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Most seem to agree on Origen’s industrious life, but there is great controversy about the truth (orthodoxy) of all his teachings. This was a problem in his day, exemplified by his need to leave Alexandria, and it continues today. The difficulty centers on Origen’s spirituality. His highest goal was to extract the deeper spiritual meaning from Scripture, and as we will see, this causes great conflict for those who do not share his spiritual view, which they therefore label ‘mysticism’ or ‘speculation’. This verdict is given by those who do not understand Origen’s allegorical methodology and do not share his broad scientific basis.

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Prior to the damnation of Origen, early Christians believed in reincarnation. But this was not the modern Hindu version of random endless reincarnations, but rather one governed by the Laws laid down by Jesus (Yahweh). " Love thy neighbor as thyself " (Mark 12:31), " you must be perfect to enter into the Kingdom of God " (Cf. Matt. 5:48), and " You will repay your debt to the last farthing ". (Cf. Matt. 5:26) Under these Laws, reincarnation looks like this: Your spiritual body (created by God in His image prior to the Fall) 1 is placed into the newborn fetus by the Divine World. Locked in this material body, the spirit is in most cases unable influence the heavy matter and surface into consciousness, but serves as our subconscious, our true heart, our conscience, and our inner voice. The goal of this incarnation is to pay back some of the debt incurred in the Fall and to pay back the debt incurred in previous lives on Earth, without being consciously burdened with the knowledge of past failures. The Angels of God select the appropriate family and living conditions in which you are to grow up that will best provide the tests needed accomplish the goals set out for this life. Every virtue can be learned under the right circumstances: patience, love, humility; generosity, forgiveness, and selflessness. With this belief, the early Christians did not fear their oppressors. They knew that their next life on Earth would be determined by how they felt and acted under the hand of their oppressors. They knew that God would provide the best penitence for their oppressors in their next life on Earth and that they would not have worry about revenge. Their oppressors would be born into conditions that would place them at the mercy of their fellow man, and they would most likely suffer the same type of oppression that they had once practiced. This is what was meant by " an eye for an eye " (Ex. 21:24), but the early Christians knew that God was the only Perfect Judge to administer this type of justice. More importantly, for the would-be emperors of the world, people with this belief could not be controlled. They could not be forced to do things against their will or against the teachings of Jesus. They would live by their morals under any conditions of oppression and could not be forced to fulfill every wish of the emperor. People with this belief would avoid doing anything that would increase either their guilt or that of their fellow man. This is why the Emperor Justinian saw Origen as such a great threat to his empire and that the best way to gain control over the people was to be able to strike fear into them. Control was gained by usurping God's authority as judge on Earth and by creating the threat of eternal damnation. This threat is powerful to anyone who did not believe in reincarnation and they could be persuaded to follow any dogma created by the church, for the good of the emperor. But by making it also illegal to believe in the pre-existence of the soul, he took away the meaning of life for humanity, and without meaning, it was easy to waste lives. The church wasted lives for centuries, and modern Christians continue to waste them in the name of God.

Modern Christians are made fun of for their view of the “End of the World” or “The Final Judgment”. Some Catholics have taken it so far that they actually believe in the physical resurrection of the dead, causing many to bury their dead in a concrete cask so that the physical parts will be available for this event. Where did this thinking go astray to end up with such an illogical belief?

For many Christians it is incredible for them to believe that all who died on 11 September 2001 were ready to enter Heaven at the same time. Simultaneously they cannot understand how God could let such a vile act occur to so many innocent people. What if, for a moment, we put aside all that we learned as child about God and Heaven, and looked at the occurrences of last week with our intellect and our heart? Many stories have emerged from those people whose lives were spared. Some of them were mundane stories: " I woke up on that Tuesday morning with an illness that prevented me from going to work. Otherwise I would have been in my office on the 103rd floor at 8:15 that day. " Some of them were heroic: " After going up to the 60th floor to rescue a number still there, we had descended to the 4th floor before the tower collapsed on top of us. A pocket formed and we were protected from 100 stories of falling concrete and steel. It was a miracle that we survived. " Unfortunately we will not know in this lifetime why the 5000+ died, but maybe we can make some educated guesses. More scientifically, we would have the possibility to study the lives of those whom God protected that horrible day. In 30 or 40 years we could look back at the survivors of the World Trade Center disaster and make an attempt to understand why God spared these particular people. I would not be surprised to find out that His possible reasons were just as varied as the circumstances that saved them. We would find that a number, who before that dreaded day, simply did not believe in God. And this was His chance to give them a wakeup call that they could not ignore. Such a finding might allow us to infer that their colleagues in the office had unfailing faith, and were not required prove it to Him any longer. It is imaginable that we would find a number who had not had the chance yet to raise the children that they were destined to parent. It could then be comprehensible that their counterparts, who were unable to get out, had already produced the children that He willed. Although they lost their parent prematurely, he/she was able give them the most important parts of themselves before He relieved them of their further parental duty. Since God is never blatantly obvious about His work, it could be expected that the bulk of those who survived had done so purely for their spiritual development and not for anything physically apparent. Maybe they still had too many other tests to complete in life before they were ready to enter into Heaven. They probably need more time to resolve the problems within their family, with their friends and within their community. Or maybe He wanted their big heart to spread love for many more years. Those who passed on into Heaven in the disaster might have competed all of their important tests. They had done as much as they humanly could to resolve the problems around them. It was time for them to leave further resolutions to their survivors and leave their love as shining memory to all.

