Lesson

There is God who is responsible for consciousness, and then there is Heaven who is responsible for Manifestation. We must learn to distinguish between God and Heaven. There are many people who believe that it is in God's nature to be entirely free from desire; and personally I believe the idea has some validity. It is difficult for me to imagein a person who is free from all desires and anything at all like a Human Being. Being Human is being filled with an unlimited number of desires it seems. It is common practice to view God as a kind of person because after all the Bible tells us that we are created in his image. But I consider the whole idea to be mere wishful thinking. I suspect that its fair to say that we are all children of God, however I do not think it would ever be possible for us to become 'like' God. But Heaven is a different kind of person entirely, it may be possible for us to become more like Heaven. So what then is Heaven like? Heaven has a mind and awareness of immense capacities, to the extent that it can be aware of every event that transpires within the Universe. And Heaven has a perfect memory of every event since the very begining, such as it is - this is what constitutes TRUTH.

You see the very fabric of space itself is ever-expanding. And even though the vast emptyness of space seems to go on forever, the very vacume itself is still part of manifestation. The vacume extends everywhere; it is inside of your body, it etends to the very core of the Earth and the heart of the Sun. You may say its not true, there is matter here, there is solidity; but much of this percieved solidity is emptyness. The vacume exists around every atom and within it, and all of that space is still expanding. In fact the vacume is expanding absolutely everywhere, and not just at the edges of our Universe an unimaginable distance away. And this stuff, whatever it may be, is very much like video tape in the sense that it contains a record. And there may be found the memories of Heaven within the fabric of space itself. And each and every one of us is connected to that fabric in some way. It has never been well understood how our memories are stored in the Brain, but that these things may be saved by mere matter is an erroneous point of view. It is the fabric of space itself that saves all your personal memories and the Brain that somehow connects and retreives and catalogs those memories.

As I have said, Heaven is a kind of person, and it is a person with the capacity to experience itself in terms of events. In this sense the lifetime of one human being is an event within the Universe and everything that has ever been experienced by one of us is also experienced by Heaven in the exact same way and at the exact same time. Heaven in this way experiences itself in the exact same way that we experience it, and every tragic thing that has ever been suffered by one of us, has also been suffered by Heaven. Therefore our memories are Heaven's memories as well, and even though we each have a personal story and history here, those experiences of ours are not the same thing as 'intellectual property'. In fact our concept of intellectual property is entirely artifical, it is a Human invention and has no bearing upon the nature of reality.

If you really want to know what Heaven is like, I will tell you this...
Heaven is like a man who was laboring in his master's field and discovered a treasure buried therein. He hastily covered up the treasure and hid it away. Then that man did venture forth into distant lands to earn his own livelyhood, so that he could one day amass the personal wealth to return and purchase the land and claim the treasure!

And this treasure which is here on the Earth and has long been unclaimed, is the Human Experience. It is the sum total of everything each one of us has experienced, but of course the story goes on, its still being told. And you may easily ask the question, that if this is in fact the nature of the treasure, how can one man claim it? Indeed is it possible that the Earth itself could be purchased for any price?

I will tell you all that even Jesus himself paid homage to the heavely father which is the King of all Kings, but such a person has never before been seen in the world.
It is believed that Jesus himself was a king to his own people the people of Israel, although they have not accepted him. It is true he is considered a king to the gentile people's as well, and I beleive there is reason to think that he was a kind of king in his day. Among all the many things that a King has ever done in the world, it is not uncommon for a King to make a promise of land. Moses himself was a kind of King to Israel, he was the first King of record, and for the most part he created the record! Moses made a promise of land to the people of Israel which is well known around the world, but he said that it was God who made the promise. Now Jesus made a promise of land as well, the likes of which has never before been made or since. Jesus promised all of the land of this Earth to those people who should be considered as meek, remarkably he did not promise the Earth to the people of Israel, his own people. Instead he identified with the meek persons of the Earth, who may be found among every nation of people.

Its worthy of note that the supposed Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. made a similar promise of land to the mormon people. Such promises have always caused strife it would seem. For some reason Joseph came to believe that the Garden of Eden was here in North America, and at its center the Tree of Life stood in the vicinity of Independence, Missouri. Joseph told his followers that the land of Independence, Missouri was promised to them and that the city of Zion would arise there, and from that place the world would be governed one day. Among the principles that Joseph taught was that his church represented a restoration of Christ's church on Earth, and that the Church should always be lead by a prophet, naturally this is how the true church should be organized in his view. However I believe that in the Jewish traditions it would be a King who is also a priest, that would lead the true church. It should never be a prophet but a King, and we should think that Jesus himself is the prefered King, if he were ever to appear upon the Earth again. Also I do not believe that it would ever be appropriate for a prophet to make a promise of land, that would be the sole domain of a King. But I suppose that Joseph also said it was God who was making the promise, he did the same thing that Moses did unfortunately and it has only caused problems. In my opinion, the one true and most high God would never make a promise of land to one group of people, and therefor show some preference to one national or religious identity. This has only been the cause of division and thus conflict in the world, and why I ask would the one true God have a desire to divide us and to have us at war with one another? I beleive that Jesus himself remarked that a house divided is easily conquered; perhaps God has a desire to conquer us? Here we are fighting amonst ourselves all the time, we may not notice God sneaking in to take charge of things. Clearly it is a common belief that the people are in need of some kind of governance, but If God beleives that the people are in need of governance it does not appear he has ever volunteered to do the job. Perhaps God is satisifed to allow one of us exercise the authority here, God delegates to a King who then becomes responsible for all the work! But if you are an advocate of democracy then you should think its better for the authority to be shared among several people, with checks and balances! It would appear that good governance requires good laws, and Moses claimed that ten were delivered by the hand of God into his hands.

Now a God which is free from all desires should never desire to give us laws to live by. To the best of my own personal knowledge no one has ever recieved written instructions or even advice from God about what we should be doing here. And that includes Moses in my opinion, who's testimony should be considered suspect because afterall he was a mass murderer of his own people. And Moses claimed that God was angry, in fact God was so angry that he even considered destroying all the Israeli people... but somehow, someway Moses talked him out of it. Moses, a mere human being had somehow controlled and moderated God's temper! But evidently Moses himself was angry and in his own words he has 1000 of his own people put to death! Moses controlled God's temper, but he could not control his own temper. And this is not the first time he has been guilty of the crime of murder, for this reason he fled Egypt initially. However Moses had aready read the 10 commandments of God prior to the event of mass murder, evidently he was the only person aware of God's laws at the time because he had broken the stone tablets. But as we should all be well aware, 10 laws could never be enough for the Jewish people, 10 laws would never cover every possible circumstance. And so the Jewish people do love to argue the fine points of law, up until the present time when they now have more than 100 scriptural laws. Jesus is noted as saying that we only need two laws to cover every situation. To love our neighbor as much as we love ourselves, and to love God more than that. Personally I feel that less laws would be better, and i am afraid that much of what Moses did, he had done according to the judgement of Moses.