The Land Of Oblivion

We had been forewarned, but we could not remember, and we did not understand the warning when we heard it.

And so the reality of the words came as a shock wounding all of us with its impact, even crippling us in our minds.

"You will forget my words for a season", the King spoke, "but in due time I will make you remember.

I will bring to memory the importance of trusting Me, believing the words I speak.

Have I ever let anyone of you down, have I ever spoken a word which did not come to be?"

All of us were amazed at the question, because the King always had been true to us.

How could He not be true?

So when He told us that we should trust and believe in Him we did not understand why He would say such a thing.

Of course we trusted Him, of course we believed in Him.

Did not all of us love Him more than anything else?

"You will be drawn away from your love for Me by the Adversary", the King continued, "but since all of you came forth from Me, your love will not be destroyed.

It CANNOT be destroyed because it is My blood which I gave you, the blood which flows through your Spirit.

And you know that I AM, and so my love IS, WAS and always WILL BE.

Your love will seem to suffer damage and be darkened for a little while, but it will always be there, undamaged, even if it seems to have left its place to deceiver masking as love."

"I will place each one of you in the Land of Oblivion where you will forget, and again remember.

I will prepare for you huts resting upon three firm long pillars so that the huts reach into the clouds and beyond where you can see Me.

These huts I will put in different regions and times in the Land of Oblivion to keep you safe and out of reach of the Shadows abiding on the surface.

When the Shadows will see your presence they will desire to bring you down, because they live at your expense, desiring to enrich themselves with the treasures I have given you."

"Do not be afraid of them, because I will watch over you and give My guards orders to watch over you so that none of you can be devoured by the tentacles of the Pit of Darkness stretching out into the Land of Oblivion.

Trust Me, I know what will happen before it comes to pass.

None of you will be devoured by the Dark Pit, I will make sure of that.

But you WILL be harassed by Shadows hacking at the pillars upon which your hut rests in order to bring you down.

Know then that these three pillars of trust, faith and love are the hut's strength as well as its weakness.

The Shadows will seek to turn these pillars into your weakness because that is the only way they will be able to bring you down into their Darkness."

These words bouncing from the walls of the great palace on top of the mountain were cryptic to all of us.

None of us had ever sojourned in the Land of Oblivion and we did not understand what the King was referring to.

So one day when the King had finished building the huts, we walked out of the palace across the bridges unto the various platforms upon which our huts were built, and we saw how the platform had indeed three very long legs stretching all the way down.

Our huts were basking in the bright light of the sun, yet the further down we looked, the thicker the Darkness became.

Whereas we could see the heads of the clouds caressed by the bright sunlight, the inhabitants of the Land of Oblivion faced their dark belly.

These clouds drifting in the sky cast patches of Darkness upon the Land, and all of these patches merged into what seemed like an interconnected network of roads, highways of Darkness where the Shadows were able to travel freely.

The Shadows could only exist by the grace of the block against the sun the clouds created, and so they rejoiced in the presence of the clouds and cursed the light of the sun.

In the beginning life in the Land of Oblivion did not seem as bad for many of us as we had feared.

We lived comfortably in the clouds where we could bask in the light of the sun.

But it hurt us when we noticed that some of the huts of our brothers and sisters had shorter legs, so that early on during our stay in the Land of Oblivion some of us found ourselves thrown in the deep end of the Dark pool.

When the Shadows noticed our huts standing in defiance of their authority they took umbrage and bound themselves in an oath to bring us down.

We were considered to be spies sent by the King of the Mountain, intruders in the Land of Oblivion.

Furthermore, as sons and daughters of the King we carried treasures the Shadows eagerly desired to have for themselves.

And so they began to wield their axes against the pillars upon which our huts rested.

Fervently they hacked away at the pillar of trust.

Their axes sent us blows of betrayal and abuse of our trust, and soon we learned the lesson of the Land of Oblivion the hard way.

In this strange land you better learn to live by the commandment to Trust No One, because to operate in trust renders you vulnerable to those who seek to abuse that trust at your expense.

So if you want to remain whole and out of harm's way, then learn to Trust No One.

With great fanaticism the Shadows hacked away at the pillar of belief.

They smote us with lies sent our way as a response to our belief, and we learned how our belief in the words spoken in the Land of Oblivion turned us into victims at the hands of the servants of Darkness, the slaves of deception who see trust and belief as weaknesses, opportunities which lend themselves very well for exploitation and abuse.

When the Shadows confronted us with betrayal of trust and abuse of our belief, we learned that in this zone of deception disbelief and an untrusting nature were the best defense.

The hardest pillar for the Shadows to destroy was the pillar of love.

Yet here too they were very agile in teaching us the lesson that, like trust and belief, love lends itself very well for abuse.

Because love can serve as a perfect vehicle for manipulation, exploitation and betrayal, it is a weakness in the Land where the scepter of Evil rules.

If we wanted to avoid being hurt, then we were required to learn how to put love in service of opportunity, and make it serve the greater purpose of being able to prosper in the Land of Oblivion.

We learned that love is best spent on loving your own self-interest, because that was the only guarantee that our love could not be turned against us.

