tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29707730620273243402024-02-07T18:09:44.649-08:00Law of The FastThis study is specific, not only to understand the promised blessings given by the fast, but to achieve those blessings, the greatest being audience with Jesus Christ.Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07014929289033051037noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970773062027324340.post-24097615096843249242016-09-02T18:39:00.001-07:002016-09-02T18:39:42.146-07:00Fasting once againAfter so many false starts, I am fasting again. I recently read a book called The Fasting Path, by Steven Buhner. It's one of the best books ever written to explain how to get motivated to fast, and the many benefits that accompany it. I was prompted through a dream several weeks prior to this time that I would be able to fast and be successful. I started out with great hopes and needed to go to a funeral, which is a lousy place to fast, since getting together to mourn with those that mourn and those that need comfort usually entails a great deal of eating with friends. So after I returned from the funeral I wondered if I could pick up where I left off. I knew what kind of resolve it takes to stay the course of anything, but fasting is huge!<br />
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One of the reasons I was really driven to stay on this fast was because I cannot eat. I literally choke on everything that goes down my throat that isn't liquid. I have only a very narrow channel down my esophagus called a Shotzki's ring, and it is so finicky that it became impossible to enjoy food. Hence, it gave me the more necessary impetus to really fast.<br />
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I had been studying the benefits of water and juice fasting for years, and I am expecting some amazing miracles. Since after the 3rd day of fasting the body goes into a state of ketosis, and begins to basically scavenge the dead cells, scar tissue, as well as heavy metals (which you can taste in your mouth as a metallic sort of feeling), parasites, poisons, old memories in the cells, etc., your body begins to produce ketones that the brain absolutely loves. The liver loves to get rid of them, and it is the food for the glands in the brain, particularly the pineal gland.<br />
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The Pineal Gland, being called the 3rd eye, is responsible for lucid dreams, visions, and other things associated with spiritual experiences. I can only surmise that the body knows exactly what to do to repair the body, especially when it is not busy digesting food.<br />
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Some years ago when I started my first long term, raw food fast, I was prompted to know that I would never be satisfied with the food of this earth again. Ever since then I have been trying to lie to myself and make that not so, but since I haven't eaten anything in 12 days, and have no appetite, I have learned many reasons why the food of this earth, even if it were in its pristine condition, will not be sufficient for me any longer.<br />
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It is interesting that the Lord tells us that He is the bread of Life and will give to us the Living Water. When you think of the diet of processed foods that we are exposed to and liken it to the philosophies of men mingled with scripture, it is no wonder that I was told I would never be satisfied with that food again. And I have and am not.<br />
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I have had much more clarity in my waking hours as well as in my sleep After the 5th day. My senses have awoken to the messages my body is sending my brain. It is remarkable how much information I have been ignoring that has been in a constant stream to my consciousness, but I chose to cloak it with food, with media, with distractions. I am aware of the motivation behind my food addictions that have beset me for years. When I was younger and more active, I did not realize that my activities around food were to gather people together and share.<br />
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Not that sharing is a bad thing, because it is a wonderful thing, but communion with God is such a blessing that can come about from a fast, especially a longer one. I know there are millions of things we can fast about and fast from. I'm so grateful I can have this experience. I wonder what the future will hold that will be revealed to me. No wonder that Alma waxed greater in the spirit of revelation and prophecy after fasting and praying much. There are some amazing advantages.<br />
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<br />Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07014929289033051037noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970773062027324340.post-59647487640060890372014-10-13T14:46:00.000-07:002014-10-13T14:46:59.041-07:00But when thou fast anoint thy headThis last year has been filled with too many wonderful experiences to count. I continue to recall the first 40 day fast in which I participated. It has beautiful reminisces. There was a level of knowing that came to me through it. I desire a greater understanding in my life of all things spiritual. I seek that knowledge and wisdom through the fast.<br />
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During this last year I felt prompted to study olives, olive oil, and olive trees. I learned much about the product of the tree, the soil and temperature the trees grow in, and above all else, I gained for myself an understanding of the power of pure virgin, cold pressed olive oil. If nothing else, I have begun the habit of daily drinking 2 tablespoons of the pungent dark green oil. Regular ingestion of olive oil helps to prevent dementia and can reverse the process of brain decay. There are lists of benefits from exposure to olive oil, both inside and outside the body.<br />
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What, you might ask, does this have to do with the fast.<br />
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One of the things instructed by the Savior while he gave the information we have coined as the Sermon on the Mount was in preparation of the fast.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fefbbf; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thy head, and </span><span style="background-color: #fefbbf; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">wash</span><span style="background-color: #fefbbf; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"> thy face.</span><br />
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I have learned much through my preparation for fasting. The lessons go deep. The fast usually happens days before I begin the actual process of focusing on Heaven and my communion with the Lord; it is long before I cease the food intake. On the day I begin my fast I have already prepared by envisioning myself in prayer when the thought or temptation of a meal takes over. That's another subject, but I digress.<br />
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I want to focus on the part about anointing the head. But first I will take a minute to explain the ritual performed in the temple for anointing the head.<br />
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When a blessing is given with oil set apart for that purpose, it is placed on the crown of the head. When the other anointing is performed in a temple today, different parts of the head are anointed. The eyes, ears, nose, mouth are also anointed along with the crown or the forehead. There are promised blessings that are pronounced on each organ. These are gifts to the individual who is being anointed.<br />
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I have spent a great deal of time over the last 4 years studying gifts, and especially those of Charity, being the pure love of Christ, as well as the other gifts of the spirit. I have also learned for myself the great gulf, or perhaps in better words, the lack of understanding that we have in the Christian world for the Divine Feminine and the connection of the gifts with Her. This Divine Feminine has many names: The Queen of Heaven, El Shaddai, and Eloah to mention just a few. All these names indicate the Divine Feminine as the consort of God, His wife. She is called Wisdom. Evidently, and more obviously, it is due to our lack of understanding of her existence, her presence, her greatness, and her characteristics that cause us as humans on this earth to be in a most sorry state.<br />
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Most of the writings describing her and her place in the Heavens were purposely extricated by the Deuteronomists. In place of the mention and love of the Heavenly Mother, a book of rules, called Deuteronomy, were put in place of the book of Enoch, and a darkness came over the minds and hearts of the people. Artifacts in the temple were destroyed by the young and easily manipulated King Josiah. Jeremiah talks of the evil and destruction that come upon the people because of the removal of her in the temples and scripture. Isaiah speaks of the lack of blessings, even the cursings that follow the people because of this act of wicked and conspiring men.<br />
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It has been a tragic loss, but thank goodness for Bible scholars who have made it their lives work to comb the other books of scripture that are missing from the Bible to teach us more about Wisdom, and her far reaching love and effects.<br />
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You can gain this knowledge for yourself, if you desire. One of the best books to begin this research is called <i>The Mother of the Lord</i>, Volume I, by Margaret Barker. It is a very well researched book, and may become your pillow for a season. At the very least, it will open the eyes of your understanding to a situation that you may not have known existed for millennia.<br />
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Back to the anointing before the fast.<br />
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Olive oil was the oil used for anointing. It has some very amazing properties. On page 191 of The Olive Odyssey, by Julie Angus, we learn:<br />
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<i>Olive oil has the same fat composition as mother’s milk. The ratio of essential fatty acids, linolenic, and linolenic
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Olive Oil has a greater purpose than we pronounce upon it. And it is interesting that it has corresponding gifts that a mother would provide to her child. Any nursing mother would have her baby be comforted, fed, nourished, and loved each time she feeds the babe. This same list of feeding and nourishment is also attributed to the Lord, but He is only doing what he has seen done by his parents, particularly a Heavenly Mother.</span></div>
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The gifts conferred with anointing all transformed ways of knowing and perceiving. Vision is the first effect from anointing.<br />
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Isaiah speaks a great deal about the inability of people looking and not seeing, listening, but not hearing. He speaks of fat hearts, and other supposed physical maladies. But he is not referring to congestive heart failure, nor prescriptive lenses; he is referring to a condition that makes people less able to understand and comprehend the word of the Lord. He is talking about people in a condition of the carnal man. Nothing removes this situation as quickly as a heavy dose of Wisdom, and that can be achieved with a fast unto the Lord.<br />
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I have inserted pages 104-106 of Mother of the Lord, by Margaret Barker to give a greater understanding of the power of the anointing.<br />
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I<i>n his (Jerome on the
Gospel of the Hebrews) commentary on Isaiah 11:9 he also noted that in the
Gospel of the Hebrews, Jesus spoke of ‘My mother the holy Spirit.’ The early
Church then, understood the manifold Spirit, which Isaiah calls ‘the Spirit of
the Lord’, not as a spirit from the Lord, but as the Spirit that transformed
the recipient into the Lord, or, as here, the son of god who reigned
forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Spirit was his
Mother, and the imagery is from the royal cult.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John’s Jesus spoke in the same way, about being born from
above, [or born again] to be able to see the Kingdom, and being born of water
and Spirit to be able to enter the Kingdom (John 3:3-5).</i></div>
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<i>The manifold Spirit gave wisdom, understanding, counsel,
might, knowledge and the fear of the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It transformed human perception and would reverse the
punishment described in Isaiah’s temple vision: minds and ears and eyes that
could no longer understand and hear and see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Targum described the Spirit bearer as the Messiah, and
even though anointing is not mentioned in Isaiah 11, this passage does describe
the effect of anointing. </i></div>
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<i>A line omitted by the AV and said to be an addition due to
dittography describes the perfume of the Spirit bearer. ‘And his delight shall
be in the fear of the Lord’ (Isa. 11:3, RSV) should be, ‘And his perfume shall
be the fear of the Lord.’ The word translated ‘delight’, normally means perfume
and in some instances, the perfume of the anointing oil. . .The most likely
origin of this imagery is temple ritual, where anointing conferred the Name,
and so the Spirit/Name bearer had the perfume of his anointing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he no longer judged with his own
(human) eyes, and did not make decisions after hearing with (human) ears (Isa.
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<i>The gifts of the spirit are the elements of Wisdom (see
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<i>*The first gift to the Anointed One was Wisdom, which speaks
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<i>*The second and fifth gifts were understanding and
knowledge, which were the definition of wise teachings to know, wisdom, and
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<i>*The fourth gift was might, almost the same as the title
‘Great Lady’ usually translated queen mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The spirit of counsel and might was wordplay on the ‘the
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<i>*The sixth and last gift was the fear of the Lord’, a phrase
that occurs many times in the Hebrew Scriptures, and is appropriate in this
context.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is found in parallel
to ‘good understanding’ (Ps. 111:10) and is in parallel to ‘the knowledge of
the Holy One is insight’ (Prov. 1:7) The fear of the Lord is the beginning of
knowledge (Prov. 14:27).</i></div>
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of the Lord’ may mean exactly that, but it is possible that the phrase in some
instances has replaced a similar but controversial phrase, ‘the vision of the
Lord’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Hebrew, these two words
are very similar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The gifts of the
Spirit would then include the greatest gift of all: the gift of vision,
especially the vision of the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In fact, ‘vision’ is a conspicuous omission from this list, since vision
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I can tell you with plain language that my desire to fast for this blessing was not well defined to my spirit. But as I have sought an audience with the Lord, I have been led closer and closer to the blessings of the fast and the preparation thereof.<br />
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I now must be patient and endure it well. I will anoint my head with oil and begin.Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07014929289033051037noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970773062027324340.post-68564964392549883962014-08-27T23:01:00.001-07:002014-08-27T23:01:18.676-07:00Bird FoodFor the last 10 years I have been studying light and patterns of light. I was bit by the Chiasmaniac devil, something like the Tasmanian devil, some years ago. I started to see chiasms everywhere. I found it in the Articles of Faith, it is all over the place in the Book of Mormon, and it is also in the beautiful chapter on fasting in Isaiah 58. So what does this all have to do with the fast. Well, it has to do with the blessings that are promised in the law of the fast more than anything else. It has to do with getting more light.<br />
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If we were to ponder a few things that are pertinent here, it is that fasting is not all about obstaining from food. In fact, in the JST in the New Testament, (Matt 4:1, 2) the scriptures say that the Savior went to the wilderness to be with God. And when he had communed with God, he was afterwards an hungered, and was left to be tempted of the devil. The bible says he fasted forty days and forty nights, but the JST only mentions that he went to be with God. I guess he didn't even feel the need to eat. I believe he was living on light, and that has been proven to be possible by the Jainists anyway.<br />
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When we commune with God, we feast on the light He provides us. We have no need for food. But being in an earthly state it takes some kind of change on our body to be able to endure the presence of God, as Moses said. So what do we have to do to have those changes take place?<br />
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Well, we have to be filled with as much light as possible. How do we do that? We can fast, and we can also eat foods that are full of life and light. You might ask, "What kinds of foods are those?"<br />
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I wrote a number of years ago about Daniel and his companions eating pulse. Pulse is food that is alive. It consists of fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds. <br />
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It took me a little while to put two and two together, in fact it took me several years. I was doing some research from Emanuel Swedenborg and he was talking about correspondences. He indicated that birds are the correspondence of angels. Angels have a higher vibratory level than we do. They give off more light than we do and they do not have a body any longer.<br />
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So what about birds and why are angels compared to birds? People have been claiming angels have wings for centuries. I don't believe that is how they ambulate, but that is another conversation entirely.<br />
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Well, pulse is bird food. Yep, it is the food that birds eat that give them life and fill them with light. They eat seeds and grains, fruits and vegetables, and occasionally they have been know to eat meat, with the exception of birds of prey. It is exactly this same food that has such a high alkaline level that keeps you filled with light when you eat it. Fruits and veggies have seeds that can reproduce. Seeds and grains are also alive. I believe consuming this food prepares us for a higher vibratory level as well.<br />
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If the Lord gave Daniel a food code to help him keep his closeness with Heaven through a higher vibration, then it goes to show you that God will always provide a way for us to be closer to Him, even when we are eating, which we seem to be in need of while in this earthly state.<br />
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So, on to the Word of Wisdom. The food that the Lord has prescribed for us to eat with thanksgiving is that same prescription he gave to Daniel---it is bird food.<br />
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This food that He has provided prepares our body for more and more light. When we partake of living food, our alkaline level is higher and we have the capacity to absorb more and more light.<br />
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Isn't that what the promise in the scriptures is? Isn't it so we can be in the presence of God and not shrink? Isn't fasting more about putting away the things of this world for the things of a better, which is being filled with more and more light until the perfect day?<br />
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Is there any better thing that being able to be with God? In the flesh? Just like the scriptures promise?<br />
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This small thing was pointed out to me by a friend recently, when she said that she believe the Word of Wisdom was given to us to prepare us to stand in God's presence. I believe she was right on the money.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Last month I was hit with a great and surprising
experience: I had an attack in my bowels that required major emergency surgery.
