by Day of Greenleaf
Smile! ☺
Seriously… actually take a moment here to SMILE! ☺
Have you noticed that the most common way for a child to portray the sun in their early artwork is as a round, yellow-orange Smiley Face! ☺
It puts a smile (another one of a never-ending series) on my sincerely happy face to now dive deeply into one of the main focuses of this chapter: ESOTERIC SUNBATHING.
I smile just thinking about getting naked and lying on a blanket in the sun! I know that some of you are afraid to sunbathe due to warnings that too much sun can cause skin cancer, and so I am going to begin this article by addressing that concern at the outset. I will share information on how you can sunbathe wisely, including scientific and medical findings that demonstrate that prudent, appropriate sunbathing can have amazing holistic health – physical, mental, emotional, and Spiritual – benefits. I emphasized the word wisely in the previous sentence to make the following point: Unwise sunbathing – which is sunbathing without being aware of, and appropriately implementing, the information that I share in this chapter – can result in skin cancer. You are about to receive amazing information.
First, I should clarify the term, Esoteric Sunbathing. You likely know – more or less – what the word sunbathing means, so let us define the word esoteric and then look at how it fits in this context of esoteric sunbathing in Essene Yoga.
The two related words ‘esoteric’ and ‘exoteric’ sound similar but are opposite in meaning. ‘Eso’ means ‘inner’ and ‘teric’ means ‘circle’ and so ‘esoteric’ means ‘inner circle’. The word ‘exoteric’ – ‘exo’ means ‘outer’ – means ‘outer circle’.
In the spiritual context, the word ‘esoteric’ refers to the ‘inner circle’ teachings and practices given to, or realized by, the higher initiates of a given spiritual tradition. Whenever Yahshua (‘Jesus’) says that ‘these words are for those that have ears to hear them’, he is referring to the fact that many people of the general population are not yet spiritually evolved enough to understand what he is about to say. He means that his words are understood only by the ‘esoteric minority’ of the human population. He compassionately provided ‘outer-circle’ (exo-teric) teachings for the majority, but also provided ‘inner-circle’ (eso-teric) teachings for the more spiritually evolved initiates. So, in the context at hand, ESOTERIC SUNBATHING CONSISTS OF THE HIGHER-LEVEL TEACHINGS ABOUT SUNBATHING GIVEN TO THE INNER-CIRCLE OF PRACTITIONERS OF THIS SACRED PRACTICE OF ESSENE SUN YOGA. ☺
Those of you that are amongst the true Essene Solar Initiates that have diligently read the first two chapters in this book, because you do have the esoteric ‘eyes to see’ and ‘ears to hear’ will, I correctly predict (☺), agree that this book has, without doubt, included a lot of very esoteric information related to the Sun in general and Essene Yoga in particular. Even though we are now seemingly ‘coming down to earth’ a bit to discuss sunbathing, this third article will itself be profoundly esoteric, even when it comes to something as simple as ‘sunbathing.’ That is why I refer to the variety of sunbathing that I will describe as ‘Esoteric Sunbathing’. This is sunbathing for spiritually oriented persons.
Because I try to practice what I preach, I am pausing my typing for an hour while I go lay butt-naked (no neighbors to shock, and my cat and dog walk around naked all day themselves and so better not complain! ☺) on a blanket in the sun in the center of the orchard. It’s about 5 p.m. and the sun is fairly mild this Spring day…. …. ….
Ahhhhhhh! I’m back to typing after an hour of ecstasy in the life-giving rays of the sun! PURRRRRRR! ☺
Sunbathing… Let us first begin with straightforward, scientific information on wise sunbathing. I will share some brilliant excerpts – and my commentary on them – on scientific and medical information that builds a strong case for the premise that there are both:
1) Great potential holistic health benefits available from a regular program of wise sunbathing; and,
2) Ways to greatly reduce risk of skin cancer.
In regard to both numbers one and two above, perhaps the best scientific information on the health benefits and the absolute necessity of reducing risk of skin cancer by applying certain information that the general public remains largely unaware of is found in the writings and scientific research of the brilliant Dr. Johana Budwig. After devoting a section of this chapter to Budwig and other brilliant scientists that provide us with the information on safe, beneficial sunbathing, I will then launch a section in which I share teachings from The Holy Megillah on esoteric sunbathing. That section will include Magdalene’s teachings on not only sunbathing but also other solar rituals. This chapter will culminate with several experiential solar practices, only one of which you will probably be too embarrassed to try! ☺
In regard to Dr Johana Budwig, I will share information about her research written by other scholars, and will also share portions of her own writings. She was a German biochemist who also had a doctorate in physics. She applied information from quantum physics within her discipline of biochemistry in order to study the relationship between the foods we eat and our relationship to the sun, including our chances of getting skin cancer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize seven times and was universally considered to be “the world’s leading authority on fats and oils.” BE READY TO BE AMAZED! … and hungry for some flax oil! ☺
Some fascinating information related to safety and sunbathing is provided in the following excerpt from Douglas Morrisons’s Body Electronics Fundamentals. He refers to the work of Dr. Budwig:
Another factor which effects our health is lack of exposure to natural sunlight as well as exposure to lighting with a spectrum dissimilar to that of natural sunlight. For this reason, it is recommended that the individual enjoy moderate exposure to natural sunlight on a daily basis….
According to Dr. Johanna Budwig, pioneer in the study of essential fatty acids who has herself been nominated for the Nobel Prize seven times, the detrimental effects of the sun upon many people today is largely attributable to the lack of electron rich essential fatty acids in the diet and the abundance of toxic altered fat substances. She notes in addition that, “The electrons of the highly unsaturated fats of seed-oils, being on the same wavelength as sunlight, are able to attract solar energy, to store it, and according to need, to release it as pure energy, making it available for life functions.”
It should be obvious to the observant reader that all life as we know it is dependent upon the sun’s rays, for each member of the food chain is dependent, at least indirectly, upon the process of photosynthesis…. What we see here is that we may also be dependent upon the sun directly, in addition to our indirect dependence via the plant kingdom.
Dr. Budwig explains the mechanism whereby we may receive and store this solar energy as follows: “The electrons from our foods act as a resonance system for solar energy. Electrons derived from foods are real nutrients. They attract the photons of sunlight with their electromagnetic field. These photons – active, energetic, in constant motion, without which even the physicists say there would be no life – these photons which are on the same wavelength as the electrons of seed oils, that are in resonance with solar energy, operate as the life element. This interaction between the solar energy of photons and the electrons in seed oils governs all life functions.” The reader is encouraged to read in particular the short book by Dr. Budwig, Flax Oil as a True Aid Against Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer and Other Diseases.
Excuse me if I pause to say: WOW! The fact that Dr. Budwig, quoted above by Morrison, has been nominated for the Nobel Prize seven times gives her statements a heavy dose of credibility. Her information on the interaction of seed oils with sunlight in our body – that the oils are on the same wavelength as, and able to store, the solar energy until we need it – is itself worthy of a WOW! But equally worthy of an equally big and boldfaced WOW is her information that the “detrimental effects of thesun upon many people today is largely attributable to the lack of electron rich essential fatty acids in the diet and the abundance of toxic altered fat substances.”
Before reading Douglas Morrisons’s Body Electronics Fundamentals – the book we just excerpted from – I was not familiar with the work of Dr. Budwig. In the last sentence of that above excerpt, Morrison encouraged his readers to read Budwig’s short book titled, Flax Oil as a True Aid Against Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer and Other Diseases. I did obtain and read that book, and am going to share an excerpt from it with you below. As is made clear in the text itself, this material was first a lecture that was converted to a small book. This is an English translation of Dr. Budwig’s German edition.
It appears that people do react very positively to the sun, despite the fact that many doctors today advise patients to avoid it. Is the sun suddenly no longer of benefit to us? I do not believe that man’s intervention in cosmic relationships, biological processes, and our biological-dynamic balance, has gone so far as to negatively influence the sun. That has to lie in the receiving antenna. It is well possible that the human antenna for sunbeams is no longer functioning. Let us contemplate these relationships a while today.
Today in my lecture titled, ‘What can we do to prevent and cure cancer?’, I have formulated the theme rather more strictly…. I would like you to consider from the outset, that every interference or intervention which disturbs man’s biological-dynamic balance, his place in the cosmic scheme of things, in the dipolar field of electro-magnetic powers which surrounds the world and its creatures and which govern the entire cosmos, that every interference with these far reaching relationships promotes the disease of cancer; and, cancer itself is only the very far advanced developmental stage of this interference in healthy life…..
One of the key words used by Dr. Budwig in the above paragraph – the word dipolar – will be repeated in subsequent paragraphs and because my guess is that a large percentage of you do not know what it means, I will pause a moment to define it:
DIPOLAR. Two equal and oppositely charged or magnetized poles separated by a distance.
Back to Dr. Budwig:
I often take very sick cancer patients away from hospitals where they are said to have only a few days left to live, or perhaps only a few hours. This usually leads to very good results. The very first thing which these patients and their families tell me is that, in the hospital, they could no longer urinate or produce bowel movement. They suffered from dry coughing without being able to bring up any mucous. Everything was blocked. It greatly encourages them when suddenly, in all these aspects, the surface-active fats with their wealth of electrons, start re-activating the vital functions and the patient immediately begins to feel better. It is very interesting to ask how this sudden and very positive change is possible.
It has to do with the reaction patterns related to the interaction of photons and electrons in the sunbeams and fatty acids to which I immediately expose the patients after taking them from the hospital…. The original birthplace of the electrons in seed oils is the sun…. When patients of mine, even very sick cancer patients, have been even just one or two days on my plan… they come and quite spontaneously report: “I suddenly feel so light in myself, no longer so heavy.”
How is it that electron-rich nutrition makes one so light? Why do we need it so urgently? Electrons consist of light matter. They take away weight from heavy matter, which drags us down…. Electrons have a great affinity for oxygen; they love it. This is why, in us, they thrust for the surface. They attract oxygen and stimulate our breathing and our entire being….
I do not eat meat…. It is good to observe that people who eat the right kind of nutrition – electron-rich foods – tend to avoid heavy food, preserved food, and interestingly, these people gradually begin, of their own accord, to stop wanting meat, until they finally say that meatless nutrition does them more good.
What does such food consist of? The ‘Oil-Protein Diet Plan’ that I have developed contains electron-rich oils – mostly seed oils of which flax is my favorite – and beneficial protein which, in combination with the oils can activate the body’s vital functions. Additionally, this food plan contains large amounts of fresh vegetables and fruit.
And now for something really beautiful in this dipolar system between highly unsaturated electron-rich fats and protein: the presence of sunlight activates and deposits and stores solar electrons. Dessauer [a scientist] writes: “If it were possible to increase the concentration of solar electrons tenfold in this biological electron-rich molecule, then man would be able to live 10,000 years.”
It is, in any case, true that all so-called mutations which damage the genetic factor, which have a negative effect on man and which cause disease, indicate a withholding of electron energy, while the concentration of solar electrons – stored in the dipolar molecule between unsaturated electron-rich fats and protein – can greatly increase the gathering-effect of strength and power as well as the subjective health condition. A wealth of electrons means an increase in happy well-being….
The concentration of electrons means an increase in man’s feeling of happiness…. Why is that? The living mass of human beings live – as does all life in nature – from the Sun! This has been forgotten until now in biology and medical science. The living body can only take in and store solar electrons through resonance absorption. To absorb the electrons into the living body, we must already have in the body’s electron system either the same wavelength or a multiplicity of wavelengths.
I (Day) added the boldface to the two sentences above to call your attention to them. The key point of Dr. Budwig’s thesis is provided in those two sentences. A key term in the first of the two sentences I bolded is: resonance absorption. In this context, that term is describing the fact that the more solar electrons stored in our body from certain electron-rich foods – of which seed oils are the superstars – the more solar electrons we are able to absorb from the sun. This is due to a form of correlating vibrational frequencies that we can call ‘sympathetic vibrations’ – a term that describes a specific type of ‘resonance’ between two vibration waves, in this case the wave length of solar electrons in sunbeams and the wave length of plant oils in general and seed oils in particular. Those wave lengths ‘know’ each other because those in the plants literally came from the sun and, eaten by humans, create a powerful, life-enhancing resonance between us and the sun. While this is generally true of plants and other things we might eat, Budwig’s research found that the fatty acids in seeds were incredible storehouses of these solar-resonant electrons. Besides the amazing health benefits – and the greatly enhanced sense of well-being and profound happiness – of ingesting these seed oils and the correlating solar waves that they enable us to absorb, THERE IS ANOTHER GREAT BONUS: It greatly reduces both sunburns and the likelihood of skin cancer!
Only in modern times when humans began eating artificial foods and quit eating a diet rich in seeds did skin cancer become a big problem.
Back to Dr, Budwig:
Thus, the human who eats refined foodstuffs or food which lacks electrons, does not only cut off his oxygen enough to suffocate himself, he also cuts himself off from the effects of the sun. When such people cover their skin with a layer of paraffin as sun protection oil [‘sunblock’), and then lie in the sun, the burn damage is very great, because the electrons, which cannot be stored, and the electron-rich biological molecules, are missing.
It has been proved that all the poisons which affect the action of enzymes, including paraffin and the benzopyran in cigarettes, have an irritative effect on the entire system of electron absorption, storage, and more.
Way back in the 1990’s when sun screen first became extremely popular – and even before that – I had a strong intuition that it could cause cancer. Why? Well, here you are spreading a chemical-laden product on your skin and then having hot, midday sun interact with those chemicals. I intuited that the interaction of sun and those chemical ingredients on your skin could cause cancer. Then, I began to see articles that reported that the more people used sun screen the more likely they were to get skin cancer. However, the speculation of the scientists at that time was that the reason was that people who wear sun screen were more likely to spend more time in the sun since they felt protected. My intuition still told me that it was the interaction of the chemicals in the sun screen with the sun on the skin that caused sun screen users to get skin cancer. I turned out to be right! Around 2015 or so scientists found that the interaction of the chemicals and the sun on the skin was causing skin cancer. I certainly hope that they have since then developed safer sun screen products, but I don’t know that they have and I do not feel personally called to use such products. Instead, I just get the right amount of sun, and eat the sort of foods that Dr. Budwig advises [her dietary recommendations will be given in subsequent paragraphs].
Even though I get a lot of late morning and late afternoon and evening sun, I close-to-never have a sun burn. As Dr. Budwig points out, if you do the right diet and right type of sun exposure, you don’t burn, you get great benefits, and you don’t get skin cancer. Speaking of Dr. Budwig, let us return to our excerpt from her book:
This storage depot of solar electrons is brought about by the action of sunbeams absorbed by the biological living body and can be drawn upon and passed on according to the situation and demand. In clarification of these inter-relationships, modern quantum theory in physics is of particular interest and highly illuminating.
Earlier, there were two opposing opinions concerning the nature of solar energy. Newton said it was composed of corpuscular beams and therefore material. The other interpretation… emphasized that it was a matter of electro-magnetic waves. This light theory comes from Huygens. Through the establishing of quantum theory by Max Planck and the further development and work done by Albert Einstein, and last but not least, through the work of the Frenchman, Louis de Broglie, the following is incontestably recognized in physical science today: Solar energy electrons are both wave and matter!
De Broglie writes that light is the fastest, purest, lightest and most beautiful form of matter we know; as well as the fastest and purest form of energy we are aware of. As the fastest emissary from star to star, sunlight electrons are always, whatever their condition, both wave and matter. The electron is a form of matter always surrounded by magnetism: according to the measurement methods used, it can be measured as either matter or wave.
This borderline situation between energy and matter overturns all classical physics, and is extraordinarily interesting as well as of vital importance for physiological, medical and biological problems….
