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The Authority of the Beast

February 9, 2024 Joseph Dewey

The Authority of the Beast

Question: You speak of authority as a keynote of the Piscean age which is passing. Does this mean we are to ignore the authority of Christ and other benevolent teachers?

It is important to remember that the keynotes of the past are not to be discarded, but properly understood. The difference between the Piscean and Aquarian Age as far as sacrifice and authority go, is that during the Piscean age these two qualities were not understood and disciples were often quite blind in how to use them. Consequently, they did not adequately examine the results of their sacrifice, but only asked if God required it.

They did not discern between a real or earned authority and one that was illusionary; instead, they only asked if the authority was from God, the king, the prophet, the master, etc.

During the over 2000 years of the Piscean Age humanity has learned many lessons of misplaced sacrifice and authority. Consequently, they are now ready to drop useless or even harmful applications of these aspects and use them in a constructive way.

The point is that sacrifice and authority are not abandoned, but used constructively in the coming age, where lessons of the past are incorporated.

As we enter the Aquarian Age, we will experiment with free will and service and make many mistakes concerning their true application, just as did the early disciples in the Piscean Age did with the qualities they were working with.

People will often serve self and think they are serving others. Then seekers will enhance their free will while depriving others of theirs. It will take a long time to get it right, but we must begin even though mistakes will be made. We must make mistakes to advance toward true learning.

Today true seers can see the true authority of Christ as compared to false messiahs. If your teacher walked on water, changed water to wine, raised the dead, made the blind to see and spoke the greatest words ever heard would not any right-thinking person assume he has true spiritual authority of some kind?

In any age, one like Christ would gain some earned authority from true seekers and this is a good thing which is the correct use of such authority.

But — because authority is not the keynote of this age, in His next appearance, He is not likely to perform such great miracles to emphasize such authority. Instead watch for Him to do and initiate works of service that enhances freewill.

Clarification on the Beast

After reading a number of comments on the Beast lately I thought some further clarification may be needed.

First, let us remember that I have written many words on the subject already and it may be a good idea, especially for newcomers, to read up on some of the material in the archives. We covered quite a lot on it in the first couple months of the Keys back in 1998, and then I have made comments from time to time as well as devoted a major chapter to this in my book, “The Unveiling.”

Perhaps the greatest misunderstanding seems to be that any strong use of authority is a beastly act.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

The use of authority by itself is a neutral thing. Like money or any manner of power it is neither good nor bad by itself. It only becomes good or evil when it is directed toward positive or negative use.

One can use money to hurt someone or to help them. Even so it is with authority. It can be used rightly or wrongly, but by itself it is a neutral force.

One thing that makes beastly authority so difficult for many to see is that it is nuanced. For one thing, the authority of the Beast can be used to accomplish good things now and then. For example, Stalin used his beast-like authority to aid us in the war against Hitler, an even greater threat to freedom than himself.

In China the Communist party leaders used their authority to aid earthquake victims as well as organize a successful Olympics.

Thus, whether the authority is put to good or bad use does not tell us if the authority of the Beast is at work.

What does then?

The key is whether the authority is justified and earned rather than unearned and not justified.

An earned and justified authority can use great authority and not be beastly. An unearned and unjustified authority can be very timid in his use of authority, yet be connected to the Beast.

Here is a list of what the Beast is and is not:

What the Beast is not:

[1] The use of strong authority even though the agent if the Beast is more likely to use strong authority than his counterpart.

[2] Not known by the fact that discontented or contentious members surface grumbling about wrong direction or even of beastly authority itself.

An organization not governed by the Beast will usually have more contention than one controlled by the Beast because there is more freedom of expression without the worry of reprisals.

Take the founding fathers for example. As they were breaking off from the Beast they got so mad at each other they were about ready to kill each other at times.

On the other hand, King George just made the decisions and no one argued because of fear.

[3] The Beast does not represent an inherently evil goal, but is usually seen as benevolent by many.

For instance, the Beast can promote Jesus, Buddha, healthcare, and even freedom — though slavery is seen when illusion is stripped away.

[4] Represented by mean-spirited people. Many of the agents of the Beast are good people who do not understand that they are captivated by the the misuse of authority.

What the Beast is:

[1] An authority that demands respect when he has not earned it.

[2] An authority that demands obedience when he has not earned the respect of his associates.

[3] An authority who demands to be believed when he has not demonstrated credibility on the subject at hand.

[4]An authority who makes unjust demands, especially for sacrifice he is not willing to give of himself.

These are just a few points to illustrate the subtle differences between the two uses of authority. The main point I wanted to stress here is that one can use strong authority when the circumstances demand it and not be an agent of the Beast. During World War Two, for instance, Churchill used strong authority, but was not an agent of the Beast, but defeated a Beast.

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” — John Barrymore (1882 – 1942)

Aug 24, 2008

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Judgement and Opposition

February 8, 2024 Joseph Dewey

Judgement and Opposition

Question: How can a limiting judgment be in error if it is true?

Let me clarify with a few comments.

A limiting judgement, or the negative use of judgement, is never completely true and always involves error.

Let us look at a couple negative judgements.

[1] “You’ll never amount to anything.”

Here the person in error is attempting to place a horrible limit on an unlimited human being in the image of God. He is attempting to lead another soul into limiting illusion.

[2] “You are rotten to the core.”

At the core of each of us is the soul, which is the opposite of rotten. If you point out a specific action and describe why it was wrong then you are relating a specific fact, but to make a negative all-inclusive judgement is rarely correct.

[3] “You are ugly.”

This is not a limiting judgment in the normal sense and could be a statement of fact according to most people upon the physical plane. Even if it is true it may be harmful to say it. We can hurt people with the truth as a weapon and this, of course, generates bad karma. All of our spoken words should be true, but they should also be selected carefully.

