JJ Dewey - Zion Lectures

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The Zion LecturesA transcr ip t of a sem in ar give n at We st Jo rdan , Ut ah , in 200 6

By J. J. Dewey


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Zion, Part 1

Susan asked me to speak on manifesting Zion and since we are in strong Mormon territory this is

probably an interesting subject here. As you know I have written on many things not related toMormon Doctrine even though I do have a Mormon background myself. I was not really raised

in a church and my parents were pretty much alcoholics. When I was young I used to have to

take my little sister and go downtown and drag my parents out of the bars and try to get them to

come home. They would often want us to stay so we would stay and I would drink beer with

everybody else when I was a little kidso I was not raised in a religious background.

My Mom thought she was marrying a religious guy because my grandmother was ultra, ultra

religious and she was just so sweet that you could not say no to her and that is why my Dad went

to church when he was young. So anyway, my Mom thought she was marrying a good member

of the LDS church and then when they got settled into the marriage she said well Ted lets go to

church and he replied, I am never going to darken the door of the church with my presence

again, I have been forced to go to church all my life and now I am done with it and that is it.

This was a rude awakening for my Mom. My Dad had always drank a little on the side but

started drinking more and my Mom felt like she would have to drink and party with him or else

stay at home so she decided that she was going to go out with him. My Dad was a notorious

drinker for most of his life. He used to do a lot of prospecting and mine consultation and he

would take me on trips where he would look at mines and give advice. When I went on a trip

with him when I was a kid he would go in some bar in a faraway place and he would walk into

that bar even in the middle of day and someone would say, Oh Ted where have you been?

Everywhere he went people knew him and he was quite a character. He knew a boat-load of

jokes and he would tell stories and everybody would gravitate towards him. He loved to buy

drinks and whenever he got ahead financially he would throw parties and would spend all hismoney.

So this was the background I came fromso I didnt grow up in a typical Mormon family by

any means. My Dad took off to Nicaragua for a year or so leaving my mom, me and my sister to

fend for ourselves with no support or communication from him. He went there to mine for gold


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and built a huge machine to dredge river bottoms for gold. He and my uncle got some investors

to invest a large amount of cash to do this and they went broke. After this they got some more

rich guys behind them and invested in the first bus line in Central America that went from one

end to the other on a schedule. They had machine guns on the bus to keep people under control.

So he was down there having these adventures and he went broke and he came back home and

showed up like nothing had happened. We had not seen him for over a year and we got word one

time that he was dead and then we found out he was not dead. Later he shows up one day and I

asked him what was the story about him being dead. He said, Well I was down in Nicaragua

and I came out of this bar and I was hit over the head and I woke up with nothing but my shorts

on and they even stole my false teeth. I could handle everything being stolen but losing my false

teeth was really a handicapped for me until I got back to America.

So anyway he showed up like there was nothing wrong at our door and my Mom begrudgingly

let him stay and he was making him some eggs and he was grumbling about something and my

Mom told him, You know, those are myeggs you are eating there. Now this really set him off

and he took one of the eggs out of the carton and he threw it at her and that was the last straw

and she threw him out.

When I was thirteen, after the divorce, we bought this little house in the big city of Letha, Idaho

between Emmett and New Plymouth. I talk about Letha a lot because I made up about 2% of the

population. The dad of my best friend Wayne owned half the town and he was a poor man so that

tells you a little bit about Letha. There was a church in the town that drew members from the

surrounding area and we bought the house only about a block away from it. I was under pressure

from members to go to church and then one Easter I had felt guilty about not going so I thought I

better attend since it was a special day.

On my way there I was thinking that I had to make a decision about this church thing. Now if I

was a good guy and I do what I was supposed to do and go to church then I was to be rewarded

with heavenly bliss for all eternity. I thought that is not really a bad deal because this life here on

earth is like the snap of the finger and eternity is forever. So I reasoned to myself that I would

have a great reward for eternity which may be worth enduring the boredom of the church.


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I asked myself if I could handle the boredom because I found the church really, really boring but,

on the other hand, if it was true than it would be worth be being bored to get that eternity of

happiness. I will not tell the whole story because I told it at the last gathering but to make a long

story short I determined that it would be worth it if I could handle the boredom and I decided that

I would commit to going for six weeks and if I could handle the boredom for the six weeks then I

would go for the rest of my life. If I could not handle it then I would just be like my Dad and

party and have fun.

So I went for six weeks and I learned to handle the boredom and then I took it seriously and

started reading the scriptures. When I read the scriptures it was really an awakening because I

previously figured if the church people were boring then the scriptures were probably even more

boring. But when I read the scriptures I found them quite fascinating and then when I read the

history of the church I found that even more interesting and I thought wow these people here

have some really good history and everybody was just preaching just the standard watered-down

stuff.

So I was amazed at what the people in church seemed to be missing. Then after I started taking

the church seriously everybody said that I needed to really study the scriptures and start taking

them seriously and I said well then that is what I will do, I will read them and study them. When

I did this I found all kinds of unusual things in the scriptures that were not taught in the church.But after I took the scriptures seriously I got thrown out for studying and believing them. I got in

trouble because I read the scriptures and found things in there that was not taught in the church. I

did not get thrown out of the church for plural marriage by the way. Almost everybody who got

thrown out of the church in that day was for plural marriage or some transgression. What got me

in trouble was I discovered that there is progression from one kingdom to another in the next

world.

I wrote a little treatise on this and gave it to my nephew and I told him not to show this anybody

or it would get him in trouble and he thought that was kind of silly. He said why would this get

me in trouble? So he attends his local church and he shows it to everybody. Then the Bishop

calls him and says we are removing you from of all your jobs and we are having a trial for you

before the High Council in 3 days.


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Well I went to his trial and defended him and that led to me getting investigated and thrown out.

So basically what led to me getting thrown out of the church was writing a little seven page

treatise showing that there was progression from one kingdom to another. It was really a minor

thing to get thrown out for but it led them to questioning me and when they questioned me they

found out I believed in all kinds of strange things. They felt that they could not handle having a

guy with strange beliefs in the system. So this led to me getting thrown out of the church. What

was interesting about getting excommunicated was that Curtis and I did not break any single

rule. At that time I was paying my tithes and living the Word of Wisdom and doing everything I

was supposed to do and not breaking one single rule and I still lost my membership. I got thrown

out because of what I thought.

I did nothing wrong and obeyed all the rules and I had eight jobs in the church at the time of my

trial. I did all that I was supposed to do but when they found out what I was thinking I got thrown

out because I was not thinking correctly according to them. Now, was that right or wrong?

A lot of people would think such an action is hard to believe because the church is reluctant to

excommunicate members for regular sin. Youd just about have to rape a bishops wife to get

thrown out but if you think incorrectly, you become dangerous. You become dangerous if you

are thinking things that make sense that other people may believe.

If you rape the bishops wife then everybody realizes that it is wrong and they try and get you to

repent but if you think something out of the mainstream that makes sense which may sway other

people and may catch on, then they feel it is like a disease and they have to get rid of you

because you could pollute the whole system. The Mormon Church is not the only one with this

problem. Every system on the earth has this problemevery religion, every government, every

organization, every position of power tries to protect itself from change, from things that will

threaten and one can understand this to a degree. If you have a family and someone threatens

your family then you will do everything you can to protect them, so when you look at it logically

we cannot blame the church or the government or whoever they may be that is trying to protect

themselves from change because the first instinct as an individual or group is to protect

ourselves.


