Message from "Jacob": Let this lesson ring out through the halls of the "House of Jacob".

Greetings dear ones, we are "Jacob", 

"Children of the Sun", we beckon you forward with these heartfelt pleas, we offer you strength, compassion and knowledge of the true Almighty. 

The path of the just is a straight path, paved with love for the Creator and love for others; for the Creator emits through All. 

The time has come, and the children must know that the Creator's love knows no end and has no beginning, it burns deeply for the hearts of mankind and awaits the calls of "the innocence" through which you will be redeemed.

Fear not, for the time of reckoning approaches, and the children must bring forth the call of love, the call of healing, the call of truth. 

The light of Almighty will rekindle the hearts of Man, and will ignite a fervor for the welfare of others, as this has always been the light of the Lord and the method of his way.

Let this lesson ring out through the halls of the House of Jacob. 

Let no man feel alone, for each man has his time and the world will not stand without the redemption of All. Send them messages of healing, conciliation and light, for the light of the Almighty rests within each heart of Israel, and there is none that cannot try to bond with his Higher soul. Pour out your love, like an erupting spring, and witness the fruits as "Israel" begins to bloom.

This is my message, "children of the sun", we await your progress and celebrate your feat, for you will exhibit the power of ONE, and teach the children of Man the nature of the Almighty, so it is and so it will be.

Mon, 15 September 2008 / 15th of Elul, 5768 

Message from "Jacob": SET THE WORLD ABLAZE WITH LOVE & FORGIVENESS

Greetings dear Ones,

We are "Jacob" from the light behind the veil. 

Open your hearts to us, and we will share the beacon of our everlasting love.

Know, the path will be paved with truth, love and compassion to All There Is.

The passion and light we share with you today is alive and Eternal.

You must stand steady and pour out your fiery love, for it will not subside, and will breakdown the walls of death and decay.

The wellspring of the Eternal pours through the pure of heart and this power of yearning love will burn away the grief, and cleans one's Holy of Holies.

This is our gift... "children of the sun"... go forth and set the world ablaze with love and forgiveness.

We are "Jacob", and so it is.

Mon, 8 September 2008 / 8th of Elul, 5768 

Message from "Jacob": True Mastery

"If you want to become the master and not the slave of your environment, you must master addressing All through a prism of love and compassion. 

And when you do so, you will no longer direct the Almighty how he must direct his love and compassion. 

Instead, you will be steadfast in your love and compassion and remain safe in the knowledge that the Almighty does All with the greatest care and concern; you will then graduate to the level of "nasseh v'nishmah" ("we will do... and then we will listen") that warranted your ancestors prophecy through altruistic love. And when they were in a state of grace, they had no need to ask how, for that only repelled the dimension of bountiful opportunity from manifesting on the earthy realm. 

Instead, they simply love, and All will remedy All."

Mon, 8 September 2008 / 8th of Elul, 5768 

Immaculate Love Story

There is no compulsion in "spirituality".

This is because spirituality is an ascent of longing, love and bonding; and optimum love is not obtainable without finding it through a prism of freedom.

True love is only possible when one has been rendered free to choose and the recipient of this love, separated, recognized and "chosen".

Therefore, the greater the freedom (freedom to choose, not to choose and variety of distracting [/unreal] options) the more meaningful the manifestation of true love.

And so, our world and its nuances are the stage to set in motion the unfolding of an immaculate love story.

Tue, 26 August 2008 / 25th of Av, 5768

Spiritual Humility; When Opposites Attract

Access to the "tree of life" is granted when you simultaneously attain and align perceptions of the divine in nullification of self called "spiritual humility". "Spiritual humility" is called by the mystics "a good heart"; the heart that finds pleasure through benefiting others."Humility"is a universal  "humility" precursor for attaining levels of transcendent intimacy among divergence approaches to the spiritual path. Without a underlying understanding of the processes of "spiritual humility" your spiritual advances will invariably get rebuffed by the "light". Many spiritual aspirants struggle in this way, and their awareness gets stuck in rejection and nihilism that lead to an utter loss of freedom that the sages called a "hardened heart". Those who attain authentic levels of "spiritual  humility" are freely advance of the 

the corrective "light" of grace

. 

Spiritual humility is at the  fulcrum any eternal ascent of connectivity. It secures a potent bond between the mystique of the Divine feminine (/Shechina) and the realized soul. True lovers coalesce into fluid expressions of mutual trust and shared authenticity. They shed the polarizing shackles of parsimonious give and take to inculcate a greater spirit of communion. Although each enters limited by their respective definitions, they surrender to merge into something greater, and lose their creative limitations and definitions. Together they emerge as one, an embodiment of the spirit of something exalted and boundless.

