Ezekiel 14. Now let’s apply this to false doctrine, false interpretations of the Bible, misuse of the word of God, as well as to the literal idol that is made.  Now years ago when I was writing the Harmony of the Gospels, the man who encouraged me to write it, David Grady, he called KABC in Los Angeles, the big super-power station there, and they had a religious program on called, Religion on the Line, from nine to midnight.  And he was able to get me on there for four Sundays in a row.  And I was there with a Jewish Rabbi, and a Catholic priest.  And I could tell you several stories concerning that but I’ll just relate one.

Every Sunday night someone duly calls in and asks the Catholic priest why they worship idols.  And he said, “We don’t worship them, we just have it for a reminder.  We just have it for veneration and so forth.”  And so when He got done I said, “Well, in the Ten Commandments…”  Now you know what the Catholics did to the second commandment don’t you?  In the shortened version, they removed it.  I said, “…it says you shall not make any idols of anything, in heaven above…”  and so forth.  Well, needless to say at midnight I got out of there quickly because the Catholic priest was a big 300 pound German called Duelmeier, and I got out of there as quickly as I could.  (Laughter) 

Now, idolatry starts in the mind.  That’s what’s so important.  The making of an idol is a manifestation of the imagination of the mind.  Now, hold your place here and come to 2 Corinthians 10, then we’ll come back here to Ezekiel 14 in just a minute. 

Let’s pick it up here in verse 3.  “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ…” (2 Cor. 10:3-5).  And as I mentioned during the days of Unleavened Bread, that this is how you overcome.  It starts right here.  Everything starts right there in your mind, all false doctrine, all idolatry, all lust and fornication, and adultery, and thievery, and covetousness, and everything else.  So that’s why in overcoming, if you can cast it down when it raises itself up then you can have success in it. 

Now let’s go back to Ezekiel 14:1.  “Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me [this was before Ezekiel].  And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart…”  Now that can be anything that is contrary to the word of God.  “…And put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?”  Now notice what idols in your heart can do.  “Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;  that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from Me through their idols” (Ezek. 14:1-5).  Notice how that fits in with the church at Thyatira and sacrificing things unto idols. 

“Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD, Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations” (vs. 6).  It’s the same message that God gave to the church at Thyatira, isn’t it?  Almost identical.  And when you talk about the house of Israel you are also spiritually talking about the Church of God.  And so that’s why it is so important that we really stick with the word of God.  That’s so fundamentally important.  That we don’t have ideas, and we don’t have thoughts that we exalt above God, whether of self, whether of doctrine, whether of other people, or whatever it may be because it can all become an idol.  And then when it comes to it’s full bloom and manifestation, then it’s going to be consequences that God is going to take care of. 

Now isn’t it almost the same thing?  Let’s read it here.  Verse 7, “For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from Me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by Myself:  And I will set My face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of My people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD” (vs. 7-8).  Now in reading this I want you to think about the church experiences that we have just recently gone through in these last few years.  Has God done this?  Has He answered them?  Yes.  Himself?  Yes, and in some cases with death.  God is not to be mocked.  That’s the whole message of Revelation 2 and 3.

“And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of My people Israel.  And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him; that the house of Israel may go no more astray from Me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be My people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord God” (vs. 9-11).  Now that’s almost identical to 2 Corinthians 6 isn’t it?  The wording is just a little different. 

Let’s understand this.  Let’s come to Isaiah 40.  Now what happens when we do this?  Now, this also gives you a perfect prescription on how to have true Godly humility.  Humility is not something you put on.  Humility comes from knowing God.  And when you understand it, Isaiah 40, when you understand it God is the most humble being in the universe, correct?  Yes He is.  So true humility is not something you work up.  True humility is not something you put on.  True humility comes from the Spirit of God from the word of God because you understand the greatness of God. 

Now let’s look at what happens when idols are set up, and let’s think of this of Thyatira and Jezebel, back there in Revelation 2 as we read this.  Let’s begin in verse 18.  “To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto Him?  The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot…”  And that’s what the Aborigines do in the jungles, they get a tree that won’t rot.  The American Indians make totem poles, etc.  “…He seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.  Have ye not known?  have ye not heard?  hath it not been told you from the beginning?  have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?  It is He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and in the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: That bringeth the princes to nothing; He maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.  Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth:  and He shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.  To whom then will ye liken Me, or shall I be equal?  saith the Holy One” (Isa. 40:18-25).  He’s showing how foolish that idolatry is.  Absolutely incredible. 

He says, “Lift up your eyes on high, and behold Who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number:  He calleth them all by names by the greatness of His might, for that He is strong in power; not one faileth” (vs. 26).  That’s quite a lesson in idolatry.  There are several lessons here in idolatry going through here, these chapters in Isaiah 40.   