I was left without a portion of my lower intestine because it became
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">During my recovery process I began in earnest to
study bowels in the scripture. I was taken aback by the great wealth of
information that was available in very few passages of scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">I looked up the word bowels, both in scripture and
in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Collaborative International
Dictionary of English</i>. Here is a part of what I found:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Bowels are defined in several ways. They are
considered <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the interior of something</i>
or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the seat of pity or kindness</i>.
Shakespeare defines them as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">offspring</i>
(which comes from scriptures numerous times). Medically speaking it is
called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the part of the alimentary canal
between the stomach and the anus.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">The scriptures tell us some interesting information
regarding bowels. In 1 Kings 3:26 we read, Then spake the woman whose the
living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she
said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But
the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thing, but divide it. Here we
see the wise King Solomon witness the true love of a mother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of emotion in the bowels in Psalms 22:14: I am poured out like water, and all
my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of
my bowels. Here we have an understanding of the emotions of our hearts felt
throughout our bowels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Isaiah teaches us again of the amazing power of the
bowels in Isaiah 63:15: Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation
of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the
sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certainly everyone has heard their stomach
growl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lord, for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turn within
me…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">I learned the bowels yearn, boil sound and are
troubled. Gold and silver cannot fill the bowels, they are filled and
moved with compassion and with mercy; they can be full of charity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">God's bowels of mercy are over all the earth. Even
the voice of the earth came from her bowels as she bemoaned the awful situation
of the wickedness upon and within her. Paul greatly longs after the saints in
the bowels of Jesus Christ. Even the testimony of Ezekiel teaches us
something about the word of God and the effect on the bowels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give
thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness. In this
spiritual experience, the food that was given to Ezekiel to eat was scripture,
and it was sweet to him, just as Joseph Smith said the truth was delicious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a2021; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;">The bowels are filled with
brain neurons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bowels send off
9 times as many signals to the body as does the brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just imagine how many times you have
that “gut feeling” and disregarded it. And think of all the things you feel to
do, whether you believe it is initiated in your head or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bowels are a source of inspiration,
and certainly far more than we give credit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a2021; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;">Our bowels are a seat of
indescribable power to us if we will allow them to be so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On an emotional level, it requires
honesty to one’s self to benefit from the messages the bowels are sending off. Physically
it is nearly impossible to do anything without the use of your bowels and the
muscles surrounding them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take my
word for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You cannot even stand
up straight nor walk without healthy bowels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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connections to bowels and fasting that I wanted to share here, since I wonder
if you are asking the question, “What does this have to do with the Law of the
Fast?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a2021; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;">While during my
recuperation, I could not eat solid foods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For 2 days I was only on water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After that, food was difficult for me to have any interest
in and was not assimilated well for nearly a month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I learned about the ability of the gut to be able to
discern many things, especially when there was no substance in it. I felt a
yearning in me for nourishment, but I knew that it was not going to be
something I could physically eat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was seeking for a higher level of nourishment that could satisfy me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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received a blessing that I would be more empathetic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The part of my bowel that was removed had been flopping
around all my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never had
the necessary ligature to hold it in place, and perhaps that would explain why
I had vacillated in so many things throughout me life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But since that part of my bowel is
gone, I find that I am much more stable in my thought processes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find myself focusing on the needs of
others is a more constant desire and process for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am focused on them to a much greater degree. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interesting for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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more I feel after people that I see, and I see plenty of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I drive my car as a taxi in San
Francisco nearly every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I see
so many people in such dire circumstances, as well as hear the stories of many
people whose lives are filled with pain; they are without Christ or God in the
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, I am so saddened for
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes I can listen and
encourage them towards the Savior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Others I am left with my only other resource, all I can do is pray for
them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a2021; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;">Through this process I came
upon a scripture that moved me greatly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the JST John 4:31-34 it reads:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have meat to eat that ye know no of.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him meat to eat?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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meat is to do the will of him who sent me and finish his work.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a2021; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;">Jesus was teaching us a
profound truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was fasting at
this time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our meat, the food that
we need in our lives to nourish us more than anything, is to do the will of the
Father.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a2021; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;">Could the act of fasting to
relieve the bowels of the labor of digestion be to our greater benefit so that
we could feel after our brethren and lift those with the feeble knees and the
hands that hang down, or to help the widow and the orphan?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could our
bowels be speaking to us more than we recognize but because we have become so
engrossed in the process of searching for the food of this earth instead of
that of a better world be keeping us down when we want to ascend?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a2021; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;">I find it most interesting
that we learn such a great deal from such a little sentence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fasting is such a blessing to our
bodies and our souls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am determined
in a different was to understand the yearnings of my bowels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not desire to have them boil, but
to have them full of charity, to refresh my bowels in the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a2021; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;">May I encourage you to find
the time to study bowels and fasting in the same vein.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will be greatly blessed.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07014929289033051037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970773062027324340.post-3968003557465907432014-02-20T00:12:00.003-08:002014-02-20T00:12:54.610-08:00No one knows victory like one who has suffered defeat.<br />
No one knows the feelings of being fed like one who has suffered starvation, in any form or fashion.<br />
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Remember the woman at the well. She found out about living water. She definitely wanted some. Christ told her she would never thirst again. Think of it--a commodity that would save her hours every day walking back and forth to the well in Samaria where she had to go to get water for her family. He had a bigger lesson for her to learn about water than transport.<br />
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In the JST John 4:6-34, it reads:<br />
And he said unto his disciples, I must needs go through Samaria.<br />
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One day we would have this knowledge, but it began with a lesson to a woman in great need and spread throughout the world.<br />
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Then he cometh to the city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground which Jacob gave to his son, Joseph; the place where Jacob's well was.<br />
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Now Jesus being weary with the journey, it being about the sixth hour, sat down on the well.<br />
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And there came a woman of Samaria to draw water; Jesus said unto her, give me to drink.<br />
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Now his disciples were gone away into the city to buy meat.<br />
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Wherefore, he being alone, the woman of Samaria said unto him, How is it that thou being a Jew asketh drink of me, who am a woman of Samaria? The Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.<br />
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the </span><span style="color: #355aa0; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">gift</span><span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">
of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have
asked of him, and he would have given thee </span><span style="color: #355aa0; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">living water</span><span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw
with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? (Logical question and great observation)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the
well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever shall drink of
this well shall thirst again:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">But whosoever drinketh of the water which I shall give
him shall never </span><span style="color: #355aa0; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">thirst</span><span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">; but the water that I shall give
him shall be in him a well of water </span><span style="color: #355aa0; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">springing up</span><span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">
into </span><span style="color: #355aa0; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">everlasting life</span><span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">The woman said unto him, Sir, give me of this water,
that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come
hither.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus
said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now
hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art
a </span><span style="color: #355aa0; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">prophet</span><span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Our fathers worshipped in </span><span style="color: #355aa0; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">this</span><span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">
mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to
worship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour
cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship
the Father.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Ye worship ye </span><span style="color: #355aa0; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">know not</span><span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">
what: we know what we worship: and salvation is of the Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #355aa0; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">And </span><span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">the hour cometh, and now is, when
the true worshippers shall </span><span style="color: #355aa0; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">worship</span><span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">
the Father in spirit and in </span><span style="color: #355aa0; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">truth</span><span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">: for the Father seeketh
such to worship him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #355aa0; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">For unto such hath God</span><span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">promised his<i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #355aa0; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Spirit</span><span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">:
and they who worship him must worship in spirit and in </span><span style="color: #355aa0; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">truth</span><span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">The woman sad unto him, I know that </span><span style="color: #355aa0; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Messias</span><span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">
cometh, who is called Christ: when he is come, he will </span><span style="color: #355aa0; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">tell</span><span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">
us all things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Jesus said unto her, </span><span style="color: #355aa0; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">I</span><span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">
who speak unto thee am <i>the Messias.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #355aa0; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">A</span><span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">nd upon this came his disciples,
and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest
thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into
the city, and saith to the men,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Come, see a man, who told me all things that I have ever
done: is not this the Christ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">In the meantime while his disciples prayed him, saying,
Master, eat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know
not of.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any
man brought him <i>ought</i> to eat?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Jesus sad unto them, My meat is to do the </span><span style="color: #355aa0; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">will</span><span style="color: #232b2c; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">
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There are quite a number of feasting/fasting lessons here that I saw.<br />
Isn't it interesting that the Savior, being the bread of life and the living water, is constantly teaching these men where their real meal is, and for some reason this knowledge is constantly going over their heads. Off to the market they go to find meat to buy, when they could sit at the feet of the Bread of Life and drink of Living water and be filled, and they will not. Are we so different than they?<br />
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The woman catches on rapidly that tradition, Jacob's well, supposedly the source of living water, is symbolic. It is Christ himself that is offering the greatest drink this woman has ever drunk.<br />
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The better meal that is there for all of us is the will of God. It is Christ who told his disciples that his meat is to the do the will of him who sent even Jesus Christ. Doing his will filled him up, so evidently when we get the word of God to each of us, for God will give his precious word to each and every one of us, and it will fill us each individually, we will be fed.<br />
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Will doing the will of God, recognizing the author and finisher of our faith, be sufficient to fill our spiritual bellies and give us the satisfaction that earthly food will never offer? Is this one of the larger reasons we are encouraged to fast? so we can tell the difference between man's will and God's? Man's idea of food and the real meal? Will this actually allow us to be found in a different space where the real feast is?<br />
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Can someone know this who has not tasted it? Good question for someone who decides to put the fast to the test.<br />
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Power in the
world is obviously the main focus of Satan. So said, now I will proceed
to tell you of the journey I have been having to right my foolish and vain
misunderstandings so that I can have that which is of the most worth. I
clearly see that it is not power in this world, unless it is to overcome
everything that is in my path and overcome Satan to reach a place with Christ.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My desire to
fast and learn from my fasting has changed and increased in intensity over the
last 3 years. I have learned so
much that it seems a very small thing what I knew about it in the beginning.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My fasting
exposure began as a little girl in church. We were given the opportunity to participate in a group fast
in our ward body once a month for 2 meals. I do not ever remember doing this until I reached my
30’s. I have no idea why that was,
but the necessity and importance of it never seemed to reach home.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When I saw
this invitation to aid others, I still did not fast for that reason. I did want
to show my love for God, and I did want to show obedience to Him through the
fast, so I would fast frequently for other things, but it would be nearly 30
years more before I recognized that there was power behind the fast. Whatever
that was, I wanted to participate more fully in it. Even today I have another reason for it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Over the last
20 years I have been given what most people would call a second chance. I will not go into it at this point,
but it is not difficult to see that the Lord blessed me abundantly and I have had
the opportunity to repeat some steps in my life where I had not stayed on the
path. Still, I have failed in so
many ways, but I stayed closer to the path through it all.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Getting
older, slower and hopefully wiser in the journey has also helped me to see the
blessings from the Lord. But I can
see, in retrospect, that fasting has cleared my mind and heart from much of the
clutter of false beliefs and doubt, as well as taught me many things. Was it the fast, or was it the Lord
being able to access me in greater ways through my fast? I think it the latter.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have felt
the desire of late to learn more of keeping the first 2 great
commandments. I don’t know how
much people really think about them in any kind of depth, and can only ponder
upon that question in this fashion because of my lack of depth in the consideration
of what God calls the first 2 GREAT commandments.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have spent
many, many hours in contemplation of what it means to love God and my neighbor.
I was recently asked to come to the aid of 2 people I knew very little. I was
supported by others who I know very little, who supplanted my efforts with the
expenses of the ticket. It cost a great deal of money for me to access these
people in need, and my other friends all stepped up to the plate with the
necessary funds to fly me very far away to this family’s aid. I definitely felt the Lord in it, but I
can honestly say that I felt much like Jonah going to Nineveh. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I can
truthfully say that the Lord will always, if we are so inclined, give us the
desire of our hearts, especially if it is in His great and glorious plan of
Happiness. I have felt to be ALL the Lord would have me be. I see more closely that I am so much
less than I had ever imagined. But
I can see that through the period of time I have been involved in studying the
fast, and every single little attempt I make at fasting (sometimes I do not
stay on my fast as long as I had hoped), the blessings continue to pour out
upon me as well as those I have prayed for.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One thing is
for sure, I have been lacking in faith.