Think back to the Seinfeld episode where their friend had an ugly baby and even that insensitive group were nervous about hurting the parents’ feelings.

Yes, it was an ugly baby but for crying out loud hold your tongue. Don’t lie and say it is beautiful, but there is always something positive you can say. Maybe he looks smart and you can say, “I’ll bet this kid is going to be one smart cookie.”

Why The Craziness?

Our forum has come a long way since it began in 1998. How time flies when you’re having fun.

One thing we should be thankful for is how stable the group is and the quality of people we have here. Overall, most of the group really want to learn and share and refrain from letting their egos get out of control.

The group started out with a lot of passion with 30 or so members. It is interesting that in those early days I believe we had more posts per day than any other time. It seemed that almost every member was posting and with enthusiasm. We often had more than 50 posts per day. We were posting more than any other group on the Internet that I could find — some with 50 times our membership.

Then things settled down and challengers started coming on board. These challengers brought out some interesting teachings, and even some parables, but overall, they were discouraging to some members who just wanted to discuss and learn.

Finally, we had so many distractions, and even some threats, that we had to put the group on moderation. This wasn’t a cure-all from distraction as I have the philosophy that we should let everything through that adds to the discussion.

What we generally found though is that most of those who do challenge us stay about a month, make their case and move on. Some of them have such a different vibration that they cannot bear to be here for long.

We have been fortunate here in that not many have claimed to be the Messiah, Davidic Servant, a prophet like Moses, the Two Witnesses, the One Mighty and Strong, God, and others. There are other religious groups with a major problem in this area where a major call to listen from beast-like authority is dictated every few days.

The recent challenger is the first person with big ego proclamations to come along in a while. She believes she is a prophet and one of the Two Witnesses as well as one of the seven angels of Revelation. That’s quite a package.

There is a rule of thumb here: The bigger the claim the less sense the person makes.

This brings us to a new topic for discussion.

We notice that the bigger the claim of authority a person makes the less sense he makes. Sometimes this seems to border on insanity. This not only happens with religious ones but also in other fields.

Why do you suppose this is the case?

Hint: DK gave some information on this.

Can you think of one person who presented himself as a great authority who made any sense at all?

Don’t say Jesus because he never presented himself as the Christ to the general public and told his disciples to not reveal who he was while he was teaching. His works proclaimed him.

A reader responds with this: “Joseph Smith claimed authority from God himself and his son as well as from John the Baptist and Peter. So he was claiming a lot of authority. Sometimes he made sense and sometimes he didn’t.”

JJ: On the other hand, he taught that the great authority of the Priesthood was available to the humblest of the brethren making them equal with him.

He rarely made mention to his supposed high station as a reason for people to conform.

On the other hand, the creation of the Mormon Church was one of the last spiritual creations of the Piscean Age and the emphasis on authority has made the church, as a whole, unable to move toward the Aquarian Age. When the New Age has come fully in they are likely to be on the outside looking in with most of the other orthodox religions.

A reader points out that Jesus made some pretty strong claims such as:

“I and the Father are one.’

“I am the way, the truth and the light, no one comes to the Father but by me.’

“If you’ve seen me, you’ve seen the Father.’

Most of these statements were made to the inner circle and not for the purpose of forcing compliance. He did tell his enemies that he was one with the Father, but this was with the knowledge that all of us are one with the Father if we could but realize it.

The few times he did attempt to get his followers to comply with his wishes he did not use authority, but love and reason. His strongest statement desiring compliance was:

“If you love me keep my commandments.”

The modern day Messiahs will say something like this.

“I am the Christ, and if you do not obey me you are in for hellfire.”

When Jesus strongly desired Peter to feed his sheep he did not use his authority, but asked him three times in a row so when he was gone he would remember the gentle request.

Another thing to consider is that some of the scriptures have been altered to make them sound more authoritative.

Authority and sacrifice were the keynotes of the Piscean Age, but service and freewill are the keynotes of the Aquarian Age.

Even so, Christ demonstrated His greatness, not with His claims, but with His great words and works.

The modern-day ones who claim to be “a great one” have hollow words only. Rarely do they have any works of significance.

“One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything — and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)

Aug 20, 2008

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Little Rock Memories

February 6, 2024 Joseph Dewey

LITTLE ROCK MEMORIES, Part 1

My First Job

My niece wanted some Little Rock stories. I have some fond memories of the place as we lived there for a couple years when I was between three and six years of age. We moved to Emmett when I was six as I began school there in the fall of 1951.

We were pretty isolated at Little Rock and I didn’t have anyone to play with so I spent a lot of time with my dog just hiking around the area. I was thrilled when the fruit season arrived because it drew a lot of workers to the packing shed owned by my Uncle Ray which was stones throw away from our house.

I kind of made a nuisance of myself there but the people were too busy to pay me much attention as everyone had to keep busy packing the fruit for shipping. I saw that everyone had a job and they seemed to be having more fun than me so I asked for a job. Someone told me that I could separate the fruit baskets and hand them to the workers as needed and that would help.

So, I started doing that and the workers seemed to appreciate it. I enjoyed the work and it seemed fun compared to doing nothing. I continued doing this until the end of the season.

At this time my Uncle Ray called me into his office and sat me in front of his big desk.

He said, “Joe you have been working hard this season so you deserve a paycheck just like anyone else.”

He then wrote out a check and handed it to me. “Here’s a check for three dollars.”

I never in my wildest dreams expected to get paid for having fun but when I took that check for three dollars my imagination went wild. At that time the most expensive candy bars were five cents and I started thinking of how many I could buy and how many I could eat at one time. I was thrilled.

I then went home and showed the check to my Mom.