We can store the sun’s energy and the living body is then in a position to summon, depending on the situation, energy from this storage depot of electrons. When these depots are empty, the person then feels irritable, tired, and his limbs become heavy. But we are able to replenish these storage depots by taking in electron-rich seed oils. These are set to receive solar energy…. [and store it for our use].
There, in the harmony between beneficial fat and beneficial protein, there is a continual, easily influenced biological molecule prepared to store the sun’s radiated energy, to absorb and in turn radiate it, according to the individual’s need for energy, strength or power.
Dr. Budwig is about to educate us on a truly incredible part of our universe, a part of every sunbeam: PHOTONS.
Sun rays reach the earth as an inexhaustible source of energy…. Light is the fastest emissary from star to star. There is nothing faster than light. Light rushes along with time. It lives eternally. Physicists emphasize too, that the photon, the quantum, the tiniest part of a sunbeam, is eternal. Life is unimaginable without the photon. It is in continual movement. Stopping this is not possible. The photon is filled with color. It can, when present in large numbers, change color and frequency.
The photon is recognized as the purest form of energy; the purest wave and, in continual movement, it can combine in resonance with a second photon to form a particle – known as the “O particle” – that can once more break itself down into two photons, without mass, as pure wave in movement. This forms the basis for the wonderful interplay between light and matter. It is not possible to pinpoint the location of a photon. The very Theory of Relativity rests on this foundation.
The photon, the smallest quantum of sunlight, gave rise to Max Planck’s and Einstein’s formation of the quantum theory which is of such significance today. This photon is so active, so dynamic, so powerful….
Electrons are already a constituent of matter, even though also in continual movement. They vibrate continually on their own wavelength. They have their own frequency, like radio receivers which are set at a certain wavelength. The electron orbits in matter around a nucleus. The heavy matter in the nucleus is charged with positive electricity. In contrast to this, the electron carries a negative charge. The two, the positively charged nucleus and the negatively charged electron, attract each other….
This sounds rather romantic! ☺ Dr. Budwig continues:
Electrons love photons. They attract the photons by means of their magnetic fields. When an electrical charge moves, this always produces a magnetic field. The moving photons also possess magnetic fields. Both fields, the magnetic field of the electron and that of the photon, attract each other when the wavelengths are in tune. The wavelength of the photon – which it can change – must so fit into the circular wave of the electron that the orbit is always completely filled by the wave. This feature is, when we consider its physical expression, its biological and even its philosophical consequences, extremely interesting. This basic physical law, according to Niels Bohr [Day: one of the several most important Quantum Physicists in history], means that matter cannot change its condition without absorption or radiation of electro-magnetic waves – and the photon is an electro-magnetic wave – without the wavelength corresponding to that of the absorption, or the radiation frequency being tuned to its own radiation frequency.
Quick comment: This is again a reference to that phenomena that we previously discussed called RESONANCE. Above we have added the realization that ALL RESONANCE IS KEYED BY THE AMAZING – almost magical – ACTION OF PHOTONS.
Why are we focusing on photons in an article about the sun? Because: photons are the key ingredient of sunlight! DO YOU REALLY WANT TO “BLOCK” or “SCREEN” SUNLIGHT? Well, its true that too much of a good thing – water for example – can kill you, but you sure do need the right amount of water… and the same is true of natural sunlight.
Dr. Budwig continues:
Matter always has its own vibration, and so, of course, does the living body. The absorption of energy must correspond to one’s own wavelength. Sunbeams are very much in accord with humans. It is no coincidence that we love the sun.
The resonance in our biological substance is so strongly set to absorb the sun’s energy that those physicists – the quantum biologists – who concern themselves with this scientifically complex field, say that: There is nothing else on earth with a higher concentration of photons of the sun’s energy than man.
This concentration of the sun’s energy – very much an iso-energetic point for humans, with their eminently suitable wavelengths – is improved when we eat food which has electrons which in turn attract the electro-magnetic waves of sunbeams, of photons. A high amount of these electrons which are on the wavelength of the sun’ energy, are to be found, for example, in seed oils.
Most of us have heard that saturated and variously altered fats are bad for us, and that certain unsaturated fats are actually good for us in the right amounts. But how many of us realize that the reasons go far beyond the obvious ones – like clogged arteries – to include such subtle yet key factors as electron activity and electro-magnetism? Budwig illuminates those esoteric realities and more below.
Scientifically, these oils are also known as electron-rich essential highly unsaturated fats. But, when people began to treat [alter] fats to make them keep longer, no-one stopped to consider the consequences of this for the existence and higher development of the human race. These vitally important amounts of electrons, with their continual movement and wonderful reaction to light were destroyed….
An electrical charge in movement produces a magnetic field. Electrically conductive matter which is moved within a magnet’s field will produce current. When connected electrical and magnetic fields are caused to move, there is radiation of electro-magnetic waves. These fundamental, elementary laws can also be applied to biological processes. When the sun shines on the leafy canopy of a tree and is absorbed through photosynthesis, this causes movement in the electrical charge of the electrons. A magnetic field is also brought about when the water in trees rises. When we, with our wealth of electrons and conductive living substance, move through the electro-magnetic field of a forest, then a charging with solar electrons takes place in us.
When our blood circulates, there is a movement of the electrical charge in the magnetic fields (for example, on the surface lipids of red blood corpuscles), which then causes much induction and re-induction of energy.
With each heartbeat, a dose of the body’s own electron-rich, highly unsaturated fats from the lymph system, together with lymph fluid, goes into the blood vessels and thereby into the heart. This constantly stimulates and strengthens anew the electro-motoric functioning of the heart. Alone, the movement of the bloodstream is connected with radiation of electro-magnetic waves – in accordance with the fundamental law of nature which governs electro-magnetic waves. This transmitter within humans is always in action.
The tubular arrangement of our nerves with their various layers and nodes, their different potentials, neurons and dendrites, all immediately convey a picture of how strong electric current in a magnetic field has to lead to the radiation of electro-magnetic waves here, too.
Dr. Budwig is about to make clear that not only our physical health is benefited by the electron-rich electromagnetic sunbeam foods such as seed oils, but also our capacity for paranormal manifestations – things like telepathy – are enhanced:
When I begin thinking something positive about a person, this is also related to a radiation of electro-magnetic waves. Reception of this is also dependent upon the wavelength the receiver is on – and there are also amplifiers as well as transmitters of interference. All this brings in a large amount of data, which is commonly known under different names, such as telepathy, hypnosis, thought transference and many others.
Among the northern races, it is recognized that isolated native inhabitants use trees to help them to send their thoughts over distances, to inform a husband for example, who has gone to town, that he has to bring some salt. Bismarck wrote about how, during times of affliction, he would wrap his arms around a tree, lean his forehead on it and find relief and relaxation. In both cases, it is a matter of electro-magnetic waves in accordance with the mathematical equation of Maxwell….
It is here that the sun’s energy is an active influence, radiated by the powerful photons as purest movement or controlling the electron structure of the living body, either bound to matter, or as power and energy from electro-magnetic fields and waves.
The dynamic of the vital functions and their basis in energy from the sun is, today, a fact which has to be reckoned with…. That the sun as the element of life, also affects the dynamics of the vital functions is apparently self-evident. Everyone seems to agree. But then why are there so many people who say: “I can’t tolerate the sun?” The answer is on its way.
The answer that Dr. Budwig is going to provide makes clear why some people do not respond well to sunbathing, easily burning and perhaps even getting skin cancer, while other people do not easily burn and have amazing healings and enhanced paranormal capabilities. It has to do with what we eat! We absolutely need to have been eating the electron-rich unsaturated fats such as found in seed oils. Remember that word ‘resonance’ we introduced earlier? If we do not eat the electron-rich foods we will not properly resonate with prolonged exposure to sunlight. She writes:
When I treat patients and they then lie in the sun, these sick people notice that they begin to feel very much better; rejuvenated….
For some people nowadays, the sun’s energy is an overly strenuous matter, while for others the dynamics of the sun’s energy have an invigorating effect on all the vital functions…. With all these observations it is of decided importance, whether the surface-active electron-rich highly unsaturated fats are present as a resonance system for the sun’s energy, or whether they are not.
Doctors tell cancer patients that they should avoid the sun; that they can’t tolerate it. This is correct. The moment, however, that my patients – cancer patients as well – have been following my oil-protein nutritional advice for two or three days, which means that they have been getting sufficient amount of the essential fats, they can then tolerate the sun very well. Indeed, they emphasize how fine they suddenly feel in the sun, how much their vitality and vigor is stirred and stimulated. And that brings us to the decisive point of this lecture.
The electrons in our food serve as the resonance system for the sun’s energy. The electrons in our food are truly the element of life. Their electro-magnetic field attracts the photons in sunlight. These photons with their own vitality and continual movement, without which the physicist cannot imagine life existing, these photons, which are in resonance with the electrons in seed oils, are focused on the same wavelength as the sun’s energy, serve the life element.
This interplay of solar energy photons and the electrons in seed oils, which are focused to the very last quantum on solar energy photons, governs all the vital functions….
Yes, fats which are in accord with solar energy photons, electron-rich fats in resonance with the solar energy wavelength, do indeed govern the entire vital function systems. In my work it is fascinating to see that my utilization of the theory of relativity combined with quantum physics illustrates how every vital function’s dynamics are dominated by the exchange of electrons.
The electrons of highly unsaturated fats from seed oils, which lie on the same wavelength as sunlight, are capable of drawing solar energy and storing it, then, upon demand, for activating it as the purest energy of the dematerialized clouds of electrons and making it available for the vital functions.
All the vital functions are loosely connected with membrane functions. The exchange of electrons, the distribution of energy in the whole organism, is dependent on these membrane functions – in the nerve pathways, the brain, in every organ; the liver, gallbladder and pancreas, in the stomach’s mucous membrane and in the kidneys and intestinal tract: the controlling functions of these membranes with their electro-magnetic power, is felt everywhere….
According to Einstein, the earth’s gravity can be partially neutralized by means of electrons which conform to the sun’s energy. The sun and the sun-attuned electrons in the food we eat, bring us to a higher level of energy, and to a higher level of development as a human being…. Physicists interpret from mathematical formulae that man, with his wealth of electrons, is directed forward in time. As we have heard, the photon speeds along in time; it has, so to speak, eternal life….
Mankind’s internal structure with its interplay between solar energy photons and a large number of electrons, with its concentration of photons in life’s activities and in the dynamics of vital functions, is directed into the future.
It is then fascinating to investigate our food, with regard to this feature. Fats and oils treated to make them keep longer have had their electronic structure destroyed… and this has a very detrimental effect on human beings who with their wealth of electrons, live towards the future….
Electron rich food, electron-rich highly unsaturated oils, natural flavorings from herbs and spices, from fruits which are rich in aroma and natural dyes from the color of the sunlight’s photons, these all help the absorption, storage and utilization of the sun’s energy….
An electron-rich food intake which supplies us with the resonance system for the sun’s energy, must once more achieve priority. Such food, as the life element, promotes our sun-attuned energy. This in turn promotes our development, in space and time, into the future. The entire self can then grow and continue to develop further until, in accordance with the laws of nature which govern light and life, the highest level of our being is achieved….
The wave aspect of living matter is all the clearer, the more one considers the nature of solar energy photons. Sunbeams, in accordance with the natural laws of light and life, affect and govern the wave and radiant energy capabilities of our living human selves, into the future and forever.
Speaking of ‘resonance’, after typing the above paragraph I decided to pause to perform a bit of hatha yoga in the sunlight. I came in and, just before returning to typing this article, felt called to enter one of the rooms of my massive personal library. I felt called to pull a certain book off the shelf – a book that based on the title would not have seemed like a book that would have an excerpt on the sun – and opened it to not only a great section on the sun but one that PURRRFECTLY RESONATES with the above excerpt. You will see what I mean: it is about photons and sunlight! ☺
But first a quick bit of information about Dr. Budwig’s diet recommendations. Her favorite seed oil – although there are many fine ones – is flax oil. Because flax oil can go rancid quickly, unless you make your own – you just need an appropriate seed grinder – I have found the best store-bought flax oil to be Barlean’s. Not only is it organic, unrefined, and cold-pressed, unlike most others it is kept refrigerated from the time they press it until you purchase it: it is shipped refrigerated, and you buy it in the refrigerated section of a good health food store. That keeps it from going rancid. Again, it is best to make it yourself, but next best is Barlean’s. It is expensive but the dose is just one tea spoon per day.
At Essene Garden of Peace, where myself and some other Essenes live, we have noticed that the one teaspoon per day of flax oil very noticeably enhances our dreams! It also noticeably causes our brain to feel really good and enhances our thinking ability. It is a great vegan source of Omega 3.
Dr. Budwig advises an organic vegetarian diet that includes unsaturated fats like those found in seeds and avacados, fresh fruit and vegetables, AND STRONGLY RECOMMENDS FERMENTED FOODS SUCH AS SAUERKRAUT, YOGURT, AND MY PERSONAL FAVORITE: Kim-chi (similar to sauerkraut but with interesting spices such as ginger). In regard to sauerkraut, though it may taste rather strong when eaten by itself, I put a few spoonsful of it on other vegetables, salads, and especially love it on rice or quinoa! ☺ Sunflower oil is an easy-to-get electron-rich oil; only use organic! (A teaspoon per day, on food or by itself.) Of course, a handful of sunflower seeds will do the trick, as well!
My own diet at this current stage of my life is as follows and is in total harmony with Dr. Budwig’s recommendations: I eat an organic vegetarian diet that consists largely of unprocessed foods and includes a tea-spoon of flax oil per day (or another seed oil some days). I abstain from foods that include saturated fats in the ingredients. I am not personally a vegan these days (but respect that choice); I eat organic eggs from chickens that were fed flax seeds; I include plain yogurt and other fermented foods in my diet.
Now I will share that excerpt that I found in a book that I recently brought home from a used-book store just because I liked the title! ☺ I had not read it and did not know it had a small section on the sun. Though the section on the sun makes up a small portion of the total book, that section – I am certain you will agree – resonates wonderfully with the information from Dr. Budwig on sunlight and photons. The title is: The Intelligent Universe (I figured that any book with that title must be interesting!) The author, Dr. David Foster, capped the following words, so I will do likewise.
THE UNIVERSE IS A TOTAL CONSTRUCTION OF WAVES AND VIBRATIONS WHOSE INNER CONTENT IS ‘MEANING’, AND MAN IS A
MICRO-SYSTEM OF THE SAME VIBRATORY NATURE FLOATING AT SOME DEPTH IN THE UNIVERSAL AND MEANINGFUL WAVE SYSTEM. THE UNIVERSAL WAVE SYSTEM IS QUALITATIVE OR VALUE-STRUCTURED (THIS IS QUANTUM THEORY) ACCORDING TO ITS VIBRATION-RATE SPECTRUM (FASTER FREQUENCIES HAVE MORE INFORMATION CAPACITY).Having established the… universal principles that… apply to the universe, we next look for the indications for the existence of such principles in the relationships between the Earth and the sun…. The sun and its planets make up a well-defined entity known as the solar system, and its identity as a system depends on the fact that the planets all rotate around the sun.
The communication between the sun and the planets is by two means, a gravitational field and the radiations such as sunlight…. The matter of the sun is principally Hydrogen, the most basic of all atoms, although there is a cycle of chemistry going on that appears to also involve Carbon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen; thus, this totality of chemical elements, the four-letter alphabet, is the same as those that are essential building blocks for organic life on Earth and that depend for their prime existence on sunlight to establish the photosynthesis of green matter. Thus, there could appear to be going on a system of data communication as between organic elements in the sun and those same elements on the Earth’s surface.
As an example of the resonance between the excerpt from Dr. Foster’s book and the one we just studied from Dr. Budwig, re-read the last sentence from Foster directly above. He is referring to the sort of resonance that Budwig described. There will be additional resonances between Budwig’s excerpt and Foster’s, especially when Foster introduces the topic of photons.