I am well acquainted with the story of the man who asks for a blessing
of the Savior for his child. For
the purpose of greater explanation, I include the entire event mentioned in
Mark 9:17-29.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="color: #222b2c; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">And one of the multitude
answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb
spirit; And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and
gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that
they should cast him out; and they could not.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #222b2c; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">He answereth him, and
saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I
suffer you? Bring him unto me.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #222b2c; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">And they brought him unto
him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the
ground, and wallowed foaming.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #222b2c; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">And he asked his father,
How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child. And
ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him:
but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #222b2c; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Jesus said unto him, If
thou canst believe, all things are
possible to him that believeth. And straightway the father of the child cried
out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; <b>help
thou mine unbelief</b>. When Jesus saw that the people came running together,
he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and
enter no more into him. And the spirit
cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch
that many said, He is dead. But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up;
and he arose. And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him
privately, Why could not we cast him out? And he said unto them, <b>This kind can come forth by nothing, but by
prayer and fasting</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #222b2c; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I
look at the many different things that happened in this, and seek to liken it
unto my own experiences and understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222b2c; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">What
could be more apparent to us all, who seek to draw closer to the Lord, the
great amount of darkness within us that causes us to subject ourselves to all
manner of pain and hurt, whether it be in the company of seen or unseen individuals,
poisoned media and music, toxic substances we either ingest or expose ourselves
to without even knowing; all these things bring harm to our bodies and our
spirits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222b2c; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">There
is no doubt about the fact that these things have been coming upon us from the
time we were little children, sometimes by well meaning parents, but regardless
of how they have entered our lives, they have caused us to pine away and tear
at our hearts. They would cloud
the very thought of loving our God and our neighbor, let alone our spouses,
children and friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222b2c; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I
speak from personal experience in all these fields. It has only been in the last little while as I have pled
with the Lord to teach me how to keep these 2 great commandments, to show me what
it means to truly love Him and his precious children, that I have seen how
blinded I have been from my youth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222b2c; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I
remember the words to a song I told my friend about the other day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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You’ve Got To
Be Carefully Taught , From South Pacific, Rogers and Hammerstein<o:p></o:p></div>
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You've got to
be taught<o:p></o:p></div>
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To hate and
fear,<o:p></o:p></div>
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You've got to
be taught<o:p></o:p></div>
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From year to
year,<o:p></o:p></div>
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It's got to
be drummed<o:p></o:p></div>
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In your dear
little ear<o:p></o:p></div>
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You've got to
be carefully taught.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You've got to
be taught to be afraid<o:p></o:p></div>
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Of people
whose eyes are oddly made,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And people whose
skin is a diff'rent shade,<o:p></o:p></div>
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You've got to
be carefully taught.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You've got to
be taught before it's too late,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Before you
are six or seven or eight,<o:p></o:p></div>
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To hate all
the people your relatives hate,<o:p></o:p></div>
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You've got to
be carefully taught!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was
carefully taught all this darkness, which has been as a dumb and deaf spirit
within me. Think how many times
Isaiah invites us to wake up, to rise up, to have our eyes and our ears opened.
Certainly all of us who have bought into any of the world’s darkness have been
possessed to some degree with deaf, dumb, and blind spirits.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I too cried
out, just as the father of this bewildered and tortured boy, ‘Oh, Help thou
mine unbelief!’<o:p></o:p></div>
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To my joy I
can report that my pleas did not go unanswered, but came, as blessings always
do, with love and peace.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was reading
in Jakob Lorber’s, The Great Gospel of John, book 5, (http://www.jakob-lorber.cc/index.php?s=raphael+blind&l=en&b=
) where an angel is instructing a newly converted atheist about loving one’s
brother to the point of blessing him with healings.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Raphael, the
angel, states:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>"Suppose you wanted to give the
eyesight back to a blind person through the power of the divine will within
you, but you might at the same time doubt a little in its success, then that is
already greatly mistaken; for the blind man will not achieve sight in this way.
But if you are moved in the love for God most powerfully, this highest fire of
love and life will not only animate your soul most powerfully, but instead it
will spread spiritually far above your sphere of form with an irresistible
all-power and there it will work in a very concentrated way wherever your
divine will has naturally seized something with all wisdom and intelligence. If
then the blind man is seized by your divine will of God and immediately placed
in the focal point of the all-powerful love of God, of whom your soul is full,
he must also stand there in an instant as perfectly seeing; for in the highest
light and fire of love and life from God every death must give in, even that of
an eye which has died to light, which naturally is as good as dead without
light as the whole body without breath and pulse. Thereby then the awakening of
a deceased person is made possible in an instant; for if the divine will which
fills your heart, and its wisdom are not against the reawakening of some dead
person, you only need to place the dead person under the burning centre of your
love for the Lord God and he will live again perfectly!<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Never did I
understand the greater importance of love than when I read this beautiful
example. No wonder God wants us to
love! No wonder this is the crux of the great commandments! It is the greatest
power, one that heals and one that can create, both worlds as well as true
happiness.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I need to
have this love, to understand this love, to feel this love. I want more than anything to be
possessed of this love.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I came
across an interesting part of a book describing faith. Here is a quote from the book:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Faith to be real must be outside the
limits of caution, and be fired by something more potent and effective than
calculating prudence, or logical deduction, or judicial impartiality. It must be the fire that burns within,
the mainspring that regulates the life, the overmastering force that will not
be at rest. This is what braves death and torture, braces up the feeble knees
for long and hard endurance, and conducts its possessor safe at last through
any perils that may assail him to the goal where faith finds its rewards in
fruition.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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I love the
words of the Prophet, Joseph Smith, when he speaks of faith. He explains in Lecture 6, verse 7;<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let us here
observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things
never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and
salvation; for, from the first existence of man, the faith necessary unto the
enjoyment of life and salvation never could be obtained without the sacrifice
of all earthly things. It was through this sacrifice, and this only, that God
has ordained that men should enjoy eternal life; and it is through the medium
of the sacrifice of all earthly things that men do actually know that they are
doing the things that are well pleasing in the sight of God. When a man has
offered in sacrifice all that he has for the truth's sake, not even withholding
his life, and believing before God that he has been called to make this
sacrifice because he seeks to do his will, he does know, most assuredly, that
God does and will accept his sacrifice and offering, and that he has not, nor
will not seek his face in vain. Under these circumstances, then, he can obtain
the faith necessary for him to lay hold on eternal life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Evidently
faith and fasting have a huge, dependent relationship, especially when it is
couple with love, the active ingredient that makes all things work together for
our good. If my fasting has
brought me anything, it has taught me every time I endeavor to lengthen my
stride in the observance of my fast, to feel the Spirit of the Lord by my side,
I learn that He is ever present with me.
As I look at my life in retrospect, I can see the some of the results
from my fasting. I feel
enlightened by the darkness and deafness, and especially the blindness in my
ability to understand God. I see
Him so much more real and alive in my life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He is
teaching me about love. He is
teaching me about faith, the real faith that breaks mountains, heals the blind,
the deaf, the dumb, and all manner of other miraculous dealings. They are a product first of love of God
and our belief in His matchless power.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Today I can
say with great humility how grateful I am for the law of the fast in my
life. I look forward anxiously for
the future.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07014929289033051037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970773062027324340.post-37947597349461329242014-02-04T03:55:00.005-08:002014-02-04T03:55:55.209-08:00Some of you might be aware that I have been taking bee pollen now for over 17 weeks. That may or may not be of any significance to anyone, but it is applicable to the fast. A darling young lady who goes by the name of Duck, asked me if I had seen a particular site that talks about fasting as being something not to just deprive ourselves of food, but to enact a change in a community, especially to change a relationship with God. (<a href="http://www.thepearl.org/Fasting.htm" style="font-family: Helvetica;">www.thepearl.org/Fasting.htm</a><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">When I was in Utah last month I met with an amazing healer named Don Miller. He is in Southern Utah in Sanpete county. He was doing some muscle testing and told me that I measured higher in the level of Christ light than anyone he had ever tested.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">My only response was that I have been taking bee pollen. I have been diligent about it now for a very long time. In the period of time I have been taking it, my vibrational level has not only increased, but it is more than stabalized. I am happy, and have been so for months. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I have suffered from depression for years, but did not realize it until this level of happiness has overcome the large dips in my moods. I am having more peaks than valleys, and the journey does not seem to overcome me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">That is just one of the things that has taken place, but it is so noticable to my family that I had to make a note of it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">When people are seeking the higher Christ light in their lives, they are able to actually raise the vibration level of their entire community. </span>Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07014929289033051037noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970773062027324340.post-74916378077767306552014-02-04T03:55:00.004-08:002014-02-04T03:55:47.288-08:00Getting closer to GodI do not know why anyone would just fast. There has to be a reason, especially since we are geared as human beings to eat. There has to be much higher motivation to give up food than just saying I am dieting or not eating.<br />
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I have just finished the gorging meal of the year, our Thanksgiving feast. We really missed out on a great deal of the fun, for our friends with their 5 beautiful children, who were supposed to be our guests, all had bad colds and the attending symptoms. They were bringing the turkey and it accompaniments. I made the salads, veggies, and provided the pie. In the end they came over with the bird and the potatoes, I gave them baggies of salads, vegetables, and the like, and we just exchanged our portions and ate without them. I was really saddened because children are so wonderful and full of life no matter when you are with them. Hopefully we will have the opportunity to enjoy another meal with a purpose in the near future.<br />
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I have spent years studying science, but primarily science in the scriptures. Whoever I was before I came to the earth through a chiropractor father and a music teacher mother sings with the joy of the muses, i.e. scriptures, music, mathematics, sacred geometry, great literature, and beauty laid out in masses of colors and patterns. I have found great purpose, without a full explanation, in studying what I would term as weird science.<br />
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Recently I have been studying and reaching to heaven. I have done this through what felt like an accidental landing from an alien space ship into a realm of 432 Hz, which is a vibrational frequency that comes from the sun, and touches the human body in such a way as to heal it.<br />
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You can read more about this by going to www.returnto432.com, but for now I will stay on the topic of fasting.<br />
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I sat in the bathtub this morning, somewhat like Archimedes. (don't you wish we studied the ancients so we actually knew I was telling you something profound?!) I had a revelation about a fast I am getting ready to embark on. I have carefully chosen this fast for a number of reasons. The first reason is that I abhor the gluttony I have been involved in as a tradition during my life. Don't get me wrong; I think food is wonderful. I also know that as Americans, having the traditional Thanksgiving feast is a tragedy when there are so many around us that go without a crumb of bread, let alone a slice of turkey. And let us not forget what it was the original pilgrims were grateful for; to was a place to worship, and the freedom to do it, plus the help from the native Americans who helped them to learn how to not only survive, but to flourish in this new land.<br />
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Secondly, I want to draw closer to God. That is the primary reason I am beginning this fast. I did a water fast for 3 days earlier this month. I prayed for the ability to benefit from it for the entire time, and felt that I might even be able to go without any food for 40 days, but 3 days was sufficient at that time. I was so greatly blessed from that experience. It was no sacrifice for me whatsoever. My grandson kept asking why I was still fasting. Oh, I wish I could have given him a better explanation.<br />
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As I sat in the tub, it came to me why fasting and prayer was going to take me to a place I needed to go.<br />
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Here comes the science of fasting, or at least a portion of it.<br />
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Everything vibrates. There is nothing on this planet that does not vibrate. The happiest human being can vibrate at the highest levels, which are sympathetic with light.<br />
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Since our bodies are designed to do the greatest work when we vibrate in synchrony with the heavens, i.e. our DNA replicates at that frequency, our heart beats in sympathy with light, our bones and our other cavities in our bodies are all designed to sing a sympathetic vibration with heaven. It is important that we supply all the light we are capable of to resonate with the heavens. We were intended to become as God, why not participate in the experience and enjoy it?!!!<br />
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As I sat in my tub this morning, the words that came to me were that if I wanted to get closer to the Lord, fasting and prayer was the standard measure to be observed. It was explained to me that the reason the scriptures talk about fasting and prayer is because fasting is a great blessing to rid us of the things of this world that so greatly weigh us down, even the very gravity that pulls us to this earth. Water is a medium in the heavens as well as the earth, and fasting with water is an easy thing to do. Prayer comes so much easier when we are not sitting at a table focusing on the food, but there is much, much more.<br />
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As I thought on what happened when I did not put anything in my body that wasn't vibrating with light, i.e., cooked and processed foods, and meat (which is dead), I realized that the reason the Daniel Fast was so powerful was because all the food in it is alive, and vibrating at a harmonic frequency with light. But it takes digestion to work on the Daniel fast, even though the food is alive. Nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables that are all alive provide such joy to the body, without the drag that comes from eating foods that require the body to work hard at digesting and throwing off the refuse and the toxins that come from other foods.<br />
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I spent a little time looking at foods and spices that make our mealtimes wonderful. Garlic, cinnamon, cloves, wasabi, hot sauce, cayenne pepper, etc. What I realized was that they were all additives that vibrated at very high frequencies, and that they not only add flavor, but keep the lower frequencies from taking over.<br />
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I have such a strong desire to connect with Heaven. My mind races with a multitude of thoughts at all times. It is difficult for me to meditate. I am constantly thinking of something. When I fast, I do not have so many things racing through my mind. My body is more calm. I feel the influence of heaven instead of the multitude of things that are constantly providing input.<br />
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As I thought about what it was I would be doing for the next 40 days (for that is the length of the fast that I will go on), and what I have learned about fasting, parasites, water only, and the effects of fasting over a lengthy period of time, I have pondered upon what kind of fast I would do and what would be most beneficial to me.<br />
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I am going to do what is called a master cleanse, with a slight twist. I am going to drink lemon water with honey (instead of maple syrup, which is a processed sugar) and take cayenne pepper capsules each time I make a quart of lemon water.<br />
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Recently I learned that the stomach lining in the abdominal cavity is hexagonal. There is a correspondence for honey and the stomach. Science has done a nasty job on just about everything, and honey has received a severe bum rap. Honey is a perfect food. (You can do research on Google and learn about it yourself.)<br />
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Honey has provided so many things over the years, and it is only in the last 200 years that refined sugars have been manufactured. The detrimental factors in the human body because of sugar or known the world around.<br />
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Honey, as a food during a fast, does not cause the body any stress, because it is in a geometric pattern with the area it is administering. In a sense your stomach is in harmony with your food. They correspond to each other. You might want to take a look at the law of signatures, which shows the correspondence between certain foods that look like body parts, i.e. the carrot looks like the eye and it provides<br />
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Water, when it is in it's pure molecular form, is also hexagonal, so the two of them provide a happy substance for the body to heal.<br />
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Lemon and cayenne are great at removing residue in the body. Cayenne drives the herpes virus back to its nasty little lair when you get a fever blister that comes out. <br />
