I know the pastor of a local Baptist Church who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer that had metastasized to his liver. He had zero chance of surviving. He told me that he died in the hospital and begged God to not take him; he had not finished his work here. Today he is alive and well, without a trace of cancer. It sends a strong message to all of us to be ever-aware that we are here for a purpose.
The water-planet Earth allows advanced life. Earth is the only water-planet in the solar system. Earth orbits the sun at exactly the right distance to allow advanced life. We humans are the only advanced life with conscious awareness that allows us a certain amount of control of nature. The latest science concludes that without consciousness nothing would exist. The universe must be ordered. To be the law, it must be ordered liberty.
Couple the above two paragraphs with the opening verses of the book of Genesis. After God created heaven and earth, and lower life, God said, Let us make man in our image (Gen.1:26). Who is us? Since no distinction follows, we can assume us is each of us. The latest science maintains that we interact with matter; that we observe and this becomes our reality. For instance, we observed the workings of the microcosmic and came up with the atom bomb. Quite obviously, as the ages roll by, our purpose has increased. It boils down to this: each of us has a greater personal responsibility.
This brings me to the Gospel According to St. Matthew, the first book in the New Testament, and Jesus’ new way looking at our purpose: we are our brother’s keeper. Jesus told us it is on earth as it is in heaven. What Jesus meant was that we come to the time-space universe with an immortal soul—the essence of our being, our animating principle, or our actuating cause of life. In a state, nothing moves. We come from a boundless eternal state of consciousness to make improvements. This theory comes from the latest science. Before the universe, something has to exist, as from nothing you get nothing. The something is consciousness. The latest science: the physical universe could not exist without consciousness in the mix.
As we celebrate the birth of Christ, the words of John Quincy Adams come to mind.
Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation?
Absolutely! We now enter the Age of Aquarius, the age of brotherhood and fraternity. The United States of America was born under the sign of Aquarius. I was born under the sign of Aquarius.
Jesus was born at the beginning of the Age of Pisces. The Piscean nature, we read, is impressionable, wants to do the right thing, but is weak willed. Before he was crucified, Jesus remarked that before the cock crowed, Peter would deny him three times. In all the 2,000 years of the Age of Pisces, history records that we’ve been easily impressed, have wanted to do the right thing, but have been weak willed.
Jesus said he would return. The American people have never been more divided. We are in a state of crises. A great change is inevitable. It takes great strength of character and fierce personal belief to stand against the establishment. We face a clear bias in the makers and keepers of the law against all who refuse to conform. For failure to conform, Jesus was crucified. The Aquarian, by nature, is a nonconformist, is fiercely independent, strongly against coercive government, and for people working together for a better world. Aquarians believe in self-government. They believe in natural law, which comes from nature’s God.
Jesus said we can’t serve two masters. Jesus said, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God.” Aquarians don’t look to government or religious authority; they look within, to God’s kingdom for guidance.
I came to a jumping off place in 1975. I could have fallen into the abyss. On Christmas Eve 1975, I set sail on the South Atlantic Ocean on a sailboat I named Bold Venture, the pioneer seeking to find my real identity. During my two years at sea, several miracles occurred. I was reborn at sea, in the womb of all life in the beginning, and departed captain of my ship. The establishment would tell you that I was an accident waiting to happen. My life has gotten better and better. At age 85, I don’t think life could get any better.
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