APRIL 27TH, 2014

Over the last few weeks one of God’s miracles has unfolded before our very eyes. Everyone at the Seventh Ray Spiritual Centre has been praying for our little Tyla Thorne and eagerly watching as her story has been shared with us all either via facebook, email updates or through our blog.

Before anything, we want to say thank you to the Thorne and Bentley family for allowing us this privilege. For it is truly a privilege to be a part of watching positive thoughts, prayers and energy in action. Initially her diagnosis and prognosis was not good at all, but she has defied all odds and continues to go from strength to strength. Her healing is still going to be a long path ahead, but based on what we have all already witnessed, we have every confidence that it will all turn out good.

So what exactly are God’s miracles? The official description or meaning of the word miracle is ‘an extraordinary and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore attributed to divine agency.’ Or ‘a remarkable event or development that brings very welcome consequences.’

However, if we take the notion that everything is exactly as it should be then, do miracles actually exist? This is quite a difficult question to ponder and certainly one that could spark much discussion. Many of us have been witness on many occasions to miracles as they happen before us and time and again, we have been left almost speechless by the amazing or ‘miraculous’ outcome of that particular situation.

As I write this, I (Glynis) can say that from my personal experience, God’s miracles absolutely are very real. At a point in time I thought that to say that something is a miracle is to say that something has happened that is not what was originally intended and only through requesting divine intervention, we would kind of be given what we asked for. However, as I’ve grown and my thoughts have changed and my knowledge has expanded, I am now totally of the opinion that miracles are there to teach us to have

faith. These beautiful souls who have chosen to be the teacher, have taken much responsibility on their shoulders, for they are the ones who go through the physical suffering. But the beauty is that so many people can learn from them and their situation, and therein lies the miracle. I know that we too have been in situations where we have experienced our own miracles, for they don’t always have to be massive to have an impact on us – but, everything that we do that brings about very welcome consequences, can be considered a miracle. For this is the proof that God helps us in everything that we do, whether we believe it or not.

It’s not only in the bigger things that He steps in and takes control. Through our guides and spirit helpers, we are given assistance in everything that we do every single moment of every single day. Even in writing this, I am guided as to what to say and how to say it.

So don’t ever forget that you are a miracle and that miracles happen around us all day. Never forget to say thank you to your teachers for their participation in your life and for allowing you to participate in theirs. May our paths be strewn with miracles and our faith be made stronger every day. God Bless.

Yours as always in Love and LightGlynis and Lillian

The Great Cosmic Lay Taken from http://www.deeptrancenow.com/exc_greatlaw.htmThere is only One Law of Life,

and that is Love. The Self-Conscious, thinking individual who will not or does not obey that Eternal, Beneficent Decree cannot and will not retain the physical body, because all that is not love dissolves form; and it matters not whether it be thought, word, feeling or deed - intentional or unintentional - the Law acts regardless.

If man knew that he never ceases creating even for an instant, he would realize through the Presence of God within himself, he could purify his miscreations and thus be free from his own limitations.

Whoever makes himself will-ingly obedient unto the Law of Love has Perfection in his mind and world permanently maintained. Unto him and him alone does All Authority and Mastery belong. He only has the right to rule, because he has first learned to

obey. When he has obtained obedience from the atomic structure within his own mind and body, all atomic struc-ture outside of his mind and body will obey him also.

The Great Cosmic Law does not discriminate any more than does the multiplication table if one makes a mistake in its application, or electric-ity when one who is ignorant of the Law governing its use tries to direct its force without knowledge of the way to control it.

The Great Immutable Decrees which forever keep order in the Infi-nite Realm of manifested Life are all based upon the One Great Principle of Creation - LOVE. This is the Heart, the Source of All, and the very Hub upon which existence in form takes place. Love is the cohesive Power of the Universe, and without it a Universe could not be.

NoticesTalks are held on the second and last Sun-day of every month starting at 9:30am. Ev-eryone is welcome and do remember that we have a nanny to look after the children (for a small donation). Please check your email or our blog or website for confirma-tion of these dates, or contact either Lillian or Glynis for further details.

