IN CHRIST OR NOT

 This is one chapter of my book in process about the reality of Hell. The only way to avoid Hell is to be in Christ with Christ in you, not just for a moment but to the end. 

Few hear little about Hell because the world has decided that they don't want Hell, so they ignore it, as if it doesn't exist.  God does not send you to Hell but sends you a way out. It is you who chooses either Paradise or Hell.

So rather than fear Hell, most people, even Christians, put Hell out of their minds. 

To understand who is damned to Hell and who is not, it seems wise to learn about just who is exempt from Hell. Suffice it to say, one frantic walk to the front of the church building should be just a beginning. You must be born again a new creature in Christ.

Now recall the letter vav in figure #2 in the “VeEt” between heaven and earth (Gen 1:1).

Scientifically, Vav symbolizes quantum entanglement. A “quantum” is one packet of energy among many quanta of them. If Elohim is the quanta of the Power of God, then Eloha would be a “packet,” or particle of God. “El” would be the source of the Power that connects (vav) the Elohim and Eloha.

Of course, “El” is God and Elohim God’s availability to mankind. Eloha would be the Power of God from Elohim in one specific man — Adam.

Since Adam was of God, then he was entangled with God via the Almighty Power of God (El Shadday).

In like manner earth would be entangled (vav) in Christ (Et) with heaven, according to Genesis 1:1. Heaven would be the invisible things and earth the visible. They are both of Christ (the “Et” — the El and the Tav), but of opposite “spin.” Whereas earth is material, heaven is non-material. For the universe to be in balance for every object must be a corresponding non-object; for all light there must be a shadow. The letters aleph (or el)-tav are important because that is the “Word” of God (John 1:1), or Jesus (John 1:14).

Heaven (the hidden things) and earth (the cosmos) are paired because God created both (Gen 1:1) but like any particles they are opposite in “spin,” or characteristics.

Heaven and earth would be entangled “vav” in Christ Jesus “Et.” However, they are very different in substance. For instance, the characteristic of God is both His invisibility and objectivity: the Spirit of God and the Son, Jesus. (The Father is the “Shadow” and the “Son” the “object”). The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of God in bodily form; and in that sense, the Shadow is as real as the Object. So, it goes with heaven and earth.

As Plato improvised, in the allegory of the cave, shadows are just fragments of the objects. He was both theologically and scientifically correct.

The soul of Adam full of God would be the shadow and the man, Adam, the object, “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam (Jesus) was made a quickening Spirit” (1 Cor 15:45). In other words, the Spirit of Jesus, Elohim, was in the soul of the first man, Adam. It is not that Adam was Christ, but Christ was in him because God was in both. Adam and Christ (Messiah) were once entangled but sin disentangled them.

Jesus is fully God, Elohim, but Adam a “particle” of God, Eloha. Elohim was the quickening Spirit that made Adam a living soul. Adam and Jesus were entangled because Adam and Jesus were of the same divine substance. The “spin” is that both Christ and Adam had free wills, the Will of Christ was goodness and the will of Adam material. It’s not that God created a bad creature, but that the good creature turned wicked because of free will.

Jesus remains the quickening Spirit to this day. Adam had dominion over the beasts (Gen 1:28), so only Adam would have had Christ in him. Sin removed Christ from him (Gen 3:24) and he was left to his own devices, along with the partner to whom he was entangled.

Again, in a classic case of entanglement, because the righteous woman sinned, the sin was accounted to the man as well. Although both people were Adamic, their “spin” was male and female just like in atomic particle theory. Because they were entangled as one flesh, then when the woman sinned, the man responded even after the initial pairing.

In the same manner, the angelic kingdom was paired with God just as Adam, and once they rebelled, Adam’s kind much later rebelled as well because they were entangled with God and hence each other, being of the same substance, Elohim. Their “spins” however are quite different: Adam’s kind are objective creatures and angels heavenly.

Because of sin, Adam’s kind ceased to be threshold creatures whereas angels remain so; “threshold” in the sense that angels can cross the firmament and man can no longer do so (Gen 3:24).

Elohim is not just God singular but the Power of God which hovers over all things, as He did with Mary (Luke 1:35).

In a very quantum manner, God hovers over everyone in love (John 3:16), but only a few are changed. In a parable, Jesus indicated, “Many are called, but few are chosen” (Mat 22:14). God “hovers” around all of us but all of us are not receptive. The reception for some is poor because of the concept of “decoherance,” (i.e., interference from the things of the world). 

Most do not respond to Christ because the world is in them. It is not that Satan is within them, but his “economy” as ruler of power of the air (Ephes 2:2). He may not be in us, but his nature is in all of mankind because of original genetic sin. To be released, our wills must be released from the world and focused on God. That is quantum entanglement to a tee.

