A PURE BODY is an instrument to EXPRESS GOD

God is both spirit and matter.
God the Heavenly Father is spirit.
God the Earthly Mother is Matter.

PETE'S JOURNAL, December 2001

12-1-01
My inner Voice whispers to me often every day to, " Remember who you are." "You are not an old man named, Pete, you are ageless, you are the Christ." "Remember every minute of the day that you are One with God, the Christ Being." "You and the Father are One."

The following terms are not the "American way" but are important for the seeker to understand them in relation to other people and to Almighty God.

Humility, humbleness, meekness, submissiveness, unassuming , modesty, obedience, compliance, submission, nonresistance, passiveness.

12-2-01
My Voice has been telling me every day for a month or so now,
" remember who you are" [the Christ] but I don't seem to get any closer to that realization. In the East seekers meditate to stop the internal dialog and reach a super conscious state. I think this was what Jesus meant when he said, "This is getting quiet [quieting the mind] right where you are."
(The Seeker p.4)

This internal dialog or mental clutter can also be stopped or quieted by replacing it with truth: in prayer, affirmations, blessings, contemplation, praising, and giving thanks. These things not only stop the internal dialog bringing quiet but will also awaken the power of God within.

"God is that power which is generated and exhilarated by your own thought action. This does not take long years of study, nor need you go through training or hardships or deprivation."

"The moment you say wholeheartedly, with reverence and deep meaning, that God is in this Holy Temple and know that this temple is your pure body, just as you present it, and as you truly stand today, that you, the true Christ, live one with God right within this temple, and that your exalted body is the holy abiding place, a whole and all-inclusive abode; you are the energizer, an all-including and outpouring vessel for this true and divine principle to flow through. Then you pour out more and more of the God which you are and which you love."

"It is true that this power is within and all about you, but it is inactive until you think of it and know that it does exist; then you see it flowing from you in limitless measure. You worship, you praise, and with your ever expanding love, you pour out to all mankind that they may see the Christ, the God-man standing forth triumphant."

"Thus I say, pray without ceasing. Your daily life is true prayer."

Jesus

From: The Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East

The seekers path then is to first purify the body and the mind to create a holy temple; and constantly love God and all of His creations. You pray and praise and give thanks, replacing the mental clutter in your mind every minute of the day; and you practice being the Christ, your true self, until you realize it and it becomes fact. Stay on the path, and help your conscious mind to unite with your Soul.

The truth is
Sunshine
To the mind
Sweet thoughts
The butterflies
And the flowers.

12-3-01
Modern man does not seek to live in harmony with nature but actually opposes nature under the euphemism of, "developing our natural resources" which means destroying nature. Nature provides every thing we need to live happy healthy lives without any development or destruction.

We need to develop an attitude of conservation and sufficiency. When you have sufficient to meet your needs, you have enough. No one needs more than that accept for psychological or abstract reasons. To have more than their neighbors or to set themselves apart and above others.

This type of material accumulation and status seeking is insanity. Unfortunately the whole modern world is caught up in this craziness of, "conspicuous consumption," consuming more than they need and seeking status from their processions. A very unsatisfying, unfulfilling and hollow way to live.

Enough is enough!

Sweat and toil
Noise and stink
Smoke and fire
Muck and mire
Making what
They think
Is everyone's
Hearts desire.

Seek the truth, accept from nature her gifts sufficient to meet your needs, be kind and thoughtful and unassuming, and follow your spiritual path with steadfastness and courage until you reach the Goal. "Take care of your spiritual life first, all else is irrelevant."

12-4-01
"God is your divine ideal, the focal point upon which every thought and act is centered. It is in this way that you bring forth the divine spiritual man, the Christ of God, the word made flesh. The flesh is God as well, and God is around the flesh. Make your subjective one objective, a willing and all-wise worker with God Principle. Head straight for the goal, the divine spiritual life that God within you is, and sees for all."

"I thank you God,
For Life and Light,
Abundant, full and free;
For perfect boundless,
Wealth and power,
Unhampered liberty."

"The first step is to fully and completely control all outer activities of thought, mind and body. With the thought always uppermost that you are cultivating the habit of perfection, the God habit, the Christ of God habit. Do this wherever you are, every time it comes to you during your working or resting hours.

