Presentation 13

Let's come to the 13th and last presentation in this series. We have been building resonances that collect and now constitute with this presentation as a harmonic, The 13 as a harmonic is interesting because we do it in a Sabbath cycle. We come together once every seven days, and the seventh day for us is a Saturday, which is the true Sabbath. And Saturday morning we present in a cycle of resonances, insights that are expressed so that they go back through transforming a an arrangement of phases and the ancient way to speak of that arrangement of phases is thought, word and deed. Thought being the symbolic structure of the mind. Word being the oral use of language, so that the images and feelings of that oral language are able to express the character of experience, deed, the rituals, not only the rituals of what we do in selected, limited formed vignettes, but the material that we use, the existential things of the world and our bodies and the movements of our bodies and the arrangement numerically of the existential things and the ritual actions and the way in which our comportment then blossoms in the language, in the word, and integrates in the thought and the symbolic patterns. If one goes back through from the other way, those build up in an integral. If one goes back through with an extra dimension, the dimension of vision. Thought transforms itself by acquiring something that pairs itself with the imagination and that is the memory. And now it is as important to have a mnemonic structure as it is having an imaginative base. And because the feelings are allied with the images, The feeling tones now tune themselves, and when they tune themselves, they rearrange the way in which emotions are triggered in the ritual comportments in the things. The phenomenon of the world, in the body, in the actions, in the ritual activities. And so the transform goes all the way back through, but does not stop with existence, does not stop with the ritual comportment, does not stop with the body. It penetrates back through the body, back through the rituals, to the field of nature herself. And when the field of nature is re-approached in that way. The field of nature has a mysterious quality to it. That mysterious quality is that existence springs spontaneously from that field. Particles come into being. Particles unify into atomic structures. Atomic structures unify into molecular structures, and they into biochemicals and life. And all of this, Then the word that I use for it is recalibrated. Nature still works, but nature works with an added dimension. And what comes into play, then spontaneously, is that we now have a what used to be called a magic realm. The word magic is from Magi, which is an ancient world term originating in Central Asia north of present day Iran and what is Uzbekistan. The Magi were the preservers of this kind of field of consciousness that could go back through thought, word and deed, and touch primordial nature again so that the two fields of consciousness and nature married. They wed. They were able then to give a fifth dimension to space time by rearranging space time into time space with a conscious triggering. So instead of space time as a four dimensional limited cycle, one now had a spiralling of that cycle not as space time but as conscious time space, a fifth dimension, a five dimensional matrix. And out of that spiralling came something that was able naturally in its magical transform, to move through the field of consciousness and do what nature had done spontaneously rebirth a new form. And that was the spirit person. That the spirit person is literally born just like out of nature. One is existentially born now. One is spiritually born out of conscious time space, and that that person had a different kind of form. Instead of being limited to a pragmatic line of causality of karma, one had a prismatic availability of a spectrum of possibilities, and the earliest way in which men and women talked about this some 5000 years ago was that this was the Rainbow Covenant. It's important for us to recognize and understand that in our time form, we are in a very strong threshold of very powerful harmonics. And what we're presenting here is an insight into the triggering some 4000 years ago, of a particular pair who tuned the way in which this was first brought into our planetary heritage. And those two figures, one was Jewish, the other was Iranian. So when we face the biggest travail of the early 21st century is a nuclear war possibility between Israel and Iran. It is paradoxical. It is not accidental and is only resolvable by retuning and by re-establishing a way of recalibrating. And that is what we're doing here. In my translation of The Goths of Zarathustra, which were written when he was 75. He was born about the same time that Abraham was born. They were both born about 