The Stairway to Heaven... part 4--Being Settled Without Wobbliness

Hello, Dear Reader!  :-)

Hopefully, your understanding of the first section of the first sentence of Matthew 5 is more clear and strong and has prepared you for moving on. 

"... and when he was set in the place where he would teach the people, ..."  To be "set" implies being settled, there is no wobbliness about oneself.  Although having climbed a precipitous mountain, "Jesus" was stable, at balance, there was no conflict within his physical body, mind or heart.  As revealed in the great "Revelation", the war called Armageddon takes place within a mortal's mind.  Neural Scientists call this phenomenon "cognitive dissonance", the simultaneous holding of two or more conflicting beliefs.  "Jesus" had none of this.  He had come to KNOW *Real Truth*.  He had aligned himself, his emotions, beliefs, actions, relationships, life ,with this *Real Truth*.  He was settled.  He was "set in the place where he would teach the people".

Knowing that the MAP is NOT the territory, no matter how good that map may be, "Jesus" knew that before he could be ready to "teach" anyone anything, he would have to have embodied the understanding himself.  He had to become that which he wanted to teach others.  He had.

 

Although easily misunderstood that this "place" where "Jesus" was set was a physical location, it was not.  He had reached and realized a state of mind and heart, a level or degree of being that allowed, even compelled, him to take this further action.  It is this "place" that is often religiously referred to as "Heaven".  The Persistent Reader will discover, however, that "Heaven" is available anywhere a humane human being exists.  It is a state of being.  It is a degree of consciousness.  It was this place that, having reached himself, "Jesus" desired to bring others into to experience with him.  Being, thus, aligned with *Real Truth*, "Jesus" was a conduit, a dispenser of wisdom for the benefit of all.  Truly, every time an individual steps forward in service to others, offering whatever gifts or abilities that person has to serve and build community, to comfort and heal broken people and a broken planet, "God", "the Father" or our combined collective consciousness, takes over, magnifies, and makes possible the dissemination of that gift to the world.  We will explore just how this is done in future expose's. 

That act alone, that act of giving of oneself in unadulterated service to others, engages an unimaginable enabling power.   It is this very power that he desired to exemplify and offer to those who would come to him.  The act of committing to the service of others transcends all belief systems, all IQ, all brain development, all knowledge.  "Jesus" knew that he had the full power of consciousness backing him, in deed, moving through him, being the very words that he was to speak, those images that he was to convey.  He was settled.  He was engaged; and this engagement, this power, allowed him to fully utilize all that was needed to do the work required.

 

Please notice that the words are: "he was set".  This is important.  "Jesus" was required to take action and move himself "up" and "into" the mountain.  But... he did not do it by himself.  He had significant assistance in becoming "set" in this exact and solid state.  As will be discussed at length, "Jesus" had learned to completely and unequivocally trust the power that moved within him.  It was this trust, this power, this degree of connection, that moved him and provided impetus to give his life to assisting others in the procurement of this same power.  "Jesus" had been taught properly.  It was this correct "teaching" that he was now ready to use to "teach the people". 

Our next installment addresses how this "teaching" is and was done correctly.

The Stairway to Heaven... part 3--Eyes That See

So far, we have just discussed the first fourteen words of verse one of Matthew 5, the “Fullness of the Gospel of Christ”. There is sooo very much more! More words, more depths to expose and uncover. More “hidden treasures” to examine, rejoice over and share. But, if you WILL… stay with me. We will dig deeper. Much deeper.

The next words: “…the things which the Father had commanded of him…” say much. We will work with this material for a while. Bear with me. Again, if you WILL.

“things” refer to the material world. The matter that our physical bodies can more or less relate to. And WHY can we relate to these “things”? Precisely because they can be perceived with our physical senses: sight, sound, taste, smell, tactile feeling. Along with these “five generally accepted physical senses is the sense of thinking. Although we will discuss “thinking” much further as we go, suffice it to say at this juncture that “thinking” involves the logical, rational, reasoning capabilities of our individual mortal brain, usually upon a material—regarding matter—subject.

