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THE VOYAGEA Revelation of Angels

P.B. Masdal
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I. THE MUSH ROOM CLOUDS

I saw mushroom clouds in the sky, so huge and menacing, like abreathing monster that is silently heaving of havoc and mayhem.

God blesses those people who make peace.They will be called his children!

-- Matthew, chapter: 5, verse: 9

Those who believe (in the Quran),

And those who believe in the Jewish (scriptures),And the Christians and the Sabians-Any who believe in AllahAnd the Last Day,And work righteousness,Shall have their rewardWith their Lord; on themShall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.

--The Quran: Surah 2: Al Baqarah: Verse 62.

I saw the symbol of mushroom clouds forming in the sky, mirroringexactly the umbrella-like formation of the resultant smoke comingfrom a nuclear explosion. I saw them first when I was in Manila,among the visions of angels and flying horses and many other

images. Months after, while I was already in my hometown ofZamboanga, the images appeared to me again, about a couple moretimes. For certain, the message it invoked was insistent that it isamong those that are repeatedly relayed to me. We must heed thewarning signs so that mankind may be warned of impendingcatastrophe if the will of the Lord is not attained.


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malicious schemes. It is the greatest balancer of power, the mosteffective bluff against enemies. And yet, nuclear warfare is thegreatest threat to human existence at present.

Today, nuclear proliferation is regulated with relative effectivenesswhile admitting that some underground trading is happening. Thisis mostly due to the efforts made by international bodies, mainly bythe United Nations.

Let us not be fooled however by the seemingly stable peace thepresent world is experiencing. While we indeed desire that peaceshould be everlasting, we must not let down our guards. We mustbe continually vigilant against those who seek conflict. This

vigilance shall be the crucial sacrifice that we shall make whichwould include protracted and determined effort to bring moreunderstanding and cooperation among nations and among men ofdifferent race and creed; between the East and the West, amongMuslims, Jews, Christians, Buddhists and Hindus, between thewhites and the colored, between the wealthy and the poor, andamong the fortunate and the oppressed.

Let us remember clearly that the peace we have been experiencing

at present is merely for a relative short period of time, when we justhad the most destructive war fifty years ago in World War II, not tomention the also-destructive World War I in the earlier part of thelast century.

If we study and examine human civilization, through thousands ofyears of human existence, mankind had repeatedly been disturbedby countless wars, huge and small, among many empires andkingdoms. There are the wars that gave rose to the empires-the

Persian, the Byzantine, and the Romans among many others-aswell as those that brought their downfalls, and wars amongneighboring nations. There was the Hundred Years War betweenFrance and the Great Britain, there was the war that caused thecolonization of nearly half of the world territories, the Crusades bythe Europeans against the Arabs, the conquest of Arabs of nationsin the name of faith, the North and South War in America, the


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Vietnam and Korean War, the war between Iraq and Iran, the BalticWars, the Gulf war, the war of India against Pakistan---theseamong many. In the end, we must realize that every war seems tobe impending, that every tension may possibly explode and thatevery conflict may possibly escalate.

Admittedly, international comity and understanding at present helpus stave away uncertainties and probable ignitions of war. Theestablishment of the United Nations is the greatest innovation thatman had achieved in recent history for it had allowed nations fromall four corners of the world to seek a forum for understanding, forredress and grievances and arbitration of conflicts. Yet, we must notstop at this for we need to promote more understanding and

cooperation among peoples and nations especially among people ofdifferent religion for it is religious wars that is most menacing. Areligious war connotes unimaginable mayhem and havoc. Manymen readily kill and die in the name of religion.

International understanding and cooperation among all people ismankinds greatest weapon and guard against the risk of impendingwars. Let us remember always that if we do not seek oneness ofmen as early as now, decades from now, wars may be more

virulent and destructive that mankind may implode upon itself andfind its own apocalypse.

It is the hope of this author that men should understand that menare equal in the eyes of God. The differences in faith and religionare just circumstantial. For in Arabia people grow dates while inAmerica they grow apples. We could not expect to be the same andyet we could be one.

And further, if every religion seeks righteousness, then let us all berighteous for those who repent and seek the righteous path shallgain eternal life but the wicked who seek the evils of the world---ofviolence and fornication---shall wallow in eternal punishment inHell.


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II. THE MESSAGE OF MERCY

I saw the man clearing a canal with a long wooden pole, carefullyletting water flow unhindered by any obstructions. Then I sawanother man pointing his right hand upwards, dressed as a trafficofficer, where amidst this image were two pathways; one leadingupward to where the man was pointing to, while the other slopegradually downwards.

The angels have come to give us the rewards of repentance, in order

for us to turn around from our sinful ways, and return to Him byleading the life of the righteous-a simple life but a life righteous andfree of wickedness.

My brothers and sisters, the Great Divine acknowledges ourimperfection and our inclination towards the many traps of humanexistence that in the end, His mercy supercedes everything that Hehad given us, that in the end, He gives every man a chance forrepentance and an opportunity to flee from the stranglehold of ourwicked ways.

We must not be adamant to deny our collective guilt for man todayhad succumbed to the many evils that had stained the peace ofmankind.

Shall we hide our darkest intentions under the veil of imperfection?To say and declare to Him that we sin because we are merelyhumans? Are we courageous enough to defy Him?

Let us not tolerate our excesses by invoking our humanness for itwill only lead us deeper into the quagmire of sinfulness. The morewe sink into the quicksand the harder for us to escape certainperdition.

We are human that is why we err. But we do not sin just because


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we are human. We sin because at times we forget our faith.

But men who steal in the millions and practices fornication do notmerely forget their faith but are clearly courageous and defiantenough to go against the will God. They have become the followersof Satan themselves and they shall never gain their salvation, lestthey repent so heavily.

Everyday we see the common thief and he is just another thief.Everyday we see men who covet lustfulness and deify the pleasuresof the flesh and yet we seem to be not surprised anymore. At times,we even take pleasure by their displays of lustfulness and ravishingof the flesh.

There are many of them who savor the irresponsible call of lust andeven gainfully and leisurely exhibit them in the eyes of other men;they are the most evil of all. They are like the moth that seeks theflame not knowing the flame would bring its end. They knownothing of consequences of wantonness and only live in temporarypleasures.

Evil has a way of clouding our intentions even the careful insights

of our mind. What we knew of evil then, is not evil no more. Whatwe know as improper then is not improper anymore.

Let us go back to the basic dictates of the Lord. Every religious bookwill point you to the righteous path-may it be the Holy Bible, theTorah, the Noble Quran, the teachings of Buddha the EnlightenedOne, or the Hindu scriptures. The basic evils are prohibited inwhatever creed--murder, fornication, and thievery; as well asgossiping and rumormonging, warmonging and blasphemy.

Let us not be misled by beliefs and premonitions that has no basisand has no Divine Guidance.

Be steadfast against the might of the Evil One, for those who shalltake rein of their lust for flesh and material wealth shall gain a lifeeverlasting in the Hereafter. Those who wallow in wickedness shall


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slither in boiling mud consisting of bristling molten lava in theunderground world known as Hell and their suffering shall nevercease.

As we repent, we must produce the fruits of our repentance bycharity and alms to the poorest of the poor for those who have agood heart shows to God clearly how Godly he or she is. Those withthe greatest love shall gain wings of the widest span and shall roamthe entire universe as a soldier of God.

As we repent, we shall undone what we have done wrong. We mustreturn what we have taken improperly. We must seek forgivenessfrom those we sinned against while we ask forgiveness from Him,

Our God Almighty.

As it is of old, how do we say that we love God whom we do not seeand yet hate our brothers whom we could see? How do we professto the greatest of faith when there are many among us who sleepsnaked on the streets, infants suffering the weather for lack of roofon their heads?

We do not have faith if we remain blind to the suffering of others.And even if we have faith, they are of no significance to you unlessyou have works.

It is not how much we pray or how much we practice religion thatwould save our souls but rather it is how much we live a righteouslife. Religion alone will not save us. What will gain us our salvationis the goodness of our hearts, to be men for others and not for theself merely.

In our return to the fold of the Light, we must leave behind even thecommonest of evil, even the every day wantonness of our tongue tospread rumors and conflicts; so if we repel this simplest of evil themore then we repel the gravest of evil like fornication and violence.

For God the Father loves the humanity so much that He does not


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relent in reminding us the things that would save our souls and Heoffers this redemption of our sins once more. We should not befoolish to deny it.