It is not that Jesus is in Christians, but the quickening Spirit to make us “living souls.” The same Spirit in Jesus, Elohim, must be in each one of us (Eloha). God is in Jesus and only God can be in us via Jesus… “the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me” (John 14:6). Why so? The Spirit of God resides in the body of Jesus. Alive therefore means having the Spirit of God from Jesus in us; that is “in Christ.”

In Christ is having God in your thoughts continually, not just on Sunday, Easter, or Christmas day. Every movement you make should be questioned according to the Will, or divine Conscience of God. The commandments of God should be your own conscience. That is in Christ. Simply speaking, your will should complement the Will of God. Your thoughts should be His Thoughts and your ways, His Ways, as scripture implies (Isa 55:8-9).

If your thoughts and ways oppose the Will of God, then you would not be in Christ. We are not perfect beings, so even like faithful dogs, we may often bite the Master that we once loved after conditioning from the wildness of the world.

He forgives us each time. If we change our ways, then the “dog” will become like its master, as we become trained. The Word of God from the Bible is training to remain in Christ, because like an animal, without love, even humans return to ferality.

Once in Christ always in Christ is very scientific. Again, like in science, decoherence may change that entanglement. Satan may not get into us, but his “economy” (the world) can always upset the entanglement (Heb 6:6); the tamed creature defects from his Master he once loved in exchange for the things of the world. Once entangled in Christ, because of free will, a Christian can defect (apostasia) from the one for whom he once had affection.

One trip to confess your sins is not salvation. Salvation is enduring the world by remaining faithful to God to the end (Mat 10:22).

With that said, many live the lie, thinking they are Christians still in Christ, but belonging to the Devil all the while (John 8:44). Christianity is more that claiming God but modeling Him to the best of our capabilities. The Spirit of God within Christians should be the “shadow” we follow, but the flesh seems to be the shadow of the spirit of Satan. If not in Christ, by default, we may be in Satan, to wit:

 

No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. (Mat 6:24)

 

If you claim to be in Christ, then follow the Will of God expressed in His commandments; simply put by Christ, “If you love Me, keep My commandments” (John 14:15). If you live like the world, then you are of the world and not in Christ. The commandments are there for self-checking to whom you belong.

Figure #1 of Genesis 1:1

THE HIDDEN OX IN THE GOLDEN CALF

  Nobody seems to understand the nature of the golden calf in scripture, so I present here my thoughts on the matter: 

This part of scripture seems to be laughable, or is it? How could the calf of gold raise itself from the fire?

Moses had gone up the mountain to meet God. God would write the Ten Commandments all the while the Israelites below were formulating their own laws; as it were, “Do what thou wilt; that is the whole law.”  [1] The Israelites were doing their own wills without regard to the divine Will of God, so they needed commandments.

As makers of their own law, the Israelites would make their own god. They chose a calf of gold as Moses soon discovered. Aaron revealed to Moses what had happened while he was away; they had said:

 

Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him, and I said unto them, “Whosoever has any gold, let them break it off. So, they gave it me, then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf. (Exod 32:23-24)

 

First off, Moses had been conversing with an invisible God, but the Israelites had made their own visible God of gold.

To the Hebrews, gold is symbolic of the divine glory, holiness, and the presence of God with its incorruptibility for it does not tarnish nor even corrode. The luster of the gold would surely represent the glory of God and the emanation of the Light of God. As such, the golden calf might surely represent the false “bringer of light” that is called “Lucifer.”

With that said, Lucifer would have been the countenance of the calf. The gold should portray the divine Light of God but also the Shining One not God.

Imagine now the calf at night, all bright and shining as it reflected the light from the fire. It would have been as much a spectacle as fireworks are in this age,

There would have been two things which they would have danced to: (1) the image of the Beast and (2) the false light of Lucifer. That false light would have surely represented the rebellious angel, Lucifer.

Now recall the first sin as the woman of Adam’s kind was deceived:

 

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. (Gen 3:6)

 

She was bewitched by the pleasant appearance of the “tree” (עֵץ; 'ets in the Hebrew). The first letter ayin represents the eye, or observation, and the letter final tsade (ץ) represents the fully realized, upright, and liberated righteous soul. The woman would have looked at the tree and saw the liberation of her soul if she partook of it. She would have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge for self-liberation rather than bowing to God as the standard bent letter tsade appears.

Obviously, there was much going on with the Israelites when the calf was made for the original sin was being repeated.

The golden calf was to liberate them, but Aaron surely had seen something else in their deception.

“Moses saw that the people were naked for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies” (Exod 32:25). Why would have Aaron done that? He would have seen them performing the original sin, so he made them go naked, hopefully to shame them as in the beginning: “The eyes of them both (male and female) were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons” (Gen 3:7). Why? Because they were ashamed.

However, the Israelites were not ashamed since they danced around the golden calf like the Moon receiving reflected light from the Sun. The calf of gold was illuminating light to them, or they surely thought.

Aaron was not making them naked for nakedness’ sake, but to shame them, rather than ashamed, they were proud. It could be that the Venus mons (the pubic mound) and the obelisk (the male appendage) was their high place rather than the mountain of God, and the male penis the tower to their newly made god.