“the Father” Again, to be unveiled further in the future, “the Father” can be initially understood to be “the mental idea or blueprint” before and behind every “thing” ever created. It is the image conceived and “seen” within the frontal lobes after having been processed within the occipital lobes of the human. Because “Jesus” had ALWAYS maintained his connection with his TRUE “Father”, he “saw” correctly. He was not “blinded” as all the other beings that thought of themselves as “human” that walked within his sphere.

“had" Had implies the past tense of action. “The Father” *HAD* exerted an action, a cause, which created an effect upon “Jesus”.

“commanded”  To command must have an expanded and broadened definition. If the reader can understand that a command is that which a computer programmer sets up and “programs” into his software, then extrapolate that definition to conceive of “Jesus” having been “programmed” to understand “things” in a different way than other mortals. Previously we explored somewhat the term “seeing”. Saw is the past tense of “to see”. And to see, or saw, is VASTLY different than “looking”. Similarly, “to hear” is vastly different than “to listen to”. “Jesus” SAW the multitude. He understood them. He had intimately and deeply looked, not as most do… at the superficial material levels… but he saw into the very heart and essence of his people. He knew them. And this “knowing” had only been possible because he had been “commanded” by “the Father”. He was operating on a far more powerful program than any other. And, without pompous arrogance, he realized the reason WHY he was “different”. And, significantly, he knew what he was, thus, responsible for performing for the people’s sake… because of his heightened and up-graded programming, a.k.a. “commands”, into them. It was “Jesus’” role, and, thus, his JOY, to offer that same programming to all those who would not only listen to, but “hear” and not only look at, but “see” him and what he had to teach.

So, back again to *SIGHT*. Picture a person born blind into our world. Although light and color are all about him, he is unable to see them. To him, they are non-existent and incomprehensible, simply because he lacks the sense of sight wherewith to perceive them. Objects he can feel (at least superficially). They seem real. But light and color are beyond his ken.

So it was with those surrounding “Jesus”. He realized that they believed they could see. He heard them speak about the sense of sight, some even boasting about their great acuity and intelligence. However, he was operating on a different program. He knew that they were, in deed, blind. Because “Jesus” was connected still to “heaven” (which we have yet to explore, but go with me on this until I get to explaining it properly), he had access to, could see into, “higher worlds” that were hidden still to them.

 As the blind man unable to see color and light, yet still making his way through the world without those senses, so were the others around “Jesus” stumbling and groping their way through mortality, “kicking against the pricks” and against each others’ egos in ways to gain self-validation and existence. Yet, even if a blind man should acquiesce to the fact that perhaps there is more (or at least seems to be from what others share with him) to the world, does not bring him into understanding it, unless and until a successful operation is made on his eyes. It was this operation that “Jesus” was attempting to make upon any willing subjects. Yet, he could not, nor would he, perform any operation upon an unwilling participant. He would offer them his services, enticing them to the increased benefits, goad them into wanting it more for themselves, yet, of necessity, wait until their own individual WILL was completely ready.

Truly, just because the blind man cannot see light and color is no argument that light and color don’t exist. Neither is it an argument that because most people could not see into “heaven” did not mean that “Jesus” could not, nor even that they would NEVER be able to. If the blind man obtains his sight, he will see light and color. If those who came unto “Jesus” allowed him to assist them to awaken their latent senses and become, like him, “commanded” by “the Father”, then they, too, would be able to see that which had previously existed all around them yet been hidden from their view… because of THEIR inability to access them.

While many people make the mistake of being incredulous concerning the existence or reality of the super-sensuous worlds, there are also many who go to the other extreme, thinking that when a person has his inner senses heightened and empowered that all that is possible to be conceived within that new realm is perfectly understandable to him at once. This is erroneous. Not only did “Jesus” need to offer and perform “surgery” on the eyes of his disciples, but he had to then teach them how to correctly use and gain understanding from their amped-up senses.