"See this perfect presence within you. Get in the habit of seeing this perfect presence as your real self, this Christ of God presence. If you cultivate this with love, reverence, devotion and worship, it becomes a habit and soon it is all of you, your daily life and existence."

"Then go a little further. See a Divine White Light, dazzling in purity and brilliance emanating forth from the very center of your being. See it shining forth with such brilliance and glory that it emanates from every cell, fibre, tissue, muscle, and organ of your whole body. Now see the true Christ of God standing forth, triumphant, pure, perfect, and eternal. In a short time you have brought forth Divinity. You are once more the Divine Christ, the first-born of God."

"It is a well known fact that the oftener you say or use the word GOD, knowing it to be the highest principle in-dwelling and flowing through you, the greater the benefit you will derive from it. Allow me to repeat, 'You cannot say GOD or use the name too much."

"See God as Creative Principle flowing through you; concentrate and energize that principle, and send it out with more dynamic influence. Because of the fact that it always flows through you as well as around you, you are able to give it a greater impetus by sending it out with the whole force of your being, impelling it outward. Man's body is the medium through which this force is transformed and added impetus is given it, in order to do a greater work and to be sent forth in greater form."

12-5-01
"Jesus went on to say: I shall talk to you just as I wish you to talk to yourself. If you will make these statements true or make them part of yourself, you will need no other. These statements are in no wise to be used as formulas. Students can use them to bring their thoughts in accord with Divine Principle or, as many say, to train their thoughts to one point. We use the word GOD as often as possible, repeating it many times."

"God, my Father, the Divine Principle flowing through me, is all; and all that God is, I AM. I am the Christ of God, God-man."

"All that God my Father is, is for God-man to use, thus I AM is entitled to use all substance. In fact, God my Father is pressing out all substance to God-man in unlimited measure."

"God Principle is my Father; I AM the Christ of God; both in whole and complete union. All that God has, the Christ of God is."

"God my Father, in the midst of me there blazes a pure light and it fills every atom of my whole being with its great radiance. Life, Love, Strength, Purity, Beauty, Perfection, stand forth in all dominion within me. Now I know that I am God and one with God's whole universe."

"Now the radiance of this light spreads to God's vast universe and everywhere I know there is God's conscious life. My keynote is harmony and the theme of my song is God and God seals my song as Truth."

"I am free with the great light of Your Spirit, God my Father, Your seal is placed upon my forehead. I accept. I hold your light high, God my Father. Behold I am born anew. A Christ is here."

From: The Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East

Your pure body
And pure mind
And conscious
Thought action
Are the keys
To the Freedom
Of your Soul.

12-6-01

"The body is an instrument through which to express God. It is the greatest known instrument to express spirit. It is here for you to present God every moment. Not to present materiality, or hypnosis, or phenomena, but to present spirit. We are God. We cannot make a separation, and if we refuse completely all separation, we would be out of all material conditions."

"If you call the body material, it is denying God and profaning the Temple. You are worshipping a material condition more than you are worshipping God. That is how you get into hypnosis. The moment you deny God you are in a hypnotic influence."

"This body does not need to be spiritualized. It is already spiritual but man's false beliefs about it have shut his mind to its radiance and limitlessness. Spirit is always spirit. Man creates the materiality. The body is spiritual and the Temple of the living God."

"This is how man comes to know and understand the One Presence and One Power. It is all One. One reality. And everything works and operates under that One Power and One Presence according to its own law." [Bold emphasis mine.]

From: The Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East

Body-Mind-Soul, All One, All Spirit. God is One total being, nothing else exists. And we are a conscious individualized part of His Being. Matter is spirit in a different form, but it is still spirit. We are all One Being, His Being, our Body-Mind-Soul, are His Body-Mind Soul. We think we are separate, and we created a material body to be separate in, but our separateness and materiality is only and illusion of our mind.

And we as the human race live in a collective separateness which is held in place by the excepted world view of things. We are spirit (body-mind-Soul), His spirit, and for the purpose of learning we seem individualized, but we are all one spiritual Being, His Being. And the goal of our lives is to reunite our mind which thinks it is separate, with our Soul, which is God's Spirit. We are working our way back to God.

