The Melchizedek Chronicles – Synchronizing the Body – Mind – Soul – Spirit - your gifts from the Creator.

We know we are created by God, the “Unknowable One,” God.  We are all children of the same God.  We are given our physical life, the Body and Mind, through DNA and procreation.  We are given our Divine life through the Soul and Spirit.

There are a lot of miracles in God’s creation.  So just how does this all work?

Quite simple from a Divine perspective, but a lot more complex from the human perspective.  The most important thing to remember is that humans must be quite special in terms of God’s creations because we possess both the limited mortality of our physical body and mind and the immortality of our Divine Soul and Spirit.

When I was in college back in the 1960’s, during what was most likely the most turbulent decade in the history of mankind, there was a rather unusual comedy ensemble called the Firesign Theater.

They performed vignettes like radio shows, skits you might find in clubs and dinner theater.

Their second album was called, “How can you be two places at once when you’re not anywhere at all?  I saw them in California and was enchanted by the possibilities.

Well that just might describe the strange interaction and interdependence that is present between the physical and Divine aspects of your existence.  How can you be mortal and immortal simultaneously, existing in separate realms, and make any sense of your life?

Your physical Body is earthbound, while your Soul moves freely across dimensions between the Divine Kingdom of Heaven and the physical existence on Earth.  Both Body and Soul unite when on Earth, but when the physical body dies the Soul returns to the Kingdom to prepare for the next assignment, incarnation on earth.

While we refer to the various lifetimes you experience as reincarnations, it is a bit more complex.  Without your body and mind being involved, since your Soul and Spirit find a new physical body to fuse with, it is only the memories of past lifetimes stored away in your Soul that provides a link to your past, albeit a small one indeed.

At this point I can only look to Lewis Carroll who wrote “Through the Looking Glass,” when Alice left the safety, sanity and security of her home and enter the land where “nothing was as it seems.”  Only by embracing the reality of Wonderland could Alice escape Wonderland and return to her home.

Are you prepared to enter the land where nothing is as it seems?  Are you ready to discover the rest of the story about who you really are and what you are capable of doing?

Your human mind, part of your physical heritage, is far more than a functional organ of the human body.  It was gifted with the five senses, the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch to help guide it through our physical time on earth.  That function of the brain alone requires a rather complex series of miracles.

You have your own internal processor, the mind, that surpasses the computer processing power of even the most sophisticated super-computers or capacity of Artificial Intelligence (AI).  Remember, AI was invented by mankind in the first place.

No machine, however, has a divine Soul like you.  When the mind and Soul work in harmony, you tap into a most powerful resource, for the Soul is the depository for your memories, all the knowledge and wisdom you can accumulate.

In addition to all the other features and functions of the Soul, such as providing your moral and ethical code, it also is host to your memories, and remember, the Soul is immortal.

Within the confines of the Soul rest three distinct memory banks.  The first holds all the memories of your last life on Earth.  The second holds all the memories of your previous incarnations on Earth, which could be a rather substantial number.  The third holds your memories of the Kingdom of Heaven where you go to reside and plan your next reincarnation on earth.

After your physical death the memory of your most recent life on earth is dominant, because it is freshest.  Upon death your immortal Soul and Spirit are intended to return to the Kingdom to make preparations for your next life on earth.

Before that can happen, however, you must atone for the sins of your more recent life.  While your Spirit departs for the Kingdom, the Soul must remain and undertake a thorough examination of your recent life.

With the help of divine entities like Angels you must undertake an intensive self-evaluation, identifying all the wrong choices you made with your free will.  In addition, each time the Soul returns to earth you have a predetermined mission to fulfill.  Your success and failures must also be assessed to measure your progress in fulfilling your life plan.

Some people believe reincarnation is a way to come back and fix the problems next time.  That is not the way of God.  Whatever you did or did not do in relation to your free will and progress on your plan must be identified, and you must take responsibility for your actions.  It must be done immediately after your lifetime during the period of self-reflection.

You must remember, acknowledge and take responsibility for your recent life, then serve whatever penance is deemed appropriate to atone for your misdeeds.  Only then can you forgive yourself.