Now let’s come back to Revelation 2 and let’s analyze a little bit more concerning the church in Thyatira.  And again I will mention the video, “The Israel of the Alps”, and you will see how the Catholic church literally wore out the Waldensians.  Slaughtered them, killed them most unmercifully.  Let’s go back and read this chapter 2 again.  This Jezebel, verse 20, calls herself a prophetess, that you have allowed her “…to teach and to seduce My servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.”  We covered all about the idols.

Let me read to you some of the things that took place during the historical era of the church of Thyatira.  This covers from 600 A.D. clear down to 1965.  We have the elevating of the Pope, kissing of the Popes foot, image worship, use of holy water, canonization of dead saints.  And Pope John Paul II just made 26 saints in Mexico, didn’t he recently?  For what purpose?  Politically.  To overthrow the political party and the political system in Mexico, which since the revolution has not allowed the Catholics to control the political party.  That’s what it’s all about. 

  998 Fasting on Fridays and during Lent.

1097 Celibacy of the priesthood

And oh, by the way, while I was up here in West Springfield I drove around to see of the sights and I saw this big, looked like a church up on the hill.  You go down here just a little ways and looks like a church.  And I thought, “I bet that’s Catholic.”  But it didn’t look really like full-fledged Catholic church, but it was up on the hill.  So I drove around.  I drove up there and guess what it was?  It was a nunnery.  A Catholic brothel.  Prayer beads.

1184    The inquisition.

1190    The sale of indulgences.

1215    Transubstantiation

1220    Adoration of the host.

And they do worship it.  They bow down before it.  Can you imagine if you’re so superstitious that you bow down before a crumb of bread?  Amazing.

  Bible forbidden to laymen.

1414    Cup forbidden to people at communion.

1439    Doctrine of purgatory declared.

1439    Doctrine of seven sacraments affirmed.

1508    Ave Maria approved.

1534    The Jesuit order was founded.

And the Jesuits are still doing their dirty work.  How many have seen the full Jesuit oath? 

1545    Tradition granted equal authority with the Bible.

And the Mormons do that too.  They say, “We believe the Bible in so far as it’s accurately translated.  But they never show you where it’s falsely translated.  And they bring out the book of Mormon.  And Mormonism is nothing more than Gnosticism.

1546    Apocryphal books put in the Bible.

1854    Immaculate conception of Mary.

1864    Syllabus of errors proclaimed.

1870    Infallibility of the Pope declared.

And what happened shortly after that?  Twenty-four years after that all the Papal states were taken away from the Pope by Garibaldi.  So God gave His punishment.  He gave space for repentance.

1930    Public schools condemned.

1950    Assumption of the Virgin Mary.

1965    Mary proclaimed mother of the church.

And as soon as the Pope can do it, to make Mary the mediatrix, co-redemptrix with Christ.  Queen of heaven.

Now then, let’s read on here in Revelation 2:24.  “But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.”  Now is it possible to go clear into the depths of Satan?  Yes.  All you have to do is read about king Manasseh in the Old Testament, and he went into the depths of Satanism.  Now the depths of Satanism include…

Let’s go back to Deuteronomy 18:9.  “When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abomination of those nations.  There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire…”  This is becoming a novelty situation of mind over matter with those people who believe in helping to get into the depths of your being, and find your real self.  Yes, Anthony Robbins, and many others.  “…Or that uses divination…”, that is to call up demons, or to have angel help.  Today, one of the big movements is the angels within.  “…Or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.  For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.  Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.  For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearken unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not [allowed] suffered thee so to do”  (Deut. 18:9-14).  And all of that leads into the depths of Satan.  When you understand the truth of Masonry then you will understand that when they get to the highest degree it is open known worship of Satan the devil.  And you cannot get any deeper into Satanism.

Now then, the depths of Satan.  Let me begin reading here on page 207 of the book by Alan Knight of Primitive Christianity in Crisis. 

“…We are seeking to unravel a mystery that unites multiple religious traditions encountered in previous chapters – the mystery cults, Gnostic Christianity and modern Hellenistic Christianity.”  That’s why Hebrews becomes a very fulcrum book in understanding this.  And when you get this book and you get done with this book you will be able to understand that all Protestantism is Hellenistic Christianity.  All Catholicism is Hellenistic Gnostic Christianity.  And we can say it with profound assurance that that is so. 