Before continuing the Foster excerpt, I want to call your attention to the profound level of synchronicity in my finding these words in the Foster book just as I was completing my typing of the very related Budwig excerpt. I have pointed out these ‘meaningful coincidences’ throughout this book and also in some of my other writings because I want you to see the direct evidence of how amazing – seemingly magical – synchronicity is in my daily life experience. I walk daily in the level of synchronicity that you are experiencing through my sharings in this book. Not just related to my writing, but in every aspect of my daily existence. I believe it is a direct result of practicing Essene Yoga – including Sun Yoga – for so many years. Potentially, anyone can experience this deep of a level of synchronicity on a consistent, daily basis. Although I often meet people that are experiencing increased levels of manifestation of synchronicity in their lives, I have not yet personally met anyone that seems to be actually experiencing it to such a high degree on a daily basis as I currently am. I also have not personally met anyone that sunbathes naked as consistently as I do – along with eating the electron-resonant seed oils including flax – and I believe that may have something to do with it! ☺ I could just humbly keep my mouth shut about what I am experiencing but it seems more helpful to report it so that you know that it is possible and that it is directly related to dedicating yourself to Essene Yoga.
Back to the excerpt from Dr. David Foster’s, The Intelligent Universe:
The fundamental characteristic for any data process is that it requires the combination of a program from a higher intelligence level to react with a data memory at a lower level to produce by data processing a data result at an intermediate level. This is basic cybernetics. [Day: ‘Cybernetics’ is the science of communications.] But, in considering the photosynthesis of green vegetation, we recognize water and carbon dioxide as the original data memory (or raw material) and we see the higher result as the finished organic product, and this leaves unaccounted the role of sunlight, which we know is vital. Clearly, sunlight is the programming aspect of the data process.
This suggests the role of the solar system as some sort of “computer” or data processing system for the growth of organic life, since all organic growth depends ultimately on the photosynthesis of green matter.
We now know that the essential data for organic structure is deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)…. Due to the theories of evolution, perhaps one only needs to establish one original piece of DNA for all the rest to follow. I will call this supposed entity ODNA standing for “original deoxyribonucleic acid.” Thus, the enigma is the origin of ODNA.
But since the growth of organic life is clearly the result of the sun and since the maintenance of the conditions for life also equally depends on the sun (the water cycle of evaporation and rain), it is highly likely that the origin of ODNA is or was in the sun also.
My own view of the matter is that ODNA did originate as the result of intelligent radiations (structure programs) from the sun, and that the form of radiation was likely to be in the X-ray spectrum, since such a spectrum is specific for the interaction of matter structure and radiation as revealed by crystallography….
QUICK DEFINITION: Crystallography means:
The study of the form, structure, properties, and classification of crystals.
Back to Foster:
The changing chemistry of the Earth’s crust appears to be entirely due to the influence of the sun directly as sunlight and indirectly as rain, the latter also being due to the action of the sun. This has been described at length by V. I. Vernadsky in his book Geochemistry and by B. B. Polynov in his book The Cycle of Weathering, and this is due to the superior intelligence of the sun in that its will is dominant for the Earth….
The idea propagated by science that “the universe may be running down” is based solely on the facts of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that energetical systems tend to get colder. This is simply a statement regarding the existence of anti-cybernetic principles based on blind collisions of energy. While we are not disputing the reality of the Second Law of Thermodynamics in the limited sphere of energy, the fact is that the universe is not run down (as of the moment) and this absolutely obliges us to accept an equally universal law of Cybernetics. Whether you believe it all started with a bang or with ideas of continuous creation, or with the theory of cycles, the fact is that what is running down must either have been wound up once or is being wound up now.
Now one might ask whether being “wound up” is exactly the same as the cybernetic process, and the answer is that this is so. The anti-cybernetic process of the Second Law of Thermodynamics is simply a statement that if you mix things up, they will get into an increasing muddle, and the only way of reversing muddle is by intelligent behavior, i.e., by the principle of Maxwell’s Sorting Demon. Thus, inasmuch as the Second Law of Thermodynamics is a universal law, then in the presence of the fact that the universe is not yet run down, the cybernetic process must also be universal, and the universe must equally have universal attributes of intelligence and will. As applied to our own solar system, which is far from run down, it suggests that the anti-cybernetic facts of blind collision processes must be in some sort of balance with the solar cybernetic forces in general and with the intelligence of the sun in particular.
Because entropy – linked to the Second Law of Thermodynamics – causes many students of science to feel a sense of hopelessness (because an incomplete understanding of it – which is what mainstream science currently has – leads one to believe that nothing can survive eternally), the following list of related conclusions in which Foster proposes that the Sun is smart enough to counteract/counter balance entropy (because, in truth, the universe not only winds down but also winds up in continuous counter-balancing cycles) should put a sunny smile ☺ on our face!
Dr. Foster writes:
An elementary explanation of the significance of data transmission and intelligence is considered in relationship to our own solar system with the following main conclusions:
1. The photosynthesis of green matter and the structure of living species are considered due to specific programming data patterns of solar radiation.
2. The chemistry of the Earth’s crust appears to be entirely dominated by data programming from the sun.
3. The equilibrium between anti-cybernetic forces and cybernetic forces in the solar system is considered due to the intelligence of the sun counterbalancing the effects of the Second Law of Thermodynamics….
If you constructed a hermetically sealed chamber containing no objects and no air, then you might imagine that the interior of that chamber was simply “pure space” since all you would appear to have would be darkness and quiet. But if you were to introduce a radio set into that “empty space” and turn it on, then you would find that the space was filled with radio waves emitted by the Earth’s radio stations. But such are mere man-made radiations.
However, if you next introduced more sophisticated instruments capable of detecting different radiations, then you would find that that empty space was full of all sorts of other radiations being emitted by the sun and the stars and, indeed, from all parts of the universe. The short fact is that we live in a veritable SEA OF COSMIC RADIATIONS, and wherever one traveled in the universe it would be this sea of cosmic radiation that would be the most characteristic aspect of our environment. As Professor James Jeans once said, “We live in a universe of waves and nothing but waves.”
I pause our Foster excerpt to point out that another brilliant thinker, Walter Russell, put it this way: “In the wave is the secret of creation.” Back to Foster:
But this radiation is characterized by one principal phenomenon in that it is made up of a train of waves, and the ultimate unit of one wave is itself characterized by the oscillation between an electromagnetic field and an electrostatic field. The size of the electric field (“the wavelength”) creates a unit of space, and the duration of the magnetic effect (“the wave period”) creates a unit of time. Thus, space and time are digitized (or unitized) by the presence of an electric wave and this is the basic reality of the physical world.
But if I am in a particular place, such as on the surface of the Earth, and observe these radiations, such as sunlight, then, although we know that sunlight travels at 186,000 miles a second and that any given wave flashes past me at this speed, nevertheless each wave is succeeded by another and the sunlight appears “to be always there”; and if I came back in a year’s time, I could be sure that it would again be still there. Thus, due to this infinite recurrence or regeneration of waves, we appear to have a permanent phenomenon and this aspect I call eternity. Note that just as time and space were properties of waves, so also is this eternal aspect.
Eternity is the most characteristic aspect of physics since all inorganic and organic matter reveals this phenomenon. Thus, we know that, within an atom of matter, there is a considerable activity going on, for example, the electron waves round the nucleus. But these rotating waves rotate forever. An atom does not run down and get less energetic or slower: It reveals perpetual motion of a non-dissipative nature, rather like a well-oiled wheel that once set rotating will keep on rotating. In the case of atoms, the waves never slow down.
Any given cosmic wave (for example, of sunlight) only shows one sort of qualitative difference against another wave, and that is the relative frequency of vibration, and the energy in a wave is proportional to its speed of vibration. Thus, energy itself is created by the frequency of wave vibration (“quantum energy”) and is digitized by the energy in one wave of a given frequency (“Planck’s Constant” or the unit of “action”). Thus, even that very fundamental characteristic of action or of energy is also a parameter of a wave.
Now we human beings recognize this qualitative difference between waves (in the case of sunlight) as “color.” It is the difference between red and blue, which is a typical recognition of this qualitative difference, but we should also note that since blue is a faster frequency than red, then blue light has both more energy and data potential than red light….
It is important to realize that just because certain waves are faster does not make them ‘better’ for you to experience all the time. For example, an x-ray is faster than a red ray but, if the organic tissues of your body receive too many x-rays, you might develop cancer. In natural life, the universe itself – as asserted in the title of Foster’s book – is INTELLIGENT enough to have placed each of us in an appropriate spot in the universe to experience appropriate amounts of each of the rays for our current level of evolution and body type. The problem that occurs is when unwise human beings start manipulating things – like the nuclear power within atoms – and expose persons to unsafe levels of wave frequencies in an inappropriate manner. Even though red waves or yellow waves are slower than ultraviolet rays, at certain times those slower frequencies are just what you need. Consider this fact: If only the fastest color frequency was ‘good’, the full rainbow of colors would not exist. Back to Foster:
Wave frequencies associated with either radiation or matter are specific and exact, and indeed one can make clocks from such frequencies with an accuracy of one second in many years (the cesium clock has an accuracy of one part in ten thousand million). This is a very extraordinary fact-the specificity of the frequency of vibrations in nature. Thus, an atom of iron, for example, could be characterized by three or four frequencies of radiation, and these are made quite clear if we give iron a little extra energy while looking at it with a molecular spectrograph. If we find such same specific color pattern in the light from a distant star, then we know that the star also contains iron. It is in just this way that we can know the constitution of both the sun and of stars hundreds of light years away.
Such specific information, carried over vast distances, is called spectral information or spectral data, and it suggests just how nature communicates and what sort of coding systems it uses in its data transmission….
By the way, if you have noticed that Foster refers a lot to ‘information’ and ‘communication’ it will not surprise you to learn that he was one of the greatest experts ever (he dropped his body a few years back) in the scientific field of cybernetics (the field that studies communication systems in both machines and living entities; Foster’s personal chief interest was in studying how the universe itself communicates, and felt that the best way to study that was by studying how the sun communicates with the other parts of the solar system and the surrounding universe. Back to Foster:
The principal code system used by nature [to communicate] consists of a combination of different specific radiation frequencies whose combination establishes a “letter” or “word.” This is a frequency pattern, and in terms of sunlight we should recognize this as a “mixed color.” But if we analyzed that color with a simple device, such as an optical prism or in a more complex device such as a molecular spectrograph, we could analyze the color complex into its specific constituent colors or vibration frequencies.
Such a system has its analogue in a musical chord constituted of different musical notes, and the significant thing is that such patterns exist essentially irrespective of time and space and can be considered to exist fundamentally in eternity.
If we compare these cosmic codes in sunlight and cosmic space generally, we find a fundamental difference compared with the sorts of codes we use in man-made electronic computers. In the latter we normally use temporal data and temporal codes in that the message can only be understood by taking a certain time duration in which the elements of data are progressively revealed. This also takes place both in human speech and in human writing in that it is only by making a statement and waiting for the whole statement to be made in time that the meaning can emerge.
But nature works in a different way, in that she appears to transmit her information simultaneously as a simultaneous pattern of related specific frequencies having a color complex analysis, and furthermore such information is not only simultaneous but also everlasting in eternity.
Thus, we find that the most general nature of cosmic information transmission is in terms of complexes of frequencies of vibrations that appear to be indefinitely and eternally maintained as “a permanent message.”
We thus build up a general picture of cosmic radiation as being in the nature of a “solid radiation sea” so that at any given location there is a permanently maintained radiation pattern of simultaneous information capable of being decoded at that location by any system that can react meaningfully to a given combination of frequencies….
Now this is very interesting since it means that nature, in general, is accepting much more of cosmic vibrations (such as sunlight) than we had imagined, and this also means it must certainly operate not on a single resonator gate but on combination resonator gate systems capable of admitting quite a code of meaningful frequencies. Hence, the significance of color in nature is that nature is absorbing certain frequencies through its atoms acting as combination resonator gates….
Because it is so significant – and profoundly beautiful and awe-inspiring – I am going to boldface the following last sentence of the excerpt from Dr. Foster’s book, The Intelligent Universe:
Cosmic communications appear to be by the means of radiations of which sunlight is typical, and the information appears to be simultaneously present throughout space as frequency patterns in eternity.
Wow! ☺
Both ‘Dr.’ Budwig and ‘Dr’ Foster have their doctorates in science not in medicine. Dr. Budwig – who you will recall was nominated seven times for the Nobel prize for her scientific work – chose to become a sort of holistic healer in her native Germany, applying what she had learned in science to help people through dietary reform, but was not a medical doctor. The next ‘Dr.’ I present to you – not counting the following excerpt from Yahshua/Jesus who is known as ‘The Great Physician’ – will be a medical Dr. who is a strong advocate of sunbathing. But first, because it resonates so well with the above ‘information on cosmic information’, I choose to share the following words of that holistic healer we call ‘the Lord’. The following words resonate with the above information on information encoded in sunshine because, like me, Yahshua sunbathed regularly and noticed that cosmic information rode the sunbeams! The Lord said:
600. “One of My favorite practices of Essene Sun Yoga is to do the Hatha Yoga asana called Salutation to the Sun outdoors in the sunlight.
601. I love to raise My arms to the Morning Sun in a devotional attitude toward The Seventh Heaven and the Living Light that sustains our Light Body.”
602. Yahshua then demonstrated both the Simple Salutation to the Sun and the Full Salutation to the Sun.
603. After having demonstrated the Salutation to the Sun, Yahshua continued his remarks on Essene Sun Yoga.604. The Lord said, “In that excerpt from Enoch it was stated that ‘the people were enlightened by the encoded wisdom in the rays of the spiritual Sun, which are hidden within the glorious beams of light from the physical Sun.’
605. In the light of that verse, one can clearly see that an important practice of Essene Sun Yoga is to expose oneself to the ‘glorious beams of light from the physical Sun.’
606. This act of literal union with the Sun by exposure of your skin to its rays feeds you in ways that you know not.
607. Most mornings, Miriam and I follow our Hatha Yoga and Morning Service with a time of sunbathing that We consider a key practice of Sun Yoga.
608. This Daily Sun Bath is typically later in the morning than ‘First Sun’ – ‘First Sun’ being our first exposure to sunlight on a given day no matter how brief – and is of longer duration, though not so long as to cause a burn.609. “My favorite way to perform Silent Meditation is flat on My back on a blanket beneath the Sun, naked.
610. It is when performing that type of Sun Yoga – Sunbathing Combined With Silent Meditation – that I most notice ‘the encoded wisdom in the rays of the spiritual Sun, which are hidden within the glorious beams of light from the physical Sun’ just referred to in that excerpt from The Nasarean Book of Enoch.
611. When sunny – even in winter sun – I sunbathe naked, provided I can find a place to lay My blanket without shocking other people!”
Below I am going to share a portion of an excerpt from Gene Savoy that I previously shared in Chapter One. It so purrrfectly resonates with the above information that I choose to repeat it here (that medical doctor I promised will follow Savoy). In his book, Project x: The Search for Immortality, Savoy writes:
Today I felt like a growing thing—a plant—struggling towards the light, knowing that my life and being depended on its benevolent rays. I not only felt I could communicate with it – I experienced a response…. There can be no doubt that the sun picks up – and responds to – human thoughts…. The sun cannot simply be an incandescent ball of nuclear fire – it is a center of consciousness. Man is intimately related to the sun by a sensory makeup not recognized, as yet, by secular science….
The sun will respond to those intelligences that are attuned to it (perhaps like a radio frequency). It also appears that the sun is sending out a special frequency that can be picked up by those sensitive to it…. I felt electrified…. Intercommunication with some greater intelligence via the sun is a reality that can be experienced by those disciplined in the art….