She looked at it and said, “You know what? You really need a new pair of pants and this is just enough to buy them for you. I’ll take you shopping tomorrow and we’ll get you a brand new pair.”

“No, no,” I protested. “I want to buy a bunch of candy bars.”

“Too much candy is not good for you,” she said, “but you really need a new pair of pants.”

The next day we went shopping and bought the pants and we left the store with me wearing them. My mom turned to me and said, “Now doesn’t that feel great to know that you bought those pants with your own money?”

“Not really,” I said. “I’d feel a lot better if I had all the candy bars I could eat.”

She then said something to the effect that I would understand more about what is valuable when I got older.

Indeed, she was right. If I had spent the whole thing on candy I would have probably made myself sick and they were short of money at the time so on hindsight I am glad that my three dollars helped out a bit.

LITTLE ROCK MEMORIES, Part 2

That Darned Goat

When we lived at Little Rock around the year 1950 (Between New Plymouth and Emmett, Idaho) when I was five my parents decided to get a goat. At first, I thought it would be like having an additional pet, but was I ever wrong. For some reason the goat decided it didn’t like me, and whenever it saw me it would come running at me and ram me with its head. I found this very annoying and complained regularly to my parents.

Then one day I was out playing and a car drove up. Out of it came my Dad and Uncle Del. Del came over to me and said, “I heard that you don’t like that goat.”

“I hate that goat,” I said.

“Would you like to shoot it?”

“Sure,” I said, figuring he was kidding around.

“All right then” he said, and pulled out a pistol and placed it in my hand. “Go shoot that goat.”

I had never shot a gun before but figured it was just a matter of pulling the trigger so I walked over to the goat who was behaving himself for once and aimed the gun at its head.

The trouble was that the pistol was kind of heavy and I was having a hard time holding it steady. I wasn’t sure if I was going to hit the target or not.

Del must not have been sure either so he stepped forward and held the barrel steady with his fingers and told me to shoot.

And shoot I did and the goat fell over dying on the spot.

Over the next few weeks, we ate that goat and I enjoyed it immensely as there was something very satisfying about consuming an enemy.

LITTLE ROCK MEMORIES, Part 3

My Friend Mike

When I was three, approaching four, my dad acquired a new friend named Mike. Mike took a liking to me and treated me as a person rather than a little kid. He not only told me good stories but he listened to what I had to say. One of the things we talked about was who was the greatest cowboy, We liked a lot of them like Roy Rogers, Audie Murphy, Lash LaRue, and Gene Autry, but between us it came down to Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. I thought Gene Autry was by far the better of the two and made my case.

Then one day when visiting he said to me: “Would you like to see the real Gene Autry?”

I gasped and enthusiastically said yes, but figured that seeing him in person was just a pipe dream.

I’ll tell you what,” said Mike, “he’s going to be at the Snake River Stampede in Nampa in a few days and if you want, I’ll take you to see him.”

Before this I had really liked Mike but this sent him up to almost a godlike status in my mind.

He took me to the Stampede and I did get to see the real Gene Autry and was thrilled.

During this period where Mike was a good family friend my Mom became pregnant and I was informed that I was soon going to have a new brother or sister. I was pretty excited about the news and, as it came time for delivery, I came up with a great idea. We should name the baby Mike, after my new best friend.

When I told my mom my desire, she told me that they would consider that name if it was a boy, but it just wouldn’t work if it was a girl. From that point on I figured that God was going to send us a boy because I felt it just had to be named Mike.

As fate would have it on Feb 23, 1949, just a couple weeks after my birthday, my mom delivered a beautiful baby girl.

When she brought her home and we gathered round to take a look I said, “Let’s name her Mike!”

None of the family thought that was a good idea, especially my mom, who was the main decider on this, who explained to me that Mike was a boy’s name and she needed to have a girl’s name.

I argued that a girl could be named Mike just like a boy can be. Why not? Who says we cannot name her Mike?

Normally I could talk my mom into letting me have my way, but on this she put her foot down and decided to name her Sandra Sue.

Sandra Sue did not sound anything like Mike and I was quite disappointed for a while, but it wasn’t long before she seemed to grow into that name until she did seem to be more of a Sandy than a Mike.

As an adult I am thankful that this was one time I didn’t get my way with my mom, as Sandy would have probably had a lifetime grudge against me had she been named Mike.

LITTLE ROCK MEMORIES, Part 4

Playing With Fire

We lived a rather peaceful, idyllic life at Little Rock for about three years between the ages of three through six for me.

Most of the time I spent alone. The only time I mingled with anyone other than family was when we had friends over or the packing shed was running. On most days I would go on long walks with my dog.

Sometimes I would find wild asparagus and pick it and give it to my Mom. I was a picky eater and didn’t eat many vegetables, but that asparagus seemed to taste great – I think mostly because I provided it.

We heated our house with a coal and wood range and when mamma ironed she heated the iron up on the stove and ironed for a few moments and then heated it again.

We had an old fashion washing machine with a wringer which had two rollers that you ran the clothes through to squeeze the water out of them.

When we took a bath we had to use a big metal tub in the middle of the kitchen that we filled with hot water heated on the stove. I think my parents must have bathed when us kids were out of the house, for I never saw them use it.

We had a number of accidents out there. Bill got ran over with a car but it didn’t do much damage. I just about electrocuted myself on one occasion and on another got my hand caught in a slamming car door, but I had a real close call one day when we all got together and built a big bonfire and cooked hot dogs and roasted marshmallows.

We spent the afternoon enjoying ourselves and as the evening approached the fire seemed to have gone out and there was nothing left but smoldering embers. Everyone had gone back into the house except me. I stood there looking at the ashes reflecting on a pleasant day and I grabbed a nearby stick we used for roasting and poked it in the ashes that showed no sign of life.

