The state of innocence of our first mother and father, Adam and Eve, allowed them to live in a state of
pure being. They could do no wrong because the innocent natural state of being in which they existed did not have the option
of acting outside the right and natural state. As soon as they acquired the knowledge of good and evil, they lost the
dimension of this innocence and the natural right action which results from it.
They immediately became self - conscious and reacted by making garments of fig leaves. Self - consciousness
itself distracts a person from acting optimally. And learning to focus and concentrate becomes the necessary skill required
to reestablish the undistracted concentration required to do one's best. Professional practitioners of martial arts, atheletes,
practitioners of yogic and other styles of meditation and even business executives, often using bio-feedback monitors; practice
techniques which maximize performance which self-consciousness represses.
As modern man struggles to learn what is right and how to apply this knowledge, many conflicting ideas and
facts compete for his attention and he is mostly led astray by various beliefs, ideas and cultural norms. His goal is to awaken
and become objective and enlightened so that he will do what is right. The philosopher, Gurdjieff said that the awakened act
was a choiceless awareness of what is right at any moment.
The appeal of religion was that it offered the practitioner the right way. The problem was that all religions
with differing laws and beliefs promised that they had the exclusive knowledge of what was right. Religions and their houses
of worship had the masses coming and going and yet people remain confused and in conflict about what is right. The
business of offering the right path is, however, without question the most lucrative commercial enterprise and stands beside
weapons sales, oil sales and the pharmaceutical trade as the giants of commerce.
Yet, futile as the search for the right path has proven to be; man is still searching. The '60's song from
the Woodstock concert said the poignant words, "I came upon a child of God"; "We are stardust" and "We got to get ourselves
back to the Garden". Sadly it is the very Woodstock generation which desparately sought the right way and finally got lost
in the liberal deception of moral relativity. These aging baby boomers still want to live forever, but the underpinning of
such eternal life is no longer believed in let alone sought after. And so the Woodstock generation is another lost generation
going from pleasure to pleasure and establishing misconceptions and choosing false leaders as their guides and their children's
guides.
I thank God for not allowing my soul to fall into the abyss of the endlessly documented myths to which my
contemporaries adhere. I have been destined to be offered the chance to encounter the right path and the fortitude
to stay on it. The right path is the one which leads to the other tree in the Garden of Eden, the Tree of Life. As our intellects
developed, we were expanding our ability to access the Torah which God gave to Moshe and the people of Israel. However, navigating
our intellects toward this tree of life requires more than intellect. In Deuteronomy 29:3 we see some of the prerequisits,
i.e., "but the Lord hath not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear unto this day." After 2000 years
of Christian clergy and even more years of rabbinic teachings we certainly have the numbers of adherents and even seekers,
but we still lack the access to the right path. Christians have fallen for the pauline ( if there even was such a man as Paul.
Perhaps he was simply a construct inspired by Constantine and his religious cronies. ) doctrine that the Torah cannot
provide salvation only condemnation and that only belief in Jesus' death for our sins and resurrection can provide salvation.
This is an evil mockery of Jesus' life and the Torah on which it was based. Jesus had a perspective on the Torah which
he defended to the end and which Christians would to well - right - to adopt forthwith. Jews fell prey to the rabbinic
myth of an oral torah which, as I have been citing, is full of contradictions to God's own written Torah which Moses gave
to Israel and the family of mankind.
Here's what the Prophet Isaiah says about eternal life :
"He will swallow up death forever; and the lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces;" 25:8.
Thy dead shall live, my dead bodies shall arise - Awake and sing ye that dwell in the dust - For Thy dew is as the dew of
light, And the earth shall bring to life the shades. 26:19. "Hearken unto Me, ye that know righteousness, The people in whose
heart is my law; Fear ye not the taunt of men, ... But My favor shall be forever, And My salvation unto all generations."
51:7,8.
Israel made a covenant with death and made lies their refuge ( Isaiah 28:15) and now danger is crouching
at the door. The existential soulution is the same as the aging soulution. "Until the spirit be poured upon
us from on high, And the wilderness become a fruitful field,And the fruitful field be counted for a forest. Then justice
shall dwell in the wilderness, And righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field. And the work of righteousness shall be
peace;" Isaiah 32:15-17.
The spirit of God in man is the result of righteous compliance with His law. Holiness is the loving and
devoted pursuit of fulfilling God's desires. Holiness restores our state of innocence. The spirit is then all pervasive in
our lives. As spiritual - genuinely spiritual - people we are in a state which rejuvenates our bodies. Spirit, which
cannot be destroyed is eternal. This is how we obtain the life extension all of us are looking for. We must
however make are souls more important than our bodies and lives.
If we do this we will embark on the path which leads to all of the blessings God has been saving for His
faithful, righteous and holy management team which demonstrates to all of mankind how to obtain blessings. Judaism and
Christianity are failures at setting its practitioners on this path to eternal life. Christianity has even misidentified
eternal life as some form of ethereal life in God's presence, while Judaism changed the words heaven and garden of eden to
places where the dead reside. The fact is - this earth is and always has been the garden of eden. When we return to God, totally,
it will also become what it was destined to become - heaven. And we will be born again, not in the spirit of ignorance
and arrogance, but in the true spirit which transforms us and remakes us in the spiritual image of our Creator.
That's it folks. The choice is yours to make. Give up your lies and the religions spawned by them and take
the opportunity God offers us in Jeremiah 31:30-33 "Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make
a new covenant with the house of Israel...But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel...I
will put My law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it;"
Remember, the easy way is the one which tires us and makes us consider death a well earned rest for the
weary minded and fatigued. If we choose to die to our egos and follow the written Torah as reborn spiritual servants of the
Lord God of Israel, He will bless us forever and we will participate in the greatest adventure of all, i.e., the obliteration
of Amalek, the rebuilding of God's Temple in Jerusalem and the reclamation of the planet as His holy Kingdom. This
new lifestyle will certainly change our stock portfolios but we'll be winners of more abundance than we imagined. So stick
with your Father and don't let go or let your mind wander. Choose the good, choose life ( Deuteronomy 30:19, 20).
