HOLISTIC EDUCATION (III) CARVER, LOVE AND CREATIVITY Dr. Henry and Erika Monteith

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1 HOLISTIC EDUCATION (III) CARVER, LOVE AND CREATIVITY Dr. Henry and Erika Monteith Everything written below is from the point of view of our personal cosmology. It is not intended to be true for anyone else reading it, and we are most certainly not attempting to convince the reader of anything whatsoever. Even if we desired to do so, it is impossible; because one person can never transfer his understanding to another! It is for you to prove or disprove according to your ability to expand your consciousness. You are a Microcosm, created to view the Cosmos from your own unique point of view; therefore, if you wish to experience the indescribably joy and happiness of knowing who you are, where you came from, and where you are going, you must develop your personal cosmology from scratch to the level of awareness where you feel the wondrous bliss of being at One with The Consciousness of Energy! Remember, right and wrong are dual aspects of the same thing! Arguing between them is useless, because one cannot exist without the other; it is for you to choose which side you will physically realize and which side you will leave unfulfilled in your unconscious mind where it must eternally serve as a reference! THE LAW OF GENDER-CONDITIONED INTERACTION (THE LAW OF VIBRATION) (THE LAW OF LOVE) The fundamental creative principle, which brought the Cosmos into being, is the Principle of the Harmonically Balanced, and Octave Structured, interchange of Love-Energy between Dual-sexed pairs, through giving and re-giving, that is perfectly modeled by pendulum oscillation and the wave-motion of light. THE COSMOLOGY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER It is only possible to release the awesome cosmic creative powers, which are latent in the microcosmic constitution of the world s children, by thoroughly educating them physically, mentally, and spiritually. The fundamental principles which are required to educate them physically, have been thoroughly worked out by the Buddhists and have been in development for nearly 2,500 years. They are now being wonderfully applied at the Shaolin Temple in New York by Sifu Shi Yang Ming, who is a very highly evolved master of the martial arts. He -1-

2 founded the Shaolin Temple in 1994 after defecting from China for just that purpose! Therefore, everything which is required to develop a practical and optimized system of physical education for our children is readily available. Educating our children mentally has been a primary focus of mankind since physical science has become dominant. For example, thousands of mathematics, physics, and chemistry books have been written and revised in an attempt to make the study of these subjects more accessible to the average student. In addition, many studies have been conducted with the goal of finding new ways to improve the effectiveness of our teachers and upgrade the quality of our schools. Yet, it seems that some of most promising discoveries and recommendations have never been actively applied. We have already make great progress toward developing an optimized approach to educating our children mentally. Only one very important question remains to be answered: How are we going to develop an optimum system of educating our children spiritually? The word SPIRIT has been commonly used throughout history by any and everybody involved in social, philosophical, and religious matters. Yet, from our point of view at least, it appears that virtually nobody completely comprehends what the word SPIRIT really means, let only being able to grasp its very deep implications! We decided that the best approach to begin obtaining a precise understanding of what is meant by SPIRIT, is to study the philosophy and cosmology of a highly creative person whose life was deeply inspired and guided by that which has always been commonly called THE SPIRIT. We could have chosen none better than George Washington Carver. Occasionally, a genius, with an expanded consciousness, incarnates into the world in order to evolve by learning from the wonderful experience of contributing to the overall physical, mental, and spiritual welfare of Mankind on Earth as a whole. Such a genius makes his own way and fulfills his destiny under his own power. A superb example of this was presented to mankind in the person of George Washington Carver who believed that his life s work had been thoroughly planned out before he was born! (We suggest here that it was his Spirit who did the planning.) -2-

3 (1) He was born as a slave in (2) He was stolen by raiders when he was only a few months old. (3) He was ransomed for a race horse. (4) He became the slave of Moses Carver, a German immigrant. (5) Mr. and Mrs. Carter served as good parents for him and educated him along with their children for ten years. They taught him basic reading, writing, and arithmetic and grounded him ethnically with the work ethic. It is while growing up with them that he built a greenhouse in the woods. (6) He set out penniless to support himself and get an education. (7) He went to grade school in Missouri and Kansas. (8) He worked his way through high school in Minneapolis. (9) He attended Simpson College. (10) He was admitted to Iowa State in 1890 and earned a Master s Degree there in (11) He went to Tuskegee Institute in 1896 immediately after graduating from Iowa State. (12) He obtained an honorary Ph.D. in (13) He developed some 300 synthetic products from peanuts. (14) He developed 118 products from the sweet potato. (15) He developed synthetic marble from wood shavings, pigments from clays, and fertilizers from swamps. (16) He was elected to the Royal Society of Arts. -3-