2000 BC, when Zarathushtra was 75. In 1925 BC, he wrote the Goths near the end of his life, and Abraham received the promise and invitation to go to a promised land to leave northern Mesopotamia, where he was, and to go in search of the Promised Land to the west. And so, at the time that Zarathushtra was writing the Gathas, Abraham was taking his wife, who was a paternal sister. They had different mothers, same father. And his nephew lot and his wife. And their animals and their servants and their households. And they went in search of the promised land that became Israel. Zarathustra did not write his Goths in his homeland, which was up around where Samarkand is in Uzbekistan. He had been through a whole cycle over 75 years. And he wrote the gothas in the final place that he settled. And that place today is the city of Kabul in Afghanistan, and it is in Kabul of Afghanistan that the Gothas are made. And some 225 years later, 250 years later, the descendants of the Zarathushtrian vision had begun filtering through the Khyber Pass into northern India, that is today Pakistan and that whole part of northern Pakistan, northern India by about 1700 BC, about 225 years after, Zarathustra collected together poetic visions into the Rigveda. And so the Rigveda, the origin of Sanskrit language, is akin to the Avestan language of Zarathustra and Zarathustra. The word is manthra in Sanskrit is mantra. The theta of the original Avestan becomes the Tara of. The Sanskrit. And just in the way in which the Vedas came to be over several hundred years. Three of the Vedas were seen as being related together the Rigveda, the Yajurveda and the Sama Veda, and they were called the Tri Vidya. The triad of visionary forms prismatically by which man could come to understand his thought word indeed in spirit transform modes. If one looks at the Rigveda, which is arranged in ten books, somewhat just over a thousand hymns, each of the ten books begins with poetic hymns to Agni, the sacred fire. Because in Zarathustra it is the sacred fire that is the pivot, the central pivot by which all else is lighted up. That that trigger pilot light of the center lights up a pair of triads on either side, and one gets a primordial menorah that has seven candles, but that the middle candle has two wicks. Because in Zarathustra in Zoroastrianism, the paired tuned double wick of the middle is Ahura Mazda. Ahura. Originally as the Lord of life. Masculine. Mazda is the splendor of the radiance feminine, so that the original menorah, while it looks like seven, is really eight. It's an ogdoad. It's an octet. It's an octave. And to get the true harmonic, one must know that one is composing spiritually with an octave, though it is heard by the many as a seven part a septum tat. So one has to always be sure that one puts the extra into the seven. And usually what that is done is by an aspirant, by a making of a breath that is not sounded, but is nevertheless there pacing the pronunciation, the sounding so that one says in ancient Hebrew Hashem, Hashem. One puts an aspirant in, and very often words in the Greek will have the aspirant without being pronounced at the beginning of a spiritual word, so that instead of, uh, an h e, whatever, whatever, you begin with the e, but aspirate it so that in ancient languages that all come from the Indo-European family. One finds this kind of quality, whereas in Chinese, in Japanese, in the Far Eastern languages, it is the pitch of the tone that gives the aspiration. For instance, the Chinese word for business is mei Mei. Mei with a rising tone is bai with a falling tone as sell business is buy, sell. This quality of seeing that there is a shared presence tuning at the pivot that lights up a pair of triads gives one a very interesting kind of outlook when it comes, say, to an octave in the Far East, like the E Ching, the eight trigrams, the eight Bagua, there are a pair of three sets of the eight trigrams and going up from the bottom aspirant rising. One is the yang line of the oldest eldest son. The middle son. The youngest son on the other. The eldest daughter. The middle daughter. The youngest daughter at the top on one will be the father, pure Yang and the mother on the other being pure yin. But the yin yang are both proportions of the tae. What is not put into the bagua is the Dao, because the dao is the aspiration of the entire ecology of the eight together. So that one has a very interesting thing when it comes to the five phase Taoist energy cycle. It always begins with Dao and has not only its integral integrity, but has its differential creativity. If the fifth phase is able to spiral back into the Dao and re-emerge fresh, and that fifth phase is the key, the key, the energy going through the thought, the word, and the deed back to your primordial nature. And in this way we come to understand that there is a huge heritage