For those who are obedient shall gain eternal life in a kingdom ofpeace and harmony among brothers and sisters all, wherehumanity shall persist in blissfulness in the arms of the Lord.


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III. THE PARABLE OF THE GOLD AND WATER

The angel pointed to his arms (brothers in arms) and then signaledanother message by carrying a load on its back (to carry our brothersand sisters).

There is the man who trekked the hinterlands, through the emptydesserts and barren hills, to seek a high rocky mountain of gold.Day and night he labored like a mule until one day he had minedenough gold, more than the weight he could carry.

He was blissful of the promise of things that he was laughing insideas he walked down from the high rocky mountain. And yet he hadto pass the empty dessert and the barren hills when his parcel offood and water was starting to run out of him. As he walked themiles, he became weary and exhausted and his bag of water finallybecame empty. He died before he reached any water well.

And then there was the man who had nothing and yet he had founda water-well. He put up a tent nearby and guarded the place withhis own life. Long after, he made use of the well in many ways andcultivated plants and vegetables to nourish him until he had afarm. Soon after, animals roamed his lot and he became a wealthyman in several years, although not in a day. He died of old age andlived a good life. He did not have gold but he did not perish.

A man may have all the gold that he could carry and yet withoutwater he would soon perish.

What is more important then, water or gold?

For certain many of us chose to labor upon gold and yet we do notrealize that the most important things in life are there for us inbountiful quantity. Before we seek gold, we must seek water.


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And then you might ask: why would I look for water when I haveenough of them? I looked for what I do not have.

For certain, we do not indeed look for what is already at hand andyet we could not deny that in the wholeness of things, we trulydisregard the things that give us life and at many times killourselves for the things we could not have, we even risk our soulsthrough mischief and evil ways in order that we may have thethings we do not have and we do not need.

There is a pyramid of wants and desires that continue to blind us tothis day--a pyramid of needs that has blinded us away from thetrue meaning of life. In this scheme of wants, we put primordial the

things that we do not need and we put at the least the things thatreally give us life.

We turn in our beds and scream invectives into the night when wecould not have the riches of the world when all we need to live arealways at hand. We disregard the many gifts that the Great Divinehad provided us, even to the extent that we forget the omnipotenceand providence of the Lord.

Many seek the treasures of the world and yet they lose the water oflife. They mined the high rocky mountains for gold endlessly evenup to their last breath and yet they do not soon realize that themoment they are called to return to the Lord, their water has runout, that their souls have lose their salvation, and that theirrewards in Heaven nil. They would even meet the flames of theUnending Fire in Hell.

We always see the gold while we are blind to the water. We find

fault for all things that we do not gain instead of being grateful tothe things that we have. We deny the Lord and all the good thingsHe had given us.

There are those amongst us who are restless and impatient thatonce they do not gain these earthly treasures, they turn to evilways. They kill and kidnap, they rob and cheat, they steal and


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deceit. They harm the peace of others in their endless pursuit ofhappiness. They are not merely impatient but they are alsoungrateful to the Lord. They have their souls slaved upon silver andgold and they have sold them to the devil and hence they shall bethe Companions of the Fire in the Hereafter and their suffering shallbe without end.

They defy and ignore the commandments of the Lord. They set asidethe words of the prophets and the messengers. They bark theirprotestations for all the things they lavish upon, upon the pleasuresand temptations of wealth and of strange flesh.

Shall we ask the Lord for reasons why we are born wanting in many

things? We shall not be blind for all the things we need is given usby His Providence.

If we are born without water, then it would be the moment for us toquestion the Lord: My Lord, why was I born and yet there is nowater to be found?

If we are born without air, then it would be the time for us toprotest to Him and ask: My Lord, why should I live here and yet

there is no air for me to breathe?

If plants and fruit trees do not grow from the ground nor animalscould gain offspring then we might even ask Him: Oh Lord, why didyou allow me to be born in this world and yet I could not grow foodfrom the soil?

But shall we ask him: My Lord, why do I have no gold and pearls?

Shall we ask Him: My Lord, why should I be born and yet I couldnot lavish myself in lustful pleasures?

We shall be fools and defiant if we ask Him these questions.

Without air and water we shall persist but shall we perish if we donot have gold?


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For the righteous man, life here in this mortal world may be acontinual existence of toil and strife and yet he does not barkprotestations and yet he is the one who has no heaviness in theheart, and he shall be always be ready to face every sunrise and tobade to every sunset, and he shall be the one to face the Lord withthe lightest of soul.

He shall be the one to reap the rewards of the Lord-an Eternal Lifein the Hereafter.

And yet, those who seek all the treasures in this world even throughviolence and deceit shall lose their salvation and shall gain the

flames of the Unending Fire.

For it has been said before that those that are first here on earthshall be the last in Heaven and those that are last here in Earthshall be the first in the Kingdom of the Father.


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IV. THE RIGHTEOUS MAN

And then I saw three angels nearby, sitting on a roof of a buildingjust across the street from where I sat. Their wings were high-archingas they sat there and their bodies so muscular and so well built--theylooked perfect. Once also, a lady in the whitest of gowns suddenlyappeared before me, with a charm and mystic so enchanting that Ishivered. She had medium-sized wings. Before my amazementconsumed me altogether, she suddenly disappeared.

The righteous man is not a blind man being led by the blind, unlikethe men full of wickedness led by their evil ways.

He is one whose eyes are wide-opened to the Light, the EnormousGrace of the Lord. He is one who takes faith in the Eternal Life,even without witnessing any miracles--one who has the propermind to follow the dictates and commandments of God Almighty.

The righteous man believes in the Mightiness of God as above allother forces in the universe, a strength far stronger than theDarkness that holds down this mortal world like a monkey wrench---a world fraught with violence and of lust.

The righteous man is never boastful even if he has all the things inthe world, of mountains and mountains of things. He is meek evenin the greatest of success. He does not hold on to riches like a leecheven if he has so much already and even if at times he facesuncertainties. He parts easily with whomsoever is miserable, evento those who are merely wanting in things. He clothes those who

sleep naked in the streets, wearily bothered by the weather forhaving no roof on their heads.

He feels for the wounded for he is wounded himself when he seesthe suffering of innocent infants crying in the night. And he maynot have so much for himself but he thought not merely for himself


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but also for others, and takes what is merely due him.

The righteous man is blind to the color of the skin or to any manschosen creed for he is certain that a man is blameless for beingborn a Christian or a Moslem. For he knows that his God is the Godof all men--the God of All Things.

He is one not to murder; neither to lie or takes Gods name in vain.He is never an adulterer or seeks and covets the flesh of any othermens wives and daughters; his will is steadfast like a high rockymountain.

The righteous man does not merely seek pleasures or look out for

his own self merely. He is a brothers keeper, a ready hand to liftthe miserable in our midst. He seeks in paramount the righteouspath, the greater glory of God.

For he knows that it gains him nothing to seek pleasures stained bythe blood of innocents or by extreme mischief that only evil mencould do. He has patience for he knows his rewards are far greateronly if he seek not merely temporary pleasures but the ultimatepleasure of all, and that is, the reward of an Eternal Life, a life in

the Hereafter where there is no more pain nor sorrow; a life of blissamongst radiant gardens and crystal rivers.

For he knows that he loses everything if he lose his own salvation.What does it matter him to have the world and its worldly pleasuresif in the end, he shall be sought by the flames of an unending fire inHell, a fire that burns without end, a fire vengeful to the wickednessof men. Vengeful enough that men would realize that God theFather have given us the beauty of life-of water and wind-and yet

many still disobey Him.

Many murder as well as to endanger the life of innocent children-ofmen and women-in crime and in torts-just in order for them to gainworldly possessions; of relief and luxury that excessive wealth couldoffer them. They are purely evil that repentance for them is even farworse than an elephant threading the needles eye. Even in their


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earthly existence, they shall have no peace for they shall becontinually running away like scared dogs whose mouths arefrothing. They could not runaway from their own shadows, only ifthey knew this. They could never hide anything from God and Hisangels. Every eye shall examine them and every mirror shall reflectthe evil things that they have done. They shall carry their loads upto the fires of Hell that awaits them and this weight is carried evenby their offspring, even by their childrens children, for the shame oftheir misdeed is like the world falling down on them. They shallgain their indignities for God sees everything and indeed they shallbe the Companions of the Unending Fire.