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Years ago I was squeezing lemon onto something and had to answer the telephone. I realized shortly thereafter that the juice and oil from the lemon rind actually etched a spot on the plastic of my telephone. I put that information aside for the time being and have thought about it frequently.<br />
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I am hoping that through this 40 day fast, not only will my body be in a happy state, since I will not be starving it, but feeding it through the honey, but the lemon will be able to removed the plastics that are in my body, which suffocate my cells, and the cayenne can burn off or away the viruses that reside in my body. They are parasitic in nature. <br />
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I can easily see why fasting is a joy, because when we recognize how much of a hotel our bodies are to unwanted guests, we want to be rid of them.<br />
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I want a body that is truly a temple. I want the holy spirit to reside in me. I do not want to be carrying around excess baggage, be it weight, or parasites, or resident spirits. I want to be completely focused on God, to have him come and abide with me.<br />
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It is true that no unclean thing can enter into the presence of the Lord. The knowledge that God does not dwell in unholy temples is proof positive that we are able to have him dwell in us more rapidly by honoring a fast that is encouraged and approved by the Heavens themselves.<br />
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<br />Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07014929289033051037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970773062027324340.post-59367440347432187122014-02-04T03:50:00.001-08:002014-02-04T03:50:17.613-08:00I'm always surprised at how many things connect to the blessings of the fast. Perhaps I shouldn't be, but it never ceases to amaze me how many things are involved in fasting. Most people are only aware of the most base part that has to do with not eating. I wouldn't do that if I were you, are the words of some wise people. Fasting is so much more.<br />
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Recently my husband and I were sitting in church taking the sacrament. The priests who prepared the bread tear it up in tiny little pieces. My husband has always mentioned that these little crumbs of bread are so miniscule. Yes, they look like crumbs. I do not believe that the Lord never intended the sacrament to be a crumb of bread and a drop or two of water. I believe that the sacrament is the reminder of the feast that the disciples had with Christ, as well as the one that we are encouraged to have with him also.<br />
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I was reading in the Joseph Smith translation of the Bible in the book of Mark, where the Savior is telling his disciples about the reason for the sacrament.<br />
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Mark 14:20-24<br />
20 And as they did eat, Jesus took bread and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them, and said, Take it, and eat.<br />
21 Behold, this is for you to do in remembrance of my body; for as oft as ye do this ye will remember this hour that I was with you.<br />
22 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them; and they all drank of it.<br />
23 And he said unto them, This is in remembrance of my blood which is shed for many, and the new testament which I give unto you; for of me ye shall bear record unto all the world.<br />
24 And as oft as ye do this ordinance, ye will remember me in the hour that I was with you and drank with you of this cup, even the last time in my ministry.<br />
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God gives unto us so many things that will reconnect us with Him and the memory of the heavens. Swendenborg's works are all about connecting the heavens with the earth. He calls them correspondences.<br />
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Our minds are designed to remember things with connections. We can remember things even better through smells and sounds than through sight. Taste is also a mental connector of great power. No wonder we have so many soul foods. They remind us of happy memories of our youth, perhaps a family tradition. Macaroni and cheese, as well as toasted cheese sandwiches rank the highest in my family. My mother always made them for me, and I passed that on to my own children.<br />
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The fast from the worldly things, doing without the things that distract us from the that which matters most, is so we can have connections with things that truly do matter the most and have the greatest power in our lives.<br />
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When we fast from the things of this world to participate in those of a better, we feast upon the things of the Lord. We feast upon the scriptures. There is such a feast in reading the scriptures, because it is designed to make us salivate for more. We want more of the food offered by Christ. We crave the living water and the bread of life. We want to sit at his feet like Mary and be taught directly from Him. We want to feel his arms around us. We want Jesus, plain and simple.<br />
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I have found that fasting also clears the mind of a multitude of chatter. Recently I was given a blessing and strongly admonished by the Lord to cease the chatter in my mind so that I might enter into his presence.<br />
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I asked how this was to be done, because I have such a busy mind, much like a thoroughfare of mental activities coming and going. The answer I was given, so that I could achiever this lofty goal that has been in my heart now for years was that I was to fast.<br />
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In so doing, giving up anything that has been touch by man to adulterate it, such as processed food, and the very practice of preparation of this food, I would be blessed with a singleness of heart and mind. Fasting helps to eliminate all kinds of distractions.<br />
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I have been experiencing the words given to me from heaven 4 years ago. I was told during my first 40 days fast that earthly food would never be satisfying to me again. It has proven to be the case. Recently, over the last 6 months, the thought of eating certain foods such as pork or shrimp, a non kosher food, has become abhorrent to me. I remember thinking what it treat it was to have any kind of shrimp, and bacon adds such flavor to food. Now I cannot even tolerate the thought of eating it.<br />
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Fasting has such tremendous ramifications, and I am just beginning to scratch the surface. All I can say is that I am grateful I have learned something about it. I look forward to the greater light and knowledge that comes to conversing directly with He who has invited me to the table for the feast of light. I look forward to being with Christ.Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07014929289033051037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970773062027324340.post-38252285618887757972013-10-29T10:45:00.002-07:002013-10-29T10:45:22.030-07:00ParasitesThis may seem a very strange post here on this blog, and it has been a long and winding road until I could understand it more clearly. Bear with me, will you?<br />
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The first 4 blessings in the Law of the Fast clearly point to being liberated from a yoke of bondage. It is Christ that lifts us from the bondage.<br />
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I have learned a great deal about the spirits that want to possess our bodies. They will do it in any way possible. If you want a very good example of this, you might want to read, Return from Tomorrow, by George Ritchie. He leaves his body for a short time and is taken many places. One of them is a bar, where he sees disembodied spirits trying to enter the bodies of those in the bar. Only when the drinkers pass out and the protective aura opens up at the crown of the head are those spirits able to enter the body of the drunken man or woman.<br />
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There are a myriad of ways in which darkness is able to enter our bodies. One of the most brilliant things about our God is He is ever teaching us how to stay happy and protected from the power of the adversary and the ensuing darkness. Our food, which was filled with life from the ground, and the trees, is in full abundance on the earth. We have been so steered away from eating it in its original form that the light that was inherent in it has been taken away. That light, and the protection of that light has diminished until the walls of our fortress fell down. We have become extremely susceptible to darkness, in all of its myriad forms. Along with it is rampant disease.<br />
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I have a girlfriend who has had lupus for over 50 years. When it was discovered, the Lord instructed her not to take any medication. But she took the advise of the doctors, who put her on prednazone, as well as some other medications. It put her body into a state of disease and acidity.<br />
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All medications are synthetic copies of herbs, and other plants. By their very nature they are acidic. The body thrives in an alkaline state, but begins to break down and decompose in an acidic state. I don't know how many of you have ever composted, or found things rotting in the yard, but whatever you have found is always accompanied by a multitude of creepy crawlers that are destroying the flesh and using it for their dinner. That's what a parasite does in your body; they are uninvited guests that come in because there is an environment that allows them to hide, to feed, and to destroy the health of the body.<br />
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My friend was recovering from her illness. She received a priesthood blessing from my husband who told her that she would know what she needed to do to heal. She felt to do some holistic practices that would cleanse her blood and colon. Through this practice she found that she was infested with tapeworm.<br />
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When I received the information about this, I realized this was a subject I did not want to broach. This was nasty. I did not know people who had parasites. Are you kidding? But for some reason I did a little research just to make sure I wasn't going to have any similar circumstances. My personal findings are unimportant here, but what I learned is: our nation is experiencing massive difficulties from parasites.<br />
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Now, what does this have to do with fasting, you might ask. Well, when my friend began her regiment, and passed the entire length of the tapeworm, she felt the presence of a being that left her. She knew about dark entities and spirits. She was delivered from the presence of them, and they put up quite a fight just before they let go.<br />
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Drugs and processed foods open up the haven for parasites in our bodies. And if the young man who was possessed of the legion of spirits that Christ cast into the swine (realizing that they were willing to take on any life form, as long as they could have a life form), why would it be that surprising that we are subjected to darkness just by the very fact that we eat processed food that has been tampered with?<br />
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I have a friend who learned about spirits being in other people. It disturbed her and she went to the privacy of her own closet to enquire of the Lord. She did muscle testing, just as she had been instructed, to find out how many beings might be within her. She reported that after she reached the number of 20,000, she stooped. <br />
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She enquired of the Lord how this could be and was told that it is allowed because of our agency. But that is a huge number. How could you have that many beings without being a crazed maniac like the man in the New Testament, unless you have them inhabiting the form of the parasites.<br />
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Fasting for a short period of time will destroy those parasites. Drinking lemon juice with honey or maple syrup and taking cayenne pepper (Called the Master Cleanse), even for the space of 10-12 days will kill the parasites. Hulda Clarke's 90 parasite cleanse, which is an herb concoction consisting of black walnut hulls, cloves, and wormwood will kill all of the eggs, larvae and adult parasites in your body in 90 days. All this is natural and filled with light for the body.<br />
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Over the years I have noticed how much I like certain foods that seem to be ethnic but important additives in foods around the world. Cinnamon is a common additive, which I came to find out was not only a spice, but a parasite deterrent. So are hot chilies, garlic, wasabi, cabbage, kimchi. I am sure there are a host of others, but I found it interesting that many cultures all over the world use these as a cooking compliment and may not even know that they are a guard and protector to the life of the body.<br />
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All these spices and herbs and bulbs are alkaline elements, filled with light. Alkaline environments deter parasites.<br />
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Light cleaveth unto light, and intelligence to intelligence. God our maker doth provide, for our wants to be supplied, our every want and need is truly taken care of is we will turn to Him. All is a function of His light and love.Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07014929289033051037noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970773062027324340.post-23086730104532477382013-06-20T00:44:00.003-07:002013-06-20T00:44:21.598-07:00Fasting and DNA
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I went to Australia last month and visited with a
family. We did a group fast of 3 days. I was hoping for 7. Evidently
you need to be doing a great deal more than not eating during a group fast. Though
we did have prayer along with our fast, it did not produce the results that I
had desired, at least for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I have been thinking a great deal about DNA and
fasting. I will impart an example and do my best to tie them together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In a 1993 study reported in the journal
<i>Advances</i>, the Army performed experiments to determine precisely whether
the emotion/DNA connection continues following a separation, and if so, at what
distances? The researchers started by collecting a swab of tissue and DNA
from the inside of a volunteer’s mouth. This sample was isolated and
taken to another room in the same building, where they began to investigate a
phenomenon that modern science says shouldn’t exist. In a specially
designed chamber, the DNA was measured electrically to see if it responded to
the emotions of the person it came from, the donor who was in another room
several hundred feet away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In his room, the subject was shown a
series of video images designed to create genuine states of emotion inside of
his body. The idea was for the donor to experience a spectrum of real
emotions within a brief period of time. While he was doing so, in another
room his DNA was measured for its response.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">When the donor experienced emotional “peaks”
and “dips,” his cells and DNA showed a powerful electrical response at the same
instant in time. Although distances measured in hundreds of feet
separated the donor and the samples, the DNA acted as if it was still
physically connected to his body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The Army stopped their experiments with
the donor and his DNA when they were still in the same building, separated by
distances of only hundreds of feet. Following those initial studies,
however, Dr. Backster and his team had continued the investigations at even
great distances. At one point, a span of 350 miles separated the donor
and his cells.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The time between the donor’s experience
and the cell’s response was gauged by an atomic clock located in Colorado.
In each experiment, the interval measured between the emotion and the cell’s
response was zero—<i>the effect was simultaneous.</i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The experiment showed 4 things:</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">1.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">A
previously unrecognized form of energy exists between living tissues.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">2.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Cells
and DNA communicate through this field of energy</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">3.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Human
emotion has a direct influence on living DNA.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">4.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Distance
appears to be of no consequence with regard to the effect.<span style="color: #0003ea;">[1]</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">"Veljkovic and Cosic
proposed that molecular interactions are electrical in nature, and they take
place over distances that are large compared with the size of molecules. Cosic
later introduced the idea of dynamic electromagnetic field interactions, that
molecules recognize their particular targets and vice versa by electromagnetic
resonance. In other words, the molecules send out specific frequencies of
electromagnetic waves which not only enable them to 'see' and 'hear' each
other, as both photon and phonon modes exist for electromagnetic waves, but
also to influence each other at a distance and become ineluctably drawn to each
other if vibrating out of phase (in a complementary way)."</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">All growing matter responds to light.
DNA is no exception. The existence of internal photons—internal light— is
the basis of virtually all cellular and systemic function, <i>for all living
forms</i>.<span style="color: #0003ea;">[2]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">DNA is not only responsible for the construction of
our body but also serves as data storage and communication. The Russian
linguists found that the genetic code, especially in the apparently useless
90%, follows the same rules as all our human languages. To this end they
compared the rules of syntax (the way in which words are put together to form
phrases and sentences), semantics (the study of meaning in language forms) and
the basic rules of grammar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">One revolutionary corollary of this research is
that to activate DNA and stimulate healing on the cellular level, one can
simply use words. <span style="color: #0003ea;">[3]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The power of reading the Holy
Scriptures, listening to the voice of the prophets<span style="color: #0003ea;">[4]</span>,
mighty prayer, and singing of the hymns all have a powerful effect upon us.
It can have such a profound effect upon us, not only spiritually, but
physically. Through these mediums we are called to God. Our very
DNA responds to the word. No wonder John tells us that in the beginning was the
Word. We responded to it then, and we respond to it now. The information given
to us in Malachi about the hearts of the fathers turning to the children isn’t
just hyperbole. Words hissing forth from the dust<span style="color: #0003ea;">[5]</span>
as well as blood crying<span style="color: #0003ea;">[6]</span> from the ground
has scientific evidence that our ancestors have a very real connection to us,
even when they have departed from their physical bodies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">An <b>autosome</b> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome"><span style="color: #0003ea;">chromosome</span></a>
that is not a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_chromosome"><span style="color: #0003ea;">sex chromosome</span></a> – that is to say there are an
equal number of copies of the chromosome in males and females. For
example, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human"><span style="color: #0003ea;">humans</span></a>, there are twenty-two (22) pairs of
autosomes, and, in addition, there are the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_chromosome"><span style="color: #0003ea;">X</span></a>
and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_chromosome"><span style="color: #0003ea;">Y</span></a> sex chromosomes.<span style="color: #0003ea;">[7]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The ancient Hebrew language consists of 22
characters. Understanding that words have a profound effect upon our DNA,
the very words of the language given to the covenant people, consisting of 22
characters to effect the transformation and assist in the mission of the
Israelites to fulfill their mission on earth is supplied to us here today as we
have learned the power of the word on our DNA.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It would then stand to reason that if DNA follows
set grammar rules, just like our language, and if it is influenced by words and
phrases, then DNA would also influence a person or a people to correspond in
like language—the language and purpose of the DNA. Recurrence is rampant in
nature. Evolution relies on gene duplication.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Now, I have been praying for my family, and my
greatest concern right now is for my children. I have also spent quite a bit of time contemplating my
ancestors. I know for a surety that they are aware of me and my efforts in all
the research I have been doing, as well as my goal to understand and come
closer and closer to my Savior.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">As I have contemplated what I could do to make a
difference in the lives of my children and my grandchildren, as well as the
lives of my mother and siblings, the words have come to me to remember Alma,
the Elder, when he was concerned about his son, Alma the Younger. He fasted and prayed many days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Was fasting and praying enough? I think there is a critical part that
is missing in the brief explanation of words. His belief in Christ and his perfect hope that all would be
well. We can fast all day long, or
go without food for that matter.