To be continued…

The Stairway to Heaven... part 2--Ascending A Mountain

Okay now.... (If you have not properly done your "homework"*, then do so now. *Read, ponder and study Matthew 5, 6, and 7--from my former post of "The Walk")

Resuming where we began yesterday, with Chapter 5 of Matthew, verse 1:

1) And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain to teach unto them the things which the Father had commanded of him; and when he was set in the place where he would teach the people, he called forth his disciples and they came unto him that they might hear more clearly the things that he would command the people, so that they could teach these same things unto the people as they had been given authority to do.

(We will explore sight/ seeing/ Overseeing/ vision/ the "third eye"/ understanding/ wisdom/ charity... continually through this "Fullness of the Gospel of Christ". For now, let what I shared yesterday suffice.) "Jesus" truly "saw" the multitudes. He had consistently and intently observed those around him... ALL those around him... with interest, intrigue, and an open-minded, open-hearted willingness to comprehend them, their lives, the way they thought, the feelings in their hearts and that which compelled them to action. He did truly "see the multitudes". All people he understood.

Next: he... by himself, relying upon no man, no outside influence, no church, school, state indoctrination, "went up into a mountain". Hidden allegorically in all accepted "scripture", when a person ascends a mountain--or the top of the highest mountain--that signifies that they overcame the emotions, beliefs, accepted mores of their culture at that time.

Although "Jesus" understood his people--all of them--he did not identify himself with their temporal and, to him, "fallen" natures. Though clothed in a body of flesh himself, he KNEW who he was outside of and beyond it. His sights were not set upon the things of This world. He had raised his vision. He walked among men, as a man, but not "of" men. Yet, going up the emotional, vibrational mountain, he still entered "into" it. He utilized food, clothing, shelter, the "THINGS" of this world in his daily life.

Mountains symbolize matter, the material world that we are inhabiting, exploring, and utilizing here as collective humanity. "Jesus" knew and used this matter, yet he respected it and did not allow those things of this world to have a hold upon his concerns, thoughts, or desires. He "had dominion over it". He understood it and utilized it with profound respect and oneness. "Jesus" understood the people, realized the needs of the body, mind, emotion, relationships, yet ascended through his experiences, ponderings and honed actions to the elevated place "up" AND "into" that mountain. Why? "To teach unto them...."

To "teach" is vastly different than saying, instructing, demonstrating something. "Jesus'" role and burning desire was to "teach". It had been necessary for him to first overcome all "things" so that he could, then, utilize instruction in such a way that those who chose to come unto him for that instruction could properly and fully "learn". And to "learn" goes way beyond knowing. To learn also implies understanding. As we shall see as the storyline unfolds, "Jesus" was not content, never would be content, to just simply prove his greater insight and capabilities. That was far from enough. No, he would not, could not stop until he had completed his task of "teaching" all that he knew. He would mentor, assist, explain, extrapolate, exhort, chastise, rebuke, and not stop the process (so long as the "student" willingly continued his part of the equation) until a complete understanding had also been realized. And, though he would focus on the "one" mind, always the "weakest" among them, he would not be finished until the entire multitude(S), EACH of "them", had learned that which he had come to teach.

Our next lesson(s) will pick up the story line. Until then... Keep smiling and Living the life, YOUR life, to the very best of your current ability.

With love, Kimberly :-)

The Stairway to Heaven... part 1--The Fullness of the Gospel (Matthew 5, 6, 7)

Dear Reader ~ I have now arrived. Today, I take back up my position. I will "expound and exhort" to any willing to "listen". Truly listen. For all others, my words will remain mute. My message obscure. The *KEY* is the *WILL*. This will be discussed and defined much in my upcoming posts. Again, it is strongly suggested that you have done your own homework by reading at least the post of *March 17, 2015*, entitled "The Walk". This includes the Inspired Version of Matthew 5, 6 and 7, which is "The FULLNESS of the Gospel". I will begin with Chapter 5 of Matthew, verse 1.

1) And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain to teach unto them the things which the Father had commanded of him; and when he was set in the place where he would teach the people, he called forth his disciples and they came unto him that they might hear more clearly the things that he would command the people, so that they could teach these same things unto the people as they had been given authority to do.