It is sad that at a time when so many people around the world are grasping to understand the events that changed America’s view of the world, that religious leaders are at a loss to supply a holistic answer to the age-old question; “How could God let this happen?”

God gave Moses three divine gifts during his 40 days on Mount Sinai. The first one, the Ten Commandments, has formed the basis for social justice throughout the world. We take them for granted today, but they were given to Moses at a time when no social law existed. Only the Jews recognize the second one, although they lost its true meaning during their Babylonian exile (597 to 538 BC). The Menorah has become a symbol of Judaism, but it was originally much more than that. The third gift has only been recognized recently, and to many people today, seems to be a minor gift. On Friday, April 27, 1244 BC, Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt. At this point in history the only form of written communication available was picture based. These types of languages have a vast number of pictures. Egyptian hieroglyphics have had over 10,000 various pictures during their entire history. Those able to learn to read and write hieroglyphics were only the most highly educated. Fortunately, Moses grew up in the house of the Pharaoh and received this type of education. It would prove to be a great asset when it came time for him to learn the new alphabet that God would give him on Mount Sinai. The 40 days that Moses spent with God on the Mount would be a conceivable length of time in which a person, who could read and write a picture-based language, could learn a 24-character alphabet and write the Ten Commandments onto some flat stones in this new alphabet. If God had just conjured them up out of the rocks, Moses would not have needed to be away from his people for so long. It is most likely that the Ten Commandments were written in the hand of Moses, but since they have not yet been found, we presently cannot prove this theory. The first signs of an alphabet-based writing discovered by archeologists have been dated to 1231 BC. These were found in the Sinai desert and the dating fits within the 40 years that the Israelites spent there. Since then, many cultures adopted this ingenious, simple form of communication. It has allowed every man, women and child the opportunity to be able to read and correspond, regardless of the house they grew up in. Now that we understand the amazing social and spiritual value of both the first and third gifts from God, let us return to the second gift. It cannot be possible that God was just telling Moses how to make a nice, decorative lamp for the temple. It must have a similar spiritual or symbolic value as the other two gifts. When we look at the description of the Menorah in Exodus 25:31-40 it does not give any initial hint to its true meaning. Physically, it can still be seen today in Rome. It is engraved in the Arch of Titus, depicting the Romans bringing back the spoils from their victory over the Jews in 70 AD. It has a large base with a single column in the center that supports the six arms. Everything is symmetrical about the center column. In total there are seven places for lights and 24 knobs in total on the six arms. What could the seven lights and 24 knobs symbolize? Besides the 24-character alphabet mentioned above, where else in the Bible do we come across 24? The most obvious is the 24 Elders that John describes after God allowed him to open his spiritual eyes and look into Heaven. (Revelation 4:1-11) John also describes the seven lights at the top of the Menorah as the seven Spirits of God before the Throne of God. We all have the same spiritual ancestry

Jesus’ highest commandment is; “Love your neighbor as yourself and God above all.” So how can someone who calls himself a Christian (a believer in Jesus Christ) also support war? The answer to this question lays of course in the Old Testament, but only in the modern interpretation of it. Let us examine this issue at the character in the Old Testament who binds together Christianity and Judaism with Islam: Abram.