4 (17) He received the Spingarn metal and the Roosevelt metal. (18) He started a research foundation with his life s savings of 33,000 dollars. (19) His birthplace was made a national monument in July (20) He was called the Black Leonardo. There are several events in his life which suggest something about the nature of a person s spirit. First, he was born as a slave during a time when education for Black People was considered to be a bad idea and quite undesirable! Therefore, the raiders who stole him from a plantation and sold him (by accident?) to a German family which was sufficiently humane to love him enough and educate him in reading, writing and arithmetic while bringing him up with their own children. Was this an accident, or planned destiny? One of the most important discoveries which we made, while developing our personal cosmology, is that the proper holistic education, of each and every child, should begin before birth; and, this is most important: their wonderful mothers should be among the highest educated people in world, physically, mentally, and spiritually! However, for those children who are denied this opportunity, the next best thing is to give them as much education as possible before they reach the age of seven years! If this process is properly completed, the children s SPIRITS will be able to inspire and direct them toward obtaining all of the additional education which they need to make their contributions toward expanding the consciousness of mankind as a whole. Therefore, we suggest that it was THE SPIRIT of George Washington Carver who inspired him to get close to nature by building a greenhouse in the woods before he was ten years old. Later in his life he made the following statements which can only come from someone who is experiencing the bliss of Oneness with all of life. This is possible only for those children whose spiritual aspirations have not been closed down by negative programming during their early childhood years and who are joyfully living, learning, and expanding their cosmic awareness under the direct guidance and deep inspiration of their SPIRITS. George Washington Carver verified this when he said: -4-

5 I learn what I know by watching and loving everything. Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill. When I touch that flower, I am touching infinity. It existed long before there were humans on this earth, and will continue to exist for millions of years to come. Through the flower I talk to the infinite which is only a silent force. Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. His spiritual attunement with nature, and all of her indescribably beautiful expressions through flowers, was so intense that it enticed their ethereal essences to condense into glorious fairy-like forms before him. They joyfully embraced him, danced gleefully around him, and aroused within his mind, heart, and soul profound emotions of Cosmic Love so deep, that he was enfolded with the awesome bliss of being at One with all things! He was, most definitely, living in Heaven on Earth as his consciousness was increasingly expanding throughout his life. This is why George Washington Carver closed and locked the doors of his laboratory so that he would not be disturbed while creatively communicating with nature, and carrying out the historic experiments, which led to the development of so many wonderful products to help people live heathier, happier, and more fruitful lives. The distinguished philosopher and Spiritual Master, Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov ( ) certainly empathized with every aspect of George Washington Carver s life. When discussing the beauty of a rose he said: When you look at a rose, you immediately sense the presence of a reality that is so poetic that you actually feel something within you changing and being transformed. Every sensation, however slight, every sentiment, however imperceptible, changes something in the depth of your being. When you gaze at a flower it speaks to you with the language of its color, form, and scent; it opens a passage through your subtle bodies until it reaches your soul and awakens in it the forms, colors, and perfumes which correspond to it. -5-

6 EDUCATION, AWARENESS AND THE LANGUAGE OF LIGHT Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. George Washington Carver A child who is born in a society, no matter how primitive, is unable to adapt to that society, let alone survive in it, if he, or she, does not learn to communicate! Therefore, both human children as well as the offspring of every specie of animal, are genetically programmed with the potential to develop minimum communication requirements. There is at least one instance where twins were denied the opportunity to develop language skills by direct interaction with their parents; consequently, they created their own language which only they could understand! As we continued to develop more and more circumstantial evidence for the existence of the BOUNDLESS (NAMELESS) COSMIC ESSENCE (BCE) whose AWARENESS is within all things centering them and around all things enfolding them, who is incomprehensible and forever unperceivable, who extends infinitely beyond boundless infinity itself, and of whom every person s SPIRIT is a profoundly intimate part, we were forced to ask ourselves a very important question: How can we help our children expand their consciousness and awareness to levels high enough to enable them to unfold the awesome powers of the Cosmos, which lie latent within themselves; consciously communicate with their personal SPIRITS, with the infinity of the Spirits of Man embodied in the Consciousness of Energy, and ultimately with BCE? As we lift up our voices with endless praise to the beauty, wonder, and glory of our Wonderful Cosmos, we are very pleased to announce, in all humility, that we have been able to synthesize the LANGUAGE OF LIGHT by marrying the OCTAVE OF COSMIC MUSIC with the wonderful descriptive power of UNIVERSAL GEOMETRICAL MATHEMATICS! After the children of the world have been taught this language, as a major part of their Holistic Education, they will be able to begin communicating with GOD THE COSMOS through NATURE; and, finally, become ONE with THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF ENERGY through which BCE PROJECTED THEIR INDIVIDUAL MINDS into existence. -6-

