The SEEKER'S key to LIVING A SPIRITUAL LIFE is PURITY

Proper diet and cleansing fasts are necessary for the seeker to attain
physical purity. Truthfulness, forgiveness, meditation and
prayer are the seeker's path to mental purity. Living a
spiritual life the seeker fulfills the laws of purity.

PETE'S JOURNAL, JUNE 2001

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6-1-01
The Voice gave me a little poem today about speaking the truth which I think I will put at the beginning of my 2000 seeker journal.

6-17-01
Still very ill and in a lot of pain all the time. I'm up and around and working much of the day with a lot of rest breaks. I'm sleeping well at night, and not sleepy during the day like when I was fasting in January. I'm anxious to get back to writing in my journal on a daily basis. Need to begin working on physical purity.

The Voice speaks to me often, although I have slipped back to eating an cooked food diet. When I felt so sick and depressed after my long fast I started my old habit of drinking a large 44 oz. pepsi every day. I've managed to stop that the last couple of weeks. Bit by bit I hope to eliminate parts of my present poor diet and increase the purity of my body.

So, I'm pretty much starting over again upgrading my diet. Try, try, try. I have continued my computer lessons on Friday mornings. The Seeker web pages are coming along. They are very simple in design. The message is what is important. The seeker of truth will not require a pretty format.

6-18-01
Took Juanita to the closest international airport, so she could fly out to visit her mother for a couple of weeks. It's a 400 mile round trip from our home to the airport, and 8 hours driving. The one great disadvantage of living way out in the boonies. A small thing really, considering how much we both enjoy living out in the woods. Juannita often comments on the purity of the air and quietness of where we live. A good seeker retreat.

6-20-01
Up early. Working at putting pump in new well. Assembling electric panels.

As I mentioned before, transition periods are a time of vulnerability. Just before going to sleep and just after waking most people at times are susceptible to thoughts, feelings of desire and actions concerning sex. A person can raise their consciousness during those fuzzy transition periods of wakefulness to sleep and sleepiness to wakefulness by praying to Almighty God and/or their Guardian Angels.

Prayer acts as a antidote for thoughts and feelings about sex. Its very hard for the mind to except thoughts or feelings of a sexual nature after a good heartfelt prayer. Prayer is an armor against unwelcome internal attack. When a vegetarian diet is well established thoughts and desires concerning sex will no longer be a problem. Physical purity removes all thoughts of lust from the seekers mind.

6-21-01
Installing electric panels for pump today. For years we have been using water from the roofs of our buildings stored in big tanks for bathing, washing dishes and laundry... but for drinking it lacks a bit in purity and tastes funny. So we buy bottled water in town to drink.

In our present day judicial system there is an axiom, "Ignorance of the law is no excuse." This axiom can also be very aptly applied to nature. If you break natures laws, whether you know them or not, you are guilty in either case and will suffer the consequences. You see sick people all around you; they have broken natures law, (God's Law) and are suffering the consequences. That is why it is so important to learn the laws we live under and apply them. A sick person will find it very difficult to follow their true spiritual path. God's first law is physical purity. A seeker continually works to fulfill the law of physical purity and remembers the old addage... "seek ye first the Kindom of Heaven and all else will be added unto thee."

6-22-01
Went to town shopping today; needed more wire for the pump. Did a laundry and bought a few groceries. I talk to Juanita on the phone every evening. She is having good time with her mother.

Most of the information that I have will be published in these journals. Some esoteric information will only be given out to serious seekers of the truth by email, because, it could be dangerous if used by people who are not dedicated to physical and mental purity and a spiritual path of light which leads to the union with their Soul.

A short bibliography of written works can be found at the bottom of the links page, for the seeker who is just beginning their path.

I have used quotes from several books a good number of times in these journals. I have done this to reinforce my statements and thinking, which I am presenting to you in these journals. Neither my statements nor the quotes I have used are the last word on any subject. You must judge for yourself, what is the truth for you. A seeker must discriminate... deciding what is true or false about whatever comes to them.

I am reporting the truth to you, that I have found through inspiration or experience, as I see it, as honestly and precisely as I can. The books I have been quoting are special, because of the way they came into my possession. They came to me through inspiration and I take that to mean that my guardian Angels felt like they contained information and truth that I needed to know.

Each seeker may be inspired to read certain books to provide them with information to help them on their path. I firmly believe that each seekers path is unique, it may be similar to the path of another seeker but not exactly the same. Each seeker may find their information in a different source but the truth and the Law, such as the first law of purity, remain the same. Books are just a tool... never a final authority. God alone knows all.

The set of six books, The Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, were my Great Aunts, the spiritualist minister. She was a very kind, spiritual and knowledgeable person. Her words were gold. She was inspired to give me her set of books, and she ran after me, down a street in San Francisco, to give them to me, as I was just leaving on my way overseas during the Korean war. The information in these books is probably the best on how to realize the Christ within yourself, and how people live and act after they have attained that state. In these books the Masters assure us that a seeker can soon attain the state in which they live by exhilarating the mind and living a simple life of purity.

