Why were prophets and christians vegetarians? Part II

Vision of Peter: beasts on the mantel

Domenico Petti

As we´ve seen already, the inner teachings were vomited by the Hebrews, who demanded meat, which not only represents physical food but a more carnal view of the Torah.

And obviously, this happened again with the institutions that began to forge their own view of Christ, moved by lower passions.

Of course, the new laws and traditions of men also included human sacrifice, although in a new format. In this case it consisted in persecuting heretical christians or infidels, who were beheaded, chopped up, burnt alive or simply received a dosis of boiling lead through their throats. 

Prisciallianus and his six followers were the first vegetarian heretics condemned to death and beheaded by the Holy Church of Rome in 385 A.D.

Well known is the fact that one of the strategies to detect  Nazarenes, Ebionites and other genuine Christians was to capture them and offer them meat to see if they avoided it, and if they did, they were straight away taken as lambs into the slaughter house.

This was almost practiced inside the Church:

To the members of the clergy, whether presbyters or deacons, that abstain from meat, we command them to taste it and then, if they wish, they may abstain from it. But if they do not even ingest the vegetables cooked with meat, and do not obey this canon, they will be destituted from their rank (Point XIV, Canon of the Concilium of Anciara, 314 A.D).

Later on,  in 1441, the Ecumenic Concilium of Florence abolished officially the wise advices of the apostles relative to abstaining from eating sacrifices and blood (Acts 15:29). 

And the argument was clear enough to reveal how little the spiritual meaning of Scripture is understood.

The Holy Church of Rome, founded by the word of the Lord and Savior [who knows which and how]...Firmly believes, profeses and preaches that all creature of God is good and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

According to the document of Florence, the custom of not consuming blood, pork and other things regarded as impure, are aspects of "discipline" that were only relative to recent converts of the early centuries, reason why it´s no longer valid. 

Obviously, this was not just disciple, but a question of vital health, without which there cannot be completion.

By their fruits, many have always regarded themselves to be above the criteria of Jesus Christ and the apostles, who already warned about false apostles who would plague and dominate the world, just for a while (2 Corinthians 11:13).

According to the document of Florence, the passages of Mark 7, Acts 10:9-15 and 1 Timothy 4:4 establish an open way to eat just anything, because all is blessed.

But let´s examine this by parts to see if it´s true:

When the pharisees complained before Jesus that his disciples did not wash their hands before eating, the Master replied:

Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from the outside cannot defile him, since it enters not his heart but his stomach and is expelled? (Thus he declared all foods clean) (Mark 7:18-19)

First of all, even when supposing the last phrase is not one of the typical interpolations that populate the Gospels, declaring pure all foods is not strange. But in this case, "food" is just what is edible for humans, since the Master spoke with "humans"–or something similar. And according to the inspired Word, starting with Genesis 1:29 or Genesis 10, pork and blood are not human food, except for other creatures, naturally.

In any case, the passage does not speak of food, what makes one suspect it is an interpolation. And what is it referring to? Obviously, to possible germs or virus that would not affect an immune system that is not weakened by an unclean mind and heart:

What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness...(Mark 7:18-23 ESV).

Just to say it more clearly, would a pure hearted person be able to swallow a jar of petroleum without even feeling some tingling in the stomach? Who knows? May nothing would happen. But this person surely would not make it part of a daily diet.

This might be what Paul was referring in the letter to Titus:

To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure (Titus 1:15).

According to the Kabbalah, those impurities do indeed make humans sick and are originated by "impure spirits" or residual energies  that belonged to past antediluvian humans: the Goborim, which with pride pursue power and honor, building towers of Babel; the lusty Nefilim that flood the media; the violent Anakim, that impose themselves by force; the Refaim, which infuse despair and lack of self-esteem, and the Amalekim, which seed doubt and therefore ignorance, keeping people away from the study of the Inner Teaching, the Universal Kabbalah.

The contents of the mind and the heart are precisely what must be sacrificed in the temple of the body, on all their levels, since an adulterous is also he who mixes himself with lower passions; a thief is also he who wastes energy hating others; a murderer is also he who kills the hope of others, etc.

Another passage mentioned in the Concilum of Florence was the letter to Timothy, quoted partially, for obvious reasons, since the complete version exposes the Church itself:

in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods [fasting?] that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer. 

Needless to say, even in those days the Word included passages such as Leviticus 11 or Deuteronomy 14, in which neither pork, nor blood, nor animal fat nor shellfish or scavengers are deemed as a holy food by the Word.

