Chapter 24: Return to Eden

At the same time that huge groups of people and angels were working to save the environment from disaster, a quieter nature movement was underfoot. This was the Back-to-the-Land movement of people who wanted to trade their consumer, urban lifestyles for a rural life, growing their own food and evading the air and water pollution that was so much in the news. The angels and spirits of nature took advantage of this movement to get involved on the inner planes with the people who were seeking a new connection with nature. The desire to connect with nature felt by these people, led many of them to seek a oneness with each other as well, and so the idea of sustainable communities evolved. This gave the nature spirits a unique opportunity to work with people who shared their values and goals, and a few of these people even learned to seek guidance directly from nature’s devas and angels.

In 1962, the same year that saw the publication of Silent Spring, three individuals: Eileen and Peter Caddy, and Dorothy Maclean started a garden community in Findhorn, Scotland. Originally it was not their intention to start a community, but they were in close touch with their inner divine selves and following this guidance, one thing led to another. Dorothy was the one who was able to communicate with the intelligence of nature, which presented itself to her in the form of devas. Deva is a Hindu word meaning “being of light.” Each and every plant has a deva that aids its growth, and Dorothy was able to elicit guidance from these devas and the Landscape Angel of Findhorn before the three made any decisions about planting, fertilizing, and watering.

Findhorn Eco Village

Many people are discovering that their plants will flourish if they talk to them and send loving thoughts to their green friends, but most don’t realize that each plant is watched over by a deva or fairy, that receives these expressions of love and weaves them into the energy that assists the plant’s growth. Dorothy received very specific advice from each plant’s spiritual being; for example, the Tomato Deva told her: “It is shivery for them, but we shall try to protect. You can give them liquid manure now. Leave the windbreaks on at the moment until the fruit is somewhat formed.” And from the Spinach Deva: “If you want strong natural growth of the leaf, the plants will have to be wider apart than they are at the moment. By leaving them as they are, you will get overall as much bulk in the leaves, perhaps a little tender, but with not as strong a life force.”(The Magic of Findhorn by Paul Hawken, p. 184)

Eileen, Peter, and Dorothy learned from the Landscape Angel that there are all kinds of unseen forces at work in the garden: those that are drawn up from below the surface, and those that work with the energies that come from sun, rain, and compost. The devas work with the compost, too, along with the worms, to speed up the process of turning vegetation into rich fertilizer.  By working in cooperation with the spiritual forces of nature, the Findhorn gardeners transformed a plot of barren, sandy soil into a bountiful display of vegetables, flowers, and herbs. Cabbages have grown to 42 pounds, delphiniums to eight feet, and roses have bloomed in the snow. In 1970 the gardeners published a booklet about their venture, and readers flocked to Findhorn to see for themselves what was going on in this modern Garden of Eden.

Some of Findhorn’s visitors decided to stay and become a part of this spiritual community. By 1973 the original group of three had grown to include 200 people who lived and worked in cooperation with each other and the nature spirits of the land. The garden of people, plants, devas and angels continued to flourish, becoming a community of 120 co-workers who offer workshops, classes, and other events for participants who wish to learn how to apply spiritual principles in their everyday lives.  Visitors from all over the world flock to Findhorn to experience what it is like to be part of a community that honors the interrelationship of all life.

Findhorn is a microcosmic example of what the world will be like when Divine Love’s plan unfolds completely. When all human beings decide to choose Love’s will over their own, they will live in harmony and cooperation with each other and all of creation.  People, animals, and nature spirits will recognize their oneness and communicate with one another about the best ways to transform the entire world into a garden of love. The lion will lie down with the lamb, the seal will swim with the killer whale – that will drop “killer” from its name, and just be known as the Orca, and the forests will thrive without fear for themselves or the ones who protect them. In this way, the whole earth will return to the Eden-like existence we began with so very long ago.

http://www.recreatingeden.com/index.php?pid=8&season=04&episode=53

http://www.findhorn.org/aboutus/faq/#howdid

Chapter 23:The Earth Keepers

In recent times, humanity has been waging war on nature: felling trees, tearing down mountains, and polluting waters, wherever these natural phenomenon get in the way of what people call progress. In many parts of the world, the nature spirits have been forced to withdraw, along with certain plants and animals that have become extinct, because their habitats have been destroyed. Those humans whose soul shells have become as impenetrable as coats of armor are so disconnected from creation; they no longer see any reason to preserve the health and beauty of the earth we live on. When people buy their food and bottled water in supermarkets, they forget that food needs fertile land in which to grow, and water needs a clean source from which to flow.  When people spend most of their time in buildings and cars, they don’t care what’s happening to the land that lies between their home and the places to which they go. (No, this is not poetry, but the rhymes just presented themselves so they had to come out. Perhaps it was Ecanus, angel of writers, having a bit of fun.) Anyway . . . .

It is fortunate for creation that legions of nature lovers have been growing in numbers to counter-balance the devastation caused by those who choose self-centered goals over compassionate ones. Horrendous actions always stir up protests from those who maintain their connection to Love; so myriads of protection agencies and organizations have sprouted to prevent the warriors from eradicating the world of its forests, waterways, and wildlife.  These nature advocates are supported by the agents of Love, which include angels and gods who have been revered in different parts of the world at different times: Faunus and Pan in Greece and Rome . . . .  and the angels: Ariel and Sofiel, angels of nature;  Orifiel, angel of the forests; Zuphlas, angel of trees; Hayyel, angel of wild animals, and Trgiaob, angel of wild birds.

All of these angels and more were present in June of 1992 when the First Earth Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  This was the first time in human history that 176 world leaders assembled in one place for a common cause: the healing of the earth. In addition to these world leaders, 40,000 people attended the event, representing organizations that are dedicated to planetary healing. Unbeknown to most of the summit’s attendees, their numbers were boosted by myriads of nature spirits and angels, who were so encouraged by humanity’s positive intentions, that their efforts to help us save our mother earth from destruction were greatly intensified.

The humans who strive to protect nature have not usually been aware of the support they receive from the non-material realm; but the angels, gods, and nature spirits are at work behind the scenes, offering inspiration and encouragement to people like John Muir, Rachel Carson, and Ken Saro-Wiwa. Of course there is no way of knowing whether or not environmental activists are in communication with the angels and spirits of the natural world. They have to keep such information to themselves if they want powerful people to take them seriously. The men who were in Congress in 1890 took John Muir so seriously that, with the help of his friend, Robert Johnson, and perhaps an angel or two, Muir was able to convince them to establish Yosemite National Park. The creation of this park protected the central Sierra Nevada from stockmen and others who saw ways to profit from the land without a thought for the consequences. Muir, who was also influential in founding national parks at Mount Rainier, Sequoia, the Petrified Forest, and the Grand Canyon, is known as the Father of the National Park System in the United States, as well as the founder of the Sierra Club, an organization of nature lovers who have been working to protect the natural environment since 1892.

Yosemite National Park

It is probably impossible for one who spends as much time in the wilderness as John Muir did, not to recognize the interrelatedness of creation and the intelligence of nature. Omniel, Angel of Oneness, may have whispered these words in his inner ear as he was writing My First Summer in the Sierra: “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” (p. 110) And then these insightful words, composed as part of a letter to Catharine Merrill, while he was in Yosemite Valley in 1871:

We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all. (Life and Letters of John Muir by William Frederic Badè)

When the Sierra Club was created, Muir said that its founders were doing “something for wildness” and to “make the mountains glad." He treated the mountains and trees as friends, with the ability to respond to their experiences the way people do. Perhaps the Angel Zuphlas inspired him to write these words:

It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!  (Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf, p.41-42)

            John Muir and his colleagues were successful in saving millions of acres of wilderness and their wild inhabitants from destruction by stockmen, loggers, miners, and hunters. By the mid-twentieth century there was a new and even more dangerous threat to the environment: the burgeoning use of chemicals to control pests and the use of toxins for not-so-nice reasons. This menace contaminated the environments in which people live and grow their food and acquire their water. As Rachel Carson so eloquently pointed out in Silent Spring, published in 1962, these poisons affect the lives of all people, not just those who enjoy hiking through the backcountry. Unlike Muir, Carson was a scientist, so she would have been inspired by Dewi Saraswat, goddess of science, and Harahel, angel of knowledge, as well as the angels of nature. Yes, Dewi Saraswat is a Hindu goddess, and Rachel Carson was not a Hindu, but the agents of Love do not restrict their influence to one particular group of people if they see a way to help humanity as a whole to achieve Love’s goal of oneness.

Rachel Carson needed a lot of support from Love’s messengers, because after challenging the practices of agricultural scientists and the government for their misuse of pesticides, the chemical industry and certain government leaders labeled her an alarmist. Carson’s critics tried to get the public to scoff at her warnings, but bolstered by the reassuring presence of Nemamiah, angel of just causes, she was able to testify before Congress in 1963, to request new policies that would protect the environment and the health of all people who depend on the environment for food, air, and water. Carson was successful in convincing Congress and the public to support her views because she had been a well-respected scientist and author even before the publication of Silent Spring. She backed her findings with specific examples, such as the declining salmon population in an area where DDT had been sprayed to kill the spruce budworm. She explained that the DDT also killed the aquatic insects that the young salmon depended on for survival.  Carson helped people to understand the oneness of creation in scientific terms:

For each of us, as for the robin in Michigan, or the salmon in the Miramichi, this is a problem of ecology, of interrelationships, of interdependence. We poison the caddis flies in the stream and the salmon runs dwindle and die. . . . We spray our elms and following springs are silent of robin song, not because we sprayed the robins directly but because the poison traveled, step by step, through the now familiar elmleaf -earthworm-robin cycle. These are matters of record, observable, part of the visible world around us. They reflect the web of life-or death-that scientists know as ecology. (Silent Spring, p. 189)

            As Nemamiah points out to the other angels, “It’s easy for people to see through arguments and accusations when they come from businesses that are making a profit from a controversial act or product. Like John Muir before her, Rachel has nothing to gain from her position except the preservation of the natural environment we all live in.”

Rachel Carson left this world in 1964, just a year after President Kennedy’s Science Advisory Committee issued a report that vindicated her thesis and recommended that the use of persistent toxic pesticides be discontinued. Following this victory for the environment, increasing numbers of individuals have felt encouraged to stand up in defense of Mother Nature. Many of these brave souls have been murdered by those who making profits from their destruction of the environment. Among these martyrs were Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper who fought to preserve the Amazon rainforest, and advocated for the human rights of Brazilian peasants and indigenous peoples. He was assassinated by a rancher on December 22, 1988. 

Ken Beeson Saro-Wiwa

Then there was Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro-Wiwa, an environmental activist in Nigeria, who led a nonviolent campaign against the environmental degradation of the land and waters of his homeland, Ogoniland, by the operations of the multinational petroleum industry. He also spoke out against the Nigerian government for its reluctance to enforce environmental regulations on the foreign petroleum companies that dumped their waste in this area. He and eight of his colleagues were executed in 1995. In 2011, environmentalists, Fr. Fausto Tentorio, Gerry Ortega, and several others were killed in the Philippines, where they had been speaking out against a mining project that threatens to contaminate the watershed and destroy the forests in the province of Palawan. 

These are just a few of the hundreds of people who have been killed while trying to protect Mother Nature from the benefactors of her destruction. “If only we could have protected the ones who sacrificed their lives for creation,” cry the angels of the forests, wildlife, and water. “But,” Ariel reminds the others, “All we can do is offer guidance and little nudges in their subconscious minds. We can only protect those who ask for help, and none of these martyrs even believed in us.”

The murder of one human being by another is the pinnacle of evil – the evil that results when people feel separate from one another. Martyrdom occurs when someone stands up for Love and Oneness, and those who live only for themselves see that person as a threat to their wealth and power. The one redeeming factor to martyrdom is that it does draw attention to the cause for which the victim died. So all of these murders, intended to squelch the activists’ crusades, have actually had the opposite effect. Each time a person or group of people is killed for altruistic achievements, the murderers broadcast their avaricious and ruthless behavior to the world. In many cases, such as that of Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa and his colleagues, the international community holds the murderers responsible for their crimes – not only the executions, but the degradation of the lands that the victims had been protesting.

The agents of Love were excited and busy during the 1960s, a time of great change and awakening for the children of Love. Yes, the sleeping ones waged war and mayhem around the world, but these antics served to awaken others who were beginning to understand that much of what was done by those in power was not intended for the benefit of all. The 1960s saw the establishment of new environmental groups, such as Greenpeace and the Environmental Defense Fund, and the angels supported the work done by these groups to preserve the health and beauty of Love’s creation. 

http://www.rachelcarson.org/

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http://www.piplinks.org/killing-anti-mining-italian-priest-condemned-environmental-activists

Chapter 22: Healing with Love

The healing angels have always enjoyed working with the ones known as Shamans, who act as intermediaries between humanity and nonphysical beings. Remember, the Shamans were the priests of the early nature-centered religions, who often used drums to communicate with the spiritual world. Shamans still exist in some parts of the world, healing those who believe in their abilities. The Shamans understand the relationship between body and spirit, and how diseases of the body are actually symptoms of a sick soul. The human soul is sick because it has lost its connection with its source: Divine Love. Shamans visit the spiritual world in dreams or visions. In that state a Shaman’s soul can communicate easily with the angels of healing and nature spirits who show him just what a diseased soul needs to be made balanced and whole. When the soul is re-connected to Divine Love, and its masculine and feminine aspects are in harmony, the body is restored to good health.

         The healing angels recognize that most people of the physical world look down their noses at Shamans, who they consider to be primitive in their approach to healing. After all, if they have been doing things the same way for thousands of years, they must be pretty backward! And Shamans don’t attend medical school or base their procedures on scientific studies. In the Western world, there is little awareness of the divine guidance received by those who heal the sick. 

       Medical professionals and their patients tend to see both the illness and the cure as purely physical phenomena. And while Western doctors have given little credence to those healing methods that amplify and direct the invisible life-force energy, such as acupuncture, Reiki, and Quantum-Touch, the divine beings who teach these modalities recognize that they also address the human condition as if it were separate from its divine source.  When someone visits a practitioner of energy healing, the patient believes that the healer channels energy from a separate divine source. As long as humans live outside of the Law of Oneness they will suffer from illnesses that can only be healed by outside forces.  So our divine helpers meet us where we are, continuously revealing new healing styles and cures with which people can treat each other.

Mary Baker Eddy

Once in a while the healing angels do find an individual who understands that real health and wholeness result when they remember their Oneness with Creation.  Raphael and his healing team were particularly successful in their work with two women: Mary Baker Eddy, who established The Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879, and Myrtle Fillmore, who with her husband, Charles Fillmore, founded The Unity Society of Practical Christianity between 1889 and 1903. 

Both Mary and Myrtle dealt with poor health for much of their lives, and when medical science failed to cure them, the healing angels led them to investigate the way to divine healing. Both women studied the Bible in an attempt to understand how ordinary people could heal in the way that Jesus did. The angels opened their inner eyes and deepened their understanding beyond the teachings of the traditional churches. They realized that Jesus offered himself as an example of what all children of Love can achieve when we remember that we are One with our divine parent, just as Jesus was. Mary and Myrtle both healed themselves with prayer and taught others to do the same.

When Jesus healed ailing individuals he liked to point out that it was their faith that made them well. These people had faith in Jesus’ power to heal them. Followers of Christian Science have faith in the healing power of divine Mind. They acknowledge and affirm the spiritual power of divine Love and the natural state of the human body as perfection, according to Scripture’s declaration: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." Students of the Unity School of Christianity have faith that the power of God is continually blessing their lives with unlimited possibilities, including perfect health. They base their method of affirmative prayer on Jesus’ words: “So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours” (Mark 11:24).

            Every form of healing requires a measure of faith from the patient. Some people have faith in doctors and medicines. Some have faith in acupuncture, chiropractic, or CranioSacral Therapy. Others have faith in Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, or Reconnective Healing. Love’s agents don’t really care which method evokes faith in those who need healing. To have faith at all is to recognize that the human body was created to be whole and perfect. Sometimes there is no cure and no amount of faith that can heal the body, because the shell that separates one’s soul from its divine Source is just too thick.

            “But with each passing century, more people are recognizing their oneness with Divine Love and wholeness,” Raphael says to his flock of healing angels. “Someday our vocation as healing agents will be obsolete and we’ll have to look for something else to do!”

            “That would be fine with me,” Ariel responds. “There will always be more beauty to create and enjoy in this wonderful universe of love and light.”

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http://www.unity.org/prayer/what-affirmative-prayer

           

Chapter 21: Created in the Image of Love

by anonymous German painter

          

       The human body first created by Love was whole and perfect.  As people forgot that they had been created in the image of Divine Love, and their connection with Divine Source was broken, disease and physical maladies manifested in their bodies. All the Agents of Love were dismayed by the range of illnesses that cropped up as people grew more deeply ensconced in the belief that we are separate and flawed creations of the one we have called God. But there would be no healing without illness, and healing is one of the greatest gifts life offers, because we always appreciate ourselves more when we emerge on the other side of an illness, whole and well. For each disease that appeared, the healing angels created a cure. These cures are not always easily discovered, but when compassionate people have the desire to heal the sick, they hear the whispers of angelic guidance with their inner ears.

            To be a healer is one of the highest callings there is. So, while the effects of disease have been devastating to humanity, sickness, like every other human problem, creates the opportunity for love to grow in human hearts. The head of the angels of healing, Archangel Raphael, explained it to his team this way: “The deeper the misery that humans find themselves in, the greater is the love and compassion poured out to redeem them, and the greater the joy when healing takes place.”

            “But Raphael, people hate to be sick, and they’re going to keep asking how God can allow all this disease in the world,” argued Ariel, one of Raphael’s assistant healers.

            “I know,” Raphael sighed. “People always blame Divine Love for their sorrows. They have forgotten that they brought sickness on themselves when they let the shell of separation form around their souls. The shell keeps Love from circulating freely through their bodies, and allows disease to creep in.”

            The other healing angels looked out over the masses of sick and failing inhabitants of earth, and Ariel, angel of nature and healing said, “If only they understood that pure Love is the best medicine!” 

            “That concept is much too simple,” Raphael responded. “Humans like things to be complicated, and you know that things have to be different for each group. Eventually they will learn from one another and share their healing methods.”

Shennong

            The healing angels flew to different parts of the earth, teaching the ways of healing that would best suit the mentality of each culture. In every land they searched for a person with a thin shell, whose inner ears would be sensitive to angelic voices, and whose mind would be open to ideas that would benefit his friends. Five-thousand years ago in China, they found Shennong, a man who cared deeply about the welfare of his fellow citizens.  He taught them how to plough the land and grow edible plants so they would have more nutritious food to eat. The healing angels told Shennong that certain plants could be used to heal diseases and injuries. They helped him identify these herbs, but he personally tasted all of them – hundreds – to verify the safety and wisdom of ingesting each one, before recommending it to others. Then Shennong dried the herbs and brewed them into teas for the sick and injured who would seek him out for his knowledge of plants.

            “Do you know what I should eat, to ease the pain in my head?” one might ask him. And Shennong would mix certain herbs together in an earthenware cup and pour boiling water over them; then bow low before his patient as he presented the medicinal brew. He would bow because the presentation of the tea was a prayer as well as a healing treatment. And because Shennong was so frequently in a state of prayer for the people he cared about, the angels were able to show him another way to help the sick.

            When human beings lost their spiritual connections, they forgot about the meridians that carry the life force, known as chi, through their bodies, keeping them balanced and healthy. Like electricity, these pathways are invisible to the human eye, but they are vital for the well-being of the physical body. The angels showed Shennong how these rivers of chi distribute revitalizing energy to the corresponding parts of the body. While his patients sipped their tea, they had no idea that Shennong was watching orbs of light encircling the areas in their bodies where the flow of energy had been blocked. The angels showed him how to release these blockages by applying pressure at the right spots.

            “But I only have two hands,” Shennong pointed out (silently, so that his patient could not hear him). “I can’t put pressure on thirty spots at once the way you angels can!”

            “This is true!” Raphael laughed as he observed Shennong trying to spread ten fingers to cover twenty spots on the body of a young man suffering from indigestion. “You need something to supplement your fingers . . . .  such as the bone needles you sew your clothes with. But whittle the points very fine, so they will barely puncture your patient’s skin. Then you can place lots of them at the right spots all at the same time.”

            And so the healing arts of acupressure and acupuncture were introduced to the Chinese. These healing methods have been refined and perfected over the millennia, and in recent times were introduced to western cultures where people are beginning to recognize the value of wisdom that comes from other parts of the world.

            Throughout most of history, scholars of the western world have focused on the physical side of life, and the invisible meridians, known as chi in China and prana in India, were not known at all. The healing angels realized that western patients would think their doctors were crazy if they stuck needles in them, so they took a different approach with healers in places like Egypt and Greece.

            In ancient Egypt, the healing angels found a man named Imhotep, who was in tune with the divine light within himself, and communicated easily with the divine beings who directed him in building King Djoser’s Step Pyramid. The first pyramid to be built in Egypt, this architectural feat combined a profound knowledge of physics and the cosmos. Imhotep understood that the energy of oneness beats in the heart of the pyramid’s geometrical form. When he sat in just the right spot to meditate, he could experience complete oneness with all of creation, including the angels. A deeply compassionate man, Imhotep confided to his divine friends that he wished he could do something for humanity on a more personal level than the pyramids accomplished.

            “It is only the priests and highly-learned people who even understand the significance of the pyramids,” Imhotep said. “I would like to perform healings for the common people who suffer from diseases of the body.”

            “And so you shall,” Raphael said, and he and the other healing angels taught Imhotep how to diagnose and treat over 200 diseases, including tuberculosis, appendicitis, gout, and arthritis. They also showed him how to perform surgery for many of these diseases, how to practice dentistry, and which plants to use for medicinal purposes.

            Imhotep not only healed hundreds of people himself, he trained others in the medical arts and wrote about his findings. His knowledge and accomplishments were so far beyond the ordinary of his day that he was elevated from mere mortal status to that of a medical demigod  100 years after his death. Another 1900 years later, he was elevated to the position of a full god, along with Amenhotep, the only other mortal the Egyptians felt was worthy of full divine status. 

            Just as the early church fathers granted sainthood to mystics and healers in order to set them apart from ordinary people, the Egyptians declared that Imhotep was a god so that nobody else would try to attain his level of intelligence and compassion. That is, nobody other than the pharaohs, whose presumed divinity gave them unlimited power over all the land.  The healing angels grumbled among themselves when Imhotep was deified. Ariel said, “These people will never recognize their own connection to Divine Love if they make gods out of everyone who finds the divine light within.”

            “It’s a lot easier this way,” Raphael replied.  “It doesn’t take much effort to worship somebody, but it does take a lot of work for a person to dig down through the layers of illusion and indoctrination to find the inner core that connects them with All-That-Is. As long as the awakened ones are in the minority they will be placed on a pedestal high above the masses.”

This prediction proved particularly true of Imhotep, who was also worshiped as a god of medicine in Greece and Rome, and even worshiped by some early Christians as the Prince of Peace.

Hippocrates 

            The next Westerner the healing angels worked with had to be more down-to-earth than Imhotep – someone who would not sit in the center of a pyramid to meditate – so that people would be less likely to deify him. They chose Hippocrates, a Greek, who lived during the 500th century BC. Hippocrates learned a lot from the writings of Imhotep, but he based much of his medical practice on his own observations and study of the human body. He scoffed at the popular notion that illness was the result of possession by evil spirits or disfavor by the gods. Hippocrates knew the gods well, especially the gods and goddesses of healing: Apollo, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, so he understood that they desired only good health and well-being for the people they served. These gods, and the angels of healing, taught Hippocrates that the human body was not a collection of separate parts, but a whole entity in which the health of each part was dependent upon the others. They taught him that the body is a microcosm of the universe in which every living being is an integral part of All-That-Is.

            With the help of his divine teachers, Hippocrates learned to describe many disease symptoms with great accuracy, and he learned about the natural healing effects of rest, fresh air and sunshine, a nutritious diet, and good hygiene. He traveled throughout Greece, practicing medicine and teaching his patients how to follow a healthy lifestyle. Eventually he founded a medical school on the Greek island of Cos where the invisible divine healers worked side-by-side with Hippocrates as he taught his students how to treat their patients with respect, compassion, and rational application. Hippocrates’ logical approach to healing suited the Western intellect, and so he became known as the Father of Western Medicine.

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Chapter 20: The Light of Love

The angels of science are well aware that truth’s many layers must be peeled back gradually, as the human consciousness gains in its capacity for knowledge.  After Newton’s discovery of white light’s true nature, the angels allowed time for this knowledge to take root in the human consciousness before guiding other pioneering scientists to learn more about the nature of light. In 1800, the German musician and astronomer, Sir Frederick William Herschel, paid heed to the angelic instructions that drifted into his mind on the strains of his music and the light beams of the stars, as he was experimenting with prisms and thermometers.  If it had not been for the angels’ prodding, he never would have thought to place a thermometer just outside the visible spectrum of sunlight. His rational mind chastised him: “What a ridiculous idea, Frederick!” But his curiosity said, “Why not?”  Laughing at himself, he placed the thermometer just beyond the red light, and lo and behold, the temperature increased! So Frederick discovered infrared radiation: Light that cannot be seen with the human eye, and yet can be proved to exist.

Sir Frederick William Herschel

                Once some of the mysteries of light had been unveiled, it was an easy matter for the angels to guide scientists to make further discoveries.  In 1801, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, a Polish scientist who had heard about Herschel’s discovery of infrared light, wondered if invisible light might exist beyond the violet end of the spectrum as well. The angels nudged him to consider experimenting with silver chloride, a chemical which turns black when exposed to sunlight. Johann directed sunlight through a glass prism to create a spectrum and placed silver chloride in each color. When he placed it in the area just beyond the violet end of the spectrum, where no visible light could be seen, the silver chloride deepened into the darkest black, proving that light existed beyond the scope of human vision on the upper end of the spectrum as well as the lower end. Johann’s eyes brimmed over with tears. The angels smiled at each other. Humanity was another step closer to learning the truth about light; that light pervades all of the universe, seen and unseen, because EVERYTHING is made of light!

            The angels of science were very busy during the nineteenth century as scientists were eager to learn everything they could about the properties of light. With some help from his angelic friends, the British physicist, James Clerk Maxwell, was able to demonstrate that visible light makes up a minute fraction of the whole electromagnetic spectrum.  Another scientist who contributed to our growing knowledge of light was Leon Foucault, a Frenchman who, in 1862, measured the speed of light to be 299,792.458 kilometers per second in a vacuum. 

                “And now the skeptics will know that we really do exist!” the angels rejoiced. Twelve-hundred years earlier the Angel Gabriel had told Mohammed to write in the Koran that angels travel in one day the same distance that the moon travels in a thousand lunar years. A thousand lunar years equal twelve-thousand lunar orbits or earth days . . . which turn out to be the same as the speed of light. “One day people will realize that they are made of light, just as Jesus told them they are. Then they will travel at the speed of light, too!”

The Human Light Body

             Throughout history, scientists have asked the same questions that truth seekers have asked since the beginning of time: “Where did we come from? Why are we here? How did the universe begin, and how will it end?” The spiritual seeker looks for answers by reading scripture, meditating, and praying. The scientist seeks answers in the laboratory, using telescopes, microscopes, and chemical formulas. Scientists require physical proof before they will accept the validity of a spiritual truth. Spiritual truths are explored and expressed in music, art, and allegory. They cannot always be defined in words or demonstrated in concrete ways. However, as humanity has matured and learned to grasp more abstract concepts, the angels of science have been able to convey deeper truths by steering scientific explorations in the right direction. And sometimes, a great man, such as Albert Einstein, has the ability to travel both paths, seeing the light through the lenses of science and of spirit. Albert wrote in The Merging of Spirit and Science:

“The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.”

                During the twentieth century, the science muses worked with Einstein, as well as Monsignor Georges Lemaître, and Edwin Hubble, to introduce what has become known as the Big Bang Theory, providing a scientific explanation for the origin of the universe.  According to the Big Bang model, the universe started out as an extraordinarily hot, high energy density that exploded and expanded like fireworks. And what was this fiery ball of energy, but Love, in its most intense and concentrated form! It was pure Love growing denser and hotter and more jubilant until it just had to burst forth in a great cosmic orgasm that sent the stars dancing and spinning out into space. All this Love and Light has been expanding out into infinity ever since, and everything it has created is still made of the same Love and Light from which it all began.

                The writer of Genesis says that light was God’s first creation. In Greek mythology, Eros, the god of love, was the first divine being from which the rest of creation was brought forth.  The Australian Aborigines believed that the great Father of All Spirits was the only conscious being before the beginning of time, and the first being he awoke was the Sun Mother. It was then her job to awaken every living thing in the world.  The angels gave these stories to the people of ancient times to help them understand that the world was born of Love and Light. When humanity became more sophisticated, the angels decided we were ready for the Big Bang Theory. “The best part about this theory,” one angel said to another, “is that it demonstrates the oneness of creation, with everything originating from the same cause.” 

                Albert Einstein, who was the most highly revered scientist of the twentieth century, catapulted humanity’s ideas about space and time into a vast new realm of comprehension, largely because he was attuned to what he referred to as “the music of the spheres.” His intimate relationship with the muses of science opened his mind to the importance of understanding our oneness with the cosmos, as he expressed in these words:

“A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.”

How wonderful! The hosts of heaven sang the praises of Albert Einstein, for his work and his words opened doors and windows for many followers to pass through.  The angels have shown others that the liberation from self this scientist spoke of was the very same liberation Jesus spoke of when he said: “The truth shall set you free;“ and the same liberation from materialism that Buddhism teaches. The scientific truths set forth by Einstein and many more scientists following him serve as links of love in the expanding bridge between science and spiritual understanding, and Divine Love is well pleased.

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