In the Land of Oblivion selfishness was the greatest expression of love, because it did not waste its energy on others but instead served to enrich the giver of love.

'Love Your Self', more than anything else, was another important commandment we picked up in this strange land where selfishness was the highest form of love.

Yet in our hearts we knew that this was not real love.

Selfishness contradicted the love we knew in our hearts.

The King's love was the blood flowing through the veins of our Spirit.

Even though there were moments when the multitude of different incarnations of anti-love managed to wrap us in their tentacles through our response of anger and even hatred, within us the immense conflict of a loving Spirit vs. the anti-love assault of Darkness on our Soul remained.

The many blows of the axes of the Shadows brought our huts closer to the soil where Darkness dwelled and sought to devour Souls.

Whereas in the beginning we bathed in the light of the sun shining above the clouds, gradually as the Shadows kept hacking away at the legs of the platform upon which our hut rested we began to lose our vision of the light beyond the clouds, and found ourselves staring at the dark belly of the clouds.

We had been given power over the clouds to make them shed rain, hail and even snow blizzards upon the Earth.

We could make the thunder raise its voice and lightning pierce the heart of Darkness.

The Shadows knew very well the power we had at our disposal, and so they sought for ways to control our power through manipulation.

They knew they could not take that authority away from us, so instead they had invented strategies to turn us into an extension of their Darkness so that Darkness could rule over the clouds by means of our authority.

In our anger over the injustice of the Shadows seeking to destroy the legs of the platform of our huts, we threw rain and hailstones at the Shadows whenever they hacked at the pillars.

We thundered with our voices in reaction to their assaults, seeking to destroy them with lightning gushing forth from the clouds.

Only, where we expected the Shadows to back off, we noticed how they seemed to thrive on the rain and the hail, imbibing it to renew their strength and proceed with their demolition efforts with greater zeal than before.

They loved the lightning as if it was the elixir of life, and the thunder became the muzak accompanying their nefarious plans to bring down our huts.

The more the Shadows hacked away parts of the pillars of our huts, the closer we found ourselves to the Darkness beneath, and the further away our Father the King seemed to be.

The clouds which used to be beneath us now hovered over our heads, casting shadows from their dark bellies on our heads and obscuring our sight of our Father and the light of the sun even more than before.

The shadows the clouds cast on our bodies made it seem as if we were divided in a part of light and a part of darkness, and the closer we came to the Darkness, the less light there seemed to be in us and the more we began to resemble the Shadows.

The more we forgot our Father's character, the greater the memory of the ways of the Darkness beneath grew to be, and the wiser we became in the world's ways, the dumber we made ourselves in the ways of our Father the King.

Until the pain of the conflict became more than we could bear.

The role we had learned to play in order to survive in the Land of Oblivion conflicted with whom we truly were to the point where it felt as if it tore us up.

This was the breaking point where we stopped forgetting and began to remember.

And we never really forgot.

It was the block we created when we began to play our roles which cut us off from our knowing.

It took time for that block to grow, just as it took time for the block to wither away.

Eventually all of us reached that point where we almost fell with our huts to the Earth.

Yet in the pain of our distress we remembered our Father the King, and we cried out for help.

That is when we noticed a hut right next to our old hut.

Where it came from nobody knew, as if it had grown overnight.

It was a hut resting upon the same three pillars as our own old hut, yet it looked stronger and somehow different.

It seemed as if it had been hiding for many years, waiting all this time for the moment we were ready to switch from our old hut into the new hut.

Our own efforts managed to bring our old huts down to the point of destruction, but the moment we had decided to give up and rely on the strength of our Father we remembered, this new hut appeared, and we were determined to learn to rely on the strength and providence of our Father instead of our own effort.

It used to be second nature, but after we had grown into the ways of the Land of Oblivion it felt as if we had to learn to love, trust and believe all over again, like babes in the Spirit growing up in the Spirit just as we had been babes in the Land of Oblivion growing into the ways of this land of deception.

Since our old huts were almost falling into the Darkness beneath, we all jumped to that new hut.

We had grown into the deceptive ways of the Land of Oblivion, learning to be selfish, to distrust, to be skeptical, to be unbelieving, even to those who were like us living in huts on legs.

Our conformity to the ways of the land, and our angry reaction to the demolition of the foundation of our huts at the hands of malignant Shadows gave them power to perpetuate that deception.

The moment we saw what our own efforts had wrought, and we reached out to our Father, the new hut was there to welcome us as if it always had been right there next to us.

But it was only when we remembered and yearned to turn back that we noticed its presence.

All of us jumped into the new hut since we knew that our old huts were about to collapse and fall into the Darkness beneath.

When the Shadows noticed how suddenly a new hut was standing next to our old hut, and how we had jumped unto the new platform of our new hut, they began to wield their axes against the pillars of that new hut.

They were obsessed with the prospect of appropriating the treasures given to us by our Father the King, so that they might be rich and powerful in the Land of Oblivion.

After all, if their strategies succeeded in bringing our old hut down to the point of destruction, if they managed to appropriate our authority by means of manipulation so that we became their extension, then surely these strategies would yield the same results with our new hut.

Besides, this new hut was not reaching all the way beyond the clouds like our old hut, so it would not take too much time and effort to bring it down.