We can pray to all kinds of beings, whether they be idols or false and
powerless beings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">But when we begin to have faith in Christ that he
will heal us and our posterity, I believe that what we see happening in our
family line is the same thing that happened to the subject of experimentation,
only on a much grander scale. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I believe I will see a greater change in my family
as I put my full faith in the Savior during my fast. I can only imagine that the change that takes place in me as
I am healed, nurtured, taught, lifted, and brought into a closer proximity with
Christ will greatly affect a healing for my children and perhaps others as
well. I seek for wholeness,
balance, understanding and the ability to love more than anything. When I am filled with the Love of God,
I believe I will be able to impart that to my family. I am working on that with this fast.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The paragraph inserted is from Discoveries in
Chiasmus, by Yvonne Bent and Scott Vanatter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Carlsbad, California, 2007, pgs. 46-50.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2010.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2006</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0003ea; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[4]</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/moro/10/8#8"><span style="color: #0003ea;">Moro. 10: 8</span></a>, And again, I exhort you, my
brethren, that ye deny not the <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/moro/10/8a"><span style="color: #0003ea;">gifts</span></a> of God, for they are many; and they come
from the same God. And there are <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/moro/10/8b"><span style="color: #0003ea;">different</span></a>
ways that these gifts are administered; but it is the same God who worketh all in
all; and they are given by the manifestations of the <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/moro/10/8c"><span style="color: #0003ea;">Spirit</span></a>
of God unto men, to profit them. ,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I the Lord have spoken, I have spoken, and I excuse not myself; and though the
heavens and the earth pass away, my <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/dc/1/38a"><span style="color: #0003ea;">word</span></a>
shall not pass away, but shall all be <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/dc/1/38b"><span style="color: #0003ea;">fulfilled</span></a>,
whether by mine own <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/dc/1/38c"><span style="color: #0003ea;">voice</span></a> or by the <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/dc/1/38d"><span style="color: #0003ea;">voice</span></a>
of my <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/dc/1/38e"><span style="color: #0003ea;">servants</span></a>,
it is the <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/dc/1/38f"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">same</span></a>.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0003ea; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[5]</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/moro/10/28#28"><span style="color: #0003ea;">Moro. 10: 28</span></a> I declare these things unto the
fulfilling of the prophecies. And behold, they shall proceed forth out of the
mouth of the everlasting God; and his word shall <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/moro/10/28a"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">hiss</span></a> forth from generation
to generation</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0003ea; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[6]</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/morm/8/27,40-41#27"><span style="color: #0003ea;">Mormon 8: 27, 40-41</span></a>, <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/ether/8/22,24#22"><span style="color: #0003ea;">Ether
8: 22, 24</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0003ea; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[7]</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthony_J._F._Griffiths&action=edit&redlink=1"><span style="color: #0003ea;">Griffiths, Anthony J. F.</span></a> (1999). <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?highlight=autosome&rid=iga.section.222"><i><span style="color: #0003ea; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">An Introduction
to genetic analysis</span></i></a>. New York: W.H. Freeman. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number"><span style="color: #0003ea; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">ISBN</span></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/071673771X"><span style="color: #0003ea; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">071673771X</span></a>.
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?highlight=autosome&rid=iga.section.222"><span style="color: #0003ea; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?highlight=autosome&rid=iga.section.222</span></a>,
2010.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0003ea; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[8]</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> President Gordon B. Hinckley, “God Hath Not Given Us the
Spirit of Fear,” <i>Ensign,</i> Oct. 1984.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This is a very short post. I will update it with some of the special events that we pray we will see as a result of this fast.<br />
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It is much easier to fast with others when you are living with them. The first 3 days are very difficult, and there is so much time you have to redirect from eating and food preparation. It is much easier to fast because I have company. Do you think that there will be a new phrase coined that says, friends and family that fast together, last together.Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07014929289033051037noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970773062027324340.post-32249533333792746672013-05-11T08:52:00.004-07:002013-05-11T08:52:50.418-07:00Hunger, real hunger<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">I had gotten into some really bad eating habits
since I returned to my home in the fall of last year. I recognize them for
exactly what they are: my form of drugging myself. Food is by far the most
popular drug in the world, and wherever there is processed food, you have
drugs, powerful, dangerous drugs. They slow you down, numb your brain, and put
your body in an acidic condition that begins to break down your flesh. Didn’t mean to be negative, it is just
a statement of fact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">There is so much going on that educates our soul, most
of which we are not aware. 2 years ago as a result of my study on the Law of
the Fast, I decided that I would do a Daniel Fast, which was eating only raw
food for 40 days. I weighed the costs and my determination. I felt I could do at least that much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">I made it for 37 days. I was craving
something I couldn't put my finger on. One of my friends told me that I
needed the marrow in the bones of meat. I broke my fast. The full week
before this happened I had to have jalapeno peppers or hot chili sauce on
everything I ate. I couldn’t put my finger on it and it felt much like
have a craving when I was pregnant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">I went to see my dentist yesterday. She is also a naturopath.
I told her of my fasting story. She explained that when you are
craving hot foods, you body is detoxifying. That is exactly what will take
place in a Daniel Fast or in a juice fast, or water fast, and definitely a true
fast without water; our bodies will go through the process of being cleansed,
much like a refiner’s fire. The
hot sauce was showing the more thorough cleansing process through the actual
desire for a type of fire, or heat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">I woke early this morning, because I am not eating
processed food right now. You don't need the same amount of sleep when
you don't tax your digestive system with meats, carbohydrates that are processed,
and eating late. Well, now what do you do at 2:45 in the morning? You
read, because you are alert and awake and your stomach may be talking to you,
but clanging around in the kitchen will wake the rest of the family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">I am a person who loves the stimulation of beauty, color,
and texture. It makes eating raw fruits and vegetables such a lovely
experience because they are colorful, many different textures, and are truly
beautiful to the eye. I lay in bed early this morning thinking about what
I could eat. I kept thinking about satisfying this desire, but could come
up with nothing. My mind reverted to an experience I had when I was in
the first week of my fast. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">I was having that same contemplation of what I
could eat, and the Holy Spirit whispered to me very clearly, "You will
never be satisfied with anything on this earth again." I thought it
only applied to food. I was wrong.
It was a beginning of a journey I had no idea I had chosen to go on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">I love to read my scriptures probably more than
anything else in the world. I love
feasting upon the word. I will never give it up. But something came
to me yesterday as I was contemplating a matter. They were the words the
Lord used while instructing Satan, as he attempted to test him during his 40
day fast.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">But he answered and said, It is written, <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/4.4?lang=eng"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Man</span></a> shall
not <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/4.4?lang=eng"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">live</span></a> by</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/4.4?lang=eng"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">bread</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> alone, but by
every <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/4.4?lang=eng"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">word</span></a> that
proceedeth out of the</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/4.4?lang=eng"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">mouth</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> of God. (Matt
4:4)</span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">I have contemplated the journey that a person can
desire to converse one on one with God. It is not a singular experience,
nor is it something that only happens to those who record it in the scriptures
we have at our disposal at this current time. God has, can, will, and does
speak to any of his children that so desire to have that precious
communication. We are trained in our youth to learn how he deals with
loving kindness with all his children through the scriptures. Eventually
we can reach a place, if it is our desire, that we receive the word that
proceeds out of the mouth of God, and we can get it directly to us. I continue
to remember that He is not a respecter of persons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Wherefore, by the ministering of <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.25?lang=eng"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">angels</span></a>,
and by every word which proceeded forth out of the mouth of God, men began to
exercise faith in Christ; and thus by faith, they did lay hold upon every good
thing; and thus it was until the coming of Christ. (Moroni 8:1)</span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I learned this wonderful lesson
while lying in my bed pondering upon my hunger. Christ instructed us on
hungering and thirsting. He told us unequivocally that He is
the bread of Life, that He is the one that delivers living water. As my
hunger for the real thing continues, I am certain that angels are ministering
me to, as each one who is seeking will find out that truth for themselves. And
I expect to continue to lay hold upon every good thing until the coming of
Christ into my very being, just like others who sought him diligently in the
past.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07014929289033051037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970773062027324340.post-86349367945435284882013-05-09T22:27:00.002-07:002013-05-09T22:27:52.707-07:00Just a tiny bitI have been reading a great book called the Long Knife, by Alexander Thom. He wrote <i>Follow the River</i>, among many others. He is an historian extraodinaire and I would put him in a classification next to Gibbons and Michner. I have really enjoyed his books because he has done such in-depth research.<br />
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Something caught my eye as I was in the thick of the exciting part where George Rogers Clark was leading his very weary men on a surprise attack to recapture Fort Vincennes (Vincent) from the British Commander Hamilton, who was commonly called the scalp buyer. Clark had pushed his men day after day because they needed to attack at a time they would be completely unexpected, and for the last 6 days of their trek they had suffered incredible hardships in freezing cold, wet weather with nothing to eat. The comment made was that he felt that his men were doing something that the Indians imposed upon themselves: they would fast for days so that they could get a clarity of mind and purpose. They needed to stay their course, they were fording a river that had ice in it and none of the men could swim.<br />
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As I study different things in history regarding fasting, I can see how purposeful a true fast is, if done with the intent of connecting with the Heavens, and the power that comes from communion with intent to fulfill purpose.<br />
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It is a waste of time to point out all the traditions that practice some kind of fast. What is of import to me is to recognize and then put into practice something that will yield the same powerful results as these Indians, or anyone else for that matter who is seeking the help from the Heavens in large, powerful doses. If fasting gives clarity of mind, then it must be breaching a gap that is filled in with all kinds of distractions. Something to consider as I have given up the wicked whites to seek after more light and less strain on my body. <br />
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I am always learning.<br />
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<br />Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07014929289033051037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970773062027324340.post-38496812774530094172013-04-30T22:11:00.002-07:002013-04-30T22:11:21.924-07:00More about the Pineal GlandI obsess. That is a proven fact. When I begin to study something, like I did with fasting, I started seeing the pattern for the law and the progression with the adjacent accumulating blessings along the way. It was most thrilling to me.<br />
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I am frequently found down rabbit trails as I study and research. A bibliography is as good as a round trip ticket to 5 weeks to Europe, because there is so many new things to see and learn. When I began to study the body as a temple, I began to identify the different pre-requisites for what would qualify for a holy of holies. There are a number of sites that give you a very good visual to see how the temple of Solomon has remarkable resemblances for the body, as well as the Egyptian temples. Go to the oracle Google images and put in the search words "Temple of Solomon" and body, as well as Egyptian temples. See what you come up with.<br />
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As I delved into this subject deeper, with my eye constantly fixed on the temple and different practices in and around the temple, fasting was next to feasting all the time. Sacrifice, fasting, praising, singing, and feasting seem to pretty well cover the temple experience. <br />
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This might look like a rabbit trail or diversion itself, but it is only meant to lay some ground work. They are all a part of the experience of getting closer to Christ. <br />
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When I would hit on a discovery (for a better word, a revelation given to me by the Heavens) I would have quite the <i>Ah Ha</i> moment. That is what happened when I started to study the brain as the holy of holies in Solomon's temple. I intend to write a book in the near future (which may be several years from now) showing a large number of the similarities of the body to the temple, but for the time being, I will provide a road map of sorts to show you how this pineal gland plays into the benefits of fasting.<br />
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I have spent a great deal of time learning about correspondences. Emanuel Swendenborg talks about them non-stop in all his works. The reason I relate to him so well is that he speaks about correspondences. A great many people have referred to the law of signatures in somewhat the same manner. Christ spoke very briefly, but informative of the correspondences in the Lord's Prayer. Remember that part about on earth, as it is in Heaven.<br />
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For a while, all I could think about was the pineal gland. If you haven't seen a picture of it, let me share a few with you. And take a look at brown algae. It looks so much like the pineal gland and spinal column. There is a bulb and a long column called a slipe. It is anchored in the ocean. The properties of the brown algae are incredibly nourishing to that precious and tiny gland in your brain.<br />
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There are millions of things on this earth that relate to heavenly things, specifically to teach us the origin and purpose of the use and need of the earthly counterpart to bring us closer to God. One of them is the pineal gland.<br />
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If you take a longer look at the pineal gland, you will notice that it looks much like a staff. Look at the pope's staff. There is a pine<br />
cone just lower than the crucified Christ. Look at the caduceus. It looks like the pineal gland with the pineapple at the top. (I don't have the time or space here to illuminate on the pinecone, but if you study anything about divine design, you will see how important a pinecone can really be.)<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO8rE5HSq0D9ly7bWspC8xs5my8KFv5S0C_2Y17zwX2HGYmTbujlP3vqWncuGYM9vHMLJvBAuaBffoFZTQtpve1x4c_iMSeTAvJefdbrEF2Jt_C9ZEj7w8zIQcYMG9apwbEa7ai6hdiug/s1600/pineal+staff+with+snakes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO8rE5HSq0D9ly7bWspC8xs5my8KFv5S0C_2Y17zwX2HGYmTbujlP3vqWncuGYM9vHMLJvBAuaBffoFZTQtpve1x4c_iMSeTAvJefdbrEF2Jt_C9ZEj7w8zIQcYMG9apwbEa7ai6hdiug/s200/pineal+staff+with+snakes.jpg" width="160" /></a>There is a depiction of a pinecone on the top of the staff. I don't see it when I study the pineal gland anatomically, and I have been darn close in every book I can find, but evidently those who were dissecting cadavers were able to clearly discern one, because it sits on the top of the staff or column. This little gland has been known for millenia as being something powerful and divine. Anciently called the 'Third Eye', it has hosted the belief that with the use of the hormones from this gland, you can achieve the ultimate visitation or spiritual audience with Christ himself. <br />
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Now, you may be asking, what does this have to do with fasting.<br />
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When Christ was on the earth, he instructed those that followed him that they did not need to fast, for he was with them. So we get a gigantic clue that fasting has to do with bringing us close to Diety himself.<br />
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I will diverge again, but please bear with me.<br />