7 HATE, FEAR, LOVE, AND HAPPINESS Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the later. George Washington Carver O Soul, seeking, seeking happiness, rushing across continents and oceans and back again trying to catch it; testing out and giving up diversions and pleasures and positions, dost thou not know where to find it? Happiness is naught but freedom from mistaken fears! And thy fears, dear soul, grow from condemnation of desires deep down within thee which thou hast not understood! O know thyself: There is naught in thee to be condemned; thou art made by the ONE God in His own likeness; by Him who did see all that He made; who declared everything to be VERY GOOD, and who, after the uplifting in Eden, proclaimed thee to be as one of US! Know thyself as thou art deep down in thy heart. For the Truth within thee shall free thee of fear. And in freedom, there is happiness. Brown Landone Indeed, there are many pearls of truth hidden in these two quotes: It is impossible to fear that which you know, understand, and love. You can only come to know something by holistically learning everything you can about it; and, you can only come to really understand something after you have deeply meditated upon your knowledge of it, in consultation with your Spirit, while sharing experiences with it where possible; then, finally, you will joyfully shower it with all of your love because you have fully realized that it is intimately a part of yourself! -7-

8 Therefore, no child is truly educated holistically until after they have come to know themselves as Microcosms (Miniature Gods ), realized that all of the powers of the Cosmos are potentially within themselves, and that they are Beacons so Powerful that they are always striving to give far more love and sustenance than they receive! How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver You should not only be tender with the young, you should love them with all of your heart, encourage their every success, help them to learn wonderful lessons of life from their failures, and, most of all, strive relentless to educate them holistically! Being compassionate, understanding, and respectful when interacting with the aged cannot be over-emphasized! Many of them are filled with knowledge, wisdom, and priceless understanding that can only be gained by learning through the agony and the ecstacy of a lifetime of experience. All children who are being holistically educated should treasure every opportunity that they have to sit down with an elderly person and listen to them tell the story of their life, cry with them when they speak of sad occurrences, from which they learned great lessons, and laugh and rejoice with them when they share their glorious EUREKA moments! Expanding their consciousnesses by sharing many delightful hours conversing with their grandparents and other enlightened elderly friends, is a very important part of holistically educating our children. At the same time, it gives new, and special meaning to the lives of the elderly and, most important, it also greatly accelerates the expansion of their consciousnesses! Remember, Heaven was defined by Christ as the Expansion of Consciousness. After our dream of developing holistic education comes true, all retirement homes will be filled with children for several hours each day. All elderly persons crave to be loved and embraced, especially by a child! In this present world, where great value is placed on perishable physical things, and the only true religion is materialism, a priceless, and deeply sincere hug, given by a -8-

9 person whose heart knows the profound depths of Cosmic Love, is rarely encountered by the elderly, even when they are living together in retirement homes! However, on those rare occasions when they do encounter such an embrace, their spirits reach out and return the love they receive in ways which those, whose hearts are enslaved by materialism, can never comprehend! I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. George Washington Carver The child s ability to communicate with nature is strongly dependent upon the extent to which they have been negatively programmed during the first two years of their life. For example, occasionally certain children, between the ages of one and three years, begin to talk and play with invisible friends! Parents, who do not see what their child is observing, or empathize with the child, at least to the extent of playing along, often do great damage to the child s psyche by attempting to convince them that they are just imagining things, or worst, chastising them! We assure you that the beautiful subtle expressions of life energy are far more ethereally diverse than anyone, whose consciousness remains at the materialistic level, can ever have access to! Once the students have been holistically taught the LANGUAGE OF LIGHT they will gradually begin to expand their ability to tune into increasingly higher frequencies of nature s unlimited broadcasting station. I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life; but, there was no one to tell me. George Washington Carver Every child who comes into our world, is strongly inspired by their Spirits, beginning at birth, to learn all about nature with which they are intimately connected. Indeed, without thorough holistic learning, the purpose for which they were created can never be fulfilled; but then, what is their purpose? The purpose of Man is to evolve and joyously expand the consciousness of THE COSMIC ESSENCE, beginning at the animal and plant level of awareness, -9-

10 and forever projecting forward into eternity by praising, honoring, and glorifying the awesome wonders of Its creations. Since Man can never truly praise and glorify that which he does not comprehend and understand, to fulfill their divine purpose they must spiritually uplift themselves through the agony and the ecstacy of many lifetimes of experience. Indeed, this must be done with a deep devotion to the love of pure holistic learning while thinking, concentrating, and meditating deeply upon that learning, in consultation with their Spirits, for the purpose of earning the priceless jewels of eternally expanding knowledge, profound wisdom, and deep understanding. These things are the prerequisites for awakening their Cosmic Awareness, and qualifying themselves to experience the ecstatic joy of being co-creator with THE COSMIC ESSENCE, eternally at One with It, and intellectually and emotionally sharing the awesome bliss of being centered and enfolded in Its boundless Light and Love! PLANT AND ANIMAL TEACHERS OF MAN When you give your sincere and devoted love to any living thing, it will return your love by making you One with Itself. Please meditate upon the following heart-warming story: The sensitive plant of northern climates will, as you know, instantly roll up its leaves if you but touch them. It does this to protect itself; it fears that you intend to harm it, pick it off, or crush it! It felt this fear long before man lived on earth! Such action is due to instinctive impulse with no proof at all of individual love! But higher orders of sensitive plants, such as those which grow in Panama, roll up their leaves without being touched. Even when an animal goes by several feet away. And now note the miracle of individual love of these plants for some people, and their trust in them! One scientist, experimenting with these plants in Panama, became particularly interested in one large plant. -10-