And with regard to abstaining from food, it makes more sense to think it refers to a forced fasting, which is a way of mortification or ritual sacrifice that benefits dark energies and not necessarily the body. 

Only when one knows how and why to fast one is capable of doing such thing in a healing way.

Some of the first Christians fasted on Wednesday and Friday in order to prepare themselves for the Shabat or Resting Day, which was also abolished and wrong understood.

Now it only remains to examine Acts 10:9-15, which is also popular and is often quoted as a dietary panacea.

The symbolic story comes to say that before receiving the visit of messengers sent by the Roman centurion Cornelius, Peter had a vision destined to prepare him to meet the Roman.

Rise, Peter, kill and eat!, the angel says to him showing a flying table full of animals.

But Peter said, By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean. And the voice came to him again a second time, What God has made clean, do not call common". This happened three times...

The vision comes three times due to a specific reason that does not go unnoticed for he who studies the context and its inner meaning. It´s pointing to the three spiritual centres (instinctive, emotional and mental) demanding subtle discernment.

The passage has nothing to do with food, but with ceasing to regard others as impure simply because they do not belong to the same religion.

Actually, it is Peter himself who interprets the vision correctly:

You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean (Acts 10:28 ESV).

Therefore, history and Scripture shows that the most faithful Christians have always been vegetarian, as a way of sacrificing carnal passions, and for health reasons, or even for another reason we will see in the following article. 

Why were the Prophets and first Christians vegetarians?

Garden of Eden. Hieronymus Bosch

El Prado Museum. Madrid

As we saw a few days ago, the ideal food of a humanity in harmony with the divine spirit is basically comprised of fruits, legumes and other seeds, as suggested in Genesis 1:29. 

This excludes the consumption of meat, which was not even accepted by prophets right after the last great catastrophe, which only led to the inclusion of natural (non-industrialized) "eggs", "milk" and "honey", since these may cover some nutricional deficiencies due to a harsh climate. A fact that was hidden with slight modifications and incorrect interpretations of Genesis 9, which contains clear indications:

But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood (Genesis 9:4 ESV).

Meat consumption was regulated later, as we will see. However, even though the human being has been thousands of years living in disharmony, inclined to eat animal protein due to planetary perturbations, the vegetarian diet, even if it´s ovo-lacto-vegetarian,  is still the best to overcome the literal carnal mind and enhance the development of spiritual capacities that can put us into contact with higher levels of being and bring heaven to earth, canceling future earthly perturbations. Always provided one understands how to become a true vegetarian without eating too much, without    destroyed certain foods through cooking and nurturing properly, both physically and spiritually.

According to Biblical prophecies, humans will return to the original vegetarian diet during what has been called the Millennium, a time of peace on earth in which many just souls may reincarnate if they wish. Associated to the World to Come, it´s a time when the physical level of the Earth will be generally reconnected to the Paradise of Eden, which humanity´s consciousness abandoned thousands of years ago. Although not everyone will live it this way and might be deceived by a "materialistic Millennium".

Now, without the need of waiting for the Millennium, many decided to live as if they were already in Paradise, also known as Abraham´s Bossom. But others lived as if they were already in the Kingdom of Heaven, which was never announced to the prophets previous to Jesus Christ / Yeshua ha Mashiaj. 

In fact, the followers of the Nazarene Messiah were not guided by the old "resurrection of judgement" (John 5:29, Hebrews 9:27), which implies the dissolution of the soul in parts that reincarnate in other persons, even in the Millennium.

By contrast, the followers of the Nazarene Master had heard from him about a Kingdom which is not of this world (John 18:36), and yet is omnipresent (Luke 17:21, Romans 14:17). And they also had heard about the "resurrection of life" (John 5:24-29), which takes place before physical death and continues after it, incarnating from glory to glory (2 Corinthians 3:18), by means of acquiring celestial bodies (i.e lunar, solar and stellar), as Paul explains in 1 Corinthians 15:40-47.

Unfortunately, this was not understood nor explained by the blind that dare to lead the blind without knowing what kind of pits lay ahead, putting themselves under the yoke of the deceptive God of this World (2 Corinthians 4:4), which governs inside and outside fallen man.

Since the great prophets and "genuine Christians" of the first century lived as if they were back in Paradise or even fully alive in the Kingdom of Heaven, they had no need for acting by mere obedience to written laws, for they manifested a spontaneous divine justice, by the divine conscious love that flew through them naturally. And this allowed them to feed on the "living seed bearing fruits" of the earth without the need to kill, being able to receive the divine spirit that heals the incurable, even a mere vitamin deficit. 