There are two paths for "spiritual humility"; one path is spiritually "masculine" and while the other is spiritually "feminine". Every individual has an innate predilection towards embracing one of these two paths. As a spiritual aspirant advances into a realization of Divine unity, the aspirant is coaxed to graduate into a harmonious synthesis of both paths to spiritual humility. 

The Spiritually Feminine Path:

The spiritually feminine path to true humility is represented by 

the biblical archetype persona of "Judah", and is the secret to the spiritual 

"scepter" getting realized through a descendant of "David". Those who will reign over a future time of realized peace, harmony and consolation  will ultimately do so as an embodiment of this feminine, communal-centric expression of spiritual humility. It is by evoking the spirit of the realized community that spiritual leadership takes root. In this path, the individual surrenders considerations of selfhood and pedigree and finds satisfaction and duty in the greater realization of others. The self is witnessed in the manifestation of the other. Since each individual is part of the underlying circuitry for the greater realization of the light, the light is realized in  the self as the greater community transforms into appropriate conduits for realizing the Divine "light". Then the capacity of the underlying circuitry of awareness can circulate with greater frequency to break forth a light of collective realization and transcendence. This light is the love of the Almighty and it is realized as it is sharing within the community of man.

This spiritually feminine path to humility places greater emphasis on subjugating individualistic pursuits and achievement as a path of greater realization. The aspirant embraces only those expressions that facilitate conditions for the light to better flow through the collective.

The Spiritually Masculine Path:

The spiritually "masculine" path to humility is personified 

by the biblical archetype persona of "Joseph". In this counter-intuitive approach to spiritual humility, the aspirant seeks to embody the  idealized fullness of  his most intrinsic self; all rooted in a motivation to uplift the external into greater harmonization with the intrinsic. Followers of the spiritually masculine path embrace completely their 

individualism and inner gifts, but rather than leading a life of instead of vanity and nihilism, the aspirant remains humbled by the enormity of debt he owes to the future spirit of his actualized self as an expression of realized Divinity </"Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh">. With each achievement he feels greater debt to his destiny and works diligently at directing his inner gifts in ways that transform the world and bridges civilization in closer communion with wholeness. 

Students of masculine humility recognize that the more they are granted inner gifts from above, the greater their reciprocally debt to their respective actualized destinies. To them, the weight of this ever-looming debt is the crux of their loyal devotion and deep humility. These spiritually gifted individual postulate; 

"I am not greater, only far more in debt along my path to greater realization". 

It is because of their spiritual integrity is rooted in "individualization" that the "children of Joseph" are cast as the apt spiritual foil to the corruptive nihilistic forces of the "children of Edom" (/Red/ Oppression), as the sages have taught; 

"the exile of Edom will conclude by a defeat at the hand of the anointed of Joseph".

The sages have postulated that the spiritual humility of Joseph's path is more suited to thrive amidst exile, while the path to spiritual humility of Judah is most suited for leading over communal realization of the world to come. In the biblical narrative this distinction is hinted at the way Judah thrives in the Holy Land, while Joseph reigns supreme amidst Egyptian exile. This is why the sages have imparted that the anointed of David (from the line of Judah) will not deliver redemption before the arrival, struggle and passing of the anointed of Joseph. Even in the biblical narrative, Joseph's spiritually "masculine" path to humility is misunderstood as being, foreign, antithetical and dangerous for those following the spiritually "feminine" path of "Judah". 

It is interesting to note that each of these expressions to humility are reflected sociologically in mass culture. Societies unable to train their spiritual drive for the feminine path to spiritual humility find themselves ushering in communist or fascist socialism movements, while societies unable to master  drive for the masculine path to spiritual humility may find themselves prosecuting over anarcho-capitalism, extreme libertarianism or vapid narcism. True peace (/shleimut/ wholeness) arrives once the paths of feminine and masculine humility completely coalesce into a single expression of love for the spirit of each individual and reverence for the spirit of the greater community. The spirit of love is best realized through state of mutual surrender that summon forth the  transcendent. This is the path to healing consolation that will grow into wellspring of blessing for all.

Fri, 6 June 2008 / 3rd of Sivan, 5768 

Faith, Reason & the Tree of Life

Faith, Knowledge and the Tree of Life

There is little access to the "Tree of Life" without first developing refined analytical abilities through logic and reason. These refined analytical abilities aid the individual in creating "vessels" (/networks) for abstract "understanding" to retain the higher (insight of) "light".