11 Every time he passed he touched the tip of a leaf or two, because it amazed him to see how quickly the leaves would roll up to draw away from his touch. But after some weeks, this particular plant seemed to know that he never did anything to harm it. So it no longer feared him, and when he touched the tips of any of its leaves, they no longer rolled up! This was amazing; this plant had given up a habit which was centuries old. This was so amazing that he took other scientists out to see the plant! Then came a more astounding discovery! Whenever any stranger touched the tip of even one leaf, the plant would roll up its leaves, as all sensitive plants have done for ages. Test after test proved that when anyone else, stranger to the plant, touched a leaf, all the leaves rolled up! But when the scientist who was a friend of the plant touched it, it did not roll up its leaves. It knew that the friend loved it; and it had learned to respond in love to the friend who would do it no harm. Love is the crowning glory of everything which is involved in giving the children of the world a profound Holistic Education. Promptly, after a child is born and placed in the arms of their Mothers, their Spirits immediately begin to intensely inspire them to become One in Love and Harmony with Nature! This is why all normal children, whose inner spiritual light has not been dimmed by religious dogma, materialism, and parental ignorance, strongly desire to have animals as pets. Indeed, the pet dog was created specifically by nature to serve as a loving companion to the young child as a puppy, and then to grow up and mature along side the child. My experience with growing up on a farm with my little dog Tricksy was the highlight of my life. During the 1940s, we were still cultivating our corn and cotton with horse and mule drawn plows. I also had a beautiful horse, Nellie, who pulled the plow down the rows of corn as I struggled to control it with Tricksy always following close behind. His little bed was underneath our woodfired kitchen stove, not far from the door which led out into the yard. After we had our breakfast, and were ready to go into the fields to work, as soon as I opened the door, he rushed out between my legs and was down the steps before I -11-

12 had closed the door behind us! Rain, shine, sleet, or snow; he was always there with me! I remember especially those times when the sun was very hot! My clothes became so drenched with sweat it seemed that they had been dipped into a pail of water; likewise, his entire body was wet all over and I could see the sweat dropping off. Occasionally, he would wallow in the sand in order to get some relief, but no matter what, he never left my side for an instant! He taught me the real meaning of love, loyalty, and faithfulness. When I became so tired that I could hardly go on, I stopped to rest for awhile by sitting beneath a large and very beautiful tree that lived in the middle of the corn field. As soon as I did this, he would rush over and put his head in my lap and close his eyes. It was especially during those times that I realized how much he loved me; and that love extended to all of the wonderful living things around us. My horse, Nellie, was also an intimate part of all of this. She, likewise sweated greatly in the hot sun, and since she was doing the great majority of the work by pulling the plow, I really empathized deeply with her. Sometime she too reached a point where she wanted to take a break and, if possible go home and she told me so by turning around and saying he-haw! Of course, I took her with me when I set beneath the tree with Tricksy. Even now, when I dream about that wonderful time in my life, I am amazed at how infrequently Nellie asked to rest: it was as though she was giving her all and asked to rest only when she absolutely needed it! The very important fact is, we three were intimately communicating with each other; we understood each other, and, most of all, we loved each other! It would require an entire book, and perhaps much more, to tell the complete story of the many wonderful adventures we had; indeed, they were filled with both joy and sadness, but now I realize that without this duality of experience, I would never have been able to reach the glorious state of Cosmic Love, Joy, and Spiritual Fulfillment that I know today! However, there are two experiences I had with my animal family which indicate that we have spiritual connections that reach far beyond our physical ones: This experience happened when I was less than eight years old and Tricksy was not yet born; however, there were two dogs in the family. One day, my father s youngest -12-