And so they began to hack with the same old axes at the pillar of trust, dealing us blows which lead us into betrayal of trust, hoping that the lessons we learned in the Land of Oblivion, the seeds they had sown in our minds which taught us to Trust No One, would yield fruit in our Spirit so that we would come to apply the commandment of the Land of Oblivion and not trust our Father the King either.

But we had remembered that our Father could be trusted.

Our mistake was that we had learned to see Him through the lens of the commandments of the Land of Oblivion, which was to Trust No One since trust is a weakness in this world of deception, a vulnerability which turns us into prey begging to be devoured by the predators roaming the Dark alleys in search of victims of their self-enriching scams.

But then we remembered that our Father was and always had been true, and that this land of make-belief was a world where lies were promoted as Truth and Truth was scorned as a lie.

And we began to trust again, clinging to that trust with each blow of the axe.

The Shadows wielded the same axes against the pillar of belief by bringing to us the opposite of that which we believed in.

But we remembered that our Father the King could never lie.

And so we believed in Him and His promises, and we learned to cling to that belief in spite of the parade of lies the Shadows manifested in our lives.

The Shadows tried to reverse our faith so that we would become suspicious of our Father, and we would come to distrust Him.

By making us go through the lies of adversity, situations manipulated and engineered by the Shadows in order to reverse the polarity of our faith and trust, they sought to implement a blood transfusion in our Spirit where we would substitute the blood flowing through the veins of our Spirit with anti-blood manifesting in anger and reproach towards our Father the King.

Yet whenever thoughts made our Soul a hostage of doubt towards YHWH, we noticed how we were growing in the likeness of Shadows, and we came to realize that if we persisted on that road of disbelief we would slide into a Shadow-existence ourselves.

But then the point of the return came, the moment our eyes began to open and see the ugly veneer of lies posing as our reality.

We jumped unto the platform where our new hut was beckoning us.

We remembered, and we turned around.

As we clung to our belief and we learned to operate in trust and love for our Father the King, believing in His words and promises, the axes of the Shadows achieved the opposite of their intended purpose.

Instead of weakening the pillars of the new hut, every attempt the Shadows made to inflict damage to the pillars ended up strengthening them, so that the Shadows grew tired, drained of their energy to bring down a hut which they could not control.

Their only hope to lay their hands on our treasures was to bring down our huts, and although their strategy produced the desired end result in the case of our old huts, with the new huts it seemed to bring about the opposite, even strengthening the foundation of the new huts.

Where before they stole our authority through manipulation, turning our emotions and feelings against us so that we became their extension in our response to their injustice, we regained our authority by relinquishing it entirely back to our Father the King.

If the blows of the axes troubled our Spirit, we learned to turn our hearts in prayer to our Father, and He would command the clouds to issue forth rain, hail, thunder and lightning.

Whereas the Shadows might have rejoiced at the sound of the thunder in the beginning, they soon learned that this thunder, this rain, this hail, and this cold snow felt like mighty blows of an invisible axe wielded against their strength and energy, and they felt depleted and at a loss how their former success now had become their failure.

Every blow of their axes strengthened the legs of the huts, and the legs began to grow, bringing our huts closer to heaven.

Not only that, but every blow of the axe aimed at the King's sons and daughters became an assault against themselves, as if they were cutting down their own foundation.

The desire for the previous jewels worn by the sons and daughters of the King spurred them on in their attempts to bring down that new hut standing in defiance of their authority over the Land of Oblivion, inventing stronger and sharper axes in their hope to gain dominion over the intruders.

Yet all their attempts to bring us down became the means to lift us up and bring us closer to the King, strengthening us where before they almost destroyed us.

Then the day came when the huts had grown beyond the clouds, and we stepped upon the bridge leading us back to the palace on the mountain, the home of our Father the King.

Each one of us who had sojourned in the Land of Oblivion carried wounds, yet the wounds had turned into our strength, and the strength manifested in a brightness we carried within us, a brightness which could only be drawn out by learning the lesson of the Land of Oblivion.

The moment the brightness had come forth was the moment our Father let us walk back into His palace on the mountain, where the Man we loved so much had rushed from His throne to welcome us back into His home, carrying a radiant smile on His face which made the sun look pale in comparison.

It took time for us to forget, just as it took time for us to remember.

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The Shadows knew that the pillars of love, trust and belief is what kept the sons and daughters of the King close to Heaven and out of their reach, so to be able to devour the intruders the Shadows had to hack down these pillars.

Adversity, trust betrayed by others, love scorned, abused and ridiculed, unanswered belief, all these are tactics belonging to the strategy the Shadows use to hack down your hut and bring you down.

It is their aim to reverse our faith, love and trust towards YHWH by means of the engineered circumstances of our lives here on Earth.

Thus, the Shadows want us to relate to YHWH through the lens of our encounters with betrayal of trust, belief and love.

They create situations and circumstances where we receive betrayal as a reward for our belief, abuse of our trust, exploitation and hurt as the wages for our love.

The experience of going through these engineered circumstances aims to teach us the lesson of the Land of Oblivion, which is that trust will be betrayed, belief is naive and lends itself for abuse just as unselfish love is bound to become a great disappointment and cause for pain.