The Essene Gospel of Peace Vol. I, and the, Oahspe Bible, I found through angelic guided inspiration. I was living temporarily in a small town when I was on the path in the 70's. I had rented a small apartment and on both occasions when I found one of these books it happened the same way.

I became very agitated and restless and just could not settle down and stay in the apartment and study. So I went out. I had no idea of where to go or what to do. There was a small college in the town, and the thought came to me, to go to the college bookstore and browse through the books they had for sale.

I went there and began to look through the religious and spiritual section, and soon found the single copy of the, Essene Gospel of Peace Vol. I, that they had in stock. I read the introduction, browsed the book for a few minutes, bought the book and left the college bookstore. My agitation and restlessness were gone and I was completely at peace. I found the information in this little book so profound that I studied it for days on end after I bought it.

I found the, Oahspe, the same way, only it was in the city library. The information in both of these books have been very important in shaping my thoughts and guiding me on my path.

Juanita found, A Course in Miracles, in a box at a yard sale. She picked it up and looked at it for awhile, and handed it to me, and said. "I think we should get this." It was just a dollar. I looked at it for awhile and said, "Naw", and tossed it back in the box. When we went to pay for the few items we wanted to purchase, Juanita laid the book on the table and I paid for it along with the rest of the items.

She was inspired to buy that book. When we got home, I began glancing through the book again, and ended up reading it for a week solid. :-)

I would recommend the four books named above as the most important to a seeker starting out on their spiritual path.

It is my hope that all seekers of the truth will keep a journal and communicate freely with others on the path about their experiences and the truths they have discovered. Information that could be dangerous to others if misused should only be shared after careful consideration.

I was very fortunate as a young man in my early teens and through my twenties to have a great aunt who was a spiritualist minister. She would discuss with me the spiritual possibilities and problems of life. We were both awed and inspired by Jesus' life and teachings.

Just suppose, Jesus was literally a, "son of man" as it is written in the scriptures. An ordinary man, born from the union of a man and a woman. And if this was true, then how did Jesus learn and accomplish the things he did? This was the question that we spent hundreds and hundreds of hours discussing over the years. How did he do it?

Thanks to Edmond B. Szekely we now have a translation of, The Essene Gospel of Peace, Vol. I, a scroll found in the basement of the Vatican, which gives Jesus' teachings on health, healing, purification, a natural diet
and living a spiritual life.

By my late teens we had the formula: "Every person is a conscious individualized part of Almighty God. Direct contact with the Christ Being of God was/is possible, just as Jesus preached, and that anything is possible.

I made a naive attempt at the path in my early-twenties. I soon became scattered and felt I need more information. I went to college for several years, finding very little information of any use.

At 28, I married a physically beautiful girl from a wealthy family, that I met at the university. We had four children, two boys and two girls, and divorced eight years later. I spent the next few years drifting, generally wasted years, spiritually .

When I was forty two I became seriously ill. Medical doctors, with all their tests could not figure out what was wrong with me, let along formulate a cure. I was bed-ridden for months and was not getting any better. I finally decided in one of my more lucid moments if I was going to get out of the fix I was in, I was going to have to do it by myself.

I could read (shakily) a few minutes at a time. My eyes wouldn't focus properly and after ten or fifteen minutes I was exhausted. Over the next few months I tried all kinds of health cure methods. Some seemed to help, some did help, and others didn't do anything but drain my meager savings.

I finally discovered, almost by accident, (or by inspiration) information about fasting and a raw food diet in a book called, Mucusless Diet and Healing System, written by, Professor Arnold Ehret. It made a lot of sense, and I tried it.

It was like walking out of a thick cloud of fog. In thirty days I was so much better I could hardly believe it, in three months I was completely cured; and in six months I felt better than I had for the past twenty years. I had the first key to living a spiritual life: physical purity.

With this new information, and using my terrible debilitating illness as a spring board, I set out on my path again. I continued on for three years solidly on the path, but in the end failed, succumbing to loneliness, exhaustion and bouts of insanity.

Not the real old garden variety of insanity, I was just living in two realities simultaneously and it wore me down, and it wore me out. I lacked the knowledge to use the second key: mental purity. I knew of the idea of mental purity because of books I was inspired to find and read, but at the time I failed to bring it all together.

The third key is right thought action or right thinking. The world view conditioning of your parents, family and their friends must be put aside and the truth installed in its place. This is a difficult task requiring a lot of patience and practice. In truth you are the Christ, one with Almighty God.

We can develop a nice allegory using the symbolism of three keys and two hands. I have two hands and three keys which all have to delicately balanced and turned in the lock at the same time. The keys are to the gate of Heaven. I can't do this alone! I need help! I need another hand!

I need your helping hand to open the gate for both of us------we all need each other to open the gate for all of us. We need each other because we are One Being living in and through multiple bodies. You and I, and everyone else are One Being. Almighty God is One.
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This is why the scriptures say," Love your brother as yourself, (your brother is yourself) and, "Return good for evil," (you return good to a part of yourself that has fallen low, in hopes of lifting him or her(yourself) up, even slightly) and to do good and share and bless and heal and feed and cloth and bath others.............................yourself.

