From: St. John of the Cross

That thou mayest have pleasure in everything,

Seek pleasure in nothing.

That thou mayest know everything,

Seek to know nothing.

That thou mayest possess all things,

Seek to possess nothing.

That thou mayest be everything,

Seek to be nothing.

Losing Your Way

It is a rare being who can cross the ocean of existence without a boat. Few of us are ready to see through ego's illusions and thereby achieve instant liberation. So we use methods, we use a boat, with the understanding that when we get to the other shore, we'll leave the boat. We're not going to portage; we needn't carry the boat on our heads. We'll be finished with boats.
But the boat can entrap or liberate. Whether you end up as a boatman or as one liberated depends on your original motive for spiritual work. You can become a connoisseur of boats, collecting the very best. Or you can go to the far shore, beyond beyond: "Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha," beyond even the concept of beyond.
Ram Das,,,Journey of Awakening

Different horn on the same cow!!!!

There is no truth from our government. The Republicans and the Democrats answer to the same people and put in place the same programs. We the People of the United States have God given rights and responsibilities. The government is trying to tell us that they are smarter than God. Have we all given in to the relinquishing of our God given Freedoms? Look to the Constitution, an inspired document from God. Our founding fathers declared that the Constitution would bind the government, It needs binding today. We the People need the stand up and risk it all to take back our God given freedoms and declare this nation to be one nation under God.

A New Direction For America

The Democrats' new promise "A New Direction For America - Vote >Democratic" >
>The stock market is at a new all-time high and America's 401 K's are back. >A >new direction from there means,what? >
>Unemployment is at 25 year lows. A new direction from there means,what? >
>Taxes are at 20 year lows. A new direction from there means what? >
>Federal tax revenues are at all-time highs. A new direction from there >means, what? >
>The Federal deficit is down almost 50%, just as predicted over last year. >A >new direction from there means what? ** >
>Home valuations are up 200% over the past 3.5years. A new direction from >there means, what? >
>Inflation is in check, hovering at 20 year lows. A new direction from >there >means, what? >
>Not a single terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11/01. A new direction >from >there means, what? >
>Osama bin Laden is living under a rock in a dark cave, having not surfaced >in years, if he's alive at all, while 95% of Al Queda's top dogs are >either >dead or in custody, cooperating with US Intel. A new direction from there >means, what? >
>Several major terrorist attacks already thwarted by US and British Intel, >including the recent planned attack involving 10 Jumbo Jets being exploded >in >mid-air over major US cities in order to celebrate the anniversary of the >9/11/01 attacks. A new direction from there means, what? >
>Just as President Bush foretold us on a number of occasions, Iraq was to >be >made "ground zero" for the war on terrorism -- and just as President Bush >said they would, terrorist cells from all over the region are arriving >from the >shadows of their hiding places and flooding into Iraq in order to get >their >faces blown off by US Marines rather than boarding planes and heading to >the >United States to wage war on us here. A new direction from there means, >what? >
>Now let me see, do I have this right? I can expect:
>a. The economy to go South
>b. Illegals to go North >
c. Taxes to go Up >
d. Employment to go Down >
e. Terrorism to come back to the U.S. >
f. Tax breaks to go Out >g. Social Security to go away >
h. Health Care to go the same way gas prices have gone >
>But what the heck! I can gain comfort by knowing that Nancy Pelosi, >Hillary >Clinton, John Kerry, Edward Kennedy, Howard Dean, Harry Reid, and Barak >Obama have worked hard to create a comprehensive National Security Plan, >Health >Care Plan, Immigration Reform Plan, Gay Rights Plan, Same Sex Marriage >Plan, >Abortion On Demand Plan, Tolerance of Everyone and Everything Plan, How to >Return all Troops to the U.S. in The Next Six Months Plan, A Get Tough >Plan, >adapted from the French Plan by the same name and a How Everyone Can >Become as >Wealthy as We Are Plan. Oh, and I almost forgot the No More Katrina Storm >Plan. >
>Now I know why I feel good after the elections. I am going to be able to >sleep soooooo much better at nights knowing these dedicated politicians >are >thinking of me and my welfare.= >