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I am hopeful that you remember the story of the tortoise and the hare. The hare is fast, and zips here and there. He speeds all over the place. He makes promises that he will always win. So many of us have bought into the same false belief that the rabbit had--that fast and speedy was the best possible answer.<br />
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On the other hand, the tortoise is slow and steady. He will always get where he wants to go, but maybe not so fast.<br />
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The rabbit, in all probability, will eventually burn out (not just lay down and take a nap), because he is always in flight. I don't think our bodies were always meant to be in flight, at least not in that manner. That's why we have day and night, and night and rest are every bit as critical for our living and survival as the effort of work.<br />
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Evidently competition is the part of the fight; it causes the body to actually contend with itself. Funny how we think that being competitive is such a great thing, until we find out that it burns out our functioning ability to endure to the end with some dignity, helps us to get a good night's sleep, and teaches us patience. (Hmmm, I am so old to be learning this lesson.)<br />
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In our body we have two nervous systems: the parasympathetic and the sympathetic. You could relate the sympathetic to the rabbit, because it is the fight and flight regulator. It provides us the necessary adrenaline surge to race to the end of the road, or hurry up and be busy with our Franklin Planner all day and well into the night. It gives us the desire to make and complete continuous lists. It keeps us burning the candle at both ends. There is just so much our bodies can take, and we have been excessively abusive to that part of our bodies in this day and age, believing that hurry is better than waiting a moment. No wonder God told is to be still so we could know the great I Am.<br />
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The parasympathetic nervous system is the thing that allows the pineal gland to manufacture the necessary hormones, such as the melatonin, seratonin, and DMT. DMT is that interesting hormone that initiates spiritual experiences. No wonder the pineal gland, under the sphenoid bone, is the center of the holy of holies in the temple. No wonder it was the representative high priest, a part of us that seeks to confer with God for the entire body, whether it be the body of the church, or our entire being, that enters that sacred, very holy, very private space. <br />
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I love this artist's rendition of the Tortoise and Hare. I don't know if he had any idea how prophetic his artistic rendition would be to teach this principle. Look at how the hare has such a nice set of clenched teeth. Look at how relaxed the tortoise is. <br />
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When we fast, it allows our sympathetic nervous system to rest, which in this day and age of stresses to an extremely dangerous degree, we desperately need the rest; the peace of mind. It also helps to kick in the power of the pineal gland, so that we can actually be in the presence of God. <br />
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Here's the really good news: Fasting rests the body so that the parasympathetic nervous system can operate better.<br />
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More of the DMT and other hormones later. Take a break from the stresses in our life. Learn to quiet your mind. <br />
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<br />Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07014929289033051037noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970773062027324340.post-24506107684516679582013-04-28T22:27:00.002-07:002013-04-28T22:27:34.164-07:00Where have you been?I haven't posted on this blog for months. I continue to study and research, and have discovered some of the most wonderful things about the blessing and invitation to fast. I wish that I could say I have gotten better at going without food. <br />
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I have been struggling lately, really struggling. I know I would have a greater peace if I would fast more. Not that I don't go without food, don't get me wrong. But I am missing HOME so badly. I was thinking about honoring our mother and father in the sense that the world was very much a mother to all of us. She provides food and water, warmth and comfort, shade from trees, soft grass to walk on. What mother wouldn't do that for us.<br />
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When I am feeling somewhat sad, I want comfort and that often comes in the form of food. Comfort food from Mother earth, something no tampered with by the hand of man, can taste delicious. <br />
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As I fast, or contemplate fasting, seeking for that time with the Savior, sometimes I fast, or feast on the finer things provided by Mother earth. This month it has been raw goat's milk. Honestly, it felt like a kind blanket wrapped around me.<br />
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Also, I have spent a great deal of time in my garden this spring. The colors are beautiful. I grew a plant called and Ichium, or more commonly known as a tower of jewels. It started to lean, so it really looked like the leaning tower of jewels. Then it toppled, but I am going to save the seeds. <br />
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But it has fed my soul to be out in nature, and the flowers are starting to blossom, the bees are coming around, and I guess you could say I was fasting from the chaos of the world, and feasting with my loving Mother earth, feeling the love from God and enjoying the fast.<br />
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If you have had a remarkable experience and you would like to share it on this blog, I would love to take a look at it. Send me a comment.Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07014929289033051037noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970773062027324340.post-21203343685224716912012-12-07T23:24:00.003-08:002012-12-07T23:25:04.311-08:00Pineal Gland and the Holy of Holies<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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the sphenoid bone have to do with fasting? Really good question, but
while you were waiting for the next post, I learned some really incredible
things about this gland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Lord. After wrestling with a man, who was God, he receives the new
name of Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to
Margaret Barker, Israel means he who has seen God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This would make it more clear when we read about his naming
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enough to fill libraries from nearly the beginning of time. I am sharing
a portion of another blog to whet your whistle about the pineal gland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pineal gland that has been named for this very event in Biblical history and
what its importance is. The Pineal Gland is the equivalent of the Third Eye
represented in Hinduism and Buddhism. It resides in the Holy of Holies in the
temple of Solomon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the pineal gland. The pineal gland is shaped like a pinecone and it is the gateway
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Illuminati bloodlines. The Catholic Church sent tropes all over to destroy all
ancient knowledge and make the remaining knowledge as crap by "Primitive
" people. While they and some bloodlines process the knowledge and control
humanity through manipulation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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people know about the pineal gland and how it works. So they used the pinecone
to honor the pineal gland and the person’s, kings or gods who have pineal gland
fully activated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about this little gland in your head. It entrains to a particular frequency of
144. Music that is tuned to 432 Hz on A, (not the standard 440 Hz that altered
the frequencies of all the music played and recorded since 1920), will provide
the music that sends out a wavelength that entrains to heaven. It was the
High Priest only who was allowed into this sacred room to offer up the prayers
for the body of God’s people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it's a big wake-up call. 144 is 12 squared. And anything in Hebrew
that has zeros after it indicates magnification. Evidently those who fast
and plead with the Lord, perhaps termed as wrestling, will find themselves in
the same place as Jacob/Israel, Enos, Alma, Nephi, Mormon, or Moroni.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps that wrestling is a song of
praise and a prayer of the heart sent out to match a frequency resonant with
the heavens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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understand by sealing the one hundred and forty-four thousand, out of all the
tribes of Israel—twelve thousand out of every tribe? A. We are to understand
that those who are sealed are high priests, ordained unto the holy order of
God, to administer the everlasting gospel; for they are they who are ordained
out of every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, by the angels to whom is
given power over the nations of the earth, to bring as many as will come to the
church of the Firstborn.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in 58:9: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I <i>am.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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for each one of us can fast, pray, and call upon the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do not have to have entrance into
the few temples built by man to have access to the Holy of Holies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> You most likely would not get entrance into it anyway. </span>We have one in our very own body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can call upon the Lord, wrestling in
mighty prayer and fasting if it is indeed God that we want to see, and to recognize
the blessings he has promised.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is not an ancient myth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God would
have us take hold of this incredible gift.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I am sure you have seen this particular figure. It is called the Eye of Ra. <br />
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This symbol has been popular for millennia, but why? It's all over the place, but has no real explanation for the masses. What is the attraction? I had no idea what this figure meant. Only last year when I was studying the Holy of Holies in the Temple of Solomon did things begin to unveil themselves.</div>
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What you are looking at is the pineal gland deep within the brain. The bone that covers it, the sphenoid bone, which might be construed as a hiding place, looks very similar to the arc of the covenant in the holy of holies described in 1 Kings. In both Exodus and 1 Kings, the description is of two winged creatures that were placed above the covenant box: Each had two wings. Two of their outstretched wings touched each other in the middle of the room and the other two wings touched the walls.</div>
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The wings touched the walls. This first depiction does not look like it is touching the walls at all.<br />
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There are literally thousands of depictions of the arc of the covenant from the Exodus version, so take some time to go on Google Images and look for yourself. All are made from approximation, as there is nothing physical to take this drawing from with the exception of the description in the Bible.</div>
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However, let us look at the exact words in 1 Kings 23:27</div>
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<i>And within the oracle he (Solomon) <a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-kgs/6?lang=eng&query=wings+wall#" id="footnote20" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=ot&bookUri=1-kgs&chapterUri=6&noteID=23a" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">made</a> two <a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-kgs/6?lang=eng&query=wings+wall#" id="footnote21" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=ot&bookUri=1-kgs&chapterUri=6&noteID=23b" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">cherubims</a> <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">of</span> olive tree, <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">each</span> ten cubits high. And five cubits <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">was</span> the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">were</span> ten cubits. And the other cherub <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">was</span> ten cubits: both the cherubim's <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">were</span> of one measure and one size. The height of the one cherub <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">was</span> ten cubits, and so <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">was it</span> of the other cherub. And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the <a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/1-kgs/6?lang=eng&query=wings+wall#" id="footnote22" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?lang=eng&volumeUri=ot&bookUri=1-kgs&chapterUri=6&noteID=27a" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">cherubims</a>, so that the wing of the one touched the <span class="clarityWord" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">one</span> wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.</i></div>
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Nowhere could I find an artistic depiction of this arc. None of the other arcs had wings that reached out to the walls. However, I did find something that was very amazing, for after I looked at the Eye of Ra in the brain, I went looking around in the skull for something, anything that might connect this depiction of the arc, the pineal gland, and the brain. Here is what I found.<br />
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Even the description in Gray's Anatomy tells that these bones are called wings and there are also the smaller wings which touch the inside of the house.<br />
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Well, what does this have to do with our Indian fellow who fasted for 411? How does this have anything to do with coming closer to Christ?<br />
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<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What are the Cosmic Sources of Energy? Plain and
simple: Solar Energy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Everything exists because of the sun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All by products are secondary sources
of light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They could be commonly
thought of as the certain elements of life on earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plants, water, and all living beings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything is energized by the sun</span><span style="color: #0003ff; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mankind is using solar energy for running solar
cookers, solar heaters, and solar cars through solar batteries, etc. Similarly
Shri Hira Ratan Manek (H.R.M.) has almost converted himself into a kind of a
solar cooker and has solar batteries activated in him. The solar energy has two
components, the light and the heat (temperature). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">How then is SUN energy received? The Brain & the
mind are the most powerful recipients in the human body. The retina & the pineal
gland (The third eye or the seat of soul as per <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rene Descartes</i>) are equipped with photoreceptor cells and may be
considered photosensitive organs.</span><span style="color: #0003ff; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As the plant kingdom thrives on chlorophyll &
photosynthesis, directly dependant on the Sun, similarly, some kind of
photosynthesisor photoanalysis must be taking place when we hypothesize Sun
energy. Through complex ways and distinct pathways this energy must enter the
body. Is it a direct entry into the physical body, or it enters through auras
of human body (please refer to Karelian photography). This has yet to be
examined. It is quite possible that human aura plays a modulating role for
allowing this energy into the physical body.</span><span style="color: #0003ff; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">There is a pathway from the retina, to the
hypothalamus, called the retinohypothalamic tract. This brings information
about the dark & light cycles to supra chiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the
hypothalamus. From the SCN, impulses along the nerve travel via the pineal
nerve (Sympathetic nervous system) to the pineal gland. These impulses inhibit
the production of melatonin. When these impulses stop (at night or in dark,
when the light no longer stimulates the hypothalamus) pineal inhibition ceases,
& melatonin is released. The pineal gland (or the third eye) is therefore a
photosensitive organ & an important timekeeper for the human body. The
unexplored process of energy synthesis & transformation from the sun energy
perhaps partly occurs here.</span><span style="color: #0003ff; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">While going through the details of recent scientific
literature & also comparing it with ancient Indian spiritual texts, as well
as Western occult & new age, the following things are apparent.</span><span style="color: #0003ff; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The activation of the pineal gland is the key step
in psychic, spiritual & energy transformation processes. Here, in this
gland, energy processing & re-distribution might be taking place. The pineal
gland is the subtle commander of all endocrine glands, therefore controlling
the humeral system. Through secretion of melatonin, it also regulates the
circadian rhythm, sleep wake cycle & it also slows down aging process. It
has psychic properties & is the seat of soul or mind - so called the third
eye. (Possibly that is why Tilak is done in the forehead - in front of pineal
and yogis do meditation with closed eyes, concentrating in between two
eyebrows.</span><span style="color: #0003ff; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It is the Agna (Ajna) chakra of tantrik system. Its
activation can be done with prolonged yoga & meditation techniques or
through practice of solar energy. The later does not use classic yoga steps.</span><span style="color: #0003ff; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As per recent research in animals; Pineal gland also
inhibits growth & metastasis of some tumors. It has a stimulatory effect on
the immune system. In birds & other animals, it has a magnetic material
& is therefore the navigation centre in birds. Scientists are looking at
magnetic, navigatory properties of the pineal gland in humans. Further, through
the secretion of serotonin, it is involved in psychic experiences, synaptic
transmission and several unknown powerful occult powers. A lot of research is
required to validate this, though some initial studies have already supported
this view, e.g. the chemical structure of LSD (a drug used for psychic
experiences) is similar to serotonin.</span><span style="color: #0003ff; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So pineal activation and charging through solar
energy is the vital step & that is the doorway of energy highway. This may
be kundlini shakti activation, in other words.</span><span style="color: #0003ff; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Normal Pineal gland measures 6 x 8 mm in human body.