on the planet by our time of being able to appreciate now the scaler of civilization going back about 6000 years. And at that scalar, the largest working workable time form is the 2000 year period called in Greek and ancient times, an eon, which is a tuned pair of millennia, and each millennia is a tuned pair of a cycle of the phoenix and each cycle of the Phoenix is five centuries, each century having ten decades and so on. And one sees that there is a numerical structure to this that was brought together most conscientiously about 500 B.C. and in 500 B.C., everywhere that one looks in the civilized heritage of the planet, there were major spiritual teachers. In China, you had Lao Tzu and Confucius kung fu. In India, you had the historical Buddha. In Mesopotamia, you had in the Jewish exile Ezekiel and the Greco-Roman world Greco-egyptian world. Initially you had Pythagoras. You had all of those figures at the same time. And so about 500 years before you had the threshold of the close of an aeon and the beginning of a new aeon, the close of a millennium and the beginning of a new millennium, the close of a cycle of the Phoenix and the beginning of a new cycle of Phoenix. All of these targets of time forms came together about the time of Jesus. The most poignant quality that came through at that time was that though Lao Tzu and Confucius, the historical Buddha, Pythagoras, are all contemporaries. The fifth figure, Zarathustra, did not live then. He lived 1500 years before then. But he had a great renaissance. He had a great revival and came back not as Zarathustra, but as Zoroaster and Zoroaster does not mean the same thing that Zarathustra means in ancient Avestan one pronounces it Zarathustra, which means he who is really good with camels, meaning that he ran a successful caravan. Routes. Zoroaster means stargazer, he who is able to, in an accumulated penetration vision, see the stars in their patternings. It's not astrology, it's deeper than astrology. Astrology is about just the stars and the plane of the ecliptic. Zoroaster's star gazer cosmos with all of the stars in all of their patterns. And the classic way to express it is that if you took all the constellations of stars from the entire planet, you would come out with 88 constellations. Which is interesting because in an esoteric linguistic mystery, the Japanese word for rice has a radical character in it of 88, meaning this grain of rice comes to you through 88 hands. You are a part of an ecology that makes life possible in this way. You participate then, in that ecology? Not patiently, but realistically. Don't be just tolerant of it. Be participatory in the way in which this ecology works. And so the whole understanding of community then, is not something which is political, but something that is spiritually, consciously natural. The translation. Of Zarathustra, as I have shown, has an interesting form. The original Gothic of Zarathustra. He who is good with camels had 16 yajnas in them, arranged so that they were grouped together in four gothas. The first seven Gatha Yajnas made the first gatha. The next gatha had four yajnas, the third had four yajnas and the fourth Gatha had only one yajna. If you take the beginning and the end, one has eight that come together in a form a harmonic of 7 to 1. The middle four and four are another octave, but they are balanced in equanimity. But they have a very relation, uh uh uh, relationality between them. We'll get to in a second. So the first seven gothas and the 16th being the first seven yajnas and the last yajna making eight. If you look at the Rigveda, it has the mirror form. The first book of the Rigveda is a presentation that encloses the entire vision. The next seven books of the Rigveda, books two through eight, are of the families of the sage traditions in ancient India. Who are the poet seers there? The Rig Masters, Rick Masters they're able to style the language so that when you hear the language of the Rig Veda chanted and it is in a chant song mode that is absolutely primordial. I'll talk about that in a minute. It awakens your thought, word and deed back to the primal reality of nature in its mystery, but with the conscious presence that goes into the presenting of nature, so that instead of getting a present phenomenal time moment, then as your existence comes back into play, it has what is called the breath of the eternal blessing. This is a very remarkable spiritual expression. The term breath of the eternal was used when, uh, prabhavananda and Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood were doing their translations of the Upanishads. The ninth book of the Rigveda is all about Agni. It's all about the Agni ceremony with the Soma. The Soma is the divine drink that is able to bring gods and man together in a ceremonial way, so that they interpenetrate each other. Men learn the divine