Contact details :Lillian 082 572 2487seventhray@stargazersa.co.zaGlynis 082 570 6473glynis4125@gamil.com

Tea and cake is always served after the talks. Should you wish to bring along any cake or biscuits as a donation, please feel free to do so. All contributions are most appreciated.

Lillian is available to do sittings & healing during the week & weekends. Should you wish to see her, please contact her on 082 572 2487 to book an appointment.

Glynis is available to do sittings and spiri-tual guidance counseling during the week from either her home or the Centre. To help you gain a better understanding of yourself, she will do a handwriting, signature & doodle analysis which will be backed up with confirmation from loved ones in Spirit. She will also come to your house to do a private sitting. 082 570 6473

Jo does sittings from her home in Edenvale. She can be contacted on 011 453 3047

Antonia does sittings from her home - give her a call on 083 408 6943.

Chris & Lisa are doing sittings at the Centre. Chris also does house clearings / blessings - Contact 072 056 1869.

CORONATION PARK BICYCLE

DRIVEWe are asking anyone who has a spare bicycle at home, to please bring it to the Centre. It doesn’t matter if it’s in need of repair (minor).

If you would like to make a financial contribution, that would be great as well, as we will then go to some second hand shops and see what we can buy there.

We would like to deliver a bicycle to every child by April this year!

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Arrange your body in a comfortable position, which can be either sitting or standing. Be conscious not to cross any limbs over the body, which acts to short-circuit the body’s polarity.

Drink a glass of water before proceeding, because dehydration causes an imbalance within the electrical system of the body, thus making it difficult to receive a clear and accurate answer.

Spend a few minutes doing meditative breathing, such as; allowing each inhale breath to calm the mind and each exhale breath to release tension held in the body or any technique you are familiar with.

As with any technique, always begin by clearing the mind first and precisely articulat-ing your intent. “ The Invoking Guidance from Source Meditation” included in the

book, * is a useful guideline to help train you to the concept of asking for assistance. It also establishes a greater bond with various energies that are willing resources. In addition, it helps to calm and focus the mind. Another option is to create your own invocation that is meaningful to you.

Intuition requires a high degree of alertness, therefore being tired affects your ability to sense subtle vibrations. Prescience is a result of heightened awareness skills, so by training your perception to become more consciously aware increases your accuracy. As a result, an expanded state of awareness is achieved that perceives the subtle energy around you, which is normally overlooked or filtered out by the logical mind. Another outcome of a keen intuition is using the right-brain, thus encouraging one to discover possible latent creative talents.

Exercises To Promote A Greater Receptive State

I am theArchangel ZadkielMy name means

“Righteousness of God”I am the

Angel of FreedomI am Patron Angelof all who forgive

I bring to mankind, from God,the gift of compassion.I counsel you to let go of hurt, anger and hatred.You have within youthe God-given ability to forgive.For God will forgive you yourtrespasses,as you forgive thosewho trespass against

you.This is the message, I,Zadkiel, the Archangelbring to you.And now I beseech you not to pray to me,

for I am only a messenger of the Lord.Pray only to God.

Love God with all your heartand keep His commandments.

The Archangel ZadkielAlso known as Tzadkiel, Zedekiel, Zadakiel, Sachiel and Zedekul

Zadkiel means the “Righteousness of God”It is believed that Zadkiel was the angel who stopped

Abraham from killing his young son, Isaac, as a sacrifice to God.

As a result, Zadkiel’s symbol is the dagger,or sacrificial knife and he is usually depicted with it.

Zadkiel is Chief of the Order of Dominations.Zadkiel is thought to be the Angel of Mercy,

the Angel of Memory and the Angel of Benevolence.

Zadkiel is one of the nine rulers of Heaven.Zadkiel is thought by some to be one of the

seven archangels who stand before God.In “The Zohar” Zadkiel is represented as one of

two chieftains, the other being Zaphiel, who assiststhe great Archangel Michael when he bears his

standard in battle.Zadkiel is ruler of the planet Jupiter.