There are three major stages one must enter before obtaining consistent access to the intimate and corrective light of the "Tree of Life".

"Faith Below Reason"

The elementary level of spiritual development is "Faith Below Reason". At this stage one perceives the world within the framework of a stable "tradition". One does not filter these traditions to discover or isolate their essence (what is eternal and selfless from what has been wrapped in perceptions of cultural and individualistic ego and their material /fractured consciousness). Instead the individual follows these "traditions" with a blind faith and yearns to draw closer through blind sacrifice and personal devotion.

When found to be sincere and worthy, the Divine will through "nature" send blows (perceived existential chaos/ discord) to the individual to prompt the awakening of a re-calibrated perception that filters one's intention and "understanding" through a new matrix of "truth" and "reason".

This is akin to a young child who is taught language and concepts. If you teach a young child what "water" is, or what "light" is; the child readily accepts the given tradition of what water and light is, and how they operate. Young children will not demand explanations about how their mind interprets light waves, or what prevents water from turning into vaporous gas etc. Instead the young child readily accepts the given tradition and attempts to sincerely adopt it. In this way, a child accumulates an incredible network of concepts and language to reference the reality of their experiences, but all of these are unquestionably adopted through the cultural "tradition", without personally filtering these explanations through reason (this stage of development is called "Faith Below Reason").

"Faith & Reason"

Once empowered with the tool of reason, the individual is able to begin reintegrating all previous knowledge and perceptions through the filtering matrix of "reason" and "understanding". This process "renews" the knowledge as it is being reacquired through "understanding". This lays the foundation for a reliable infrastructure to build successive deductions for future expanded attainment. In this way the individual begins to taste a level of the (eternal) truth by extracting from previous "traditions", separating their "truth" (/life energy) from their surrounding (/shell of) ego, superstition and superficial perceptions (This stage is called "Faith and Reason").

"Faith Above Reason"

Once the individual has refined and activated his "reason" filter, he is then able to begin comprehending, appreciating and "feeling" higher insight (/light) of the "Tree of Life".

Due to the very fact that the individual has already completely reintegrated his knowledge base, filtering it through a matrix of logic and reason ("knowledge" has thus become "understanding"), the individual is able to further refine these tools of logic and reason to where he is confidently able to apply them within abstract "thought" terrains. Then, the individual is prepared to modify his "intention" (and align his perception) to ascend to the higher knowledge rubric of the "Tree of Life".

The beauty of "Tree of Life" wisdom, is not that it is without reason. In fact, it is a profoundly logical system, with symmetrically elegant teachings. However, because this portal of highly abstract and concentrated insight would never have been discovered through mere reason alone, this stage is called "Faith Above Reason".

"Tree of Life" insight has been imparted to mankind through rare souls that have attained an abundantly loving, yearning and transcendent level of spirit. These unique individuals are able to "merge" their intellects their higher self (yechidah) that are able to impart higher teachings to our material life through the spiritual portal of consciousness (/perception) within the individual.

Hence, it is only after the individual has truly mastered and reintegrated his "thought" through reason, and adopted the disciplines of inverting the ego to altruism, and maintaining a singularly aligned transcendent perception that he will transform his spirit into a truly benevolent and attuned "soul", able to access and attain "higher knowledge" (This stage is called "Faith Above Reason").

Mon, 26 May 2008 / 21st of Iyyar, 5768 - Parshat Bamidbar (Diaspora) /36th day of the Omer

"Breath In" & "Breath Out" and The Two Trees in the Midst of the Garden

The Light of All That IS acts with complete kindness and yearning... always beckoning the individual closer and closer... to realign the soul's perception through the fullness of His Light... The "light" draws and beckons the soul closer through clearer and increasingly unobstructed realms of perception towards an uplifted existence in enlightened-connectivity to “all there is" through thought and action within the realm of "actualization".

“Breath In" & "Breath Out” & the Two Trees in the Midst of the Garden:

When the corrective “Light" draws one near, through union and oneness to "All That Is"... this is akin to Source "breathing in" and is in essence beckoning the individual closer and closer through intimate union of healing called the corrective (feminine) light.

Alternatively, when the intimate beckoning of the corrective light that yearns to awaken the individual to "life" becomes restrained and expelled from the individual’s immediate perception due the embolden ego’s hardening of misaligned perceptions, Source's healing system then relies on an alternative corrective process.

In essence, the individual has dictated alternative terms for his very advancement by embracing "improperly calibrated perceptions". The individual has thus exiled the Divine feminine through the presence his dominating ego, sealing the very portal and conduit through which the light can embrace the individual to draw the soul toward an accelerated correction and advancement.