The absorption of cosmic/solar energy into the human nervous system and energy fields has a revitalizing quality. However, since energy is the carrier of certain intelligence factors, any absorption of energy must involve exposure of the organism to these factors…. It would appear that the sun serves as a bridge between the physical and non-physical universe on the macrocosmic level of the solar system, and that the body atoms link the physical and non-physical on the microcosmic level.
The human physical organism is a mass of pulsating energy, a radiant body of factors. Thus, when the human organism contacts an unlimited energy source, such as the sun, the potential for intelligence becomes considerably heightened. The force centers are to the psychic or electrical bodies what the nerve plexuses are to the physical body: channels of energy. The sun of our solar system serves as a catalyst or force center on the macrocosmic level through which energy IF from higher worlds pass to earth.
On the microcosmic level the atom is the link between quanta and cells. Here we see that the energy exchange occurs internally and externally, both on the cosmic and human levels of existence, and that suns and atomic particles are fundamentally the same thing, i.e. force centers for energy exchange between the physical and spiritual worlds (non-physical worlds).
We have learned that energy is a carrier of information, IF potential can be perceived by a receiver just as a radio receives signals and transforms them into recognizable sounds. How much information is conveyed depends upon the listener. Whereas mind transforms physical properties into mental properties, consciousness does the same thing with ultra-energy IF: this is, IF is transformed into conscious events. It is by means of a developed consciousness that man is able to communicate with ultra-dimensional worlds….
The sun is the source of energy IF. There IF is transmitted and encoded. Consciousness then receives IF and decodes it…. As opposed to simply receiving information or responding to stimuli, as in a passive state, the transformed individual becomes a center of cosmic influence, that is, a living sun radiating energy IF to the world at large. The average person has no concept of the tremendous potential power of a transformed person who is identified with the cosmic whole and thus functioning as an ultra-dimensional being in two sets of dimensions at the same time…In going to the source of all energy, the sun, you have been able to project yourselves into the universe, thus participating in energy forms having their origins in galaxies or star clusters millions of light years away. Energy may require millions of years to span the great distances between other galaxies and our own solar system, but IF factors, being born of consciousness, are not limited to the speed of light…. By absorbing sunlight into your organisms, you not only have a greater incidence of energy, but greater amounts of time and information. In other words, the intake of solar energy speeds up the force fields, which alters the time continuum. As we know from our studies, greater IF is then made available.
In Sun Yoga Part One, I provided a lot more from Gene Savoy. Here, I repeated only the portion that specifically related – RESONATED – with our three previous excerpts. The Savoy information about information factors (I.F.) in the rays of the sun resonated so well with the information from Dr. Budwig, Dr. Foster, and Dr. ‘Jesus’, that I trust that you are resonating harmoniously with my decision to repeat it above! ☺ Perhaps you are even purrring! I am! ☺
Now, I promised you an actual medical Doctor, an M.D. that actually prescribes appropriate sunbathing to his patients rather than ban it! It is time for me to deliver on that promise! (Cosmic drum roll, please….) ☺
The book is titled, Sunlight. Besides being a Medical Doctor, the author, Zane R. Kime, also has a Master of Science degree. In the Preface, he writes:
In my medical practice, I see many whom no drug or surgery will restore to health. The hoped for escape becomes only a means to muffle the most noxious complaints or a method to prolong dying existence. For all our advances in science, we still remain humbly… dependent upon the forces of nature: air, water, food, and sunlight. It seems in fact, the more advanced our technology becomes, the more capable we are of destroying ourselves – not only by nuclear holocaust, but also by more insidious inroads into our health such as the tremendous change that has taken place in the area of food technology. Death has always been easily within man’s grasp, while life and health remain the property of nature and her forces. Out of this conviction this book has been written. I believe there is ample evidence in the scientific literature that sunlight, free of technological distortions, is not only beneficial, but necessary for human health.
In the following excerpt, Dr. Kine makes the same point that Dr. Budwig made: getting skin cancer from the sun is linked to a highly refined western diet:
The current medical concept pictures a destructive sun responsible for aging of the skin and capable of causing skin cancer…. The author became increasingly convinced, as he studied the available research data, that the highly refined western diet plays the leading role, both in the aging process and in the development of skin cancer…. It becomes obvious when the data are studied that the main chronic degenerative diseases are the very diseases most benefited by exposure to sunlight. The author suggests that the sun continues to be the potent, life-giving, health-dealing force for modern man that it was intuitively recognized to be by primitive man, and that separation from sunlight will result in disease just as surely as will seperation from fresh air, food, and/or water….
A diet that consists largely of whole food (food as grown), in as fresh and unprocessed a state as possible, insures all the bulk, fiber, vitamins, and minerals necessary to maintain healthy tissues. Whenever a food is refined, it is devoid of its unique composition of nutrient components for its optimum absorption and utilization. Corn as a whole food has much fiber, bulk, vitamin E, carotene, and minerals. Refined corn oil, on the other hand, is virtually a pure chemical, a triglyceride, robbed of its associated nutrients…. The vitamins normally associated with polyunsaturated fat, as it is found in its natural state in the whole food, are the very vitamins that offer striking benefits of skin cancer prevention.
The polyunsaturated fats are the good ones that Dr. Budwig informed us lead to a positive relationship with sunlight. Refined foods have the bad, saturated fats that cause various diseases and prevent a positive relationship with sunlight. While the good fats help prevent sunburns, the bad fats promote sunburns. Dr. Kine continues:
Sunburning… is directly involved with free radical formation. If free radical formation can be slowed or eliminated, the skin of either humans or animals will not burn as easily. This helps to prevent skin cancer….
Besides the good fats and whole food vegetarian diet with an emphasis on fermented foods that Dr. Budwig advocated – all of which Dr. Kine agrees with – Dr Kine also especially emphasizes green and yellow vegetables because they are high in certain vitamins that help prevent sunburns and support a positive relationship with sunlight. And like Dr. Budwig, Dr. Kine says that if you are going to eat the S.A.D. (Standard American Diet full of the bad fats and overly processed foods) you should stay out of the sunlight because you will burn easily. But he then adds that, if you choose that route, you will get sick from not getting the good effects of sunlight:
Nutrition and sunlight are intimately related. By striking the skin, sunlight can produce certain hormones and nutrients like vitamin D. Unless one has a proper diet, sunlight has an ill effect on the skin. This must be emphasized: sunbathing is dangerous for those who are on the standard high-fat [bad saturated fats] American diet or do not get an abundance of vegetables, whole grains, and fresh fruits. Those on the standard high-fat diet should stay out of the sun and protect themselves from it; but at the same time, they will suffer the consequences of both the high-fat diet and the deficiencies associated with lack of sunlight.
The most healthful diet consists almost entirely of food eaten in its natural, as grown, state. A sunbather, when planning his daily diet of natural foods should be careful to include foods that are rich in the antioxidants (vitamins C, E, and carotene) found in the highly colored green and yellow vegetables. Obtaining these necessary vitamins in their natural state is preferable to supplementing the diet with vitamin pills….
Besides illuminating the fact that the sun does not cause skin cancer if we are eating the right foods so as to avoid excessive burning (an infrequent sun burn does not equal skin cancer) and are appropriate in regard to the time of day and the duration of our sun baths, Dr. Kine provides evidence that sunbathing can actually prevent many internal cancers:
On the other hand, studies show that as the amount of… sunlight increases, the incidence of internal cancer decreases…. Dr. Frank Apperly, the author of one report, suggests that “we may be able to reduce our cancer deaths by inducing a partial or complete immunity by exposure of suitable skin areas to sunlight”. This theory has been tested in a number of other studies…. Researchers from Russia have shown that 50% less malignant cancer growths developed when experimental animals were given sunlight treatments…. It becomes clear that sunlight can help to prevent cancer when we understand how it stimulates the immune system, increasing its efficiency. As noted previously, inhibiting the immune system increases cancer formation. While the general population’s immune systems are decreasing in effectiveness with every year of age, the sunlight devotee will maintain a strong, active immune system which will not only help to prevent cancer, but to ward off many other diseases as well. Sunlight increases the use of oxygen in the tissues. This can be very important in stimulating the immune system especially in the production of antibodies. Many types of cancer cells do not like oxygen, and when exposed to high concentrations, they will begin to slow their growth and division, finally stopping altogether. In this indirect way, sunlight may be able to fight against cancer by stimulating the immune system and increasing the oxygen in the tissues….
By aiding in the removal of many toxic chemicals from the body, sunlight helps to get rid of cancer-causing agents. This may be one of the ways sunlight is able to reduce the incidence of cancer…. Sunlight not only aids in moving the toxic, heavy metals out of the body, but it also seems to have a dramatic effect on the trace minerals needed by the body. The sunlight’s effects on copper, molybdenum, manganese, and nickel – all necessary to the body – have been studied…. Sunlight has a surprisingly intricate relation to the metals in our body. It accelerates the body’s ability to dispose of heavy toxic metals and to move the necessary trace minerals in the body to their most advantageous position for use….
Under the present circumstances one should spend as much time as possible out of doors to obtain all the natural light he can. In doing so he will be strengthening his body’s own resources to resist a host of diseases and their trail of miseries. In this modern era we are constantly reminded that our air, water, and food are contaminated with pesticides, heavy metals, and various other chemicals. Our bodies need to eliminate these noxious agents as rapidly as possible, as their presence will cause damage. Sunlight has the specific ability to speed up the metabolism, decontamination and elimination of toxic agents.
Above, Dr. Kine asserted that besides helping to prevent even internal cancers, sunlight may also ward off other ailments. Below he supports that assertion:
Students of history know that men anciently revered the sun as a life-giving, healing power. From the ancient Greeks down to the beginning of the 20th century, observations were made, and detailed records were kept, that reveal the sun to be a positive factor in the health of man. Downes and Blunt, in 1877, discovered the dramatic ability of sunlight to destroy bacteria. From this point onward sunlight was enthusiastically studied as the only, then known, effective means of treating bacterial infections. Niels Finsen, in 1903, won the Nobel Prize for successfully treating tuberculosis with the ultraviolet portion of light. Studies continued which revealed the potent multifaceted effect the sun has on the human body. Single exposures of a large area of the body to ultraviolet light were found to dramatically lower elevated blood pressure (up to 40 mm Hg drop), to lower abnormally high blood sugars as found in diabetics, to decrease cholesterol in the bloodstream, and to increase the white blood cells, particularly the lymphocytes which are largely responsible for the body’s ability to resist disease….
Sunlight seems also to increase the blood’s capacity to carry oxygen and to deliver it to the tissues. A striking increase in the oxygen content in the blood has been shown to follow a single exposure to ultraviolet light. This effect lasts for many days. Severe, intractable bronchial asthma patients were able to breathe freely and the color of their skin returned to a normal pink following an ultraviolet light treatment….
Sunbathing can also increase the efficiency of the heart. In one study, the output of blood from the heart was increased by an average of 39% in the group of patients studied. The increased output continued for five or six days following a single ultraviolet light exposure. Physicians use drugs to stimulate the heart, causing it to pump more blood. These drugs could possibly be eliminated in some cases if the patient were to follow an active exercise program out-of-doors in the sunlight….
Sunlight seems to have a relaxing and soothing effect on the stomach and intestines. A research report from Russia shows that duodenal ulcers are greatly improved after a course of sunlight treatment and can also be prevented from reoccurring….
There is… evidence in the scientific literature that sunlight can increase the energy level in human cells. This could explain some of the increased physical fitness that comes with exposure to sunlight. Certainly, sunlight is the source of energy for the entire plant kingdom and man may also derive direct energy from the rays of the sun….
Sunlight even helps with diabetes:
When diabetics were exposed to sunlight treatments, their blood sugar dropped and the sugar in the urine decreased or disappeared entirely. The acetone (bad) in bodies also decreased or vanished. Natural sunlight appeared to provide the best results….
Exposure to sunlight lowers blood pressure:
Unknown to most persons, the sun has a dramatic effect on blood pressure. In a study done on average human subjects, the blood pressure dropped on an average of 6 mm Hg systolic and 8 mm Hg diastolic after a single sunlight treatment. In individuals with high blood pressure, the effect was more striking. Some patients had the systolic pressure drop as much as 40 mm Hg and the diastolic by 20 mm Hg. This effect lasted up to five or six days. The Russians are using sunlight to lower blood pressure at their health resorts and are getting excellent results. The fact that sunning does lower the blood pressure in a high percentage of cases testifies that sunlight could be used effectively as an antihypertensive agent.
Not only does the blood pressure drop following exposure, but also the heart takes advantage of the decreased pressure in the body and starts pumping more blood. The output of blood by the heart has been shown to increase by an average of 39% in over two thirds of patients tested….
The sun aids by increasing the resistance of the individual. Sunlight increases the production and stimulates the activity of lymphocytes, neutrophils, and other cells of the immune system. These cells in turn produce more antibodies (gamma globulin) and interferon to circulate throughout the body. The net effect is that the individual’s defenses against disease are greatly strengthened. A strong immune system not only will help to protect one against the common cold, flu, and other infectious diseases, but can also inhibit cancer formation and progression….
Sunlight can decrease cholesterol, high blood pressure, blood sugar, and the incidence of malignant internal cancers. It also builds up immunity to infectious diseases and provides vitamin D….
Exposure to sunlight results in fewer illnesses:
After an individual is exposed to ultraviolet light, the neutrophils in his blood are stimulated to eat germs more rapidly. In some research, it was shown that they doubled their ability to engulf bacteria. If the sun is able to eliminate bacteria from our air, water, and skin, and is able to strengthen the immune system of a host, it would naturally follow that persons who are regularly exposed to ultraviolet light would develop fewer illnesses. This is exactly the clinical result observed…. Sunshine aids in maintaining man’s constant war against disease.
The health benefits of exposure to sunlight also include mental and emotional – psychological – wellness enhancement; Dr. Kine writes:
It is obvious to everyone that there is something about a sunny day that is mood-elevating….
One very nervous patient of mine had tried everything to calm her nerves: tranquilizers, vitamins, minerals, and meditation. Nothing seemed to work. I informed her of the relaxing benefits associated with sunlight and suggested she try sunbathing following moments of emotional trauma. When next I saw her, she was delighted with the wonderfully relaxing effect of the sun baths, which far surpassed any benefit she had found from other modes of treatment. She continues to be an advocate of the tranquilizing effect of the sun….
In regard to the above, we Essenes like to combine meditation with sunbathing! We also agree with the finding that will be described below: SUNLIGHT MAKES YOU FEEL WONDERFUL! ☺Dr. Kine continues:
In a study done at University of Illinois the effects of sunlight treatments on physical fitness were observed. It was noticed that the students who got the sunlight treatments showed greater interest in their classwork, attended classes more regularly, and voted unanimously to continue the treatments following the experiment. A typical comment from students was: “I think the light has kept me from feeling tired during my long hours of study at night. I have felt more wide awake during the day since I had the ultraviolet treatment.” It has been shown that sunlight treatments actually affect the brain and can help balance the stimulation and depressing nerve impulses. Patients that I work with often comment on how wonderful they feel following a series of sunbaths, and almost all feel a real need to continue with the treatments.
It elicits responses such as “wonderful”, “beautiful”, and “great”. Those who take advantage of the weather by sunbathing find that the sun definitely has a tranquilizing effect, more that the effect one obtains from just lying down and relaxing or resting….
Besides the many great health benefits of sunbathing listed by Dr. Kine, he is about to enlighten us to two other benefits: It helps form stronger, bigger muscles and ‘turns us on’ sexually: it is an aphrodisiac for both men and women, though the effect is somewhat stronger on men. Let’s start with the bigger, stronger muscles, then I will describe the sexy benefit! ☺
…. “the sun feeds the muscles.” The Romans made use of the sun in training their gladiators, for they knew that sunlight seemed to strengthen and enlarge the muscles. There seems to be conclusive evidence that sunlight produces a metabolic effect in the body that is very similar to physical training. Tuberculosis patients being treated by sunbathing have been observed to have well-developed muscles with very little fat, even though they have not exercised for months. Beneficial effects which are apparently the same as those of an endurance exercise program can be achieved by a series of exposures to sunlight….