They have done that is difficult to undone. They have taken what is

impossible to return. They shall never bring life to the deaths thatlie in their hands. They have completely closed their own doorstowards salvation.

The righteous man shall never fear evil for evil shall fear him. Hemay suffer the weather and the pangs of hunger yet the lack ofthings does not imbibe him to seek the hand of Satan for he knows,that what is more important is to be at peace with God, to welcomeeveryday the daylight full of confidence that the graces of the Lord

is with him and that he shall certainly gain his rewards in theHereafter, of a life without end where there is eternal bliss and not athing to worry the heart, along mystical gardens and crystal waters,among enchanting temples and white castles with red turrets,where there are trees whose fruit never ceases in any season and sotasty that one could not get enough of them . Nothing could besweeter than a man stained not by evil things or mischief for he isready to face the day at all times and he has the most peace in hisheart and mind. He may suffer and yet, he has no heaviness in his

heart, he has nothing to answer for before any men, and most of all,before God.

The righteous man shall gain wings of the widest span to becomethe soldier of God, to roam the skies as an angel not only inParadise but also in the entire universe, even towards this earththat he have left behind.


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Salvation is certain for the righteous man, my brothers and sisters,we must all strive to be one.

In heaven, in the company of the Lord, there is no more class ordistinction for everyone is a righteous man, may he be a Jew or aHindu, a Caucasian or African, a rich man or a poor man. Everyoneis brothers and sisters to all.


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V. FREEDOM

And then I saw the Angel with the dance. When its wings havespread from one end to another end, to the East and to the West, Isaw its hands appear. Its arms started to make movements with its

palms wide open, moving from all directions into a symmetry ofmotion that was beautiful to the sight-it was the angels dance, soenchanting and so mysterious.

A slab is a piece of slab. You run your hands through it and you

would know very well that it is a piece of slab. You would feel thecontour, the roughness or the smoothness of the surfaces.

And then you smell it and to be certain it would have the samewooden aroma of any piece of slab you have ever hold.

But freedom to us is freedom without the sense of sight or the senseof touch. Freedom is never always freedom when it is notsusceptible to a very particular sense or meaning, but always

floating in the air. You would never smell it nor touch it. You wouldnot be able to see it also.

It is invisible to the eye and what is invisible is always a mystery. Itis aside from the forces of our senses, even outside the power of ourwills.

Freedom has gained its own masters and its own set ofphilosophers-to be defined and classified in so many words and

terms-- and yet it remains that men kill and die for their own kindof freedom as against another mans freedom for the freedom of onemay not be the freedom of another. For at times the freedom of oneman means the detainment of another.

There is that kind of freedom that is harbored by men of ardentphilosophies-adventurous and complicated-to reason out that man


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should be left alone to determine his or her own fate, to beresponsible for its own action, to be independent of thought andwill, to the extent that they defy not only the norms of man but eventhe dictates of our God Almighty. Free will had become their solereason for being and being for them is merely to lavish themselveswith the dictates of their instincts-to the most mundane and to thebasest. And further on, they trample upon every reason in order tofree themselves of natural inhibitions and lavish themselves inimproper pleasures of the mind and of the flesh, for they say theyshould be left alone; for they say man is born free. They are blind tothe nature of things.

They are the ones who would travel the ends of the world just in

order to unearth every loophole in any mans law and that of thelaws of God. They would scream and shout invectives if they arecaught upon for they deify freedom like a religion and their religionis merely their own will and that of no one else. They are like beastin the wilderness that, once caught in their own traps, would gnashwith the most ferocity at their captors, frothing in the mouth,unyielding and defiant.

They do not overcome their own will, they let it flow unhindered and

spoil their own souls. They open the floodgates of excesses that theydo not only become merely excessive but they take pleasure inwicked things. They introduce themselves into conducts nearlybestial and diabolic. They wallow in the flood of lust and violence;truly they are wickedness reborn. They are the descendants of thosewho were burned in the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and theirfate shall be as worse, if not worst. For just they know that man isborn free, they let themselves wallow in the muck of wickedness.They soil their bodies and bring death to their own souls.

They are men wanting in faith, lacking the power of the will, andthey are not patient. How could they be patient when they do notbelieve in the Judgment Day and in the promise of Eternal Life inthe Hereafter? They have disregarded the forewarning of the Lord,through the prophets and the messengers. They have a universecentered on their selves that primary upon them is the pleasures of


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the body --- they do not overcome their will.

Indeed, man was born free, to be able to have volitions andindependence of thought and action. Freedom is the greatest gift ofGod to man. He is born free so that he would savor with delight thebeauty of life here on Earth and yet freedom was not given for manin order that man should defy Him. Freedom is for man to live aneventful sojourn in this temporary world.

Even as a child grows into adulthood, he realizes that he has thepower of self-determination, to steer his mind and body towards theends that he desires. And yet, he also realizes that despite theindependence of his will, there are many things that he could not

do. He realizes that he is susceptible to many limitations---bothseen and unseen. He is hindered by the forces of nature just aswhen he could not stay dry when a storm pours down on him whilehe is walking on an open field. He is also hindered by other men,that he could not for example take anything in sight lest hispossession be at risk of being taken.

Despite of freedom, he could not be underwater for long less hisbreathe is sucked out of his breast.

Despite of freedom, he could not lift himself above ground like birdsdo.

Despite of freedom, he could not spit on another mans face lest hebe at risk of danger.

He could not do violence less he be violated himself. He could nottake lest his possession be taken also. He preserves his things. He

could not as easily speak against anyone less he be spoken also inthe darkest of manner. He could not kill for he would be at risk ofdeath himself.

Man therefore has freedom but he is not free to do all things. Thereis no freedom absolute.


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And yet many deify freedom like a religion. They cry freedom likethey were in battle and their lives were on the line. In the name offreedom, they lavish their flesh in strange lust and in violence. It isfalse freedom that they speak of.

Let us see the man who simply walks the streets and then he meetsanother man walking towards his direction. For this man, it isfreedom for him to just pass by and ignore completely the man hemeets. It is freedom for him not to address him nor offer comfort tothat other man even if that man would be dying of starvation. Therewould be no law or ordinance that he would violate. It is alsofreedom for that walking man to greet the other man, feigning apleasant faade, to welcome him and give him comfort even if he is

at the least of discomfort. There are just a lot of things that thewalking man could do in such a situation, a lot of space forfreedom.

And yet despite freedom, that walking man could not just spit intothe face of the other man for he would invite havoc and mayhempossibly. He could not kick or trample him unless he be trampledhimself and kicked towards the ground. It is not freedom for him toshout invectives and insults and accusations lest he be insulted

himself.

Men may do many things but there are things they could not do.

The Lord has not been wanting in reminding us towards the properfreedom. We have our own volitions and yet through many prophetsand through many messengers, He has guided us with His dictatesand commandments in order for us to balance our use of freedomas against wickedness, in order that we may be guided towards the

Light and towards the righteous path, the path towards EternalLife.

Freedom is beauty to mankind and yet its unhindered use isdangerous. It is like upon salt that a pinch shall add taste to theviand but a horde of it shall suffocate the eater.


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Would you be the one who is impatient and to wallow in the muckof wickedness and in temporary pleasures, only to lose everlastingpeace and blissfulness in the Afterlife?

What would you gain if you gain all the treasures in the world andyet to lose your salvation when death comes calling?

Would you be the rabbit who sought pleasure first and let pass hisdestination for long?

Or would you be the turtle that labors with every step and be theone to reach destination first?

Do not be impatient and overcome your will against the temptationof wealth and of the flesh for the rewards of the righteous isenormous-an Eternal Life in Heaven-while the punishment for thosewho defy shall be the torment of the Unending Fire.

The beauty of freedom is for us to savor the beauty of life; tobreathe the breezy air; to welcome the warmest of sunrises andsunsets; to bask in the most effervescent of daylight; to beenthralled by the flowers in the garden; to be endeared by the

singing of robins in the summertime; in other words, freedomallows us to have a wonderful sojourn in this mortal world as wewait for the next phase of existence, an existence more glorified andgratifying to the soul where righteous man shall gain wings of thewidest span in order to roam Paradise and the entire universe.

They say to love is freedom. That freedom is love and that love isfreedom.

But a man loves the whole and not merely the superficial. To love isto give and not to ask. It is to love the wholeness of being and notmerely the superficiality of things.

