Gathering 2004 Friday Part 1

2005-6-13 04:26:00

My Friends,

I know we've just had the 2005 Gathering, but I have not yet posted the text of the 2004 Gathering which thing I will begin now.

One reason is that I need to finish Book 4 of the Immortal and posting these instead of working on new posts not related to Book 4 will help to free up some needed time to finish up. It still takes some time to do some final editing, but this goes faster than writing new material.

I think you'll find the next few chapters of the Immortal quite interesting. Meanwhile, I'm sure you'll also enjoy the Manti Gathering.

We owe a debt of appreciation to Mindy for transcribing this. I'm sure it was hard work deciphering all my mumblings and turning them into coherent text.

2004 Gathering- Friday Evening Manti, Utah

Part 1

Susan: Welcome to the Gathering of Lights! We have been planning this particular Gathering since September of last year so it is really exciting to see all of you here. I felt very privileged that we were able to have it in Manti again so we didn't have to travel too far but we have some people who have traveled a long, long way and we thank you for coming. It'll be a lot of fun. I don't know that JJ needs an introduction but I'll introduce him anyway. His name is Joseph John Dewey and he's fifty something. His wife is Artie and she is the heart of the home. They live in Boise, Idaho. JJ and I met over the Internet like you met him. We met November 25, 1999. So it's been awhile. I met him in June and I and I was expecting this very loud, strong person because of the way he writes. When I met him I said, "Who is that? He's a quiet man." But he doesn't write quiet. He writes with power and that's why I think all of us are here; because of the power we feel. Our souls telling us there is truth in the words that he has written. So I am very glad that he has a heart, a mind and a soul that are open to being taught so he could turn around and teach. I'm very appreciative of that... I'd like to now turn the time over to JJ.

JJ: Are we ready for a good time? Susan said I was soft spoken and all this time I thought I was a dynamic individual.

I've told the story before of when I was young and my favorite singer was Del Shannon. If you remember, he sang the song Runaway that goes wa wa wa wa. I tried to copy him. It was before the days when everyone had tape recorders. I never knew what my voice sounded like. I really studied his songs and memorized them. I thought I sounded just as good as he did.

One time my dad came home with a tape recorder he had borrowed from a friend. He said, "I want you to sing that song you've been singing, that runaway thing. Sing it in this." So I sang it in the mike. Then, with a big grin on his face, he said, "We're going to play this back to you." He played it back to me and I was horrified. I didn't sound anything like I thought I sounded. That really woke me up to the fact that I wasn't going to be a rock star.

It is interesting how difficult it is for us to see ourselves as we really are. There are layers of who we are. Often when we first awaken, we awaken to our lack. Then there is another awakening. It's an awakening to what we don't lack. I was awakened to what I lacked. I lacked a great singing voice. I was awakened to the fact that I wasn't going to be part of a new wave of rock stars that the world was waiting for. So I was awakened to the reality of what I lacked. Later in my life I was awakened to the reality of what I did not lack. What is that? What is it that we do not lack that we need to be awakened to?

Audience responds (inaudible)

JJ: And more than that? Jesus says, 'Ye are what?' So what do we need to be awakened to? The Bible says, 'In the beginning God created us how?' In His image. What does that mean? What does it mean to be created in the image of God? Relate that to the fact that Jesus said, "Ye are gods." If you are an exact reflection of God, then what are you? You're a god too. Is this something that we need to be awakened to? If you are awakened to the fact that you are a direct reflection of God-In the beginning God created man and woman in His image. In the image of God, created He them.

The word for 'image' in Hebrew is the same word that the word 'photograph' is derived. So it means we are like a photograph of God, an exact reflection of God with all the attributes of God within us. The scriptures speak of Christ saying He had the fullness of God within Him then they go on to tell us that we are the sons of God even as He is and as He is, we are supposed to be. "Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect," and all these different things giving us the idea that we are something more than human. That God created us a little lower than the Angels, remember that scripture? Did you also know that it's mistranslated? Do you have any idea of what it really says? Have you ever read the Hebrew for that Assaf? Where it says that God created us lower than the Angels?

Assaf speaking in background.

JJ: The word 'angel' comes from the word Elohim in Hebrew. What does that means? God created man a little lower than the gods. So we're just a little lower than the gods but then we're also called gods in the same area. The reason we're referred to as a little lower than the gods is that we think we're a little lower than the gods. We haven't ascended in consciousness to our full reflection of God that's within us. Because we haven't ascended in consciousness there, we are just a little lower than the gods. What is man that God is mindful of him? He created him a little lower than the gods. "But we must descend below all things," the scriptures say, "so that we may ascend above all things." Christ, it is said, had to descend below all things so that He could ascend above all things. We are created a little lower than the gods, for practical purposes. Not all of us can walk on water or do some of the things that Christ did. So, in other words, we are a little bit lower than the gods but our consciousness is capable of taking us back to fulfill the measure of our creation which is what? To be a reflection - to be in the image of God.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly nderstood. Alexander Haig