The Greeks had an unusual practice called arenation: exercising nude on a warm sandy beach. This practice, they believed, developed the muscles to their maximum potential.
Kine is about to get into the sexy stuff! ☺ No, it has nothing to do with running naked on the beach – though that does sound fun ☺ – it has to do with our hormones! But first a few words about one of my own favorite naked beach activities: rather than run naked on the beach, I prefer to dance naked on the beach! Seriously – see: no smiley face! – I highly recommend that you try that, provided you can find an empty beach. The beach that I take people to after our National Essene Gathering each year in Oregon – ‘Hobbit Beach’ – is, once in a while, completely empty of humans except for this one. I take advantage of those rare occasions! ☺
Dr. Kine reports that though the effect is even stronger with men, sunlight elevates sex-related hormones significantly in both men and women:
Sunlight elevates female hormones, and will elevate male hormones even more rapidly…. When the chest or back is exposed to sunlight, the male hormones may increase by 120%. When the genital area is exposed, the hormones increase by 200%….
Later in this chapter, I will share an excerpt on solar teachings by the Nasarean Apostle Apollos that not only includes the following information related to the aphrodisiac effect of sunlight on the genitals, but much more. I choose to share the following portion now because it is directly related to the topic of sunlight on the genitals. In The Holy Megillah, Apostle Apollos states:
“Although this is a sensitive topic, I have chosen to illuminate the great virtue of giving appropriate sun exposure to the genitals.
Since I am male, I can only speak with authority on my own sunbathing experience as a man and encourage women to see how their own bodies respond to naked sunbathing….
“I have consistently noted that, in the context of appropriate naked sunbathing, my testicles feel profoundly empowered.
I feel the power in the sunlight enter my testicles and thereby regenerate not only that part of my body, but my entire body.
I advocate exposing your genitals to an appropriate amount of sunlight, and that is accomplished by sunbathing naked in an appropriate location that will not shock your neighbors!….
“I have noticed that appropriate sunlight on the genitals brings in so much energy to that area that, if one so chooses, one can then apply that energy to sexual activity….
“In naked sunbathing, the whole body is empowered by sunlight, not only the area of the genitals.
I simply am advocating that you not cover the area of the genitals every time that you sunbathe, since that area thrives on appropriate exposure to sunlight.
“Now hear this: The extra energy that you get from exposing the genitals to an appropriate dose of sunlight need not be used as an aphrodisiac; rather, the energy can be used to empower any creative activity. Try this and you will see that this practice is very real and very powerful.”
Clearly then, when we sunbathe, we should give each side a turn! ☺ Miriam the Magdalene thinks so; as we will read in a lengthy, many-faceted discussion on naked sunbathing reported in the Megillah. That discussion will include some romance and, by some participants in the Sabbath Sunbathing Group Experience, a description of what the sunbathing experience was like with the additional ingredient of boiled Ganjah! (Yes, a few of the group ate boiled marijuana, but the majority did not and also had very powerful meditations and interesting things to report in the subsequent group discussion that follows the report of the experience itself.)
But first, a bit of parting advice from Dr. Kine that includes the unorthodox recommendation to not put any sort of sun lotion or sun screen on your skin for sunbathing (the boldface used above and below was added by me, Day);Dr. Kine writes:
“What kind of cream, lotion, or screen do I put on my skin while sunbathing?” This question must be answered with an emphatic, “No kind!” Clean skin is the best (skin washed with plain water to remove soap films and cosmetics that may sensitize it…. In most temperate climates it is possible to sunbathe the year around if you get out of the wind. On bright, sunny winter days it is a fabulous experience to lie in the warm sun….”
I simply but enthusiastically respond to that advice with a capped and bolded word: AMEN! That is what I have intuited but I remind us all of the key word ‘appropriate’ in all things including whether or not to use sun screen; we are each in unique situations that should be wisely contemplated in regard to what in a given situation is most appropriate. ‘Appropriateness’ varies very much from one individual to the next in all things – including sunbathing and the use of sun screen products in any given situation.
Now we move to the promised excerpt from Magdalene that includes not only the Ganjah reference but a number of fascinating and profoundly informative – downright ILLUMINATIVE – statements on the Solar Sunbathing Group Experience by various participants. Though I reserve the right to break into the lengthy excerpt whenever I feel like adding a comment ☺, the full excerpt will include verses 11 through 43 of Chapter 81 of the Godspell portion of The Holy Megillah: Nasarean Bible of The Essene Way.
Magdalene Proposes A Group Sunbathing Experience followed by a Report on the Experience by Several of the Participants
11. Miriam said, “Let us spend today, the Sabbath, communing with the sun and the Seventh Heaven.
12. Let us each find a private place to be naked beneath the sun for personal Solar Meditation.
13. As Yahshua has taught you, lay down on your back – on a blanket – and sunbathe with eyes closed, but not so long that you burn.
14. It is never good to burn your skin!15. “We are a diverse group in terms of racial heritage and skin color; that was on purpose!
16. Those that are as light-skinned as Ra’am and his sons are more likely to burn than I am; ebony skin does not easily burn.”
Here comes Magdalene’s reference to her practice of trying to get some sun on both front and back:
17. “After being face-up for about half the duration, roll over and you will reduce the chance of burning.
18. Rolling over is also good in Solar Meditation because it stimulates more of your body.
19. I love the sun on my front, but my spine also wants a turn!”
Now prepare yourself to read a passage of truly significant information that you can use in your personal spiritual practice!!! Magdalene continues the discourse that we just paused with the following instructions on how to perform a Solar Meditation Practice that may just be her – and Yahshua’s – very favorite form of meditation: (Okay readers – especially the very ‘Wow-prone’ readers named Terese and Omni – do I get a ‘Wow!’ here? I mean, just think: we are about to get the favorite – or at least, ‘perhaps the favorite’ – meditation practice of Yahshua and Miriam! Revealed in naked truth and living color! Now! And you are here! Wow!!! ☺ Magdalene continues from where we left off:
20. Naked Solar Meditation – especially when combined with the Love Breath – is perhaps My favorite form of meditation, and Yahshua feels the same!
21. Though I said that each of you should find your own private place for this meditation, I invite Yahshua to share My blanket!”
Recall that we do the Love Breath meditation practice by imagining that we are inhaling love on each in-breath, then bathing in that love as we briefly retain the breath, then exhaling – sharing – the love on the out-breath. We breathe in the unconditional love of Deity for ourselves, briefly retain the breath as we are bathed and healed by it, then exhale – share, radiate – that love with our environment. So, Miriam is informing us that she and Yahshua especially like to link the Love Breath Practice with Naked Sunbathing Practice.
That romantic invitation of Miriam to Yahshua above – the invitation to share her blanket – sparked some similar invitations amongst the participants in the Sabbath Solar Meditation Experience:
22. Sita said, “I make the same offer to Yohanan!”
23. Negohah joked, “Yohanan, are you blushing or has the sun already turned your face red?”
24. Pehri looked at Negohah and said, “Yes, I accept your unspoken invitation to share your blanket for the meditation.”
25. Negohah laughed then said, “I do believe that in your old age you have become very telepathic!”
26. Pehri joked: “I knew it was either that or senility!”
27. Everyone laughed.
Next begins the portion of the excerpt where various of the participants – the participants being the whole group of Travel Companions of the Lord and Lady – begin sharing their personal observations about the experience later that evening:
Positive Experiences With the Naked Sunbathing Meditation Voiced by Participants
28. Later that day, at the Evening Service beside the campfire, some of the Companions voiced their positive experiences with the Naked Sunbathing Meditation.
29. A common theme was the way that, in such a deep state of relaxation, the solar rays clearly induced creative ideas, spiritual realizations, and powerful inspirations, as well as an enhanced feeling of profound well-being.
In other words – in this case ‘modern English slang’ – they were experiencing a ‘Natural High on Sunlight’ (though, as will soon be revealed as the text unfolds, some included a particular natural herb in the alchemical cauldron).
Notice the high degree of conscious awareness associated with the qualitative description of the experience as it unfolded for each participant in the passage below:
30. All of the Companions agreed that they had noticed those things [Day: those things being the aforementioned ‘solar rays that induced creative ideas, spiritual realizations, and powerful inspirations, as well as an enhanced feeling of profound well-being’] begin to kick-in after a period of sunbathing and to grow progressively stronger before culminating in a period of deep relaxation with little mental activity, a sort of ‘hummm’ of relaxed well-being after a series of solar-inspired illuminations.
I am inspired to wax poetic: Wow! (Well, ‘poetic’ is in the eye of the beholder! ☺) It continues:
31. Birdsong said it this way: “I felt the creativity kick-in after a period of solar stimulation and made note of the great ideas and realizations that entered my consciousness.
32. That experience became progressively stronger until, when any more creative ideas would have felt like ‘too much’ for one session, I went deeper into pure relaxation mode.
33. When I say that I made ‘note’ of the ideas and realizations, I mean that I actually wrote them down.
34. Because I then did not have to put any attention on remembering the ideas for later action, I was able to more deeply relax.
35. It felt as though, having birthed creative ideas due to the combination of the solar rays and the deep relaxation induced by this physical position, I then entered an even deeper state of relaxation.”
36. Orah also spoke, saying: “Me too; and then, toward the end, that deeper state of relaxation flowed into a phase that was similar to ‘lucid dreaming’ but without even a hint of sleep.
37. I entered this nice ‘in between state’ – between wake and sleep but with no danger of falling asleep – and, just as with the earlier stages of the experience, this stage was enhanced by the solar rays on my skin. 38. The solar rays enhanced each of the several phases of the Naked Solar Meditation which, by the way, I like to also call ‘Naked Sunbath Meditation’.
39. And each time I have practiced Naked Sunbath Meditation, behold: An inner awareness notifies me when to end the session before going too long and burning my skin.”
Very profound observations!
And now you get the Ganjah-related portion of the excerpt that I previously promised:
40. Ta’om, brother of Yohanan and son of Ra’am, said: “Some of us, myself included, earlier ate boiled ganjah.
41. Although Naked Solar Meditation is wonderful without ganjah, I find that the ganjah definitely enhances the experience.”
42. Yohanan and Ra’am enthusiastically responded, “Amen to that!”
43. Negohah playfully elbowed Ra’am and said: “You and your sons are a good example of the old proverb, ‘The seed does not fall far from the tree!’”
The above joke by Negohah, the most elderly of the Nasarean Wizardesses and known to be very funny – as well as very wise – makes more since when you know that Ra’am, whose name mean Thunder, is the wizardly father of twin sons – Ta’aom (‘Tom’ or ‘Twin’) and Yohanan (for short ‘Yohan’ or ‘John’). The two twin sons (being two of the highest ranking students and closest friends of Yahshua) were known in Nasarean circles as ‘The Sons of Thunder’. Ra’am was a known lover of ganjah (it has been proven that marijuana was used in ancient Israel; even mainstream Jews burned it in the temple) and so, as Negohah humorously pointed out after noticing that ‘The Sons of Ra’am’ also praised the herb, “The seed does not fall far from the tree”.
What better moment than now to share with you a key solar-related healing of Ra’am’s broken hip by Yahshua? After that brief account of a solar-energy-infused, touch-healing session whereby Yahshua helped heal Ra’am, I choose to continue our dance with the solar teachings of the Magdalene. Can I get an AMEN!? Let’s also have an ‘A-WOMEN!’ ☺
Chronologically, the following incident occurred much earlier than the above Esoteric Sunbathing Experience that featured Ra’am:
1. On the outskirts of Jerusalem, as previously planned, the Lord met his first two disciples, Yohanan and Sita. [Day: although they had been the first two initiated disciples, since that time the Lord had initiated seven others and was up to nine at this point.]
2. Behold: with Yohanan and Sita was Ta’om, the twin brother of Yohanan.
3. Ta’om requested initiation as a disciple of Yahshua.
4. The Lord initiated Ta’om as His tenth disciple and said, “The Sons of Thunder, the holy prophet Ra’am, are welcome at My side.”5. Ta’om said, “Our father, Ra’am, has a broken hip.
6. Otherwise he would be here with us.
7. He said to tell You, ‘Ra’am is with You always; for, lo: Thunder is not parted from Lightning.’8. The Lord replied, “How did holy Ra’am break his hip?”
9. Ta’om answered, “He saw in a vision that three men were raping a woman.
10. He ran to the place and defeated the three men in physical combat and rescued the woman.
11. His hip was broken in the battle.”12. Yahshua said, “Take me to Ra’am.
13. For I feel called to lay My hands upon his hip and pray for speedy mending.”
14. When the Lord and His first ten disciples reached Ra’am, the injured prophet said to the Lord: “Behold: the Lightning from Jah-Jah comes as a Son of Man!”
Here comes the part about the Sun:
15. The Lord raised His hands to the noon sun and received healing light into His palms.
16. Then He placed His hands upon the broken hip of Ra’am and chanted words of healing power.
17. Behold: before nightfall Ra’am’s hip was fully mended!
18. Ra’am gave thanks and Yahshua said, “When called from within to act, I act.
19. I was called to this healing by Jah-Jah.
20. Wherefore, give thanks to Jah-Jah for your healed hip.
21. There are more injured in the world than I can heal by physical touch.
22. Wherefore I bring healing teachings that will rise in ascending spirals giving perpetual birth to ascending spirals of ever more joyful vibration in Yah.
23. Amen!
24. Yea, so be it!
25. But when called from within to lay My hands on an injured human or animal, I answer.”26. Ra’am replied, “I also have a calling from within.
27. I am called to follow You as a disciple.”
28. Yahshua said, “The call of discipleship is indeed from within.”
29. Then the Lord baptized Ra’am as His eleventh disciple.
In the touch-healing of Ra’am by Yahshua, we had both the purrrfect recipient and the purrrfect touch-healer for such an unusually ‘miraculous’ healing to successfully manifest. Let us remember that Yahshua acknowledged Jah-Jah, and that he raised his hands to the Sun and received an extra dose of particular frequencies of ‘Solar Juice’.
Now we will dance in the Light of several Solar Teachings of the Magdalene! The following excerpt purrrfectly resonates with the one we just shared about the Sun and touch-healing:
941. Miriam said, “As we face the sun, let our hands be raised high in homage to the Seventh Heaven of this world.
942. Lo: let the palms of your hands face the sun directly.
943. Feel the warmth of the sun enter your palms and empower your hands.
944. Your touch-healing powers are at their highest immediately after absorbing sunlight.”
Well, we now know why Yahshua did exactly that immediately prior to his touch-healing of Ra’am. Miriam continues:
945. “Wherefore perform this ritual with palms lifted toward the Sun before touch-healing sessions, when circumstances permit.
946. And remember, the best touch-healer when you need healing should be yourself!
947. The Essene Way is to heal oneself and to teach others to heal themselves.
948. Even so, in serious illness we graciously receive the assistance of expert healers other than ourselves, but then we choose wisely.
949. Likewise, when others need assistance, we help, but always our aim is to teach others to know their own bodies and to be self-healers.
950. Prayerful touch-healing is called The Golden Therapy because it is the Royal Therapy.
951. When we absorb the golden warmth of the sun into our palms they are filled with healing power that lasts a day or so.
952. This works much better if our spiritual consciousness is attuned to the Sun in an attitude of true devotion to the Seventh Heaven.