insight of the gods, and the gods learn the great humanity of humility of men, and both together then are able, through the Soma ceremonies of Agni, in order to carry this through. So important is it that the second Veda to come into play, the Yajur Veda, which comes in two forms the white Yajur Veda and the black Yajur Veda and the Yajur Veda, is all about the way in which Agni can come into the presence of a ceremony that is especially laid out to invite that presence to come. And when that presence of Agni comes in the ceremony to the altar, the population that is there gain the resonance of the spirituality of of Agni, of the sacred fire. And one is able to spontaneously, without having to really think about it, without having to be careful of how you talk about it, without having to be over meticulous of how you do it, because it is all presented in such a way that it is like a cup that is open to the presence coming into it, so that when one drinks the soma together, this spiritual inebriation carries through gods and men and an unlimited resonance. About 30 some years ago. 40 years ago, it started. There was a project to make a detailed film of the classic Yajurveda, Agni ceremony, and it was largely funded by the University of California in the United States and by European scholars, and by those in India. And two great huge volumes were published by the University of California Press. And I have a set. And the Agni chants were put out into audio cassettes. And because I don't own the copyright, I will make a copy of the first of the audio tapes for those who get the notes to the Shared Presence series. When you hear the tape of the ancient Yajur Veda Agni ceremony being chanted, it sounds for all the world like the chants of North American Indians. At a powwow doing their chanting because the Northern American Indians come from an ancient Asian bloodline, an ancient Asian DNA heritage, and physiologically and in their blood type and in their psychic spontaneity of a conscious rebirthing in nature, are enormously similar. One can't count the times that when the Tibetan lamas have gone to relatives of the, uh, North American Indians, like the Navajo or in their area, the Hopi. Their ceremonies are very similar. They get each other. What is peculiar is that if you go back into the ancient ceremonies of the Celts, one finds the same thing. In 1911, a young American genius named uh. Uh. W. Y. Evans-wentz went to Ireland, and his researches into Irish mythology and folklore was the fairy faith in Celtic countries. I'll bring a first edition from 1911, uh, next week. He then found that the ancient Celtic symbols, ceremonies, understandings when you put the conscious dimension into thought, word and deed were extremely parallel to those in Tibet. And so he went off to Tibet and for many, many years studied under a llama llama Kazi Dawa Samdup, and wrote four classic books on Tibetan Buddhism published by Oxford University Press. Big green volumes. I bring the first editions of those as well next week. The first is The Tibetan Book of the dead. Then the book of the Great Liberation. The Life of Milarepa. And these four books by Evans-wentz showed not only do the North American Indians resonate to the Tibetans, to the Chinese, to the Japanese, to the North American Indians, but that the whole planet has a heritage that's in tune and recoverable. Now that we are in the 21st century, we can recover it in quite an easy way. We can recalibrate ourselves to have the originality of the transform of thought, word and deed. And that's what my learning civilization. Uh, spiraling cycling ecology is all about. It's the representation of the ancient octave with the aspirant ninth so that it can be reinstated from scratch no matter where you start the translation of the 46th Yasna of Zarathustra reads in this way in its first hot, and what has to understand, the first seven yajnas as a group have six lines each. The next four yajnas making the second Gatha have five lines each. The third Gotha, the next four Yajnas have four lines each six, five, four. And when you get to the last yajna, the 16th, the fourth of the gothas, there are only three lines each six, five, four, three. But if you look at the first Gotha, it has six lines in 11 poems or hots. The 16th has three lines in 22 poems or hots. So if you pair the 16th so that you get three and three tuned together, you get a beautiful presentation of the six lines again recovered. Here's how the 46th Yasna begins. This is about 1900 BC. To which land should I turn? Where should I go? Remember, this is contemporary with Abraham receiving the promise to go to the Promised Land. For the man of light there is only the noble friends. Never has my enlightening been with men of action, nor in any country where our rulers of deceit. How then, does one Mazda enlighten with Ahura? The