The Message

The mighty council of three begins to sing; no not sing… worship.  Pure unadulterated, praise from voices within their beings, and in their song, I am ushered in to euphoria.  There is a place at the edge of one’s ability to describe that I am catapulted from as I hear the music of Heaven and I feel as if my entire being weeps from the joyous experience.  What have I done that I am worthy enough to stand in the presence of such praise, such offering of self, and I can surmise that it is for no other reason than the deepest conviction that the Source is deserving of such.   Of this I am certain.  Then Gabriel speaks.  “Peace be unto you brothers.  He that joins us is the subject of our next mission.  We have been assigned to help the Adam begin the assault from within on the gates of Hell.”

“I have a question for you Adam.”  Michael the mighty one speaks.  The silhouette of his body is beautiful, powerful, long and strong.  The aura that surrounds him exudes confidence in all manner of crafts and artistry.  “Do you wish to see what you look like now that you are translated?  Do you wish to see yourself as you truly are?”    The answer jumps in my mind, Yes I do.  Just the thought makes my heart race yet, before I speak, I sense darkness in my desire.   “No thank you most talented Angelos.  I remember what I look like before I lost my I’s and I no longer require them to see myself, and besides, I prefer to gaze upon you.”  Warmth and the deepest feelings of camaraderie are the only way I can describe how Michael and the others respond to my answer.  From that point forward I forever know what it feels like to have brothers that will never leave me behind.   I am safest when I am in the care of true friends. 

 

“The council will come to order,” says Gabriel.  We are to train Adam in the Way of Virtue and in the proper set up of his Common Ground Cell.   Adam you have been shown that Heaven is the place where Virtues reign and what the Virtuous seek.  We three and all of the ranks we lead are the Servants of Heaven.  We defend the Virtues from the ministers of Death and Hell and we aid all of creation on life’s journey.   You will fashion your Cell using the three of us as your example of whom you should seek out.  The ministers of Darkness pose no real threat to us, for Michael and his battalion alone can rid us all of Hell entire, but that is not permitted.  We are to combat evil only by command from the Source, or from the mortals he has given choice too.  As Angelos we cannot fight evil without the permission of man.  This has left us at a huge disadvantage for as men become more modern they become less concerned with seeking Virtue and resisting Vice.  This then creates the situation that we Servants find ourselves in.  We see the Shades of Ignorance running free among men while we stand down in protection mode, and we wait.  When man’s will is to be good, we cannot resist the call to help, but alas, the eyes of men are forever on themselves and their appetites, and the calls come less frequently.  It is difficult for me to witness the cruelty of your world.  The greater the despair among your poor, the greater the savagery.  The greater the comforts among your rich, the greater the appetite for vice.   Want drives Every Man to transgress, the poor man to violence, and the rich man to selfishness.  There is no greater example of this and of the tragedies it fosters than in the West.  The West is the great whore that peddles vice world wide and at the same time the center of Christianity, which is a religion built on Virtue.

      In the West, the rich accuse the poor of sloth and the poor condemn the rich for hording.  The religious condemn the unreligious of humanistic Arrogance and the non believers condemn the religious of Hypocrisy.  No one is able to find a resolution to this stalemate of justifications and the empire crumbles from within and without.  I tell you Adam what they fail to do and what will keep them on the road to destruction.  Jesus said, “Agree with your adversary quickly while on your way to see the judge.”  The way of Virtue which is the Common Ground mandates that you agree with your accuser, for in so doing, you will open yourself up to the possibility of finding real and meaningful dialogue.  Michael, train Adam on how to build a fighting Cell among the poor in the world of men. 

 

 

MICHAEL AND THE POOR SOLDIER

 

Before Michael begins teaching, the holy trio once again cries out.

He who has ears let him hear. 

Wisdom flourishes from the elements of 3 soils.

Fear    

Experience

Understanding

Michael speaks.  “It is an honor to speak to one such as you Adam.  Tell the poor who seek after virtue the following:  I am Michael, commander of the Heavenly ranks.  I am not eloquent in speech for speaking is not what I was born to do. 
Battle is my calling.  It is I who first taught the Kings of old how to lead their troops in to the fight.  I have never missed a call to arms and I never will.  I am angered by the cowards that you men now call leaders. Your wars would be much different if those leaders still had the conviction   as in olden times of being on the battle lines when they called war down upon their foes.                 