How many pretentious religious leaders and guides are able to live like that today?

Sadly, the systems of carnal religion can only be ruled by "carnal laws and traditions of men", and therefore be subject to the dominion of the God of this World, which simply plays the role of Testing Coach of Humanity, being comprised of contradictory forces of the stellar and planetary Nature: the so called angels, principalities, powers, dominions and spirits of the air mentioned in Romans 8:38 and Ephesians 6:6. 

In the Scriptures these forces receive many names, starting with the Lawgiver, Lord of Hosts (Isaiah 5:24) or Angel of the Lord (Exodus 23:20), continuing with the Accuser (Revelation 12:10), Prince of this World (John 16:11) or simply Adversary, i.e Satan (Job 2).

Some forces accuse and lead humanity to be slave of carnal world, whereas the The Lord of Hosts governs the Natural Law, demanding "energy of suffering" as payment for everything that violates natural laws codified in the Torah, including all one receives from Nature, as the carnal body and the consumption of flesh, even if it´s that of a turkey.

Hence the Master encouraged to pay energy debt as soon as possible:

Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison. Truly, I say to you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny (Matthew 5:25-26 ESV).

Later on we will see the exact reason why Moses had to offer a carnal Law which regulated meat consumption–a Law that was written by accusing angels, as Paul points in Galatians 3.

And in case someone still has any doubt about the vegetarianism of prophets and christians, here we have some quotes:

And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food...Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing (Ezekiel 47:12 ESV).

Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge...Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags...Buy truth, and do not see it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding (Proverbs 23:12-23 ESV).

those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires (Galatians 5:24 ESV).

Christians abstained themselves from all animal flesh (Pliny the Younger, Letter to Trajan, Book X:9).

No streams of blood flowed at their place; no flesh was slaughtered and cut to pieces [...] One does not smell there the awful vapor of meats [...] one hears no racket and terrible noise (John Chrysostom, on exemplar Christians, Homily 96).

We, the Christians leaders, practice abstinence from the flesh of animals to subdue our bodies [...] the unnatural eating of flesh is of demonic origin [...] the eating of flesh is polluting [...] flesh-meats and wine serve as material for sensuality, and are a source of danger, sorrow, and disease. (John Chrysostom, on Matthew 22:1-4). [1]

Jerome, Father of the Church, tells us about the apostle Jacob and Jesus Christ concerning the issue of meats [2]:

James, the Lord´s brother, succeeds to the government of the Church, in conjunction with the apostles. He has been universally called the Just, from the days of the Lord down to the present time...He drank no wine or other intoxicating liquor, nor did he eat flesh; no razor came upon his head... (De Viris Illustribus).

The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have the strings and stinky juices of animal flesh into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat (Adversus Jovinianum 1:18, 2:6).

Among all the foods preferable are those that can be directly consumed without the need of cook them, since they are always available and ready to be eaten and are the most simple. This is the reason why apostle Matthew lived on grains, fruit from the trees, vegetables, without meat. And John, which kept a high self-control, ate leave sprouts and wild honey. As for the bloody sacrifices, I believe, were discovered by men who looked for a pretext to eat flesh, which they could have had without such kind of idolatry (Clement of Alexandria, Paidagogus II, 1:16).

The apostle Peter is attributed the following comment:

I live on bread and olives, to which I occasionally add some vegetables (Clementine Homilies, XII:6, V:6). 

We should not forget what apostle Jacob said to the gentiles who wanted to become followers of Christ:

abstain from the meats sacrificed to idols, from blood, the strangled and fornication (Acts 15:29). 

Of course, it´s necessary to read in-between lines and see the context. Foolish is he who does not discern and becomes a sectarian accuser, as it happens to some vegetarians, carnivorians or followers of who knows which spiritual sect.

It just suffices to admonish or point possible weak points in order to illumine darkness:

I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another (Romans 15:14 ESV).

Without forgetting that:

Anyone who claims to know something does not yet have the necessary knowledge (1 Corinthians 8:3 NRSV).

To avoid the accusing or judgmental attitude based on the stony moral law is precisely what Jesus/Yeshua did, being later imitated by Paul, with regard to customs and food:

it is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother or sister stumble (Romans 14:21 NRSV)

Paul saw there are aspirants who still experience a hard struggle against the flesh and harmful habits due to lack of understanding, and these could feel offended or confused seeing others with more experience of something which might seem a contradiction. Hence his words:

Food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better if we do. But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak (1 Corinthians 8:8-9 NRSV).

