MY DISCLAIMER, AND THE ADAM DREAM




If you have not read the two previous posts, I suggest you do. This is a continuation of the post THE PREAMBLE: TO JEW OR NOT TO JEW, followed by the post THE LORE: TO JEW OR NOT TO JEW.

The information is meant to flow so start with the preamble and make your way through the second post, then to this post.

Before I start The Adam Dream I want to make it clear where my head is at.
As, many before me, I am quite amazed at the huge number of books written on Wicca, and Witchcraft and Druidism, and Celtic Mysteries, and Spells and Kabala, and (big deep breath) The Knights Templar and Tarot, and…….and…….and…….

I do have an opinion about this to share before I begin the story.
I will tell you now I have never read The Da Vinci Code ( I am waiting for the movie). I haven’t read any books by the authors of The Messianic Legacy. Nor have I read too many of the plethora of self help witch books.

I have Harper’s Encyclopaedia on the Paranormal. I have the Book Witches Pagans and Magic. I have a tiny book identifying the Chakras. I have a book on Botany, a book on herbology and a book that outlines Sabbats the Equinoxes the phases of the Rites represented a such. I have a study on Occultism and a study on Superstition. I have one book each on Hinduism, Christianity, Jews God and History, Islam, Buddha, Tibetan Buddhism, and Fundamentalism. I have one book on Pharmacology, three books on Anatomy, and an Encyclopaedia of Medicine. Plus I have 6 Versions of the New Testament, 1 version of the Old Testament. I have 7 Hymnals, 1 Musical structure book of the Psalms (as I was a Cantor for many years). As well as one study in Prestidigitation, 3 studies on Spirituality which were written for the Baptist Ministries. I have one Ouija Board from the turn of the last century, I have three copies of FATE magazine from the 1940’s, and 5 studies written By Dr. James Alcott a Toronto sceptic. I have a stone salt vessel, an iron char burning vessel, I have 1 dagger, one feather, three Hand Fasters (which are used in the Unification of a couple). I have three Tarot Decks, one set of Ruins, I have a Gavel, I have a Séance Table, and five stone and one silver Cups. Plus one Crystal glass and one Crystal basin.
This is my arsenal.
I don’t have a huge number of New Age Books in my collection.
I have more interest in world religion and how it melds with Spirituality. I have a great deal of interest in Christianity as well. For as a Spritualist I am called upon to do healings and readings for Christians in the Temple and for other faiths outside the Temple. I have to understand all beliefs that may come to me for spiritual readings and guidance. It would be rude of me to try to help someone and know nothing of their belief system.

And my next comment may seem rude itself.
I appreciate the fact that there are so many people sparked into beliefs because they and their friends read a book on Witchcraft , etc. I have compassion for those who are searching for something and are trying to find it within Spriritualist beliefs. But there are many people that I come across that associate their new-found enlightenment to be associated with everything from Aliens to Fairies( my Husband is from Newfoundland so we find the myth of Fairies very interesting), from Cabbages to The Devil. But when the span of someone’s beliefs is changed every day by the newest Occult book that hit the shelves in the Big Box Store…..I do have a name for them. I call them New Age Flunkies.

Why? Because this belief in Spirituality the Ritual and Rite and the relationship with a power greater than one’s self does not have to be that complicated. You don’t have to have the latest Ring, or the oldest book written by Crowley to be a believer. A believer is not to be bound by the Stuff, but the Substance.

Lore is Lore. It is a lesson. A lesson shared by imperfect humans one generation to another embellished and interpreted along the way. It is passed along and you can use it to strengthen your belief system or use it to explain your belief system.
The books one buys on the New Release shelf are not a Dogma.
If one Spritualist or Witch or Druid does their preparations or rituals different that is ok.
If one associates very Catholic ideals to their Witchcraft that is ok too.
The Lore I shared last proves that the rites and rituals have been dynamic since the Levites came to the Wilderness.

I have one more thing to say about the modern world. While it is true that the Levites were most likely practitioners of Kabala and it is very possible the rites and rituals of the Druids are mirrors of Kabala the New Age Flunkies need to know one thing.

Under the Dogma of Jews, and the teaching of their scholars for now thousands of generations, it is absolutely forbidden that anyone but a Scholarly Rabbi who has great knowledge of his world and the world around him ever begin to interpret the ways of Kabala.

I cannot even pretend to know the slightest thing of Kabala. I may know of one reference to it that many other beliefs mirror.

It is with no respect to the faith that the New Age Flunkies decide some 1990’s publication of the idea of Kabala can enrich man of today. It is an embarrassment to me to hear women say they are practitioners of Kabala. That is a farce in itself. True Kabalic text is only to be interpreted by the male elders of the Jews. If there are female elders preaching equality and reform for this within the Temple on Fridays, so be it. They are are in the right place to create such a forum to argue their point. But it is sacrilegious for a Female, Rock Star, post Catholic to state they are Kabala. I would love to see what drawer she pulls her Schemata from! (and a wink must be added to the end of that line for all my Hasidic friends)

What do I believe other than what I have already shared? I believe in one strong thing.