To love is to seek the person as a whole and not merely a part ofhim or her.


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To love is never merely to seek the flesh for it is never to love whenlust is the primary purpose of adoration--it is an abuse of person.For it is to love to seek the gain of the other and not merely thebenefit of the self.

Many seek love in the name of freedom that they result intoexcesses of the flesh.

They say it is freedom for man to seek the flesh for man is free andso he is free to be blissful. They seek wickedness if they only knowthis, for man is created apart and above those beasts in thewilderness.

These are men and women who see another person as merelyobjects; as merely tools and weapons in order to pursue their selfishand improper intentions.

It is not merely a question of what I want but also what others wantand ultimately what the Lord Almighty wants.

Let us seek the proper freedom so that we may be guided towardsthe Light, towards the goodness of things and not to wallow in

wickedness.

Those who are excessive shall never sleep tight in the night for theirown shadows shall bother them and they always realize thesethings too late.

Be free and yet be patient.


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VI. THE FRUITFUL BASKET

Then there was a pageant of men that I saw in the sky, as theclouds formed their images, holding each others arms as an image ofan angel appeared out of nowhere in order to reach out for them andled them towards a direction that pointed upward.

Among the most beautiful and most delightful symbols that I haveseen from the sky was the scene of men holding each others hands,as if they are brothers to each other, not letting go of another, while

a man with a span of wings on his back appeared out of nowhere inorder to extend his hand, and in order to lead them towards a placefull of hope and promise.

My brothers and sisters, there is no far greater purpose in life thanto seek the oneness of all men, as we are all created equal, nomatter how we were created differently. Nothing far more heroic inthe eyes of men and mostly in the eyes of Our Lord, than to seekthe fellowship of other men, although these men may be of different

race or creed. Nothing is greater than a love to one who differs fromus, for they differ not of their own intentions, but merely theintentions of nature and circumstances. For the Arab is man of thedessert while the Asian is mostly of the plains.

And yet to this mission, nothing could be far more daunting, forwhile we seek the peace among ourselves we are continuouslyhaunted by our unpeace. We see with every eye and we hear withevery ear how we wear many shades of skins and how we speak in

many tongues, we are not blind to this. We are never blind also asto how the differences in us give rise to conflicts and arguments,and even to bloodshed that in one mans hands lies the blood of hisbrother.

Far too difficult this task may be and yet we do not take heed to theweaker side of our minds and hearts. We shall strive to seek peace


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amongst us no matter how the storms may shatter our resolve, forit is the will of the Lord God Almighty, that we seek now theBrotherhood of Man.

We must fill the basket with apples and oranges; and then we stillhave to fill it with peaches and mangoes; and then further, we stillhave to load it with mangosteens and bananas. And we shall carrythis basket no matter how we realize that our load had becomeheavier. We must strive harder, for sooner than we know, we shallreap our rewards in the end, and savor the basket full of fruits ofmany kinds.

We are like the river that threads many paths and yet to end merely

in the same ocean. We all must thread the same path in the nameof Our Lord God, for whomsoever conflicts with his brother, alsoconflicts with Him.

For He is like the Father who has many children and does not inany manner leave any child to suffer the weather, out in thecoldness of the night. And He whispers gently to the ears of theolder and wealthier children in order to persuade them to seek outtheir poorer and suffering siblings, for He suffers also when one of

His children suffers.

He is the Father who suffers the wounds of His children.

How blinded have we become by our prejudice? How we take othersaside for lack of knowledge that all men are seen as equal in theeyes of God. He did not deem it that He shall favor some anddisfavor others, for He is the God of All Men.

Could you honestly believe in your hearts that He had allowedmany other men to be borne only for them to lose salvation, justbecause they have not come to the folds of Christianity or Islam?There are just too many of them that we could never be blind.

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our faith.

We must seek the unity in our faith rather than make war with thedifferences, for it is like upon seeing the rose then hating upon thethorns rather than being enamored by the beautiful red petals.

For a man may be rich in faith and yet in the confines of his ownhome, he is wicked and evil in his heart, faith then is of no essenceto him.

Yet a man you see on the street may be of another faith aside fromyour own, and yet he is kind in his heart and light towards hisother fellow men---his faith is of the greatest essence to him and to

the whole world.

It is foolish now to believe that we could all be harbored in the samesingular faith. Let be what could be let be. In so long as Evil doesnot reign in this world, then live and let live.

It is childish and at times foolish if we should expect the china manto speak the white tongue from his birth. We knock on empty doorsif we should seek that in the end, men should speak the same

tongue and believe in the same creed. Without our differences,existence in this world would be insufferable for its monotony. Theworld would not turn and revolve.

Our differences allow people to roam and explore the unknown, tobe interested in the other. Men traveled in the past to find thingsdifferent from what they have. They rode the waves and braved thegreat ocean waves in order to find porcelains and spices in somefaraway land. If spices were all abound, we would have not reached

these level of understanding amongst people of different nations formen would not have traveled in the past. It was differences thatbrought men of different race closer together in the past and untilnow.

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be born different from us. To seek prejudice is to plant a seed ofconflict, to seek the weapons of war, instead of fellowship.

We see the thorns and not the flower.

We must now realize that the Lord had intended it that we are borndifferent. Our differences are for a purpose, even our differences infaith. If all religion seeks the path of righteousness, then there shallbe no point of dispute.

Let not prejudice put you at risk of the Judgment Day forwhomsoever conflicts with his brother, conflicts also with Him, OurLord God Almighty.

There shall be no argument as which is the greatest of faith for evenif we debate for a thousand days and thousand nights, no one couldever claim the truest faith with irrefutable evidence. The wordswould not end and the arguments would not cease. Let be whatshould let be and live so that others may live.

For righteousness is never the monopoly of any faith. In so long aswe are all righteous and prayerful to the Lord God, we shall be

rewarded with our peace in the Hereafter.

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VII. THE GREAT VISITOR

At a glance, the image invoked no particular message, but a mereembrace, a warm welcome. I saw Him, an enigmatic figure.

I trained my eyes so carefully as I looked for further messages fromthe angels when all of a sudden, as if my body was lifted aboveground for a second or two, as I sat there stuck to my own chair, abearded man appeared sitting on a huge throne, smiling at me sowarmly like a beautiful sunrise as if saying to me See, I have

come.

My eyes were a little wet and teary-eyed when I saw this mostenigmatic of all images. I have seen this man, Jesus Christ sittingon a huge throne, a warm smile on His face, like a warm embracethat almost I felt some trembling on my skin. A cold wind passesme by so suddenly.

It was the most enduring of all images that I have seen from thesky, a bearded man on a very huge throne, lasting for a full minuteor so. It was a face so familiar for I have seen that face countlesstimes in the past, in pictures hanging from walls and corridors, ondoors and entrances, on the bulletin boards, in churches andoffices, and even in public markets; it is the picture of a man soadorned by many. I could never be mistaken, I could never gowrong.

Speaking through my mind and heart, He evoked the personage ofenormous Love and Caress-He is indeed the Redeemer of

Humankind.

It was an image of great welcome, a stark introduction to His personbecause right from that moment, I have scoured and read moreabout Him. The image was a revelation that finally now I am certainthat He existed in the past, as we know Him in those bible stories,


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in books and in televisions, and He will continue to exist. It had ledme to search the wisdom of the Gospels, as well as of otherwritings. He is the Beginning and he is the End. The Alpha and theOmega. For He has been raised towards the Heavens in order toreturn in the End of days--to be the Judge of All Men, the Witnessof God.

And He shall be the visitor that we shall all expect. We shall cleanour houses then, to sweep the floor of grime and dust the windowsfrom dirt, to put on the red carpets and prepare the best wares inour dining tables. We shall put on our best garments and make theflowers bloom in the gardens of our front yards. Make the gardensbloom my brothers and sisters for we all shall welcome a great

visitor.

We shall be ready with our water of life for if He shall come, weshall prepare Him coffee and tea, and confectioneries of all kind. Weshall prepare Him a drink made from the water that we haveinvested with our good intentions and righteousness. Let our waterof life be overflowing, so we may not be lacking if the time comes.Shall we be the bride who uses up the oil in her lamp and notproviding light when the time comes?