 

     I am aware of the struggles of the poor.  Each and every day they struggle for sustenance, for respect, for love.  I am their guardian.  I can see why some poor proceed with a philosophy of “by any means necessary.  It is the vice among men and the Window to the West that tantalizes and taunts the poor to forsake their honor.  Soldiers, I tell you that not all that glitters is gold.  As a soldier and as your commander I tell you that no lie from the pit of hell can ensnare you if you keep your focus on your duties.  Honor, loyalty, Commitment to duty is our rallying cry.   What this world entices you with makes you soft and when you’re born in the jungle, the soft get swallowed up.  I am concerned.  Too many of you I see are willing to sell your dignity, your moral character, for the lure of money.  I will not have that within my ranks.  If you seek to gain riches and power and respect through the abandoning of your Honor then do not look to Michael for cover.  Only the fool walks among the enemy without backup.  Stop, for you do not know the terrain like I do. There are devils that stalk you at each corner’s end.  Join with me and I will show you how to spot them and more importantly, how to kill them.  In my ranks, all of my troops get the right intelligence all the time for every step is ordered by me.  There are no moral suicide missions with us.  Before we move on one of Hell’s strongholds I tell you exactly what is waiting for you and me as we go together for, we go together or, not at all. 

      Examine your heart and work from the inside out.  Kill off the false pride that keeps you from standing in my army.   I have silenced many souls in my existence and I can assure you that you are not ready yet for what I call you to do!  We are going to work on you.  We are going to begin by cutting off all the fat of Arrogance, and false bravado and vanity that you mistake for true pride and we are going to build you up with the very stuff of heaven;  Humility.  Humility is the impenetrable Virtue that will protect you.  Follow my command and you will have a heart of pure diamond!  We will change the source of your self esteem.  As of now, you take your self worth from how closely you measure up to the people that you see on your Window to the West.  There is no bigger audience for the soul snatching window than the poor.  Are you pretty enough, hard enough, rich enough, athletic enough?  Away with such vanities!  We must build you up with Integrity and Truth for this is the true measure of your worth. 

Your souls need mustering my children and that must begin in the classroom.  Your training facility is the school system.  Any school system. You will apply yourselves in the classroom because education will civilize your souls and make you to understand your worth.  You will work and you will go to school.  You will pass your classes and you will proceed to the next level.  Those of you that grew up along side these soldiers and actually made something of yourselves, are charged with the responsibility of going back and helping others make it out.  Do not make excuses on this, make results.  There are no exceptions in my ranks.  The soul that is not educated is not fit to be among us. 

      Am I too hard on my soldiers?  Do you think I would tolerate a soldier in my ranks without Discipline?  No Sir!  I will show you who are the soldiers without discipline and what they do.  They are those that fill the poor neighborhoods of every city in every state in every country; those that set up and maintain the black economy.  They are pushers, dealers, the whores, the crime bosses, the thugs and their shameless concubines.  Their vile economy runs on drugs, the most brutal task master ever to step out of Hell. They let this repugnant demon loose on their brethren and all too often get caught up themselves.  Any soldier that profits from the drugs that enslave men and rip apart families is not worthy of the image from which he was made.”  I, Adam, dare to interrupt Michael the mighty with a question that cannot be contained.   “My Lord Michael; I beg your pardon but I am burdened to speak a word on this matter.  Many of us in the world of men feel that a great many of the poor have little choice but to resort to deeds of darkness in order to survive.  They come in to this world at a terrible disadvantage with great odds stacked against them?  Do they not have a right to rail against the system of men and create an economy for themselves?  Others before them have stolen and murdered to get to their places of comfort.  Do they not have a right to the same?  Michael with great patience responds.  Your concern for the less fortunate is valid but there is a critical flaw in the argument.  What do you say of the poor that do it the right way?  The poor with the same money problems, who live in the same crime infested neighborhoods, go to the same ineffective schools and still are able to make a living within the laws of men?  It is men such as these that will get a reward from Heaven. 