This experience becomes a distorted lens, so that when the Shadows manipulate our circumstances to the extent that they embody the opposite of YHWH's words, we project the image of the lens unto Him.

Through this lens of our hurts and disappointments it seems as if YHWH too betrays our trust, our belief and our love for Him.

The Shadows seek to manipulate us so that we come to project betrayal unto YHWH through the conditioning process of betrayals we were put through, and give up our trust, our belief and our love for Him.

It is this tension between YHWH's words and His essence vs. the lying circumstances created by Shadows and their essence which can bring us down, but which also ends up a tool to strengthen our belief, our trust and our love for YHWH.

It is the manifestation of the opposite of YHWH's words and the conflict it produces with our faith, trust and love which becomes a tool drawing out our characters.

Do we hold on to Truth, or do we surrender to the Lie?

Just as this conflict can be a tool in YHWH's hands to strengthen us, it can be a tool for our destruction if we believe in the manifestation of the Lie in our lives in the form of adverse conditions.

The Shadows seek to destroy the pillars of our hut by leading us into situations where this foundation is challenged by the manifestation of the opposite of what the pillars stand for.

The design is to make the opposite the new foundation of our hut, so that belief in YHWH, which ties us to Heaven, becomes disbelief and through disbelief belief in the lies of the Evil One, which ties us to the grave, trust in YHWH becomes distrust of Him and thereby trust in the lies of the Adversary, and as love for YHWH grows cold and morphs into reproach and anger, it is replaced by love for the Adversary through love of this world.

This is why we encounter adversity and animosity in Life.

They are tactics used by the Shadows to bring us down to their level so that they can devour us and be nourished.

Yet the tactics they use can become tools which help us grow and be stronger when we learn to see through the deception and hold fast to the foundation of the pillars of our hut, the pillars of trusting YHWH, loving YHWH, and believing in YHWH.

That is when the strategy of the Adversary is turned against him as YHWH turns it into a tool to refine us and draw out the brightness of our characters.

That is when the light of the sun, which used to be blocked by the clouds, suddenly spreads through us into the Darkness of the Land of Oblivion, destroying the power of Darkness with its very presence.

Trust & Believe

'Save me, O Elohim!
For the waters have come up to my neck.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold;

I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.

I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched.

My eyes grow dim with waiting for my Elohim.

More in number than the hairs of my head 

are those who hate me without cause;

mighty are those who would destroy me, 

those who attack me with lies.

What I did not steal  I restored.

O Elohim, You Yourself know my folly; 

and my guilt is not hidden from You.

Let not those who wait for You be ashamed because of me,
O Master YHWH of hosts;

let not those who seek You be humbled because of me,

O Elohim of Israel.
For it is for Your sake that I have borne reproach,
that shame has covered my face.

I have become a stranger to my brothers,

an alien to my mother's sons.

For zeal for Your house has consumed me,
and the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.

When I wept in my soul with fasting,

it became my reproach.

When I made sackcloth my clothing,

I became a byword to them.

I am the talk of those who sit in the gate,

and the drunkards make songs about me.

But as for me, my prayer is to you, O YHWH.
At an acceptable time, O Elohim, 

in the abundance of Your steadfast love,

answer me in the truth of Your deliverance.
Rescue me out of the mire, and let me not sink.
Let me be delivered from those who hate me and out of the deep waters.
Let not a flood of waters sweep over me,
or the deep swallow me up,
or the pit close its mouth over me.

Answer me, O YHWH, for Your steadfast love is good;

according to Your abundant mercy, turn to me.
Hide not Your face from Your servant;

for I am in distress;
answer me speedily.
Draw near to my soul, redeem me;

ransom me because of my enemies!

You Yourself know my reproach,
 and my shame and my confusion,

my adversaries are all known to You.

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am sick.

I looked for pity, but there was none,

and for comforters, but I found none.

They gave me gall for my food,

and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Let their table before them become a snare; 

and a trap to those at ease.
Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see,

and make their loins tremble continually.
Pour out Your wrath upon them,
and let Your burning displeasure overtake them.

May their camp be a desolation, let no one dwell in their tents.

For they persecute him whom You have smitten,

and they recount the pain of those You have wounded.

Add iniquity to their iniquity,

and let them not come into Your righteousness.

Let them be blotted out of the Book of the living;

let them not be written with the righteous.

But I am afflicted and in pain;
let Your salvation, O Elohim, set me on high!

I praise the name of Elohim with a song;
I magnify Him with thanksgiving.

This pleases YHWH more than an ox 

or a bull with horns and hoofs.

The humble shall see, be glad;

You who seek Elohim, let your hearts revive.

For the YHWH hears the needy

and does not despise His own who are in bonds

Let heaven and earth praise Him,

the seas and all that moves in them.

For Elohim will save Zion

and build up the cities of Judah,

and they shall dwell there and possess it;

the offspring of His servants shall inherit it,

and those who love His Name shall dwell in it.'

-Psalm 69, a Psalm of David

The Image of Reality

Have you ever pondered on the distinction we make between the reality of our mind, which we characterize as an 'internal' reality or 'imagination', vs. the 'external' reality of the world we live in?