In a particular occasion someone with understanding may eat meat, for some specific reason, even if it´s something toxic, such as pork or shellfish.

For instance, some vegetarian teachers have sometimes eaten meat in order to break the "rigid mind" of some student. This was perhaps the case of Prince Siddharta, the Buddha, who supposedly died from eating pork, probably contaminated flesh. Who knows? But it would´ve been a great lesson.

Anecdotes apart, something different is that a spiritual aspirant turns meat into regular diet only to satisfy the demands of the stomaching Moloch.

This is actually was happened to the Jewish people in the desert, which did not understand the spiritual dimension of the teachings of Moses and demanded more literal teachings, mirrored on meat consumption:

Not the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel wept again and said: Oh that we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing all but this Manna to look at (Numbers 11:4 NREV).

Moses hallucinated in colors, finding hard to believe that people preferred a carnal life more than the deep knowledge about reality, starting from the perception of inner Divinity:

Where am I to get meat to give all this people? For they weep before me and say: Give us meat, that we may eat. I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me (Numbers 11 NREV).

This passage is key to understand why the written Law of Stone was introduced, including regulations concerning meat consumption, as we saw in the previous article.

Of course, the Nazarene Messiah lifted the carnal veil of the Law, showing the true Spiritual Law that sets us free, offering divine understanding and not just the spiritual Knowledge or Manna that Moses gave. But very few knew to see both sides, and became slaves of the carnal mind.

For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live (Romans 8:13 ESV). 

those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires (Galatians 5:24 ESV).

Consequently, he who feels the Divine Conscience touching his inner side, stops feeling the attraction of meat consumption, and loses the taste for it, so to say, since one is already aware of the process that food underwent before reaching the table, and can´t avoid seeing in his spiritual mind how the animal has been tortured, killed and butchered, feeling thus aversion when taking a piece of dead flesh to the mouth.

And what´s more, such conscious aspirant knows what to eat and which steps are necessary to nurture the body without an excess load of food.

All this makes ironic that some of the self-proclaimed pastors and followers of Christ/Messiah confess to be lovers of lamb, or even bacon, fried blood and pork steaks, which would´ve been aberrant for the first christians :)

Nevertheless, as it was already pointed, this should not make anybody feel the obligation to become vegetarian. It is not enough to stop eating meat or fish. There are many elements involved and it is necessary to understand what one does.

Now, where did the misunderstanding began?

Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end [the rigid obligations of written Law] (2 Corinthians 3:14 ESV). 

Without understanding the meaning of "lifting the veil of the Law" (Exodus 34:34), not wanting to understand Spiritual Law, all the Institutional Churches started to forge what´s known as "replacement theology", believing they were the new chosen recipients of Christ and supposedly fred from the Law. And indeed, they became new recipients, not for the Consciousness of the Messiah, but for the God of this World and its diabolic suggestions, what led to the creation of new traditions of men –as those denounced by Jesus Christ in Mark 7– and a new stone Law, with new rules, new and ravished temples of stone, new sacrifices and of course, new diets that do not even respect the wise regulations of health contained in the Torah, which offer the safe consumption of flesh and fish, avoiding blood, fat, pork, shellfish and other scavengers (Leviticus 11, Deuteronomy 14, etc). 

But let´s leave that for the next article, since it implies showing how the teachings of the prophets, even Jesus/Yeshua, had to do with the abolishment of carnal sacrifices and all it implies.

Contrary to what has been said, the Nazarene Master never ate lamb nor celebrated the Jewish Passover, since he was, as its epithet indicates, a Nazarene, and Nazarenes followed the Essene Passover, as it´s shown by the consciously introduced contradictions in the Gospels (see Jesus and the Essene Calendar in this blog).

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[1] http://www.all-creatures.org/murti/art-early-church-fathers.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James,_brother_of_Jesus#cite_note-62

United in a Cosmic Body

Finally, we got to the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles, and to complete the cycle, here we have a few interesting quotes from the book The Year of Jubilee, by Thomas Jude Germinario [1]:

How could He who is without Sin have become (again in the words of St.Paul) the very embodiment of Sin, so that Sin could die with him on the Cross? He took all our Sin upon himself because he is the Body of which we all are Members. The Body cannot have corruption in one of its members without being diseased throughout. No man is justified by the fact that he does less evil than his fellow man–no more than his chest can be more healthy if his stomach is sick. Jesus laid down his life on Calvary´s hill just to make one simple statement, but it´s amazing how many supposed "Christians" still don´t "get it". Christ´s message was and is simply this: "There is no Sin but our own Sin!