As per C.T.Scan & MRI Scan reports of Mr.Hira Ratan Manek it is 8 x 11 mm.
(enlarged!) This may indirectly support the important role of pineal gland in
energy transformation. However it is not necessary that anatomic enlargement
always reflects hyperfunction . The increased hormonal secretion i.e. melatonin
and serotonin levels should also be measured. Even without anatomical
enlargement, there can be hyperfunction. Then we should study the pineal size
and hormonal level in all psychically and spiritually evolved people or all
people with extraordinary capacities.</span><span style="color: #0003ff; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ever since mankind has started ignoring the
psychically and Spiritually equipped pineal gland it has fallen on merely
physical-material plane & therefore endless pains have fallen on the
mankind.</span><span style="color: #0003ff; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mankind must now relearn to activate pineal &
the other psychospiritual bodies either through cosmic energy dynamics or
through practice of Rajyoga or the Tantrik ways or other such practices. (One
can imagine that high voltage energy transmission through shaktipat as
occasionally yogis do to transfer energy in to their esteem disciples may be
utilizing pineal gland or similar bodies). Kundlini Shakti is said to be activated
through these & happiness & bliss with peace are bound to follow.</span><span style="color: #0003ff; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This solar (light and heat) energy may be
transformed into electrical, magnetic or chemical energies in body. Once
processed, this energy must be transported & must be stored somewhere. Actually
the ultimate form of all energies is light. Energy & light can be
transformed into matter & back again to energy.</span><span style="color: #0003ff; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Hypothalamus is the commander of autonomic nervous
system & pineal gland is in proximity to hypothalamus and is connected to
it through autonomic nerves. So it is logical that new energy transportation
may either activate this system or it may use this system as vehicle.
Parasympathetic nerves & its hormones & chemicals may be more useful
than the sympathetic system. As sympathetic system increases body needs (e.g.
thinking, fighting stress, excitement etc.), parasympathetic system is known to
reduce the energy needs. It keeps the person serene & at mental peace and
alters the metabolic requirements to a lower state & puts it to sleep. We
can also hypothesize that there may be other hormones, or chemicals too,
involved in this complex energy transportation system. It is well known that
pituitary and pineal glands are well connected through regulatory hormones and
nerves. While pituitary gland expresses and controls physical body, we have
seen that pineal expresses and controls mainly mental and spiritual bodies.</span><span style="color: #0003ff; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Thus intricate balance and harmony between the two
glands is very crucial point in the total (physical, mental, emotional and
spiritual) health or well-being of a human body, and it must be anyway
achieved.</span><span style="color: #0003ff; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The role of temporal lobe & limbic system also
may be important. It may work as a regulator, if not receptor and may be
psychically involved in directing the energy in proper pathways. Deep into the
limbic systems or in the parts of medulla oblongata, this energy may ultimately
be stored & from time to time, may be recalled, charged or recycled.
Medulla oblongata has all vital centres & therefore can be proposed as
store of vital energy.</span><span style="color: #0003ff; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Thus there are energy receivers or receptors,
processors, analyzers, modulators, transformers, transporters, stores (organ or
bodies) etc. to explain the energy logistics.</span><span style="color: #0003ff; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As this form of energy mathematics is different from
what we conventionally are used to, in form of food & calorie mathematics;
we will call this food as microfood or mind utilization food.</span><span style="color: #0003ff; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apart from the retina & the pineal gland, skin
& other senses may also be responsible for receiving energies from these
different sources. In short, this opens up tremendous possibilities, which will
need a very sincere effort from us to crystallize and to practice it for
welfare of mankind. This micro food can solve food crisis on earth, & in fact,
is the only possible food in present context for somebody who wants to be a
long-term space traveler or planet traveler. Amazing! It is time to note that
our routine food is not the only source to sustain the body.</span><span style="color: #0003ff; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The role of mind: It is well known that the mind has
enormous capacity, (The soul has even further or infinite capabilities).
Through Sun Tratak & Meditation, tremendous capacities are attained, which
will bring tranquility to mind and also slow down metabolism. Mind can do everything including so-called miracles. It can revitalize
body, it can heal diseases, it can know things in advance & it can
manipulate laws of physics. The phenomena of telepathy, reading somebody’s
thoughts, teleporting the things, bending the items, all are very well known
examples of human mind capacities. If a strong mind decides to do unusual fasting,
it can certainly do. It is unclear till this date whether mind is a separate
entity or the pineal gland it self. According to some, each cell has mind and
thus in other words mind is a diffuse electromagnetic and biochemical
continuous process. And one thing is clear, that out of all the body organs, the
mind has a direct access to cosmic energy. Our mind is an invagination or
outpouching of cosmic mind and cosmic energy, and pineal in that case would be
the knob-important hub of the mind.</span><span style="color: #0003ff; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #000bd9; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Shri Hira Ratan Manek looks at the rising sun daily,
with the naked eye and without blinking the eyes, as far as possible. To look
for a few seconds initially and then every week to increase by few seconds to
ultimately reach up to several minutes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">HRM was
not the only person who decided upon such a plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is evident from reading the scriptures that long periods
of fasting in the desert or wilderness not only provided extended periods of
time in direct sunlight, but walking and resting upon the energy filled soil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Mikhael
Aivanhov was a famed Hungarian teacher who advocated to his students that they
must look into the sun. Certainly whole civilizations have given themselves to
the worship of the sun. Rudolph Steiner (recent Western Spiritual Scientist and
originator of Anthroposophy) taught that the Christ Being inhabited the Sun and
spread His energy thus, from the sun to us. </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Aurobindo
taught that the sun was the seat of the Supermind energy, as quoted by Georges
Van Vrekehm in Overman pg. 97 Rupa & Co. (2001); New Delhi: "It (the
Mind) always vaguely remembers the fundamental Unity at its base; therefore it
cannot but persistently try to recover that Unity, which is the clouded Sun
behind all human strivings. It is that Sun, that Unity, the Supermind which
upholds all existing things, even when they apparently seem to be separated or
self-existent." </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">HRM
decided to experiment cautiously. He also submitted himself to medical study as
he began to look at the sun for seconds at a time, during the early dawn when
the sun was weakest. He increased his ability little by little, until he was
able to gaze for a full thirty minutes. At the same time he made it a point to
walk the earth barefooted, the hot earth. His explanation is that not only was he
able to absorb energy, the sun's energy, through the eyes (to have it energize
the brain and the commanding endocrine glands such as the pineal and the
pituitary) but also that he was able to draw force up from the earth and
especially through the feet, where every organ of the body is represented in
reflexology. </span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">He found that there is a North-South flow, the earth being
the North, the sun being the South--and flowing through the central, governing
vessel of the body. He made certain that he was followed by and advised by
physicians, who constantly studied him. </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">When
asked if he would be willing to give a year of his life to science, his answer
was "Yes." Accordingly, he left his family (with their full consent)
and was asked to fast for 365 days. However, because of certain indications in
the Hindu literature, he felt that 411 days was a more auspicious time. And so
the date was set. </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In the
beginning he lost 90 pounds, but no muscle tissue. He found himself to be
progressively healthier, calmer, happier. Former disorders such as anxiety,
fear, worry and self-occupation left him. Physical ailments were no longer
present. He lived on water and sunlight alone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">His body
looked so whole: slender, but graceful, firm, with smooth and elegant
movements. He had a calmness about him that was also accompanied by a quiet
self-assuredness. </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A majority of the information in this section is taken from several articles on Shri Hira Ratan Manek. Please bear with the length of this. There are some very key points regarding the change that light has on him due to his fast.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">What are the Cosmic Sources of Energy? Plain and
simple: Solar Energy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Everything exists because of the sun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All by products are secondary sources
of light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They could be commonly
thought of as the certain elements of life on earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plants, water, and all living beings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything is energized by the sun</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Mankind is using solar energy for running solar
cookers, solar heaters, and solar cars through solar batteries, etc. Similarly
Shri Hira Ratan Manek (H.R.M.) has almost converted himself into a kind of a
solar cooker and has solar batteries activated in him. The solar energy has two
components, the light and the heat (temperature). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">How then is SUN energy received? The Brain & the
mind are the most powerful recipients in the human body. The retina & the pineal
gland (The third eye or the seat of soul as per <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rene Descartes</i>) are equipped with photoreceptor cells and may be
considered photosensitive organs.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">As the plant kingdom thrives on chlorophyll &
photosynthesis, directly dependant on the Sun, similarly, some kind of
photosynthesisor photoanalysis must be taking place when we hypothesize Sun
energy. Through complex ways and distinct pathways this energy must enter the
body. Is it a direct entry into the physical body, or it enters through auras
of human body (please refer to Karelian photography). This has yet to be
examined. It is quite possible that human aura plays a modulating role for
allowing this energy into the physical body.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">There is a pathway from the retina, to the
hypothalamus, called the retinohypothalamic tract. This brings information
about the dark & light cycles to supra chiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the
hypothalamus. From the SCN, impulses along the nerve travel via the pineal
nerve (Sympathetic nervous system) to the pineal gland. These impulses inhibit
the production of melatonin. When these impulses stop (at night or in dark,
when the light no longer stimulates the hypothalamus) pineal inhibition ceases,
& melatonin is released. The pineal gland (or the third eye) is therefore a
photosensitive organ & an important timekeeper for the human body. The
unexplored process of energy synthesis & transformation from the sun energy
perhaps partly occurs here.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">While going through the details of recent scientific
literature & also comparing it with ancient Indian spiritual texts, as well
as Western occult & new age, the following things are apparent.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">The activation of the pineal gland is the key step
in psychic, spiritual & energy transformation processes. Here, in this
gland, energy processing & re-distribution might be taking place. The pineal
gland is the subtle commander of all endocrine glands, therefore controlling
the humeral system. Through secretion of melatonin, it also regulates the
circadian rhythm, sleep wake cycle & it also slows down aging process. It
has psychic properties & is the seat of soul or mind - so called the third
eye. (Possibly that is why Tilak is done in the forehead - in front of pineal
and yogis do meditation with closed eyes, concentrating in between two
eyebrows.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Activation of the pineal gland can be done with prolonged yoga & meditation techniques or
through practice of solar energy. The later does not use classic yoga steps.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">As per recent research in animals; Pineal gland also
inhibits growth & metastasis of some tumors. It has a stimulatory effect on
the immune system. In birds & other animals, it has a magnetic material
& is therefore the navigation centre in birds. Scientists are looking at
magnetic, navigatory properties of the pineal gland in humans. Further, through
the secretion of serotonin, it is involved in psychic experiences, synaptic
transmission and several unknown powerful occult powers. A lot of research is
required to validate this, though some initial studies have already supported
this view, e.g. the chemical structure of LSD (a drug used for psychic
experiences) is similar to serotonin.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">So pineal activation and charging through solar
energy is the vital step & that is the doorway of energy highway. This may
be kundlini shakti activation, in other words.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Normal Pineal gland measures 6 x 8 mm in human body.
As per C.T.Scan & MRI Scan reports of Mr.Hira Ratan Manek it is 8 x 11 mm.
(enlarged!) This may indirectly support the important role of pineal gland in
energy transformation. However it is not necessary that anatomic enlargement
always reflects hyperfunction . The increased hormonal secretion i.e. melatonin
and serotonin levels should also be measured. Even without anatomical
enlargement, there can be hyperfunction. Then we should study the pineal size
and hormonal level in all psychically and spiritually evolved people or all
people with extraordinary capacities.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Ever since mankind has started ignoring the
psychically and Spiritually equipped pineal gland it has fallen on merely
physical-material plane & therefore endless pains have fallen on the
mankind.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Mankind must now relearn to activate pineal &
the other psychospiritual bodies either through cosmic energy dynamics or
through practice of Rajyoga or the Tantrik ways or other such practices. (One
can imagine that high voltage energy transmission through shaktipat as
occasionally yogis do to transfer energy in to their esteem disciples may be
utilizing pineal gland or similar bodies). Kundlini Shakti is said to be activated
through these & happiness & bliss with peace are bound to follow.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">This solar (light and heat) energy may be
transformed into electrical, magnetic or chemical energies in body. Once
processed, this energy must be transported & must be stored somewhere. Actually
the ultimate form of all energies is light. Energy & light can be
transformed into matter & back again to energy.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Hypothalamus is the commander of autonomic nervous
system & pineal gland is in proximity to hypothalamus and is connected to
it through autonomic nerves. So it is logical that new energy transportation
may either activate this system or it may use this system as vehicle.
Parasympathetic nerves & its hormones & chemicals may be more useful
than sympathetic system. As sympathetic system increases body needs (e.g.
thinking, fighting stress, excitement etc.), parasympathetic system is known to
reduce the energy needs. It keeps the person serene & at mental peace and
alters the metabolic requirements to a lower state & puts it to sleep. We
can also hypothesize that there may be other hormones, or chemicals too,
involved in this complex energy transportation system. It is well known that
pituitary and pineal glands are well connected through regulatory hormones and
nerves. While pituitary gland expresses and controls physical body, we have
seen that pineal expresses and controls mainly mental and spiritual bodies.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Thus intricate balance and harmony between the two
glands is very crucial point in the total (physical, mental, emotional and
spiritual) health or well-being of a human body, and it must be anyway
achieved.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">The role of temporal lobe & limbic system also
may be important. It may work as a regulator, if not receptor and may be
psychically involved in directing the energy in proper pathways. Deep into the
limbic systems or in the parts of medulla oblongata, this energy may ultimately
be stored & from time to time, may be recalled, charged or recycled.