noble friends re emerge 3000 years later in Basra, of what is today Iraq. Thousand years ago. And they were called the Ikhwan Al-safa, the Brethren of Purity. And in the only English book on them, Muslim Neoplatonists An Introduction to the thought of the Brethren of Purity by Ian Richard Netton, published in 1982. You see three Sufi saints because the archetype is the three wise men together, because the archetype that comes 1000 years earlier are the three Magi that come to witness and seal the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, not only to seal it, but to bring three gifts gold, frankincense, and myrrh. The gold is from Ethiopia. The frankincense and myrrh is from southern Arabia. What is today Yemen? How do three Iranian Magi come through southern Arabia and the Horn of Africa up into Jerusalem? They come by a trade route that was owned by the family of Philo of Alexandria that went not only to the Horn of Africa and southern Arabia, but all the way across the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean to India. That's how the apostle Thomas got from Jerusalem to India is by that family trade route. We're going to talk some more as soon as we take a little break. Let's come back. We're looking at the floor plan of the burial spot of the Patriarchs in Hebron. The spot is called the Cave of Machpelah, and if one goes to the Encyclopaedia Judaica in 16 volumes. One reads that the cave of Machpelah. Machpelah means the cave of the double or the couple. So that not only is Abraham buried here, but his wife Sarah is buried here as well. And not only is their son Isaac buried here, but Rebecca, his wife, is buried here as well. Not only is Jacob buried here, but his first wife, Leah, is buried here. Shared presence pairs collected together. And in this case, there are not only two and two and two, but there's a seventh, which is Joseph. Joseph is the son of Jacob. He is the grandson of Isaac. He is the great grandson of Abraham. Now, it's extremely important because Hebron was not always called Hebron. In ancient times it was called Kiriath Arda, which means the town of the four. The four is a quaternary. It's a square. It's also a frame of reference. It's what I call in my learning civilization, education, a square of attention. It's how to compose your symbolic structure so that you have a way of seeing. And if you are prismatic, you can move that frame of reference around so that you have a chance to have a multiple angle of vision. For instance, the two eyes will focus. They will integral perception to a point. You can see the dot. If you rotate that frame of reference, that square of attention 360 degrees, the dot will make a ambit that is now a circumference, that is a circle, which is the plane, the equatorial plane of how you stand up in the world, your existence, your extant, but you're standing up in the world can also be a standing forth from the world, an ecstasy, so that not only can you have an angle of vision that can be rotated 360 degrees, but can be shown the entire sphere. Now, instead of having a square of attention, you have a prismatic sphere a sphere equality. The way to talk about distance. In a sphere equality is not by a linear distance, but by an amplitude. That amplitude is expressible in terms of energy. The frequency of the energy in its primordial field will be a dynamics, a dynamic, like a thermodynamics. But when it is polarized into electromagnetism, the amplitude, the frequency will not be a dynamic, it will be an energy. And the energy, because it is an integral, will have an exact registry. One will be able to tell to any amount of exactness. Exactly what that frequency is, what that energy is. So instead of looking at a star, one can look at star light. Instead of having an astronomy one now has an astrophysics. You can take a helio spectrograph of any star. And it will have not only a registry of all of the elements that are there in that astrophysical starlight, but it will also have dark lines there called Fraunhofer lines from the man who first found them a couple of hundred years ago. Those Fraunhofer lines and the other registry lines will tell you through that star light, the entire amplitude of the whole cycle of existence of that star. We have instrumentation now that can calibrate millions of stars at once. We live in a time where you can not be satisfied with an education that is merely integral, is only pragmatic, only pays attention to thought, word and deed. That has not been sufficient for an enormous amount of time, for an incredible planetary. Heritage of space, for a permanent intergalactic range of eternal consciousness. We can no longer be animals hoping to be men. We must be spiritual persons expecting to live in reality. That's what all this is about. The cave of Machpelah in Hebron. An old, curious Arda. Arda. Is referred