Dear Family,
In 1974, Father Paul directed us to meditate during Lent on working with the Light, seeking out Jesus (as he would be present with us if we did this simple ask) and we were to pray for the “continuation of the Godly principles to be followed by our government in the U.S., thus developing the Order.”
What are these principles? One is in the Declaration of Independence which states: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,”
We completely accept the reality that “men” includes male and female. We are souls and incarnate in various places, with every hue of flesh, both male and female, to learn and grow spiritually each lifetime. In order for this godly principle to be fulfilled, women must be recognized as equal in the eyes of our Creator and our government. (Of course all people of every flesh and ethnicity are included!)
It is also necessary for women to be welcomed as equals in the churches of this world. The world has created many cultural norms which are detrimental to the growth and evolution of our humanity. Cultural conditions can change and with them the justifications for banning women from the ministry and the priesthood. The priest is not a symbolic representation of maleness—but a mediator who represents Christ as the Son/Sun of God. Women can just as truly signify Christ, because they are equal in Christ. no matter the outer form or gender, we are equal in Sonship.
Our planet has had many Avatars who have taken on the mantle of earth and become the divine mediator for a time. Prior to Jesus assuming this, there was a female known as Isis who was our Lord of Earth..
Mary brought the Messiah into physical incarnation and she lives in the heaven world as a Mediator now, representing the Divine Mother of all Creation. She is our Mother, our Teacher, and working aside our Master Jesus, is the channel for our Life, our Liberty and our pursuit of happiness.
Many blessings in this wondrous Incarnation! -Rev. Mary
“When our hearts have the living faith, have received Jesus Christ into them, then will the Light of the world be born within us as in a humble stable. So peace will come again on earth, but a peace unlike aught known before. Then will the will-to-good flower forth as understanding, and understanding blossom as goodwill.
Statement from Father Paul, printed in HOOM newsletter 1971:
Statement of the purpose and acceptance of the teachings of our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ:
As I have read and heard historians say that history repeats itself: This I know is true and I believe that the history of the Christian church and the Christian belief and its teachings repeats itself in many ways. For as my ear is turned to the wave of this world; to the speech, the questions and the talking of them, I hear some strange rumblings. Many of these do not sound Christian, even though uttered and sometimes spoken directly by clergymen, by laymen and by some who are presumed to have belonged to Holy Orders.
I want it to be made clear that this Order stands for exactly what it portrays to stand for,, and let me read to you something which I believe could be well adopted by many of the orders of the earth and many churches of the earth and this is the Daily Prayer of the Brothers, or the striving of the Order:
I strive, O Father, Creator of all, To be a Nameless Wanderer; To be perfect and all-sufficient; So poised, so balanced, That none but Self can comprehend.
All of this was unknown, unknowable…The greatness, the splendor, the magnificence of all, with the majesty of Thy Power: I more than mind of man can conceive.
For in the beginning, O Father all-knowing, Thou didst speak the Word And the Word was with Thee, And the Word was Thee, And the greatness and the splendor of Thy Power didst manifest; Not through mind, but They Self; For then the Word took flesh, and the great being of the Christos was born In all magnificence and Power.
For this is the mystery that man has not understood. For Thy Word Thou spokest once again; God in great humility, Sealed in the fleshly body of the little child. Thus was the Master Jesus born.
My every prayer shall be, and is That in this Holy Family I be received To be the servant of all: To receive the great call. Glory, Glory, Glory, Lord God of all. -Amen
Truly, brothers, and any of those who are listening—this is our prayer, this is our way. We are not interested in what any man seeks to interpret the New Testament as. We are only interested in what the New Testament says; not what we think it says, but what it does say. Down through the ages of Christian reality and Christian men, we have had wars to try to choke down the throats of other people Christianity; we have had hangings, burnings and witch hunts. This is going back over history. Let us forget about history and let us stand on the teachings of Jesus Christ.
And my brothers, I want to let you know the answers to some things which will certainly come to your ears, some of the questions. One of the questions which is probably most prevalent is: where do we receive our Apostolic Rights from: Let me answer that question with decision and with truth.. We receive our Apostolic Rights the same as many other churches have and the same as Paul did—through revelation. And if this is not sufficient, let me add this little bit to it: I am Paul, and I have come back to bring the churches of Christ together. I am not here to change religions but to manifest in a reality the actions of a Christian.
We of this Order are not taking issue with any church, either Christian, Mohammedan, Hebrew, or any other. We are only interested in teaching people how to use the laws of creation and the teachings that Jesus taught and let me add that if people want to discuss theologically these teachings we are not interested.
Because the teachings and the theological discussions for two thousand years have brought this world into a state of chaos and war, which has been tolerated by the churches and has practically destroyed our young men and brought evil of the worst kind into existence.
