Hi everyone, yes I know it's been awhile. Saturday will be 4 weeks since my Search For God post. Andrea and I got home from Christmas Vacation. Thankfully it was a whole lot better than the movie. Northwest Arkansas had record high temperatures in the 70's. That was nice. The day we left to head to Oklahoma it got cold and was cold in Oklahoma. The next day we went down to Dallas then the next day a town near Austin where we spent New years Eve and day, then headed home. After getting home I caught up on some work, now I'm ready to become more focused on sharing all the things I'm learning.
In Eureka Springs Arkansas there's a Play called the Passion Play. It recreates the Jesus' trial, crucifixion and resurrection. There are others but this one is the largest in the country. There isn't a play in the winter because it takes place at an outdoor amphitheater. At the same place there is a huge statue of Jesus called The Christ Of The Ozarks, (tap the link, It's pretty cool) some gift shops and a Bible Museum. I've been interested in The Ethiopian Bible. In case you aren't familiar with it, the Ethiopian Bible has books in it that weren't allowed in the western Bible that we call The Holy Bible. During the council of Nicea and Constatinople the determined that 15 books didn't make the cut to be included in the Bible, even though The Book Of Enoch is mentioned a couple of time in the Bible. There is a Book of Thomas and some that the Catholic faith do include called The Apocrypha. I asked the lady working at the Bible Museum gift shop if they had the Ethiopian Bible. Her feathers got all ruffled and asked if I have ever read The Holy Bible. I explained my background, told her I had heard the Ethiopian Bible included other teachings that weren't allowed during those councils where we were told what we were allowed to learn, and I want to find out what was in those other books that made those religious leaders back then so worried that called the heretical and banned them from being in the Bible.
The Ethiopian Bible includes those books because they didn't fall under the authority of the Roman rulers. They protected ALL the scriptures. We'll get into the Ethiopian tradition and why they felt the need to preserve the scriptures, and why they felt it was actually their duty to do so, but today, part of what's been filling my brain is, I've been reading the Book Of Enoch. It talks about 200 fallen angels coming to earth to mate with humans. Other Archangels are designated to watch over the earth and they reported back to God all the devastation that was creating, and God handed out punishment for the angels that rebelled. What I was struggling with was, I can understand the angels being in their angelic form and even changing their form, like when they appeared to Mary to tell her she was going to get pregnant with Jesus. What I couldn't grasp was, when they reported to God who did they go to? What did "HE" look like? What form did "HE" take? I've mentioned before that I don't believe God looks like our images of God, a man with white hair and white beard sitting on a golden throne in the clouds. So naturally in today's technology I, as Andrea says, I asked the robot. While coffee was doing whatever you call what it does in the French Press I asked Google Gemini
"According to Edgar Cayce's readings what is the source of creation made of, energy, vibration, angelic or matter? Here is the response.
"According to Edgar Cayce's readings The source of creation is fundamentally vibration. Cayce often stated that life in it's essence is Vibration. While he did use terms like energy, spirit, and mind to describe the creative process, he viewed vibration as the underlying mechanism or language of existence. Cayce taught that everything in the universe, from the most solid matter to the highest spiritual realms are made of the same "One Force". The only difference between a rock, a human soul and a star is the rate of vibration. Low vibration results in what we perceive as dense physical matter, high vibration results in spirit, light, and God Consciousness." In some of Cayce's readings he mentioned that angels are a higher vibrational expression of the same "One Force."
That helped me to put into perspective the heavenly realms, and with our limited human understanding, and other video teachings from Cayce and Yogananda that I've listened to, astral plane and the angelic realms don't communicate like humans do. Communication is telepathic or just "A Knowing." If we think about the heavenly realms in that context, and if God/The Divine is the highest vibration possible, then maybe the Angels answer to that highest vibration.
Last night when I woke up at 2:45 and didn't get back to sleep til after 3:30 I was pondering this and asking/meditating on receiving the answer to this and how to explain it. Hopefully this is the message The Divine has given for me to give to you. This will help me, and hopefully you guys as well, as we get into the Book Of Enoch and we talk about the angels. Since there are 3 Books Of Enoch, I'll refer to the one we'll be discussing as 1 Enoch. It is actually the one that describes Enoch as Noah's great grandfather and the knowledge he had. The other 2 expand on the flood and other stories in the Bible.
Sunday or Monday we'll talk about the Ethiopian Bible and their role as protectors of the scriptures because of their connection with Solomon, then next week we'll get into the 1 Enoch.
If you live in the US north of Florida, stay safe warm this weekend there's suppose to be a serious winter storm. If you're somewhere else, it is winter everyone be safe and warm and as always,
Keep Searching,
Paul
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