To "see" means to "understand". "Jesus" had spent his formative prior years interacting with people, pondering upon his own needs, their needs, reflecting upon that which he learned and experienced. He understood the physical requirements of being human. He understood the emotional requirements of being human. He knew what humanity was striving for. And why. The eyes of his understanding had been fully opened. He saw. Whereas the others, all others, were "blinded" to some extent by the illusory nature of mortality and their treadmill lives eking out an existence, he was not content to grovel. He was created, and he knew it, to fly above the illusions, above the pecking order, beyond the mere living for living's sake. He was alive. Because "Jesus'" heart and mind were fully engaged, he understood each and every mortal situation, all people. He saw the multitudeS... plural.

"Jesus" realized that all perspective comes from beliefs which come from experience. Although fewer at that time, there are currently 7+ Billion "viewpoints". He knew that unless an individual is completely willing to suspend ALL beliefs and open their heart and mind to earnest searching, knowing that, in reality, they Could be wrong, he cannot and will not know the true intent... of Any Thing. Jesus had done this. He saw. Truly. Accurately. He had ascended the "stairway to heaven". He would now assist all others, willing, to climb that same stairway.

Dear Reader, I will now "expound and exhort" any willing to listen in how they may do the same. There is much to come. Please, if you have not yet read and pondered Matthew 5, 6 and 7, do so now, before my next entry. Oh, it's going to get so fun!!! :-)

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Last Thursday, Parker and Harmony visited. Only for 4 hours. But, oh, did that delight my soul! We played "Oh, Heck!" and "Abalone". We surprised Krystal as she got off the bus. We made "Sloppy Janes" for lunch. We played the piano. We talked and LAUGHED and gave massages. We reminisced and theorized.

Oh, how I love open-minded, tender-hearted children! Especially those that I share DNA with! The next day, Friday, Dave and I and his/our oldest son Mike laid the sod. We now have green grass! The landscaping is so very beautiful and coming along with 13 fruit trees, a garden in 12 pots, and many evergreen plants along with flowers. YAY!!! My heart swells with gratitude and rejoycing! Until next time! :-)

Harmony House Becomes a Physical Reality

I have learned (rather “re-membered”) through my life, to be willing at all times and in all things to follow my pure and holy “heart of hearts”. Although often not understood, and certainly mis-understood by many others, I have proceeded. This “following” has brought me along a precipitous path of intrigue and adventure. I would never have guessed all the lessons that would unfold and the great treasury that would be discovered, one gem at a time. The greatest treasure, the “pearl of great price” I have found hiding within my own self… the True and Divine *ME*.

One mile-stone of my path was my “call” to move to southern Utah as I “am needed there” in 1999. Intrigued and surprised, still I responded and witnessed amazing doors open to expedite this move from Mesa, Arizona, the place I had called “home”.

After a year of living in Cedar City, Utah, my husband at that time agreed to join with me in receiving specific direction as to WHY we had been called there. The answer came through a beautiful shared experience as my mind, and then his, was opened to the need for us to establish a place of refuge and tender care and healing, a place of teaching and living truth in preparation for global peace. The name that I was given was “Harmony House for Children”.

Although many profound opportunities ensued and people magnetically responded, every door that initially appeared to be opening let us know that “the time was not yet ripe”. Two years later, in mid 2003, my 20-year-marriage ended. Wonderingly, I placed “Harmony House” in the back of my mind, knowing that (as in all things) understanding would come in the right time. While discussing our “settlement agreement”, I went over, reached out to, and held my (nearly) former spouse, telling him I forgave him and tenderly loved him. With tears streaming down his cheeks he responded that he did not understand me. Replying that he also did not understand “God” but could allow God to BE God and that that was what I had needed from him was to honor and respect my right to Be *Me*, he begged me to allow him to be a part of “Harmony House” when the time was right to proceed with it. I responded with gentle firmness that “doing the Lord’s work, I can ONLY work with those I can trust and that I had learned I could NOT trust him”. However, I hoped that perhaps the time would come that he Would prove himself trustworthy after all.