Like rays
of the sun
We are
Separate
But still
One.

I am on thin ice here and it's really easy to get to skating in mental circles. I am not trying to explain or define God. I believe Almighty God to be incomprehensible. What I am tying to do is present what I believe to be a workable concept of a persons relationship to him or her self, to other people, and to God. I believe the ultimate and final definition is, "ONE."

12-8-01
Denial can take many forms. Denial can be expressed in thought, word or action. If you say, "My body is the Pure Holy Temple of God" and eat a hamburger, you deny your former statement by your action of eating impure food. If you say, "My spirit lives in eternity" and then say, "I am 40 years old" you deny your former statement by your word. If you say, "I am one with God and them think, "I can't do that" you deny your previous statement by thought, because God can do anything.

These are just three examples of denial but there are hundreds of ways you can deny your spirit. I don't want to labor the subject of denial because it is not our interest here. The way to avoid denial completely is to live, speak and think the truth. This is not as hard as it sounds.

Starting from the point, "I am the Christ" and continuing on from there in thought, word and action with that beginning statement always in mind, denial will never be a problem. As with all undertakings, it's a matter of practice. Continual practice will bring realization. "Remember who you are."

12-9-01
Learning to live a spiritual life is quite similar to learning to play a musical instrument. Both require dedication, a willingness to learn and constant practice. The notes played on a musical instrument the first few weeks is hardly recognizable as music.

And so it is with the seeker struggling against his/her world view conditioning. The first few weeks there is no recognizable change. But as practice continues the scales are learned and the prayers and praises are sung and lived, the novice soon realizes confidence and harmony.

There are some people that have the gift of music. They can play anything they hear by ear, while others have the talent and dedication to become concert performers. Most people with determination and willingness to practice can become excellent musicians.

And so it is with the seeker of spiritual truth, with determination and constant practice they can soon realize the goal. An 'up attitude' of optimism and happy confidence helps the seeker to maintain their balance as they ascend the path.

12-10-01
It is a fact that the average person in our society eats much more food than they need every day. To digest one good American home cooked meal requires as much energy as it does to work all day. The energy wasted on digesting food that a person overeats could much better be put to use building up the body.

Overeating often causes an accumulation of toxic wastes that causes disease. Toxic waste also increases a person desire and need for sleep. It is best to eat a moderate meal once a day of natural raw organically grown fruits, nuts, sprouted grains and vegetables in season.

An apple
A day
Will keep
The doctor
Away

True enough!

If you eat just
One apple
Or two a day
And nothing
Else.

12-11-01
Our 18th wedding anniversary today. We went out for lunch. Juanita was very beautiful and happy. Only 18 years... young lovers.

12-12-01
When I walked the path before in the early seventies I was inspired to visit Indians around the state. This was about the time President Nixon retired in disgrace. The mental fabric of the nation was in tatters and many strange things were happening in nature.

It seems to me that what holds our nation together is that we all pretty much believe the same things. When we find out that one of our leaders is a scoundrel it rends the fabric of that belief system and causes a lot of mental aberrations which are reflected in nature.

The first Indians I visited was a family I new that lived in the foothills in the Eastern part of the state. I went to high school with there son, Patrick. Patrick was home and we had a good talk We were sitting in a small meadow in front of their cabin talking about this and that and eventually I asked, "What would you do if life as we know it were going to end next week?" Mr. Patrick, the father, answered immediately, "We would move our people up in the mountains to our sacred ground and live there and dance the sacred dances." I was really impressed with his answer and thought, "how nice to have sacred dances to dance when the world ends."

Mr. Patrick got up and went in the cabin a couple of times while we were talking and I noticed that both times he "claimed" the group that was still sitting, by walking completely around them. And later when he and his wife left for town he had his wife drive around our group instead of backing around and driving off.

As I drove away from the Patrick's cabin I looked up on the side of a high rounded mountain a couple of miles away and saw a large Indian symbol plowed in the stubble of a fallow wheat field. The symbol was very symmetrical, with crossed "S's" in a circle and must have been at least a hundred yards across. I would have liked to known the story behind that. But it was to late to ask.