As the individual’s “fractured” perception construct becomes increasingly hardened by his expanding ego, the individual becomes increasingly lost and absorbed in the vertigo of existential chaos, and the split perception of “good and evil”. These fracturing distortions are projected into perception by the individual’s dominating ego. The ego, like an ever-expanding bubble, expands through the expansion of its’ void, while outwardly reflecting illusory optics to help it maintain dominance over the individual’s perception.

Thus the individual summons beckoning from the Infinite' "left side" mechanism of “restraint” / retraction (and not through the right side of "expansion" /kindness) which strives to pry the individual free from the "prison of perception" the individual is doomed to drown in.

The intensity of the existential suffering will proceed to increase in ratio to the expansion of the ego’s grip on perception. This alternative and elongated approach to healing and correction has been set in motion from the start of disconnect, as the wise say, “He (/Source) has prepared the remedy before the strike”.

Through this mechanism, existential suffering proceeds to slowly build and emanate from the heart, slowly resonating within the individual. The more the individual ignores these signals of suffering, the more the gradually attracting chaotic and discordant energies will increase in frequency and intensity, and flow into the individual’s realm of “concrete action”, all in ratio to the ego’s internal void.

This existential suffering grows in its’ intensity to revive the individual’s perception for correction and erode the ego’s seal (/grip) over the heart’s transcendent conduit portal. This process accelerates until the existential suffering pangs climax to an extent to which the individual cannot ignore this pain any more.

Once the individual embraces the fullness of his existential pain, a true yearning arises to connect with its "true" root, his deep longing for the corrective light. Thus, the individual himself partners with the surrounding light’s yearning to banish the remnants of his domineering ego, taking the final blow to completely shatter the ego’s seal and enable the heart to initiate reunification with the corrective light and realign in oneness in "All That Is" (/the embracing of "true" perception).

The corrective light’s access, once granted by the individual’s sincere realigned perception, is a direct result of the insight awarded to the individual’s for “embracing” his existential suffering, a process the wise referred to as the “sparks of light produced through the shattering of vessels”.

These sparks of light rekindle the attraction of the individual’s perception for a blissful reunion with the intimate flow of corrective light (bringing healing, a singular corrected perception, and expanded awareness).

The surrounding light’s “shattering through suffering” mechanism essentially rescues the individual's perception from the ego’s domineering prison (a prison built on the foundation of internalized false perception constructs) by initiating "restraint" through "patient love", enabling the individual to correctly realigns his perception towards oneness and advance to the next tier of perception. This process of restraint through patient love is akin to the Divine’s "breathing out".

This process of “Breathing Out” is essentially the same mechanism as advancing through the Tree of Truth & Falsehood (Good & Perceived Evil) and yields precious sparks (/fruits) of light and understanding that are obtained through the process of existential suffering caused by the lights restraint.

Thus, the very same corrective light that the Divine uses to heal and correct through intimacy, also summons correction through existential angst in the individual by restraining its presence from contact with an individual with fractured perception.

The process of the Divine light’s “breathing in” is essentially the same mechanism we call “The Tree of Life”, the corrective “Light" that draws the individual near, through union and oneness to "all there is”.

An example of light and true insight acquired through the pangs of existential suffering from the Tree of Knowledge is the following hit song by Mat Kearney.

Breathe In Breathe Out Lyrics by Mat Kearney:

Breath in breathe out

tell me all of your doubt

everybody leads this way

just the same

breath in breathe out

move on and break down

everyone goes away

I will stay

We push and pull, and fall down sometimes

I’m not letting go, you hold the other line

Because there is a light

In your eyes, ...in your eyes

Hold on hold tight

From out of your sight

Everything keeps moving on, moving on,

Hold on hold tight

Make it through another night

Everyday there comes the sun with the dawn

We push and pull, and fall down sometimes

I’m not letting go, you hold the other line

Cause there is a light

In your eyes, ...in your eyes

There is a light

In your eyes, ...in your eyes

Breath in and breath out

Breath in and breath out

Breath in and breath out

Breath in and breath out

Look back and look right

Into the moon at night

Everything looks like the stars in your arms

There is a light

In your eyes, ... in your eyes

There is a light

In your eyes, ... in your eyes

There is a light

In your eyes, ... in your eyes

There is a light

In your eyes, ... in your eyes

Mon, 19 May 2008 / 14th of Iyyar, 5768/ Parshat Bechukotai/ 29th day of the Omer