After many important life lessons, in 2008 I received another important “transfer”, this one to the South American country of Ecuador. Meeting many people who had been prepared for me unawares, I found myself one day in March of 2009 sitting across the desk from the Governor of Puerto Quito. As five of my near and dear new Ecuadorian friends explained to Narcisa the principles of “La Casa de Armonia” (“Harmony House”) and urged her to consider implementing it there in their impoverished community, I saw Narcisa shift from being preoccupied with her “important” governmental work to, setting it all aside, a stunned expression. Initially incredulous that someone (me) from “the states” would come to their country to assist them in their dire straits, she asked (in Spanish): “How are you going to PAY for this? We have no money, just an overwhelming need!”

Without prior knowledge of the answer to this question, indeed, teaching myself as I trusted my mouth to be an instrument for “the Word”, I explained: “It’s not about money!” I then expounded (to all of us) a profound eternal principle. This principle I will now share with you.

“When the NEEDY are the Target, money is freed up for the Whole Free Market!” Like the “widow with her two mites”, each one of us have Something to contribute to humanity. No matter how poor or insufficient our own situation, we each have a surplus of something. Perhaps we have an extra box of tile sitting around, or a favorite book. Maybe we have some time to share or our grandma’s inheritance that we really don’t need for our self. It could be that we have a vacation coming up or are retired or are looking for a way to satisfy an inner yearning to really do our part to help the current world situation. Regardless of the “surplus”, each of us has something, even if it is our willingness to give a smile or hug to a down-trodden stranger.

With tears streaming down her face, Narcisa pledged that, after the ensuing election, she would contribute 30 hectares of land within her province for the establishment of “La Casa de Armonia”. The other four adults in the room each met her emotional vibration with joy, tears, and similar pledges of support. I watched on in amazed gratitude and awe. However, it was not to be. At least not at that time. Surprisingly, I received a summons from within to leave Ecuador that May and come back to the states. Trustingly, I left, knowing that perhaps I had only been required to “plant the seed” of vision and hope there in Puerto Quito, Ecuador. Maybe a germination period was required before the idea and people were properly matured and ready to proceed. Maybe I was merely the sower and not the reaper of their particular part of the global field. Perhaps I would not take part in that harvest after all.

It has now been six years since my return. These six years have been the continuation of an amazing life where I have continued in my “Trust Fall”. I have had many opportunities to “test” others (unawares to myself at those times, even) to see their heart’s preparation for assisting in what I believe is the work of the “Gods”.

Nearly seventeen months ago, I was introduced by friends to a friend of theirs. Unsuspectingly, I soon found myself in another chapter of intense intrigue. As we quickly realized that we had been prepared from before our mortal memories to join forces, Dave Seely and I have been led through some amazing experiences. As he was still at that time extricating himself from his false ego and the shackles of false beliefs and habits, I became a mentor to him of sorts. As his false sharp edges have been exposed and he has had opportunity to choose to release them and polish the resulting facets of his True Self, he has become the Man that I immediately recognized and that, equally, he has realized all along was waiting to be discovered within himself. It has been probably the *Greatest Love Story* of all time. And *I* have been profoundly blessed to have a starring role in it! 

Though, again, so mis-understood by many who have watched from their unique perspective on the side-lines, everywhere Dave and I have gone, our love and constant adoring physical and verbal hugs of each other has brought forth countless sighing comments from others such as: “I want what you have!” “You two have the fairy-tale kind of love that I had nearly given up was possible!” “You two are so perfect for each other!” Indeed, Dave calls me his “Twin”. Truly, our minds and hearts resonate in uncanny precision and parallelism.

Through our experiences together Those who have guided my heart have used me to “test” Dave and prepare His Heart, allowing him to lay aside his former interests and habits for those that bring him far greater joy. Above all, he has learned the peace of living transparently, unashamed of who he is and willing to also live for the good of all others on this planet. Truly, he has achieved a “mighty change of heart” and placed his life into the hands of Those who guide and know each one of us here on Earth. Likewise, he has adopted as his vision the desire to wisely use his appetites, desires, passions, and all that he has at his disposal to care for the “least among us”. In this, Dave has found his greatest Joy. Yes, we are spiritual “Twins”.