Therefore we are not taking issue with any church, any doctrine, and occult or mystic group. We are going to hold to the teachings of Jesus and the ancient teachings which show you how it works; how you may be healed by the power of God and the Spirit, how you may receive your supply and the fruits of the earth which God promised, how you can live in this world without saying that the other brother is wrong.
Let me state here that we have asked no one for money. We have asked no one for help except God and our Lord Jesus, and it has come through him. We feed the sick and the hungry and we give them shelter as he directed us to. We teach the truth but we do not preach on the streets. We seek only to aid those who are in trouble and to help those who would like to give their lives in service to man to glorify God
Let us remember this: You may not accept what I have stated—but you may not deny it, because if you do, you deny the entire letters of Paul. You must then deny the entire Christian Bible, you must then deny the Old Testament; most of its words.
We are not interested in the Old Testament because that is history. We are interested in the New and the promises and the realities of our Lord Jesus—and the head of this Order is accepted as our Lord—and we know it is so, because he has spoken to some of us. Now if you, any of the brothers or any of you outside the Order wish to take issue with this, you may take the issue, but we will not defend it, because right does not need defense. Truth is is own defender.
Here are the results and you can see them here in our Order, in the brothers, in the sisters who have gone through any part of the training. So let it be known to the world that we are not here to take theological issue with anyone. And it is a waste of time. This has been going on for two thousand years and over. It is time that we follow what the Master Jesus said: “By their works, ye shall know them.”
It is time that we stop one thing or the other: either stop calling ourselves Christians or stop fighting with one another, because a Christian cannot fight over the Lord Jesus. This is the thing which we must realize; this is the reality.
It is later than you think. It is best that you go to your knees and pray for his help in reality, so that you may know that he is real and not a myth. It is time that you seek the reality of his teaching rather than just he words and whether you think they are right or wrong.
I am sure than anyone who is not narrow-minded, anyone who is not set on finding us wrong, can come here and find the evidence (as well as in other places in the world), of the workings of God and the Spirit and the Lord Jesus. So let us remember this: take no issue, brothers, with any priest, with any minister, on the teachings of our Lord Jesus. They don’t need defending. Neither do the principles or the premises which we have accepted and are using daily need to be debated. Do your duty each day, brothers. Go to the Communion rail, accept His body and His blood, and our prayer services at night—and we have nothing to fear. For He will be with us, whether we are in the Center, the Brother houses or the chapel, or are in the street. You have seen this demonstrated…remember it, and walk with head high in full confidence and faith.
Benjamin Franklin designed one of America’s first coins. It says “Mind Your Business” instead of “In God We Trust”. It’s a Masonic codex key; it means to be mindful of the business you conduct.
We are children of light and are one with all of the earthly brotherhoods who seek Christ. Give out what light you have and let it shine forth upon all above as well as below our appointed level of development. We express out love, peace, and power which brings us strength and wisdom and an understanding of the law that is to this Brotherhood a law of action.
In the spring of 1921, Walter Russell vanished from ordinary awareness. For 39 days he lay in what he later called an “illumined trance,” a state so deep that his family believed he was slipping toward death. Yet Russell insisted he was wide awake inside—a witness to what he described as the living mechanics of creation itself. When he returned, he wrote as if an opened floodgate were pouring through him. Page after page emerged in an unbroken stream: diagrams of wave-fields, revelations on polarity, geometric blueprints of matter forming from light, and a cosmology rooted not in particles but in consciousness. These writings became The Universal One—a manuscript he quietly sent to five hundred of the leading scientific and philosophical minds of his age.
Most dismissed him. A few were unsettled. But one mind recognized the magnitude of what Russell was attempting: Nikola Tesla. After reading the manuscript, Tesla urged Russell to hide it for a thousand years, warning that humanity was not yet prepared for a cosmology that redefined matter, mind, and the structure of the universe.
At the center of Russell’s vision was a radical premise:
Matter is compressed light. Mind is the builder. The universe breathes.
Reality, he claimed, is rhythmic—an endless inhalation and exhalation of electric spirals. Opposites were not enemies but positions within a wave. Life and death were phases of the same cycle, the ebb and return of polarized light seeking balance. Time, in Russell’s view, unfolded as a spiral rather than a line, allowing past and future to coexist in harmonic layers.
He wrote of electricity not as a force but as living motion—the generative and regenerative heartbeat of the cosmos. Space, to him, was not empty but a radiant sea of unbounded potential, waiting for the imprint of thought. Health was coherence in that wave-field. Disease was a rhythm that had fallen out of tune.
Dismissed in his era, Russell’s ideas now brush against the frontier of modern physics and consciousness studies. His work speaks to quantum coherence, vacuum energy, fractal geometry, and the growing suspicion that mind may be woven into the fabric of reality itself.