It came to me finally, that Jesus Christ---the Son of Mary, theMessiah---was the one orchestrating the great stage show that Ihave been witnessing in the sky, as the angels flew here and there,to invoke messages in beautiful pantomime and exhibiting groupsof symbols that completes a thought-so that I may find the answersand write them and relay them to you-to you all who may berighteous and good. It is then for me to serve a purpose, a purposethat is worth trying, to say the least. I would be the servant of God,

if He wishes, as each and every one of us could be His servant too.We should find this in our hearts, for nothing is more admirablethan this purpose, nothing far greater of a sacrifice.

This is no time to doubt nor a time to while away precious time; it isa time for us to rekindle the flame that burns in our hearts eversince we were born, the faith and belief in the Goodness of God, the


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rewards of the righteous, the Eternal Life that awaits us. It is a timefor us to seek the path of the Light again, and none of the road thathas blinded us into evil ways and wickedness. It is a time for ourspirits to rise again against the might of the Evil One, as westruggle against the influence of the Darkness, as we live in thispresent world haunted by men and women slaved to flesh andprone to violence; those that are easy to deceit for in their hearts isunfaith and disbelief.

Now I know the man better. He is Christ, the Anointed One, and theSon of Man. He was the one who said, Do not look upon anotherperson with one eye and lust upon that person. For you havecommitted adultery already. For He was the one who said, those

who come in peace shall be called the children of God.

Let us overcome our will against the temptation of the flesh and ofwealth for those who shall remain in faith shall reap the rewards ofEternal Life. Let us all be Children of God. Follow my footsteps mybrothers and sisters.

For He had come now, not perhaps as the resurrection as He had

promised once but perhaps to merely make a stopover, a briefreminder to us before the day of reckoning shall come. In order toease us our minds, to reassure us that despite our toil against themany temptations that hounds these present days, there is a pot ofgold waiting for us at the end of the rainbow. So that we know thatafter we labor in our faithfulness, we shall be rested in an oasis oflove and that we shall be put into good sleep by the lullaby of hopeand redemption.

We are the fortunate ones--- this generation is gifted with a vision, aclear sign from the Lord God. We must not remain blind lest wemissed out on our chances. There is no other time like this againfor all of us. There was a promise made in the days of old andindeed, it is to be fulfilled.

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into the labyrinth of temptations, for every side we see, we see themight of evil. Shall we not confess our sins? It has been centuriesand eons ago that Our Lord Almighty has given us His words, solong ago that not one among us to deny that the flames of faithhave somehow mellowed down in our hearts, like a well-kept secret,like a treasure forever lost. It is time then for us to rekindle theLight in our hearts.

And now He has come through my visions to reawaken us from ourdeep sleep and face a brand new sunrise. We are the lucky onesindeed and we shall never let go of this moment for we may neverpass this way again. We must all be one in the righteous path forthe promise of Eternal Life is for all mankind. For whomsoever walk

in the righteous path shall walk in the Way of the Light. A man mayspend all his life in a cave and yet if he is righteous, he had walkedin the Way of the Light. And a man may live in the temples all hislife and yet if he is wicked in his heart, he had turned away fromthe Light.

There is a time to live and a time to rest, and a time for everythingin between, and yet, this is the time for us to awaken our spiritsand wash our soul clean. We must be born again and like a child,

we must see the goodness in every man, to expect the brightness oflife, and to evade every evil thing.

Let us cleanse our spirits and wash our souls. Let us repent andproduce fruits from our repentance. For those who repent may findrelief in the arms of the Lord. Let us open our hearts to those whosuffer, bring life to those who are sick, to feed those who hungerand bring water to those who thirst. For we have been thirstyourselves and now He gives us a fountain of life---our water of life.

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VIII. A MEMORY OF PARADISE

In my dreams, those memories came; of old things that reminds meof the gloriousness of salvation, in countless times and in countlessways. They are dreams full of colors-of castles and temples; ofradiant valleys and hills; of splendid gardens that seeing themmakes the heart sigh.

There is a form of bliss that one never feels on this mortal Earth forit is beyond imagination. It is a kind of bliss that makes the eyes

teary-eyed with overwhelming gratitude-a thankfulness to theMightiness of God.

There is the harbor of the clouds, the road towards Heaven. Aboveis sky so clear that it is very cool to the sight. The sight gives afeeling of enlightenment, like having been doused by a pail of ice. Inthe clouds, we could float and navigate it easily. The feeling of flightitself is so exhilarating that it will make you wish that you shouldhave not waited so long to reach the place. As you flow through the

thickness of foamy clouds, you would hear the sound of music,more particularly the sound of strings from a guitar and that of aviolin. The moment you hear this music, a mixture of emotionsenveloped you that once again you would feel overwhelmed by thesupernatural form of existence in the afterlife. There is indeed akind of bliss so powerful that one loses his or her self into it.

Then there is the white castle that we shall approach, with turretsred as red can be and you could not miss them, for it shall enthrall

your sight like no other and shall amaze you, for how come thereare castles in the clouds?

In this castles and temples, the angels roam. You could see themplaying games and enjoying musical concerts. Everyone is up andabout in merriment and joy. There are many eventfulhappenstances there that existence there is a continual labyrinth of


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celebration and joy.

Paradise is a place prepared for us by the Lord, a new Edensomewhere in the constellation apart from us. It is Earth reborn. AnEarth more beautiful a hundred times over. It is the return of Eden.

There are radiant hills and valleys and forest that look like giantgardens sculptured into perfection and symmetry. There are exoticbirds that roam and four-footed animals that clatters above it. Theflowers are so beaming with beauty that they are like no other. Theyare the reddest of red and the greenest of green. Where the coloryellow is the yellowest and the color blue is the most blue. It is aworld full of vivid colors that enchants the sight to no end.

The air we breathe there is thicker than the one we breathe here onEarth and that every time you breathe them, you would feelexhilarated by an overwhelming joy, a feeling of well-being thatnever ceases.The rivers and brooks are so clear that they shine, to glow likecrystals and to reflect the skies like a colossal mirror.

This is so far my memory of Paradise; a memory that is so long past

that somehow recurs to me every now and then, in my dreams aswell as in my mind whenever I close my eyes.

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IX. THE WEDDING RING

There was the brightest star that guided me through the night inthose nights of enchantment. While the angels flew here and there inorder to execute their graceful pantomimes, in order to relay theDivine Messages, the bright start stood there like a beacon thatsomehow I knew I would never lose my way.

There was once a common man that got betrothed and married hislong-time fianc in a simple bridal ceremony. There was the

wedding ring that he bought and he gave it to his bride.

They lived contentedly although the at times life was hard on them.There was even a time that he had so much difficulties making endsmeet that he had to pawn his wedding ring. His wife lamented thisfact but he merely explained that what was more important is thatthey have food on their dining table. His kinsmen knew about thisand even berated him for it and he merely said, It is merely a ring.

He went about with his work in his humble farm and with his otherduties that it came that even if his financial means had becomestable, he never redeemed the ring again and of course, he neverwore them back again in his hands.

Ands so while he was with his friends and kinsmen, they all askedhim, Why is it that you are a wedded man and you do not wear aring on your finger? and then again, he answered merely, I do notneed a wedding ring in order to be married.

For indeed the man knew that to wear the wedding ring is to declareto the whole world that he is married and those pretty lads fromhere and from nearby villages may not as much bother him nomore. And yet he realizes that he needed no wedding ring in orderthat he may not be bothered, for he could be faithful without thering glistening in his fingers.


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And so our faith to the Lord God is at times like the wearing of thewedding ring. Many of us wear the ring and yet our hearts are fullof adultery, betrayal and lasciviousness. And yet there are thosewho never wore them and yet their faith to their marital bowremained unshakened like a giant cliff amidst the bursting waves.

Many of us profess to faith as we pray in the temples while manyeyes are watching and yet in our hidden lives, we disparage faithlike a woman scorned. It is merely prayers to the wind if in ourhearts is not the glory of God but the glory of lust and wealth. Topray at times is merely to honor and glorify our selves.

Foolish it is for one to let their gold and diamonds shine in theirhands and yet they are full of mischief and unfaithfulness. They arethe ones who seek lusts like they are merely walking in the parkand they disregard the words of God as easily.

Shall we become faithful merely in the eyes of men and not beforethe eyes of God? There is no escape from the inquiries of the Lordand His angels, and when the time comes when judgment shall belaid upon all men, we can never deny anything.