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Zion, Part 2

The desire for self-preservation is one thing that a lot of disciples dont understand in others and

this is the thing that frustrated the building of Zion in the early Mormon Church for they were athreat to the system. We have all heard the stories about the early Mormons and how they

bragged to their neighbors that they were going to take over the world somedaythat Zion was

going to be built and there would be no room for outsiders. That was a big threat and it really

alarmed non-Mormons. One thing the disciples of this age have to learn is to not present

themselves as a threat to the system or a threat to anybody.

There is a principle which is called; the principle of harmlessness and this must be learned by

the disciples of this age because the disciples of this time are different than any other age. This is

the age where we finally reach a point where we have the intelligence and the spiritual evolution

to cause the true creation of Zion. One of the reasons it will be created is because the laborers

will understand the principles of creation. They will understand the principle of harmlessness and

not present themselves as a threat to the people. That has always been the problem in the past.

Look at Jesus and the apostles back in His day. When the early Christian Church started they

killed all the apostles then they found the Christians and threw them to the lions and did

everything they could to destroy the entire Christian Church. Why? Because, Rome saw the

Christians as a threat to their system, and other religions saw them as a threat as well. In order to

create anything in this world you have to not be overly threatening to the powers that be. Now

many people are very threatening. For example, lets say a guy does not agree with the tax

system the way it is. Suppose hes going to create an anti-tax program and gather tax protesters.

What happens? Automatically the government comes after him and tries to destroy him.

That is not the way to create change. Which is more powerful; a handful of tax protesters or the

government? What is more powerfula small movement or a big movement? Every time

throughout our history the powers that be have always destroyed the saints, as it says in the

scriptures, the antichrist made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; until the Ancient

of Days comes. (Daniel 7:21-22) It is interesting that the saints will be overcome again and

again and again. Other scriptures say they will be worn down. (Dan 7:25) If you ever tried to


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build up any work of light or anything that improves society, even if you are working for a

government office and say you want to improve something in that office, you will be worn down

with opposition.

If you are working for a big company and you want to improve it you will often be worn down

and this is what the scripture saysthat the powers that be will wear out the saints of God and

this is what has happened time and time again. The last attempt to build Zion was in the days of

Joseph Smith, and this wearing down happened all over again. They attempted to build Zion and

the saints were worn out and everything changed and was altered so now nothing is as the way it

was.

Most LDS do not realize this because they do not know their own history. People that are raised

in the church today think that the way things are in the Church today is the way it was back in

the 1840s and it is not. It is totally different. For instance, in Boise a few years ago there was a

group called the Godmakers and they introduced a film. It was a strong anti-Mormon film trying

to illustrate how absurd it is that Joseph Smith said that men can become as God. This

Godmakers film centered on this idea, and they were advertising all over the place in the papers

and in the media. So I called my nephew.

We did quite a few things together at that time and I told him the scriptures and the Doctrine and

Covenants says that if anyone challenges us like this that we should confound our enemies and

challenge them to meet us in public and private and if we are in the right it says the spirit of God

will be with you to the confounding of your enemies. (D&C 71:7) I said the church is actually

breaking this commandment. It says in the D&C to confound their enemies and what were they

doing with their enemies? They were ignoring them. I said since the church was not obeying this

commandment then we ought to obey it. I said lets run an ad in the paper and we will challenge

these Godmakers to a debate.

Curtis thought that sounded like a good idea so we spent a good deal of money to put together a

nice little ad and we ran it in the major paper in Boise. We challenged anyone who believed in

the film The Godmakers to a debate on the principles that Joseph Smith taught about man

becoming god and we would discuss it from the Biblical scriptures.


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After we ran the ad we waited and we did not get one single call from any born again Christian

that read this paper but we did get some callsand you know who called us? The LDS church

authorities. They were the only ones who called and do you think they wanted to give us a pat on

the back for defending Joseph Smith? No, as a matter of fact they probably thought we were

wayward members of the church that did not understand the churchs approach. The brethren

from the church just wanted us to just lay low and let this thing pass. We told them that we were

not members of the church and we are not under their authority and we were going ahead with

this no matter what they said so they could just forget about instructing us what to do. Of course,

he did not like that answer.

So anyway I told Curtis this was amazing that we did not receive one call from the anti-

Mormons who must be a bunch of cowards. I said lets run another ad twice as big. We worded it

something like this, Two weeks ago we ran an ad challenging the people who made the film

The Godmakers or anyone that believes in the film to a debate on the principles that Joseph

Smith taught about man becoming god and there has not been one person, not one member of

any Christian congregation willing to defend his faith or his God. We virtually called them a

bunch of cowards.

(Laughter)

Well this time the phone did not remain silent. This time it rang constantly and everybody

wanted to debate us. We got calls from 12 year old kids wanting to debate us, from old men,

from housewives, from ministers We received responses from almost every state in the

United States. We just ran the ad in Boise, so how did this happen? Because people clipped out

that ad and they sent it to people they knew outside of Boise. We even got calls from famous

authors wanting to debate us.

We thought boy this is pretty good and we had a good time answering all those phone calls. So I

said to Curtis lets pick the two best ones to debate us. So we picked the two best responses. This

was about 20 years ago that we did this. Anyway one was from a guy named Dick Hunt, and at

the time he had sold millions of books so he was a well-established Christian author and at the

time I think he had the number one selling Christian book in the country. He wrote us back and

said he had gotten several letters saying that you wanted to debate me about Joseph Smith out


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of the Bible. Is this is a Joke? He did not thinkit was possible to defend Joseph Smith out of the

Bible.

So he said if it is not a joke he would debate us so we contacted him and informed him it was not

a joke and we were willing to debate him. The other guy was Wally Tope. He was a famous anti-

Mormon guy and he was totally against the church and whenever a temple opened he would visit

the area and pass out anti-Mormon literature. He traveled from temple to temple and he was

perhaps the most famous and notorious anti-Mormon guy and was totally focused.

So we picked these two guys and the local Christians were very enthused about this because they

thought we were going to be totally humiliated. The Christian community picked up the ball and

they did all the advertising and rented a big ballroom at Boise State University and arranged for

us to be on the radio. They encouraged their congregations to see this debate. You would think

the Mormons would have been interested in this but the Mormon authorities from Salt Lake City

issued a command to the local people and it circulated all throughout the local regions that no

Mormon was supposed to attend this debate. They were just supposed to ignore us hoping we

will go away.

So when the big day came we went into the big auditorium and the only Mormons that were

there were Curtis Mom and Dad who reluctantly came to support their son. I think there were

about 1300 people there and the place was full and there were only two Mormons in the whole

audience to see a defense of Joseph Smith. This is kind of sad really.

What was funny about this event though was whenever Wally Tope and Dick Hunt got up and

shouted that Jesus is Lord and God, Hallelujahthe audience would rise up and repeat this and

scream with approval. Then we would take our turn speaking and they would boo us. It was like

Daniel in the lions den. I never felt so much negativity in my life. We were lucky to get out of

there alive. (Chuckling) My friend Wayne came and another friend of mine came that was not a

Mormon. I think we had about six people supporting us, and the rest of the 1300 people thought

we had been belched right out of hell.

So it was a pretty interesting debate but we held our own. I made the mistake of over preparing. I

dont usually prepare when I make a speech but I prepared for that one because I thought it was


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important. The first segment of the debate I felt like I was not impacting anyone and then the

second segment I threw away my notes and just talked off the cuff and this worked out a lot

better. But what was interesting was that we were the ones who used the scriptures and they

hardly used any scriptures. They just rambled on about Jesus being lord and the audience cheered

them along. They did not really have any good points in the debate but because they kept

touching on what the audience believed in they had the audience on their side. If you listened to

the audience you would really think that they won the debate and they were convinced they won

because a good portion of their debate consisted of them shouting Christian catch phrases and the

1300 standard Christians in the audience cheering completely overwhelming our six supporters.