The Law can be applied to no one but to ourselves.  Each of us is called to perform the Will of God in a unique and different way [...]

To assign "blame" outside of ourselves is to dismember the Divine Body. To exercise Judgement against another is to impose the "law" of Moloch, the devourer of innocent Souls. If we are truly to take up the Cross of Jesus and follow him, must we not take upon ourselves the Sin of our fellow man? Must we not recognize as our own even the evil ostensibly done by "others"? In no way but this may we realize the Oneness of mankind, the unity of humanity which is the precondition of the Coming of the Kingdom.

Edom represents the presence in the World Soul of the remnants of the self-justifying State of Mind which we know as Satan. Edom is the "generation" of pseudo-souls which, as Solomon puts it, are pure in their own eyes yet actually awash in their own filth. 

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It was of this "generation" that Jesus spoke in his prophecy of the last things:

This generation shall not pass, till all these things have been fulfilled [Mathew 24:34]

In other words, the broken husks of the Fallen Angels must all find their way into incarnation so that they may be re-assimilated in the Body of Man. This is the meaning of the prophecy of Isaiah regarding the King of Tyre:

And it shall come to pass after the seventy years, that the Lord will visit Tyre [Isaiah 23:17]...

The number 70 in Isaiah´s prophecy refers to the letter Ayin. According to the Kabbalah, Ayin signifies seven universes of Chaos which were destroyed before the creation of our World. These seven inferior universes correspond in turn to the seven Kings of Edom described in Chapter 36 of Genesis. These seven represent the "generation" which must pass away before the Son of Man returns to claim his kingdom, the spiritual Kingdom of Israel. It makes sense, therefore, that the eighth King of this Edomite line would be a prototype of the Messiah. The name of this eighth King is Hadar, a Hebrew word which means "Beauty". The Kabbalah associates this name with the eighth day feast of Sukkot or Tabernacles, which begins with the gathering of boughs from the beautiful "hadar" tree. Sukkot is the festival of "dwellings" and the Hebrew letters of the name Hadar can be read as HaDor, "the dwelling". Since Hadar is the only King of Edom who is matched with a Queen, he aptly symbolizes the restoration to the Soul of its Queen–the Female Presence of God, Shekhinah. 

In our next chapter, we shall see how the ancient rituals of Sukkot express a formula for the balancing of the Soul´s Male and Female polarities and their alignment with the sexual polarities of the Godhead. Such balancing and alignment is essential to the Soul´s function as a Vessel of the quintessential Light. We will also learn how the rituals of the Hadar tree symbolically reveal the structure of the Tree of Life, the network of paths which the Soul must follow back to the Godhead. For purposes of completing the argument of this chapter, however, we need only recognize that the feast of Sukkot was, first and foremost, a celebration of that special variety of Self-Consciousness known as Vision. 

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Complementing this [Male] transcendent pole of the Godhead, we have God´s feminine polarity, which we´ve characterized as immanent. In this aspect, She is intimately and palpably present everywhere in Her Creation. She "dwells" in the physical Universe (Hebrew HaDar, means "the dwelling place"), from the spiral arms of its far-flung galaxies right down to the core of its tiniest particles. Hers is the Glory which literally fills our World, as the prophet Isaiah hears proclaimed by the Seraphim who attend the Divine Presence:

Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of Hosts: 

the whole earth is full of his glory [Isaiah 6:3]

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[1] More information about the book and parcial chapters can be found in the web of the author:

http://apokalypso.com

Acid Debts

Without doubt, life can be very sweet, but also quite bitter and acid, and with a lack of proper understanding, these can become an unbearable torment.

But we should not forget that acid fruits, such as lemons and citrons, have extraordinary medicinal properties. To begin with, they are rich in Vitamin C, which helps to keep the veins and arteries in perfect condition, protecting against the famous scurvy that decimated sailors in old times.

On the other hand, the acid of the citric disinfects and contributes to digest fats, improving blood and lymph circulation.

Next month we´ll see this has a meaning on other levels, since "fat" has always been symbol of impurity and "sin". 

But for now, with what´s been already said, it´s not surprising that the Citron tree has a sacred connotation in Hebrew tradition.

And you shall take for yourselves on the first day [of Sukkot] the fruit of the hadar tree, date palm fronds, a branch of a braided tree, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for a seven day period (Leviticus 23:40). [1] 

According to tradition, the fruit of the hadar (beautiful) tree is the Citron, Etrog, which some scholars deem as Adam´s Apple. In Kabbalah it represents the heart or feminine side of the soul, while the branches or Ulav represent the masculine side. The union of both heals all sins and restores the soul´s pure consciousness. 