to. As the cave of the Sleepers of Abraham of his family, because the initial visionary realization for him was that his wife Sarah died and he had to have a place, a special place, to bury her so that he could then when his time came to be buried with her, and because there was a promise not only of a promised land, but of a heritage of a lineage which would be an inheritance passed on through a synthesizing thread of descendants, one by one by one. The resonance of each of those descendants would accumulate to such an extent that when he was. And you can read this in Genesis. He was a friend of God. He was talked to as a special friend, for whom a special covenant was going to be made, and the covenant was shown to him in a very graphic way. God as a friend, took him by the hand and took him outside in the night sky and showed him the stars. Now the prosaic understanding has always been. He will have as many descendants as there are stars. A lot of them. The resonant understanding that has always been there is that he was shown that the amplitude of his heritage goes out into the heavens. It isn't the number of stars is that all these worlds and more are in this inheritance. We live in the first generation who are physically able to take our existentiality off the planet into interplanetary space, and soon into interstellar space, and into intergalactic spaces nearly without end. What is interesting is that the position of Abraham as a pivot. Comes at a threshold of two immense time forms, because 2000 years before Abraham was Adam. And 2000 after him was Jesus. So that there's a double Ian between Adam and Jesus pivoted by Abraham, who then becomes a significant figure because he passes the heritage of the stars. Are your true home in terms of your inheritance. Because 2000 years after Jesus, we come so that Jesus is now a pivot between ourselves and Abraham. That double Ian, so that Abraham becomes a immense, significant double Ian figure for us, a person who is indeed a noble friend of God. This cave of Machpelah. In Hebron. Is one of the fundamental locations that I have put into the expanded proposal for the New Jerusalem Planetary Park. To take out of the polarity of contention between Israel and Palestine, between Islam and Judaism, or even between Islam and, more formidably, Christianity to take out of that polarity and to transform it into a complementarity, because one can take electromagnetism and transform it into magneto electric energy. And when one does this, one enters the spiritual prismatic calibration of the cosmos. Here, the most familiar of all of the amplitude is the 96% of the cosmos that does not register as light. It registers, as we would say prosaically, as dark matter and dark energy. No matter how large the stars are, the spaces between them are much larger. No matter how large galaxies are, the spaces between them are much larger. And outside of whatever perimeter, moving perimeter there is of the universe. That as yet unintegrated uncalibrated pre space pre time is immense beyond conception of what the universe is currently our only reality is not to wake up simply, but to awaken our quality of learning to stay awake. Which means that instead of having an education as some kind of posited place that you do when you're young or revisit when you want to update that it is a differential conscious, prismatic moving spectrum. It is an astrophysics of learning. It was a completely different scalar. Here is an exemplar. The only way to resolve the impasse of the current two state solution, which cannot be affected, is to put visionary dimensions in, to expand the amplitude of what is actually real. So my proposal for the New Jerusalem Planetary Park is to have it start at the place of the first visiting of the revision, the revisioning of the promised land. And that is the last place that Moses went to Mount Nebo. Moses, who wrote Genesis and Exodus and the Torah, but was not allowed into the Promised Land, could see it, could see that it was true, but could only pass on. Then there were only two men that survived the entire exodus. One of them was named Caleb. The other was named Joshua. Joshua bar none. Joshua, the son of nun who received from Moses the capacity to go into the Promised Land and bring everyone who had not just survived through the Exodus, but who had been born in three generations in that exodus, because it takes a three generational time form in terms of an integral to bring the fullness out. It's like letting good wine mature for 40 some years, and now we can serve that wine. It is ready. It is ready to be served. It is at its peak, at its pinnacle. We see this in terms of heritage. We mentioned this morning the Russel Ikhwan Al-safa, the Brethren of Purity and Basra a thousand years ago. Chapter four of the book by Nathan with the three Magi on the cover. The Christian