13 sister was visiting us and she had come with her beautiful twin daughters. After the visit was over, the twins, who had just learned how to walk, were led pass the two dogs while holding hands with their mother. Suddenly, the two dogs began to howl like wolves! We could not understand why they were acting up so because this was the first time they had ever howled and they had always been around many people. My aunt, with her twins, then proceeded to my grandmother s house which was the main farmhouse. About an hour later, we saw my aunt and grandmother running out of the house frantically screaming for help! It turned out that one of the twins had set herself afire while playing and burned to death! When we heard this, we knew right away that the dogs had predicted her death; and there was no doubt about this in the minds of those who had witnessed this event! The second event happened during the last day of Tricksy s life. As I was hitching my tractor to a special plow that I was going to use for tilling the field that day, Tricksy suddenly started jumping all over me, interfering with my efforts to connect the plow! In the entire nine years of his life, He had never done this before, ever! He always waited until I had finished what I was doing, and then he would come up and ask for a few pats on his head; however, this day he completely broke away from his normal pattern of behavior. After noting his persistence, I turned around and gave him a few pats and a big hug, then I got on the tractor and proceeded to work in the field. Now in all of the time we were together, he had never left my side, but for some strange reason, he not only left me, he attempted to cross a main highway that ran pass our farm! While doing so, he was hit by a car and killed! This was the first, and the last time that he had ever crossed that highway without me! Needless to say, I was very upset at his lost and cried for nearly a week. I dug a grave for his body beneath our favorite pecan tree so that I would always know where his body was. I could not have mourned more if I had lost a sister or a brother! Nobody can ever convince me that Tricksy did not know he was going to die and that while he was jumping up and down on me, he was trying to say goodbye! There is no doubt in my mind that his time had come and his Spirit had inspired him to say goodbye and cross that highway! This was communication with nature in a very big way! -13-

14 This was the first, and most important experience in my life which proved to me beyond the shadow of a doubt that not only do we have Spirits, but our beloved cats and dogs, as well all other animals, have spirits! But what is more, my beloved soulmate and I have had many wonderful experiences of this kind not only with other people, but also with both the animal and the plant kingdoms! This is the only way in which great spiritual knowledge, wisdom, and understanding can be obtained! Since physical scientific experiments, as they are defined today, can only be carried out on physical things, only spiritual scientific experiments, can be carried out on spiritual things! This is why physical science can never be used as a tool to study spiritual science. Therefore, to learn about the wonderful Causal World of the Spirit, Spiritual Science must be regenerated. It is to reach this goal, that our entire life s work has been dedicated! It is very important realize the power and importance of the giving and re-giving aspect of the third law. If someone is gracious enough to give you a job with which you can make an excellent living, then how are you going to repay this kindness in keeping with the Great Law of Love? You are going to strive with all of your might to carry out your job better than anybody who has held it before. In other words, you are going to give back much more than you received! First you must have faith that you can do it, then you must believe that you can do it better than anybody else! Now how were these two words, faith and belief used by Christ in the Bible? In Matthew 21:21, we read the following: If ye have FAITH, and doubt not ye shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and----it shall be done. In Mark 11:24, we read the following: What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, BELIEVE that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. Since Christ said these words more than 2000 years ago, Christians have been believing with their minds for centuries! Millions of souls have knelt in prayer, earnestly asking for things and attainments they desired! Hundreds of thousands have mentally believed that God would answer their prayers. Yet in many thousands of cases, their prayers have not been answered. -14-

15 Has it been God, who had failed? Or have the failures been due to our kind of mental belief and faith? For as long as anyone can remember, most ministers and spiritual teachers have been telling their students that IF they but mentally affirm what they want, and believe with all of their hearts and minds, they shall receive what they ask for. Now think about this for a moment, it is, indeed, asking God to give you something for nothing! When you observe the lives of all of natures creatures, there has never been a single instance when any of them have obtained their food by DOING NOTHING but simply wishing for it, or praying for it! The only reason why America today is in such great debt, and now struggling to find ways to just keep paying off the interest on it, is because her government and people have led the world in attempting to get everything for virtually nothing! The CAUSE of all of this is the relentless violation of the most powerful aspect of the Great Law of Love which is the PRINCIPLE OF GIVING AND RE-GIVING! This means, of course that America, like all other nations in history, have always taken from nature far more than they have given back. The landmass of America, in particular, was ruthlessly taken from the American Indians, utilizing acts of horrific violence which decimated their population, destroyed their culture, disrupted the wonderful natural balance, that had been established between them and nature, by killing nearly all of the buffalo and cutting down over 95% of the original forest. In return, they have given back to the American Indians nothing which compares, even microscopically, with what was taken. Now we hear contradictory voices saying: well, we have been educating the American Indians, we have given them our technology, and most of all, we have given them our Christian Religion! But from their point of view, our technology, has served only to further isolate them from their natural environment, which had previously fulfilled all of their needs, physically, mentally, and spiritually. Our religion has made them deaf to the sweet and subtle voices of nature and they can no longer tune in, mentally and spiritually, to nature s unlimited broadcasting station through which God once spoke to them every hour. Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky, and water, was a real and active principle. For the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept the Lakota safe among them and so close did some of the Lakotas come to -15-