“This is the story of Thyatira, the fourth of seven churches held up by the apostle John as examples of the problems New testament churches in general experienced over time.  What is special about this church is its problem with antinomian [that is lawless] apostasy linked to false teachings described as ‘the deep things of Satan.’  [Or the depths of Satan.]  This is a theology described as being at the root of the tolerance of sin at Thyatira (Rev. 2:20-23)”  (pg. 207).

And there is a Chaldean connection.  See, so that’s why I tied together beginning, mystery Babylon the Great and Jezebel, and now we come full circle to the depths of Satan.

“The Chaldean Oracles are short fragments of text preserved in the writings of various Hellenistic authors.  The fragments themselves are believed to go back to the Chaldean priesthood of ancient Babylonia, hence the name.  It is in the Chaldean Oracles that we find numerous references to spiritual depth in relation to the highest God, the supreme Father.  One of the terms we find is ‘Paternal Depth.’  This is the equivalent to the Depth of God the Father (or Satan, as John insisted it really was)” (pg.208-209). 

So here is a quote from one of the Chaldean Oracles, which ways, “Such is the Mind which is energized before energy, while yet it had not gone forth, but abode in the Paternal Depth, and in the Adytum of God nourished silence.”  So whenever we get into these things of silence and meditation…that’s why I mentioned Deepak Chopra, that’s his name.

“This fragment describes the Depth of the Father as spirituality in its purest form” (pg. 209).

Because the Gnostics would come in and say, “Look, you Christians have just the fundamental things.  We have a revelation, which was given to us after the resurrection of Christ.  And now we have new understanding.  And part of that new understanding you need to realize is that the Sabbath, which was created by the God of the Old Testament and those evil angels, is evil and you need to get rid of it and come to the new creation – the eighth day.  Come and worship Jesus with us on Sunday.”  That goes back to Clement, and Origen, and all of them. 

Ok, page 213:  “First we are told that Christ, ‘the Son’, came forth from the Depth itself:” 

Did not Paul say that you have received another Jesus?  Did not Paul say…here let’s go to Galatians 1.  Hold your place and go to Galatians 1.  And this becomes important for us in relationship to what was going on.  When you understand that these Hellenistic Gnostic Christians, and they called themselves Christians, believe also in angel worship.  We’ll see that here in just a minute.  But notice what Paul says here concerning the Gospel, and this was written in 52 to 53 A.D.  And what did he write to the Thessalonians in 2 Thessalonians?  He said, “For the mystery of iniquity does already work.” 

Now notice what he says, Galatians 1:6.  “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from Him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ” (Gal. 1:6-7).  Not throw it away – pervert it, and preach another Christ.  Which he told the Corinthians in 2 Corinthians 11, that if somebody comes preaching another Christ and brings another spirit, you count it all as wonderful…new understanding.  What was told when they were changing the doctrines?  Wonderful, new understanding.  (Laughter)  See. 

Now notice verse 8.  “But though we [which includes Paul and all the brethren, and all the apostles] or an angel from heaven…” That becomes very important because Hellenistic Gnosticism and Hellenistic Christianity believed in angels.  As a matter of fact this afternoon when we get into Colossians 2 you will understand that even more.  But this is why he mentions it here.  “…Preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.  As we said before, so say I now again…”  Now I can understand with the emphasis and the power with which Paul wrote, why this is so important.  What is this?  This is idolatry.  Another thought.  Another gospel.  Another Christ.  A perversion.  That’s why he was so emphatic with this.  And I tell you, if he is I’m going to be.  If it offends some people, so be it.  Maybe it will help them repent.  “…If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.  For do I now persuade men, or God?  or do I seek to please men?  for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ” (vs. 8-10).  That’s the way it needs to be.  I mean there is a demarcation point which is clear.

All right, now let me read this to you.  “What are the specific religious teachings attached to Paternal Depth Theology in Valentinian Christianity?  It is found in one of the Valentinian texts from Nag Hammadi [that’s the Gnostic writings about Christ], The Gospel of Truth.  We will now be looking at a series of passages from this Gnostic Christian text that reveal the full range of religious beliefs involved in Peternal Depth.”

“First we are told that Christ, ‘the Son’, came forth from the Depth itself [now here’s the quote]:

“. . . his Son . . . who came forth from the depth, he spoke about his secret things, knowing that the Father is a being without evil.  For that very reason he brought him forth in order to speak about the place and his resting-place from which he had come forth…” 

From which came the doctrine, which exists today that your rest is in Christ and He has done it all for you.  That’s coming out of the depths of Satanism.  Did Christ do everything for you?  Does He keep the Sabbath for you?  No.  It’s amazing.

“…from which he came forth, and to glorify the pleroma [now we’ll talk about the pleroma this afternoon, that means “the fullness”], the greatness of his name and the sweetness of the Father.”