Aaron revealed to Moses what had happened; they gave him their gold; “Then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.” Aaron accepted no responsibility for the calf had made itself.

That seems like a silly excuse to modern people, but it would have made sense to the “wisdom” of the Hebrew from the Tree of Knowledge.

This occasion was the first known case of alchemy; rather than lead being turned into gold, gold itself became life with no help from any of them! Creation had occurred without a god to design and power it.

Atheists, to this time, are deceived in the same manner; just as the calf made itself, so had the cosmos.

The Israelites were the visible gods because it was their gold that created, just as the Serpent warned in the beginning, “God does know that in the day you eat thereof (of the tree), then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” (Gen 3:5).

The Israelites had performed an experiment; they would sacrifice their gold to create a god that would just appear from the fire.

The “Bringer of Light” would not be God but Lucifer in this case. Perhaps something non-ordinary did happen! Perhaps they did throw gold into the fire, and the demonic power within the fire transfigured into a calf of gold.

More rationally, like in the beginning; they were deceived; perhaps Lucifer’s fire did create an image like a god might look to them. There might have been an intelligent being behind the façade.

Let’s now examine the calf (עֵגֶל ʻegel) of gold. Again, the first letter ayin represents observation of some image. The letter gimmel represented by a camel’s foot and footprint corresponds to an unknown thing that was there, but was either gone or not seen, as in the Schwarzenegger movie, Predator. It also represents lift-up as a camel does in serving mankind.

The last letter, lamed, represented by the shepherd’s staff, represents teaching, learning, and such, even that it might be raised up as a calf is intended to do. The word for “calf” (‘egel) does give the impression that it would grow itself, does it not. and since the calf was without a mother, it would seem to grow from nothing. It would have come from nothing that was raised up and observed without a mother in sight. The Israelites would have been deceived just like Adam’s woman in the beginning.

Just what would the “calf” come to be as it grew to full stature? A bullock, or ox. The ancient word egel (עגל) explicitly designates a male bull-calf. That is because in biblical Hebrew, gender markers are strictly applied to livestock: a male bull-calf would be egel (עֵגֶל). Therefore, the calf of gold would have begun as a bullock, or bull calf. That brings up, what is an ox?

Generally, oxen are not born oxen. They are yoked with a grown ox which leads them to behave properly as an ox. That idea is displayed with the letter lamed in egel. Like egel, the calf begins as an observable bovine animal. As it grows, it becomes a different creature symbolized by the letter gimmel. The ox in the calf is invisible; it is the power and learning of the calf obtained from the ox with which it is yoked.

That the calf was of gold implies that it was intrinsically linked with the “Bringer of Light” Lucifer. It is submitted that the Spirit of Lucifer was yoked with the gold image to create an ox from the bull calf.

Real oxen do just that; yoked to an adult ox, the bull calf becomes an ox seemingly on its own. If the other “ox” could be invisible, as it was with the golden calf, then it would appear that the calf had become an ox on its own.

Satan, or Lucifer, would have been the spirit in the fire, and the ox-power that created the ox from the calf. Just as an ox comes from a bull calf, the same applies to the golden calf. They had been deceived as if the calf had raised itself, albeit Lucifer had been the spiritual power (gimmel) which did the impossible.

The Israelites may have thought they were worshipping the work of their own hands and that it was blessed by God, but it was Lucifer that was working behind the scenes as it was in the beginning.

The woman may have seen a lower state of man like herself — a beast with the same outer image as herself — but all the while she was “engaging” Lucifer within the Beast.

All that is imperative because humans are so easily deceived that it is child’s play for the Devil, Lucifer. All things that appear to be good may be used for evil. That’s what happened with the gold in the golden calf; and that’s what happened with the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Let me use an example; a husband and wife fostered children of a different race who had been abused; that is good. However, they seemed to enjoy showing them off.

In scripture, charity must go unnoticed. Was their “generosity” truly charity, or were the children more like “trophies” to show how kind parents they were? Only they know their thoughts, but one might mistake their benevolence for notoriety. The same applies to any charity that is given in public for all to see.

For myself, I want my writings to be well-known. I fight that inclination, but so many times, rather than to benefit the lost, I am promoting myself.

The apostle Paul seemed to have that same inclination and so do all Christians. That is why God’s gift is grace rather than rewards for good works.

The Israelites surely thought they we doing good making an image, or trophy, of their god, but unknown to them, it was their own works and independence that they were celebrating; they, not God, had done the good work and celebrated as they celebrated their own sacrifice, not themselves, but their gold. That same deception is still operant in the modern church wherein most of the leaders are the most affluent.

God always has mysterious ways of instruction, and the story of the golden calf is one of many!

 

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[1] The central maxim of the religious and philosophical system of Thelema, established by the British occultist Aleister Crowley in 1904. (Wikipedia)