One we describe as 'real', the other as 'fantasy', one we do not fully control, the other is a world we can create to accommodate whatever wish we may have.

But how real is the 'external' physical world?

Does light enter your Brain and project itself into neurons?

Does sound travel through your head until it arrives in a special place in your brain reserved for the processing of sound?

Does odor travel through the channels of your brain to its destiny?

Of course none of this happens.

We receive information signals which translate into sensations of smelling something, seeing an object, hearing a sound.

So our entire experience of living in this theater on the stage of Life is based on information signals we receive which project an image of an 'external' world to our Soul.

It is a process which resembles wearing a helmet which allows you to enter a virtual software world of a game or a simulation.

And that is the nature of the play of Life: a simulation designed to allow us to experience Dualism and relate to YHWH's reality from that perspective of Dualism.

Dualism serves to bring out the one choice which matters: the choice to love YHWH and His Truth, or to hate YHWH and thereby 'love' the Lie.

Dualism allows for the manifestation of non-existence, Evil, as if it is real.

To make the choice against YHWH in the metaphysical dimension is permanent and lasting.

It changed the angels who made that choice dramatically because they flipped from a '+' to a '-'.

They are not like us who abide in the reality of a physical dream world.

We are allowed to build upon the choice for Evil and be saved from that choice.

For this purpose we retain a conscience which allows our Soul to identify with it.

Yahshua is the One who came to set us free from our imprisonment in this physical dream world, so that we can be drawn back into the real metaphysical world.

Those who reject His salvation cannot return to Heaven, but they fall all the way into the dream within a dream within a dream, which is the realm of the 'outer darkness', Gehenna, the fantasy world designed to experience the absurdity of a Creation without YHWH, a dream world which is anti-YHWH and which expresses this reactionary existence in the form of a reality which is the reverse of YHWH's character, a realm of horror.

So what is 'real'?

Everything we see around us is the result of electrical signals processed by our brain, everything we hear is nothing but electrical signals in our brain, and the same is true for everything we smell, everything we touch.

Our entire perception of an 'external' world rests upon the way our brain processes electro-chemical signals, or rather, the way we digest information streams fed to our Soul.

And the entire world of fantasy rests upon the same principle: a world we construct by means of processing the information carried by electro-chemical signals.

The only reason we distinguish between the two is because the world we refer to as the 'external world' is capable of overriding our dream world of fantasy, and furthermore, we can shape our fantasy in whatever image we desire but we cannot shape the 'external world'.

But imagine that our 'external world' CAN be shaped in the same way as our imagination, only, we are prevented from doing so because this option is disabled?

Imagine that this option is available, yet only to the ones with the proper authority.

Then the distinction between the 'inner' and the 'outer' reality becomes less distinct and less pronounced.

It becomes a matter of different reality-environments which we would refer to as one residing on the outside and the other on the inside of our eyelids.

And even the presence of our eyelids is the result of information downloaded into our Soul.

We tend to take it for granted that we can indulge in whatever fantasy we seek to create.

As a kid I used to fantasize about flying away in a spacecraft through the universe, exploring uncharted planets, imagining how exciting it would be if I were to dive through a deck of clouds on another planet far away only to discover the presence of a city I had never seen before.

Creating this fantasy or daydream did not require much effort, because we can instantly create realities in our mind as if it is the easiest and the most natural thing in the world.

But that is EXACTLY what we are doing when we fantasize: we literally CREATE a world within our mind where we determine the rules for reality.

And THIS is exactly how our reality is related to YHWH: He is able to create the rules for our reality any way He likes, and there is nothing which is impossible for Him just as there is nothing which is impossible for us when we create worlds in our fantasy.

We can step into entirely different worlds instantaneously when we want to.

In our imagination we can construct any world which we desire, and we can do whatever we like in that world without anyone in that world being able to hold us accountable.

We become little gods ruling over the private universe we created.

In our private worlds we are the heroes succeeding where we fail in the 'external' world we do not control.

We always do the right thing and become like Mighty Ones parading on the stage of our imagination.

But, consider the distinction we make between our 'inner' world and the 'external' world, the 'inner' reality and the 'outer' reality.

Is the distinction just a matter of that which is separated by our eyelids, is it the fact that the 'inner' reality is something we can create as gods while the 'outer' reality all too often is beyond our control, is it because we classify one as 'real' and the other as 'unreal' and of no importance?

The Truth is that both the 'inner' and the 'outer' reality affect us, and in both domains we express ourselves.

These private 'inner' creations are not separate from the 'external' world we are part of, the stage of Life here in the theater.

Everything we experience in our private world is reflected in our feelings and emotions.

If we create a mental image of becoming angry at someone, our Body accurately reflects this state of emotions.

The Shadows know this all too well, and that is why they seek to infiltrate our imagination in order to create patterns of emotions, chains of interconnected neurons which create the chemical imbalance in the Body we experience as the rise of emotions.

The Dark Shadows attach certain suggestions and thoughts to this rise of emotions so that the emotions end up serving the purpose of creating a Shadow world of manipulation within us just as they engineer our 'external' physical reality to drive us into the arms of the Shadow world.