16 their feathered and furred friends that in true brotherhood they spoke a common tongue. The old Lakota was wise, He knew that man s heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too. So he kept his youth close to its softening influence. Chief Luther Standing Bear(born 1868) We saw the Great Spirit s work in almost everything: sun, moon, trees, wind, and mountains. Sometimes we approached him through these things. Was that so bad? I think we have a true belief in the supreme being, a stronger faith than that of most whites who have called us pagans...indians living close to nature and nature s ruler are not living in darkness. Did you know that trees talk? Well they do. They talk to each other, and they ll talk to you if you listen. Trouble is, white people don s listen, They never learned to listen to the Indians so I don t suppose they ll listen to other voices in nature. But I have learned a lot from trees: sometimes about the weather, sometimes about animals, sometimes about the Great Spirit. Hills are always more beautiful than stone buildings, you know. Living in a city is an artificial existence. Lots of people hardly ever feel real soil under their feet, see plants grow except in flower pots, or get far enough beyond the street light to catch the enchantment of a night sky studded with stars. When people live far from scenes of the Great Spirit s making, it s easy for them to forget his laws. Tatanga Mani (Walking Buffalo)( ) Therefore, we see that the spiritual feelings of George Washington Carver and those of the original American Indians are identical. Nowhere, in all that we have written so far, is there the slightest hint of begging God for something! What we see, instead, is continuous praise of the Great Spirit for the beauty, wonder, and mystery of His Creation! We read the joyous expressions of love for nature which can only be said by those who have experienced the wonderful bliss of being at One with Her! -16-

17 So what is the problem: why is it that the sayings of Christ seem to imply that God will give the believer anything he desires, if he only has faith and prays for it? Since Christ was the greatest spiritual teacher of love who ever lived, it is for certain that his Spirit is in perfect agreement with those of George Washington Carver, the American Indians, and all of the other wonderful spiritual people who have lived on earth; therefore, the problem can only be that those sayings have been terribly mis-interpreted! So let us look at the words which were mistranslated from the Greek as BELIEF and FAITH: In the Bible we find that the Greek word PISTIS was translated as FAITH 239 times! The Greek word PISTOS was translated as FAITHFUL 52 times! The Greek word PISTEUO was translated as BELIEVE 233 times! The English word PISTON is derived from the Greek root of PISTIS and PISTOS. This root means to throb rhythmically or to beat constantly. These two words were even used for the action of the workers, who moved rhythmically and regularly: twenty of more working in harmony, side by side: threshing grain by the old hand method of using flails. Therefore, it is obvious that piston, in English, is the name we give to the moving rod of an engine, which moves in constant, regular, rhythmic and harmonized action, which provides power. The meaning of pistis and pistos are ages old! The root is found as PISH in Sanskrit, the oldest known sacred language; and it meant to move with powerful rhythmic action! The persistence of this meaning is one of the unexplained mysteries of the ages. Most words change their meaning from century to century, some even in a few years. But the meaning of words derived from PISH and PIST, have had the same meaning, whether used 10,000 years ago in the Sanskrit, or 2000 years ago by Christ, or in our language today. It seems that the Spirit of the Universe, consecrated these words, never to be changed in meaning, so we might always be certain of what Christ meant when he used them for BELIEF and FAITH. -17-

18 At the time Jesus lived, and when the New Testament was written, belief and faith always meant SOMETHING IN ACTION! Now, let us consider a few contrasts! Today, a believer is one who mentally accepts the doctrines of Christianity, and Christ as Savior. In Christ s time a believer was one whose mind and soul and body as well, felt the throb and beat of the power of spirit constantly and regularly, rhythmically and harmoniously active in expressing itself! Such belief had power! No wonder the early Christians wrought miracles, and instantaneous healing took place! In contrast, our belief and faith of today, our mental affirmations etc., are so weak, that tens of thousands have mentally believed they were going to be healed without the healing taking place. If your mind, and heart, and body are continuously and rhythmically throbbing with action to attain what you desire; then, nothing on earth can keep it from you! When Christ used the Greek words PISTIS and PISTOS, he meant very much more than faith, mere mental belief, and acceptance of that belief as a truth by the conscious mind! Christ meant that when you desire to turn your dream into a reality(like moving a mountain for example), you must get into ACTION: the continuing, throbbing, pulsating, rhythmical and harmonious activity of the Spirit which inspires your body, mind, and soul to do everything that you can possibly do to bring about the fulfillment of your desire. Then, after you have done all that you can, with the powers of God that you have so far been able to release from within yourself, your higher-self will unconsciously do those actions required that you were not able to perform at your present level of spiritual awareness. When you do things this way, with deep love and devotion to God, it is impossible for you to fail because you have activated all of the powers of the universe which have always been potentially within you as a Microcosm! Therefore, there is nothing which you can ask God for that He has not already given you! Consequently, all that you need to do is keep joyfully expanding your consciousness, through the Love of Pure Learning, and your dreams will always come true as you abide in Heaven eternally! -18-