To my surprise this stimulated them and all of a sudden, a flame came right out of the ashes in my direction almost like it was alive and embraced my right pantleg and caught my pants on fire. I was wearing corduroy pants which were very flammable and instantly realized I was in real trouble and shouted out for help as loud as I could.

Thank God, my mother heard my cries, even though she was in the house. She came running and didn’t waste any time when she approached me. She grabbed me and rolled me around in the dirt which put out the blaze. She took me in the house and we assessed the damage. My right knee was badly burned but if she would have not responded immediately it would have been much worse.

It took a while to heal up and I still have a scar from it as a reminder.

A year or two later when we moved to Emmett, I had another close encounter with fire. We moved to a new place in Emmett and I can still remember the address – 619 North Commercial. In fact the house is still there.

It had a partial basement where we stored various supplies. I was down there one day and noticed a paint brush in a jar which I assumed to be water. Instead, it was a flammable paint thinner.

For some reason I had a book of matches with me and as I looked at the jar a crazy question came to my mind. I wondered if the water in the jar would burn if I put a match to it. I lit a match and applied it to satisfy my curiosity. To my surprise it instantly caught fire and the surprise caused me to hit the jar and knock it over. Suddenly the floor was ablaze with fire and I realized I was in real trouble. It looked like the whole house could burn down and me with it.

Again, I cried out for help and again my angel mother came to the rescue. She instantly assessed the situation and grabbed an old mattress that we had stored there and threw it on the fire and managed to smother it before the point of no return.

I did suffer some damage from this, as the fire burned my lips which developed blisters and then turned into scabs. It took about a month to heal up.

During that time I had a number of people approach me and ask, “What happened to your lips, kid?”

I found it very embarrassing to explain what happened and having to respond to that question was more painful than the physical burn. I was really glad when my lips healed and that question ceased to surface.

CLOSE CALL

The account of my sister’s wedding reminded me of something. It says they honeymooned in Canada but what it didn’t say is that we went with them. In the car was Bertie, Lorin, my Mom, Dad, Sandy and me.

It was late at night and Lorin was driving down a two-lane road at around 100 MPH. Fortunately, in the distance he noticed a cow right in the center of the road. He immediately applied the brakes and we came to a screeching halt that seemed to last for an eternity.

We stopped just before the point of no return and got out of the car to assess the situation., The bumper of the car was actually touching the cow who was completely undisturbed, as if nothing had happened.

Just think how different things would be if Lorin’s reflexes hadn’t been top notch and we had all been killed in a 100 MPH crash!

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Remembering My Dad

February 5, 2024February 5, 2024 Joseph Dewey

Remembering My Dad

A reader comments: “JJ, your Dad’s stories are so interesting. It’s exhausting just reading how much he had crammed into his life. The Dewey’s were always moving house! He was so clever and had come up with so many inventions, plus wrote poetry as well. I laughed at his poem called A Little Bit Mixed Up, and I loved his Old Age poem as well, they are priceless. He was a great character, very interesting and so much fun.

“Thank you for sharing his life with us.”

JJ: Thanks for your comments. I thought I’d just share a few additional memories of my Dad. Perhaps nothing sums up my Dad’s outlook on life more than an encounter he had with an old friend in his old age.

The friend was named Mel, and was my friend Wayne’s stepdad. He used to live the wild life with my Dad in his youth but later he changed his ways and lived a more stable life and started going to church.

He owned the Letha Store, and one day my Dad stopped by to pay a visit. After a few niceties the conversation went something like this:

Mel said, “Well, Ted, I think you ought to look at the difference between you and me. Look at me. I cleaned up my life and am going to church. I own the local grocery store and other property. I am in real estate and have made some good investments. I have a stable family and have established roots.

“Now look at you. You are single and the only possessions you have is that little trailer you pull around and your typewriter. What have you got to show for your life?”

My Dad looked him in the eye and gave a knowing smile. Then he replied, “Yes, I agree you have all those things but I have something no one can ever take away.

Then he paused and said: “I’ve had a good time!”

This left Mel a little speechless, and he had no reply as my Dad turned and walked away.

My Dad was always the life of the party and loved to buy other people drinks and tell them jokes and stories. The true ones were as difficult to believe as the made-up ones were.

Sometimes he would take me on mining trips when I was a kid, and whenever he entered a bar, even far from home, there was always someone who recognized him and welcomed him with open arms.

He was very concerned about me when I started going to church, about the age of thirteen, and told me that there was just a hair’s worth of difference between a religious fanatic and a full-fledged criminal. He said he hoped I wouldn’t go over the edge and become a fanatic.

This is kind of humorous on hindsight because all my friends’ parents wanted them to go to church, but my Dad wanted me to stay away.

Then at age 19 I told him I was going on a two-year mission to England for the Mormon church. This really alarmed him and he asked me to go to his favorite bar and have a drink with him before I took off.

I told him I would go to the bar with him, but I’d have to drink soda. We went in the early afternoon and there was just us two and the bartender. We had a good conversation and he showed me one of his favorite card tricks. Then as the bartender was filling up his glass he looked at him in exasperation and said something like this.

“You wouldn’t believe what my life is coming to. I don’t know what I’ve done to deserve what is happening to me. My ex-wife has got religion and is going to church. Not only that but the church has got a hold on all three of my daughters. Then my boy here got religion and to top it all off he’s going on a damn mission!”

He took a drink and looked back at the bartender and exclaimed: “Now I’ve got to do all the lying, cheating, drinking and swearing for the whole family. I’ve got to go to hell for the whole bunch of them!”

The bartender and I both gave a hearty laugh. Somehow, I felt that my Dad was just too likeable for God to send to hell.