As easy and effortless as it might be, have you ever stopped to wonder what imagination really is, and how miraculous it is that we are able to create any kind of world we like within us?

We tell ourselves it is not real and therefore it does not matter, but the contrary is true: this 'inner' world influences us and the way we think, and it expresses itself in an 'external' physical reality by means of emotions.

Furthermore, this power of imagination is used in magic as a means to summon and channel energy towards the intended objective, so it is far more than just 'something unimportant'.

Fantasy is the result of our Soul willfully projecting an image into the faculties of the brain, and the Mighty Ones know very well that this is a powerful way to influence us.

They too have the ability to project images into our minds which our Soul may not even want to have.
By linking these images to emotions and feelings they have a powerful battery ram aimed at the door to our Soul at their disposal.

Their purpose is to draw the Soul into identifying with the images and succumbing to the scenery which they depict.

When we thus agree and consent with the manipulated reality of our mind-image, we invest faith in this Shadow reality and give it a place in our hearts.

It really makes no difference for us whether we succumb to temptation present on the stage, or whether the temptation is presented to us in our 'fantasy' world.

Our interaction with both makes the 'internal' fantasy as real as the 'external' world.

And what is the 'external' world?

We can sense the 'external' world through our physical senses, but this process avails itself of the same method of information transference and processing functions of the brain as our involvement with a fantasy world, and both affect our state of mind through the way they are able to give rise to emotions and feelings.

The physical world is the stage of Life, a theater production in the greater scheme of the spiritual reality of 'the world outside'.

We come from the 'world outside' to experience the play of Life as actors in the play, and yet, just as our fantasy world becomes real because it is linked to the emotions and sensations on a physical level, our physical experiences are linked to the metaphysical world through the sensations we experience in our Soul and Spirit.

Because most people make a very sharp distinction between the 'inner' and the 'outer' world, they tend to believe that whatever they do in their fantasy world does not matter, as long as they do not act out forbidden fantasies in the 'real' world.

You can fantasize about killing someone you do not like, but that does not hurt anyone as long as you do not turn it into a reality.

Is that true?

Did not Yahshua say that whoever looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her?

Didn't He refer to the inner world of fantasy, and how whatever we do in an 'internal' fantasy affects us in spiritual terms just as much as whatever we do in the 'external' world?

Are we not a Spirit and a Body, and does not our identity reside in our Soul which is merged with the two?

If our brain processes electrical signals of the senses, does this process not produce an image of reality to our Soul?

When we fantasize about something, we employ the same processing functions, and the result to our Soul is exactly the same as when we perceive an image of an 'external' reality.

Memories of fantasies and thoughts occupy the same real estate in our brains as memories of 'real experiences'.

To our Soul BOTH are real.

So, if the image of an 'external' reality is bad for us, the same is true for the image of an 'internal' reality.

For us personally THINKING about having an affair with a married woman is just as bad as HAVING an affair with a married woman.

There is a difference when you act out such a fantasy because you end up affecting other people in an Evil way.

But other than that, the effect of OUR thoughts, OUR fantasy remains the same for us as the effect of the 'external' world has on us.

THINKING about how someone upset you causes you to experience the same emotions again, a principle upon which trauma is founded.
In terms of the effect they have on our Soul, the 'internal' and 'external' world are just two different realms of reality capable of having an equal impact on our Soul.
As a matter of fact, both realities create their impact by means of the translation mechanism of our mind and the emotional states it is able to generate.

In learning to overcome Sin this is probably the most important principle of all: learn to become masters of your thoughts instead of slaves acting out the thoughts.

One is a gift from YHWH, the other is the result of falling to Evil.

As long as we live in this obstructed and manipulated physical Body we will continue to experience obstruction rising through this Body in the form of thoughts and feelings which are contrary to the identity of the Spirit, and as such the conflict we experience will only be fully overcome the moment YHWH releases us from this Body, either through transformation, or by lifting our Soul and Spirit out of this Body.

And by the way, this physical Body is nothing other than OUR perception of a vessel engineered to experience a certain facet of a reality fashioned in the image of the wishes of the Creator of reality.

Because of our 'internal' duality, which also manifests on the 'outside', we are subjected to obstruction rising from within and without.

It is important to learn to have a little distance between ourselves, our Soul, and our thoughts and feelings, a little buffer which allows your Soul to tag the thoughts and evaluate them instead of being dragged along with them.

Because, our thoughts can be manipulated by forces beyond our control as part of an assault on our Soul.

The distinction between an 'internal' world and an 'external' world is a very thin and even artificial wall separating two realms of reality which are of equal importance in terms of the way they affect us
Both worlds are derived from processed information.

In spite of the distinction we make between our 'inner' world and the 'outer' world as if they are two separate realms which do not affect each other, the reality of our 'inner' world is able to affect the reality of our 'outer' world.

Does not the Bible inform us that as a result of the changed 'inner' reality of Adam and Eve after they had fallen to Sin, their 'external' reality changed to reflect their new 'inner' reality?

So, their inner Dualism which divided their Spirit against their Body now manifested in their environment as well, where next to the blessing the curse could be found, Evil next to Good.

