Restoring the ancient stargate

There are two worlds, two realities.  One is real and the other is a mirror, a collective projection.  When spiritual people talk about our world, our current daily, late-breaking news world, as unreal, as only an illusion, most of us scratch our heads and wonder what they are saying.  Clearly, what we see is real, what we hear, feel, touch is all real.  Is it not?


It is and it isn't.  There is the real world and then there's our collective egoic creation, based on all things human - competition, control - from self control to exploitation and the fine art of manipulating out of people stuff that we want through our own wiles and cunning.  There is no country that is immune from the ego's game. It is a trickster, a wolf in sheep's clothing, your local friendly fake fiend.


So, how do we restore that ancient stargate to get to what is real.  I don't know too many people who have actually entered that stargate. There were other ancient stargate travelers and we have so sadly muddied their words to suit the great compromise between heaven and earth that when we read them without the key to the stargate they sound almost like a sentimental Hallmark greeting message.  But, they knew the way to God through their own interior stargate, where the real gate - the narrow gate - is located.  It's not so much a place as it is a consciousness, but don't dismiss the reality of that consciousness.  If we all entered it, the world would be a very different place.


The way begins with the intention to enter the way. With that honest intention, everything we see, think, do comes under scrutiny.  It's like looking for a lost treasure, that pearl of great price that's in some oyster under the great sea. We will leave no stone unturned.  So, that's the beginning. First, the desire to see things differently.  Since God's grace is the great energy in everything and is a power and authentic creative force, it seems to be invited into our minds, spirits, hearts and lives the minute we invite it and we invite it when we set that intention to find the way. The stargate is the portal within our integrated inner Self, our soul, that opens to God, to the cosmic array of authentic reality. It is, simply, inside your mind, behind all the chatter of the busy egoic mind.  It is in the silence, and interestingly, there really is a star shining in the night sky within your mind.


(It's large and luminescent and I have been convinced for a long time that it is the authentic Star of Bethlehem in the Gospels which led the wise men to the birth of the Christ child. (Can you see the Gospel writers knew truth on a much deeper level than modern literalists?) However, as in many things in the scriptures, it may have also really happened. That's what makes it all so interesting.  God's inner world, as it was for Moses and the great Exodus, really happened on the material plane. For now, though, look for the star within your quiet mind. It is truly a stargate that has been left in the ancient writings as a guide to authentic reality and God.


There are several ways to restoring it. We were all born with an inner mechanism. The ancient Hebrews called the plsce where Moses - and later temple priests - met God, was in the Holy of the Holies, the innermost center of the temple. I suspect the external altar they erected in their traveling temple was understood as an external reflection of the authentic Holy of Holies within them.


Directions into that inner holy chamber is left in their symbol of who they are: the tetrahedron or "Star of David," which is synonomous with God's name, the tetragrammaton*, which means "I am." So that inner chamber, symbolized by the Star, is that "I am." When we enter the star, which is seen, found, within our fully integrated Self, we enter the great I am, God, universal consciousness, authentic reality.  

The Star of David on Israel's flag, is a symbol, a reminder and a key to that ancient stargate. I think it may actually be the stargate or the Holy of Holies. It is a tetrahedron.*

                       

Christians, Kabbalists, Sufis, Yogis and all mystics rightly claim that the authentic Holy of Holies is within us. The ancient name for God, in Hebrew means "I am," and the ancient symbol of the soul is the male/female integrated tetrahedron. God is One, asserted in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.  So, we understand this tetrahedron is a symbol of God's oneness or singularity.  This means, without delving any deeper into all the esoteric, mathematical stuff, is that all we see and are is one single breath.  We are all one and we are all enfolded into God's oneness. When that oneness is split, due to some kind of victimization, the stargate is broken, cutting us off from God, and the experience of God.  God remains One and our authentic being, which is a part of that Oneness, as a cell in a body is a part of the body and is actually even holographic of that body, remains in its pure, radiant, powerful state, unharmed and untouched by the break, BUT, is also inaccessible to us because we have shifted away from it and think the ego is us.  

Our authentic "inner child" or "Self," to use Jungian language, is perfect, pure God power, pure love, creative beyond anything most of us ordinary people can grasp.  We are One with God and God is oneness, totality, absolute, the universal all. It doesn't matter if you call God "Allah" - which simply means God in Arabic, or Jehovah, which is an attempt to pronounce that original name, which is the tetragrammaton and which, you will remember, was never to be said as a name.  God is nameless because God is being, ultimate, authentic, all-beingness. 

If we agree (Jew, Christian and Muslim) that God is one, then we - as authentic human beings seeking reunification (communion, union) with God, would understand that we cannot have any divisions among us.  Sadly, we do and I would say that divisiveness is caused by the ego - the overarching, collective unconscious.  Muslims think they've got the corner on God, as did the Jews and the Christians.  Our history is too bloody to dispute this.  So, we have all "sinned" to use the definition I offered yesterday.  