This can delay your Soul’s journey back to the Kingdom as it must complete the purification process before returning to the sanctity of the Kingdom.  The Soul is cleansed and your frequency is restored to that of Heaven, significantly higher than the low density of earth.  Your purification must then be sanctified by Jesus on behalf of the Father.

This delay for purification is what humans often confuse with being sent to Purgatory at the time of final judgement.  Instead of being penance at the final judgement, the real purification takes place after every lifetime, it is an ongoing process of the Soul cycle of purification, not final judgement.

Once you have completed the process and are back in the Kingdom your recent life memories are moved to the memory bank for all prior incarnations.  You can expect the last life memories are a very small component of your cumulative lifetime memories of spiritual evolution.

As your memories of life absorb the latest additions, your memories of the Kingdom come to the forefront and reawaken, reminding you of the perfect love of God that created you and all of Creation, and your final destiny of returning to Oneness with the “Unknowable One.”

Remember, God loves all God’s Creations.  Are you using this time on earth to fulfill the Father’s Will to love and honor not only fellow humans but all of God’s Creations? 

The Melchizedek Chronicles – Who are You? Where did You come from? Why are you here?

  Do You really want to know the answers?

The highly hailed philosopher, Popeye the Sailor Man, summed it up best when he blurted out, “I y'am what I y'am, that’s all that I ya'am, and that’s all that I ever can be!”

Quite an acute observation regarding the first question for a cartoon character.  In truth he probably said it to impress the love of his life, Olive Oil, but it will work for our answer as well.

So, we am what we am, that’s all that we am and that’s all that we ever can be.

Maybe, but not quite.  It depends on the answer to the second and third questions and they make things a lot more interesting.

You see mankind, humankind, or people-kind have spent billions of years trying to answer the question where did we come from.  We used science, logic, theology, physics, astronomy and magic and still have no clue.

Rather than spend time debating the merits of the various theories and conspiracies about our origin or creation, we can all agree that we are yet to prove how we came to be.  In fact, for many in the human race, you are yet to even ask the question.

For all of us who do not know the answer, let me share what Melchizedek said in his Chronicles about the subject.  He does not suffer the limitations of a physical body and mind.  Existing beyond the time and space of our little world, and the limits of our dimension, he knows what we are yet to discover.

Some of the brightest minds in human history have discovered the Truth, that there is a Supreme Being, a Creator, Source of all that is and will be.  You can call it God, Allah, Yahweh, Jehovah, Lord, or whatever, it is still the Supreme Being.

Abraham, father of mankind, knew it and so did Moses.  The ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Celtics, Druids, Persians and Chinese Taoists knew it along with the founders of Judaism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Buddhism and Islamism.  They all recognized some kind of Supreme Being we call the Creator.

That is what we concluded over our billions of years of existence.  Melchizedek, from his perspective of being in the company of the Creator, says we are right.  He knows what we have never been able to prove to our own satisfaction.

Since science, technology, theology and philosophy can prove nothing about Creation, then let them prove Melchizedek is wrong.

Melchizedek says God, at the beginning of time as we know it, created all that is in our world in a gigantic, instantaneous explosion of seven concentric circles of creative thought.  All of God’s creation has the ability to recreate itself forever improving, adapting, evolving and regenerating until the end of time.  Everything, including us humans, are the creations of God along with the angels, spirits, and whatever else we are yet to discover.

Considering humans, we are a bit more complex than many other creations.  At the beginning of time our homo sapiens DNA was created along with everything else but it took a few billion years for earth, our destined home, to evolve from a gaseous state at the moment of creation to a solid planet with natural resources, gravity, and the appropriate atmosphere to support human life.

As for the human creation, there are four unique components to all human life – the Body and Mind from the physical realm - and the Soul and Spirit from the spiritual realm.  Add to that the Free Will, another gift from our Creator, and we have the whole human.

God created us out of his Perfect Love, God loves all of his creations, and God will never give up on us no matter what we do with our Free Will.  As a result, redemption and salvation are essential elements to the human creation.