The cacophony made it sound like they were winning but if you listened to the words then we

won the debate of reason. It was an interesting experience.


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Zion, Part 3

As we continue the discussion of Zion I am going to read you one interesting scripture, D&C 84

verses 4 thru 5,

Verily this is the word of the Lord, that the city New Jerusalem shall be built by the gathering of

the saints, beginning at this place, even the place of the temple, which temple shall be reared in

this generation. For verily this generation shall not all pass away until an house shall be built

unto the Lord, and a cloud shall rest upon it, which cloud shall be even the glory of the Lord,

which shall fill the house.

If I remember right this was given in early 1832 and a generation is usually about 40 years or so.

It has been quite a long time since then and there has been no temple built. Why is that? Now

this was supposed to be the beginning of the creation of Zion, the building of the temple and it

was supposed to have been built within a generation, an ironclad prophecy written there. First of

all, did the prophecy come true or did it not come true? How does the Mormon Church explain

this? The church explains it saying that a generation can be like a generation of the church or an

era of time, which could last thousands of years.

The church used to have a different interpretation. The early apostle, Orson Pratt, interpreted it asa regular generation and expected many in his day to live to see the temple built. It was not built

and everybody that heard this prophecy is now dead. To say a generation is like a generation of

the church or a dispensation is really stretching it. We have to face the facts that this prophecy

was expected to come true but it did not come true. Does this mean that this prophecy did or did

not come from a higher power? You would think that if it failed then it did not come from a

higher power but let me tell you something about prophecy. The future is never written in stone.

Now we go back to the days of the Bible and we can read those scriptures and of course the

scribes that wrote the Bible only recorded the prophecies that came true. We do not hear about

the ones that did not come true because they did not even record them. Now lets look at our

modern day times. We have all types of people making prophecies, religious, spiritual, psychic


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people like Edgar Casey, Nostradamus, and so on. Has anyone in recorded history made

predictions that have been 100% accurate? The answer is no. Did Jesus?

Let me tell you a prophecy that Jesus made that did not come true. Do you remember that Jesus

was talking about the temple and He said that there would not be one stone left upon another in

the temple? Did that come true? Have you ever heard of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem? That is a

piece of the temple where there is still one stone upon another. There are seven layers above

ground and 17 below ground that have been intact since the days of Jesus. So even that prophecy

spoken by the Master Himself did not come 100% true. Interesting, is it not?

So this is the secret about prophecy that there is no person on the earth and not even God, no life

form anywhere can predict everything that is going to happen. Now all the believers will say that

is wrong. If I snap my fingers then they are saying that God knew a million years ago that I was

going to do this at this time. Well the big question I have is why in the world would God even

want to know that? Why would He want fill His universal mind with such clutter and trivial

detail? Who would want to fill their mind with such clutter?

I used to think that if I could memorize the whole encyclopedia that I would really be smart but

when I learned what true intelligence was I found out that was not true at all. A person with true

intelligence does not fill his mind with a bunch of clutter. Why do you think we forget? We

forget things to void our mind of clutter because if we didnt forget things we would have so

much data in our mind that we would not be able to think creatively.

You have heard about the absent minded professorthe great thinkers are absent minded and

because they are kind of absent in their mind they can get rid of all the clutter and then they can

really think creatively. When Einstein went for walks he would sometimes have his mind so

blank that he would show up somewhere and he would say where am I? He did not know where

he was and did not how to find his way home because he was so into what he was thinking that

the world out there did not even exist and so he would wind up somewhere and not know where

he was.

Many of the great thinkers in history have been this way and they have often been criticized for

being absent minded. I am absent minded myself and I did a paper on it in college to try and


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figure out the cure for it and after doing lots of research and writing this paper the best advice I

could find was from a guy that did research on it. He said the best thing that you can do is just

get a good secretary. I thought you know that is probably right, that would relieve me of this

absent-mindedness that I have and I concluded that the guy was on the right track.

It is impossible to predict the future beyond a certain point. What is predictable is if a highly

intelligent being makes a firm decision and then decides to bring that decision to pass. If we have

one of the gods or one of the masters making a decision and he wants to bring the decision to

pass then he can make an accurate prophecy about that. If I say I am going to walk over and give

Artie a kiss then I can predict that because it is under my power and I have committed myself to

do it. I can predict it and can fulfill it, and now I am a true prophet. This is how the great lives

that have worked through the prophets have made their prophecies come to pass because they

have made decisions and they have told the prophets what their decisions are and then they have

made their decisions come to pass.

But as far as events occurring in the normal stream of things because human free will is involved

it is impossible to predict the future with 100% accuracy. So the fact that it was predicted that a

temple would be built in this generation does not mean that it was not inspired, what it means is

that it was supposed to be but it did not happen. The Master that was working with Joseph Smith

anticipated this to happen but it did not happen.

Just before Joseph was killed he had a warrant out for his arrest and he was pacing the floor

wondering what to do because he was telling the people, if I am arrested one more time I will be

killed or else I am not a true prophet. He had a very strong feeling about this. He had a warrant

out for his arrest and even though he had been arrested many times he had a strong feeling that if

he was arrested one more time that he would be killed so he was pacing the floor trying to think

of a solution.

As he was pacing the floor his scribe made note that all of a sudden he stopped and his face lit up

and he said, I know what to do I have just received a revelation from God. He said, I will

take a small group and go west to Oregon territory and there we will build the kingdom again.

We all know the story that he started to do that and then he received a letter from his wife saying

that everyone was calling him a coward that he was the Sheppard that has left his flock to the


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wolves. Come back, they pleaded. He said to his brother if I come back then we will be killed.

His brother said, We have faced this many times and we have some out of it and we will come

out of it again. And Joseph said, No, we will not this time, we will be slaughtered if we go

back. This was his biggest test in his life. For most of us our biggest test is around facing death

but Josephs big test was the opposite: facing life. In other words, his big test was whether or not

to live not whether or not to die. He was more afraid of being called a coward than he was of

death and as a matter of fact he was almost looking forward to it because he was so tired of the

trials he faced.

So rather than face being called a coward he would return and what really put the pressure on

him was that his brother told him if you do not go back and face arrest then he would go back

alone. Imagine his brother going back facing death making Joseph look like a coward. So rather

than being called a coward he went back but in going back he disobeyed the revelation because

the revelation told him to go to Oregon.

In going back he failed an initiation which in esoteric writings is called the fourth initiation

which is the same initiation that Abraham took and Jesus took in the garden of Gethsemane

where He had to sacrifice everything. The greatest possible sacrifice in Josephs mind was to be

labeled a coward by his people. We have to realize he was acknowledged as great hero

throughout his entire life and to be seen as a great coward was something that he just could nothandle. So rather than obey the revelation he went back to die to avoid being called a coward.

If he would have lived then the temple would have been built but there was no way for the

Powers-That-Be could have predicted what his decision would be at that point. He had certain

keys to building Zion that Brigham Young did not have. He had certain visions that the other

brethren did not have; he had the knowledge and will that could have established Zion. So the

temple was not built in that generation because the prophet that was supposed to build it was

killed. He was killed because he disobeyed the revelation from God to go out west and begin the

kingdom anew. If he would have went out west he would have created a kingdom that would

have been quite a bit different than what Brigham Young created and then he would have went

back with power and acquired the lands taken from them and built the temple within a

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Audience: What historical book can this be found in?