Zadkiel is an angel of the Order of Seraphim.

The Nazarenes, although they existed long before the days of Christ, and even before the laws of Moses, were Gnostics, and many of them Initiates. They held their “Mysteries of Life” in Nazara (ancient and modern Nazareth), and their doctrines are a faith-ful echo of the teachings of The Secret Doctrine, some of which are here set down. The term Nazar means one “set apart.” They were a temporary monastic class of celibates spoken of in the Old Tes-tament who married not and who wore their hair long, cutting it only at their initiation. Paul must have belonged to this class of initiates, for he himself tells the Galatians (i, 15) that he was separated or “set apart” from the moment of his birth, and that he had his hair cut at Cenchrea, because “he had a vow” (Acts xviii. 18), i.e., had been initiated as a Nazar; after which he became a “master-builder” (I Cor. iii, 10). Joseph is styled a Nazar (Gen. xlix, 26). Samson and Samuel and many more were also Nazars.

The modern name of the Nazareans is El Mogtasila in Arabic; in European languages, the Mendeans. The Mendeans are also called Sabians and St. John Christians. The latter is absurd, since according to all accounts, even their own, they had nothing to do with Christianity, which they abominated. Those Nazareans who left Galilee several hundred years ago and settled in Syria, east of Mount Lebanon, also called themselves Galileans, though they designated Christ “a false Messiah” and recognized only St. John the Baptist, whom they called the “Great Nazarene.” The modern sect of the Mendeans is likewise widely scattered over Asia Minor and elsewhere, and is rightly be-lieved by orientalists to be a direct surviving relic of the Gnostics. The name Mendean properly signi-fies science, knowledge or Gnosis. They are found at the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates, principally at Bassorah, Hoveiza, Korna, etc., as well as established in Syria -- the latter composing a tribe of some 14,000 or 15,000; and claim that their religion is the same as that of St. John the Baptist and has not changed one bit since his day. Coupled with the name of Mendeans is generally that of the Ebionites. Ebionites (literally, “the poor”) were contemporary, and though they were the genuine primitive Christians, existed as a sect when the term “Christian” had not yet been heard of. According to Renan, they numbered among their sect all the surviving relatives of Jesus, but, according to Epipha-nius, they firmly believed, with the Nazarenes, that Jesus was but a man “of the seed of man.” This does not show much orthodox

Christianity either in the Naza-renes or the Ebionites, but seems to prove on the contrary that the Christianity of the early centuries and modern Christian theology are two entirely opposite things. Many of the relations of Iassou (Jesus), the adept ascetic around whom the legend of Christ was formed, were among the Ebionites; and as the existence of these mendicant ascetics can be traced at least a century earlier than the chronologi-cal Christianity, it is an additional proof that Iassou or Jeshu lived during the reign of Alexander Jannaeus at Lydda (or Lud), where he was put to death as stated in the Sepher Toldos Jeshu.

The Codex Nazareus, the “Book of Adam” (the term being used in the sense of Man or Hu-manity, anthropos), is written in the Chaldeo-Syriac dialect mixed with the mystery language of the Gnos-tics. It is almost incomprehensible. Still, while we see the few transla-tors of the Kabala, the Nazarene Codex, and other abstruse works hopelessly floundering amid the interminable pantheon of names, unable to agree as to a system in which to classify them -- for one hypothesis contradicts and overturns the other -- we can but wonder at all this trouble, which could be so easily overcome. For every philosophy, whether of one or another nation, has its key in the Hindu sacred works.

