Monday, February 17, 2014

CLIFF-TOP TEXT AND SOME NARRATIVE


                   We have problems, all of us. Sometimes
it's difficult to get up  in the morning. Depression
can destroy us. It's insidious and it can creep up
and rob us of our strength.
        In the old days, I suppose they called this power
of doubt and darkness, they called it, "Satan."

         Do you remember the old saying? "SATAN'S
GREATEST TRICK WAS TO PERSUADE ALL OF US THAT
HE DOESN'T EXIST.
         
         In fact, it might be easier to fight a force
that we have made animate: Satan is a force we have
made animate.
         The divine One, I AM THAT I AM, is the primary force.And "He" does not need strength from human consciousness:
though "HE" delights in our praise. In some sense he requires our worship, but only if it's freely given.
         Satan is not a primary force. Satan is a secondary force. And just like Voodoo, He (It) requires the power
of human consciousness in order to gain "His" strength. 
                  
    
                   I'm not writing this to glorify myself. I am mortal within the soul of the Lord. I have endless failings, sins, and
inconsistencies. And I have lied and turned away many times, and I have been lost in  Forgetfulness.
        Mortal, very mortal...and weak. But as Lao Tzu
said: "START WITH COMPASSION TOWARDS YOURSELF...then harmony will begin around you."
      
...     I have not been spiritually
unfaithful to the heart and soul and spirit of these people.
In this way, still I love them all. In this way I have
been true.

           It is with their strength that I write this.
On my own, I have the strength to do nothing at all.
Also, the bodhisattvas and saints whose Mind circles the
globe, many times they have helped me.... constantly
they give me aid.
           They are who we used to call angels. And angels
exist. They are an independent part of I AM THAT I AM.

              

            
           In matters of the heart-mind, the spirit-soul,
faithfulness is important. And the One Who Is Creating
Us tends to take lies and deception seriously... in the matter
of His Eternal Truth, He takes lies seriously.
           BE THE CHANGE you want to make in the world.
           
           

        
           I WILL NOT BE UNFAITHFUL IN THIS:



cliff-top text:


 JESUS SAID:

         "Drink the waters of the fountain
I have dug. and you shall be as I am.
And being what I am, I shall breathe
into you new Breath. I shall be your
Comforter; I will not leave you
comfortless. You shall know Me
through My Word, and you shall not
taste death."

        "I am always with you, nearer
than you think; and when you replace
an Eye for an eye, not in vengeance,
and not in pride, then you may see Me
as I always am, throughout unending
days and nights, I reach to you My
hand; I offer you My Sight."

       "They have killed the Son,
but here I am, the true Heir
of the Garden."
       
       "The Kingdom has come, but
men know it not."

        "You have asked My Father
for the Son; My Father and I are One.
On the day of harvest the weeds will
appear, which the thief planted. You
too are a Thief, but with my blessing,
for what is yours in Mine. You will
help others to open the door."
         "And now I must leave, if you 
are to see Me. I must leave; so that
when I am gone, I will come to you,
and you will see what you need."

        You will see Me and know Me
in your visions and your dreams. 


        When I am gone, I will come to you,
and you will see what you need."

         "I have gone out to the roads and
streets, gutters and alleys and invited
everyone that they might have the last
supper with Me; all are invited; even
you, my friend the thief; make yourself
ready to eat."

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A number of Gospels were discovered at Nag Hammadi,
by the Nile River in Egypt in 1945.
A library had been hidden in a large earthen jar
of pottery. This discovery will change the modern world,
and will certainly change the Christian world.
When I discovered the Gospel of Thomas in 1970,
and saw its implications, I went into the woods and
built a cabin on a cliff, a place of power. With no
distractions, no electricity, no radio or T.V., no
telephone I started working on the manuscript.

Many unbelievable things happened to me
as I was focusing on the words of the Gospels.
The northern lights circled directly above that
place, which I now consider sacred.

As the weeks turned into months and the
months passed, my natural human abilities started
to return to me. There was no road to the place.
There was a goat path off to the side of the cliff
and slightly behind it. The path was
a third of a mile long, winding down steep
rocky hills to a dirt road.
After living in the hut for some time,
my telepathic abilities returned to me. I knew
if someone was walking on my path long
before anyone arrived to visit me.

Some passages were impenetrable,
at least to me. I was at a loss to finish
an inscrutable sentence, and I sat still
for a time staring at the page. I had
reached an impasse. I had no idea
as to the meaning of an excised
passage that had been destroyed.
The clouds would open, the sun
would shine down between the clouds,
and my hand would start writing again.
Often I'd be trying to figure out what
the top of the page meant, when my hand was
writing the bottom of the page. I had to
find out what the bottom of the page meant
later.