My older Brother Bill was the only family member who didn’t take a turn as an active church member. When he started getting interested in dating my Mom asked my Dad to have a private talk with him about the facts of life and give him a little guidance.

My Dad took him aside and said something like this.

“Bill, my boy, I do have some advice for you. Don’t get tied down to an old lady the way I did. Go out into the world and have a good time and sow your wild oats. Make the best of every moment and don’t let anything tie you down.”

My mom apparently heard this through the door and was aghast. As I grew up she never asked my Dad to give me advice on anything and tried to steer me away from him.

Most of my extended family are quite religious and were pretty sure he was going to hell, but I never bought into this even when I was active in the church. He had his faults, but it seemed that heaven would just have a little additional spice if it made room for him.

A reader who had read my Dad’s biography noted that my Dad seemed close to his brother Del, but not so much with brother Ray and wanted me to comment on Ray.

Yes, my Dad and his brother Del were very close. They were always planning to make a million or conquer the world together. Later in life Del had a mine cave in on him that lead to his death and that really took the wind out of my Dad’s sense of adventure. From that time on his adventures were in his stories instead of real life.

I spent a reasonable amount of time with both of them when I was young. Del always seemed to have more money than my Dad for some reason and always bought a new Oldsmobile every year. My Dad told me that Del sometimes used questionable methods to get money that he did not go along with — like some shady deals with gold my Dad did not explain.

Sometimes my Dad would be gone up to a year at a time and we would not hear a word from him and we had to fend for ourselves. One time when he was in Nicaragua, we received word that he had died. That’s all. We had no way of verifying this and we figured we would never find out what happened.

Then one day he showed up as if nothing had happened. I told him that we heard he was dead and asked him where that came from.

He said he came close to death several times one being that when he came out of a bar he was hit over the head and woke up with only his underwear on. He said he was robbed of everything. Losing his money and clothes did not bother him nearly as much as his false teeth. The robbers had even taken them and he could not get them replaced until he got back to the states.

My Dad had some bad blood with Ray because of the real estate double-crossing from their father in Ray’s favor when he was young. Ray was very active in the church and known far and wide as a great speaker with a huge selection of inspirational stories. He was a little pious and my Dad could not stand anyone who was pious.

Ray had his faults but I liked him. He died a year or two ago.

My Dad died about 18 years ago (written 2008).

“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.” — Mae West (1892 – 1980), “Klondike Annie” (1936 film)

Aug 8, 2008

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Us Versus Them

February 4, 2024 Joseph Dewey

Us Versus Them

Question: What are the main differences between the light and dark brothers? Is it separation, us vs. them or what?

Neither separation or unity (as generally understood) define light and dark. By themselves they are neutral and can be used for good or evil depending in direction and intention.

Moses was right in separating the Israelites from Egypt, which act freed them from slavery. Early American settlers were right in separating themselves from the old world to create a new. Jesus was right in separating his disciples from the masses so he could teach them in private.

On the other hand, it is wrong to separate in the mind and judgement in such a way that a feeling of superiority and elitism is produced.

It is wrong for dictators such as Kim Jong-il (from North Korea) to bring by force and fear great unity (by all outward appearances) to his people. The people cannot think or act in any way contrary to the common unity or they will be imprisoned, tortured or killed.

Compared to this, the lack of unity in the United States is a much better thing where people can protest the President or any other leader they want.

There are many differences between the light and dark brothers but three are most important to realize:

Truth:

The Brotherhood of Light seeks to discover and reveal truth and not illusion.

The Dark Brotherhood seeks power at the expense of truth and are willing to substitute illusion for truth to forward their purposes. They will rarely reveal their true motives or plans whereas the Brotherhood of Light seeks to reveal truth to dispel illusion rather than creating illusion to cover truth.

Love:

The Brotherhood of Light seeks to give a helping hand to all brothers upon the path. This they do in a spirit of true love and friendship.

The Dark Ones love not those who do not bow before them in acceptance and are not immediately useable to them.

Freedom:

This is perhaps the greatest dividing line between the two sides. The Brotherhood of Light seeks to provide and stimulate the maximum freedom possible and trusts in the goodness of each individual to eventually find the best course of action.

On the other hand, the Dark Ones only allow minimal freedom and to fill the gap produced by the lack of freedom they create the illusion of freedom.

For instance, many Nazis under Hitler were under the illusion they were fighting for the “freedom” of the German people.

“Believe it or not all of us, Dark and Light want to be seen as being on the ‘good’ side. I think the good side is not a side at all, but a compatibility and a stable coexistence with all life.”

The Dark Side is very careful to project the illusion that they are the good guys, but are generally more concerned about being right than good.

The Brotherhood of Light is more concerned about projecting truth and “what is” rather than an image of piousness and goodness. Hence their work is often distorted by the powers of darkness and are mistaken by the masses as mislead or evil — as was Jesus.

The “Us versus Them” idea seems to be getting a lot of coverage lately among new agers who identify this attitude as belonging to the mislead.

On the other hand, the highest religion of the Brotherhood of Light is truth, and if we have an “Us vs Them” situation they will identify it as such.

Why?

Because if it exists then it is the truth. To say there is no “Us vs Them” is often not true, and to sweep it under the rug can produce illusion giving ammunition to the powers of darkness.

If you disagree with someone, then you have an “Us vs Them” situation; and to deny this is to deny what is or the truth.

Freedom cannot compromise with slavery; truth cannot compromise with illusion; and, love cannot compromise with hate. Disciples must struggle with each of these aspects until they prevail — and prevail they will. The day of victory may not be tomorrow or the next day, but that which is the good, the beautiful and the truth will always dominate in the end. That domination will not be because of the light compromising with the dark, but by the light prevailing over the dark.