      As for the others, hear me wayward soldiers.  I am Michael and I don’t support evil doers that claim ignorance.  The moral law is alive in each of you and if you choose to transgress it, you do so in complete knowledge and full responsibility.  Turn back to life!  Get in to a school and hold down a job and wean yourself off of the darkness that you feed on.  YOU WILL RECOGNIZE ME AS I COME TO YOUR AID.  I promise you on my light that you will see me AS I HELP YOU ALONG THE WAY!  I will strengthen you from within so that no evil shade from without will harm you. 

If you do not give heed to my pleas then know that you are an evil doer to me.  Hear me, I am Michael and I too believe in getting things done by any means necessary.  My agenda however is to remove the likes of you and your Masters.  Hell has given you what your flesh desires at the price of self respect and of the love of the good and honorable.   If you walk in this way Adam you are a shade of darkness to me and I will introduce you to my sword on your souls last day.  Of this you can be sure…

  Your life has been hell but, you have been a hell raiser too so do not expect a pass.  You will stand before your God in judgment and I will be the one that cuts off your legs from beneath your knees for my instructions are to ensure that every soul bows the knee!  Accept the authority of morality in this life and fall to your knees in repentance for your wickedness and I will help you regain your Self Respect.  I call you soldier to faith through Virtue! 

      If you choose instead to fall to your knees as a result of my sword then so be it.  After acknowledging justice I will give you a soldiers exit and it will be my sword that separates life from your soul.   Go then to the complete darkness that you so faithfully serve.  The Just shall live once, die and live again.  The unjust shall live once, die and then DIE AGAIN.  You have been warned Adam to turn from your shame.

        A new maxim I give to you so that you may teach this on the Common Ground.  Govern yourself so that you need not be governed.  If every Man applies the way of Virtue to his own soul then there will be Common Purpose on the Common Ground and it will bear the fruit of Common Sense.

 

 

GABRIEL SPEAKS TO THE RICH

 

And once again the trio cries forth.

He who has ears let him hear. 

Wisdom flourishes from the elements of 3 soils.

Fear    

Experience

Understanding

“Listen to me Adam as I speak through you to the fortunate of the earth.  I am Gabriel the chief messenger of Heaven.  I proclaim the words of Righteousness to those called to Understanding.  I bring news to the Rich who through good fortune or great struggle find themselves with the means by which the world of men revolves.  Fortune has smiled upon you.  Recognize it and it becomes a blessing you can wear with dignity.  Unrecognized, it is a curse to you and to those that surround you.  You are those that live in secure communities worrying not that your neighbor will break in to your house or steal your possessions.  You collect material objects to keep you satisfied, but true security, which Heaven alone bestows, eludes you.  Consistently you seek after the material for you fear that fortune is fickle with her favors and you cannot risk a turn in her tastes.  It is natural to strive for the next target there is nothing at issue with this, but I ask you this Rich Adam.

Where is your brother? 

Is he fed? Is he clothed? Are you looking out for his prosperity as well?  Why would you need to concern yourself with these questions?  Because you were destined to be Noble.   Look to the world of men Adam.  Compare your lot with that of the many millions that suffer want of the basics of life.  Those such as you Adam are the favored and the Source has seen it fit that through you, favor must flow to others.    Whoever is your Source is irrelevant.  If you are of faith through religion then God is your cause and you must give him an accounting of what he gave to you and your house, and what you then gave to others in acknowledgement of the favor shown to you.   If you are of faith outside of religion then you must give an accounting through reason of the much or the lack that flows out of your ability to give as a person with means.  Have you been blessed with money?  Nobility requires that you bless others with the same.  Have you been given time?  Then act nobly and bless others with your time.  Have you been given Talents?  Let them flow for the profit of those less fortunate.   Through your nobility you will show the Cause of your good fortune that you have understanding, for it is better to give than to receive and the Cause will continue to bless you, because it concurs. 