Science and religion take polar positions as to the question of our origin, but who is right? As with any such situation, somewhere in the middle is probably the Truth. The question that has baffled humanity for many generations has been given some clarification recently from the book " Rare Earth ". The authors, Douglas Ward and Donald Brownlee, both astrobiologists, put forth the hypothesis that advanced life only exists only on Earth. This new concept comes in sharp contrast to the popular idea, supported by Carl Sagan and others, that advanced life is common in our galaxy and in the universe. These new scientific findings mesh well with the recent discoveries about early Christian teachings on the same subject. Taken together, a surprising picture of our past and future emerges. Astrobiology, the study of life outside of Earth, is a young science, but it presents and excellent model for the future sciences. An astrobiologist must take into account all of the physical sciences in order to present its theory. Modern medicine, for example, almost completely ignores all the aspects of physics in its practice. From the basic concepts of gravity, " large bodies attract " to nuclear physics and the statistical behavior of subatomic particles, significant characteristics of the human body and its interaction with others of its kind and interaction with the environment around it are overlooked. The authors of " Rare Earth " present a significant number of statistically improbable requirements for advanced life forms. The necessary coincidental occurrence of highly unlikely events gives the authors the courage to make the bold statement that " the Earth could be unique ". Let us take a close look at just two of these events. Firstly, the Earth was formed at the furthest outer extremity of the habitable zone. The habitable zone is defined as the portion of the solar system friendly to life, not too hot or not too cold. As the Sun ages, its temperature rising, the habitable zone will move further out into the solar system. It is currently estimated that the Earth will remain within the habitable zone for the next 12 to 13 billion years, closely matching the expected life of the Sun. Secondly, our moon, specifically its size and orbital direction, is said to be another significant requirement for life. Its unusual counter rotational orbit (the moon orbiting in the opposite direction of the earth's spin) provides long-term stabilization of the earth's gravitational field, its rotation about the Sun and its weather patterns. Since the Moon is slowly moving away from the Earth, it will continue doing so, providing long-term stabilization instead of crashing violently into us. This stabilization is expected to continue to the scientific definition of " the end of this world " ; when the Sun dies. There are many other such long-term stabilizing factors that have combined to provide the Earth with an extremely high long-term chance to develop in relative peace, undisturbed from the chaos around us. So what does this have to do with the Biblical description of the Earth's creation? Since there can be only one Truth, there should not be any discrepancies between the physical facts and the true meaning of the story of creation. When looking at the teachings of Origen (185 to 254 AD) at the School of Alexandria, there emerges a logical relationship between early Christian teachings and the modern knowledge of the physical world's creation out of a vacuum some 13 billion years ago as a result of the " Big Bang " .

It took nearly 2000 years for the physical sciences to return to the level of knowledge of the physical world known to the Ionians, recovering from the suppression that started with Sparta and ended with the Roman Catholic Church. Modern philosophy has yet been able to achieve the broad reach that it enjoyed within the Ionian culture.iv This is seen in the modern definition of the word philosophy that specifically excludes bodies of knowledge that the Ionian philosophy (Ideal) harmoniously included. In fact, there was no body of knowledge that was and is not logically explained within the Ionian philosophy, which they defined as the love of wisdom (phílos – friend and sophía - wisdom).

The current model used in research for all walks of medicine has only two independent factors: genetics and environment. This simple model breaks down quickly when looking at identical twin studies, especially the study of infant twins since both variables are equal. We have been analyzing the data collected from various identical twin studies in order to find a more robust causality model for both non-hereditary disease and behavior in humans. The model that we are currently testing has three additional independent factors. These have been hypothesized in order to describe the pattern found in all behavioral research data. Non-hereditary disease occurrence data fits well into this more robust model. Current Model Summary The two-factor model does not describe the statistical results seen in any of the twin studies. In the extreme cases we can see that a truly genetic disease would only effect the statistics on the identical twin pair, while the statistical results for Fraternal Twins, Siblings and Ancestors would be the same, showing no statistical difference in the probability of obtaining the disease. In the case of a purely environmental influence, there should be no statistical difference between Identical Twins, Fraternal Twins and Siblings since they statistically grow up in the same environment. In addition, interaction of the two variables cannot explain the observed statistically significant differences in the occurrence of diseases in Fraternal Twins and Siblings. They both have the same genetic distribution and grow up in the same environment. In both our reading of the study summaries and in our observation of life in general, we have seen a family relationship that we cannot attribute to genetics. How many families have you heard of that have, generation after generation of the same problem: child abuse, alcoholism, criminal behavior, poverty, or just unlikely streaks of plain bad luck on the negative side, while on the positive side other families seem to glide through life on a lucky streak from one generation to the next. Studies of identical twins support a family (non-genetic) variable. The following pattern is consistent within all of the studies that we have seen: " For example, a monozygotic (identical) twin of a person with schizophrenia has the highest risk-40 to 50 percent-of developing the illness. A child whose parent has schizophrenia has about a 10 percent chance. " (From NIHM article on Schizophrenia.) If schizophrenia were to genetic, then the second twin must have it. So if it is not genetic, then there should not be the family correlation, but there is. So there must be another independent family variable that is currently ignored. This pattern is seen in alcoholism, criminal behavior, schizophrenia, ADHA, bipolar disorder, homosexuality and some types of cancer. In general it shows the greatest correlation with identical twins, a weaker relation with fraternal twins, a yet still weaker relationship with siblings, but all of these relations are higher than the normal statistical occurrence in the general population. As seen in interaction studies, the interaction factor between genetics and environment has not been shown to be statistically significant, so we have left an interaction factor out of our model. Shawn Murphy Comment [1]: Need better percentage quote showing fraternal and ancestral differences.