If God is God because we are believers, and the Spirit of God lives within us. Then if we stop believing the Spirit of God will no longer be with us and God will cease to exist. If Satan is a demigod then Satan can only exist if we believe it, as per the rite for God. If you do not believe that The Devil exists then it cannot exist. Therefore I do not believe in the Devil, or in Spirits who are evil. I believe what personifies that which may be considered Evil Spirit is not Spirit at all, but Entity. Entity is a negative energy that is created by imperfect Carnal Man, it is not of The Spirit which is perfect.

What the heck does that mean? The Adam Dream will explain what OF THE SPIRIT means. Carnal refers to man in the flesh. The being whose only existence is to fulfil earthly need, such as Food, Water, Shelter, and Pleasure. The imperfect human that is bound to die on this plain because of imperfection.



THE ADAM DREAM:

About 20 years ago one of my brothers from the Temple sat before us on the Sabot and recited to us the most wonderful essay explaining the first book of Genesis. It is a great interpretation of what it is to be a Spriritualist. I am embarrassed that I cannot remember his name so I could give him the recognition for this great piece. I have told this story over and over to other groups around the world. I take no credit for this Lore. I can only share my oral interpretation of this wonderful essay. Each time I share this essay I feel the Spirit fill me. I feel God opened the door of this man’s soul and gave him the way to interpret the belief for the modern faithbuilder.

Here it goes:

Close your eyes. Take a long gentle deep breath, then allow yourself to breathe so relaxed and quiet. Hear my story.

Picture Paradise. The garden of Eden. We all have an idea of how it is. If you don’t believe in the place of Eden, then think of what you think Heaven or Shangri-La may be like. Imagine a place of perfection. The land of plenty. Imagine the God of your understanding in this place. Think about Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve were not the only souls in the Garden of Eden with God. We were all there. Imagine everyone that has existed, is existing and will exist being in the garden with God, Adam and Eve. None….not God or Adam or Eve or we were of form. We were just souls. Energy existing.

At this time there was no original thought or action. The idea would be that if God was able to take a breath, then all would take a breath at the exact moment in unison. When God had a thought we would have that exact same thought. There was no time or space in Eden. Nothing could be measured by geometric boundaries of the time of this plain. The Souls were appendages of God, full and complete with his essence Then two souls, for lack of a better word, mutated. Upon this change the two were scarred by one act. An original thought.

Upon this strange occurrence all the rest of the souls were scarred the same way. Suddenly all the Souls were no longer linked to their God. This could have been an evolution of the souls and inevitable, or it could have been an intervention and not expected. Whatever the situation the Souls were all there and no longer linked to God, but were bound to original thought. The souls were no longer perfect and Eden could not hold them in this imperfect state that long.

Suddenly the Souls began to feel emotion, and with emotion came acts of questioning and fear. All of the Souls were released from Eden, and they came to exist on the Earthly plain. Remember there is no space or time in Paradise. So eventhough all the Souls released at the same time, they did not exist on the Earthly plain at one time.

Each Soul has no memory of the amount of time that has passed in Carnal existence. It is like the separation from God happened only a moment ago. Each Soul has one purpose and one purpose only. To get back to Eden to be One with God once more.

Man’s only reason for existence is so the Souls will finally reach Eden to be One with God and never have to come back to the Earthly Plain.

Souls need to learn before they can ever hope to be reunited One with God. They learn on the Earthly plain using emotion, experience and memory. They Learn on the Spirit plain by understanding and teaching and guiding. So the Souls are bound to live and die and reincarnate until they have reached a level of Spirituality that will allow the Soul to meld with God again.

This is why the Spirit can learn over and over again on the Carnal Plain and in the Spiritual Plain. Once the Spirit of the departed gets to the Other Side they will know if they must do more Spriritual work to be able to be one with God. Our existence in Soul is not bound by life and death. It grows on both sides of existence. And only the ones that have reached Glory and are one with God again do not recycle through the plains. The higher a Soul is in the plain after Death determines what they will do to rise to a higher plain. Thus Spirit Guides and Angels come to exist in a realm neither Carnal nor Eden.

Man’s Quest for life is to raise their Spirit to be One with God upon Carnal Death. To get back where we came from.


So Mote it Be.
(OOO NOW I HAVE GOOSEBUMPS)

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THE LORE: To Jew or not to Jew? That is the question.











If you have not yet read the previous post, please take a moment to pull it from the archives. It is THE PREAMBLE:
Without the preamble you will be a little lost where we begin in this post.