The 'external' reality is an extension of the 'internal' reality, like a projection screen where we can behold an image of the result of our fall into the dualistic paradigm.

So, when we talk about realities and the 'internal' world vs. the 'external' world, we refer to a certain PERSPECTIVE and ORDER of realities, and our AUTHORITY over those realities.

The classifications of 'real' and 'unreal' do not exist for the Soul, because both worlds have an equal impact on our Soul.
Our dreams seem extremely real when we are asleep.

Yet this dream reality is shattered the moment we wake up, and we abide again in a different perspective of reality.

When Adam and Eve made a choice and acted on that inner choice, the 'outer' environment changed in the image of their 'inner' reality.

Didn't Yahshua say that the Kingdom of Heaven, YHWH's reign, is within?

If the inner world is 'unreal' as opposed to a 'REAL' outer world, then this would imply that the Kingdom of Heaven is 'unreal'.

Yet the Kingdom of Heaven is MORE real than the 'external' physical world, spreading from the 'inner' reality into the 'outer' reality.

The Kingdom of Heaven begins as a change in the restored Spirit of Man, then a changed Soul, and then this changed 'inner' reality will spread into the 'outer' world, the dream world of this physical realm.
The 'inner' precedes the 'outer', the opposite of what this world teaches us, which is that the 'outer' is 'real' and the 'inner' is unreal and therefore the 'outer' precedes the 'inner'.
Again evidence of the fact that we live in a reversed reality.

The problem with Satanic oriented minds is that they seek to reverse YHWH's order, as if a new Socialist or Fascist totalitarian system will be capable of bringing about a paradise, and that by living in this paradise man's 'inner self' will be changed for the better.

It will NEVER EVER work, because YHWH created the flow to move in the opposite direction, from the inside-out, not the outside-in.

The Satan reverses this flow and seeks to dominate man by means of this reversed flow.

This world was created as a dream hosting a reality which is the opposite image of the reality of Heaven.

In this dream, corruption and deception have been institutionalized, so that those who conform to corruption and deception are rewarded while those who adhere to Truth and purity are punished.

The greater the degree of deception and corruption are able to manifest due to Man investing in Sin, the greater the adversity YHWH's children will encounter.

The conflict with the reality of Heaven causes the Earth-dream to exercise a gravity pull on our faith.

Do we believe the Earth-reality which punishes us for believing in YHWH's Word and His promises, so that we no longer believe YHWH and reject the validity of His Word and promises, or do we hold fast in belief in YHWH and disbelieve the Earth-dream because we can see through it, realizing that it lies to us and wants us to abandon our faith?

This is why YHWH wanted this Earth-dream to become the host of a reversed image of reality, so that it might produce the gravity-pull on our faith which allows it to learn to spread its wings and fly towards Heaven.

A beautiful illustration of faith is found in the story of the disciples seeing Yahshua walk on the water towards their boat.

In faith Peter stepped out of the boat and walked on the water towards Yahshua, but the moment his eyes strayed away from Yahshua and his belief began to focus on the strength of the waves of the sea and the wind instead of keeping his eyes on the strength of Yahshua, Peter began to sink.

When he cried out to Yahshua to help him and his eyes focused back on Yahshua, Peter was pulled back up again by Yahshua reaching out His hand and lifting Peter out of the waves.

When we encounter adverse circumstances we are given the opportunity to learn to keep the focus of our faith on YHWH, because we understand how the waves of our circumstances have been engineered by forces beyond our control, forces which seek to drag our faith down into the waves.

These forces are nothing but manifestations of something which in essence can never exist, and so we should learn to see our manipulated circumstances as expressions of something which is not but which can express itself temporarily as a reality because of the energy which it appropriated for itself from others.

In their attempts to bury us in the waves the forces of Evil actually end up becoming instruments in YHWH's hands which allow us to grow and learn to fly in faith.

Just as the impossible path became possible for Peter because he focused on Yahshua, YHWH will open up His 'impossible' paths in Life for us if we keep our eyes focused on His Yahshua.

Recognize your manipulated circumstances for what they are, temporary and illusionary clouds, and keep the eyes of your faith focused on the Son beyond the clouds.

We are on the verge of entering into a nightmare which will host a Satanic nightmare for YHWH's children and a Satanic blessing for his own seed.

This nightmare will be the embodiment of the highest degree of deception and corruption, an ultimate reversed image of the reality of Heaven.

Just as it became impossible for Jews to live in Germany during the second world war it will become impossible for Yah's own to thrive in the Satanic world dictatorship waiting in the wings.

Only, whereas the Satan has planned, plotted and schemed to cut off YHWH's own, YHWH will interfere with his plans and they will not work out as planned.

The Satan may be a genius when it comes to manipulating Man, but he is an utter failure when it comes to anticipating YHWH's moves.

Man as YHWH created him will not be exterminated by the Satan, nor will he be able to rid this world of YHWH's own.

Quite the contrary, YHWH is about to make His big move which will open up this dream so that it will come to reflect the greater reality of Heaven.

YHWH will cut off the powers which exploit and victimize Man, so that Man will be free to live according to YHWH's plan, the Shabbat season for the Earth-dream.