That’s not to say that there is not a time and place for compromise, as there is. Truth as an end goal cannot compromise with error, else it becomes error.

“It’s wonderful what we can do if we’re always doing.” — George Washington (1732 – 1799)

Aug 4, 2008

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The Dark Knight

February 2, 2024 Joseph Dewey

The Dark Knight

Over the weekend, my wife and I went to see the new Batman movie — “The Dark Knight.”

It is interesting that when we watch a movie with a hero like this that 99 percent or more of the people watching will cheer for him on, Yet, if a leader in real life uses the same tactics, then he will be demonized by the media, politicians, Hollywood, conspiracy buffs, and even little old ladies.

Batman, Spiderman and other superheroes all have a similar problem as they battle the terrorists of their time. They find out that no good deed goes unpunished — that much of the world sees them as the problem rather than the solution. Many people would rather live with evil rather than upset the bad guys for fear they will create even more havoc. Then when the good guy fights the evil and the evil guy kills more people, the deaths are blamed on the hero.

But when we watch this in the movie, we instinctively know that the hero must fight on no matter what. We know that the temporary turbulence will be worth the lasting peace after the terror is subdued.

But in real life where there is real danger, people “wimp-out,” and seek to appease the terrorists rather than make them mad by fighting against them.

I heard someone the other day compare George W. Bush to Batman and found this amusing, visualizing how the Bush haters would be gnashing their teeth over such a comparison.

But the comparison is not so far-fetched as most would think. Let us look at some:

Both are fighting terrorists that want to destroy us.

Both achieve a degree of success in this but the success does not seem to help their popularity numbers.

Both have a minority of the people who support them and cheer them on in the fight against evil.

Both are demonized by the majority who think the war is doing more harm than good.

Both roughed up their enemies to get information, though I may add that waterboarding is playing nice compared to Batman’s torture of The Joker. Our servicemen volunteer to be waterboarded to see what it is like, but I don’t think they would volunteer to be beaten up by Batman.

Both eavesdropped on their enemies to get information to save lives though there is a major difference in degree. Bush eavesdrops in a few international phone calls, and Batman listened in on thirty million phone calls simultaneously.

Both had setbacks that made them look bad. Bush didn’t find his WMDs, and The Joker killed many people and blamed the deaths on Batman. Many did blamed Batman even though The Joker did the killing.

Some normally good people, who were supporters in the beginning, turned bad and wound up being problematic.

After an extended fight against terror both suffered so much in reputation that even supporters joined in with the critics when danger surfaced. Instead of sending the Batman signal they decided to hunt him with the dogs. This would signal to him that he needed to take action.

Even so, Bush is also hunted with dogs as many seek to prosecute and impeach him for using Batman-like tactics in fighting evil.

It’s kind of sad how we reward those who diligently do their best to fight the evils of the world. Look at Churchill. After being the major player in winning World War Two he was voted out of office. Look at Lincoln. After winning the Civil War and freeing the slaves he was shot. Washington’s supporters during the Revolutionary War were about the same percentage as Bush’s today. Themistocles, the other hero of the battle against Xerxes, (of the movie “300” fame) saved Greece from destruction, yet shortly thereafter was driven out of the state for spending too much money on defense. Then we know what they did to Jesus, the greatest warrior of all against evil.

Isaiah said that in his day that the people could not discern between good and evil and this has ever been the case when evil is at the door.

May we one day herald the day when those who fight against true evil receive the support they deserve.

“Because he’s the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now…and so we’ll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he’s not a hero. He’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector…a dark knight.” — Lt. James Gordon in “The Dark Knight”

July 28, 2008

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Molecular Life

February 1, 2024 Joseph Dewey

Molecular Life

Question: What is the composite Molecular Life of which you speak?

It will be linked to the 24 below it and to Shamballa above It. It belongs to the kingdom above human called the Kingdom of God, and we enter the kingdom through the creation of a vehicle for a group life. This life is as different from an individual human as a human is from a dog.

Imagine your dog being given the opportunity to see through human eyes and use the human brain and you get the idea of the leap we will take when we enter the Kingdom of God in correct group formation.

This life is not coming to experience being human as It will not be human. Correspondingly humans are not born to experience the life of a cell. It will take a body of expression for the purpose of guiding us back to the realm of Spirit.

Christ and the Masters are of human origin just as you and me, but the molecular life is of a higher order from a different kingdom.

Christ and his group of masters already are members of a molecular order and have created a body through which a higher life manifests. As they attain oneness with this higher life they live as if they are that life and see through Its eyes and think through Its mind.

To create a molecule among humanity a link must be established from Christ to disciples here. This link will create a magnetic living energy for the group that will draw another higher life — an entity distinct from the one used by the Masters though of the same mind. Then as disciples identify with It, they attain Its powers.

Question: Is it feasible for a kingdom-of-the-gods entity to incarnate into a molecular order consisting of something other than twelve male-female units? Or, is that the only feasible format at this time?

To answer this, contemplate the Law of Correspondences.

There are many combinations of atoms that produce molecules with various combinations. On the other hand, there are also many more combinations that do not work and will not create a stable molecule.

The twelve units composed of twenty-four individuals will be the first molecule, but eventually many more will be created using numerous different combinations. The successful numbers and how they are merged will be discovered by spiritual scientists of the future.

Question: Is there any current link of any kind with the Molecular Life?

There is a link through the Oneness Principle where our higher selves are in contact with such lives but through normal consciousness there is no association with these higher lives until they take incarnation.

All of us, regardless of evolution are connected to various groups of souls. We incarnate with some of these and others of the group remain on the other side.

These groups of souls have group consciousness that is not realized by the seeker until he applies the Oneness Principle.

