On the Edge of Eternity
 
 

In all my days as a spiritualist I have never felt so complete and at ease with the particular beliefs that I hold most dear at this moment in time. A lady I used to sit with in development circle, once told me
that whatever I felt was right within the realms of personal belief I should keep most dear to myself and whatever felt wrong, should be discarded like an old sock. I did not know at the time how perfectly
right she was. However, when I analyse my development as a spiritualist, I realise that the one key point that has been very necessary for my personal growth as a free thinking and open minded person is that I simply do not believe in the Divinity of Jesus Christ.

I think that at the current time this is an important point because we now approach the millennium and indeed the time when Christ was supposed to have been born. This is only my personal opinion but I
think that if the story of Jesus was for instance, a murder mystery, then the plot would be in lay terms rather doubtful for any logically minded person to believe. It is a fact that this time of the year has
been celebrated by Pagans for a far longer time than the 2000 years since Jesus was supposed to have walked the Earth and Christianity began so to me it is a bit of a coincidence that the birth of Jesus
Christ is also celebrated at this time.

So the question of whether or not I believe in Christ, for me and a lot of other people, is relevant at this time and involves a great deal of soul searching. Many free thinking people can accept the biblical
story of Jesus up to a point, but instead of believing in the virgin birth, they actually look on him as a person who was born in the normal way but who was extremely advanced for his time, a great
medium and a great healer. But they totally disagree with all the indoctrination that comes with the dogma of the many different religions.

We as spiritualists should not decry any other person's beliefs but we are all human and we tend to look on our own beliefs as being the correct ones. At the end of the day, all religions whether they be Catholic, Jewish, Buddhist or whatever, are all searching for the same thing but are using different focal points or icons to worship. It is my view that if we could take the best ideals from all the different religions and put them together into a melting pot then this would make for a far more superior and acceptable set of beliefs for people to follow. There are those who believe, including myself, that the true millennium is yet to come, that time and the recording of it since the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar has been bent and
shaped to suit the purpose of humanity, especially as Julius Caesar and Augustus included a month of their own, namely, July and August.So how can anybody be totally sure of when the true millennium is due to take place. I personally think that this will be around two thousand and thirteen or fourteen.

The millennium is a truly cosmic event and cannot be juggled to fit in at our convenience especially when you understand what changes are taking place at this time. Although I personally do not totally believe all that is said in the bible, I do happen to think that there is a connection between the Bible and the zodiac.

There is a writer of metaphysics, called Emmet Fox, who has written numerous books on the subject and one of the things he advocates is that the twelve signs of the zodiac really signify twelve different ways of knowing God. He says that most free thinking people have given up the idea of God as being a big, superior kind of man and that as the Aquarian Ageadvances the bulk of mankind will gradually outgrow that limitation too.  He says that just as each Age has a special lesson to be learnt by humanity, so each different Age has a special outstanding teacher who teaches the lesson of that Age. The Race Teacher
of the Age of Aries was Abraham. It was Abraham who taught that there is one true God. This was very enlightened thinking for the times because if you look at civilisation as it was then, there were hundreds of competing gods and idols. Therefore it was a tremendous step forward for mankind to gradually
forsake these false idols and to realise that there is only one truly Spiritual God. Abraham, having launched the new Age, that of Aries, then passed into the history books, and his work went on with the usual ebb and flow of human activity.

The Age which followed the Age of Aries and from which we have recently emerged, is known as the Age of Pisces, or the Fishes. The great leader and prophet of that time was of course, Jesus Christ, who in the early days of Christianity was symbolised among his followers as a fish. All through the Bible the fish stands as a symbol of wisdom and for the knowledge of the Allness and Oneness of God. This was the basis of Christian belief and is still prevalent today.

The Aquarian Age is now upon us. The sign of Aquarius is symbolised by the water carrier and who is the water carrier but the gardener. So just as the Age of Aries was symbolised by the Shepherd and the Age of Pisces was symbolised by the Fish, so our symbol in the Aquarian Age is the Gardener. So Man having graduated through these stages has now got to learn how to tend his own garden or Soul. The dominant note of this New Age is Spiritual development, Spiritual demonstration and personal responsibility. People may ask who is to be the great teacher of our new Aquarian Age, well the fact is that after thousands of years of striving for progression we are now ready to do without a personal prophet of any kind. Each individual has now to find and contact their own indwelling Christ. So as you can see, the Zodiac is really one of the great cosmic symbols of the universe.

The sign of Aquarius is ruled by the planet Uranus. This will make for great changes and disruption in every aspect of our daily lives. The effects of this can already be seen on a global level with earthquakes becoming commonplace and catastrophes occurring daily. It is a planet that will have the effect of getting rid of everything that is outworn in order to make way for the new. Our own personal Spiritual goals will
be all the motivation that is needed to allow far reaching changes to take place within the mind of humanity. You may think that this sounds far fetched but the concept of man walking on the moon must also have seemed impossible in 1900.

Man as a Spiritual being strives forward and through that motivation will come many discoveries and the realisation that materialism and wealth is not as important as the well being of the Spirit. Eventually this Spiritual wealth will be much more sought after. Further still ahead will be the mingling of the Astral plane with the Earth plane. With acceleration and progression, life then as we know it now will not exist, for we
will exist totally and wholly on a mental level.
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