This period of the ultimate Satanic assault will become the greatest test of our faith because of the intense gravity-pull it will produce in the form of circumstances contradicting YHWH's Word and His promises.

Many WILL fall away, but YHWH's own will prevail and endure, holding fast to their faith in YHWH's Words and His promises in spite of the contradiction of their circumstances.

You see, it never was about the blessing which would come to those believing in YHWH, but about learning to spread the wings of your faith.

This process of learning to fly is activated when YHWH tells us He will bless us, and the Adversary comes along to engineer and manipulate our circumstances so that they embody a lie, the Lie of the curse which in fact is the curse of the Adversary.

The tension produced by the contradiction between the promised blessing and the temporary manifestation of the curse is the gravity pull we experience in our Soul, and we either fall to the ground or we learn to fly.

You understand now how the denominations which teach you that you will prosper in all ways in Life if you confess their Jesus are setting you up to fail?

They install an expectancy of blessings in your mind, and if it fails to materialize that faith, -which they seeded-, falls to the ground.

People may end up rejecting Jesus because of the misrepresentation of the prosperity teachers.

You understand now how denominations which teach you with infallible certainty that Yahshua will come to rapture you out of the end-times scenario are setting you up to fail?
They install an expectancy of a specific form of Yahshua's rescue mission in your mind, and if it fails to materialize, that faith, -which they seeded-, will fall to the ground.
'Yahshua did not come to save you in the way you have been told, so He let you down'.
People may end up rejecting Yahshua because of the private interpretations of those who adhere to a rapture idea.

Don't reject Yahshua, because He is true.

It's just that those who misrepresent Yahshua are instruments used by Evil forces to cause your faith to fall to the ground.

Don't reject Yahshua, reject denominationalism, reject religion, but stay faithful to the Man in Whom our Creator dwells.
Then the purpose of the forces of Evil is thwarted, and they end up becoming instruments in YHWH's hands producing a strong gravity pull on your faith so that it can learn to fly.
Put your faith in Him, not in a theory or dogma.

So be glad when you meet various trials and temptations, me brethren and sistren, because it means your faith is given the opportunity to learn to fly away from the manifestation of deception.
It means you are noticed and loved by your Father YHWH, and He is giving His undivided attention to you, teaching you how to spread your wings and fly like a bird in the sky.
TRUST Him, LOVE Him, and keep your eyes fixed on Him.

Life is but a dream, and we the actors within this dream, fooled into thinking it to be our ultimate reality.

On the stage in this dream theater we see the projection of what we became, the 'inner' preceding the 'outer'.

In YHWH there is no 'inner' vs. 'outer', 'real' vs. 'unreal'.

All the realms of Creation are interconnected and have a rank in terms of reality.

Our physical world ranks below the metaphysical reality of Heaven, yet it ranks higher than the realm of Sheol where the souls of deceased human beings reside if they are not saved by Yahshua.

Sheol in turn ranks higher in terms of reality than the realm of Gehenna, or the outer Darkness.

This is why Sheol is depicted within the bowels of the Earth, and likewise you could depict Gehenna as residing within the bowels of Sheol.
The Spirits in Gehenna are part of reality which is like dreaming that you are dreaming that you are having a nightmare, and you cannot wake up ever again.

But, if this entire world is but a stage of fools acting out their roles in the theater of the damned, how 'real' is the reality of Heaven?

Is it another layer within a multitude of layers?

Is it a top layer of reality?

From our perspective Heaven looks like the ultimate reality, real life, the home of YHWH, yet could it be that just as we are part of a simulation in the Earth-theater, Heaven is just another layer in an endlessly layered dream?

If that is the case, then what is the ultimate reality?

Isn't our image of reality determined by the One Who defines reality and feeds our Soul with cognitive information which enables us to construe an image of reality?

YHWH is like the ultimate reality, because He IS reality.

If nothing can exist 'outside' of YHWH and everything exists in Him and through Him, then what is the nature of Creation and the millions upon millions different Souls residing in these realities?

Ask yourself this question: what is 'outside YHWH'?

Doesn't an 'outside YHWH' imply a different reality which is 'external' to YHWH, and if this is so, where does that reality come from, who created it, who created the information for the perception of an external reality on YHWH's level of being?

YHWH's name ('I AM') implies there is nothing 'outside' and 'beyond' YHWH, because the concept of 'outside' and 'beyond' are concepts created by our own minds as a result of the reality we are part of, and the way we relate to these realities.

Could it be that ultimately we are but a thought in YHWH's mind, a thought containing an endlessly layered fantasy?

I do not know because I lack the frame of reference of being able to understand YHWH's level of reality.

Furthermore, what is YHWH's mind?
'Mind' is a human concept I am familiar with, so am I not trying to understand the One Who is unlimited by means of a limited familiar frame of reference?

We truly see through a 'glass darkly', or 'in a mirror dimly' as other translators have interpreted Paul's writings.

Yet even in this dim mirror we are given to see a crystal clear image of the love YHWH has for His children, and in the greater scheme of things that is really what it is all about.
The image of reality serves to give us a crystal clear image of YHWH's love, the blood which flows through the veins of our faith and all of Creation.