JJ: The revelation to go west was one of the biographies of him and I think it was the one by

Donna Hill,Joseph Smith, the first Mormon.

Audience: It was also in Michael Quinns book, Origins of Power.

JJ: Esoteric writings call our great teachers white magicians and they are in danger of being

drowned by the waters. The waters are emotion and this causes problems many times. When

Joseph said that his life is worth nothing to him if it is worth nothing to his friends, the waters of

emotion drowned him. When the great test comes to the disciple, the test which is sometimes

called the test of Abraham, or the test of the crucifixion, he has to be ready to sacrifice

everything that he holds dear and let everything go. This is beyond a seekers comprehensionwhat this will be. But in order to create a great work that will remain, a person has to pass this

test, and Joseph Smith did not quite pass it. Because he did not pass it, the temple was never built

and the church was not put on the secure foundation that it needed to be and it turned out to be a

regular church today and is not much different than other Christian churches of today if you take

out several of the doctrines.


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Zion, Part 4

Now lets lookat the Mormon doctrines of today. They think they have a lot of knowledge that

goes way beyond every other religion. And they do have a little bit, but what is that little bit?Number one they believe we have a pre-mortal existence. Okay it does not take long to preach

that idea. They also believe that instead of just a heaven and hell that there are several kingdoms

of glory. But basically they still believe in a heaven and hell. The hell consists of the sons of

perdition and the spirits in prison and then you have the three heavens, so it is still a basic duality

thing but you have several places to go. But as far as what we are going to do in the next world,

it is still not much clearer than in a Baptist church or any place else. They say we are going to

have our families around us and we will be happy. They do not know what all it is going to be

involved but it is going to be great.

The Baptists say pretty much the same thing. We are going to be in heaven but they are not sure

what we are going to be doing there, maybe play a few harps and sing praises but it is going to be

fun whatever it is. There will be bliss for all eternity. As far as what is going to transpire in this

eternal life the Mormons do not have much more knowledge than anybody else. The Mormons

do have a little more common sense than the average believer though. For instance, they accept

the fact that the Bible had errors in translations and errors probably crept in the text. The born

again people figure that it is perfect just the way it is so the Mormons are just a little ahead there.

You can take the half a dozen extra truths the Mormons have and one can you can teach them in

about 15 minutes. So, one can say the Mormons have about 15 minutes worth of knowledge the

other religions do not have.

Audience: They have the teaching of the saving ordinances.

JJ: Okay, they have the teaching of the saving ordinances, but lets look at a teaching of Joseph

Smith on these powers. Joseph Smith said If there is a beginning then there will be an end The

only way there can be no end is if there is no beginning. He says if there is a beginning as God

lives there will be an end. Now people in the church believe that there is a beginning to getting

their priesthood but a priesthood is supposed to have no end. Now Joseph Smith said if there is a

beginning then there is an end, so something is wrong here. So what is the true mystery behind


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it? The true mystery is actually given in the scriptures. They say that the priesthood is the key to

the knowledge of God. That is what the priesthood is. It does not say the priesthood is given to

you and there is a beginning to it. The truth is that you have always had the priesthood but there

is a beginning to your ordination. Your ordination is merely to stimulate your recognition of

authority that you already have and have always had from eternity because you have always been

a god and will always be a god because you are one with God. If there is a beginning to your

being a god that means there is going to be an end to your being a god and if there is no end to

you being a son of God that means you have always been a son of God and you always will be a

son of God.

Using Joseph Smiths logic (and he was so sure of this that he said it was a true as God lives)

if there is a beginning there will be an end. The ordinances are symbolsthey are symbols to

stimulate recognition within us of things that are true. He says that we can only be saved by these

ordinances, which means until we recognize the truth behind them, we cannot be saved but the

physical ordinances in themselves have no power. He even says in the Doctrine and Covenants, I

believe it is section 22; it says though a man be baptized a hundred times it means nothing.

He says we are not saved by dead works and he calls baptism a dead work. It is the meaning

behind the baptism that moves us forward in our progression not the baptism itself, because we

can be baptized a hundred times and it will mean nothing. He calls it a dead work but these deadworks are given to us, it says because that is our mentality and it is a little bit like when Moses

came down with the higher commandments and the Israelites were not ready so he gives them

the lower commandments which were the dead works but the dead works prepares us to

recognize what is within.

The scriptures tell us again and again that, that which is within is what is important. The

kingdom of God is within you. The church is a little bit like a kindergarten to prepare us for real

learning and it is also a little like the situation with the carnal commandments in the days of

Moses. This was a kindergarten to prepare them for the true message of Christ, and we still are

not ready for the true message of Christ so the D&C tells us that we must be given dead works to

move us forward and to motivate us until we come to the true living works. The true living

works requires no outward ordinances at all.


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When Jesus was in Palestine He had no outward ordinances given to Him at all, He went through

no temple ordinances. His whole work was all within Him and He was like us. The scriptures say

we are to be one with Christ just like Christ is one with His God. The reason He had power is

because He was one with His Father. If we follow the footsteps of Christ all the physical

ordinances can be bypassed unless we want to accept them to fulfill righteousness as he did with

baptism.

But the physical ordinances are important to us for one purpose as we journey on our path. The

outward ordinances speak to the inner soul in a language that our inner self understands that our

outer self does not understand. The angel world understands symbols a lot better than us and they

communicate by the use of symbols and this is why the prophets have often instituted symbols.

The invisible lives see those symbols and they understand their meaning and it draws their help

and influences them.

Getting back to the prophecy We have to face the fact the prophecy of building the temple did

not come true but that does not mean that it was not inspired because many things have been

inspired that have not come true. Many of the greatest lives, the masters, the prophets if we could

have all their words we would find out that even the greatest prophets have said a lot of things

that did not come true. I would say about 60% of Joseph Smiths prophecies have come true. A

lot of them did not and you dont find the failed ones in the church books. If you look at all thethings he said probably about 60% of what he predicted came true and about 40% did not. But

that is a lot better than most of predictors.

I would guess Edgar Casey is the other way around, 30-40% of his came true but most of them

did not. According to Casey Atlantis was supposed to rise up in 1972 and we have not seen it

yet. Joseph Smith was one of the most accurate prophets in our history and the fact the he was

close to about 60% accuracy is very good because if anybody gets over 50% than they are

usually getting their information from some higher source.

If we have the mindset that a prophet is going to be 100% accurate then we are going to be let

down every single time. Followers make up lots of excuses like they do now in the churches. But

if we understand that unless it something is tightly under the control of the one who is making


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the prophecy then future events are malleable because of free will. Free will throws a wrench in

the equation so that we cannot predict things 100%.

It is expected by the masters that we can enter into a new age and have 1000 years where there is

peace and prosperity but it may not happen and it is not 100% sure. We could have a religious

war rise up; we could have all kinds of things happen with terrorism or have a nuclear bomb

exploded in New York or Washington DC. There are lots of unpredictable things, so we have to

be on guard to make sure that we can sail smoothly into this new age of peace. One of the

biggest dangers that we have is that the religious folk think it is all up to God. Well if you see a

guy starving on the side of the road and you said, well it is up to God as to whether you get fed

or not and you move on and the guy starves to death then is it Gods fault or is it your fault?

It is up to us and this reminds me of the movie Oh God. George Burns, as God, appears to

John Denver and John says, Well God when are you are going to make things right? And God

(George Burns) says That is your responsibility. And Denver says, Our responsibility?! I

thought it was your responsibility. This was like a great awakening for John Denver. I thought,

that is a great truth to be taught in this moviethat it is our responsibility to make sure we are

ushered into an age of peace and we do what is necessary to make good things happen.