In the basking of high noon, we hear the words of the preachersessaying the truthfulness of the gospels, the exemplar kindness ofChrist, and yet as we go to the streets we easily forget theselamentations and we merely watch while some lay naked in thestreets and suffering the cold wind as darkness approaches eachtime. They are deaf to the whining of the hungered amongst us.

Greed is at most times a vice that bothers the purity of our soul and

blinds our hearts from the suffering of our brothers and sisters whoare caught in the storm of suffering and desperation. How we forgetthe widow who gave a penny and yet she had given almosteverything she had. For oftentimes, we are the tax collector who ismerely noisy with a pittance of his wealth clunking on a beggars tincan.


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The widow is like the married man who wears no wedding ring forher faith may not be well known yet her faith is the greatest.

For what if we have not sinned and remained prayerful to the Lord,shall we be perfect and assure us the Kingdom of God? We areperfect if we are able to dispel the everyday sins and yet we are farfrom the Gate of Heavens if we are greedy although we have notsinned actively. We have not gossiped but we are grievouslyimperfect still if we disregard the needy amongst us. We pray to Godand have not murdered and yet we are still imperfect if we retainmore than what is due us. We have not coveted and committedadultery and yet if we do not heed the call of those who are sick anddying, we are blind to faith. We may not have stolen anything in our

life and yet when we are greedy, we remain farthest from the gloryof the Lord.

We must love our neighbor the Lord God has once imbibed us andoften we forget this. To love the neighbor is not merely to love thosewho are physically present within us and around us but it is to loveevery other one who lay naked in the street, to provide water toanyone who is athirst, to comfort the sick and dying. If we have notloved our neighbor, we remain farthest from the Gate even if we

have followed all the rest of His commandments. How could faithalone save us when it is works that shall purify our souls?

We merely wear a wedding ring and not truthfully married if we donot take heed to the call of the Lord towards charity and the givingof alms. We must practice alms often so that our hearts may bepurified. If possible, we must have works in a week. If in a week it isnot possible, we must do it once in a month. If in a monthly basiswe could not do this, then we must do it once in a year, in an

amount relative to our wealth.

In the days of old, it is one part for every whole of ten that mendetermine their alms. Even at present, this estimation is stillreasonable. Take away from your profits all the expenses of yourhouseholds and your taxes paid, as well as to the account of yourpersonal needs, then whatever is left, one part for every whole of ten


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is reasonable. Seek the poorest among the poor for it is them thatneeded your helping hand. It is also of importance that before yougive food to the hungered, it is primary to give life to those who aresick and dying.

Nothing is far greater in faith than a man who has nothing and yethe gives almost everything in his hands.

If it comes to you to ask yourself that although you have followedevery commandments of the Lord, what it is that you must do inorder to be perfect? If you have been truthful to the all thecommandments of the Lord, you must further be faithful by seekingto work for the Lord, to be a man of great charity and of alms, and

then your faith may be perfect and the Gates of Heaven shall bewell at hand.

We must wear our faith neither in our necks as a gold chain nor inour fingers as a wedding ring. We must take faith in our hearts anda good heart is one who hears the cries of those who are suffering.

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X. A MYSTICAL POEM: THE VOYAGE

There was also one vision that I keep seeing repeatedly,communicating to me while I read in my study table.

There were the images of two persons on the wall just in front of mystudy table.

In the midst of the visions on the wall was a boat and the personswere standing on each end, which I took them to be the captain andthe navigator. They relayed to me through signs and symbols thatthey were Angels too, taking other shape, in order to relay themessages on the wall more effectively.

Their hands would signal many pantomime in order to conversewith me and their heads would nod or shake whenever I confirmtheir messages (whether I got it right or I got it wrong). The captainwas always pointing upwards, towards a destination, towards aplace high up.

Through signs and symbols, they made me write this poem, whichis titled as The Voyage. Since it is of divine source, it is of theessence that all men shall read this and find the meanings in theirhearts.

THE VOYAGE

Come my dear child,follow the footsteps of my symbols,towards a voyage curved in stone,as I have murmured and whispered to your ears from the beginning

until the End of Times;where humankind shall persistin eternal Peace and Loveamong brothers and sisters all.

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obedient.

Each and every one of us should prepare ourselves for the voyagetowards eternity and beyond. There is a ship on dock, to receivethose who have done good works and men of greatest faith andobedience to the dictates of the Creator. This is the voyage thatcould end all voyages and we shall not let pass this opportunity tobe part of the ultimate adventure towards the life hereafter. It maynot come our way as easily again.

Prepare your own gears and effects. The voyage may be long andarduous and yet the rewards are great. Be patient for thedestination is almost at hand. Those who shall overcome their will

against the temptation of the devil shall be aboard the ship, andwhen he is already aboard, the road ahead is less laborious, in factit would be a skyway to Heaven, a trip that has no stop but onlydestination.

Be patient so that you may have the purity of soul. A righteousmans soul shall be your ticket to the Gate of Heaven. Do all thingsthat are good and avoid every evil conduct. Is that too much to ask?What good does it do a man to receive the pleasures of a mortal

world when he loses the Kingdom of God, an everlasting life?

Be prepared, for it is an enormous love that shall carry us towardseternity. Cultivate your heart so that you may be able to carry yourbrothers and sisters like you carry your own children, for anenormous love decides the purity of your soul. It is an enormouslove to be a man for others, to look out not only for the self, but alsofor those who need help and assistance.

An enormous love shall give us wings of the widest span and theHeavens are for us to dwell. In the house of the Creator, therewould be temples in the clouds, and Paradise everywhere. TheUniverse is so wide that there would be limitless geography inwhich we could spread our wings. There would be everlasting joy,peace and harmony. A life of music and dances, of merriment andcelebrations and there would be no daytime or nighttime, neither


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Muslim nor Christian, neither black nor white.

To those that have not been able to prepare themselves, they shallbe cast away and shall not be aboard the ship that awaits us atport. They will have another destination, downward to the road ofperdition where the vengeance of eternal fire awaits them.

It is easy to prepare when patience is on our side. All we have to askevery now and then is: Would God desire to have me in His Temple?Would He allow me to live with Him and dwell with Him? Am Iworthy of His presence?

Am I a thief? Am I a fornicator? Am I a murderer? Am I a gossiper?

Am I an adulterer? Am I a Liar? Am I a blasphemer?

The life of each and every one of us is a voyage by itself. The voyagein fact starts now as we speak and shall end at the place and timeGod had promised all His children. Let us treat every day as a steptowards the voyage, as a time and opportunity to prepare our souls,to carry Gods desires and wishes, to follow all His dictates andinstructions.

What does it do a man to have faith and yet do not have works?Does faith alone could save him?

Be patient and be disciplined. Have faith but know the meaning ofreal faith. It is not how much or how deep you practice your faithbut how you apply righteousness in your everyday life. Not to bepious in mens eyes and yet evil in the conclave of your homes. ForGod knows everything. To have faith as it is too often said is also tohave enormous love, to have hope, and to have charity. For what is

faith if we do not have the basic concept of goodliness? What is faithif we continue to do abominable things?

I may not be perfect and yet I am imperfect without committing anysin. As a man, I am often envious and frustrated by anger, andjealous and yet I would not let my envy and anger consume andstain me. I may have nothing what others have but my lack of


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things would never lead me to steal. I may have the instinct of lustand yet I recognized that I have been given a heart and mind todissuade me from bestial acts.

It is not to be perfect in order to come aboard. It is only to be goodand disciplined that is required of us. Not to be perfect but merelyto be righteous.

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XI. PURIFICATION OF OUR SOULS

A soul rose up towards the high heavens, reaching the darkeningclouds when a horned creatures suddenly appeared out of nowhereand grabbed the soul and led it towards a direction. As the soul wasbeing led away towards the eastern side of the sky, slowlydownward to its perdition, three angels appeared in their mostvaliant forms with immense swords in their hands, and took awaythe lost soul from the hands of the dark creatures. There is a battlebetween good and evil and the battle is also within us.

Man is born into the ruins of humanity fraught with temptations,that while he was born sinless and pure, he is bound to sin afterall. No one is left unscathed and no soul is given rest as the handsof evil continue to dissuade us from the path of the Light.

But the Light never rests and never withers in order to make ourburdens lighter and our load lesser. That even as darknesssometimes consumes us, there remains a flicker in which we could

hold on to, even if it is fainter than the farthest star and yet itremains that the Light shall illuminate us only if we seek for thetruth and not the untruth that blinds us.