The next group of Indians I visited was about 70 miles further East, across the border in the next state. I was driving down the highway near a Indian reservation when I was inspired to turn left on the next dirt road. I drove down the road a little way and came to a meadow in the woods. There was several teepees set up around the edge of the meadow and in the center was a gathering of about two hundred Indian people. Thirty or forty young men and women in full regalia of beads, feathers and buckskins were dancing to drums played by a dozen or so old men.

An inner Voice said to claim the whole group. I got out of the car and walked slowly around the gathering. Most of the people not dancing wore western cloths, so I fit right in wearing jeans, bright shirt, knee-high moccasins and a Stetson. As I completed my circle the voice said to claim them again. So I went around again. And again.

When I finished circling the group for the third time the Voice said for me to go stand by the Chief, the tall man wearing the white cowboy hat. I went half way around the crowd again and stood next to the tall man who was watching the time very closely, on the wrist watch held in his hand.

He didn't look at me, but said that his Great Grandfather had rode horseback over a thousand miles to the Cheyenne nation to learn this dance. When the time was up the Chief lifted his arm and spoke a few words in his native tongue, the drums stopped and the dancers drifted into the crowd.

The Chief turned to me and said, "Son, we're in a lot of trouble. And it's going to take both our peoples to get us out of it. You people understand technology, we don't know anything about machines, what we know about is nature. What we are doing here today is teaching our young folks, the ones that will listen, the old dances. And we are teaching the old ways to any one that will listen, Indian and White alike. They are going to need to know how to do things the way our Grandfathers did them in the old days."

The Chief started another dance but didn't look at his watch. He said to me, "Do you read sign?" I said, "yes, some." He said, "Good, you watch your sign close." And he said, "You should learn Chinook, it's an old Indian trade language, and all Indians understand it. Most any old Indian will be glad to teach you, it only has about two hundred and fifty words or so.

We talked awhile longer before I got going, I don't remember any more of our conversation. We exchanged addresses and later, wrote a few letters back and forth. He was a good man and dedicated to teaching. I assume he had me sized up when I claimed his group three times and maybe he was hearing voices too, because he started right in talking to me when I stood beside him like he knew me.

I crossed back into my own state and the next day while I was driving South I looked across the valley and there was a giant grasshopper, that must have been at least a hundred yards long, stamped out in the dry grass. I have thought about these big symbols a lot and think they must have been tribal totems put out to be seen from the air. If you have any information about these large symbols I would like to know. Thanks!

I drove down into the state below ours to visit some old friends. Nothing much happened there accept one day I was driving along a back road and suddenly, there was a loud bang, like a hammer was thrown into the side of my car. I looked back and there was an Indian woman with braids standing at the edge of the woods. I didn't go back because I was socializing with a friend, and didn't think he would understand. I have regretted it ever since. It is really important to, "grab the moment" because things seldom present themselves a second time.

The next Indian I visited was the Chief of his tribe located in the Northern part of the state where I visited my friends. He was a mild soft spoken man, also a teacher, and very concerned about his young peoples drinking and their use of drugs. We talked a while out in his yard and then he invited me into his house and introduced me to his wife.

They were both elderly people and had a nice home and seemed fairly well off; not rich but comfortable. We talked awhile and the Chief asked me if I liked smoked salmon. I told him yes I did, but that I had given up all flesh food because I was trying to live a spiritual life. His wife perked right up and said that her Grandfather was the medicine man of their tribe when she was a little girl. [This must have been around 1900-1910]

She said the thing she remembered most was her Grandfather talking to a group of young men and saying, "When man places his foot upon the moon and when the spider web [electric lines, roads, rails?] reaches across the nation from ocean to ocean, that will be the beginning of the end. You young bucks keep your braids [old ways] because you are going to need them."

That trip was twenty eight years ago and I don't remember much more than I have related here. I met some good people and learned a lot. It was a good trip.