At such times, passages were written
that there was no way in this world I would
have had the courage to write. And there is
no way I would have thought such thoughts.
Here is one such passage.
Once again, you be the judge.

I shall not send my son again,
To be crucified in the world of men.
Now mankind will be crucified
Upon the Christ.”

I didn't confront this passage, nor did
I understand what it means. There are
whole parts of the Cliff-Top Writings
I haven't looked at in twenty years.
But now I'm getting older, and I
don't expect to live forever. I want to finish
this task I started as a young man.

The manuscript is here before me.



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 JESUS SAID:

         "Drink the waters of the fountain
I have dug. and you shall be as I am.
And being what I am, I shall breathe
into you new Breath. I shall be your
Comforter; I will not leave you
comfortless. You shall know Me
through My Word, and you shall not
taste death."



        "I am always with you, nearer
than you think; and when you replace
an Eye for an eye, not in vengeance,
and not in pride, then you may see Me
as I always am, throughout unending
days and nights, I reach to you My
hand; I offer you My Sight."



       "They have killed the Son,
but here I am, the true Heir
of the Garden."
   
       "The Kingdom has come, but
men know it not."



        "You have asked My Father
for the Son; My Father and I are One.
On the day of harvest the weeds will
appear, which the thief planted. You
too are a Thief, but with my blessing,
for what is yours in Mine. You will
help others to open the door."
         "And now I must leave, if you 
are to see Me. I must leave; so that
when I am gone, I will come to you,
and you will see what you need."



You will see Me and know Me
in your visions and your dreams. 



        When I am gone, I will come to you,
and you will see what you need."



         "I have gone out to the roads and
streets, gutters and alleys and invited
everyone that they might have the last
supper with Me; all are invited; even
you, my friend the thief; make yourself
ready to eat."






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Friday, February 7, 2014

CLIFF-TOP WRITINGS CONTINUED ..................... JUST THE TEXT

This is  the text as it was written
on the cliff-top, written by hand 
  into  notebooks of various sizes.
 The lines are typed exactly as 
written in the notebooks - usually
out of doors - in the wind, in light rain
and snow, at the desk or in the
doorway of the small hut. 
        Looking back I realize that
those were joyous days, days filled
with a sense of utmost urgency, but
happy days as well, knowing that always
close at hand was  communion with the
divine.
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The Father has planted his 
vineyard so that men might claim
their true Inheritance. And that
Inheritance is this Legacy; that
robbers should not steal the names
of the Father, but that the captives
upon the earth might be set free. And
this is the Father's Legacy: that men
shall not be deceived by names, but
rather shall search out the True Name
that is the Source of names, and by so
doing a man may know Himself, that he
is beyond names, and yet is the source
of names.
        One Name they do not utter upon
the earth, and that is the True Name
that is beyond names. Know your true
Name which was yours before your
parents gave you a name and you will
receive your Inheritance, which is
Wealth beyond the wildest of dreams,
and yet is in the midst of poverty.  
     
         It is only in the Father's vineyard
that one may see such true dreams
of reality.
          The free man shall not forever
be a slave to a false authority. So
it was decreed in the Garden of the
Father, that the prisoners be set free.
           
          Before Christ came there was no
bread in the world. In the Garden there
were many trees, but no wheat for the
food of man. He brought bread 
from heaven in order that men might
be nourished with the food of man.
Man used to feed like the beasts,
but in the day he learned to eat the
Christ, men ate like a human being.
            The son seeks not only
to be free, but he seeks the possessions
of his Father. In the sanctity of the
mirrored Bridal Chamber, the son
sees his reflection in the Father,
and the Father finds His reflection
in the son, and the Spirit shines within
the knowing of this Chrism
 like an inner sun.
             Holy Communion comes
at the end of Forgetting. Communion
is the Knowledge of the True One.
Holy Communion may well be achieved
under the open skies. For why has the
Father planted His Vineyard?
So that it should be ignored
and wither and die?
               No. The Father has planted
his vineyard so that men might claim
their true Inheritance. And that Inheritance
is this Legacy: that men shall
know the True One within,
and realize Himself.

        Those who say that the Lord died
first and then rose up are in error, for
He rose up first and then died. If anyone
does not first attain the Resurrection,
he will die.
        If the sons of Adam are many, but
nonetheless die, how many more are the
sons of the perfect man, they who do not
die but are begotten at all times.