and Judaic substrate of Islam, Judaism, Christianity and Islam may be all termed Abrahamic religions for all three have a common ancestor and Abraham, so that in the New Jerusalem Planetary Park, one moves by taking Mount Nebo and its surrounding lands down the Wadi Al-qura, a tributary to the Jordan River not far from where the Dead Sea is a couple of miles. About 4 or 5 miles from Qumran. Up the road that goes up to Jerusalem. Greater Jerusalem, including the airport to the north and Bethlehem to the south. And then a road running from Jerusalem down to Hebron on the ridge. So that's not the land, but just the royal road going from Bethlehem to Hebron and going from Hebron, down the great Ridge, through the Shephelah, all the way to the coast at the Mediterranean Sea. And there at the coast would be a four square mile seaport to be made. And I suggest the name Port Isaac for it, and that the road be large enough so that you not only have three lanes going each way, but that you have a median strip in between them of, say, about eight lanes, which then will allow for that strip of land and those three lanes on both sides and a lane on both sides of that as a spin offs that that median be planted with trees that are of that area that are able to give fruit, date palms, figs, olives, and that these trees and medicinal herbs and flowers and occasional food patches be a part of the New Jerusalem Planetary Park to be overseen by planetary park rangers, not police, not military, and that when one comes from Port Isaac up to Hebron, that there be a way station there that is a part of the planetary park that includes the cave of Machpelah and a couple of attendant mosques and a few other areas. The Jews and the Christians were not allowed to worship at the cave of Machpelah for over 700 years, until the War of 1967, and now under Israeli control. By putting all of this into the planetary park, the New Jerusalem Planetary Park, one has a chance now to have all of the major sites of the three great religions that pivot out of Abraham and come into a play of a shared history of now over 4000 years. And that that road from Port Isaac up to Hebron be called the Isaac Way and from Jerusalem over to Mount Nebo be called the Ishmael Way. And just as there is a port on the Mediterranean Sea for world shipping to come to the planetary park down from Mount Nebo would be the Ishmael spaceport. A spaceport is being made a civilian spaceport, not the military spaceport at Edwards Air Force Base, not the military spaceports that are at area 51 and in Utah. But the civilian commercial spaceport being built in New Mexico under governor Bill Richardson's encouragement that the Ishmael spaceport then be available as on that site, as the way in which the planetary park is able to take people out into space, not only to the space station, but to coming lunar bases and other space stations and other planetary destinations that the next generation are going to be able to indeed enjoy and take advantage of. This would be the New Jerusalem Planetary Park, but the road from Bethlehem to Hebron should be called the way of the Magi. It is the way of which something that is there contemporaneous not only with Islam, not only with Judaism, not only with what became a Christianity, but there is a fourth, there is a missing part that is not there, And that is the ancient Zoroastrian trigger spark that was there originally tuned to Abraham, the three Magi. If one comes to this old 1905 bound issue of the Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1905. Uh, the American Oriental Society was in New Haven, Connecticut, which is Yale University. On page 79 and following is an article by the great AV. Williams. Jackson. Williams uh, Jackson AV stands for Abraham. Valentine. Abraham. Valentine. Williams. Jackson. His. One of his great books is Zoroaster, the prophet of ancient Iran. But in here in this particular issue of, um, the American Oriental Society Journal, the article is the Magi and Marco Polo and the cities in Persia, Persia from which they came to worship the infant Christ. So the three Magi who financed the Holy Family to be able to go to Egypt for what it turns out to be a five year sojourn to escape the infanticide of King Herod, who was decaying mentally and physically at that time, the slaughter of the innocents. It was three Iranians bringing three gifts from southern Arabia and from the Horn of Africa to finance the Holy Family, to flee to Egypt to be safe, and to return only after Herod died. Now gold, frankincense, and myrrh are extremely valuable in small quantities. And while Joseph was a champion of figure, uh, Joseph means the in in the Greek translation of the the name it means the the additional Lord, the lord of the addition, the the the one who was able to master anything additional to just what has happened naturally. One