If you just think it is in Gods hands then what we are doing is releasing ourselves from power

and who assumes the power? People like the terrorists, people with bad intentions, will assume

the power because when we relinquish the power of decision then we are not giving it to God,

we are just giving it to a lower level person than ourselves. People with fewer good intentions

than ourselves then take the reins with a decision that we gave up. We must be vigilante just like

they say, Freedom is not free, freedom must be won by eternal vigilance. We cant just sit back

and say freedom is our right and God is going to give it to us forever. It must be won with eternal

vigilance and eternal vigilance must also ensure a principle which is called the dominating good.

Good must always dominate but good only dominates because intelligent people of good will

come forward and throw their energy behind that which is constructive. The average person has

more good in them than bad. The average person wants good things to happen and if the average

person comes forward and does his part then the world will make uniform progress toward peace

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Zion, Part 5

JJ: What is Zion?

Audience: Isnt it a state of being pure of heart?

JJ: Right the scripture states that Zion is the pure in heart. Where are the pure in heart? The pure

in heart are everywherethey are scattered all over the world. Does that mean that Zion is here

now?

Sterling: A couple of weeks ago in a class I was attending at Susans home the topic of our

discussion was What is Zion? For a couple hours we talked about basically the pure in heart

but to me the thing that stuck out was that it is not based on a religious precept or particular

denominational upbringing. We felt that the pure in heart had to do with doing the best with what

you know, living true to what you have, and that is what makes a pure heart and that is what

makes a Zion society. It does not matter that everyone believes the same way or that everyone

has been brought up a certain way and is living all the commandments. It is that they are living

true to the highest that they know and that does not exclude anyone because anyone can and

should live true to what they have. You can take any society or culture and cross section of

society and they can live true to that and this is what we came up with.

JJ: That was good and you just about answered my next question, which is, what is Zion? So if

Zion is the pure in heart and the pure in heart are scattered throughout the whole world then what

does it mean to build Zion? Isnt Zion already built? The pure in heart have not been translated

yet and they are still here.

Now Sterling was talking about what it means to be pure in heart. What does it mean to build

Zion then, if the pure in heart are already here? I am sure there are some who are pure in heart

right here. Okay it says Zion is the pure in heart but there is one more important ingredient to

building Zion and it is in all the scriptures and it is talked more about in the Bible than any other

subject but nobody ever teaches about it in church. What is the important ingredient needed to

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Zion is the pure in heart in a gathered condition as it is taught in the scriptures. The scriptures

speak of the woman who is the true Church of Zion and flees into the wilderness several times.

This is the situation of Zion or the Church of God right now; it has fled into the wilderness. The

pure in heart are scattered into the wilderness of this worldthey are scattered here and there

and just about everywhere, and so the church of Zion exists but it is in the wilderness. But the

time has come to bring Zion out of the wilderness and when it is out of the wilderness then we

have Zion in the gathered condition. When they are in the gathered condition then magical things

begin to happen and you will have the creation of a physical entity; which one could call Zion.

Now the question is how do we identify the pure in heart? Sterling answered my question in

advance to some degree. He said it is people living by the highest they know and there is much to

be said for that. But first of all lets talk about the word pure. What does it mean if something is

pure? If you have pure gold then what do you have? You have no impurities with it, right? If you

have a person that is pure in heart then how would you correspond that to gold? Because often

times in the scriptures the pure in heart, the saints of God, are compared to gold. It says I will

refine my saints with refiners fire as gold is refined in the furnace so to speak.

Sterling from the audience: I think the concept of perfection in the LDS background to achieve

perfection is really unachievable because you have to keep all the commandments all the time

and just one thought that is inappropriate disqualifies you so we get to this point of perfection inthe Mormon culture is absolutely making no mistakes what so ever. For me personally, I love

doing word puzzles and such. Now my name is Sterling and Sterling in the British culture is a

silver. It stands for their money which is 92.5% silver and 7.5% copper, and in an academic

culture 92.5% is just squeaking into A. Anything below that is an A minus which is still pretty

good. Actually, the numbers for Messiah in Hebrew comes to 925 so there is a correlation there

that there is a principle of Messiah and 92.5. The British Sterling idea is you do not have to be

100% to be pure. I like that because that is a lot more achievable and I was a straight A student in

high school and I know how hard it is. And sometimes you grease the wheels of a teacher and

sometimes you get the A but to get 100% is not achievable and so it is really not practical.

JJ: There is relative perfection which is possible and absolute perfection can never be achieved.

Lets talk about the ramifications of the pure of heart. If you have pure water what do you have


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in it? Do you have salt in it? Do you have dirt in it? Do you have minerals in it? No. You only

have pure water?

So what does it mean to be pure in heart and why the heart? The reason for the heart in finding

the inhabitants of Zion is that the heart is a doorway to the soul. The heart is that energy between

spirit and matter and it is the doorway that opens up to the higher worlds of spirit so that we can

contact higher beings such as the angelic world, the world of the Masters, the Christ and above.

It is all connected to opening the doorway to the soul and the door of the soul is found in the

heart.

Now in order to have a pure heart there has to be nothing in the way of the door of the soul and

the heart in your consciousness. Anything in the way produces impurity in the heart. What

produces impurity in the heart? The biggest thing that produces impurity in the heart are those

who take the place of God who speaks to the heart. Those who speak to the heart and say listen

to me I have the commandments of God and listen to what I say. We listen and give credibility to

what they say above what we hear from the door of the heart.

When we listen to what is outside our heart and it interferes when listening to the doorway of the

soul then we have the impurities of the heart. So the pure in heart are those whose consciousness

finds the kingdom of God within and they open the doorway to God which is in the deepest

recesses in your heart. You open that door and then you can communicate with the spirit of God

directly without any prophet, priest, king or anyone claiming a position of authority.

When anyone out there whether it be a prophet or Jesus himself; whether it be an angel or a

being in light that says he is god, no matter who it isif somebody out there is interfering with

your communication within and tells you something different you are in danger of corruption. It

is as Paul sayshe says whether it be himself or an angel from heaven, if it teaches any other

gospel than that which he taught, do not believe it. In other words any other gospel than that

which is not verified through the heart should not be accepted it unless it vibrates with the heart

energy. If it interferes with that heart energy and you pay attention to that interference and let

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To make your heart pure you have to disregard all the static that is out there because there is a lot

of static out there. Where does the static come from? It comes from religious authorities to a

great degree in all religions. It comes from a lot of the ads on television, it comes from all the

things that try to lower our mind from the world of spirit to the lower world of carnal thought, all

the things that distract us from the spiritual world, from the kingdom of God within. These

distractions produce static and if we pay attention to that outside static then we cannot tune in to

the purity of the heart.

We must tune out all the static as if a radio receiver is in your heart and you turn down all the

outside voices, turn them down lower and lower until they no longer exist and then you go to that

doorway in the heart and it opens up to the world of spirit. When it opens up to the world of

spirit you will have contact with what we call the Oneness Principle. The oneness principle is a

spiritual Internet that can be approached through the doorway of the heart through the soul by

what we call soul contact.

Soul contact allows you to contact all the higher worlds. There are many different levels and if

there is one thing the Mormon Church has taught that is correct is that there is more than one

higher kingdom. On the other hand, there are many more than the three of which they teach.

There are many different variations of energy and contact that is available out there but they are

only available if we tune down the static. So imagine you have a radio receiver in your heart.