The people in a seeker’s molecule may or may not be a part of his group soul. Group consciousness through a molecule is of a higher order than the consciousness of natural group souls.

Question: Were the twelve apostles (and their female counterparts) in the days of Jesus a very advanced group?”

Since they were a part of a working molecule, yes they were part of an advanced group. That does not mean that they as individuals were all high initiates, however.

Question: Any tips of getting in touch with one’s soul group?

When you finish going through the dark night of the soul you will arrive at a consciousness that allows you to sense the consciousness of your group. You will go from feeling very alone to having a sense that you will never be alone again.

These is no need to find these members on the physical plane, but if you meet one you will feel a great kinship.

Question: Have you met members of your soul group in this life?

Probably, but I have no incentive to find them as they are with me at all times within, and as a group consciousness the experience is much different than dealing with an individual consciousness.

“Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.” — Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)

July 16, 2008

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Muscle Testing and Prophets

January 31, 2024January 31, 2024 Joseph Dewey

Muscle Testing and Prophets

Just a few notes on muscle testing which has been a current topic of conversation.

This uses the same principle as the pendulum. I was first introduced to pendulums while double dating with my friend Wayne way back in the Sixties.

While we were entertaining the girls, Wayne fetched a needle and thread and said we could use it to tell how many kids we would have, and whether they would be boys or girls. He threaded the needle and told one of the girls to hold out her left and hold the needle with her right hand. If the needle turned or spun clockwise this signaled a boy, and counterclockwise was a girl. He said the needle would keep going until all the future kids would be revealed. Sure enough the needle moved and stopped and moved again until it revealed she would have three kids and whether they would be boys or girls.

We all did this and it looked like all of us were going to have a number of kids. I don’t remember what my results were, but we had fun predicting the future, and I was left wondering where Wayne had picked up such a procedure.

What I discovered over time is that the pendulum does not use a supernatural source but does tap into subconscious minds. If the information in our brain programming is accurate then it can reveal some accurate data, but can rarely predict the future with accuracy.

Even so muscle testing can reveal information about the body and its needs that are not readily available to the conscious self.

I found though muscle testing does not work that well on me unless I let go and go with the flow. I remember the first time someone tried the principle on me.

A friend approached me and some friends and said that white sugar was so destructive that just holding some in your hand will weaken you. He had a guy next to me hold out his hand and told him to resist his push. He then pushed his hand downward and it seemed to take a lot of effort on his part to move his arm in that direction. Next, he put some sugar in his hand and pushed again. This time the hand went down with ease.

I then told him to try this in me. He again tried pushing my arm down with no sugar and the results were similar to the other guy. Then he put some sugar in my hand and pushed again. This time to his surprise my resistance was not weakened but the same as when I had no sugar in my hand.

He acted like this was not supposed to happen and I figured at the time that people were just influenced by the power of suggestion and since I wasn’t much influenced by it his test didn’t have much effect on me.

I go to a chiropractor once in a while and he does muscle testing on his patients. The first couple times he did them on me we didn’t get very satisfactory results, but then I thought that since I was paying for it I should seek to cooperate. I relaxed and dropped my mental barriers and tuned into my instincts and the results seemed to improve though I cannot guarantee they were 100% accurate.

Overall, I find the best path for me is to just tune into my own body. It tells me pretty accurately what I want to know.

On the other hand, my wife swears by muscle testing and has a lot of faith when applied to her.

Prophets of Doom

I usually reject a post when we receive one promoting some website by someone who has never posted before as it is usually just “spam” sent out to many websites to get free advertising.

However, I decided to let this one through promoting a supposed prophet named Vince Diehl. You might recall this as being predictions of doom for the U.S.A.

I always find predictions interesting. I used to clip them out of the “National Enquirer” years ago when they were into space aliens and sensationalism and then look at them a few years later. It was almost amusing to read them later to see how far off they were.

I found it interesting that a reader indicated that Vince had accurate predictions of the Iraq wars back in 1990, so I thought I would check it out. Always when I read the original predictions by these prophets, I find that they were not accurate at all. Unfortunately, the original predictions here do not seem to be available as these are copyright in 2007 — not 1990.

If it was copyrighted in 1990, then we could be somewhat impressed as it accurately tells of the two Iraq wars, and names Clinton and Bush Jr. as the next presidents.

What this guy did was take some scriptures from Daniel and then add his interpretations in parenthesis. The claim seems to be that the comments in parenthesis were written in 1990, but I don’t think so.

I’m sure Diehl wrote something in 1990 but without specific things such as the names of the next two presidents — names like “Desert Storm,” “Desert Shield,” “2003 Iraq War,” etc.

Then to make his predictions fit into the verses in Daniel, he jumps back and forth in time that makes it look as if Daniel must have been on LSD.

Then, even after writing this prophesy on hindsight (which seems to be the case) still there are many errors and contradictions.

Here are just a few things:

Diehl: “Then [after the Iraq War] shall he (Bush Jr.) return into his land (USA) with great riches;” […]

JJ: The opposite occurred. He has spent and given Iraq great riches, not returned with them.

Diehl: “And his heart shall be against the holy covenant (Bush will openly turn on Christianity).”

JJ: This is silly. Bush has been very supportive of Christianity to the extent of putting his money where his mouth is. He gives about 15% of his income to mostly Christian causes and is unwavering in supporting Christianity as he believes it.

Diehl: “And the king (George W. Bush) shall do according to his will; And he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, And shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods (The Lord of Hosts), and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished (until The Lord decides He has had enough). […]”

JJ: Silly again. Bush has his faults but he doesn’t play God any more than other presidents.

Diehl: “Neither shall he (George W. Bush) regard the God of his fathers….”

JJ: Bush worships the Christian God, which is the God his fathers worshipped.

Diehl: “Nor the desires of women (abortion issues)….”