God made us, each and every one of us.  He created us with the power to procreate, to give God new sons and daughters, in order to assure our continuous existence.  At the same time, he created a Soul and Spirit in the spiritual realm to match with the Body and Mind in the physical realm.

Life begins at conception, and the baby becomes complete when the fetus leaves the safety of the womb and enters the world of gravity.  At that precise moment the Soul and Spirit from the spiritual realm fuse with the Body and Mind in the physical realm.

We are all children of God.  We are all equal in the eyes of God.  We all carry the male and female chromosomes for procreation can produce either gender.

The first generation of humans on earth were seeded throughout the planet once it achieved the right land mass, resources, gravity and atmosphere to support human life.  Every subsequent generation since the beginning of time was born on earth through procreation.  Today we are the direct descendants of the original fusing of the Soul and DNA and seeding of the planet Earth billions of years ago.

As I mentioned earlier, there are four distinct components to each human life, each the result of countless miracles of creation.  Our DNA carries the physical characteristics of the Body and Mind while the spiritual characteristics come from the Soul and Spirit.

  Physical                 Spiritual

Mind                           Soul

  Body                         Spirit

That is you, each of you, as God created you.  Unlike most of creation, you also possess the gift of a Free Will, the power to make choices.  There are times when your Free Will is stymied by the circumstances of the civilization and culture you might be born into which is part of God’s plan for you.

You see, God wants you to succeed.  Yet he also knows there are times you cannot succeed through no fault of your own.  To accommodate these deviations of life on Earth, it was necessary to give you gifts from both the physical and spiritual realms since the physical gifts are temporary to that particular lifetime while the spiritual gifts are immortal for all of time.

Your Body and Mind are physical manifestations on Earth, limited to the years you remain alive and the opportunities you may discover during that one lifetime in human form.

Your Soul and Spirit are from the Kingdom, outside of time, and they remain immortal through time and space.  They are your permanent (lifeline) connection to God.

God knew your spiritual evolution would be difficult.  He knew your Free Will was capable of making tragic decisions within a lifetime.  He also knew the collective consciousness of mankind, when misled, could capture Souls and lead them on the wrong path on Earth.

Which is why God why always considered “slavery” as the most despicable and heinous of all sins of man.  Those who would practice, advocate, impose or ignore slavery have deluded themselves into believing they can play God and take control of the lives and freedoms of God’s creations, fellow human beings.

God knew this would happen, and thus allows the Soul to continually return to Earth in human form through reincarnation, in order to complete the Soul’s spiritual awakening to your mission on Earth.

When your Soul manifests in human form on Earth your primary focus is your actions in physical form, subject to the political, cultural, geographic and slavery conditions prevalent at the time.

When you die in physical form your Soul returns to the safety and security of the Kingdom of Heaven where the primary focus of the Soul is preparing for the next physical manifestation on Earth in hopes of finding more favorable conditions amenable to doing God’s work in the Earth plane.

Remember, your Soul is immortal, transcends the limitations of life and death on Earth, preserves memories of your physical lives on Earth when you are back in the Kingdom, and preserves memories of God and the Kingdom when you are incarnated on Earth.

When you are in physical form your innate desire is to fulfill your higher purpose on Earth using all the resources available to you in terms of remembering your spiritual memories of the glory of the Kingdom, and remembering your previous memories of incarnations on Earth.

This includes the reservoirs of knowledge left for us to discover, enlightenment from the (Holy) Spirit within us, access to the angels and many spiritual entities prepared to help us if we call on them, and other gifts we are yet to discover.

God created you.  God will never abandon you.  And God will never give up on you.  Think about it.  Thanks to God’s gift of Free Will you can either embrace the Truth of God’s grace or pursue a path to try and disprove the Truth.  Ignoring the Truth is not an alternative.

Are Religious Doctrine and Dogma in need of an overhaul?

Are Religious Doctrine and Dogma in need of an overhaul?

Could it be that the time has come for the Catholic Church and all Christian religions to take a fresh new look at some of the teachings, doctrine and dogma that is based on the work of the Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical council of the Christian church, meeting in ancient Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey). It was called by the emperor Constantine I, an unbaptized catechumen, or neophyte, who presided over the opening session and took part in the discussions.