Although our financial where-with-all has been slashed over the last few weeks, we have just sold the home that we have been living in and have had enough to purchase the nearby lot that we resonated with as we proceed now to officially begin the establishment of “Harmony House”. Both of us are consecrating “our time, talents, and everything we have” to the establishment of peace. Though we begin with just a modest abode, each detail has been planned with the goal of creating a place where healing, peace, “joy” may increase the understanding and brotherhood of those who are led to join with us. In this, we will continue our lives together, with our daughter Krystal and any and all others who come to us with “broken hearts and contrite spirits” and, likewise, offer their “two mites” upon “the altar of mankind”. I will finish writing my books of all that I have learned on my journey of love. We will continue giving the “Joy of Harmony Seminars”. And, together, we will teach and enjoy the greatest music ever yet to be composed and explored in our “Music is FUN-da-Mental” classes. Through it all, we will be catalysts for happiness, camaraderie and fun! This will be OUR “two mites”.

Yes, there is rampant anger, war, bloodshed, desecration and ugliness. However, Our focus, the mark of Our Target, is upon “the least among us” in our circle of influence. Somehow, we will continue what we have begun and, eventually, we will leave this world being able to say that we have “fought the God fight” and have done all we possibly could to “establish the cause of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”… for ALL!

Re-gain-ing *Balance*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q

This video presents a stellar example of how VITAL it is... for the entire Planet... that EACH ONE of US find our own "balance" and live true to It! Indeed, the "ripple effect" is powerful and far-reaching!

As each one of us finds our own individual balance (read "balance" and true "happiness" as "harmony"), it assists each and every Other individual to find THEIR own individual balance. Because balance, after all, is NOT "individual" but depends on every "other" *one* of us on this magnificent "teeter totter" in this global sandbox we call "Earth".

May MY LIFE and My finding My own "balance" continue to assist You... my GRAND Children... and All of Creation! This is my Quest. This is my reason for breathing. This is my "books" and my life's work. *The JOY of Harmony!*

No matter Who/ What is "deer" to us, *LIFE, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of HAPPINESS... for ALL(!)* equalizes the playing field, regulates human affairs and cares for all the needs of Each One... AS IT BEAUTIFIES THE PLANET and ALL LIFE!

May we each be not afraid to release even that... or those... which are "deer"... if it is "out of balance". May we each live in total congruence with our pure inner child and allow all others that same privilege. May we integrate our inner resonance in our outer affairs. Together assisting this world in its re-balancing and blossoming.

The Walk

Dear Reader ~

You may notice that I have returned from a sort of "sabbatical". Actually, and obviously, I had periodically put on hold my contributions to the world through these blog posts. However, each apparent sabbatical has brought me closer to where I am today. So, being here together, with me in my overstuffed Victorian red chair and you wherever you may (or may not) be seated, I offer my latest thoughts which I entitle, you may have already noticed, "The Walk".

To begin (again), I wish to point out a few things. First, I will write as if I truly believe that I have sight and understanding which has enhanced my own life. Second, I believe that my writings and the way your various minds interpret that which you read from what I offer through my blog (or elsewhere) may uplift and enhance YOUR vision and, thus, future life. Third, I realize that with a simple stroke or swipe you may clear my words from your view and, thus, me from your life. Fourth, I am at peace no matter who does or does not read, value, accept and act upon that which I write. :-)

All of the above serves as a mere preamble to this and all future posts.

Many have exposed (before me) that we are each, individually and collectively, on a "journey" of sorts. It is stated that the character commonly known as "Jesus" talked about being "the way" in which to maneuver through this journey. Many today reference "the path". I propose (using the words of poet T. S. Eliot) that: "We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." Although lost and mired in darkness (a.k.a blindness, unconsciousness, misunderstanding), each human being is "spiritually" walking a path to do just that: arrive back where he began.

