Three weeks ago, after posting the results of my inquiry to the I CHING, I wrote that I will no longer be adding my voice to Substack.com.
Let me explain why I wrote that and why I am going back on my word.
As a practicing believer in REAL science and as a Taoist (or am I a Deist? Are they the same? Help me out, Bill!) I have come to believe that my personal understanding of the world and my views come - just like yours - from Universal Mind. In other words, as the Serbian Ivan Antic has written in his several books,
Reality = Consciousness.
My mind - just like yours - absorbs, reacts, and responds to the thoughts emanating from the Almighty YHWH. Of course, some things get lost in translation and my all-too-human mind cannot fully understand the thoughts of our Creator.
Atheists can feel free to stop reading now. The same goes for Progressive Democrats.
A few months ago, I dusted off my copy of Taoist master Alfred Huang’s THE COMPLETE I CHING and pulled out the coins. I asked the oracle if the feeble old gangster Joe Biden will complete his four years as selected POTUS. The answer was an unequivocal “No”.
A bit later, I asked whether Sleepy (and poopy) Joe would be found mentally unfit or if he would die on the job. The answer, while requiring a bit of twisting, convinced me that the traitor who sold America to China and Ukraine is referred to as the Beast of Revelations (as described in chapter 13). Of course, there are dozens of translations of the Bible and many are the subject of controversy. Chapter 13 (verse 5) seems clear:
The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months.
The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months.
And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months.
The animal was given a mouth which spoke words full of pride and it spoke very bad things against the Lord. It was given much power for forty-two months.
Then the beast was allowed to speak great blasphemies against God. And he was given authority to do whatever he wanted for forty-two months.
And there was given to him a mouth that spoke great things, and blasphemies, and power was given to him to continue 42 months.
The beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months.
The beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months.
The beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months.
The beast was given a mouth speaking arrogant and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. He will be out of office by July, 2024.
The face of the Biden Crime Syndicate is “the Big Guy” and his attack on Christians and Jews began in January, 2021. He will be out of office by July, 2024.
The results of my inquiry will be posted next Sabbath.
C2
I understand your dilemma Charles - I am a Christian Deist and it's worth researching Deists of the past. I believe in a Creator but I use Jesus to guide my moral code in my Earth-walk, where I am priviledged to learn the subtlies of the Universe as created by the Almighty upon whom I cannot view.
"Why is it that some men fail to show appreciation for the Creator but others do? What reasons can you give for man’s living on the earth rather than on the moon? How strange, then, that so many rulers and persons of wealth who often reside in the most beautiful natural surroundings show little or no appreciation for God, the Creator. How infrequently men realise that the earth and man upon it, in fact, all the universe, are fully depend upon our Maker."
"So hear the word of God you boasters, you rulers of this people in Jerusalem. For you men say: “We have made a covenant with Death. And with the Grave we have made an agreement. When the raging flash flood passes through, it will not reach us, for we have made a lie our refuge "
[Isaiah 28:14-15]
It has been written for millenia and the ancients knew the truth.
Blessings
AP
Perhaps I can help. Here is my favourite 20 century theologian explaining what went wrong.
I have a large library section devoted to mystique traditions. My fathers , fathers fathers were DEISTS. Samuel Johnson called us Cabalists in his 1755 Dictionary of the language
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=cabalist
In answer to you question here is one of our greatest 20th century masters speaking at The Jewish Public Library in Montreal in 1976.
I hope truth is not offensive to your ears. I do have an extensive theological library but I only talk mysticism with mystics.
https://archive.org/details/ybc-fbr-513_4512/01-513.wav
The copy of For My Brother Jesus lies beside my computer covered with tea and coffee stains if you want more truth I can assist. Enjoy this kind of truth is forbidden inn America as you will realize listen to a truthteller. The book is available online and free of charge.
I owe you and Bill a lot . You were friends but this I know my father taught me about religion on his knee. It is all parable and no history.I start with John Ralston SAul who John Ralston Saul or his wife who Irving got all wrong in hisd his book called The Covenant Jewish prophets are Deists and sing the HENENI like Leonard Cohen. Irving's student.
You want it Darker. I promised a Buddhist Monk I would learn to write so could write on Jewish mysticism he wrote books on ancient mystical traditions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpgKqwnbvnY