Please bare with me for a moment as we are going to contrast a little New Age junk with the supernal Truth in Christ Jesus.
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These New Age messengers with their occultic practices and messages are necessary that God's sons bearing His cross in this life be tried and found true. We love the yogis and gurus, while abhorring the rebellious spirits that indwell and move them.
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"There are several energy centers, or vortexes of subtle energy, located in the Sedona area. (In Sedona, the energy centers are referred to as vortexes rather than vortices.) The energy from these vortexes saturates the whole area in and around Sedona, and can be noticed in a subtle but general way anywhere around town. If you actually go to one of the vortex sites, which is where the energy is strongest, it can be a very uplifting experience. The energy you take in at one of these energy centers can stay with you and affect you positively for days afterwards.
In addition to being a beautiful and serene place, Sedona has long been known as a spiritual power center. This is because the power that emanates from the vortexes produces some of the most remarkable energy on the planet. This energy is the reason Sedona is full of people that are "on the path", that is, people who have made a commitment to grow and become as much as they can spiritually. It is also the reason that such a large New Age community has sprung up in the Sedona area, bringing with it a variety of spiritual practices and alternative healing modalities, and it is the reason Sedona has sometimes been called a spiritual Disneyland.
We have personally found the energy centers at Sedona both exciting and growth inspiring. If you are at all sensitive to the more subtle things, the experience of standing at one of these vortexes, and letting the energy flow into
to experience this.
What is a Vortex?
A vortex is the funnel shape created by a whirling fluid or by the motion of spiraling energy. Familiar examples of vortex shapes are whirlwinds, tornadoes, and water going down a drain. A vortex can be made up of anything that flows, such as wind, water, or electricity.
The vortexes in Sedona are swirling centers of subtle energy coming out from the surface of the earth. The vortex energy is not exactly electricity or magnetism, although it does leave a slight measurable residual magnetism in the places where it is strongest.
There are four main energy vortexes in Sedona. The subtle energy that exists at these locations interacts with who a person is inside. The energy resonates with and strengthens the Inner Being of each person that comes within about a quarter to a half mile of it. This resonance happens because the vortex energy is very similar to the subtle energy operating in the energy centers inside each person. If you are at all a sensitive person, it is easy to feel the energy at these vortexes.
If you are planning a trip to Sedona, here is a map to help you easily locate the four main energy vortexes. On the map ........... " (end quote)
(lovesedona.com)
The above message about "vortexes of Sedona" was taken from a Barbara Simmons forum post. This is the latest subject of interest for my friend and New Age cosmic guru after her latest journey in search of Divine empowerment. Can you say, "Beam me up Scotty!" [wink]
Enough chiding already, with the exception of one last word below, as I sure don't want to get "Sigler and his wives such as Barb" upset at me again. This is especially true, after they lit me up for weeks on end (on Sig's forum) after my banishment (lol)
For those that might not know, Gary Sigler is a "New Age/Kingdom" writer and teacher that claims he was and still is of the same Truth as Preston Eby, Elwin Roach and others that declare emphatically Christ Jesus is enough. Within his writings Gary, in an attempt to give himself accreditation, will throw around the names of these respected teachers that demonstrate the heart of David. However, Gary left the Truth long ago with the whorish mixing of Christ with the many New Age philosophies, practices and apostate thinking now so popular at the end of this age and in the earth today. If you have been a participant on Sigler's forums or been to some of his meetings you have hopefully discerned how the mixed doctrines are shrouded in the soulish realm where self is proclaimed God. This realm is often camouflaged but for the spiritually astute it is, "the devil casting out the devil" in a number of absurd ways and methods. And lest I be accused of being chauvinistic with my preceding use of the term "Sigler's wives", I include the male participants on his board. I am not speaking of natural gender but instead, I am coming from a spiritual hierarchical understanding where a man led by the soul is spiritually effeminate having emasculated the spirit. This is an abomination to God and is born of a prideful and rebellious heart.
How often as I have thought of this sly guru, Sigler, and his group as typed (below) by this scene in the Old Testament, where Solomon has fallen from the path of truth. Often this sad account has been brought to mind and I believe if you have the least bit of discernment you will see it also. This group brings the enticement of witch craft and shamanism to God's children under the banner of Christ and love. The chasing of vortexes is actually one of the tamer pursuits I have read of on this forum, where necromancy and Sumerian Magic head up the long list.
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father. And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods. 1Ki 11:1,4,6,8
So, getting back to the subject of "vortexes", I am given thought to the contrast of the "Biblical paradise we know as Eden." (And, no Barb and gang, you will not find a semblance of paradise in Sedona or even Jackson Hole (my home), which is also purported to be another energy center.) I want to share with you, the locale where you, that truly know Christ, will find Eden as you make your pilgrimage through this fallen world. God actually took me to His Eden last week and I was amazed to find, I didn't even have to leave my neighborhood to experience it's magnificent and glorious beauty. Ain't that the way it usually works when the Spirit of God leads!
Let me start by saying, we having left our first estate as part of the Elohim to partake of our worldly pilgrimage and experience this earthly state, must travel through two gardens to reach the garden paradise. We must visit the garden of Gethsemane and the garden of the tomb before we taste of Paradise. The Gethsemane garden is our "valley of decision", while we experience the "death of self" in the garden tomb. Then on to "resurrection life and our ascension which is Paradise and the true Garden of Eden!! This is the journey of one who learns the way of Christ, which is the path of a poured out life. And most importantly this is not a "one, two, three step experience" but this supernal journey is made up of many events and times of our life spent within each garden. As our salvation is progressive so also are our "decisions", "deaths" and "resurrections" as we are lifted little by little into Christ's Full Glory. This is not a "prayer at the church altar and your good to go" type redemption but a "pressing onward and reaching for the mark of the high calling experience" that will spend our lives thoroughly until their be nothing left, but Christ risen and glorified. How few understand this and how blessed we are to not only understand it, but experience it. Brother Eby says the odds are much better for one to win the lottery than to experience His calling to sonship in this age. And while some think "sonship" an elitist doctrine, it is quite the opposite.
"...And they loved not their lives unto the death" Rev 12:11
Sonship is first of all, a message of the death of self, through servitude, resulting in the ascended Christ ruling and reigning. It is Christ, "the Little Lamb Slain" that sits on the throne and that should tell us all we need to know of the measure and method of Christ's rule and reign, in and through God's sons.
Now if you would, let us now direct our thoughts toward the last garden which is also the first garden, even before the (garden of)decision and (garden tomb)death which were both visited by Adam. Through our walk in Christ we tread a path reversing Adam's journey which encompassed an ill conceived "decision" with his resultant "spiritual death." But rather than diverge with that thought let us explore and come to some kind of premise as to where and what Eden is. As an important note let me first say, "the deepest level of the paradisaical Eden is Christ All in All, the beginning and the end, the alpha and omega of all things created.
The word "Eden" means "spot", "presence", "moment", "open door" and "delight." Some say Eden was a spot of earth where the Tigris River and the Euphrates converge. Today that would be in the war torn country of Iraq. Other's say it was found in Ethiopia or it was even Jerusalem. Then the Mormons claim Eden was located in present-day Jackson County, Missouri. So, although there may well have been a geographic place where Eden once existed, it was not the physical spot that made this place paradise. Instead, I believe it is safe to say it was the environment filled with the glorious presence of God that made this place special. As one author said, "the Garden of Eden was the spot for the moment where the presence of God provided an open door to heaven." Eden was the place where heaven met earth.
Eden was and is "paradise" and paradise means walled garden or park. This enclosed garden is paradise for one reason, and that being, the Tree of Life stands there in the midst and under it's shadow all in the garden is good and even very good. In this paradise of God's making, He places man and gives him a directive to tend and care for the garden (Gen 2:15) As with any garden or orchard if it is not tended nature takes over and the area is soon overgrown. So it is, through Adam's neglectful sin, the joyous pleasure of tending the garden is lost. He is banished from the garden. Adam and his wife are thrown into a world of confusion, where the tares grow amongst the wheat and the weeds strangle the fruit. Adam, now suffers the curse of hard toil, made up of brow sweating labor, as he attempts with futility to keep nature within bounds.
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Gen 3:17-19
One might wonder, "where is Paradise located today and can we still visit and experience it?"
Some might even ask, "do we have to wait with all of Sunday's church goers, till we die and go to paradise?" You I am sure, know better and so do I! Praise Our Lord Jesus, we can experience Heaven on earth, and sample Eden's glory today and everyday as we rest in His presence. It is within Him that we joyfully dress and care for the garden, which be Thy Kingdom come and where Heaven mingles with earth. I have experienced Heaven on earth in the midst of my days and now, as I promised earlier in my message, I would like to share the account, of my most recent journey to Eden.
I believe I, once before, mentioned my neighbors that live directly across the street and how they have two children, both of which are handicapped. The son, who is around 17 has a number of mental conditions that cause him to move through this world on the level of an eight year old. The girl, whom is my daughter's age (25) has never seen a day free of a wheel chair, suffering the effects of spinal bifida. Well, it so happened a few weeks ago their dad fell off the deck onto a chair and broke four ribs, which brought on pneumonia. Because of the complications of the pneumonia and the broken ribs inhibiting his breathing he was medically induced into a coma which then caused a whole rash of other medical problems. This man has truly been through a nightmare, but I am happy to report he arrived back home just today, where it is expected, he should recover fully.
Now, early last week all the neighbors got together and made plans to chip in for this family, with monetary gifts being the popular mode of support. When approached, I mentioned that I didn't have a dime for the cause. However, I said I would continue to help with that which I had already started; that being mowing, watering and care of the yards, along with tending the assorted flower beds.
During the second day of work on the yards I felt a wonderful peaceful transient feeling as I worked. Also as I mowed I was pleased to see the daughter siting in her wheel chair on the deck overseeing my efforts. When ever we would make eye contact as I mowed my way around the yard she would grin and give me a hearty thumbs up. This just tickled me because it was only a year or so ago that Nickie was in a medicated stupor most of the time. She was taking a number of medications to relieve the head aches she suffered. It also seemed every other month Nickie was visiting an out of state hospital, seeing specialists, getting tests and receiving different medical procedures in an attempt to free her of the incessant pain she was suffering. Well, it took a little common sense by a local general practice MD to ween her off all the pain medications. Sure enough when she was drug free her pain was gone along with her stupor. I often wonder if we don't acerbate our deceases with some of the medications we are prescribed. That thought expressed always make my personal physician frown and shake his head as I refuse his latest drug offerings for one symptom or another (lol). Any way it was such a delight to have an alert and eagle eyed foreman, in this little gal, looking over me as I tended the family yard and gardens. This was turning out to be an enjoyable and rewarding experience but nothing in comparison to that which I would enjoy later that night, while sleeping.
After making sure all in my life was surrendered to the will of His Majesty and praying for those named by the Holy Spirit I fell into my night's sleep. Somewhere in my slumber I was caught away in a most glorious re-visitation of my earlier lawn and garden tending duties. In reality this yard, I had been working on during the day, was over grown, unkempt and quite far from a thing of beauty. However, in this caught away realm, this same piece of land was beautiful beyond imagination. It wasn't so much that I was visually beholding my neighbor's yard any differently but I was so showered with such tremendous peace and joy as I worked, that all the plant life before me took on the same peaceful and joyful aura. I knew I had found the portal to God's paradise and the Eden garden, and I was experiencing the most incredible joy during my visit. I shall never forget this particular visitation to His glorious garden paradise and hopefully there will be more to come, Lord willing.
So you might ask what is the lesson in all this and I can only reply, "that as we give unto others, of His poured out life we for a certainty are dressing and keeping God's garden that surrounds Christ, the eternal Tree of Life. Whether it be by prayer, a monetary gift, a deed of love or even a loving smile shared with a stranger, if we are walking in the Spirit we are also cutting away the overgrowth of the fallen nature this world lies in. We are reclaiming and restoring Eden, a parcel at a time. I have to believe God has also taken many of you through the hidden gate, into His Glorious Garden. And in a variety of ways, I am sure you yourselves have been caught away to experience His great love, joy and peace gained through service paid to one of His children in need.
In closing I would like to share a remarkable message by Preston Eby where He explores the Land of the Interface, Heaven and earth met and the Garden of God. Be blessed dear friends and remember, if you care to visit Eden and experience paradise you don't need to travel to Sedona. Instead, you can walk across the street and love your neighbors or even better yet you can open up Eden's gate by praying for them.
Jack and Joian
The New Creation Man lives in two elements: the earth and also the heavens!
The Garden was not heaven, neither was it earth. It was a realm where God could walk, and where man could walk and talk with God. It was the dimension of the spiritual body spirit and body heaven and earth, visible and invisible, celestial and terrestrial, blended into one. The greatest of the glories of heaven was in that Garden the tree of life was there. And that was man's habitat. It was not merely where man was it was what he was.
This great truth of man's STATE OF BEING constituting the Garden of God is one of the tremendous themes which courses its way like a mighty river through the scriptures, from Genesis to Revelation. In the book of Revelation the Garden of Eden finally becomes the wonderful City of God which City we are (Rev. 21:9-11; Isa. 60:2,14). "And I saw the New Jerusalem...having the glory of God: and her light was like a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. And in the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded their fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and His servants shall serve Him: and they shall see His face; and His name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever" (Rev. 21:10- 11 ; 22:1-).
How do you suppose the tree of life was transferred from the Garden of God to the City of God? The simple truth is it wasn't! The Garden still exists. The Garden is in the City. The Garden IS the City. In this City two realms interface once more the new heavens and the new earth not two separate entities, but that place where heaven and earth are joined, the Land of the Interface! This is where righteousness dwells the new mind and the new body. That is your world, my beloved. You and I belong to an interface. We are an interface. We are part heavenly and part earthly; part spiritual and part physical; part visible and part invisible. What is the New Jerusalem? It is the place of union with God in the interface where heaven and earth overlap. We are a colony from the heavenlies inhabiting the earthlies. We belong to neither and we belong to both. We are of the Lord Jesus Christ, we are in the Lord Jesus Christ, the HEAVENLY MAN. He, more than any other man, is an interface of these two realms. He is the second man, the last Adam. He embodies and reveals within Himself the true purpose of God in man.
Only in Christ can one understand the true nature of all things. He is of both these realms and He is in both of these realms. He is in both and He is in neither. It is a great and deep and glorious mystery. oh, the wonder of it! He is a MAN seated in the higher than all heavens! We who have been born of water and of the spirit are of His species. We are bone of His bone, flesh of His flesh, mind of His mind, spirit of His spirit, life of His life. We belong to His realm. We walk with Him today in the Garden of God, in the City of God, in the LAND OF THE INTERFACE, for it is the only place where we can comfortably move in both realms. And yet it is not both realms nor is it either realm it is a combination, the union of the two, an entirely NEW CREATION IN CHRIST JESUS! That's what you are! You are spirit and you are body. You are God and you are man. You are divine and you are human. That is our destiny to be both in union in one! That is our habitat. And redemption progressively brings us into our inheritance in this blessed Land of the Interface. The salvation of the soul, the redemption of the body, will complete the work. Let us press on, saints of God! The full splendor and bountifulness of this precious Land lies just before us! (Eby)
Others may do a greater work,
But you have your part to do;
And no one in all God's heritage
Can do it so well as you.
Lettie Cowman
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