Here is the Oral Lore of Druid/Celtic history as I know it.
It is Oral, so I am sure it is embellished. So I will call it myth.

At the time of Moses, in the land of Egypt there was a tribe of Priests that came to Moses in need.
These priests were the Levites.
Prisoner slaves just as Moses and the Israelites were. They knew the land, and how to fight, and they learned much philosophy from the Jews while enslaved.
Upon the Exodus the Levites asked Moses to take them with him.
Moses agreed.
And out of a debt of Thanks, the Levites joined ranks with Moses.
He became a member of their tribe out of Honour.

It was out of this debt of Thanks that the Levites repaid their debt honouring Moses, and they became the keepers or guards of the Temple of Solomon.




The Levites were not celibate priests, and they did marry.

The question is: Were the Levites who escaped with Moses Married or not? There is no mention in our Lore if they were single or married.
If we are to assume they were not married, and thus did marry women of the Jewish tribes of Israelites, then the line is surely Jewish. If they were not Jews and came to Moses with families already, then the may not be Jewish. Was Moses really a Levite or was he an honourary one?

There are Judaic references to the possibility that the old keepers of the temple were not Jews, for they are described as not circumcised.
Most Jews believe that this refers to an earlier time than the Temple of Solomon, and the reference speaks of the temple of worship in general. It is interpreted by the Jews to mean that the Levites were always Jews and replaced the others at the time of Solomon.

So now you know the historical dilemma.
Our Lore does not speak of the Levites as Jews, but as partners of Moses.
Their belief in his Spiritual Life and Guidance converted the Levites to serve evermore.
It would be wonderful to say that I clearly know I am a Jew, but I don't feel qualified at all to make that call. Why would it matter? It would be another way to solidify the strong framework of Spritual ideals. I can see it as being a coin with the faiths forged on each side. To have a tangeble link would allow both to stretch out and fill some of the voids within each faith, the odd follower might have. For we all only take from religion which suits us and our needs. The ideals of belief and faith are dynamic in that way.



.........And for Generations the Levites were the revered Priests to the Temple of Solomon.
Keepers of the faith, Guards for the Temple, held in the highest reguard by the Jews.

Just before the fall of the Temple of Solomon the Levites were split into two groups. They and their families went off in two directions. For they were to escape again, with the treasures of the temple and guard them with their very lives. Lives lived only to serve God and the temple.
With all of the treasures and secrets the two halves of the Tribe of Levites split, and so was all the treasure. Not thieves, but guardians and preservers.
Half went to the East, and traveled the great deserts to keep their half of the treasures hidden.
Half went to the West, and traveled to the great wilderness to keep their half of the treasures hidden as well.



It is of that Western tribe that fled to the Wilderness, the Druids/Celts were born.
The Levites joined with small bands of pagans throughout the wilderness family by family. To spread the hiding places of the treasure throughout the Wilderness.
They were great teachers of the faith, and they saw opportunity that could grow.
They drew from the ancient pagan ideals and they taught the pagans rites and rituals from the Levite's faith.
The pagans had lived in fear, and now they had guidance and ritual and a reverence for deities in the words of the Levites.
The Levites understood that they needed to be able to join with the Pagans to be successful in their duties to the temple, so they amalgamated their rites into the beliefs of the Pagans. And hid away in these new tribes becoming one with the landscape.
Even the languages were influenced by the Levites.
The Pagans were divided by locality.
They called themselves Druids, or Celtics. Both languages the same, yet pronounced differently.



As time passed the idea of the treasure of the temple and the roots of the rites were set way back in the minds of the Druids/Celtics.
They were happy with their rituals, and the treasure and the journey became a myth.

The old Levites taught them to fight, and how to master the art of the stone mason. They taught them the rites and rituals and found ways to create references for the Oral Lore. Remember the Levites themselves had access to the treasure of Solomon to inspire their own deep-rooted teachings and beliefs. And being priests the Levites were scholars, and were influencing tribes that had no literacy who were in need of a way of passing tradition. They needed guidence on how to keep oral Lore.
The believers began to create stone monuments to their Gods. Great references for the rites and rituals.



Strangely enough we now see beautiful smooth stone and rough cut stones left by the ancients.
Foliage is important in the rebirth of the spiritual soul. So some fraternal orders refer to leaves like the acacia in their rituals to strengthen their own Lore.
The moon guided every ritual.
The stars helped tell the story.
The number of hours the sun shone each day determined what each follower would do the next day.
As the days got shorter they prepared for the harvest, and they celebrated firelight on the longest night.
When the days became longer they counted and waited, and as the longest day came closer they knew to plant their crops, the time of renewal had begun.

Those of you who wish to read more I have added some links for you to browse.


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PREAMBLE: To Jew or not to Jew? That is the question.

Am I a Jew?