19 What we are saying here is not just philosophy! We have applied it with great success many times in our lives. Recently, my doctor became alarmed because my PSA, indicating prostrate cancer, had reached 16. I was not at all concerned because I know that my Spirit is going to keep me alive until after I have finished what I was born here to do. So I, and my beloved soulmate, went into ACTION with the goal of solving my problem! While I was doing my exercises, and eating properly, she studied everything she could find about alternative methods of controlling the cancer. Finally, she put together a set of alternative formulations for me to consume each day. Recently, our doctor was astonished when he saw that my PSA was going down! It is continuing to go down, and it will stay down as long as necessary. Now you must remember that it was my soulmate s accumulation of knowledge and understanding, and my application of that knowledge which made my healing possible! If we had just prayed to God with faith and belief(asking Him to give us something for nothing), and never activated our God given powers, my life would now be threatened by prostrate cancer. Many people throughout history, with strong wills and desires to get things done, have accomplished the impossible and worked miracles during their lifetimes. All of them activated their God-giving powers in the manner we have described. Civilizations have all been built this way, all philosophy, mathematics, and science has been brought into the world this way; therefore, there is nothing mysterious about the creative process! What restrains the release of even greater powers, is the conscious-mind belief in dreams that are impossible to fulfill! As your consciousness expands, those things which could not be done at lower planes of consciousness, are found to be easily accomplished at higher levels of awareness. Finally, the reason why PISTIS is a sacred word, with a meaning that has never changed throughout history, is because it means VIBRATORY ACTION; this is one of the four great processes with which THE NAMELESS COSMIC ESSENCE defined THE CREATIVE COSMIC OCTAVE OF MUSIC! Indeed, PISTOS is, for all practical purposes, THE LAW OF VIBRATION! Christ, our most wonderful teacher of Love and Cosmic Light, was most certainly aware of all of this and tried very hard to convince his disciples of it. That he succeeded with a few of them is verified by the fact that they performed several healing miracles. However, most Christians, since that time, -19-

20 have not expanded their consciousnesses to high enough levels of spiritual awareness for them to even remotely comprehend his beautiful messages to mankind. The proof is the fact that PISTIS has never, until now, been properly translated and its profound meaning comprehended. There have been, and are, benefactors of mankind whose higher selves have given them the power to bring about what appears to be instantaneously healing. Some of them are highly evolved and are healing others because they love them and greatly empathize with their suffering. However, such healing is nearly always temporary, especially when it is done for those who have not expanded their consciousness to the level required to earn it for themselves! One thing is for certain, human beings can never appreciate anything which is given to them without the requirement that they give something back of equal or greater value! This is true because if they do not give back something of equal of greater value, than they have received, it will inevitably reflect back negatively upon them because the Great Law of Giving and Re-giving has been violated. It is only by giving and re-giving to the Cosmos, through creative action, that your consciousness can be expanded through the Love of Pure Learning. (Remember, you have to learn how to act, before you can act effectively!) The Great Law of Duality tells us that failure and success are gender conditioned aspects of each other; therefore, one cannot exist without the other. Eliminate failure and you will also eliminate success! Consequently, rejoice when you succeed; and rejoice when you fail! Yes, dear ones, be exuberant when you win a game, then lovingly embrace and glorify the winner when you lose the game! Indeed, life is nothing more than a mysterious and fantastically sublime game of the Cosmos! Indeed, every incident of life which you call failure is a step up the stairway that leads to success! No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving something behind. George Washington Carver Find a man or a woman who has rendered great service to humanity, and in that soul you find love given its largest and most glorious expression. Also its freest -20-

21 and happiest expression, for all the troubles and fears and jealousies of personal love are due to the attempt to limit great love to expression in a small channel and in a small channel only. Therefore, we conclude that nobody has a right to go out of this world without leaving behind the fruits of the love he expressed while rendering devoted service toward helping others to expand their consciousnesses. Where there is no vision, there is no hope. George Washington Carver This last statement by George Washington Carver is in complete harmony with Biblical Teachings: Where there is no vision, the people perish; but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. Proverbs 29:18. But what is the real meaning of vision in the context of this passage? Many Christian ministers today believe that it has something to do with the Word of God as it is contained in the Bible. Therefore, they interpret the above passage to read as follows: Where there is no Word of God, where there is no message of life, the people perish. According to I Samuel 3:1, there was a time in the history of the Jews, when open vision was not present; because it says that The word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no open vision. Now what is meant here by the lack of open vision? As we have pointed out previously, compounded mistranslations of the most important books of the Torah, which contain profound esoteric knowledge deeply encoded within them, makes it virtually impossible for those who have not expanded their consciousness sufficiently, to determine the real Spiritual Science meaning of the word vision. This is verified by the fact that we presently have no openly available Spiritual Science! It is difficult to find a spiritual leader who will disagree with the statement: God is the same, yesterday, today and tomorrow. Yet, they find no problem in believing that in the Old Testament, God sometimes spoke audibly, but God does -21-