Great wisdom is traditionally associated to trees. 

Well known is the fact that the Hebrew word for the fruit of the vine and wine, Yayin, has a value of 70, the same as Sod, Secret.

Interestingly enough, the numeric value of Citron, Etrog, is 610, close to the 613 mitzvoth or connections of Adam´s Soul, whose fragmentation generated  the famous "debts" or "karma" of humanity.

And as we will see, these links contain a message of great proportions concerning how the Messiah or Cosmic Man redeems humanity and which role play human souls in the process.

First of all, we need to realize that each one of us carries a definite number of "debts" because of eating from the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge without eating from the Tree of Life, which brings Understanding. And these debts make us incomplete and lopsided beings.

But which debts are these?

–Debts inherited from ancestors and close relatives, starting with biological father and mother.

Family traumas that remain hidden manifest in the form of congenital ailments, diseases  such as cancer or multiple sclerosis and some patterns of unconscious reaction that remain stuck for generations.

The Lord is long suffering and of great mercy, letting go of iniquity and transgression and absolving, but by no means absolving the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons unto the third and fourth generation (Numbers 14:18 Jubilee Bible 2000).

See also Exodus 34:7 and 

–Debts that soul fragments of an already crystalized soul acquired in other lives.

These remain in the form of "undigested traumatic memories", which return over and over to bodies of akin vibration, until they are resolved, completing the understanding of the soul.

These debts determine life circumstances and  surroundings, and are also mirrored on diseases, vital conflicts or quarrels between close persons, such as parents.

Until these traumas are not resolved, the conflicts chase the person that perpetuates the undigested trauma.

–Debts acquired in the present life through bad eating habits and negative actions that can even cause the death of the soul.

Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin (Deuteronomy 24:16).

Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die [...] The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself (Ezekiel 18:3-20).

All karmic debts turn us into defaulters with regard to others and Nature, which is part of the Intelligence known in the Scriptures as Elohim, the feminine and plural side of Divinity, from whom all souls and Eternal forms of all things are born.

The fact patriarchal religions –Judaism, Christianity and Islam– have generated so many rivers of blood is due to the blindness with regard to the Divine Mother and her body, Nature itself.

We all are under this blindness, reason why the physical world has become hostile; the body of the Mother has become a Stepmother, and our soul, a threatening shadow.

This blindness makes many think it is unfair to be born with debts they don´t remember getting, since, why should one pay for what others have done?

And very few realize that this is to incur in a double blindness: due to our massive egoism, we are not only not willing to pay for others, but also don´t see we all are part of the same Being.

Love thy neighbor as thy Self does not mean to love others as we love our pampered ego, but to love others as "parts of ourselves", fragments of an unrecognized Being.

Undoubtedly, this is the true sense of the teaching of Jesus Christ, Yeshua ha Mashiaj, who is presented as taking upon himself the sin of the World.

But why would he do something like that? Just out of compassion? No, too simple.

In reality, the sins of the world belonged so much to him as they belong to the rest of humanity, whose Soul and Body are one. 

The Law teaches that the Messiah, Christ or Universal Man is the Head of Humanity (1 Cor 11:3) and He knew very well that something in the lower parts of the Soul of Humanity –his Bride– was not right, since a mental-emotional virus called "Luciferic narcissism" caused a mess in the universes previous to the physical one we inhabit, which inherited such unresolved mess.

Unfortunately, both the believers who claim the right to be called "Christians" and those unbelievers who reject Christianity, still don´t get why it is said a man took the sins of humanity upon himself.  The former still think forgiveness is a free favor or concession  that a benevolent God grants upon insignificant creatures, whereas the latter prefer to think all is a misinterpretation or just another concocted religious fantasy.

Certainly, all debts are forgiven; but only for those who recognize the divine organism and whom we are part of, living in a way that meets the highest demands. 

This is the challenge many refuse to take, in spite of "believing".

It is naïve to think we've been given a free life when there is so much work to be done.

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also rip (Galatians 6:7).

for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body (1 Corinthians 6:20).

Only by reestablishing all soul connections, debts gets paid.

Hence these were in ancient times expressed in the form of Dharma or Duty –for the Orientals– and judgements, statutes and commandments for followers of the Law as expressed in the Hebrew Torah.

Think not that I am come to destroy the Law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the Law, till all be fulfilled (Mathew 5:17-19).