A century later, the manuscripts he penned in that 39-day state have become something more than eccentric speculation. They read like an early map of a universe we are only beginning to rediscover—one where matter is music, light remembers its source, and consciousness is the architect of form.
Walter Russell may have been writing for an age far beyond his own.
And perhaps that age is finally arriving. – -Omnicore Tech
The Wondrous Tree
On an uncharted island in the Southern seas, there grew a tree whose bark and fruit were different from those of trees in other lands. Its leaves, like those of the tree of life described in Revelation, were for the healing of the nations.
Blown out of their course by storms, occasional voyagers came to the island, found the tree, ate the fruit and were healed by its wonderous leaves. Some sailed from the east, some from the west, and others from the south, each believing himself to be the original discoverer, each supposing the course he sailed was the only way to the island. As each traveler came and left, he wrote a record of his journey, described the tree, and proclaimed the healing virtue of its fruit and leaves..
Some truly believed these tales but there were many more who scoffed. Nobody could form any clear image of the tree because no man can picture anything different or radically from that he himself has experienced.
Believers said: “See, this one left here a sick man, but now he has returned whole. Nor is it his body only which has been healed. His very heart is changed.”
Unbelievers declared: “It is nothing but a change of air. The sea voyage helped his body, and because that is well, his temper is naturally sweeter. Even so the man is mad. If there be a tree such as he raves about, why did he bring us none of its leaves? Nor even a shred of its bark? Just a wild tale with no evidence whatever to support it!”
The believers, nevertheless, preserved the story, and, in the course of years, added many wondrous fancies of their own imagining. So the tale of the tree passed into the folklore of the people.
Then came on whose travels in strange countries gave him opportunity to study the customs and compare the beliefs of many races. He journeyed to the south; to the east, and to the west. Wherever he went, he heard stories of the island and the tree. No two accounts agreed as to details. Some said the island lay to the north; some had it that the seeker must go west. Others insisted that the course was to the east. And when it came to describing the tree, human fancy ran wild.
The traveler, however, saw that this disagreement about ways to reach the island really meant nothing. They who lived in the south had to travel north: for dwellers in the east, the island lay to the west: and for those whose homes were in the west, the course was to the east.
On one point all were agreed. On an island was a tree whose leaves were for the healing of every disease, good for sickness of soul as well as for ailments of the flesh.
So our traveler set out to find the island; nor was his search in vain. Carefully comparing the old tales, he calculated roughly its probably location. Then he sailed a circular course round the area he had marked off on his chart, making the circles smaller and smaller. During the long months of his quest he stopped at many an island. Some were fair and had lovely, exotic trees and fruits.
Once or twice he believed he had found what he sought, but when he tested the leaves of these strange trees, he found some which brought forgetfulness, and others which induced strange dreams. But none had power to cure the ills of soul and body. Some indeed, though sweet to the taste, made him ill almost unto death. More than once, too, he had narrow escapes from shipwreck, from being killed by dreadful beasts, and from other perils.
Yet he persevered in his quest; and at last, his patience was rewarded. Then he learned why no traveler had been able to bring home any tangible evidence of the existence of the magic tree. When its fruit was plucked, it must be eaten at once, for within an hour it began to rot. Even so with the leaves and bark. They crumbled into nothingness when separated from the tree.
The moment the traveler saw the tree, he knew it and perceived that in all the tales about it there was truth: Whatever had seemed meaningless became intelligible when saw the tree itself. Yet he knew no man ever would be able to describe the tree so that it might be imaged truly by one who had not seen it. Whoever had not visited the island must belong to one of two classes of persons. Some would believe, more would scoff. None could know save those who made the journey.
So the traveler returned to his home and wrote the story of his own search. He illustrated it with maps and charts. He marked the soundings and the ocean currents. He put in the latitude and longitude. Yet the world continued to mock at the story. Some called him a madman. Some said he was a fool. Men of science and other scholars, particularly physicians, denounced this “dangerous charlatan.” They derided his book, impugned the accuracy of his charts, and even tried to imprison him for obtaining money under false pretenses because he had accepted pay for his writings and lectures.
Nevertheless, some few put his words to the test of actual experiment. In large vessels and in small, they set sale for the island, and because the traveler’s directions were clear and true, they found the tree and were healed of all their miseries.
So, in time, there came to be in the world an association of “Knowers of the Tree.” because their minds and bodies were strong and sound, their lives spread a contagion of health and understanding and love throughout the localities in which they spent their remaining days. Thus the world became brighter and happier for their presence.