Now imagine you have a radio station tuned into your heart and you have it turned on and you

are listening to this station that is giving you all kinds of spiritual uplifting messages. But now

you have some static, A guy over here is making a bunch of noise and somebody over there is

making even more noise and you have a guy over here trying to tell you what to do and you have

someone over here trying to tell you what to do and if you listen to them all then you are not

going to hear your radio station which is a still small voice. It is easy to drown out because it is

still and it is small and sometimes you have a hard time believing it is there. Have you ever been

working away and you hear a radio three rooms away turned down real low and you wonder is

that radio playing or am I imagining it? After a while you go to that room and you see that it was

on and just turned down real low and you thought you were imagining it but now you see that


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you were not imagining it and you really were hearing something. Even so it is with the still

small voice.

In your heart is that still small voice and it is easy to drown out because you have all these

outward voices telling you what to do and what to believe. These noises will overwhelm it and

bring with it impurity in the heart circulation. The ones who are pure in heart are those who are

able to tune out all those outward voices, even if it be mine and even if it be my wifes which is

really hard to tune out sometimes (chuckling) even if it be your spouse, even if it be your most

beloved teacher. You have to tune everything out in order to hear the still small voice within.

I may say some really good stuff and I may say the same thing that your still small voice within

is saying but you will not know it until you tune everything out along with me and listen for

yourself. When you listen for yourself and you hear the same thing that I am saying then you can

say, he is right but I know he is right not because he says it, but because I hear it vibrating within

myself. Or you could say that I am wrong because of the voice, but this is how you will know

that anyone is correct. If two people speaking and communicating and both of them listening to

the voice at the same time and tuning out everything else they will have a very powerful spiritual

experience together.

Like it says, where there are two or more gathered in my name there I am in the midst of them

and He is in the midst of them because they are hearing the same thing at the same time and

tuned into the same station to the same upper worlds of contact. There is a spiritual Internet out

there. Now on the Internet you can find just about anything these days which is great if you want

to know about some type of flower or unusual fact, All you have to do is type in the name on

Google and it gives you about 110,000 pages of information on it which is amazing. Well the

spiritual Internet is a bit like that. You can find anything you want to know.

The language of the Holy Spirit is the language of principles and it does not deal with data.

When you can understand the principle then you can understand the data behind that principle.

The Holy Spirit is the language of principles and when you understand a principle then you

understand the whole concept about something. This is why the higher lives can communicate in

a minute what may take us years because they communicate with the language of principles so


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they can understand so much more than we can so much more quickly because their

communication level is on such a higher level.


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Zion, Part 6

The pure in heart are basically those hearts who are uncorrupted by outside influences; in other

words, except ye become as a little child than ye shall not enter into the kingdom of God. Andwhy is that? Because the child has an uncorrupted heart and a childs heart is not corrupted by

anything until somebody arrives and becomes his outside god. So what we have to do is become

like a child to that extent.

People take this the wrong way and think that we should be kind of uneducated and ignorant that

we should become a child in that way. There is nothing wrong with becoming educated and

learning. To be like a child in the right way is to have that attitude that all things are possible and

that everything that you are saying may or may not be true, to be receptive to whatever is taught.

If I were to give this same lecture in the local church the reception would be entirely different

and many people would get up and walk away when I was ten minutes into a presentation like

this because their heart is not receptive to all possibilities. They are only receptive to what has

been established by an outward authority. They are not looking toward the inner authority for the

outward authority is so difficult to master. It must be overcome to build Zion because we cannot

gather the pure in heart unless there are pure in heart available.

You can become pure in heart by overcoming the mark of the beast and what is the mark of the

beast? The mark of the beast is not what you have been told in all the religious literature. The

mark of the beast is not an actual physical mark that is put on your right hand. Did you know that

Hitler put a mark on the left hand of all the Jews? Why do you suppose he did that? Because a lot

of people thought that he was the beast and so he said, Well I will fool them and put a mark on

the left hand.

So he put a mark on all the Jews left hand and he put a Nazi Swastika on the left arm of his

followers so the Nazi sign would not be on the right hand or arm and no one would associate him

with using the mark of the beast. I found this to be quite interesting because he was the epitome

of the beast and history illustrates that he tried to get out of being the beast by creating an

illusion. But the funny thing is he was escaping something that was not really the mark of the


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beast. The mark of the beast is not a little mark on your right hand or your forehead. In

Revelation chapter 14 it talks about people who escape the mark of the beast which are the

144,000 that follow the Christ wherever He goeth and these people had a mark in their

forehead that was different from the mark of the beast in the forehead. Does anyone remember

what was that mark in the forehead of those who followed the Christ?

The name of GOD in their forehead was the mark of those who escaped the mark of the beast.

What does that mean? Why would the name of GOD in your forehead allow you to escape the

mark of the beast?

When you understand what the mark of the beast is the scriptures make perfect sense. I have

written a treatise on this and you can look it up online. I will just cover the basics here and you

can read more online. The right hand symbolizes labor and the forehead symbolizes thought.

Now part of the reason he is called the beast is because those who follow him are herded like

animals. An animal does not reason and it is herded and it has to go where directed and it has no

choice in the matter. It just accepts the master, the shepherd, the herder or whoever it is that is

controlling and he has to go where he is told and produce what he is told to produce and has no

choice in the matter.

Those who have the mark of the beast on the right hand, which symbolizes labor, are those who

work for some authority because they are told to do it. They do not think about disobeying and

they work because they are told. Now this happens in religion, government, politics, medicine,

and Unions. This blind following appears in organizations all over the world. In other words if

somebody tells you that you must do a certain type of labor, you do the labor right or wrong.

This is what the beastly follower must do to be approved by God, by the government, to be

approved by the American Medical Association, to be approved by legal organizations, this is

what you must do for your labor and the authority that tells them to do it is what I call an

unproven, unearned authority, an unjust authority.

There are two types ofauthorities. To illustrate, lets pick an authority teaching Spanish. When

an authority speaks Spanish or a teacher is going to teach Spanish, they say I am an authority and

I am going to teach you Spanish. Now the wise student will test the teacher and listen to him


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speak some Spanish to prove that he is good at it. So the teacher brings a Spanish book and

speaks in Spanish to the student who realizes he can speak Spanish really well, no accent or

anything.

Okay so the teacher has proven that he can do it. Now another Spanish teacher cannot really

speak it very good and the student says prove to me you can speak Spanish and the teacher says

how dare you challenge me, I have credentials and I can speak Spanish as well as anyone and I

do not need to prove it. You just sit there and obey and I will teach the class.

This is an unearned authority, he has not proven he can speak Spanish and he has not proven he

can teach it. The first is a just authority and the second is an unjust authority. One is an earned

authority and the other is an unearned authority. In the system of the beast one does not have to

earn his authority, he is just granted it. He is granted it and because he is in a system where the

authority is recognized and we are supposed to obey without question. How many times has just

a regular member of the church, for instance, studied the scriptures and he thinks, I wonder what

the prophet thinks of this?

Or he wonders if the bishop realizes this or what the stake president thinks. Maybe a student

reads something in a school textbook and wants the physics teacher to approve the theory of

relativity? It is quite possible that they do not understand it as well as you do and that you are a

better authority than they are.

If leaders are unearned authorities and you feel an obligation to follow them then you have the

mark of the beast on the right hand. So what is the mark of the beast on the forehead? The

forehead symbolizes thinking.