The result of the Council was the adoption of the earliest Bible and founding principles of Christianity.  A series of subsequent Councils, initiatives, Papal pronouncements and revelations has allowed the Church doctrine and dogma to be updated over the centuries including the clarification in Vatican II on the doctrine of the infallibility of the Pope.

Vatican II explained the doctrine of infallibility as follows: "Although the individual bishops do not enjoy the prerogative of infallibility, they can nevertheless proclaim Christ’s doctrine infallibly. This is so, even when they are dispersed around the world, provided that while maintaining the bond of unity among themselves and with Peter’s successor, and while teaching authentically on a matter of faith or morals, they concur in a single viewpoint as the one which must be held conclusively.

This authority is even more clearly verified when, gathered together in an ecumenical council, they are teachers and judges of faith and morals for the universal Church. Their definitions must then be adhered to with the submission of faith" (Lumen Gentium 25).

 
Infallibility belongs in a special way to the pope as head of the bishops (Matt. 16:17–19; John 21:15–17). As Vatican II remarked, it is a charism the pope "enjoys in virtue of his office, when, as the supreme shepherd and teacher of all the faithful, who confirms his brethren in their faith (Luke 22:32), he proclaims by a definitive act some doctrine of faith or morals.

Therefore, his definitions, of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church, are justly held irreformable, for they are pronounced with the assistance of the Holy Spirit, an assistance promised to him in blessed Peter." 

The infallibility of the pope is not a doctrine that suddenly appeared in Church teaching; rather, it is a doctrine which was implicit in the early Church. It is only our understanding of infallibility which has developed and been more clearly understood over time. In fact, the doctrine of infallibility is implicit in these Petrine texts: John 21:15–17 ("Feed my sheep . . . "), Luke 22:32 ("I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail"), and Matthew 16:18 ("You are Peter . . . "). 

What is the difference between Church doctrine and dogma?

In general, doctrine is all Church teaching in matters of faith and morals. Dogma is more narrowly defined as that part of doctrine which has been divinely revealed and which the Church has formally defined and declared to be believed as revealed.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains,

The Church’s magisterium exercises the authority it holds from Christ to the fullest extent when it defines dogmas, that is, when it proposes, in a form obliging the Christian people to an irrevocable adherence of faith, truths contained in divine Revelation or also when it proposes, in a definitive way, truths having a necessary connection with these. (CCC 88)

Dogma

According to the Cambridge Dictionary “dogma” is;

Dogma noun [U]

us /ˈdɔɡ·mə, ˈdɑɡ-/

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A fixed belief or set of beliefs that people are expected to accept without any doubts: [U] liberal/conservative dogma.

What a novel way to control one’s belief system. 

Dogma in ancient Greek was something that “seems true.”  Another Greek meaning literally is "that which one thinks is true."

Religious dogma concerns religions, which may or may not include the following: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Bahá'í Faith, Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Slavic neopaganism, Celtic polytheism, Heathenism (Germanic paganism), Semitic neopaganism, Wicca, Kemetism (Egyptian paganism), Hellenism (Greek paganism), Italo-Roman neopaganism.

Why would such a review be necessary?

For one, the world has changed dramatically since the founding of the Church.  We have advanced in many scientific and technological areas where things are possible that did not exist 2,000 years ago.  Some even have resulted in positive contributions to the message of Jesus and the Bible, while others have given us insights into Creation and evolution, both spiritual and physical, of mankind.

Just one example, the dating of Creation, was maybe 6,000 years based on Genesis but modern physics has estimated it to be at least 13.4 billion years old, with some estimates 16 billion years.

The dating of humans remains a difficult task because the physical body deteriorates and disappears in time, while the surface of the Earth is in a constant state of change through natural events.

Homo Sapiens, which carry the human DNA, have been recently discovered that are over 315,000 years old.  Previously, the oldest was 195,000 years old.  Yet we know the human body would not survive much beyond because of natural decomposition.