Illuminati Murdered at least Two Other Presidents

May 04, 2007
By Henry Makow Ph.D. "The bane of our civil institutions is to be found in Masonry, already powerful and daily becoming more so. I owe to my country an exposure of its dangers." - Captain William Morgan, murdered Sept 11, 1826 A curious but very credible Internet document called "The Mardi Gras Secrets" states that Illuminati agents poisoned and killed Presidents William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) and Zachary Taylor (1784-1850). They also poisoned James Buchanan in 1857 but he survived. All three were obstructing Illuminati- House of Rothschild plans for the US Civil War (1860-1865). The document also describes the Illuminati role in the murders of Abraham Lincoln and Senator Huey Long. We know they also killed Presidents Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy and probably Warren Harding and possibly FDR. If George W. Bush wasn't doing such an awful job, he probably wouldn’t be alive today. The Mardi Gras Secrets website was created in Dec. 2005 by Mimi L. Eustis, the daughter of Samuel Todd Churchill, a high level member of the secret New Orleans Mardi Gras Society called "The Mystick Crewe of Comus." This Society, which reorganized the Mardi Gras festivities in 1857, was a chapter of the Skull and Bones. It began as a front for the activities of Masons Albert Pike, Judah Benjamin and John Slidell who became leaders of the Confederacy. This information is based on Samuel Churchill's deathbed confessions, when he was dying of lung cancer. Mrs. Eustis later decided to make them public after she also contracted the terminal disease.
The Illuminati ringleader was Caleb Cushing (1800-1879), the partner of William Russell, the opium smuggler who founded the Yale Skull and Bones Society in 1832. In order to rise in this society, one had to participate in a "killing of the king" rite of passage. According to Eustis, the Skull and Bones (or Brotherhood of Death) is "nothing more than a political assassination hit team against those United States politicians who do not fall in line with the House of Rothschild's plans for a blood elitest domination and control over the world's economy...For example Caleb Cushing was involved in the arsenic poisoning deaths of United States presidents William Henry Harrison on April 4, 1841 and Zachary Taylor on July 9, 1850. These two Presidents had opposed admitting Texas and California as slave states." William Henry Harrison was the first President ever to die in office, serving only 31 days. According to Wikipedia he died of "pneumonia." On July 3, 1850, Zachary Taylor threatened to hang those ``taken in rebellion against the Union.'' The next day the President fell ill, vomited blackish material, and died July 9. (Kentucky authorities recently dug up Taylor's body looking for evidence of arsenic poisoning.) THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN I paraphrase Mrs. Eustis: During the Civil War (from 1861-1865), President Lincoln needed money to finance the War . The loan shark-bankers wanted 24% to 36% interest. Instead, Lincoln got Congress to authorize the printing of 450 million dollars worth of "Greenbacks" debt and interest-free money. It served as legal tender for all debts, public and private. The House of Rothschild recognized that sovereign governments printing interest-free and debt-free paper money would break their power. Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was a member of Pike's Knights of the Golden Circle. He was in New Orleans during the winter of 1863-64 and conspired with Pike, Benjamin, Slidell and Admiral G.W. Baird to assassinate Lincoln. Baird later identified the body of Captain James William Boyd as Booth's. (Boyd was in fact a Confederate spy who resembled Booth and was used as a patsy. His body was dumped into an Arsenal Prison sinkhole used to dump dead horses.) Eustis says her father emphasized that most Masons below the 3rd degree were good hardworking people. The Illuminati-Skull and Bones used the Masons as a disguise. Those who rose past the 33 degree level did so by participating in the “Killing of the King” ritual. The lower levels did as they were told without realizing their part in the “Killing of the King”. For assassinating Abraham Lincoln, Pike, Benjamin, Slidell and August Belmont (Rothschild's Northern agent) were made secret Kings of the Mystick Krewe of Comus. Andrew Johnson Vice -President became President and pardoned Albert Pike. Albert Pike awarded Andrew Johnson the thirty-third degree rite of passage. " Doctors were an essential part of the Illuminati plan to kill U.S. political leaders [who] hindered the take over of the U.S. Republic by the international banking elite," Eustis writes. " Illuminati doctors eventually did in both U.S. President William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor. They also played a death role in the shooting assassinations of U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 (died April 15, 1865), James Garfield on July 2, 1881 (died September 19, 1881), and William McKinley Jr. on September 6, 1901 (died September 14, 1901)." "Teddy Roosevelt became President after William McKinley was shot. Roosevelt received passage into the 33rd. degree and became a secret king of the Mystick Krewe of Comus. During his presidency, the Skull and Bones became firmly entrenched and controlled the U.S. Republic." HUEY LONG Huey Long ("Kingfish") was a populist who mounted a powerful challenge to FDR from his power base as Governor of Louisiana and later as US Senator. Unlike FDR, he was not a Mason and not a shill for the bankers. His "Share Our Wealth" program represented a genuine threat to the Illuminati. An Illuminati member, Dr. Carl Austin Weiss shot Long Sept 8, 1935 and Dr. Arthur Vidrine ensured that Long did not recover. According to Eustis, Weiss was supposed to hit Long in the face, and Long's bodyguard Murphy Roden was supposed to shoot both Weiss and Long.This may indeed be what happened. Roden was a "spy for J. Edgar Hoover." Roden pumped 60 bullets into Weiss'body. Dr. Weiss was told his baby would be killed if he reneged on the mission. Both FDR and J. Edgar Hoover won their 33 degree rite of passage for their participation in this murder. "Franklin Delano Roosevelt was made King of Comus in 1937. When J. Edgar Hoover came down to New Orleans to act out his reign as King of Comus, he was involved in a sexual revelry of homosexuality and cross-dressing with various elitist bloodline members of the Mystick Krewe of Comus." LINDBERG AND HARDING "Agents of Skull and Bones with blessing and involvement of J. Edgar Hoover FBI Director and 33rd level executioner-cover up specialist for the elitist bloodline of the House of Rothschild murdered Freemason Charles Lindberg’s son. This killing of Freemason Charles Lindberg’s son was to set an example that the isolationist stand was not the will of the Illuminati." Mrs. Eustis doesn’t touch upon the poisoning death of President Warren Harding (1865-1923) but this is how Wikipedia describes it: "At the end of July, while traveling south from Alaska through British Columbia, [Harding] developed what was thought to be a severe case of food poisoning. At the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, he developed pneumonia. Harding died of either a heart attack or a stroke at 7:35 p.m. on August 2, 1923, at the age of 57. The formal announcement, printed in the New York Times of that day, stated that 'a stroke of apoplexy' was the cause of death.' He had been ill exactly one week." For FDR, see Emanuel Josephson, "The Strange Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt." (1948) CONCLUSION The "Mardi Gras Secrets" suggest that, given the depth of corruption, the US political system cannot be taken seriously as a democracy. There is a pattern of Illuminati-Rothschild control throughout US history. People who deny this are living in a fantasy. The United States was created to advance the Illuminati New World Order based on Rothschild control of credit. American ideals were designed to dupe the masses, not to be realized. The founders and heroes of the US were mostly Masons including Paul Revere, John Paul Jones and Benjamin Franklin. Francis Scott Key who wrote the national anthem was a Mason. John Hancock and most of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence were also Masons. More-than-half the Presidents were Masons. These include Washington, Madison, Adams, Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan, Johnson, Garfield, McKinley, TR, Taft, Harding, FDR, Truman, LBJ, Ford, Reagan, Clinton and Bush I and II. Some of these really thought Masonry was about "making good men better" and had to be assassinated. Other Presidents who weren't Masons, like Eisenhower, Nixon and Carter, were still controlled by the same dark forces. Throughout its history the United States has been in the clutches of a satanic cult empowered by the Rothschild central banking cartel. Many courageous Presidents and other politicians tried to free their countrymen and died unrecognized, their killers unpunished and triumphant. The US is a nation decapitated, a headless giant led by demons. --------