So, even if science and religion work together to break down barriers and expand the understanding of the universe, there is another battle, on different dimension that we need to examine. Knowledge without wisdom can be even more dangerous when coupled with someone talented in rhetoric. Rhetoric in this book is defined as the use of knowledge and beautiful speech to achieve a political objective. Philosophy is defined as the “love of wisdom” and the search for it among the rhetoric will prove difficult.
I must admit that it took me many years to be able to understand and verbalize this dimension. Trying to understand the difference between an argument based in laws and one that is almost all based in laws is often impossible without looking at the personal motivations and character. Often this cannot be known in time and can only be studied after the fact. This book will analyze some key moments in history, starting with the master of this topic, Socrates. Thanks to Plato, the words of the master of logic have been preserved and we can examine the battle he fought between wisdom and rhetoric, and the impact of his loss on the world.
The subtleness of this loss is symbolized on the cover of this book by the difference between the Ionic- and Doric-order. The Erechtheion is an Ionic-order temple built by the enlightened of Athens. The six Karyatides staring out to the ocean depicting the women of Athens carrying the weight of society while their men were defending Athens from foreign invasion. In his early life, it was Socrates who carved these six images of his wife, the wife who was stolen from him by a Spartan as he was away defending his country. It was this materialistic society who built the monstrous Parthenon, with none of this subtle symbolism of the value of women to the enlightened Greeks.

This is the third and final battle. Even with all the knowledge and wisdom we have gained, every day we make choices between the material world and the ethereal world - choices between our ego or our true selves. Underpinning these personal choices are two ethereal destinations that are actively courting us. One of these destinations offers material rewards for its loyalty while the other offers spiritual rewards. This final book will shed light onto the masters of these two destinations and the characteristics of their servants. The ancient Greeks referred to the two sets of servants as Nymphs and Muses. Each Nymph specialized in a different vice, ready to offer material reward for loyalty. Each Muse specializing in one of the virtues and offering wisdom for loyalty.
I will start by looking at the life of Abram and examine how these two masters tried to influence his life. By taking what science has uncovered about the life of Abram and what religions teach about his life, and the lives of his children, we can begin to see the spiritual battle that has raged on earth since the beginning of time. The Archangel Michael was there at the beginning of this battle, and now it is our turn to finish the battle; this is the purpose of life in the material world.
The enlightened Greeks celebrated the emergence of Aphrodite from the Bitter Sea, escaping its ruler Poseidon and starting her journey back to Olympus. The cover also shows how they depicted Hercules, disguised in a lion skin, the symbol for the ruler of this world and of the Bitter Sea - Hades.

One of the fundamental laws of physics is that a force is met with an equal and opposite force. Since Galileo rescued science from religion, science has done battle with religion: knowledge vs belief. I would go as far as to say that science has violated one of its most basic laws, and as a result, helped to create an equal and opposite force in this world. When we look at history, whenever a group gained power through knowledge (at the expense of others) a force grew within society to oppose it.
The Roman church’s adaptation of Aristotle as their proxy for science, set scientific development back for centuries, until Galileo pried it free in the 17th century. Since then, modern science has developed its theories about the physical world at an amazing pace, while the churches have remained stagnant, with few exceptions.
This book will celebrate the wisdom held by each of these two worlds and attempt to highlight the blind-spots that have kept the two sides from forming a partnership. One of the universal wisdoms that religions have taught for millennia is that when you give, you receive more in return. John Nash received the Nobel Prize for proving this spiritual wisdom and it is in this spirit that a cooperation between science and religion could be formed.

In the first three books of the Torn Between Two World series we established a framework for human dualism. In the fourth book, we moved from a philosophical discussion to a hands-on, self-help presentation, providing helpful answers to everyday issues.
In the first half of the book, we define the possible spiritual illnesses that can affect you and your loved ones. These are the underlying causes that are being either unrecognized or misdiagnosed by the medical community. The second half of the book provides many ways to increase your spiritual strength and increase your resistance the negativity that you are subjected to.
Every human being can aspire to their full potential, and therefore, all the suggestions from this book can be used to move closer to this goal, regardless of the current state of spiritual health you find yourself in. In this book that we discover the various tools available to overcome the spiritual afflictions that we or our loved ones suffer from. At the end of this book, you should not only have tools to assist you, but also have a guide as to how they can be implemented in your life.