait for the children to grow up before they “deal” with their husbands, using the children as weapons. Any man who faces such a challenge should not fold his arms, however young he may be.

It is never too early to prepare ahead for possible days of brimstones. Who is the perfect husband? which man easily permits his parents or siblings to be run over in his own home?

It is said in men’s peppersoup and beer man’s talk joints  that we hear battle voices in marriages when men refuse to be ridden like horses and find amity in those where the heads of men, like their brains, are secure  in the armpits of wives! And the children? They never really forget they were once tenants in the wombs of their mothers or drew sustenance in the most critical days of their lives from a woman’s breasts.

I still haven’t been able to persuade a gentleman to forgive his chilldren. He was educated at Cambridge University and was a top  corporate player in Nigeria before he crashed into rustic life after his wife took their children from him and, with them, migrated to the United States. The men among them are now remorseful, but his ears are stopped against their pleas. I guess they will get him when he passes, when he cannot decide who takes charge of his funeral, if he doesn’t act now. He is an avid reader of this column and will catch me out.

I may escape the wrath of a once successful hospital proprietor in Lagos who went home in retirement. His wife and children abandoned him and settled abroad. Living alone and suffering from the lack of a woman’s care and tending,  he unbelievably stretched out his hands to a woman, who, in the widest imagination of his friends, ought never to have come near his shadow. She  had had  three children for three  men. To keep him company for the rest of his life, she demanded he sells the hospital and give her half of the proceeds. He saw through his tears and threw her out. I know he still has the means to prepare for and to fund his funeral.

Some men, like a former director general in Lagos State civil service, have found that bringing another woman in when one goes doesn’t really solve problems. He lives in one house built on one acre of land in a posh neighbourhood of Lagos. When his wife and children deserted him, and he couldn’t transform his loneliness to solitude, a world in which his life could blossom more beautifully, he literally reached out to the gutters for a new companion. He surrounded her with money and comfort she never dreamt of. He brought three of her siblings in and sent them all to the university. But when the last of them was done with school, his companion and her siblings migrated abroad. Now, he is back to square one.

The lesson we are invited to learn from these stories is that we are all INDIVIDUALS. When men have lost control over women who, in the traditional society were taught to be their property. Innately, women are sensing that they are mightier than men. Indeed, psychically and spiritually, they are the stronger gender. Men are only physically better endowed. Women are “the deciding factors in creation” I learned long ago,and understood that to mean that men only follow their bidding. Therefore, unless a man lives a conscious existence, always open to the strenghtening Rays of Divine Grace and Love, he would bow even before a woman sinking to the depths and dragging everything along. These stories should also teach us that many marriages are false unions. Marriages are made in heaven, we are told. But not many people understand this statement. A marriage is not different from the profession, business or trade or even parenting. They are all meant to serve achievement of one goal…fulfilment of the Purpose of Existence. This presupposes that the partners know why they are there and where they came from and that they are to help each other, against all odds, to achieve this purpose by each one releasing self in the service of the other. But all that many women want are the men to make them wives and mothers, and, thereby, recuse them from the ” old maid” syndrome. When that is done, all else is done and well.

 

Funeral

Arranging for one’s own funeral in Nigeria is still a pathway strewn with stones where there is no trustable support group to lean on. A bank may sound a good idea. But what if it goes bankrupt before one passes? The same goes for insurance companies and funeral homes. What may appear most reliable outside the traditional reliance on one’s own children and siblings is now one’s place of worship, and that is where many men are turning to. Even this option, in my view, has to be the well structured Christian churches and Islamic organisations which will not mess up with the funds and the plans or break up before one’s call over. I cannot recommend a government agency, for your money may be borrowed by the government to pay salary arreas or other debts. I believe we are now understanding why euro Americans have fewer children per family and turn them out into the world of adults at 16 to 18 to fend for themselves while the parents are still young and agile enough to prepare for life in old age…and their funerals. Our world is on the move, and we are following it!