953. Behold: We absorb the healing light of the Sun through the skin of our entire body, not only our hands.
954. We do this in the morning or late afternoon, when the sun is warm but does not burn, and only for a short while.
955. For, lo: we need water to survive, but if we drink an entire lake, we die!
956. Likewise, too much sun can kill us!”
The above excerpt is from by far the lengthiest lecture on the Sun given by Miriam the Magdalene in The Holy Megillah: Nasarean Bible of The Essene Way. That long lecture introduces several key Magdalene Solar Rituals and is so significant that I will provide much more of it beginning immediately below.
In Chapter 30 of the Godspell (New Testament portion of the Megillah), in a section subtitled ‘Sermon on Mount Shemesh and Initiation into The Order of Shemesh in Shemayah’, we read:
822. On a beautiful sunny morning on the Sabbath, Miriam walked in joy with Her disciples.
823. We walked on winding trails that spiraled up through green forests to the top of Mount Shemesh.
824. It was here, atop Mount Shemesh, that the first meetings of the Nasarean Order called Shemesh in Shemayah were held ages ago.
825. That order is for Nasareans who demonstrate a high degree of progress in the first lessons of Essene Mountain of Peace.
826. ‘Progress’ in first lessons is estimated according to one’s walk upon both the social path and the scholarly path in Essene Mountain of Peace, as revealed in The Precepts of Zahyen.
The narrator of this account is Sarah, the Authorized Scribe of the Lord Christ and the Lady Christ. The occasion of the event is the initiation of the Magdalene’s seven disciples – this is prior to the Magdalene having departed Ethiopia to join Yahshua in a co-ministry – into a special order within our Essene Mystery School (‘Essene Mountain of Peace’ is the name of our Mystery School) intended for students that are doing well in their studies: THE ORDER OF SHEMESH IN SHEMAYAH.
I will explain the meaning of the name of this order. Shemesh means Sun, the root esh being the Hebrew word for fire. This particular mount was called Shemesh because it was an excellent location to commune with the Sun, the summit seeming to reach up toward the Sun. Shemayah, in this context, is the Nasarean word for Air, but in other contexts can mean heaven or space. Shemayah is pronounced: shem-aw-yaw. It should be noted that both Shemesh and Shemayah include shem which, as a word in its own right, means name and implies The Name or YHWH, the tetragrammaton that is the name for God/Goddess and the expanding All. Shemesh represents the masculine principle (‘Yang’), and Shemayah represents the feminine principle (‘Yin’). The term Shemesh in Shemayah, the name of a Nasarean Order for students that have done well in their early Essene studies and are deemed ready for a further initiation in the Essene Mystery School, illustrates the precept that Shemesh and Shemayah are linked and dependent on one another in the sense that fire needs air in which to burn.
We continue with Godspell Chapter 30 and the walk of Magdalene and her seven disciples – all seven of them female, all having linked up with Miriam in Ethiopia – up the winding, spiral trail toward the top of Mount Shemesh. Sarah continues to explain that, to be eligible for this initiation into The Order of Shemesh in Shemayah, a student must have walked both the ‘social path’ and the ‘scholarly path’ with great integrity and success:
827. Those two paths merge to become the One Whole Response of a Nasarean to the call of The Four Pillars of Discipleship.
828. That One Whole Response is our True Walk of the Heart and Mind in the Essene Way.
829. Each of the seven who now walked with Miriam up the path of Mount Shemesh had pledged to walk both the scholarly and the social paths in integrity.
830. For, lo: Miriam told us at the outset of the walk: “If we study every day, pronouncing correctly the Words of Power gained by excellent studentship, but gossip behind the back of our sister, we have successfully walked the scholarly path but have stumbled on the social path of the Nasarean Religion of the Essene Way.
831. I say unto My disciples: Sisters, walk the True Walk without gossip, even as your feet now tread the path up Mount Shemesh without stumbling.”
832. Wherefore, as we seven ascended the holy mount with Miriam, we each contemplated our True Walk as Nasareans of the Essene Way.
The Four Pillars of Discipleship mentioned above refers to:
1) Sincerity of Motive (in enrolling in the Essene Mystery School in the first place and in your ongoing relationship with the school);
2) Diligence in Studentship;
3) Persistence through time in the Mystery School called Essene Mountain of Peace;
4) Loyalty to the school and to the Lord Christ (Yahshua), Lady Christ (Miriam), Jah (Father God), and Jahlah (Mother Goddess), the Deities that our school and our religion serve.
So, the disciples walking up the trail of Mount Shemesh with Miriam have met those standards thus far and are deserving of the next level of initiation in the Mystery School: The Order of Shemesh in Shemayah. We continue:
833. Lo: When the Sun was high enough to warm the skin without burning, Miriam ended the walk in a sunny patch of green grass at the summit of Mount Shemesh.
834. This summit provided a clear view of the valley from which we had ascended.
835. Miriam sat beside a beautiful flower patch of diverse colors amidst the green grass.
836. Behold: A flower of each color of the rainbow surrounded Lady Miriam, and sunlight reflected from Her eyes.
As you hopefully recall from the previous chapters in this in this book, those flowers around Miriam being the colors of the rainbow means that they were also the colors associated with the chakras. We continue the account:
837. Her disciples sat in eager joy; for, lo: the previous night beside the fire, Miriam announced that this Sabbath day, atop Mount Shemesh, She would initiate the seven into The Order of Shemesh in Shemayah.
838. For each disciple had thus far proven worthy in The Four Pillars of Discipleship, enough to advance to the next level of initiation in Essene Mountain of Peace.
839. Lo: the holy ritual of initiation would be at the end of the Sabbath Service on Mount Shemesh, which service will now be described.
840. The Lady spoke, saying, “Let us begin with a reading from The Holy Megillah.
841. Sister Migdanah will read a passage from Mattanah.”
842. Migdanah said, “In Mattanah we read: When Abraham and Sa’arah came to this realm to assist the Great Work of Elohim, the realm was bohu, a void.
843. And they chanted the Great Invocation of Elohim, which is, “Let there be Light”, and they planted the Star Seed, which is the Seed of our Sun.
844. As they watched the seed grow they said: “It now emanates Spiritual Light into this darkness.
845. It is good seed!”
846. And the birth of The Spiritual Light was during The First Great Day of the Creation of our World.
Miriam reads more of that excerpt from the Nasarean Book of Genesis (Mattanah), but we will skip that section since it was previously provided in a previous chapter. Skipping some verses, we pick up the account:
856. After the reading by Migdanah, Miriam played the harp given to Her by Nebiyah, the harp made by Zemira.
857. The disciples joined voices and sang with Miriam.
858. Then, lo: Birdsong drummed on a goatskin drum, the skin being from a beloved goat that died naturally.
859. As Birdsong drummed, the disciples sang, danced, and chanted holy enchantments.
860. After the chanting of the Words of Opening, Miriam preached The Sermon on Air, Sun, and Water, a bit of which now follows.
Although the entire Sermon on Air, Sun, and Water is awesome – your extra-credit assignment is to read the whole sermon – for the purpose of our topic at hand – Sun Yoga and Magdalene’s Solar Teachings – I will mostly just provide the sun-related portion of Magdalene’s sermon. Below, Miriam teaches several Essene Solar Practices to her seven disciples. The first one is called, The Alchemy of Water and Sun:
Miriam Teaches a Solar Ritual Called The Alchemy of Water and Sun
929. Now we again sip water as we sit in the sun and breathe deeply of the Angel of Air.
930. In so doing, we commune with one of the Four Primary Triads of the Tree of Life.
931. Behold: let the water sit in the sun so that later, when we sip again, the water will be filled with the fire of the sun.
932. That sipping is called, The Alchemy of Water and Sun, and is performed at the Mid-day Peace Contemplation, in open air, by initiates of The Order of Shemesh in Shemayah, when conditions permit.
933. If your circumstances do not often permit this, carefully examine your circumstances and commitment.
934. Yea, and if unpolluted water is not at hand, be warned: the time has come to relocate!
Above, Miriam’s reference to this practice being related to “one of the Four Primary Triads of the Tree of Life” refers to the three root forces that appear together on one side of the Essene Tree of Life illustration; those three roots are: Sun, Water, and Air. We sit breathing air as the water and sun do their alchemical dance, and then we later enjoy sipping that sun-blessed water.
The next Essene Solar Practice taught by Magdalene in this sermon is a form of solar meditation called, Solar Contemplation in Silent Receptivity:
Miriam Teaches a Solar Practice Called: Solar Contemplation in Silent Receptivity
935. “Now, lo: let us sit in the rays of the sun in silent receptivity.
936. This is called Solar Contemplation in Silent Receptivity and is a meditation practice of The Order of Shemesh in Shemayah.”
Next, Miriam teaches her disciples a Solar Practice called, Solar Veneration. Although I previously shared this portion of the excerpt when we were discussing the relationship between the Sun and touch-healing, now you are receiving it in context:
Miriam Teaches a Solar Practice Called: Solar Veneration
937. After a time of Solar Contemplation, Miriam again spoke, saying, “Let us stand and begin Solar Veneration.
938. This, too, is a practice of The Order of Shemesh in Shemayah.
939. Lo: There are no men here, so let us bare all of our skin to the sun.”940. Miriam and Her seven disciples disrobed.
941. Miriam said, “As we face the sun, let our hands be raised high in homage to the Seventh Heaven of this world.
942. Lo: let the palms of your hands face the sun directly.
943. Feel the warmth of the sun enter your palms and empower your hands.
944. Your touch-healing powers are at their highest immediately after absorbing sunlight.
945. Wherefore perform this ritual with palms lifted toward the Sun before touch-healing sessions, when circumstances permit.946. “And remember, the best touch-healer when you need healing should be yourself!
947. The Essene Way is to heal oneself and to teach others to heal themselves.
948. Even so, in serious illness we graciously receive the assistance of expert healers other than ourselves, but then we choose wisely.
949. Likewise, when others need assistance, we help, but always our aim is to teach others to know their own bodies and to be self-healers.950. “Prayerful touch-healing is called The Golden Therapy because it is the Royal Therapy.
951. When we absorb the golden warmth of the sun into our palms they are filled with healing power that lasts a day or so.
952. This works much better if our spiritual consciousness is attuned to the Sun in an attitude of true devotion to the Seventh Heaven.953. “Behold: We absorb the healing light of the Sun through the skin of our entire body, not only our hands. 954. We do this in the morning or late afternoon, when the sun is warm but does not burn, and only for a short while.
955. For, lo: we need water to survive, but if we drink an entire lake, we die!
956. Likewise, too much sun can kill us!”
It is a scientific fact that sunlight energizes the human organism. Thus, it seems quite logical that our palms raised toward sunlight would in fact be energized by the photons encoded with ‘IF’ (Information Factors). But Miriam also makes clear that this empowerment works much better if our spiritual consciousness is attuned to the Sun in an attitude of true devotion to the Seventh Heaven. Raising our hands to the Sun helps conjure that attitude. Try it!
Miriam begins now to inform her disciples about the Solar Initiation that they will this day receive:
957. Miriam said, “Previously, I have initiated you seven into the Nasarean Religion of the Essene Way.
958. Because your Sincerity, Diligence, Perseverance, and Loyalty have thus far been excellent, this morning you will be rewarded.
959. As your walk in Essene Mountain of Peace unfolds throughout your life, other rewards will come your way.
960. For, lo: the Four Pillars of Discipleship are the work of a lifetime and never cease to bear fruit.
961. But seek not the rewards; rather, seek only the Way.
962. The rewards will follow as natural fruits of the Way if you seek only to walk the Way.
963. When you seek the rewards, the fruit is sour.
964. Rewards and empowerments that come your way without being sought are sweet like unto
ripe fruit.
965. Wherefore I say, let your mind be single.
966. Focus only on the Way, not the fruit.”
Miriam refers below to several Essene Solar Practices including Solar Communion Sipping, the Alchemy of Water and Sun, and the related ‘Second Baptism’ initiation into The Order of Shemesh in Shemayah. That ‘Second Baptism Initiation Ritual is called: The Baptism of Balance in Shemesh in Shemayah.
Miriam Teaches Her Disciples About The Baptism of Balance in Shemesh in Shemayah
967. “Behold: Today, after our Solar Communion Sipping, which is the fruit of our Alchemy of Water and Sun, I will initiate you into The Order of Shemesh in Shemayah.
968. That order is for Nasareans who wish to have enhanced communion with the Temple of Light.
969. You will learn the Solar Mysteries of the Essene Way.
970. You will know that the Sun, Shemesh, shines only in Shemayah.
971. And when you know the balance of Shemesh in Shemayah within you, then you will find the pearl within, as did Isaac, Son of Abraham and Sa’arah.
972. This initiation into Shemesh in Shemayah we call the Second Baptism, for it is for previously baptized Nasareans who are moving up in the Mystery School.
973. This baptism into Shemesh in Shemayah is by the sprinkling of pure water that has been placed in sunlight, even the same water that we sip.
974. This Second Nasarean Baptism is called, The Baptism of Balance in Shemesh in Shemayah.
975. The ritual we perform today symbolizes that Balance.”
Having prepared her seven disciples to receive the initiation, Miriam began the actual ritual:
Miram Leads Her Disciples in the Noon Solar Sipping Practice and Initiates Them Into The Order of Shemesh in Shemayah
976. Miriam led the disciples in the Noon Solar Sipping [Day: this is the sipping at midday of water that was placed in the Sun earlier that day], then initiated the seven into the first mysteries of Shemesh in Shemayah, giving them the first two Words of Power and sprinkling them with holy water and anointing them with oil.
Miriam next provides excellent information on the masculine and feminine principles that are expressed in Shemesh (Yang/Masculine Principle) and Shemayah (Yin/Feminine Principle). The following verses are very tantric:
977. After the Baptism ritual, Miriam again spoke, saying: “Shemayah is the principle of Air in Space, the Living Space of the Mother Ovum, feminine in spin.
978. Esh is the masculine principle of Fire, and is the essence of Shemesh.
979. Shemesh burns with desire for Shemayah.
980. Yea, without Shemayah, Shemesh cannot burn and must return to the realm of potential until the next awakening of his creative urge.
981. Without Shemayah, Shemesh cannot exist.”
Remember: Fire (Shemesh) cannot burn without Air (Shemayah). In fact, Fire burns in Air, which is why the name of the order is Shemesh in Shemayah.
982. “The mating of Shemayah and Shemesh is a spiral dance.
983. That dance is the essence of motion, and motion is not without creative friction.
984. From the creative friction comes forth Sparks of Life and the elements of living worlds.
985. Yet the origin of each Spark of Life is the Still Point called Zero that is the Balance Point at the center of the dance.
986. For, it is from the Still Point that sparks stream forth into physical manifestation in the dance of Shemesh and Shemayah.
987. That Still Point is Yah and is Spirit.
988. Each Living Spark that comes forth from the dance is crowned in Yah.989. “Behold: the Sparks of Life are blown in the wind of Holy Sa’arah [Day: the ‘Creative Whirlwind’ linked to Shemayah), scattered like seeds from a dandelion.
990. And each seed takes on the masculine or feminine spin, but is crowned in Yah, the genderless Center and Circumference.”
You are about to learn about real ‘Fairy Dust’; it is one and the same as ‘Star Dust’:
991. “That spin pulls in ‘star dust’, which we call ‘fairy dust’, the rich Elemental Soil that forms bodies and planets and in which the soul is nourished.
992. From that Elemental Soil countless life-forms and body-types arise.”
We next are taught that we each have both Shemesh and Shemayah within us, one or the other being slightly dominant:
993. “Lo: in these bodies reside the Spark of Life.
994. Within each body is both the masculine and feminine, one being a bit dominant at the level of the soul and body, both crowned in Yah.