There are three Trinities in the Nazarene system as well as in the Hindu philosophy of the ante and early vedic period. The Nazarene diagram, except in a change of names, is identical with that of the Gnostics, who evidently borrowed their ideas from it. In the Naza-rene Cosmogony, the personified imagery found in the names of their Powers and Genii is much the same as that to which any kabalistic student is accustomed. The Trini-ties are as follows: The Supreme Lord of Splendor and of Light, luminous and refulgent, before which no other existed -- is called Corona (the Crown). The second member of the first trinity is Lord Ferho, the unrevealed Life which existed in the former from eternity. Lord Ferho is “the Life which is no Life” -- the Supreme God. He is the Cause which produces the Light, or the Logos in abscondito. The third is Lord Jordan (Jordanus Maximus), the Water of Life. He is the one through whom alone we can be saved; and thus he answers to the Holy Ghost (the feminine principle) and to the Shekinah (veil), or spiritual garment of En-Soph. These three constitute the unrevealed Trinity.

The second Trinity is the manifestation of the first, and is composed of the three LIVES. The first (LIFE) is the similitude

of Lord Ferho through whom he has proceeded forth -- the King of Light,Lord Mano. He is Rex Lucis, “older than the architect of heaven and earth.” The second LIFE is Ish Amon. This is the Pleroma, or the boundless circle within which lie all forms; the THOUGHT of the power divine. It is the “vase of election,” containing the thought of Jordanus Maximus; thus the type, or its intelligible reflection, of the prototype of the “living Wa-ter,” who is the “spiritual Jordan.” The third LIFE which is produced from the other two, is Abatur (Ab, parent or father). Abatur is the “Ancient of Days,” the father of the Demiurgos of the universe. He is the Creator who calls inert mat-ter into life, through his vivifying spirit. He is the father who creates the first Adam (who creates in his turn the second). “Abatur opens a gate and walks to the dark water (chaos), and looking down into it, the darkness reflects the image of Himself ... and lo, a SON is formed -- the Logos or Demiurge (Fetahil), who is the builder of the material world thus called into existence.” This third LIFE is the architect of the visible universe which he calls into existence by the power of his genii at the order of the “Greatest.”

Thus the first Trinity is the concealed or non-manifested. The second is the active, or the one revealed in the results of creation, proceeding out of its spiritual pro-totype. But the third Trinity is “the mutilated image of both the others, crystallized in the form of human dogmas, which vary according to the exuberance of the national and materialistic fancy.”

Lord Mano, the “Lord of Loftiness,” the Lord of all genii (the spiritual hierarchies), is higher than the Father (Abatur), being purely spiritual. While Abatur’s only-begotten one is the genius Fetahil,creator of the physical world, Lord Mano, the “Lord of Celsitude” produces also an “only-begotten” who is called Lord Lehdaio, “a just Lord.” This is the Christos. He is the Anointed, who “pours out the grace of the Invisible Jordan, the Spirit of the Highest Crown. (But in the later Christian theology, Abatur is made to answer to the “Father” of Jesus.)

The kabalistic version of the “War in Heaven” and the “Fall of the Angels” is also given in the Co-dex Nazareus, the scripture of the Nazarenes. Thus it is told how the “Father of the Genii” is ordered to construct creatures (to create). But as he is “ignorant of Orcus” (“the bottomless pit”) he fails to do so, and calls in Fetahil, a still purer spirit to his aid, who fails still worse. This is a repetition of the failure of the “Fathers,” the Lords of Light (of the Stanzas), who fail

one after the other. This relates, as seen, to those hosts who could not create forms because devoid of the material element in their natures. Fetahil, though King of Light with the Nazarenes and the creator, in this instance is “the unlucky Prometheus, who fails to get hold of the living Fire necessary for the formation of the divine Soul, as he is ignorant of the secret name, the ineffable or incommunicable name of the kabalists.”

One has to bear in mind that, like the three “Trinities,” the various stages of “creation” are successive. There is a constant rep-etition and multiplication of events “downwards.” The Codex relates the allegories of the rebellious angels in “the rebellious and fool-ish genii”; the story of the inimical Elohim, in its “seven badly-dis-posed stellars.” When the spirit of the earth perceives that the newest “man” (the shells, emanations of the Pitris) was “changed” ... she awakens Karabtonos (Kamarupa minus Manas), “who was frantic and without sense and judgment.” This relates, in harmony with theo-sophical teachings, to the period when the “Adam of dust” required the soul of Life to be breathed into him: the two middle principles, which are the sentient life of the irrational animal and the Human Soul, the former being irrational without the latter.