Which path?

Today in the west some people are drawn to fundamental Christianity because of an intense emotional relationship with Jesus, others are drawn to the simple austerity of Zen Buddhism, and some to the intermingling of energy and love in Sufi dancing. When you work with a particular lineage, commit yourself totally to it. Hear it, see it, smell it, taste it, totally surrender into it. Don't worry about your final path. Let the inner guru call you. Through meditation you learn to listen quietly, until the call comes, clear and unmistakable.

Ram Dass,,,,Journey of Awakening

Gita 4:11

In any way that men love me in that same way they find my love: for many are the paths of men, but they all in the end come to me.
Bhagavad Gita 4:11

Water is for fish
and air for men
natures differ, and needs with them.

HEnce the wise men of old
did not lay down
one measure for all.
Thomas Merton

The way of Kaballah

In time, and always just at the right moment, a teacher or maggid arrives. He may manifest in many ways, as old Kabbalistic documents indicate. One may not see him more than once, or realize one has known him all his life. It can be one's grandfather or a fellow student, the man crossing the sea with you on a boat, or someone you thought a fool. He may arrive at your front door or already be in the house.
Z'evben Shimon Halevi

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

There is a pleasure in the pathless wood,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society, where none intrudes
By the deep sea, and music in its roar.

Lord Byron

Mantra

A mantra must connect you with the sacred. A mantra provides a boat with which you can float through your thoughts unattached, entering subtler and subtler realms. It is a boat that steers itself to the threshold of God.

Ram Das,,,Journey of awakening a meditator's guidebook.