Medulla oblongata has all vital centres & therefore can be proposed as
store of vital energy.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Thus there are energy receivers or receptors,
processors, analyzers, modulators, transformers, transporters, stores (organ or
bodies) etc. to explain the energy logistics.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">As this form of energy mathematics is different from
what we conventionally are used to, in form of food & calorie mathematics;
we will call this food as microfood or mind utilization food
(ManobhakshiAahar).</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Apart from the retina & the pineal gland, skin
& other senses may also be responsible for receiving energies from these
different sources. In short, this opens up tremendous possibilities, which will
need a very sincere effort from us to crystallize and to practice it for
welfare of mankind. This micro food can solve food crisis on earth, & in
fact, is the only possible food in present context for somebody who wants to be
a long-term space traveler or planet traveler. Amazing! It is time to note that
our routine food is not the only source to sustain the body.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">The role of mind: Whatever said, in this step, (i.e.
the Step 2 of deriving the energy from the sun & transforming it in body.)
the mind may be playing the crucial role. It is well known that the mind has
enormous capacity, (The soul has even further or infinite capabilities).
Through Sun Tratak & Meditation, tremendous capacities are attained, which
will bring tranquility to mind and also slow down metabolism, as mentioned in
step 1. Mind can do everything including so-called miracles. It can revitalize
body, it can heal diseases, it can know things in advance & it can manipulate
laws of physics. The phenomena of telepathy, reading somebody’s thoughts,
teleporting the things, bending the items, all are very well known examples of
human mind capacities. If a strong mind decides to do unusual fasting, it can
certainly do. It is unclear till this date whether mind is a separate entity or
the pineal gland it self. According to some, each cell has mind and thus in
other words mind is a diffuse electromagnetic and biochemical continuous
process. And one thing is clear, that out of all the body organs, the mind has
a direct access to cosmic energy. Our mind is an invagination or outpouching of
cosmic mind and cosmic energy, and pineal in that case would be the
knob-important hub of the mind.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Shri Hira Ratan Manek looks at the rising sun daily,
with the naked eye and without blinking the eyes, as far as possible. To look
for a few seconds initially and then every week to increase by few seconds to
ultimately reach up to several minutes. </span></div>
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body and spirit. At a conference I was attending, I began having a
conversation with a dear friend regarding the state of the body of someone who
fasts. I explained that fasting promotes the alkali state in the body.
While having this discussion, one of my friends commenced to tell me an
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">She had lost a little daughter some years ago. Evidently she fell
off something and hit her head. By the time my friend found her, the
child had stopped breathing. The paramedics were unable to arouse her.
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">The doctor commented to my friend that they tested the deceased child's
blood and it was highly acidic. Evidently there is a level shown in blood
samples that tell of the deterioration of the blood to the point that modern
medical techniques cannot revive a person to life. This is indicated by a highly
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">I am sure you are wondering what this has to do with fasting. But
please bear with me. I have more to share that will show you the
connections between this little girl and her acidic state and fasting.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Everything that I have ever studied about the fasting situation is to bring
us into the literal presence of Christ. There must needs be some change
that takes place in our bodies that will allow us to abide His light.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">My dear friend went on to share with me some of her research about the
alkaline state of the body. If you are not aware of the perfect pH
balance, it is registered in the fluids of the body, i.e., urine, blood, etc.,
at 7.4. My sacred geometry and chiasmus research has indicated that
without exception, the number 7 is involved with being in the presence of light.
Even medical tests and hertz readings in the 7’s range are quite
interesting and connected to life thriving levels. Let me continue.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">She then told me of a man that had been involved in the most extensive
fast ever recorded. It lasted for 411 and is heavily documented and attended by
a multitude of mostly very skeptical physicians. I, too, was skeptical, but very fascinated. I had to find out for myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">The gentleman who performed this is Sri Hira Manek Ratan Ji, (referred
to as HRM) from </span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Ahmedabad, India</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">. By trade,
HRM was an engineer. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">He had studied the ancient literature and had learned of advanced
humans (throughout the ages) who had the ability to fast for extremely long
periods of time, and who had taken their energy from the sun. This was the
highly regarded literature of the Vedas and Upanishads.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">HRM walked in the sun for long periods of time. He left his profession
and dedicated himself entirely to his spiritual commitment. As he kept walking
in the sun, he felt progressively energized. He also felt less and less need to
eat food. There was no compulsion to do a fast; no will power was necessary,
just a lessened desire for food, but an increase in energy. One day, he came to
the conclusion that he must bring the sun's energy directly into his brain--and
the best way to do that would be through the eyes. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> So he began
feasting upon the light of the sun, both in gazing at the sun, and in walking
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19 out of the 22 civilizations that have been on the earth have fallen from the inside. It makes sense. If you are riddled with disease, you will eventually die without some kind of aid. If we as a people turn away the very creator of our being, the creator of this great world and this great nation, then why would be believe we should be anything other than a disease-ridden body, ready to throw in the towel.<br />
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On the other hand, if we were to turn our attentions back to Him who loves us, can heal us, can deliver us, can protect us, wouldn't that be celebration to give up a few meals of a meager sustenance, and turn to the table to feast with the greatest company that lives, even Christ himself.<br />
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This summer I learned something quite interesting about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War.<br />
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That war, like all others, was miserable. And it dragged on forever. The men that represented the North were dragging their feet. Families were battling with one another. Men were away from their homes and families. I am posting this in its entirety for you to read. May it bless you and your endeavors to love God and be found on the right hand side of He who loves us most.<br />
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<strong><span>Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day</span><br /><span>Washington, D.C.</span><br /><span>March 30, 1863</span></strong></center>
<strong>(Senator James Harlan of Iowa, whose daughter later married President Lincoln's son Robert, introduced this Resolution in the Senate on March 2, 1863. The Resolution asked President Lincoln to proclaim a national day of prayer and fasting. The Resolution was adopted on March 3, and signed by Lincoln on March 30.)</strong><br />
<strong>By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation.</strong><br />
<strong>Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation. And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord. And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?</strong><br />
<strong>We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.</strong><br />
<strong>Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, and fully concurring in the views of the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation, designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th. day of April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer. And I do hereby request all the People to abstain, on that day, from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion. All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the Nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less than the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided and suffering Country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace.</strong><br />
<strong>In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty seventh.</strong><br />
<strong>By the President: Abraham Lincoln<br />William H. Seward, Secretary of State.</strong><br />
<strong>(Source: The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler.)</strong><br />
Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07014929289033051037noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970773062027324340.post-20955017967526104742012-08-28T22:02:00.000-07:002012-08-28T22:02:04.207-07:00Famine, Fasting and FeastingI apologize for the lengthy time I have been apart. I have never once stopped thinking of the fast, but because of my life experiences, I have been able to lend a much more textured and colorful picture to share with you. Please be patient. I love a good rabbit trail<br />
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I have been combing the scriptures looking for things that have to do with fasting and with food, eating, nourishment, being satisfied, meat and milk, teeth (which of course would chew up the food), and preparation for the food. I have found words such as famine and feasting, all different kinds of food which indicate certain kinds of kosher edibles as well as dietary restrictions galore. Grapes and wine, foods that are sweet and delicious, fruits in their season, as well as having the tools to masticate meat, or simply drink that which is a simple product, like milk.<br />
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Leviticus is lengthy and tedious in this right. In fact, any food code, adhered to because you are studying the practice of eating certain foods, or not eating certain foods is Mosaic at best. It is tiresome and boring. It is rules, rules, rules. There is something so much greater about food than what NOT to eat. The key is what <i>IS</i> given us to eat.<br />
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Probably the easiest food code for what is good for the body to consume is succinctly laid out in D&C 89. But not the entire list of foods, just those to eat with thanksgiving and prudence. They are fruits and vegetables in their season. This is not a diatribe on what veggies to eat in your green smoothie. Far from it. Actually, what I learned that caught my eye was more about how food is compared to a seed, and how everything that grows (that can create life) comes from a seed. Immediately reminded me of the first commandment given to Adam and Eve. Multiply and fill the earth. Certainly that is what a seed does when it is planted.<br />
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All the food that was given to Daniel to eat, which was called pulse, is regenerative. All of it possessed seeds that could be planted in the soil and food could be grown from it. The correspondence of GMO foods which are proven to cause sterility on the third generation (all have been altered by the hand of man) show that when man tampers with that which grows, it has been proven to become sterile, unyielding, and also unhealthy. How much do we really need someone to interpret our understanding of a seedling putting up its first leaves? Could it be that there is so much tampering with the original seed, or in this case, the word, that we aren't getting the intended nutrition any longer? Have we been eating so much 'food' from the hands of wicked and conspiring men that we no longer feel the stimulation of the delicious taste of the pure word of God?<br />
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What if we really decided to take advantage of a fasting situation and turn it into a feasting situation, with a more clear understanding of how pure doctrine -- scripture and the word of the Lord -- would turn into a feast of such magnitude that it would be impossible to measure the greatness. We wouldn't have arms to hold all the blessings; certainly not plates to hold all the food.<br />
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Alma said that he wanted to compare the 'word' to a seed. That word, which was untampered with, pure and unadulterated, is something that is alive, and has the capacity to grow into a living faith in Jesus Christ. We are taught that by their fruits, ye shall know them. If the truth is in us, it is alive and we are alive because of it. We will manifest life, multiplying and filling the world with the light of Christ in our countenances.<br />
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We learn that fasting and prayer, or in other words "rejoicing and prayer" is evidently not a starvation situation, but that of a feast. Think of a feast. You would have at least several people in attendance and they would be having a great time.<br />
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If I am to feast upon the words of Christ, that they will tell me all things that I should do, that they will literally lead me to his presence, I could think of nothing I would want on my plate more than a feast of words that testify of His perfect and enduring love for me and the effect of these words upon my heart. Like Joseph Smith stated, they would be sweet to me. Oh, how I love my sugar.<br />
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I decided from my little study on the famine of the word that went out to the world, recognizing that the famine was NOT having the word, the truth of the Lord. The fast could bring that to us if we decided that everyday we would make a very concerted effort to find that food, even the word of God, and make sure we have supped well at that table. Through continued effort to set that table and and let the Lord provide for our unquenchable desire to drink of living water and partake of the feast only the Savior can serve up, we can understand the need and desire to fast from the things of this world. We make room for all that is real, that is lovely, that is of good report. <br />
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Read the 23rd Psalm and find out what a feast the Lord will prepare for us if we will but ask Him to be our chef, our host, our friend. He will provide such a blessing for us. Yes, fasting is indescribably delicious--and equally powerful.Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07014929289033051037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2970773062027324340.post-25715278723730314002012-07-10T09:37:00.001-07:002012-07-10T09:37:08.821-07:00Famous Fasts<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: #222b2c; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">I get a constant flood of
emails telling me about how wicked Obama is, his latest and most deviousness
coming to light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today I read
about the travesty of the Boy Scouts and his rejection of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see his blatant dislike for our
great flag that represents untold numbers of valiant men and women who gave
their lives to secure our freedom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once again we are groaning under the heavy hand of oppression by a
wicked ruler, and there is very little sign of it giving way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So much evil has already been but into
play by this man, who stands as the outside of powerful machinations
orchestrated by the very author of evil himself. My concern about changing this
is ever with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222b2c; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Many people are
complaining; The level of participation from registered voters to take
responsibility to right this problem is appalling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But even if people were all to go to the polls and vote for
a man who would try to lead us out of harm’s way, we are still dealing with the
frailties of human flesh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Man is
so capable of being led astray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
was looking for someone to come and deliver me with supreme power and
authority. I want Christ to come and be my King.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222b2c; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Personal example and the
power of suggestion are incredibly powerful tools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was because of my extreme concern over my land of promise
that I began to study the fast. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
was looking for something I could do to make a difference. I have compiled some
historic information regarding famous fasts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most recent one was in 1863, called by President Abraham
Lincoln.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another was in an equally
difficult time in history for the Jews. It is told in the book of Esther in the
Old Testament, which takes place around 600 BC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The last example takes place in the Book of Mormon, which
was in this very United States of American around the year 45 BC .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222b2c; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan,
and </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2d5c9f; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">fast</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222b2c; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> ye for me, and
neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast
likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">is</span> not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2d5c9f; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222b2c; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther
had commanded him.</span></i><span style="color: #222b2c; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> Esther 4:16-17<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">By the President of the United States of America. A
Proclamation.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly
recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all
the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the
President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their
dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and
transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance
will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in
the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed
whose God is the Lord. And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law,
nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this
world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now
desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our
presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole
People?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties
of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity.
We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown.
But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand, which preserved
us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have
vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings
were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with
unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of
redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It
behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our
national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, and
fully concurring in the views of the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation,
designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th. day of April, 1863, as a day of
national humiliation, fasting and prayer. And I do hereby request all the
People to abstain, on that day, from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to
unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in
keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the
religious duties proper to that solemn occasion. All this being done, in
sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the
Divine teachings, that the united cry of the Nation will be heard on high, and
answered with blessings, no less than the pardon of our national sins, and the
restoration of our now divided and suffering Country, to its former happy
condition of unity and peace.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of
Washington, this thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the
eighty seventh.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">By the President: Abraham
Lincoln William H. Seward, Secretary of State.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222b2c; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Nevertheless they did </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2d5c9f; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">fast</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222b2c; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> and </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2d5c9f; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">pray</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222b2c; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> oft, and did wax stronger and stronger in their </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2d5c9f; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">humility</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222b2c; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">, and firmer
and firmer in the faith of Christ, unto the filling their souls with joy and
consolation, yea, even to the </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2d5c9f; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">purifying</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222b2c; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> and the </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2d5c9f; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">sanctification</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222b2c; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> of their hearts, which sanctification cometh because of their </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2d5c9f; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">yielding</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222b2c; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> their hearts
unto God.</span></i><span style="color: #222b2c; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> Heleman 3:35 Book of Mormon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222b2c; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Not only were they blessed
and protected by the fast, but their hearts were changed. Something great happened
to this entire people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had
joy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were consoled. They were
sanctified.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What would happen if we
were to fast, to show our love and obedience to the commandments of God, to
prove to Him that He is our lawgiver, our leader, our very Savior and Redeemer?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can one person make any
difference?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we shared this with
those we loved who love this great nation, could something great and powerful
happen like the exposing of a wicked man in office, a nation at war with
itself? A people oppressed?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It is my humble prayer
that such a thing will happen, that those who are a small number can make a
very large difference, if we are united in a cause as great as this.</span></div>
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