Contrary to what modern Christianity teaches, the Law still affects us, soul defaulters, specially in its spiritual reading, since the letter kills but the Spirit gives Life. 

This implies nurturing and purifying the body, even taking care of what we eat, as we will see next month.

Yet it´s not difficult to realize those "moral and vital duties" have generated as much order as violence and judgement. In fact, nobody was nor is yet capable of fulfilling them all completely, except the Head of Humanity or Messiah, in whom everything has come to pass.

In relation to this point, there is still another important secret associated to the Hadar Tree of Sukkot, and an illumining text is reserved for the eighth day, which is tomorrow Saturday.

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[1] http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/9924

The Birth of the historic Yeshua and the Feast of Tabernacles

As we saw in the previous article, the Hebrew word for Messiah, Mashiaj, can be read "there is brain/understanding", yesh moaj. 

And Understanding (Binah) is the consort of Wisdom (Jokmah) because it reveals what remains hidden. In the Universal Teaching we´re concerned with, Wisdom and Understanding are the implicit and the explicit, the seed and the tree, the union of the intuitive right hemisphere with the logical left hemisphere of the brain, union without which there can´t be spiritual evolution.

Therefore, let´s make an exercise of understanding that may feed our divine soul.

Seven are the festive reminders that have always been celebrated within Judeochristianity, and these play an essential symbolic role, both in the Old and New Testaments, since these convey a message concerning spiritual evolution and the Messianic Era.

Displayed in order, these are: Passover (Peshaj), Unleavened Bread (Matzot), First Fruits (Bikurim), Pentecost or Weeks (Shavuot), New Year (Rosh Hashana) or Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teura), Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), and Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot), which has special significance since, according to the Gospels, it´s linked both to Yeshua´s incarnation–whose birth started on September 11th, 3 B. [1]– and transfiguration, which would serve as model for the future, the Messianic Era which anticipates its first rays.

Owing to the adoption of the Roman traditions which are alien to the Apostolic line of transmission, the Feast of Tabernacles has remained forgotten for centuries within the "Christian" world in general; although now it begins to be remembered with all its meaning, possibly because the energy of understanding known as Messiah begins to be manifested in those who thirst for truth, despite more than a hundred years are still left for the official entry of the Messianic Age.

The true significance of the Feast of Tabernacles has also remained hidden for many who celebrate it since centuries ago.

Now, according to Zacariah 14:16, there would come a day in which all nations would celebrate this feast. Of course, this does not mean all nations will come to adopt the Jewish religion, but rather that a critical mass of people will start to discover the inner divinity, incarnating the Messiah at different levels. As Yeshua himself manifested, many would be able to do the things he did, and even greater deeds (John 14:12). He was, of course, referring to the second coming, which is the collective arrival of the Messiah, foretold in different religions.

The first complete arrival materialized in the prophet Yeshua, and it seems this was already marked since the moment of his birth, which according to the Gospel of Luke took place during the Feast of Tabernacles, on Tishrei 15th, which is presently celebrated between September and October due to astronomic reasons. Particularly, this year 2016 it begins today, 15th of October.

The feast commemorates the eighth symbolic days during which the Hebrews –who were crossing the wilderness after their captivity in Egypt– dwelt in tents (sukkot) made with branches, where they celebrated with rejoicement the protection they received from the Divine (Leviticus 23:33). This rejoicement was celebrated with food and the study of the Torah/Instruction. The first day they only ate fruits from the trees, in clear allusion to the Tree of Life.

Over time, this feast began to take place in Jerusalem, where the Israelites had to go in pilgrimage in order to celebrate it, reason why the houses and inns were full.

Undoubtedly, the author of Luke´s Gospel had this in mind when he wrote:

And she gave birth to her first born and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn (Luke 2:7).

If there was no place in the inn it is reasonable to think it was due to the Feast of Tabernacles.

It does´t seem a coincidence either that the word used is "manger", which in Hebrew corresponds to sukot, being a rustic dwelling, like the manger Jacob built for the cattle, which gave name to the place Sukot( Genesis 33:17), all of which is symbolic.

Now, additional data leave no place for doubt to think Yeshua/Jesus was born on September, opening the time of three Feasts: Rosh Hashanah or New Year, Yom Kippur, and and Sukkoth or Tabernacles. 

First of all, Luke 1:36 specifies that Miryam´s cousin, Elizabeth, who would give birth to John the Baptist, was pregnant since sixth months ago. And the author of the gospel was descriptive enough to suggest the month in which Elizabeth became pregnant, and he does it by giving specific details about the father, Zachariah; he indicates that while Zachariah performed his priestly dutiesunder the division of Abijah, he was told his wife would give birth (Luke 1:5-13). Soon after he returned home, she got pregnant, she conceived.