      I am Gabriel and I tell you that this is so.  A warning to you Adam the Noble.  There is an enemy within you called Selfishness that will entertain you at the crucial moment of turning intent in to action.  Selfishness is the primary reason why the world is suffering as it does.  There is among the noble the ability to end hunger and much ignorance were it not for the selfishness that paralyzes them.  Selfishness will bring your wants before you and they will lobby you with their importance over the wants of others.  The wants of the needy will be opposed by your own wants; selfishness will make sure of it.  You will respond by remembering these words.  Those called to nobility by fortune are to consider all decisions from without.   When you are challenged with deciding between opposing wants, step outside of yourself, away from ownership of your wants so that you may judge without bias.  If you judge these matters from your gilded arm chair then you will not judge rightly.  I tell you this for your own good because there is a great danger to your soul in ignoring my words.  You will be poisoned by the fortune that you are hording.  Fortune is the water of Heaven and water that does not flow becomes disease filled.  Your bank accounts will become contaminated cesspools from which your children will drink.  Purify them by opening them to flow to the less fortunate. If you keep the dams up on these waters they will end up damning you.  The cries of the suffering will bounce off of the water that you horde.  There are children going hungry, women seeking shelter.  Men need to be given a future that they can strive for.  Do not think that gilded walls can keep you safe from your destiny.  You are your brother’s keeper.  Your fortune mandates it and Reason and Virtue concur. 

      If there is one thing that a person with money understands, it is this.  Nothing is built without thought and effort.  Any object or situation left unattended over time will deteriorate, it will not improve itself.   You are accountable for the rise or the suffering of the less fortunate. You are to step in to the gap and help others cross to where you are.

I am Gabriel and my message is true.

 

 

RAPHAEL AND RELIGION

 

And a third time the Angelos chant:

He who has ears let him hear. 

Wisdom flourishes from the elements of 3 soils.

Fear    

Experience 

Understanding

I am Rafael the medicine of God.  I am the physician that treats the soul of Adam. To the soul that is ill my medicine is bitter, but it is strong and it will heal.

 I am to teach you on how to speak healing to the opposing sides to common faith.  I speak of the religious exclusivists that deny there is any common ground among the faithful of the religions and even less so with those that don’t entertain religion.  I also speak healing to the non religionists that oppose religion in all forms. 

       I am Rafael and I speak healing first to faithless Adam.  “Non believer” is what you are called but this is a misnomer.  You do believe.  You believe in yourself, or in the ability of mankind, or in reason and the quantifiable nature of the universe.  You may even hold loosely to the existence of a higher being but it is certainly not the God of the Religious.  That God is too much like the men that worship him, always requiring belief without sufficient reason.  The lack of Reason among the faithful is the reason why the God of the religious does not compute in your mind.  I agree with you doubting Adam.  There is a great deal of unreasonableness among the religious.   It is best for all involved when the religious admit that God cannot be arrived at through reason alone.  Reason can be followed to marshal proofs of the possibilities of God but God cannot be contained by Reason for He is beyond the Reasoning intellect of
Man.  And so you have your justification for your dissension straight from my mouth.  Know however doubting Adam that this does not absolve you of your duty to follow the moral law as a sentient being capable of choice.  You may use the argument that you have been given insufficient reason to believe in the God of Religion but you cannot use the same in denying that there is a moral law by which you must live by.   You have been given sufficient reason to know the moral law that exists.  Virtue mandates that you keep this law while Vice argues you away from it.  If you deny this and use Reason to argue your position then Reason has become your vice.  You too doubting Adam are under the ubiquitous presence of the moral law and you choose to obey or deny this truth in complete knowledge and responsibility.  If there is a reckoning for those that do not follow this law, then you will be found guilty through denial.  It is this unseen but none the less real moral law that points to the fact that Reason has its limits.  This unseen law tells you to give to those less fortunate than you, fight on behalf of those that are oppressed,  love even to the point of giving your life for others whom you love.  Reason will often fail you in these endeavors.  It is belief that carries you to heights that reason cannot go to.  It is belief that points to vistas that your reason cannot see.   I am Rafael and I tell you faithless Adam that you and your loved ones are incomplete without belief in the supernatural and you must get back to it.   At some point in your life or your children’s lives none of it will add up.  Sooner or later you or someone down your line will find that the puzzle cannot be completed because pieces are missing.  Who threw them out?  Have you not sensed this?  Objective reason will tell you that anything is possible when you can’t control the outcome.