The Ten Indian Commandments

Remain close to the Great Spirit
Show great respect for your fellow beings
Give assistance and kindness whenever needed
Be truthful and honest at all times
Do what you know to be right
Look after the well-being of mind and body
Treat the earth and all that dwell on there with respect
Take full responsibility for your actions
Dedicate a share of your efforts to the greater good
Work together for the benefit of all mankind

12-20-01
When I pray or say affirmations my breathing immediately changes and becomes deep and steady. Sometimes my breathing in and out seems to be in time with my thoughts or words. It seems like my body is responding to my thought process. As I continue to pray I often feel a pleasant tingling or slight surge/flow of energy through my body. Its hard to describe the feeling. It is a pleasant physical feeling. This must be the beginning of the generation of energy that Jesus speaks of when he said, "God is that power which is generated and exhilarated by your own thought action."

God is Love
And he that
Dwelleth in Love
Dwelleth in God
And
God in him.

(1 John 4:15)

12-25-01
Merry Christmas. I'm still a little hung up in the world view about some things. Christmas is a fun time at our house.

12-31-01
The past year has been a hard year for me. I have been under the cloud of candida and mercury poisoning which I have not yet succeeded in overcoming. But I remain steadfast on my path even though I don't feel like I am making much progress. The poison in my body seems to overshadow my natural feeling of optimism and well-being.

The gains I have made this year are more of an intellectual understanding of what I need to do rather than the realization that would come from doing it. Put another way, I have been reading and thinking about the benefits of prayer more than I have actually spent praying. Knowing what to do is a gain, but small in comparison to the rewards of actually realizing the goal.

And dealing with my own inner reality or world is a new experience for me. When I was on the path before, I was caught up in the phenomena of the spiritual reality of the natural world about me. And I entered that spiritual reality completely out of balance within myself.

I had purified my physical body and senses until I could see spirits of the dead, and nature spirits, and hear voices both inside and outside of my head, and see energy fields and other phenomena, but, I was not prepared for these experiences mentally.

I lacked mental purity. And seeing into both the material and spiritual realities simultaneously finally wore me down and drove me crazy. My final condition was not exactly insanity, but more like complete mental and physical exhaustion. I was so worn out and confused that I didn't know which end was up. It took me the better part of a year to recover.

In the year previous to my bout with exhaustion, and particularly the last three or four months, I was continually being inspired and taught things concerning mental purity. The way the teachings came to me, was that I would wake up one morning and wonder about the meaning of a certain word, color, sign or symbol, or geometrical diagram and I would be obsessed with that subject and its meaning for the next two or three weeks, and some times longer.

The final period of teaching concentrated on love. Love as a power, a healer, and the sustainer of life in all things. Love and Light and Life and Law All One. Every thing as One---God.

But unfortunately, I didn't get it, or I didn't get it quick enough and I wore out before I could find my balance. And this was very regrettable because I failed to "grasp the moment" so many times when a chance for some enlightenment was presented to me.

I studied, wrote down and proved my inspirations by day at my desk in the small cabin which I built on a mountain side and by night I wandered the ridges and mountain tops guided by voices and small bright lights.

When I became to exhausted to carry on I would drop to the ground and sleep where I lay until sunrise. When I awoke, I would walk home, often several miles, and begin the whole process over again.

So what I have been trying to do in these journals the past year and a half is to relate my past spiritual experiences as honestly as I can, give warnings of possible pitfalls, suggest possible methods to help other seekers to ascend their paths, and record my current struggles upward.

I have already recorded most of my previous insight and information that I have gained in my lifetime of on again and off again attempts to ascend my spiritual path. Whether I was dedicated to my path or not, I have always been preoccupied with the spiritual aspect of life.

What I am hoping for now is that other seekers will come forward and share their truths, insights and experiences as they walk their paths toward the goal of uniting their conscious mind with their Soul. At the moment, I have no idea as to the form or format of the exchange of this information. But, I have faith that as more seekers become involved that "methods" will be shown to us and evolve. Please email me with your thoughts.

Tomorrow I start my yearly long fast. Last year I fasted 40 days on water. This year I am going to do a fresh fruit juice fast. Fresh squeezed fruit juice is much more cleansing (and tricky) than water. By fasting and prayer I hope to cleanse the poisons, that are keeping me down, out of my body. I thank my Earthly Mother and Heavenly Father that it is so.

I hope everyone has the best every year in 2002. May God Bless US ALL.

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