995. The soul is the interface between Yah and the body and is the first step of Spirit into sexual differentiation.
996. A soul of the masculine spin is an ish.
997. A soul of the feminine spin is an ishshah.”
The Hebrew word ishshah (pronounced ish-shaw) means woman as distinct from man. It is often used as an adjunct to a more definite term and thus is often unexpressed when translating from Hebrew into English. It is the feminine form of the Hebrew word ish (pronounced eesh), which means man or male person and is likewise often used as an adjunct and left unexpressed in English. The Nasarean sectarian use of the words ishshah and ish differ from the normative Hebrew. Ishshah is the Nasarean sectarian word for a female spiritual entity, a soul of the feminine spin, a woman in the deepest spiritual sense. Ish is the Nasarean sectarian term for a masculine spiritual entity, a man in the deepest spiritual sense. In other words, each spiritual entity takes on either the masculine or feminine polarity at a deeper level than the physical body. The soul is the interface between Yah and the body and is the first step of Spirit into sexual differentiation. The woman who was the wife of Abdiel and ascended to become Ishshah’el, the Messenger of the Earthly Mother, was so deeply feminine that her personal name was Ishshah.
Miriam concludes her many solar-related remarks provided in this sermon as follows:
998. “Lo: the Dance of Sexuality is the very nature and existence of the Mother Ovum, which is the Dance of the Lover and the Beloved.
999. Shemesh in Shemayah is the working out, before your very eyes, of the Great Dance of the Lord and Lady in this star system, at a level you can see and touch, even taste and smell.”
Although that is the end of her solar teachings in that particular sermon, we are not quite done dancing in the Sun with the Magdalene! I will share one more Magdalene excerpt from another section of the Megillah related to the Sun, and then will end this last chapter of this book on Essene Sun Yoga with some additional sayings on the topic from other Essenes, including a bit more from Yahshua. Knowing me, I may even throw in another scholar or two… or three… or… ☺
In the following excerpt from Chapter Eighty-Two of the Godspell section of The Holy Megillah, Miriam and her disciple Sita eat sunshine for lunch! This excerpt includes no words of Magdalene; rather, it is her giving a teaching by example. Next time you are hungry, try a Sunshine Sandwich! ☺
Miriam and Sita Make a Meal of Sunshine!
1. One Sabbath Day, Sita and Magdalene went on a walk in a patch of trees along the Jordan.
2. They disrobed to lay for a while in a sunny spot.
3. Sunbathing for these women would be their meal this day.
4. After having ‘eaten’ their fill of sunshine, they put on their robes and walked to the shore.
5. They sat and sang as a mantra the term, ‘Hallelujah’, taking turns creating new melodies, repeating each melody numerous times, experiencing joyful ecstasy.
Just reading those verses makes me hungry! Nothing is more delicious than sunshine! Yum!
By the way, ‘Hallelujah’ is pronounced ‘HalleluYAH’ because, in Hebrew, it means ‘Praise to Yah’. Only in English is it spelled with the ‘j’ instead of the ‘y’.
In the light of the last excerpt above, I believe that the purrrfect time for sharing a very controversial topic has arrived! ☺
According to many ancient and modern Sun-Loving Spiritual Initiates, we get ‘subtle nutrition’ – energy encoded with information – not just through our skin but also through our eyes. Although that concept is directly linked to the very controversial ancient yogic practice called ‘Solar Gazing’ or ‘Sun Gazing’ (controversial because it you do it wrong you can damage your eyes), YOU NEED NOT INTENTIONALLY GAZE DIRECTLY AT THE SUN TO FEED ON SUNLIGHT THROUGH YOUR EYES. Every moment that you are outside in the sunlight, sunlight is entering your eyes! (Nevertheless, I will soon share instructions on how to perform the controversial ‘Sun Gazing’ safely.)
Previously in this book, I shared an excerpt on a form of ‘Sunset Contemplation’ that, though we did not mention it at the time, constitutes a mild form of ‘Sun Gazing’. Although it was previously shared, I share it again below since we are entering a section of this chapter that will look at ‘kosher’ – ‘acceptable’ (‘safe enough’) – forms of looking directly at the Sun. They are: 1) Looking at the sunset; 2) Looking at the sunrise;
3) Gazing at the reflection of the sun in water. The latter example is not really looking directly at the sun but it is a related, very safe practice, and so I include it here. As we will make clear in the next several excerpts, ‘Sun Gazing’ – looking briefly directly at the Sun – is only advisable at sunrise and sunset; and that is what occurs in the following previously-shared excerpt from the Megillah:
35. Later on the same Sabbath Day on which Miriam and Sita meditated in the woods, Zabdiel and Tehillah sat together and contemplated the sunset.
36. Afterward, Tehillah asked Zabdiel: “I wonder if just relaxing while watching the sun as it sets is a meditation practice even when one is not intentionally meditating?”
37. Zabdiel replied, “Doubly so!”
38. Tehillah laughed and nodded affirmatively, then said: “I have an insight to share.
39. This morning as you and I watched the sunrise, and then throughout the early morning as the sun continued to rise, I felt energized and inspired to launch my daily activities.
40. It feels very stimulating.
41. That is true each morning that I commune with the sun.
42. Then, this evening watching the sun as it set, it was a relaxing experience.
43. It felt like the perfect decompression from my stimulating activities of the day to the relaxing after-dark phase of evening.
44. That is true every day.
45. I find it fascinating that even an early phase of the sunrise that is no warmer, no more fiery than a correlating phase of the Sunset, nevertheless feels inherently stimulating, and a sunset feels inherently relaxing.
46. And midday feels like both those properties are equally present.”
47. Zabdiel replied, “That makes sense when you consider that the sun is at midday ‘centered’ in the balance between the sunrise properties and the sunset properties.
48. I will add that I have noticed, myself, all that you just described.”49. Tehillah said, “Nasarean Halikah – our ‘Whole Set of Daily and Intermittent Spiritual Practices’ that is our ‘Walk’, our ‘Path’ – encourages experiencing all three.
50. We are encouraged to ‘Greet the Sun’ at sunrise or soon after.
51. We are encouraged to hold the ‘Midday Peace Contemplation’ in sunlight when conditions permit.
52. We are encouraged to perform ‘Sunset Contemplation’ when conditions permit.”53. Zabdiel replied: “What an awesome spiritual path we walk!”
54. Tehillah affirmed: “Yes, let us give thanks for the Nasarean Halikah!
55. It is, to use one of my new Sanskrit words, the Sadhana from Heaven!”
56. Zabdiel asked: “If I remember Yahshua correctly, ‘Sadhana’ is the Sanskrit word that, like our Hebrew word Halikah, refers to one’s ‘Whole Set of Daily and Intermittent Spiritual Practices’.
57. Is that correct?”
58. Tehillah answered, “Yes, you are correct.”59. Zabdiel and Tehillah held hands and went to join the rest of the Companions for Evening Service.
Above, Zabdiel – the brother of Yahshua’s father, Joseph – and his wife, Tehillah, are performing what they call ‘Sunset Contemplation’ which involves gazing at the sunset. In the excerpt, they also refer to doing the same thing in the morning at sunrise. Interestingly, they both agree that the sunrise practice feels stimulating, while the sunset practice feels relaxing. Notice that although they refer to the Midday Peace Contemplation being performed in the sunlight, they do not link that practice to looking directly at the sun. The sunrise and sunset contemplations do include a bit of ‘Solar Gazing’ (briefly gazing at the sun).
I will share a Buddhist example of ‘Solar Gazing at Sunset’ for meditation, but first I will comment on the interesting fact that both Zabdiel and Tehillah find the Sunrise Contemplation to be stimulating, and find the Sunset Contemplation relaxing. Edmond Bordeaux Szekely – an author of many books about the Essenes who died around 1980 – once explained to me (I knew him when I was a young man nearly five decades ago) why he believed that morning-to-noon sunlight was predominantly stimulating and late afternoon/early evening sunlight was predominantly relaxing. In the morning-to-noon period, the human organism experiences the sunlight as becoming progressively stronger hour-by-hour, whereas in the late afternoon-to-evening period, we experience the sunlight as withdrawing its inherently stimulating energy. In the morning, the Sun is in communication with our entire organism, telling each cell and organ to ‘become extremely active’. In the evening, the Sun tells us: it is time to relax! I have often had the Sun in the evening tell me (in its coded language that my consciousness immediately translated): TIME TO DO SOME RELAXING STRETCHES AND READ A BOOK IN BED! ☺
In an article that I wrote on meditation, I provided a list of ten Buddhist meditation practices given in a book titled Universal Meditation. The author, Zen teacher Aiyoshi Kawahata, M.D., included a Sunset Meditation practice on the list:
Nichirin-kan: Focusing one’s [attention] on the sunset.
I am now going to provide in its entirety what in The Holy Megillah is a short chapter titled, The Solar Illuminations of The Apostle Apollos. For a ‘chapter’ it is brief – three pages or so depending on the font size used – but it represents one of the lengthiest excerpts on solar teachings found in the Megillah.
I previously provided the portion that related to our discussion of the aphrodisiac-effect of sunlight on the genitals, but I will include that portion again below so that you get it in context.
The following solar teachings of Apollos provide a very balanced, safety-first approach to the ‘controversial’ topic of ‘solar gazing’. In fact, Apollos, concerned that some persons will harm their eyes by not following the safety protocol for looking directly at the Sun – that protocol is to only do so briefly at sunrise and/or at sunset – shares that he is more comfortable teaching people to gaze at the reflection of the sun in a pool of water. (The following ‘Solar Illuminations of Apollos’ appears as Chapter 104 in The Holy Megillah: Nasarean Bible of The Essene Way.)
The Solar Illuminations of Apostle Apollos
PART ONE:
Three Solar Illuminations of The Royal Family of The Sun Given by Magdalene to Apollos
1. I, Wizard Apollos, disciple of Yahshua and Miriam, initiate of the Order of Shemesh in Shemayah, hereby gift to future generations of the order three SolarIlluminations that were gifted to me by Miriam the Magdalene.
2. The Lady Christ gave me these illuminations when She and Yahshua initiated me into Their new version of the ancient Order of Shemesh in Shemayah.
3. Miriam later requested that these solar illuminations, including those subsequently composed by me, Apollos, be included in The Holy Megillah, since they are helpful to all Nasareans and other persons that sincerely desire a loving, reciprocal relationship with the Sun.
4. The Sun-Lovers of the Order of Shemesh in Shemayah will especially appreciate the following information.
5. When I say that Miriam and Yahshua initiated me into Their ‘new version’ of the ancient Order of Shemesh in Shemayah, the word ‘new’ refers to the fact that They re-established all of the Nasarean Mystery School Orders in order to incorporate Their ‘Full Gospel’ Nasarean Religion of The Essene Way into the curriculum and practice of each.
6. Thus, the ‘new’ Order of Shemesh in Shemayah is based not only on the Nasarean ‘Old Testament’, but also the Nasarean ‘New Testament’ that we call The Holy Godspell.7. Behold: I, Wizard Apollos, hereby inform you that each of the three illuminations that immediately follow were composed by a member of what I term, ‘The Royal Family of The Sun’.
8. That is not to say that these are the only members of that family, but that all three of these great Beings are, indeed, key members of that family.
9. The first illumination was written by Abraham the Abram, High Priest of the Sun.
10. The second illumination was written by Sa’arah the Sarah, High Priestess of the Sun.
11. And the third was written by Isaac, the Son of Abraham and Sa’arah, who came to Earth as Noah and now serves as the Chief Angel of the Tree of Life Root Force of Water.
A Solar Illumination Written by Abraham, High Priest of the Sun, Given to Apollos by Magdalene
12. “I am the male fire that burns in Shemayah when I dance with her.
13. Only when I dance with her in the manner symbolized by the emblem of our order do I blaze in fulfillment in her.
14. For, fire does not burn without a space with air, which is Shemayah, the feminine principle, the Creative Whirlwind in Space.
15. And the dance of Shemesh and Shemayah is symbolized by the equilibrium expressed in the symbol of our order.
16. Contemplate the symbol of the Order of Shemesh in Shemayah and notice that the equilibrium is dynamic, a balance that is expressed in movement – a Dance.”
A Solar Illumination Written by Sa’arah, High Priestess of the Sun, Given to Apollos by Magdalene
17. “I am the Creative Whirlwind of the feminine spin, Shemayah, when I dance with the Living Fire of the masculine spin, Shemesh.
18. Within me is the space that will be fertilized by the spark.
19. That spark burns not, unless it dances with me, yea, and in me.
20. Shemesh is within Shemayah, and Shemayah is within Shemesh, as symbolized by the emblem of the Order of Shemesh in Shemayah.
21.The circle that surrounds the masculine and feminine polarities is our essential oneness in Yah.
22. Our ecstasy is in the dance within the circle.
23. That dance is the gift of sexual expression in Yah consciousness.
24. Contemplate the equilibrium – the balance – symbolized by the emblem.
25. Contemplate also the movement hinted at within the equilibrium.
26. Know this: That movement, our ‘dance’, is our play, and we love to play!
27. And know this: everything that steps onto the cosmic dance floor is dancing that dance!”
A Solar Illumination Written by Isaac/Noah, Prince of the Sun,Child of Abraham and Sa’arah, Given to Apollos by Magdalene
28. “Know this: the symbol of the Order of Shemesh in Shemayah is also the symbol of you.
29. You are an offspring of that dance!
30. And you are the dancer!
31. Have fun and play nice!”32. Having shared the Three Solar Illuminations of the Royal Family of the Sun that had been given to him by Magdalene, next – in a section of the scroll titled, ‘Part Two’- Apollos shares some additional solar teachings, including the following one that was spoken to him by Yahshua.
PART TWO:
A Solar Illumination Spoken by Yahshua to Apollos and Five Solar Illuminations Authored by Apollos
A Solar Illumination Spoken by Yahshua to Apollos
33. Yahshua said to me, “Apollos, study the solar illuminations of the ancients and of your contemporaries, but also compose your own illuminations and teach your students to do likewise.”
34. I, Wizard Apollos, encourage all Nasareans to act on that advice of our Lord.
35. In response to that advice, I composed the following five solar illuminations.
The First Solar Illumination Composed by Apollos: ‘Appropriate Naked Sunbathing’
36. The word ‘appropriate’ is always important.
37. In the phrase ‘appropriate naked sunbathing’ the word ‘appropriate’ is profoundly significant.
38. Know this: the difference between ‘appropriate’ and ‘inappropriate’ naked sunbathing can be the difference between life and death.
39. Make an effort not to burn your skin and realize that, when naked, some areas of your body that are not used to sun exposure should receive less exposure than some other areas.
40. For example, in the case of a man, the testicles.
The Second Solar Illumination Composed by Apollos: ‘Appropriate Exposure of The Genitals to the Sun’
41. The warning I gave in my first illumination does not mean that you should not expose your genitals to the sun; quite the opposite: I am about to advocate that you do so for an ‘appropriate duration’ but wanted to emphasize the importance of not burning your skin.
42. Although this is a sensitive topic, I have chosen to illuminate the great virtue of giving appropriate sun exposure to the genitals.
43. Since I am male, I can only speak with authority on my own sunbathing experience as a man and encourage women to see how their own bodies respond to naked sunbathing.44. My second solar illumination is this: I have consistently noted that, in the context of appropriate naked sunbathing, my testicles feel profoundly empowered.
45. I feel the power in the sunlight enter my testicles and thereby regenerate not only that part of my body, but my entire body.
46. I advocate exposing your genitals to an appropriate amount of sunlight, and that is accomplished by sunbathing naked in an appropriate location that will not shock your neighbors!
The Third Solar Illumination Composed by Apollos: ‘Naked Sunbathing as an Aphrodisiac’
47. It is a fact that I have never had a reason or inclination to seek an aphrodisiac; nevertheless, I have noticed that appropriate sunlight on the genitals brings in so much energy to that area that, if one so chooses, one can then apply that energy to sexual activity.