 

 I am Rafael and I am to tell you that faith seeking virtue is necessary for your survival.  You must believe in order that you may live!   What I am saying is possible.  How can I ask this of you Adam?  How can a modern mind return to the ignorance of faith?  It is not ignorance to understand that God cannot be comprehended through Reason.  Furthermore it is not ignorance to want Virtue to be upheld.  The Common Ground will provide you the path by which you can attain an increase in faith as you seek to honor your duty to that which is worthy of honoring.  In upholding the moral law on the Common Ground you may perhaps chance upon God, for anyone that seeks will find.   Reason is augmented by faith so that you may believe in a standard worthy of your effort.  Upholding that standard is the beginning of the path that leads to the Almighty.  Although it might take a miracle for you to believe, I will look for it, for I believe in miracles.  To suspend the natural and reverse it upon itself is a miracle.  When a natural man overcomes his vices and becomes a pillar of strength for his wife and family, that is a miracle.  When another whose life is nothing but misery and pain can face each day with hope and the peace that surpasses all understanding, that is a miracle.  When one such as you begins to understand that we must all do our part to uphold the beliefs and faith that make men better human beings, that is a miracle.  Do you believe?

      And what of you exclusionary Adam.  You that believe that there is only one way to God and he has given only your kind the Way.  Others may think they have the way but you are certain of it that they are wrong.  Tell me Adam, how are you so sure that they are wrong.  Is it because they hate their families and do not care for their children?  Is it because they do not congregate at places of worship?  It must be because they do not deny themselves and they promote all manner of vice?   Is it because they do not suffer pain and tragedy such as those of your belief system?  Look closely doubting Adam.  You will see that there are many, not of your kind, that love their families and care for their children.  They congregate in places of worship and they decry vice and uphold virtue.  They too suffer loss and pain and tragedy.  In spite off all these crucial similarities, you judge them hopelessly wrong.  They are wrong because they do not believe in whom you believe in, or if they do, they are then guilty by not holding to the interpretation that you hold to.   You have been taught that, though they perform the acts of the righteous throughout their lives, at the moment of death they will inherit Hell for their doctrine is wrong.  It appears that your teachers have taught you that faith misplaced, although genuine, will lead to Hell.  Let me then ask you exclusionary Adam.  How do you know that you aren’t the one that at the moment of death will be condemned to Hell because you are wrong and another was right?  If genuine faith, good works, and justifiable reason are irrelevant to the outcome, then you may be lost right now without knowing it!   Your have such great faith in the teachers of your “True” religion that you are risking the loss of Heaven and the inheritance of Hell.  I say “faith in your teachers” because contrary to your belief, you have in fact not seen God.  Does the resurrected Lord reside physically in your home?  Does he attend your church in the flesh? Can you produce him in his physical form to other men?

      You believe because your gut and or the very Spirit tells you that you’re right.  Could it be that you are afraid to deface your religion if you admit that there might be those of the faithful remnant who were born in other faiths?  Could it be possible that the faithful remnant are to come “from the North and the South the East and the West,” sharing a common ground of Faith.  Could it be that agreeing on Faith seeking virtue in daily actions is Holy?   Is this not something to be sought after especially when you are not asked to abandon your personal religion?   The enemy is purposely keeping you from accepting the faithful remnant of other religions and denominations because you will start to heal the world. 

 

 I am Rafael and I am to tell you that just as reason alone cannot reach God, subjective faith alone cannot reach him either.  Even the greatest faith in the world will not have a universal application for all men, for men seek after reasons for faith and the reasons you give may be insufficient.  You must learn to practice Grace, when you speak about Faith.  You must humbly respect the fact that what you have been taught about other religions or denominations being wrong biblically is not the point.   The point is to humbly acknowledge that you should not judge another for his beliefs but rather judge him for his actions that result from beliefs.  Listen to Jesus as he spoke to the Woman of Samaria:

‘Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in
Jerusalem, worship.  You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.  But the hour is coming, and now is when the true worshipers will worship the father in spirit and in truth.’

Jesus was a Jew and he acknowledged that the Jews knew who they worshipped unlike the Samaritans, but nonetheless, Jesus said it wouldn’t be the Jews way in
Jerusalem or the Samaritans way on the mountain, but it would be in Spirit and in truth that true worshippers would conduct themselves.  Heal the sick, pray for the captives, feed the hungry, clothe the needy, comfort the lonely; are these the actions of your kind alone?  When another does these acts are they not just as honorable. Who has taught you that actions from virtue are negated by doctrines and interpretations?   Who has taught you that Righteousness is exclusive to you?

 

The light is exclusively white until the prism reveals the rainbow within.  Only the darkness is completely exclusive for it will not accept any light no matter what shade.  My name is Rafael and I am medicine for your soul.