Pygmalion, who fails to ani-mate his statue, and Bahak-Zivo of the Nazarene Gnostics, who fails to construct “a human soul in the creatures,” are, as conceptions, far more philosophical and scientific than Adam, taken in the dead-letter sense, or the Biblical Elohim-Cre-ators. Esoteric philosophy, which teaches spontaneous generation -- after the Sishta (seed) and Prajapati (“Progenitors”) have thrown the seed of life on the Earth -- shows the lower angels able to construct physical man only, even with the help of Nature, after having evolved the ethereal form out of themselves, and leaving the physi-cal form to evolve gradually from the ethereal, or what would now be called protoplasmic model.

The Nazarene System taken from http://www.wisdomworld.org Everything I See Is Me taken from http://www.wakingtimes.comI AM . . . life.In life, every single instant and

interaction exists for the growth of the self and the universe into the highest harmony of All That Is. Toaists like to refer to this as the Tai Chi, or the Supreme Ultimate, which can also be described as Unity. At the center of all exis-tence is the infinite singularity of All That Is Here and Now, the roar of Ohm, the spark of transcen-dent being-ness that permeates the entire universe.

This is the universal substrate from which you and I and every single being of energy in the universe arises. An amazing thing about the Supreme Ultimate is that it holds within itself all of the infinite potential and possibilities in the universe, yet it itself is beyond differentiation. In this way it is referred to as chaotic unity, and is at the center of all being.

What happens next is the story that is told in countless different cultures in countless different ways, yet with one penultimate con-stant. Creation, differentiation, the unfolding of the tree of life, the fractioning of the whole into the boundless possibilities of existence in the universe. In this process arose the myriad forms and states

of being that energy manifest in and occupy.

At the center of being lies a paradox, for Unity contains within itself the possibility of its own negation, it’s own opposite. This is the perspective of separation, the linchpin of theego mind, and is the root of all injustice, negativity, pain, and darkness in the world. And it is completely necessary. As infinite beings of consciousness within Unity, the illusion of separ-ateness exists for us to understand the difference between the two.

This is the penultimate ques-tion, penned so simply by William Shakespeare in ‘Hamlet.’ To be, or not to be.

These concepts appear to be contradictory, appear to be negate and deny each other, yet they are only different perspectives, differ-ent manners in which to view the vastness of the universe. Duality is not a static state, as our dominant cultural and scientific paradigms would have us believe. For from this separation arises the constant integration and balance between these two ‘opposing’ perspectives.

We are in the midst of this process, called the moment, which is the endless integration of duality into itself. We are a part of the

endless ebb and flow of energy in the perpetual, dynamic equilibrium of existence.

The mechanism that allows us to navigate and experience the boundless aspects of the universe is called choice, a concept that we are all aware of. This is the free will that is fundamental to all being, and this is what allows us to experience the universe from dif-ferent perspectives. Some may be darker than others, some may be more comfortable, there may even be a particular flavor in infinity that you enjoy more than others.

No matter which way we choose to view the universe, our perspective is valid. It may, how-ever, not be the most effective or the most harmonious. It may only encompass a fraction of the infi-nite being-ness that is present, and that is ok. In fact, it’s great. Yet it is still a part of the whole as well, an integral factor of Unity, and an essential part of the journey home into All That Is.

To be infinite is our natural state of being, it is where we come from and where we always are and will be. We don’t need to do anything to be in this state. On the contrary, we actually need to un-do, we need to no longer choose

to be fractured and separate. We need let go of our attachments to specific outcomes and moments in space and time.

We allow ourselves to be infi-nite by not creating any limits upon our being.

In doing so, we return to wholeness. In All That Is, we are all of the infinite potential and all of the infinite form. We relax, we let go, and we enjoy the glorious dance of existence through the endless eternities of the now.