This reminds me of a friend of mine. Curtis and I were talking to him some years ago and we

asked him what he thought about a certain thing out of the scriptures and he says I do not know

what I think and I will go and talk to my bishop and find out what I think. We thought this funny,

but the sad thing about this is that it is true and many people will say I do not know what I think

and I will talk to the authorities and find out what I am supposed to think about that. Now if you

have this attitude then you have the mark of the beast in the forehead. If you are a member of the

Democrat or Republican Party and you say well I will just go ahead with this because my party


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believes it. If you are not really thinking it out for yourself but just going ahead because your

party believes it or because somebody else tells you or go along with it because everybody else is

going along with it then you have the mark of the beast in the forehead.

If you come across some herbs or something that may help somebody with their health issues

and some association or the American Medical Association or whatever association they belong

to whether it be your doctor, local hospital, or some group tells you, no you cannot use these then

the person has the mark of the beast in his forehead and right hand. He cannot think about

following the highest be knows because he is told that he cannot maintain his status if he

recommends these oddball healing methods. An unjust authority controls him and he has the

mark of the beast in the forehead and the right hand.

In order to become pure in heart, one must escape the mark of the beast. His only infallible

authority is his soul and it is found in the doorway to the heart and also connected to the mind.

As the revelation says in the Doctrine & Covenants, Behold I will reveal to you in your heart

and in your mind. The heart is the doorway to the soul that must be opened leading to the higher

mind to all kinds of revelations that you can receive without the static from the beast that is out

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Zion, Part 7

Now, Revelation 13 is all about the beast but then we switch to the next chapter, Revelation 14.

This tells us about those who escaped the beast, the 144,000, a symbolic number but not theultimate number. Everybody on earth can be part of that number if they want to for the number

has different shades of meaning that we do not have time to go into right now. But lets just

establish that it is not a limiting number.

The 144,000 have the name of GOD in their forehead and what does that mean? If the name of

GOD is in your forehead then where is God? Where is God for you then if His name is in your

forehead?

God is within your forehead and within your heart. Those who recognize the name of God in

themselves recognize that they are a part of God and that they are an extension of God. God

created man in the beginning after His image. The words in the image of come from the

Hebrew BTselem, which designates an exact duplication. So we are not just a part of God but

an extension, a total duplicate of God. Everything that belongs to God is available to us in our

forehead by looking within.

The kingdom of God is within you. When we look within and find that our name is reallyGods name because we are an extension of God and made in the image of God we are a

reflection of God. In the beginning God created man by reflecting Himself. Have you ever

looked in two mirrors where one is placed in front of you and one placed in back of you and

what you see is an infinite reflection? You are like a reflection of God and there are all kinds of

reflections of God walking about and each one of us has all the potential that is in God. The

potential that is in God is within us. That is why earlier when we were talking about somebody

starving over here and he is praying to God for somebody to help and if you stop and help him

then he is going to thank God but who should he really be thanking? You as one of the

reflections of God acted as one of the thoughts of God helping one of the other thoughts of God

along the path. Now without one of us doing anything then the guy would not have got help and

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When you help this starving guy, the guy he will be thanking God but it is really you who are

helping through God that fed him and kept him alive so that he could move a little farther along

the path. We have to establish this purity, the name of God is already in you and even if a person

follows the beast 100% he still has the name of God in him, it is just that the outer name is the

beasts name, the inner name is the name of God and we must find Gods name within us.

When we do find Gods name within us then all the powers of the beast fades away and will

have absolutely no power over that person from that moment on. The outward authorities can be

many different things, prophet, priest, king, political leader, a book or even the Bible itself or

even Jesus Himself if He were here could be a beast to us if we accepted Him in the wrong way.

A man came up to Jesus one time and said, Good Master tell me this thing, and Jesus said, do

not call me good for there is only One that is good and that is God. Now why did Jesus say this?

Because He did not want that person to look upon His physical form as God, He wanted that man

to reflect back upon the inner God within and this is why Jesus told him that there are none that

is good but God. And where is God? God is within. Even if Jesus were right here in this spot we

may not be able to find the good by looking upon him. After all, when He was crucified He only

had 120 followers. Everybody else thought He was a rebel or reprobate or evil or the devil

himself. They did not see the good there because the only way they could see the good in Him

was to see the good in the God within themselves. When they see God in themselves then theywill see the name of God is in your forehead and if you want that which is true then you look

within for verification.

One principle I teach is that you look on the outward world for stimulation and what I am

teaching you right now is stimulation but you look within to verify. Look without for stimulation

and look within to verify what makes sense and what does not make sense. Look within to verify

what is true and what is not true.

What I am conveying here is that it is not a waste of time trying to stimulate everybody. You

throw out a lot ideas and principles but a listener will never know if they are true or not until he

finds the name of God within his forehead and within his heart. We must verify from within and

when you get that verification from within you can know for absolute surety that you are on the

right track. You may not know for an absolute surety that you have the whole picture because we


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dont get the whole picture at one time, we get a piece at a time. We know inwardly when we

have the right piece and we are moving in the right direction and that is the most important thing

to know.

We will not see the whole picture for a long time to come, but the important thing is to get that

next piece of the puzzle and when you get that next piece of the puzzle it just feels truly right.

How many times have you done something in your life that a lot of people thought was wrong

for you but it just felt really right even though it may not have made a lot of sense? That was

your piece to your puzzle and in hindsight you may not understand it completely but you found

out something and it led you to your next step. Often times your next step may not be one that

the world sees as a logical step. If it is verified from within, it is going to be right and it will get

you somewhere and eventually it will take you to a greater light at the end of the tunnel.

We must take that next step but a lot of people in this world just dont know where it is, whether

it be in the church or out of the church. There are a tremendous number of people that just do not

know what their next step is. They are just reaching for it then they fall back on some authority

and that authority says, I know what you need to do and this is your next step. When they let

somebody else dictate that next step then they have the mark of the beast on their right hand and

in their forehead. We must free ourselves from that mark and go within and get the verification

there.

This is exemplified in the parable of the ten virgins. Five are wise and five are foolish. The wise

virgins had oil in their lamps and trimmed and were all ready to go and the five foolish virgins

just had a little bit of oil in their lamps and they did not have enough to travel along the dark path

to meet the bridegroom.

Then the bell rang and the bridegroom came at an unexpected hour and the five that were foolish

said to the five that were wise, share with us your oil so that we can have enough to meet the

bridegroom. The five wise virgins said if they share their oil then none of them will make it

because they will not have enough oil for all. The wise virgins realized they were better off to

take their oil and meet the bridegroom and said to the foolish, Now go to those that sell and buy

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Those that sell are the beastly authorities that sell you the supposed words of God and for your

money they will tell you what to do. Those who are wise have the oil within. It even says this in

the Doctrine & Covenants, explaining that parable, that the oil is the Spirit of God within. The oil

is the Spirit of the lamp that burns withinwithin the heart and within the mind. The wise

virgins are those that have enough oil in their inner lamps so they do not borrow light but are

able shed light along the path until they arrive at the feet of their Lord and that is the important

thing. These are the pure in heart, the ones that have enough oil to sustain themselves.

Remember what I said at the beginning, that the beast wears out the Saints of God. How many

people here have felt worn out at one time or another? Even in your regular job trying to make a

living, often times you feel almost worn out just trying to pay the bills and if you keep plugging

away sooner or later you arrive on top of things but it may not seem that way for a while.

On your spiritual path it is the same thing. All that outside static wears us out. Even if you try to

do a simple thing like quit smoking, all of a sudden everybody comes out of the woodwork

offering you free cigarettes trying to get you to smoke again because if you quit smoking then

that makes them look bad. All your friends try to get you back in the habit again so they dont

feel like they have to quit. Whatever you try to do that is good is followed by forces that come

and try to wear you down and wear you out. This is why you need the oil of the Spirit within

you. If you have a sufficient supply and you give up that supply and relinquish it then you will

not have enough to travel through the darknessyou cannot give up that supply within you. You

must put attention and focus on the spirit within you to make sure you have enough oil and inner

fire so you can weather all the storms that come.