In order to understand which date he is pointin to, we must know the Jewish tradition, which states that the service on the temple was performed by twenty four groups of priests and it took place from Shabat to Shabat, a week of service each (2nd Chronicles 23:4-8).

And the division of Abijah worked during the eighth week of feasts, that is, during the Feast of Pentecost (1st Chronicles 24:7-10), in June according to our calendar.

Moreover, we must take into account that one of the three extra weeks assigned for the priests during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Pentecost and Tabernacles respectively (Deuteronomy 16:16).

From here we can deduce that Zachariah went back home around the end of June. Coincidently, the Feast of Saint John is usually celebrated on 21 of June since centuries ago. 

And all seems to indicate that John the Baptist was born close to Easter, around March.

Therefore, if Yeshua was born sixth months later, it must have been towards September, time in which three feasts were celebrated: New Year, Feast of Redemption and Tabernacles.

It´s not surprising that in some villages of Spain the birth of Yeshua is celebrated between August and September. Very possibly this is an old remnant of ancient Judeochristianity that survived the cultural clean up that the Church of Rome performed with its thirst for power, under the support of Catholic kings, Elizabeth and Fernando.

And if all this still seems not enough, there are astronomical data that fix the issue once and for all.

It is not possible to understand the gospels without knowing ancient astro-cosmology, which uses the twelve zodiacal signs (Mazzarot in Hebrew) as a cosmic clock. 

Luke 1:26 starts by telling the Angel Gabriel was sent to Mary on the sixth month. And in those first centuries the sixth month corresponded to when the sun raised before the sixth constellation, Virgo, the Virgin, mathematical fact that in those days took place between August and September, the seventh month or Sept.

This explains the famous prophetic message:

Behold, the virgin shall conceive and and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel (which means God with us) (Matthew 1:23, Isaiah 7:14).

The fact someone important would be born at that time was even known by the Eastern magicians, since the information was transmitted throughout different cultures.

Those who knew how to interpret sacred texts and astronomic signs, also understood that there exist assigned cycles for the birth of divine energies, and this is expressed symbolically.

Actually, the author of the Gospel suggest that the mother of Yeshua, Miriam, came from a priestly family, since he makes her recite a psalm (Luke 1:46-48), and this was not done by ordinary women in the Judaic culture. And those psalmic words, in the mouth of Mariam, come to express that the virgin is the divine soul or pristine consciousness where the Light of the Messiah/Christ must be engendered, bringing an intense delight, something for which one must prepare the temple of the body (John 2:21), which Paul called "temporal tent", since we must become living tabernacles (2 Cor 5:1-2; 1 Cor 6:19).

And let them make a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst (Exodus 25:8).

And the word became flesh and "tabernacled" among us (Juan 1:14).

Thus, the Feast of Sukkot expresses the moment in which Divinity manifests in the purified body, protecting it, since it serves as a "tabernacle" or temporal vehicle.

Only by means of a purification of mind, heart and body can one become aware of what is the inner Messiah/Christ. Until then, the divine watches us, unsuspected by anyone, as it happens in that enigmatic passage where Yeshua goes unnoticed, during the Feast of Tabernacles, to be precise, until he reveals himself, taking everyone by surprise:

On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out "If anyone thirst, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, "Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water". 

The seven sacred feasts take place in Winter and Autum, the two Equinoxes where the opposites are balanced, as Ancient Cosmology shows.

And if we pay attention, we will see that the life of Yeshua is painstakingly structured following these feasts, revealing their internal meaning: 

He celebrates the Passover following the Essene calendar, where he shares unleavened bread and wine, which symbolize his spiritual body and blood, as well as the literal and mystical side of the Teaching.

He dies during the pharisaic Passover, as replacement of the Paschal Lamb, which is an allusion to the constellation Aries, before which the sun passed during the crucifixion.

He resurrects on the first fruits, announcing the first fruits of a future Messianic Era.

He sends the Holy Spirit in Pentecost.

As for the Feasts of Trumpets and Atonement, what do they represent? 

And considering that the Feast of Tabernacles, the last, corresponds to his fleshy dwelling and latter transfiguration, what do these two moments represent in our life?

Let´s each one do the homework and ponder that.

For now we will proceed with the theme of sacred nutrition, during any of the following days of the ongoing Feast. 

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[1] 

http://themusicofwisdom.blogspot.com/2018/09/messiahs-birth-started-on-september.html

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