“We learn several important things from this passage.  First, notice the Depth is designated as the ‘resting-place’ of Christ.  So now divine rest in Christ is added to the pleroma [the pleroma is fullness] in being identified with the Depth.”

“In this passage also, Christ is depicted as having come to reveal the existence of the Depth and to speak about the ‘secret things’ because the Father is ‘a being without evil.’” 

Then it gives another quote: 

“. . . nor did they think of him as small nor that his is harsh nor that he is wrathful, but (that) he is a being without evil, imperturbable, sweet . . . .”  [Verses the God of the Old Testament, Who’s imperturbably evil because His has anger and He has hostility, and He brings correction.  This is some stuff.]

“This is the typical Gnostic teaching that the true heavenly Father is pure love, nonjudgmental and without anger, in contrast to the harsh, punishing and demanding God of the Old Testament.  Resting in the Depth of God is viewed as a beautiful state of communion with the all-loving Father, who offers access to the spiritual Depth freely, by his grace (the sweetness of the Father), not placing demands or requirements on his worshippers as Yahweh does” (pg. 212-213).

Now let’s talk a little bit about the pleroma.  Page 214, the Paternal Depths they are talking about here:

“Therefore, all the emanations of the Father are pleromas…” 

Remember when Savrinidies said God is everywhere.  God does not have a body.  God does not have a head.  God does not have eyes.  God does not have hands.  He doesn’t need it because God is in everything.  And what comes from God are emanations.  This is going right back to Hellenistic Paganism where then these emanations then are the energies coming from Satan.  So what the Church of God heard was the depths of Satan brought to them by Savrinidies who is a Greek philosopher.  And by the way he was also half Turkish, meaning he was an Esauite.  Think on that one for a while.

“…and the root of all his emanations is in the one who made them all grow up in himself.”

“According to the Valentinians, all enlightened Christians are pleromas in their own right, patterned after, connected to and nourished from the master pleroma or Depth of the Father, through Christ.” (pg. 214)

I tell you this is some stuff.  Page 216:

“The word pleroma itself means “fullness” [and we’ll talk about that a little more this afternoon].  Once you ‘know’ the Depth of God you have become spiritually perfect and spiritually complete.  [Now follow this.]  Your root is established in Christ.  You have need of nothing.  There is no need to strive for perfection by obedience to the law, nor anything external, for you are internally complete, possessing the Depth of God within yourself.  Notice also that spiritual truth is revealed exclusively from within [you determine what is right and wrong, not the law of God]…”

“Valentinian Peternal Depth theology contains many elements strikingly analogous to modern Protestant teaching, including self-sufficient grace, and drawing guidance exclusively from the Spirit [that is the inner self] rather than any external source such as codified law” (pg. 216)

Page 221:  “…once Valentinian Paternal Depth theology is translated into modern terminology you find essentially the same spiritualized lawlessness taught throughout Hellenistic Christianity today.”

Now I call your attention: where did Paul warn twice of the unpardonable sin?  In which book?  Hebrews, chapter 6 and chapter 10, because those Hellenistic Christians were getting into the same thing that we see today in Protestantism.  I mean this is profound stuff brethren.  This is amazing.

“It is the same radical grace alone theology, demanding rejection of written biblical law in favor of obedience to the Spirit, and promising a guaranteed salvation that cannot be revoked, regardless of one’s conduct” (pg. 221)

Now then, that’s what Baptists today believe.  A woman in the Church asked her Protestant friend one time, because she was talking about the Rapture, that God was going to rapture them up – take them.  And she asked her, she said, “Let me ask you a question.  Since you don’t have to keep any law, what if you were right in the middle of the act of committing adultery when the Rapture came.  Would you be raptured?”  “Yes.”  Talk about a lawless theology. 

Now this is out of the book here, The New World Religion by Gary Kah.  Now if this book Primitive Christianity in Crisis is the right hand, this book The New World Religion, by Gary Kah is the left hand.  Now he says concerning Cayce, he “…blended certain Christian ideas and terminology with the ancient religions of the occult.  He tried to redefine Christ by turning Him into an occult figure who would fit all of the world’s mystery religions—an impossible task.  Summarizing Edgar’s erroneous religious views, biographer Thomas Sugrue states.

“The system of metaphysical thought which emerges from the readings of Edgar Cayce is a Christianized version of the mystery religions of ancient Egypt, Chaldea, Persia, India, and Greece.  [And that’s what the coming Beast will be.]  It fits the figure of Christ into the tradition of one God for all people, and places Him in His proper place, at the apex of the philosophical structure; He is the capstone of the pyramid” (pg. 77).