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Zion, Part 8

Whenever you go upon a higher path, the storms will come, and they will come at you hard and

wear you down and people and things will come out of the woodwork and try to wear you downin many ways. A really good example of this is when I started pursuing my wife Artie.

Everything came out of the woodwork to try and bring distance between us. Her daughter was

very upset and she did not like me at all at first. Fortunately, now she likes me, thank God, but

first she thought I was like a Jim Jones character that was going to take her and her Mom to some

God forsaken place and have her drink Kool-Aid.

She was so against her Moms relationship with me so she called up her grandmother and told

her that her Mom was going with this guy who was a cult leader that was going to take her off to

who knows where! Arties Mom bought a plane ticket and flew here the next day. Next her

daughter called her Dad who was living in California and scared the daylights out of him putting

creepy thoughts into his mind. Everybody that knew Artie descended on her and told her she was

crazy and that this guy (Me) sounds like an absolute maniac and you cant have anything to do

with him!

Then Artie calls me up and she says, I am getting a lot offlak over having a relationship with

you and I think maybe we should just lay low for a while until the storms blow over.

Immediately I tuned into to my soul and my soul says, If you wait then it will be a disaster and

you must change her mind now or you will lose her. I thought well, what can I say and so we

started talking and as I was talking to her I felt the Spirit descend upon me and I knew that she

felt it too and after a silence I said, what do you feel right now? She answered, I feel really

peaceful and I said how did you feel when you were putting your attention on all that static out

there? And she said, I felt really disturbed. Then I said do you want the peace or do you want

the disturbance? She said, I want the peace. I said, Then we need to continue the relationship.Are you willing to continue with me? She said yes.

To Arties credit she is one of the few that did not turn back because of pressure. She continued

steady in the light and did not pay attention to the outside static and we resumed the relationship

and still continue it but without that confirmation from the soul, from the Spirit we may not be


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together today because she had so much outside static. Then after that, all the negative powers

descended; her Mother arrived the next day and she was a very powerful woman and she thought

Artie was absolutely crazy. Her ex-husband was going to file legal papers to try and save her

daughter from a madman like me. This was the way it was portrayed, so it was interesting, she

weathered all these storms.

Now I am good friends with her daughter, her ex-husband and all her family and friends like me

now that they have gotten to know me. The impression that everybody received was totally

wrong and it could have destroyed our relationship but what saved our relationship was tuning

out all the outward static and tuning into the voice within. If we can do that it will always lead us

to peace no matter what is going on out there. Artie had the peace inside of her even though

everything outside herself seemed to be falling apart. The peace sustained her and she had

enough oil in her lamp to sustain her through the turbulence and this is what each one of us needs

to do to be pure in heart. We have to have enough oil in our lamps to sustain us so that we can

listen to the inner voice even though the whole outside world seems to be collapsing and

descending upon us. Even though there are storms and hurricanes and people shouting at us,

people that are mad at us, people demanding our attention, we need to tune them all out and if

one listens to that inner voice then he will have the peace that passes all understanding and that is

priceless.

The next step is to gather the pure in heart and this is what must happen next in this age. There

has to be a gathering on several levels in the pure in heart and it has already happened on higher

levels. Beyond this earthly sphere there are several degrees in the spiritual worlds and in the

spiritual worlds greater knowledge descends from the world of greater ideas down through what

we call the worlds of form, the higher mental levels and the emotional levels and descends down

to physical reality.

The gathering of the pure in heart has already taken place on higher levels and it is descending

down to lower levels, down to the emotional and heart levels and now it is waiting to descend

into physical reality. There is really no gathering of the pure in heart that has taken place to any

degree on the physical earth. Theres been small degree like it says in the scriptures, where

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The pure in heart generally are gathered together in groups of two or three, small groups of

people getting together and having intimate discussions and feeling that soul connection. This

group right here deserves a compliment for you have a higher vibration than many groups that I

have talked to. You are very open to the soul energy and the spiritual energy is flowing among

you. You are very receptive and you are attempting to feel that inner fire and inner feeling. This

is to your benefit and a sign that there are many others like you that want to feel that spiritual

energy.

Getting overly emotional is not a sure sign one is feeling the Spirit. It does affect you

emotionally but it produces that peace that surpasses understanding, that fire of the inner lamp,

those intuitive flashes of knowledge that will come to the seeker and many signs will follow

those who are the true virgins who seek the feet of the Master. The time of the gathering is

approaching and what we are following is a time of planting. Since the last attempt at building

Zion failed it turned out to be a period of planting for many seeds were planted by the early

Mormon and other leaders. The Spirit works where ever there is reception and not just through

the Mormon Church or any other church, but in many different religions and many different

organizationswhere ever there is power of the people to receive and to be open. The seeds

have been planted in the pure in heart.

There were many seeds planted by the early Mormons and many seeds planted by other religionsand there are many seeds planted by people working outside of religions, people working in

science, education, politics, all kinds of different areas and there are also many negative seeds.

The true plants are growing up surrounded by many different weeds and the true plants have to

be gathered up and brought together.

A successful example of what happens when the lights are brought together is the creation of the

United States. What happened is the people with the greatest desire for freedom came to America

along with some of the most reprobated characters with selfish reasons. So you had some of the

best and the worst people come to this land and fortunately some of the best got together and

created a government and an inspired constitution.

When they gathered together the government of King George was not good enough for them and

so they created a constitution and a free government, which was a leap forward in social


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evolution because when the lights gathered together the old ways were not good enough anymore

and they had to create new ways. When the pure in heart gather together again under different

circumstances, that which is old and governed things before will not be good enough and the

lights will want to create a better way of doing things.


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Zion, Part 9

One of the things it says about Zion in the scriptures is that there are no poor among them. Now

you can have poor in a number of different ways. You can have the mentally poor, poor becausethey lack understanding, poor because they lack moneythere are all kinds of poverty in all

aspects of life but in Zion there will be no poor because there will be abundance not only of

physical goods but of all goods things.

Now I do not have time to go into how a system in Zion will be set up so that there will be no

poor but basically the only way a system can be created so that there will be no poor is if people

are pure in heart. Poverty for a person who is willing to do his share and work hard is

unacceptable. The key to having no poor among us is to truly love our brother as ourselves. No

matter what system is set up if the people governing things are overly selfish then there will

always be poor among us. But if the people, the gathered lights, are pure in heart a system will be

set up so that there will be no poor physically, there will be no poor spiritually, knowledge will

be freely given and the ability to sustain ourselves will be available to all those who are willing

to labor. Thus Zion will be possible and ensured when the people love their brother as

themselves.

When you gather a group together and 80 or 90 percent of the people have the attitude that a

thing should be then it will be. If you have 80 or 90 percent thinking a negative something

should be, then that will be also.

It is interesting that after our Constitution was created many nations have copied it but what is

fascinating is that many of the nations that copied it are run by an iron fisted dictator. This means

that a piece of paper by itself is worthless. Some of the third world countries have a constitution

as good as ours because they have copied it but they still have an iron fisted dictator that controls

their every move in every aspect of their lives. This tells us that it does not matter what kind of

piece of paper the system is written down on, if the consciousness is not there then it will not

happen. This is why the people that are gathered to build Zion must be Zion material because

even though we have the most

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