Unconditional love, and gratitude.

About the AuthorAdam Lanka, originally from

North Carolina, is a traveling philosopher, energetic arts healer, and physicist. His passion and interest are in bridging the gaps in the dominant paradigm, uniting science and spirituality into one journey of consciousness, and elevating the vibration of human-ity. To learn more about Adam, please visit his personal blog, The Wanderlust. Find him on Facebook at Gateway Explorations.

Understanding Native American Religions by contrast, knowledge might be transmitted to the novice in relatively brief but intense periods of ecstasy. The types of knowledge imparted may include the use of different forms of fire (such as ritual fires, or sparks struck from special elements, or the light contained in bright crystals), the use of musical instruments, the mastery of primordial sounds (which have the power to recreate the bodies of suffering patients, or to reorder the seasons in order to overcome drought or famine), esoteric languages, and sacred songs.

This education usually takes place under the direction of a master. That master may be a hu-man shaman who is accomplished and practiced, or the master may be a supernatural being. Among the Makiritare of Venezuela, the sacred songs (Ademi) were taught to shamans at the begin-ning of time by sadashe (masters of animals and prototypes of the contemporary animal species), who cut down the tree of life, survived the subsequent flood, cleared the first garden, and celebrated the first new harvest festival. In order to preserve their power, the Ademi must be repeated in the exact phonetic pattern in which the sadashe first revealed them.

The shaman’s rattle is a most sacred instrument in South America. Through its sounds, its structural features, its contents,

and its connection to shamanic ecstasy, the rattle embodies the sum total of the sacred forces of the cosmos. The rattle’s various parts may symbolize the structures of the world. The original of the shaman’s rattle of the Warao (of the Orinoco Delta in Venezuela) was brought back to earth after the primordial mythic shaman ascended to the heavenly realm to visit the spirit of the south, from whom the rattle is a gift. The handle is the vertical path that rises into the heavenly vault. The heavenly realm is represented by the great head-gourd of the rattle that contains spirits. Joining the handle to the head represents the joining of male and female elements in the universe, an act of fertilization that gives the sounds of the instrument creative power. Safeguarding the rattle and playing it properly during ritual fulfils the destiny of the human spirit: to sustain the order of existence.

Shamanic performances are generally theatrical. The shaman’s cure is miraculous, something to see. It is a deliberate exhibition of normally invisible powers and it aims to astonish spectators and compel them to admire what is real and, therefore, life-giving.

The Blessing Way is a comparatively short ritual, taking only two days to perform. Per-formed for the general well-being of the community, rather than for specific curative purposes,

it contains none of the typical features of curing rituals (e.g., sand paintings, prayer sticks, medicine songs, and herbs). To invoke good fortune—such as during childbirth, in blessing a new hogan (house), and in a girl’s puberty ceremony—the Navajo family would have the Blessing Way sung at least twice a year. Parts of the Blessing Way are incorporated into almost all other Chant Ways.

The story of the Blessing Way contains details of the mythical events that occurred after the legendary emergence of the Navajo from the earth at creation. These events provide the proto-types for the organization of the cosmos, important Navajo ceremonials, and their central cultural institutions.

Initiations are also used to mark the ascent of individuals into positions of religious authority. Priests, diviners, and spirit mediums play special roles in religious life. The precise kinds of authority exercised by them in the community, however, varies greatly across South America.

Prominent in many parts of South America is the religious specialist in states of ecstasy, commonly referred to by the term shaman. The shaman is one who learns to control the passage of the soul out of and back into the body. As a general practitioner of the arts of the soul, however, the shaman in South America not only controls the ecstasy of his or her own soul but is devoted also to the knowledge and care of the souls of others.

The length of shamanic training varies widely from one South American culture to another. Among the Arecuna and Taulip-ang, Cariban groups of Venezuela and Brazil, the shamanic novitiate was reported to last from ten to twenty years. In other traditions,

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