And yet, Darkness continues to perturb us.

Even as a child, we succumb to our imperfections and that as wehave grown, the temptations become harder to contend. Nobody issinless and no one could escape sin, this is one of the mysteries of

our existence. Even as the Lord instructs us to be perfect and yetwe struggle with every footstep that we make, we stumble when attimes we run too fast.

We are the lost sheep at most times waiting for the shepherd tocome for us in the wilderness, to show us the way out our mires. Itwould be fruitless to be the least of candor and deny these things


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that perturb us. We must see the Light again, to open our hearts sothat we may see, so that we may be awakened from our deepestslumber. One is not awakened if one has not slept and one may notsee the Light if he did not see Darkness even for once.

We must be born again in order to enter the Kingdom of God, asChrist had once invoked us in the days of old and in these times ofgreatest temptations, it is one great notice that is most beneficial tous. It is one message that is of great weight. No one shall be readyto face the Lord except that he had made steps to purify his soul.

For like a child, we must see everything with good intentions. Everychild is sinless at most times for their hearts are pure and devoid of

wicked intentions. They see things in great hope and honesty. Theytrust truthfully and can easily be trusted with all the truths. Wemust see the world like a child again.

If you would be the one to give great thought to the salvation ofyour souls, listen now for it is of the moment that we must bereborn and be purified in our souls. We must embark on a spiritualawakening; into a voyage that would lead us back again into thearms of the Lord. The road may be difficult and arduous for many

amongst us, and yet the rewards shall be enormously worthwhile. Ifonly one could know how heavenly is the promise of Paradise, howbliss is pure in the Hereafter for those who shall be worthy, onewould even give up everything in order that one may gain it. Foronce it was said that in the Kingdom of God, there shall be no moresorrow and pain, there shall even be no more second death.

We must see our failings within ourselves, for us to know ourselvesbetter, for at most times, it is us who knows ourselves the most and

nobody else. Nobody is awakened unless he had been asleep andnobody shall see the Light unless he learns Darkness for himself.We must dive into the recesses of our persons and examine everynook and crevices of our hearts, every facet and every feature; thisis how we must relearn our own persons. We must not deny ourfailings and open our hearts to Him, the Lord Almighty and behonest for it is the most beneficial for us to be of truth and not of


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denial. The moment we see those things that stains our hearts,then it would be easier for us to untangle the darkness of our soul.How do we change if we do not know what to change?

We must confess our sins to Him and take oath to never committhese grievous things again. This is the way to our salvation. Thereis no other road towards salvation except through the repentance ofour sins and repentance does not occur whenever we chose toremain blind and continue to deny our failings. And nightly prayersshall calm our fears like a balm upon a heavy wound. We pray evenwhen the moon does not appear in the darkened sky. How do weknow we failed Him if we continue this blindness of the soul, andfurther add blight to our impure hearts?

Do not be like Judas who kept his failings in his heavy heart that inthe end, only a rope would free himself of his own shadow.

At times, worry comes to us at midnight and yet we remain heedfulto the greatest of faith. When silence encompasses us, this is thetime to unload our misgivings, in order for us to confess our sins.Sit and be strengthened by His presence and kneel so that He maybe honored and revered. Pray until your hearts welcomes the Lord

and pour out all the things that bother you. For we have been lostand now we are found again, there shall be no more hurdles thatshall distance me from the Gates of Heaven. I have found the Lordagain and shall remain faithful from now on; to remain prayerfuluntil the end that Eternal Life shall be mine again.

Let us talk to the Lord and lay open all the grievous things we havedone, to those mischief that we have committed openly as well asthose we have hidden from Him. Let us seek Him in the temples

and the churches if need be. For to be purified again in our hearts,is to be cleansed from our previous failings. And the Lord shallcertainly be heedful to our pleas, for His mercy is endless to thosewho seek Him genuinely.

There shall be no blindness again if you take faith in Him and youshall never fall again into the temptation of evil, into all the stains


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that hounds this present world. Let goodness be the captain of yourhearts that even when the ocean is trembled by countless storms,the Light does not fade away from your lives. If we are now made tosee by the Lord, to be able to find again in our hearts that salvationand Eternal Life is almost at hand, shall we let this chance slideaway again from the grasp of our hands like it had slipped awaybefore as a result of our mischief and erroneous beliefs?

There shall be no other time again like this time when we are madeto see again by the Lord with the clearest of signs. To disregard themurmurs of the Lord is extreme foolishness and pure folly. We aremade to see and yet we chose to remain blind.

Do not let our faith be like upon a business contract where we sinnow and repent later for this is doubly malicious and the Lord neverfail to see the malice in our hearts. We could not hide even themotives that are locked hidden in our mind. There are things we donot see and yet the Lord and His angels never fail to see.

This is the time and there is no other time to be reborn. The sinfulways is like a quicksand, the more you sink into the quagmire ofsin, the more that it is harder for us to escape sin. The heavier the

sin becomes, the further we are from repentance and forgiveness ofthe Lord. Repent while the sin is light, for a heavy sin is at mosttimes difficult to undone.

Let us remember that to the modern man, the road that liesbetween the Kingdom of God and us are temptations so numerousthat there had been no other time in the past like the present time.In every corner we turn, our patience and discipline are tested bythe many temptations that our hearts desire. If we have none of the

greatest of faith surely we surrender easily to these desires andthen we become farther again from the Lord. Our faith is like aplant that needs constant watering and attention. If we becomeneglectful in a matter of days, this plant withers and dies.

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perseverance and discipline. But if we gain perseverance, thereward is greatest for there is none other fruitful to our sacrificesthan an Eternal Life in the arms of the Lord.

Do not heed the heckling of those who disparage faith, sayingdevotion to the Lord is something impractical in this modern worldand seemingly out of time. Their apostasy shall make them weep ina river of tears, when the Lord finally calls upon them and foundthem wanting of faith. For a man without faith--without prayersand works--is like upon an ant lost in the middle of the SaharanDesert.

Take a time for your own souls and retreat into a spiritual

awakening. For men are born into sin, no one shall be saved unlesshe is born again. To be born again is not to find another faith, but itis to be able to be honest to ourselves, in order that we may be ableto confess all of our sins before the Lord and His angels. We mustoutpour our heavy hearts before Him and ask for His forgiveness,and then we shall start to trek again the road that we have lost. Wemust find our way again into the way of the Light. The angels havecome in order to relay to us this important message, among manyothers. We must be born again. We must have a spiritual

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XII. THE WAY OF THE LIGHT

For several nights, I saw a shapely woman dressed in a bridalgown, so perfectly enticing, moving slowly and gliding across the skylike an angel should be. There was the bride adorned in the nightsky.

For Christ Jesus Our Lord have appeared to me in one enchantingvision, we must see the way he is leading, the way to the Light, intothe path of righteousness. He once said that the Kingdom of God is

like a bride adorned for her groom, and so with the clearest signfrom the sky, our salvation is now at hand, as had been promised tous since time immemorial.

Let us relive again this path that Christ have shown, a long andwinding path and yet a road that will for certain bring us back tothe Father and towards Eternal Life in Heaven. In the present days,this road had become least traveled for too often we forget the Light,and accept Darkness like it is the truth.

Let us seek the Light again for whomsoever shall seek Him, shallseek the salvation of the soul. We seek the Light in the path ofrighteousness for no one shall enter the gates if the heart is full ofdoubt and unbelief, full of wantonness and mischief.

To my mind there is no more doubt for the signs of the Lord areclear as ever. He does not fail to remind even when we have lostHim through our own mischief and disregard. He is ever loving and

ever merciful. It is unlikely that the common eye would see thebride in the sky and the symbol of the bride adorned is meaninglessto one who is full of unfaithfulness and disbelief. This is no time todoubt for the time may be at hand, for the signs of the times is notblinding us, but reminds us that whatever the Lord had promisedbefore shall be fulfilled, and whatever was prophesied shall takeplace. The Kingdom of God is at hand.


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For whom to say when the day of His coming shall be? Thesethings, only Him shall know. Yet, whos to say that the time maynot be at hand? Shall we be surprised upon our wits if the timecomes when we expect it the least? Let us take heed for even thesign of the mushroom cloud continue to permeate.

And so we must seek the righteous path now for the time ofreckoning may be at hand. It is the way of the Light that we mustseek and none other.