Like salmon, each one has buried deeply within a "homing device" which, when listened to and heeded, allows for the journey to most efficiently lead them to that place of spiritual origin, our "spiritual spawning". However, being turned down to a level beyond sense, most wander around spiritually "deaf" or "past feeling" (of an "unsound mind") and are, thus, easily drawn away into temporary tantalizing distractions. More and more "experts" are touting their viewpoint as a correct revision to mankind's faltering steps. Being "blind", mortals look to these often "lettered" and validated-by-others "experts" as "eyes" to see for them in their blindness. However, all have fallen in spiritual ditches together.

I will dare to appear arrogant enough to state that I can (am able to) Truly "see" and also that I desire (Truly want) to show any interested "a better way". After all, again using Elliot's words: " Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"

With all the "experts", parents, churches, schools, doctors, lawyers, governments, organizations, books, seminars, channelers, hypnotists, gurus, etc. all providing more or less polluted direction, I will attempt to lend my own eyes (understanding) to assist you, Dear Reader, in your walk.

Symbolically presented, yet often having been interpreted as actual fact, another ("Jesus") who presented himself as having "eyes that see", walked with two others (his "disciples") along their journey. The story is told in Luke 24: 13-35 as occurring in the evening of the day of Jesus' resurrection. According to the story, the two disciples have heard that the tomb of Jesus was found empty earlier that day. They are discussing the events of the past few days when a stranger asks them what they are discussing. "Their eyes were kept from recognizing him." He soon rebukes them for their unbelief and shares with them prophecies about the Messiah. On reaching Emmaus, they ask the stranger to join them for the evening meal. When he breaks the bread "their eyes were opened" and they recognize him as the resurrected Jesus. Jesus immediately vanishes. Cleopas and his friend then hasten back to Jerusalem to carry the news to the other disciples, and arrive in time to proclaim to the eleven who were gathered together with others that Jesus truly is alive. While describing the events, Jesus appeared again to all who were there, giving them a commission to evangelize. Then he took them out as far as Bethany and blessed them before ascending back into heaven. A similar event is mentioned in the Gospel of Mark (Mark 16:12) although the disciples' destination is not stated.

Okay, now to expose the grand (yet veiled) mystery. Emmaus, whether ever in actuality a "real" place (which "experts" debate), means "warm spring". Again, like salmon, each of us were spiritually spawned (which I will unfold at a later time) in what may be referred to as a "warm spring". It is this originating point of being that each of us, subconsciously, is seeking to return to. Emmaus in some earlier versions is written "Oulammaus" which is, also symbolically, the place where the Old Testament Patriarch "Jacob" was visited by God in his dream while sleeping on a rock and received his vision often entitled today: "Jacob's Ladder". Additionally, it is proposed, the original name for this destination point was "Luz" (in Hebrew), meaning "light".

Using and unveiling commonly used metaphors and scriptural-ease, I will attempt to present "the way" it really is. :-)

Before I do, however, I will share with you a fable given by a collective entity commonly known as "Aesop" and called: "The Man, The Boy, and The Donkey":

A Man and his son were once going with their donkey to market. As they were walking along by its side a countryman passed them and said: "You fools, what is a donkey for but to ride upon?" So the man put the boy on the donkey and they went on their way. But soon they passed a group of men, one of whom said: "See that lazy youngster, he lets his father walk while he rides." So the man ordered his boy to get off, and got on himself. But they hadn't gone far when they passed two women, one of whom said to the other: "Shame on that lazy lout to let his poor little son trudge along." Well, the man didn't know what to do, but at last he took his boy up before him on the donkey. By this time they had come to the town, and the passers-by began to jeer and point at them. The man stopped and asked what they were scoffing at. The men said: "Aren't you ashamed of yourself for overloading that poor donkey of yours and your hulking son?"

The man and boy got off and tried to think what to do. They thought and they thought, till at last they cut down a pole, tied the donkey's feet to it, and raised the pole and the donkey to their shoulders. They went along amid the laughter of all who met them till they came to Market Bridge, when the donkey, getting one of his feet loose, kicked out and caused the boy to drop his end of the pole. In the struggle the donkey fell over the bridge, and his fore-feet being tied together he was drowned.

"That will teach you," said an old man who had followed them.