The truth is, we have no idea when homo sapiens first appeared on Earth.  What we do know is the Earth is at least 3.4 billion years old and the galaxies of which we are a part are 13.4 billion years old.

That would seem to be the moment of Creation as far as we know but we are constantly revising the date based on new scientific measurements and archeological findings.

I find it inconceivable that God created our galaxies 13.4 billion years ago then waited 13 billion years to create humans.  We have yet to explore the depths of the Earth for evidence of human activity so it is entirely possible God created humans 13.4 billion years ago, or more, and we have simply not discovered a way to document it, yet.

In the world I envision humans were indeed a part of the Big Bang of Creation as suggested by the Creation story, and our failure to document it is simply a matter of not having developed the technology to document it.

It also would mean there may very likely have been numerous civilizations that evolved and then disappeared in the course of human history, that we are yet to discover.

In the evolution of our galaxy and very own Earth there have been many natural cataclysmic events that might have substantially wiped out much of civilization, thus causing the human race to start over many times.

Science has proven there were four Ice Ages that made much of the Earth uninhabitable in those times.  We know super volcanoes such as Yellowstone have erupted and blocked off the healing energy of the Sun for years.  Meteors striking such as the one forming the Gulf of Mexico might have wiped out the mighty dinosaurs that once ruled the Earth and may have reduced human life.

History, as we know and prove it, has radically changed all we know about Creation and the evolution of humans, and if current trends continue we will continue to rewrite history as we seek out the moment of Creation.

Could Reincarnation be a viable Concept to explain Spiritual Evolution?

Our Bible details 6,000 years, we must unveil the truth about the remaining 13 billion years of time since Creation.  Until we do, reincarnation may be one of the best and most logical ways to explain human spiritual evolution available.

First, when I say reincarnation, I am not talking about coming back as an animal or rock, nor am I talking about coming back as or in the same human body.  What I understand it means is the soul finds a new body (fetus) to form a union with and be born.    

In spite of our bias, understanding, or convictions, reincarnation is not prohibited by either Catholic Church doctrine or dogma.  Over the years the Church has attempted to address it without much success.

Theological arguments against it seem hollow, especially in light of the potential that God created humans billions of years earlier than we think and the Bible said.  It only makes sense that an all-powerful God did not wait 13 billion years to add humans to his creation, but created them at the same time. Nothing can prove He did not.

Only Church dogma and doctrine not directly related to reincarnation but used to condemn the idea stands in the way of accepting the plausibility.  The union of body and soul when God breathed life into humans, accounts for the first humans, who were not even born but created.

Since all succeeding generations were conceived and born on Earth, there is a clear distinction between the original humans created and all others to come being born.  Yet it is clear the soul representing the spiritual side of the union could have come to Earth in many bodies over time without changing any concept in Church dogma or doctrine.

If each soul is unique as we are taught, and was created by God initially, that means there might have been many Adam and Eves seeding the Earth in order to have 7.6 billion souls walking the Earth today.

Bear in mind that as late as the time Jesus walked the Earth there were only 300 million inhabitants of Earth, fewer than in the United States alone today.  Where did all the new souls come from?

If you believe God took a personal interest in every unique soul and that all souls were created during the Creation process, the Big Bang, then the same God, all powerful and all knowing, might very well have made a sacred compact with the soul covering as many lifetimes as needed for the soul to complete or fail, the physical mission on Earth.

Such a scenario does not preclude or prohibit the concept of Heaven and Hell nor does it conflict with any other doctrine or dogma of the Church.  It simply makes sense that God would give all souls the chance to use their free will on earth and earn their place in the Kingdom.

Physical death is not a bad thing but a necessary step toward spiritual evolution.  Yet babies that die in childbirth or from abortion never have an opportunity to experience or evolve in their one lifetime on Earth.  Why would God deny them the chance to experience life when the soul, which is forever, could come back?

The same is true of the many souls that do experience life on Earth.  They have no control over their death, and often times can be a victim of others (a car wreck or terrorist explosion), or lured into drugs and death by Satan.  Surely God knows His creations and if his intent is love and good, he would give them a chance to live life in order to redeem themselves.