As you study this lesson, keep in mind this parable. The tree is what Jssus called “the kingdom of God.” The island is an actual place within the body of man. The fruit and the leaves are states of consciousness, for the Tree is the Tree of Life, the key to all Things. Eating of the fruit of the tree leads to a state of consciousness beyond thought, a synthesis of all experience in which the sense of separateness is blotted out, and direct knowledge of unity and eternity takes the place of the time-bound multiplicity of ordinary consciousness.
If you know how to give good gifts, how much more will your Father in heaven give to him that asks!
For the average small child, Christmas centers around what he will receive, even if it means trying to be very, very “good” for a few days. His bright-eyed innocent expectancy is a joy to behold, and it becomes the treasured effort of most parents not to let him down, and perhaps hope he won’t find out just yet about Santa Claus.
The gifts are alright, if it would not stop there, if he were taught all about Christmas, that it is not just to get what you want, nor even to help someone else get what he wants. It is up to us to explain to the child what is really being celebrated, so he will find the joy of this day deepening as he grows older, instead of lessening.
Those who are too full with one thing have no room for anything more. As long as hearts and minds are bent with desire in a material direction, they are not interested in another possibility.
Those on the spiritual path, whose desires have turned heavenward, are still eagerly seeking gifts—but of the Spirit. To receive the Light, or spiritual Sight, prophecy, or the gift of healing. But these are the real, imperishable gifts God has promised to us—tools, really, to wield in His behalf, and give to others in return. If you really want such gifts, do not covet them as prized in a contest, but become as a little child who trusts in the wonders of a beloved Father.
It is because we have become unattached to man’s gifts, that we are able to receive or even be aware of the spiritual gifts: Yet the others are added unto you also where needed, because effect follow cause—and Cause is in Spirit. -Rev. Mother Ruth
Christmas is a joyous festival because it is concerned with the sacrament of birth—”the passage of a soul into this plane of existence. The knowledge that each and every childbirth is a spiritual experience has been forgotten by too many people in the world today, especially in countries with high levels of technology…The authors of the Constitution of the United States included an amendment to protect any basic human rights which might not have been covered in the rest of the Constitution—the ninth amendment. “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people .” The rights of women, the newborn, and the family during the passage of childbirth are among those unenumerated rights…Ina May Gaskin in Spiritual Midwifery
First Birth attended by Ina May : Anna “…I just surrendered to the power of the birth. I wanted to focus on something that was steady and sure and positive. No fear. No pain. That’s what I kept telling myself and Ina May kept helping me relax. ..I kept having contractions without pain. I could see the stars in the night sky through the clear dome of our little bus. All of a sudden I felt the baby’s head crowning. I pushed a few more times and then just released and took a deep breath. A few more pushes and the baby was out…He lay there looking into my eyes, looking so beautiful. We decided to name him Immanuel. – from Spiritual Midwifery
Christ Mass: Immaculate soul, receive of the Sun, the moment has come, the glorious dance of Life has begun; Rejoice in the birth little children…
Our earthly vessels raise up to gold The mystery told The glory of Christ will ever unfold Before us, within us, O Israel.
Sing joy for Mary, pure as the snow Clear water shall flow Now into the fountains made long ago Of hears full of love in Jerusalem. Sing come the Master .Bridegroom stands Before every man Let now every heart and soul understand This feast of the Light Holy Father. -song
Suddenly there was with the Angel a multitude of the heavenly army, praising God and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good will!’”
When the angels went away from them into heaven, says St. Luke the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.” And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. And when they saw it they made known the saying which had been told them concerning this child; and all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them. But Mary kept all these things pondering them in her heart. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them. So it was that the wondrous spirit whom we know as Jesus was born into a pure and passionless body. His body was the best that could be produced on Earth, and the task of Jesus, in this embodiment, was to evolve it to the highest possible degree of perfection as preparation for the great purpose it was to serve.
Since the virgin is also a symbol of purity and chastity, her adoration is common to every world religion. Isis in Egypt and Ceres in Greece are familiar examples. Around the virgin who becomes a divine mother centers the important work of the spiritual Mysteries of each country.
Isis had said: “The fruit that I bear is the sun.” The pre-Christian Madonna is represented as bearing in her arms the Sun Child, born at the Winter Solstice, to bring new life to the earth and all mankind. -from The Story of Jesus
Oh, Great Spirit,
whose voice I hear in the winds
and whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me.
I am small and weak.
I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes
ever behold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have made
and my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may understand
the things you have taught my people.
Let me learn the lessons you have hidden
in every leaf and rock.
I seek strength, not to be superior to my brother,
but to fight my greatest enemy – myself.
Make me always ready to come to you
with clean hands and straight eyes,
so when life fades, as the fading sunset,
my spirit will come to you
without shame.
lakota – chief yellow lark – 1887