Page 97, now this is talking about New Age thought in the churches. 

“Price’s theology emphasizes man’s supernatural “God-like” qualities…” 

Now part of this whole humanistic New Age movement is to what?  Tap the inner powers within.  You have greater powers than you know.  This goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden brethren.

“Price’s theology emphasizes man’s supernatural “God-like qualities and presents the idea that man is quite capable of achieving heaven on earth—that is, if he allows the “universal energy” [which then as Alan Knight describes, “from the Paternal Depth to emanate down”] to direct his life.  His philosophy is typical of New Age spiritual leaders.  In his 1981 book, The Super Beings, he theorizes,

“It has been said that behind all [science] fiction is a basis of fact.”

Then he goes on to ponder about the things that were written:

“What did the original creator of this comic strip and movie character have in mind when he fist conceived the idea? [That’s the idea of Superman.  And what is the most favorite movies of the kids to day?  Superman.  What is another movie?  Star Wars 1-2-3.  And let the what be with you?  The force.  See, you’ve all been propagandized right?]  Did he intuitively believe that man may someday evolve [And evolution is in it, you see.] into a super-human creature with “out of this world” powers?” 

Now why are they striving for cloning?  I’m going to ring my cow bell.  (Ring)  I’ll mention again when I do the one on the Beast.  Is it possible that they could genetically splice into a human being genes from a beast so that the Beast who comes on the scene will be literally be a beast?  Possible.  They can now with gene splicing, grow human ears on the backs of mice.  Enough said.

“He goes on to surmise,

Modern Science reports that the entire universe is made up of energy.  The Illumined Ones [and they have the hierarchy and the principalities and all of that in there] tell us that this Energy is in reality the One Presence and Power of the universe—all Knowing, all-Loving, everywhere present, and that this pure Mind Energy is individualized in man, as man.”

So what do we have, the whole New Age religion.  Back to the pure pagan Gnostic teachings, and it’s being taught in the schools. 

Now just one more quote, page 116 and 117, and this is by Barbara Marx Hubbard who is a Jew:

“ ‘Born of a Jewish agnostic, affluent background in 1929, I received no spiritual training.’  Her “seeking” let her down many paths until eventually she read The Phenomenon of Man by Teilhard Chardin.” 

Now Teilhard Chardin is a Catholic New Age priest.  And he has had a lot of input into the United Nations through Robert Muller.  So you need to get this book and read it.  I mean it is something. 

“She explains,

It was an epiphany for me. [That is a new birth.]  There is a continuing, evolving pattern in the process of nature that leads to greater whole systems, higher consciousness and freedom…and it’s going on NOW.  It’s unfinished.  The world is evolving, not just the individual.  Not only do I have unused growth potential…so does the world…so does our species…and so does the universe!  Something new is coming.  the magnetic attraction was right.  I could trust my intuition.”

Now then, that’s why they try and get all people to think these things so there can be (have you heard this) a “quantum leap” in human evolution.  Where all of a sudden we leap and we become super-men and super-women.  Well what all that is doing is setting us up for demon occult control.  This whole world is going to be controlled by it.  I mean brethren we are sitting right on the threshold of the greatest and biggest deception to hit this world.  That’s why first the Churches of God were taken down.  Now that’s why we cannot sit back and just let it continue to happen. 

Now she continues on with her revelations:

“The floodgates of my mind had opened [now she’s demon possessed].  It saw as if an unseen hand…”

Have you heard that before?  Brethren, that is a Masonic term, and when Herbert Armstrong preached it, which he was encouraged to do by Stanley R. Rader and was known by Stanley R. Rader that that was a Masonic term to get him into the big-wigs of this world.  Christ is not coming as an unseen hand.  What Herbert Armstrong was preaching, and he didn’t know it, was New Age Satanic preaching leading the way to the coming of the Beast.  Now if there are some of you who are offended because you idolize Herbert Armstrong, then be offended.  That is the truth. 

“It was as if an unseen hand was activating the memory bank of my brain.  I organized nothing.  I “thought” of nothing.  I simply recorded the stream of ideas….Sometimes a voice that called itself “Jesus” interpreted authoritatively….In other passages it seemed as though the voices were those of our elder brothers and sisters who have gone before [and that’s called the hierarchy – the principalities and powers we’ll talk about this afternoon]…  I fell that “I”…”   

Notice, ‘I feel that I’.  And that’s what this whole New Age thought is about is I.  That’s why they teach little kids self-esteem. 

“…–my normal walking, conscious personality, who has been a seeker—virtually co-created the text with a hierarchy of other, higher selves…Other sections seemed to come from a collective species consciousness.

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