JJ: The prediction of Daniel had nothing to do with abortion and even if it did women are split on abortion rights so one cannot apply either side of the issue to the desire of women as a whole.

Diehl: “Nor regard any god: For he shall magnify himself above all.”

JJ: Bush regards his version of God. I see a healthy ego in him, but surely not “above all.”

Diehl: “But in his estate (George W. Bush’s office) shall he honour the God of forces (military forces): and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.”

JJ: His father also used military force in Iraq so one could say they both, as well as FDR, Truman and others, honored the God of forces. And where is all this wealth that Bush is accumulating? Contrary to the prediction, he’s giving it away rather than accumulating it.

I could go on and on but this should suffice to make the point.

All these false predictions just verify my teaching that it is impossible to know all the details of the future even though certain cycles and events can be seen through contemplation on cause and effect.

“When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.” –– Rodney Dangerfield (1921 – 2004)

July 11, 2008

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The Wheat & Tares

January 30, 2024January 30, 2024 Joseph Dewey

The Wheat & Tares

There’s been too much dialog for me to comment point-by-point, so I will just write a summary of how I see The Gathering Principle working out.

As I said the future will be like the past but on a higher turn of the spiral. Many scriptures use the example of Moses and the ancient Israelites as a prototype of the events of the coming age.

Concerning the coming age we are given this parable. Words in parenthesis reflect a more accurate translation from the Greek:

“Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world (age); and the reapers are the angels (messengers). As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world (age). The Son of man shall send forth his angels (messengers), and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire (purification): there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.” (Matt 13:36-43)

Does this scripture apply to the days of Moses?

It does indeed.

The good seed that was planted in Egypt with the tares (Egyptians) were the Israelites. The good and bad seed grew together until God sent his messengers — Moses, Aaron and Hebrew elders to separate the wheat (Israelites) from the tares (Egyptians).

The tares of that age were destroyed with both fire and water. There was a plague of fiery hail, and of course the great destruction was preceded by a confrontation with a pillar of fire followed by a destruction by water.

But the real fire was in the hearts of the tares when they discovered they could not stop the forces of light. This caused a great destruction of their belief system as if it were by a great fire followed by a great fiery anger in their hearts and “wailing and gnashing of teeth.”

Then the righteous (Moses) shined like the sun after he came down from Mount Sinai.

So what happened to those Israelites and Egyptians? Have they been eternally separated?

Not exactly.

They were separated for a period of time after the gathering, but all have gone out of incarnation and then have come back in a number of times.

A high percentage of the Israelites have incarnated as Jews and the Egyptians into groups with an antagonism toward the Jews. They have lived together a number of times. They have crossed paths many times but as a whole live their separate lives with their separate belief systems.

This cycle will repeat as we enter more fully into the Aquarian Age. The lights (wheat) will gather or separate from the tares and the tares will be very upset and try to stop the gathering and fight against it. If the resistance threatens the future evolution then the tares will again face great destruction. It is probable it will happen by fire this time rather than water as the main cause.

Just as the Israelites lived for some time in the land of Canaan so will the gathered lights of Aquarius live for some time in their gathered condition. But just as illusion crept in to the gathered Israelites and eventually threatened to destroy the gathering even so will it happen in the next round. Let us hope we can hold things together in this cycle better than the days of Moses.

After a period of peace the Adversary will gather together his forces against the lights. And what is the number of the enemies of light in this future?

“The number of whom is as the sand of the sea.” (Rev 20:8)

There are, of course billions of pieces of sand in the sea and to gather such a great number the tares that live with us now have to be reborn. If they were prevented from being reborn with the wheat of the future, then the Adversary could not gather such great numbers.

The principle is this:

If you want to know the future look at the past and incorporate the elements of progress made and you can be a pretty good prophet.

Question: Have other worlds gone through evolution such as ours and have they succeeded

On this note it is interesting to examine popular scientific theory of life on other planets.

Most scientists believe there is life on other planets but just not sure of the percentage. Some scientists who believe that life abounds in the universe are baffled by the fact that SETI has examined radio waves from thousands of star systems and have not yet found a signal from intelligent life. They have three theories on why this is the case.

[1] In the lifespan of a planet such as earth which is 4.5 billion years old the time frame we have sent radio waves capable of reaching space has only been about 70 years. Let us say that within 100 years this type of communication becomes obsolete and replaced by something else. That’s only 170 years out of 4.5 billion that this anomaly would exist.

If we take the life span of our earth of 4.5 billion years and reduce it to equal one year then this 170 years would equal much less than one second — two hundreds of one second to be exact. If something like this is the case then even if we search the radio waves from an earth like planet the chances of catching a civilization existing in this 170-year time frame would be small.

[2] Statistically there has to be other intelligent life in the universe but perhaps only a few star systems have developed life of our intelligence. It is quite possible though that life of lesser intelligence is more abundant.

[3] A growing theory is this. There are actually quite a few planets with earth type life but when they reach our stage of evolution they develop nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction and either blow themselves out of existence or back to the stone age. This happens again and again and only a few, if any, planets escape this doom.

It is quite possible that humanity has destroyed itself several times already. There is interesting evidence that human life existed on the earth even billions of years ago. Michal Cremo has done a lot of investigation on this. He has found man made objects many millions and even billions of years old that have been sealed in coal and even marble and granite rock.

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Hopefully we can make it into a peaceable new age without great destruction. Nothing is a sure thing but my soul tells me that we are in a time of opportunity to make this happen. Even so, this is not a sure thing and we could lose many of the gains we have made.

The key to making a peaceful transition lies with the more enlightened among humanity. They must step forward and do their part.

“And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” (Luke 9:54-56)

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” -Albert Camus

July 8, 2008

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