22 not speak audibly today! However, they do not stop here, they go on to deduce that God has completed His Revelation to mankind and; therefore, all that God has to say to mankind today, he says through his blessed book, the Bible! For those of us who have expanded our consciousnesses to levels of awareness high enough to hear the beautiful ethereal voices of nature, charming us to the depths of our souls, while engendering the most profound emotions of Cosmic Love, our minds are dazzled with visions of wonderful things which are yet to unfold! Now we are not implying that the Bible is not blessed; indeed, we sincerely believe that it, along with the other great spiritual writings of the world, are all blessed! However, can they be comprehended by the majority of the people, in the world today, whose levels of spiritual consciousness have been so deeply pressed down, into the darkness of spiritual ignorance, by materialism? Proof of this is the fact that there never has been, and there never will be a single interpretation of the Bible, which everybody in the world agrees with, and that is deeply satisfactorily to them mentally, morally, and spiritually. Indeed, this conclusion holds not only for the Bible but also for theories of philosophy and physical science, including all of today s theories of everything. For very good reasons, which stand at the foundations of our personal cosmology, we have not included Spiritual Science, Cosmic Music, and Universal Geometrical Mathematics in this list! The following four passages from Revelations contain within themselves the essence of what we are attempting to convey concerning holistic education: As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come into him, and I will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. Revelations 3: (20-22) -22-

23 These passages are deeply encoded with symbolism and, in all earnestness, can only be fully comprehended by those who have become aware of the true nature of their Spirits. Through his teaching and guidance, Christ had helped his disciples lift their planes of spiritual consciousness to a higher level of awareness than that which was being experienced by the majority of the people who lived during his time on earth. Therefore, to them, the real meaning of these passages were quite evident, and, in some cases, outright obvious! First, let us take the statements: If any man hear my voice, and He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. Now let us speak to you emphatically: there never has been, and there never will be, a person, who has incarnated into this physical world, who can talk to his personal Spirit, and feel its presence, with deep emotional love, within himself, WITHOUT HAVING EARNED THE ABILITY TO DO SO! Remember, you are a Microcosm, with all of the powers of the Cosmos waiting to be awakened from within you, and a major part of the purpose for your existence, is for you to release those awesome powers and become a co-creator with God. The first thing that a child must learn, in order to survive in the world, is how to speak the language of his parents and other people in his community. Therefore, everyone who wishes to communicate with their Spirit, enter the gates of HEAVEN by beginning to expand their consciousness, must first learn to speak, read, and communicate with THE LANGUAGE OF LIGHT! Galileo realized that mathematics, the masculine aspect of the LANGUAGE OF LIGHT, is capable of describing physical science. He was inspired to write the following: Here it will be perceived, from innumerable examples, what is the use of mathematics for judgement in the natural sciences, and how impossible it is to philosophize correctly without it... Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes I mean the universe but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and characters in which it is written. This language is mathematics, and the characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one -23-

24 wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth. Galileo Galilei ( ) Since the time of Galileo, the evolution of mathematics has been found to be intimately correlated with the expansion, of the intellectual aspects of man s consciousness, to increasingly higher levels; however, the spiritual aspects have been left lagging behind. It is only after studying geometrical mathematics, and the lives of the great creative mathematicians who developed it over many centuries, do we now finally realize that all of them were great men of Vision! Indeed, it was only after they had opened the doors of their minds, when their Spirits knocked, that their ability to idealize, visualize, and particularize, the wonderful potentials of mathematics in their dreams were greatly increased. They fell so deeply in love with the beauty of their ideas that most of them worked relentlessly all of their lives to convert them into realities. Many different mathematical visionaries, working from a variety of points of view, at different levels of consciousness, created several branches of mathematics among which the most important are: Algebra, Trigonometry, Euclidean Geometry, Analytical Geometry, Projective Geometry, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and Group Theory. All of them are intimately related; yet, they have been taught in schools as separate subjects. The wonderful mathematical visionary, Dr. David Hestenes, had dreams of unifying all of these different branches of mathematics into one and spent his entire career working to turn his ideas into realities. The result of all of this effort by him and his colleagues was the creation of the Masculine Aspect of our Language of Light which we refer to as Universal Geometrical Mathematics. Euclid s Elements was the primary text for teaching mathematics for over 2000 years! It has been responsible for stimulating the imaginations of the greatest mathematicians and scientists in history. Einstein once said: If Euclid failed to kindle your youthful enthusiasm, then you were not born to be a scientific thinker. Abraham Lincoln studied Euclid in order to train his mind to reason acutely. -24-