has to have such a figure, such a person, such a spirit person, because the interference of the natural cycle builds up artificiality, the manmade pride and mistakes which Philo of Alexandria brings out so beautiful beautifully in his life of Joseph. In his Collected Writings, published by Harvard University Press in 12 volumes. When the accumulation of the gunk of man's artificiality suffocates nature in such a way that it is close to asphyxiating. A lord of those problems must come in to resolve that. In Jesus's time, the problem was the Roman Empire. Which built on a base of Hellenistic kingdoms coming together powerfully, and someone like Alexander the Great based on powerful tyrannies like ancient Egypt and the Assyrians and the Babylonians, etc., etc. so that one had thousands of years of accumulation. That was bad enough. And so a lord of resolving man's inhumanity to man in the natural cycle had to come in and clean it up. We live in a time, 2000 years later, an aeon later, where the jeopardy is much more severe than the Roman Empire. Then the accumulation of the tyrannical traditions of thousands of years of empires upon which that was based. We not only have a planet which is suffocating, but we are faced with a challenge of interstellar civilizations that view man as a domestic herd to be harvested. Unless they can mature. So our challenge is one not of a Roman empire, but on a galactic range of threat. And so our response must be in a kind and a scalar that is able to bring this into play, which we can do. And actually it doesn't take that long. By the way, I will put a copy of this short article by, uh. Abraham. Valentine. Williams Jackson into the notes for the shared presence. The addition of Marco Polo that he used as the big. It's not just a two volume, it's a three volume by a Colonel Yule. And you can find in Dover reprints the first two volumes, but the index volume, volume three is not reprinted. I have an original set of the three volumes, and I will put some of the material from Marco Polo into it as well, so that you can see you're not aware. But Marco Polo was an extraordinary man. Not only did the polos go all the way to China and be there, but Marco Polo himself was one of the world's great soldiers of fortune, and he was such a good seaman and only a ship's captain. But like on the level of an admiral, he was put in charge of the Chinese fleet to get rid of the Indonesian pirates that were stopping the Chinese navy from, and commercial shipping going through Indonesia all the way to Africa. And it was Marco Polo who cleared up the Indonesian pirates back in Kublai Khan's time, and for that he was handsomely rewarded by being given a pass good anywhere in the world where that power was able to exert itself, which was considerable. And so Marco Polo was able to travel quite freely. He had the wampum belt of the Mongol Khans as being one of the great heroes of that realm, and one of the heroic things that he brought back to Italy was a pasta. So you can see that every time we enjoy a little pasta, we are communicating with Marco Polo and taking part in his communion. I want to give you. The last two. The last couple of hots from the 46th Yasna. This leads up to a perilous knife edge, that is, the equatorial plane of a threshold of challenge. In ancient Zarathushtrian and then later in Zoroastrian. Uh, law. It's called the Chinvat Bridge. It is like the bridge of leading into Valhalla. But to go over that bridge is precarious, because the bridge constantly narrows until it becomes a razor's edge. Zarathushtra wrote 3934 years ago. Whoever of mine, man or woman in Mazda would give their life to those knowing the best. Asha's. Asha. Good kshatra of our mind and to those inspiring hymns of adoration. But beyond them all, crossing the Chinvat bridge. Our rulers yoked us capons and coffees alike to hideous actions. A life polluted mankind in their souls, they themselves chided Diana, even as they are approaching their chinvat bridge, where forever false dwelling plummets behind. Since by our Asha descendant, kinfolk of the Turanians Frereana strong as Ahmed's earth sustaining effort, he in good unity accepting mind abides in bliss. Mazda revealing Ahura. These are who Spitama Zarathustra serves among those pleased. His renown is upright, so to him is Mazda's life bestowing Ahura and his world the good maturing mind him Asha and deeds regards as her close companion. And so the shared presence is a companion presence. That is able to be put into an astrophysical scalar that includes not only all the nations of this planet, but all the planets of all the stars. We belong to a spirit family, so massive in its penetration that every time space moves into what was nothingness, it creates the beginnings of light with the trailing of the mysterious cloaks of most of the rest. Thank you for coming.