(The moral of this Aesops Fable: "Please all, and you will please none.")

Like puzzle pieces from a grand collective puzzle, each of us are part of one great "body of Christ". Additionally, each of us have become smeared and covered ("veiled") by our acceptance of others' definitions of who we are and "should" be... until we fail to recognize even ourselves, take up a different character and role and engage each other in a mortal drama often viewed as a grand "tragedy". The only way to re-discover who we, individually, are and to "wake up" from our cosmic delusion (re-member the body of Christ, or properly and cooperatively put the puzzle together), we each must experience a "broken heart and a contrite spirit". To have our heart broken is easy. All it takes is interaction with each other to achieve that... repeatedly, it might seem. To achieve a "contrite spirit" (contrite means "rubbed") is to allow our self to become, again, "like a little child" and humbly realize that those to whom we previously looked for guidance were just as blind as we were. We "rub" or "polish clean" each facet of our inner eye ("puzzle piece") to where we can gradually, step-by-step, regain our way out of the ditch and back onto our corrected path, finally and again making our way closer to our original starting point. THEN, we can join with each other cleaned-up piece and assemble ourselves together... CORRECTLY! (As ONE "Body of Christ".) In essence, becoming un-blinded, we spiritually "strip ourselves naked" and without shame continue walking with more and more self confidence.

Again in Luke (8:17) we find that "there is nothing hidden that won't be made manifest".

So now, Dear Reader, I wish to expose (make plain, unveiled) what is really meant by walking the "Road to Emmaus" or, climbing "Jacob's Ladder" or accessing the "Stairway to Heaven". Before I do (which will be in future posts), I would encourage each dedicated seeker of truth to read, ponder and study the following words which are from the Inspired Version of Matthew 5.

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1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain to teach unto them the things which the Father had commanded of him; and when he was set in the place where he would teach the people, he called forth his disciples and they came unto him that they might hear more clearly the things that he would command the people, so that they could teach these same things unto the people as they had been given authority to do.

2 And after he had presented his disciples before the people, he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, Blessed are ye if ye shall give heed unto the words of these twelve whom I have chosen from among you to minister unto you, and to be your servants; and unto them I have given power that they may baptize you with water, if ye repent and believe on the things which I shall give unto you from my Father; and after that ye are baptized with water, which is the covenant ye shall make before God that ye shall do the things which I shall command you this day; behold, I will baptize you with fire and with the Holy Ghost, which shall cause you to know that the things that I shall give unto you are true. And this fire shall burn within you, giving you a remission of your sins by the peace that ye shall find in your souls. For ye are poor in spirit and seek for the kingdom of heaven. And it is this kingdom that I shall give unto you this day.

3 Blessed are the poor in spirit who come unto me and learn that which the Father hath given me for them; for their spirits shall be filled and they shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.

4 And again, blessed are they that mourn because they seek for more righteousness, but cannot find it in the doctrines and precepts of men which they have been given; for they shall be comforted by the words which I give unto them this day.

5 Blessed are the meek who seek to do the will of the Father in all things; for they shall inherit the earth that hath been prepared for them.

6 And blessed are they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness in meekness and lowliness of heart; for they shall be filled with the Holy Ghost who shall teach them all things.

7 And blessed are the merciful who love others and extend to them no judgment for what they do, which is evil; for they shall obtain mercy for that which they do, which is evil.

8 And blessed are all the pure in heart who in righteousness seek to know God and His ways, that they might understand truth, and not to consume it upon their lusts as do they who are impure; behold, they shall know God.

9 And blessed are the peacemakers who contend with no man over doctrine. Yea, these shall come to know the true doctrine, and then they shall be called the children of God.

10 And blessed are they which are persecuted and mocked by others because of their righteous works; for they shall find their peace and happiness in the kingdom of heaven.

11 And blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, because of that which ye do for my sake.

12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad in your persecutions and afflictions; for so persecuted they the prophets who were before you, who I sent unto the people to teach them these things; for your reward shall be given you from heaven by receiving peace and comfort from the Spirit of God.