To restore the ancient stargate is to merge myself with thyself in genuine love - skip the romantic part and enter into the idea of love being that merging soul to soul with another human being.  Jesus, who was fully transformed by God's power because as a sinless (immaculate) human being his soul was never splintered, broken apart by abuse, was consequently alive with a fully intact stargate.  So, he entered through it - through his authentic self (that inner closet, he mentions in the Gospel) and encounters the great Father, the great Being that we are all part of.  Your authentic "am-ness," being, is really part of the Great I am, the Great Being, the "body" of the all and is the only One out there.  

Through his integrated, perfect Self, Jesus reflected the Christ light of that universal Self.  He traveled frequently through that stargate and attempted to teach us how to do it also. Instead we treated him like a pagan god and worshipped him and missed the whole point.  But, now, with the discovery of some of the ancient Gnostic texts, the writing of the medieval mystics (Meister Eckhart, St. John of the Cross, St. Therese of Avila, etc. combined with Karl Jung - whose work is a complete reflection on the Jungian Codex which was found also in the Nag Hammadi) we are able to piece a lot of the separated parts of that ancient stargate together.  

Now, it's Ramadan - the time of fasting and prayer for the Muslims.  Since it's Islam's holy month, I felt it was right to enter into their fasting and prayer in respect of the authenticity of their religion, but with an eye on the unity, rather than the exclusivity.  It has been already an amazing five days of on-going illumination and enlightenment.  Because.... we are body people - all of us are.  We are so connected to our bodies that we are completely controlled and governed by them.  By obstaining from their control - hunger, thirst - because we say we love God and want to encounter God, we are forceably intensifying that initial intention which clearly invites and invokes a kind of opening of the Stargate.  

The words of Jesus in the Our Father, "lead me not into temptation"  seem to be on my hungry lips most of the time.  I am hungry for God, who is the true bread of true life, and I thirst for God who is the substance that flows spiritually, the wine, of my authentic body, which is my spirit.  With that meditation, I find myself connecting the separated pieces of the stargate and slowly it is opening.  

When we look for unity, we will find unity.  But, the ego will not look for unity.  It will trick us - in a million seemingly rational ways- to create separateness,  In the Gospel, St. Paul says, "In God there is no Greek nor Jew, no male, no female:  So, you see this.  In God's Oneness, there is no Muslim or Christian, no Jew or Palestinian.  Until we can open our hardened, fear-based, stoney hearts to one another, we will not find God.  But, once we do, there is no going back.  Once the river of love flows among all people, all humanity, all nations and religions, we will rise up with a power unlike anything the human race has ever experienced, ever in our long history.  

And, just for what it's worth, this name of God, this tetrahedron may have deeper, more incredible mathematical, technological, scientific meanings and applications that my little brain doesn't understand.  For now, the Oneness of God and surrendering into that oneness through Ramadan is a requirement of Christians, and Jews as well as Muslims.  I would love it if we all joined hands in a great circle of love and praise of our One God.  Amen 


P.S.  Pyramids are everywhere on the planet - all from an ancient time.  Egypt, South America, even under the water off the coast of Japan.  What did the ancient humanity know that has been lost through our many dark centuries?  Yogis talk about the yugas, or time cycles around the galaxy.  There once was a "golden age" and I suspect these pyramids stem from that time.  Now, that we've moved out of the Kali Yuga, the darkest of dark ages, we are beginning to rediscover some of the messages left by the ancients in these pyramids, in ancient sanskrit writings, on ancient stones and buried in our (until now) long separated holy scriptures.
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*In geometry, a tetrahedron (plural: tetrahedra) is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, three of which meet at each vertex. It has sixedges and four vertices. The tetrahedron is the only convex polyhedron that has four faces.[1]is the three-dimensional case of the more general concept of a Euclidean simplex.

The tetrahedron is one kind of pyramid, which is a polyhedron with a flat polygon base and triangular faces connecting the base to a common point. In the case of a tetrahedron the base is a triangle (any of the four faces can be considered the base), so a tetrahedron is also known as a "triangular pyramid". (Wikipedia)

**The ancient Hebrew tetragrammaton (from Greek τετραγράμματον, meaning "four letters") refers to the Hebrew theonym YHWH (Hebrew: יהוה‎), which is derived from a verb that means "to be", and is considered in Judaism the name of the God of Israel (who, if indeed is the Only God, would be the God of all people, anywhere, everywhere - on or off the planet). The symbol of the people of God, or nation of God's chosen people is the "Star of David," which is also the flag of Israel.