Our oral history says the Druids/Celts are descendants of the Levites (who were the priests to the Temple of Solomon) after they came to the Western Wilderness and amalgamated their rituals and rites with the beliefs of the Pagans of the region. Levites are Jews...........or are they?

Having the word Heritage preceding the word spiritualist means that my Spiritualist roots pre date Christianity.

Why does that matter?
Well in practice it really doesn’t matter as far as the Spiritualist belief is set. Many Heritage Spiritualists hold temple with Spiritualists with Christian ideals. For the mainstay of our faith is the same:

Spiritualists have deep faith that the Spirit of God is within the believer.
They believe in a true Omnipotent God, even if God enters the human vessel in multiple spiritual forms. For instance like the female and the male sides of the spirit of God. The “Ying and the Yang” of one Supreme Being.

Omnipotent is important because it refers to the Spirit of God being all things to all people and ever present. So even the old multiple Gods of ancient times are still thought of as Spirits of One God. More symbolic than terrible. Spiritualists believe that if a person attains a certain level of spirituality in their carnal life they will have the ability to become Spirit Guides or Guardians and pass messages after death. The only vessel used for this communication is the Spirit of God within us. That ever presence acts as a conduit for those who passed over to connect with that still on the carnal plain of existence.

The idea of the Spirit of God is also very paramount in the Spiritualist’s belief in faith healing, or the laying on of hands. Spiritualists believe that if you work in prayer to heal someone you are healing the spiritual soul. And in turn making the recipient and yourself more balanced so you both can feel better spiritually and emotionally. Keeping both of you open balanced vessels to accept outside help from conventional or holistic Medicine.

As you can see Spiritualism ideals can merge well with any faith. As long as the faith dogma does not see Spiritual messages as prophecy thus negative, and faith healing as too augmented for the believer.

In Canada we are in a time when those faithful living here can enjoy moving to the most Orthodoxy within their religions with pride. The Orthodox of all religions are free to evangelise their faith by openly claiming their faith and being living monuments to their God by thought word and deed. Without fear of ridicule believers feel free to show outward signs of their faith in public.

At the time my family members came from Europe, people did not feel so free.
Most would claim no denomination or accept a very diluted form of their faith. To keep the outsiders blind to their religion, and stifle any claims of heresy.

This was because two World Wars bread fear into believers so they immigrated to Canada.
Victims of vicious attacks upon Mankind for culture, faith, and locality; our ancestors usually fled here for freedom, jobs, or fear of fascism.
Every Parent, Grandparent and Great Grandparent came here vowing their children would never have to go through the horrible experience of war, refugee, penniless, and homelessness that they endured.

Some came because they saw too much turmoil. Some came because their homeland was wiped from the face of the Earth. Others because their sense of loss spurred a need for rebirth in a new land. Many fled in fear of not being able to be passive and peaceful, and of being forced to be conscripted.
In most cases the farthest we are is 3rd or 4th generation Canadians, in the new fresh land.
The collective memories of “the old country” are still quite fresh as far as our history is concerned.
Because of the shame of ridicule or fear I was one of those told never to tell anyone what my faith was, because people won’t understand.
Even now, as my Mother reads this she will feel fear that I will lose out on something by being so free with my faith. The knowledge of “the something” will be vague, and more of a feeling of fear than a tangible incident.

So with my preamble finally finished I can come to my point. To Jew or not to Jew?
A strange notation, none the less. It is not ridicule at all, but a real question many of us with the word Heritage as a prefix to our Spiritualism must ask.

For us Heritage who came from Druids/Celts can follow our roots back to the tribe of Levites.
Druids/Celts are matriarchal just as the Jews.
Many of our Spiritual practices are still that which are held within the Dogma of the Semites.
Salt/earth, flame and water cleanse our utensils and vessels to purify them.
We are bound to eat unleavened grain products during certain times of the year. And our rules of eating and food preparation are restrictive at times, and fanciful at others.
Our rituals and rights are practised by the calendar of the moon, and we celebrate harvest, growth, and cleansing as well as rebirth/or renewal.
It is important for our stories to be told generation to generation so all will be equal.
Are we chosen?
I don’t know.
Do we believe God has blessed us? Absolutely.
Could that make us chosen? Possibly.

These questions are at the forefront of another part of our faith that mirrors Judaism.
For it is questions like these that fill the bulk of our faith.
Beliefs that for one to grow spiritually within their faith, one must question it, debate it, and learn from scholars and peers about believing it. Then the faithful must go deep within themselves and pluck from the Spirit within, their answer. Finding the answer may take a lifetime. And if one finds it they will return to the “place where whence we came”. Eden……..to be one with God.

I will share with you some of the Oral History that has been passed to me.
Some stories, presumed myths.
And I hope that in the end you will have stimulated your Spirit just a little, to rise up an original thought.


So Mote It Be.

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