And then it comes to our mind, what path is the most certaintowards righteousness? Do not be misled for righteousness is in the

hearts of anyone who is full of good intentions and encompassing aforthright spirit.

The righteous path is never in the hands of a measly few, but shallbe achieved by anyone who is truthful to their own consciences, tofollow the basic judgments of the Lord.

In truth, those who follow the way of Christ Jesus Our Lord are inthe righteous path--towards the way of the Light--and he or she

shall not be blinded by the Darkness, lost and wandering in thewilderness.

In truth also, anyone who lives a life of righteousness shall also bein the righteous path, regardless of his creed.

Let us find again the truth in our hearts for it is a time that menshould follow the same path of righteousness. We must spread thewords not only to a measly few, but let us extend our hands to all

the children of God. For God loves all men that He had sent manyprophets to many nations. And every man who heed the call ofthese prophets shall be led accordingly towards Him, forrighteousness is universal and not trapped into the fold of somechosen few. We are all the creations of God.

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for even as imperfect as we are, we continue to grasp the meaningof God in our lives, as we grasp the meaning of everything that isunseen. We are like upon to enter a room so steeply dark that wegrasp for both the way in and the way out. We often waste thehours in search of Him.

Men of different faith clashes often in the tarmac of debate andarguments in order to present the kind of god they each believe in,and yet the hours would not end and the words would never find aconclusion, that in the end nothing is concluded in theirarguments. They often present their own god as different from thegods of others. They are far from the clearest sign when they do notsee that the God of Abraham is the God of every man. He is the One

in Might and nothing equals Him that only He that gave rise toevery breath of every being in this world.

The disputes shall last into thousands of dawn, and yet not oneshall carry His greatest of manifestations. If we continue to seek theunseen and labor to take hold of what is invincible, our pursuitshall be in great naught. We must seek Him through our hearts forat times; the heart sees what the eyes would not. Despite of theunseen, we must strive to dispel any doubt and we shall seek Him

in the Mightiness of His signs. Let us trek the path toward Hispresence. We shall walk slowly and carefully until we find ourdestination, step by step with great prudence and thought, andopen our hearts away from the blindness of prejudice.

In the morning, as we prepare ourselves towards another day, themorning sunrays illuminate us with the greatest of radiance, a lightthat gives life that the leaves of the plants in the field would alsorise up and welcome the day. It awakens every life that comes from

the soil even as we become alive by the effervescence of a brand newday.

The morning mist serenades our waking breath as the flowers inthe garden blooms into myriads of colors and scents, and they feelour hearts with glee and wonderment. The sun strengthens ourbodices and allows us to meet the new things that must be done


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and the old things that must be redone.

The daylight shine further into the hills and valleys, into the forestwhere the animals roam the earth and the greeneries littered thelandscape while the trees gently sway to the lulling of the wind, thelullaby of Nature.

If the clouds darken at some other moments, it is rain that shallbring us strength instead, and life begins further as the fertileground thirsts for water and the rainwater quenches the callings ofthe dry land. When the weather softens, the rainbow seeks oursenses in hue of colors not easily replicated by mortal hands, as thesky explodes in the softest blue that the eyes could ever see.

We hear the laughter of the children playing above the welcomingearth, the earth that brings life to countless vegetations and letbeasts of many kinds roam and multiply above it.

When the night comes, the stars and riveting comets make uswonder what great causes are there in the heavens that allow themto shine and remain like fireflies in the sky. The moon is like a giantlamp that illuminates the sky and we are made to see our way even

into the darkest of the night. Below the sun and moon, theatmosphere encompasses every living breath of every living beingthat without the wind that carries the air, we are frigid like stonesand lifeless like dusts.

The sun and the moon do not bear the language of man and yetthey relate to us in the most enlivening manner. Without them, lifewould not matter. The flowers in the garden and the grasses in thefields would never speak any word, and yet they become the

companions of our soul by serenading us with the beauty of nature.The wind does not whisper to us like the way the ladybird lull uswith her heartrending song, and yet it is the songs of the wind thatwe need the most. The sun, the moon, the flowers in the garden, thetrees in the forest and the wind that gently passes us by do nothave names like any man has, and yet they are the greatest of ourcompanions. We may not call on them always like we call upon


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where the mighty roots establishes its enormous weight strongly tothe ground, and would scurry and spread underground towards theend that water and nutrients would be sipped upward towards itstrunks and veins. The leaves are of intricate workings of veins andstems that the water would flow into them. The branches arecovered with thick barks in order to protect it from waterlessnessand then flowers in mystical colors would bloom from its topmostregion. If they are felled to the ground, they build houses and theylight the cold night in flaming campfires. Accidents happen and yetdoes the tree arise from accidents?

Look at man itself, the most central of all Gods creation, is he abastard of mayhem or is he the result of the greatest of all schemes

and designs. Man moves intelligently and has the power of knowing.Every aspect of its body is of essence and purpose that the absenceof one would lay him unnatural at least and inutile and lifeless atthe most. Every organ is of great intricacy and some is of the mostsuperb of symmetry. Is man a product of accident?

Let us see in our minds eye about a carpenter about to build ahouse. If he gathers all materialsall the wood, steel and cement,including nails and screws and throw it into a particular place,

with the intention of building a house, then what we could seewould be an ugly mayhem of objects, pieced together by accident.One way or another, it may produce a roof covering here or there ora wall accidentally nailed to a leaning wooden post. The cacophonyof things may bring some shelter from the night wind but for certainit would not be a fine shelter. But if the carpenter would gather allthe materials very carefully, with planning and design in mind, andnail each wood into its proper place and smoothen every surfaceswith the appropriate tools, to wet the cement with the right amount

of water, and to dig into the ground to make the wooden posts moststable, then we would gain ourselves a real fine shelter. Is Nature ashelter of materials thrown indiscriminately into a place or is it ashelter of the greatest of all schemes and designs? We must all seethis simple truth and not be blinded by the radicalism of some menwith strange wits. Nature is the greatest evidence of the existenceand the Might of God, it is a divine manifestation that we see every


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day and yet every day we forget His Providence. We do not oftenstop to see His creations and be grateful to Him and in the end, tobe obedient to Him and be fearful.

Nature is the creation of the most careful of carpenter and onethat is the most intelligent that it would tire our mind of thinkinghow Nature was created in its simplest form. We may know thateach creation is made up of molecules, atoms and electrons, but noone knows exactly how electrons came upon in the first place. Evenif we argue that in the coming times, far into the future, man maydiscover more and more knowledge, one thing would be sure, hewould never find the key to the dusts of life, from which man wascreated.

Let us honor the Mightiness of Our Lord, The Father in Heaven, theCreator of the Wind whom in His Greatest of Providence, He hadmade life from the dusts of life and gave us Nature in its mostmagical form in order that we may have a fruitful sojourn into thismortal world.


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XIV. THE SIEVE

The angel pointed his hands towards his arms and proceeded tosignal that he was carrying a load in his back. We must all bebrothers and sisters in arms and we must learn how to carry eachother.

Let us be reminded for all times that a man without his prayers islike an ant lost and wandering in the middle of the Saharan Desert.He is alone and grasping for direction, he has no compass in his

hands and the road ahead does not tell any clue about hisdestination. He has no map in his keeping and the path that hethreads is dark and winding that no signposts would assist him inhis journey towards Eternal Life.

Our religion and our practice of faith are part of our spiritual lifethat without the benefit of its ethical codes and guidelines, wewould meet the hardest of times in coping with the disputes of themodern life where in every corner we turn, the temptation to sinand to do wrongful ways are ever threatening. Our faith is the sievethat shall purify us out of our impurities.

When daylight comes into view, we must remain before Him inthoughtful prayers for a new day is about to come and we need thebeacon of his never-fading light, His ever-permeating wisdom andguidance. When dusk appears, as we ready ourselves in biddingfarewell to another passing of day, our prayers shall be in gratitudefor the wondrous gift of life.

While we know in our hearts that faith alone could not save oursouls, it is of no wisdom to dispel completely our practice of faithand to disregard the power of our prayers. We must conform to thehabits that give meaning to our pleadings before the Lord. Wepetition Him in many ways and our faith shall provide us theavenue for our supplications. Faith and works shall go hand in


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balance. When a soul moves farther and farther away from thechurches and from the harking of the priests and the preachers, thesoul languishes in neglect

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