After my second failure on the path, I gave up, and asked God to forgive me and just allow me to live an ordinary life. I drifted again, doing this and that, until I was 50 years old, when I met Juanita. We married and we have lived happily for the past 17 years. I have always felt that I was a terrible failure in my spiritual life.

Then last year, I was inspired to walk the path again. I feel a very strong motivation to write and publish on the internet what I know about living a spiritual life. I hope these journals will be of interest to at least a few people seeking the truth, and help them on their way, along their own spiritual path.

6-23-01
Slept in a bit. I felt kind of slow today, so I worked around the house.

6-24-01
It is important that a seeker be very careful around other people. Most people in our society live a life of, "quiet desperation." They are conditioned by a commercial culture motivated completely by greed. Their lives are a catalog of unfulfilled fantasies; so they live vicariously through TV, movies, sports events, music, books, possessions, day dreams and other obsessions. They dull the boredom of their lives by satiating their senses with alcohol, drugs, food, daydreams, illicit sex, gossip and shopping.

A few search for something more meaningful but even our sources and distribution of information are rigged. Thankfully, the internet is relieving this last problem somewhat. But most people are trapped. Be careful, "You are as sheep in the midst of wolves... be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." It is hard to live a spiritual life openly surrounded by such unnatural darkness. Find a quiet retreat withdrawn from the chaotic world where you can live your life quietly and walk your path in peace.

When I walked the path before, I was particularly warned to avoid, "machine gun talkers," (people who are compulsive talkers and talk all the time) and extremely fat people. A few years later, after I had left the path, I became slightly involved with a," machine gun talker," and it cost me dearly. Since then, I have been very careful around both of those kind of people.

6-25-01
Monday, back to work on the pump again. Usually putting a pump in a well is a simple thing, but on this job the well is 400' from the power source and 700' from the house. So there is a lot wire and pipe and ditch involved.

One of the important things about a raw food diet is that it eliminates well, as well as nourishing the body. Raw food does not create a sticky residue that clings to the intestines and muscle tissue. And equally important, a raw food diet can be eaten immediately, without cooking, which kills all the cells in the fruit or vegetable. Raw food, which is "live food" should be taken from the garden, washed and eaten, without delay.

For me, breaking the habit of eating cooked food is hard... hard. I have gone through the process several times and each time is just as hard as the last. I was conditioned as a child on the ranch to big meals of meat, potatoes and gravy, with butter spread thick on your bread.

6-27-01
One of the problems with going barefoot is that you can pick up worms through the soles of your feet. My mother would never allow me to go barefoot when I was a child because she was afraid I would get worms.

In the translated third century scroll, The Essene Gospel of Peace Vol. I, I read that members of there community were advised to eat dried figs chewed with almonds every day. I often wondered about this until I read an old pharmacopoeia and found that a mix of figs and almonds was an age old worm remedy. The book explained how the figs melted the fistula in the intestines where the young worms were hatched, and the poison in the brown hulls of the raw almonds destroyed both the adult and young worms.

There was an old style pharmacy (one of those with a soda fountain and an ancient pharmacist) in the town I lived in at the time, so I went in an inquired if they carried a worm medicine made from figs and almonds. "Yes," the elder pharmacist said, "we carry it", and took me to the back of the store where on a shelf was a small stack of fig and almond bars. They were about three or three and half inches long and three quarters of an inch square. I don't remember what the label said but I do remember asking him how long they had carried them and he replied, "We have always carried them."

So, when I am going around barefoot I try and eat a snack of three or four dried figs chewed with small handful of raw almonds every day. Figs are also a very good food for alkalizing the blood, which is important to do every day.

6-30-01
The early Israeli communities always had a strict "eugenic" code. They only married other Israelis... in good health and of sound limb. This in turn insured healthy offspring's and protected their society from degenerative diseases, particularly after the 1500's.

Venereal disease, particularly syphilis, was a scourge at that time and ran rampant and spread unchecked. "The sins of the father are visited upon the son." And in the case of syphilis, for six generations.

The symptoms of a syphilitic heritage are poor muscle tone, receding chin, over bite of the teeth; and when the arm is held straight out from the side of the body with the palm up, the forearm bends slightly (or more) downward from the elbow. A person with no syphilitic heritage has firm muscle tone, a strong chin, teeth that bite exactly opposite from each other, the muscles in the arms and legs are always slightly taut and cannot be completely straightened. Their eyes are clear, they are bright and attentive, and physically, always appear about ready to spring into action.

The severity of the symptoms of a syphilitic heritage depend on the distance from the afflicted: five or six generations away, maybe slight loss of muscle tone and an over bite; and in the case of first or second generation away, possibly, severe loss of muscle tone, receding chin, over bite and an forearm that flops downward from the elbow when held straight out with the palm upward.

Today venereal disease is held in check by antibiotics, but now, "Aids" runs rampant and basically unchecked. The point of all of this. It may seem, "cold" to some people, but in my opinion, the health of a potential spouse should be a major consideration before any serious relationship begins. Physical purity is an absolute must for the seeker to live a spiritual life.

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