The Fourth Solar Illumination Composed by Apollos: ‘Empower Any Creative Activity’
48. In naked sunbathing, the whole body is empowered by sunlight, not only the area of the genitals.
49. I simply am advocating that you not cover the area of the genitals every time that you sunbathe, since that area thrives on appropriate exposure to sunlight.50. Now hear this: The extra energy that you get from exposing the genitals to an appropriate dose of sunlight need not be used as an aphrodisiac; rather, the energy can be used to empower any creative activity.
51. Try this and you will see that this practice is very real and very powerful.
The Fifth Solar Illumination Composed by Apollos: Gazing at the Reflection of the Sun in a Pool of Water
52. While one can safely gaze briefly at the rising sun in the early morning and the setting sun in the late evening without causing harm to the eyes, I have nevertheless known more than one yogi that damaged their eyes by gazing too long at the sun too late in the morning or too early in the evening.
53. Although I practice briefly gazing at the rising sun and setting sun, having seen others harm their eyes by not confining the practice to sunrise and sunset – and keeping it brief – I am more comfortable sharing with others the following much safer version of solar gazing.
54. The following version is based on gazing at the reflection of the Sun in a pool of water.55. Perform Gazing at the Reflection of the Sun in a Pool of Water either beside a natural pool of water such as a pond or lake, or, at your home, create a small pool of water in an area that gets good sunlight.
56. Become an expert at knowing what time each day is best to see the reflection of the sun in the water.
57. Gaze at it lovingly, with great appreciation for its gifts.58. Likewise, if you are one that chooses to sometimes gaze directly at the early morning sunrise and late evening sunset, the Magic Key to a powerful experience is the degree of love and appreciation you honestly have for the sun.
I trust that you will take Apollos’ advice – and he got it from Yahshua – and compose some of your own Solar Illuminations. I will soon share one that I wrote called, Day on Solar Communion, but first will provide two other excerpts that correlate so well with portions of the above material from Apollos that this is the purrrfect moment for them. The first of the two excerpts that fit so well here is from a modern era Sun Gazer named Tom Rees. I appreciate that he reinforces the information from Apollos about performing Sun Gazing at sunrise and sunset for eye-safety. I also appreciate how the book came to me about a year ago: it arrived in my mail with no note or return address on the box. Perhaps one of you – knowing my interest in the topic of the Sun – sent it to me. Or perhaps the author did. Whomever sent it – or maybe it sent itself because it wanted to be excerpted from in this book ☺ – is responsible for each of you getting to read the material! That is ‘good karma,’ as us spiritual hippies often say! After this excerpt from Rees, I will share an excerpt that consists of several sayings from The Nasarean Emerald Tablet Scrolls section of the Megillah that correlates well with the above material from Apollos.
In his book titled, The Mysteries of the Light, Tom Rees begins by introducing us to an extensive list of benefits that he believes can come from the proper, safe practice of ‘sun gazing’:
Throughout history, mystics have used sun gazing as a means of elevating and expanding consciousness and accelerating spiritual evolvement. The Pythagoreans and Neoplatonists of Greece, the Zoroastrians of Persia, the Judaic sect of the Essenes, the Therapeutae of Alexandria, Egypt, the Mithraists of Rome, the Hermeticists of Egypt, the Brahman priests of India, the pre-Christian Gnostics, and the early Christians are but a few examples….
Looking at the sun is a perfectly natural thing to do, and it’s completely safe if done in the proper manner with the correct attitude. Intentionally looking at the sun, often called “sun gazing,” has psychological and spiritual effects far transcending physical benefits.
By applying certain sun gazing techniques with the proper attitude and intent, the Light of the Sun can be used to awaken dormant spiritual faculties and initiate spiritual transformation.
This book is a practical manual about sun gazing for spiritual transformation…. The goal is to experience a state of Unconditional Love and maintain that state so the Light of your Soul can shine forth and you become a “Sun of God”….
Most likely, some who read this book will already be veteran, seasoned sun gazers. There are many different schools of thought on the subject of sun gazing, both past and present. They all have good things to offer. I’m not claiming mine is the only way and others are wrong. Nor do I claim to know everything about sun gazing. I do have almost fifty years of experience.
The purpose of this book is to explain how to use sun gazing as a means for spiritual transformation. This transformation happens on the subtle level, mostly beyond the physical body. The active agent for this transformation is Prana – Creative Intelligent Life Force from the Solar Logos which manifests through the sun. Below, I’ll list some reasons for sun gazing. I’ll elaborate on these reasons in the following chapters….
Sun Gazing Can:
• Accelerate spiritual evolvement – evolvement of the spirit/subtle body;
• Awaken dormant and latent spiritual faculties;
• Expand and elevate consciousness;
• Dissolve egoity;
• Energize the Etheric Double;
• Awaken/energize the chakras for better communication between the Soul, the subtle body, the Etheric Double, and the physical body;
• Awaken Kundalini;
• Purify the astral and mental bodies by breaking up negative samskaras;
• Replace lower, negative thoughts and emotions with higher, positive thoughts and Emotions;
• Put you into a deep meditative state while sun gazing and afterward;
• Open the heart center as a channel for Divine Love;
• Disentangle the mental body… and build a “Bridge of Light” between the causal and mental bodies;
• Shift you from ego consciousness to soul, or super, consciousness;
• Make you more sensitive to the higher positive vibration on the astral, mental, causal, Buddhic, and Atmic planes, enabling you to hear the voices of those who have already traveled the Path;
• Awaken “you” to your Higher Self;
• Bring about a transcendental experience.Most importantly, by sun gazing, you can utilize the Divine Love and Wisdom manifesting through Prana to purify your spirit. Then, the Light of your Soul can shine forth. You become a “Sun of God”—reflecting the Light and Love to all Creation and bringing more Divine Love and Wisdom into the world.
Having provided the above extensive list of possible benefits from proper, safe forms of Sun Gazing, author Rees goes on to provide information on the actual practice, including some ‘how-to’ tips that he has found helpful over his fifty years of practice:
Contrary to common belief, you won’t go blind if you look at the sun. That is, if you do it in the proper manner. I know people who’ve been sun gazing for many years and have had no problems. I’ve been doing it for almost 50 years.
The best times for sun gazing are 15 minutes before sunrise until an hour after, and then an hour before sunset until 15 minutes after the sun sets. It’s also the easiest time because the sun is the least bright then.
This is when the most Prana is available. Prana is the Creative Intelligent Life Fore emanating from the Divine Light of the Solar Logos…. If you have trouble getting started, try gazing into the sky for a few minutes before the sun rises or after it sets. You’ll still be getting Prana.
In fact, you can benefit from sun gazing even with your eyes closed. The Light will still energize and purify your subtle fields and chakras/force centers, particularly the “Spiritual Eye/brow chakra”. Most directly involved is your Etheric Double – the subtle energy body that channels Prana to vitalize the physical body.
When sun gazing, Relax your vision.I never sharply focus my eyes directly on the sun. You don’t need to. Let the Light enter your eyes on its own. You don’t have to stare it down. I like to gently (without straining) direct my gaze towards the bridge of my nose – in the direction of the “Spiritual Eye.” Keep your eyes half open (half-mast). No need to be “wide-eyed.” This is important! It will make it easier to sun gaze.
I like to keep my gaze moving slowly from, right to left and back, up and down, diagonally, or slowly in a circular manner. Look around the sun more than directly at it.
Blinking in a slow, gentle, rhythmic manner is very important. Try to blink every 1-3 seconds or so while sun gazing. Beginners! IMPORTANT: If you have difficulty facing the sun, try blinking a little faster. As fast as you need to…. Blinking isn’t cheating.
I, Day, have a certain solar practice that I do that involves blinking rapidly while looking toward the sun. As I am walking around the land here at Essene Garden of Peace (where I have resided the past seventeen years at the time of this writing), I stop and glance toward the sun and blink rapidly for several seconds, getting a ‘quick hit’ of solar light into my eyes and brain.
Back to Rees; like the ancient Nasareans, he is about to advocate that we face our palms toward the sun:
Whenever you’re sun gazing: It’s best to face your open palms to the sun while you’re looking at it. You can hold your hands out in front of you (with your arms resting on your sides if you like), let them hang at your sides, or rest them on your knees if you’re sitting all with your palms facing the sun….
Rees points out how important it is to be in a meditative attitude when we commune in this manner with the Sun. The goal is to be in a reverential, ‘Be-Here-Now’ state. He writes:
It’s very important to be “in the now” while sun gazing…. On occasion, I’ve attempted to sun gaze while distracted. I couldn’t look at the sun. It appeared too bright. Too harsh. But when I let everything else go, stilled my mind, and calmed my emotions, the Light became soft. Easy to look at. You might even try meditating for a few minutes beforehand to get into the right mood.
This… puts you in a higher state of consciousness… you gaze around the sun, allowing Divine Light imbued with Love and Wisdom to flood your being. You harmonize with those vibrations – attuning to them and thus elevating your own frequency. It’s a passive act. This Love and Wisdom will open your heart center, moving you into higher states of consciousness. This is what brings about a spiritual transformation!
When you tune into the Light, you’re in a heightened state of awareness. You feel “high”. No better way to describe it…. Time seems to stop…. At some point, you’ll say WOW!
You might feel a oneness with everyone and everything around you. You might feel a oneness with all of Creation. You might feel a oneness with the Light. You might feel a oneness with the Divine. That’s our ultimate goal.
This is called Absolute Unitary Being (AUB).
You feel light – detached from your body. You just ARE… You realize you’re an immortal soul….
Every time you go into soul consciousness, you’re slowly changing/reprogramming your spiritual, mental, and emotional bodies…. By entering this higher state of consciousness, even for a while, you’re purifying your spirit.
That’s why its important to do the techniques on a regular basis. Once every day would be optimal. Twice a day if you’re so inclined.
I am so inclined! ☺ I have been for nearly fifty years!
Here follows the solar-topic sayings from the Nasarean Emerald Tablet section of the Megillah that I promised to provide after Rees.
I will present these several sayings from the Nasarean Emerald Tablet in the order that they appear in that section of the Megillah. The first saying is from Chapter 63 of Godspell; the speaker is the Nasarean Wizard Hermon, the true source of the ‘Hermetic’ literature of subsequent centuries. You will recall that the Apollos excerpt included information on the masculine and feminine complementary polarities called Shemesh and Shemayah. The words of Hermon below, in which he is commenting on a teaching of the Solar High Priest Abraham (a.k.a. ‘The Golden Dragon’), also reference Shemesh and Shemayah and, purrrfect for out topic at hand, link these polarities to stars and, ultimately, to the ‘Love and Wisdom’ referenced repeatedly in the Megillah and just referenced in the above excerpt from Rees:
59. The relationship between Love and Wisdom is sexual in nature and results in Creative Power in endless cycles of Creative Orgasmic Explosions that give birth to stars.
60. Those stars then express themselves by pulsating in black space, impregnating virgin fields with the vibrations of Eternal Life, cosmic sperm fertilizing the Egg of Unactualized Potential in Creative Expansion.
61. The Dance of Wisdom and Love is expressed in the Cyclic Spiral Dance of the Sphere and the Cube, which is the Dance of Spirit in Nature that includes all of the Unfolding Sacred Geometries.
62. That dance is danced, spirally together, by Him and Her, Wisdom and Love, Shemesh in Shemayah, both Crowned With Yah (Spirit), both expressing that dance in nature (the Mother Ovum).
Proceeding as I said I would, in chronological order, the next solar sayings that I will share from the Nasarean Emerald Tablet are from the same chapter but many verses later. You will see from the headings that I provide below that the speakers are the Golden Dragon Abraham and Wizard Hermon.
Axiom Twenty-Nine of The Golden Dragon
326. It turns out that the Sun is very important in more ways than the obvious ones; thus, Nasarean Wizards cultivate our relationship with it.
327. Cultivate your relationship with the Sun and you will be astounded!
Hermon’s Commentary on Axiom Twenty-Nine
328. Green Wizards of White Magic are very
Sun-oriented.
329. There are Solar Mysteries that will astound you!
330. Those mysteries are only unveiled by those that cultivate their relationship with the Sun.
331. You either are really doing that, or you are not.
332. Talking about it is not the same as experiencing it.
333. But that talk can be helpful; it can remind and encourage you to actually do it.
Axiom Thirty of The Golden Dragon
334. While our share of the Divine Mind pays attention to the Sun and other stars and exchanges information with them, our share of Divine Heart has a loving relationship with our Sun and other stars.
335. Thus we commune with the Sun and other stars with both Head and Heart!
Hermon’s Commentary on Axiom Thirty
336. We also perform each act of Intentional White Magic with both Divine Head and Divine Heart united as One in Yah!
337. The Sun itself does likewise, wherefore we illustrate it as having two wings.
338. The Head without the Heart is like a bird with but one wing.
339. With those two wings – Divine Mind and Divine Heart – we each can fly like the Sun!
340. Which brings us to Axiom Thirty-One.
Axiom Thirty-One of The Golden Dragon
341. Each of us – each soul – is a Spiritual Star that will ascend just as high as our two wings – Divine Mind and Divine Heart – take us.
342. Green Wizards of White Magic affirm that truth with our formal Words of Farewell: ‘The Star within me sees the Star within you burning Wisely in Compassion!’
Similarly, in Chapter 66 of the Nasarean Emerald Tablet Scrolls section of the Megillah we read the following information about the Nasarean Sun Temple Staff of Healing. The speakers here – again identified by the headings – are Wizard Hermon and Phoenix Thoth:
Golden Precept Eleven of Hermon: The Staff Of Healing Of The Sun Temple
81. I carry The Staff of Healing of The Sun Temple.
82. That is a conventional Nasarean staff featuring spirally-ascending herbage – often a variety of vine with leaves, flowers and/or fruits (this vine imagery is typically carved into the wood) – with the Sun With Wings symbol carved at or near the top of the staff.
83. Some artists place the Sun at the center of a symbolic heart; others place a symbolic heart within the disc of the Sun.
84. Feel free to be creative in designing your own staff, adding perhaps gemstones or other natural elements even while keeping to the conventional theme of the Nasarean staff.
Quick comment from Day: Those that have seen the front cover of my book, Green Wizard Poetry – or the photos section of our webpage at essene.org – have seen me carrying a version of the Heart/Sun/Wings Staff of the Sun Temple. Below, Hermon continues his remarks:
85. This staff that I now hold, The Staff of Healing of The Sun Temple, is known in many worlds and is the particular staff of The Tribe of Healers of the Nasarean Religion of The Essene Way.
Commentary of Thoth on Precept Eleven of Hermon
86. The Serpent Priesthood mocks us of the true Sun Temple by forming a false Sun Temple.
87. They replace the spiral of herbage ascending the staff with two spiraling serpents.
88. By that symbol they offer human and animal sacrifice to their false gods, and to the Ultimate Satan that is The Way of Satan.
89. Behold: any demonic entity might repent and, eventually, become angelic by changed beliefs, changed behaviors, changed thoughts, words, and deeds.
90. That is why we teach that the Ultimate Satan is the Satanic Path itself, which we call The Way of Satan, a path that, once ‘let out of the bag’ of potential into actualization long ages ago, persists as long as there are Beings walking that path and thus actualizing it.
91. But even the Satanic Way can become un-actualized; that will happen when no Being walks that Way.92. The true Heavenly Sun-Beings that reside in the Temple of Light in the spiritual realm – The Seventh Heaven of our solar system – are of the Nod of Wisdom to Love and believe not in the practice of vicarious atonement through animal sacrifice and/or human sacrifice on the bloody altars of The Serpent Priesthood and their like.
I end this look at solar sayings within the Nasarean Emerald Tablet Scrolls with one that includes a meditation practice. The light-based meditation practice is followed by a commentary that gives a good teaching on the relationship of ‘ordinary’ light (not that any light is not AMAZING!) with ‘spiritual light’:
Golden Precept Twenty-Six of Hermon
166. Chant ‘Let There Be Light’ while envisioning every part of your body, as well as every part of your emotions, mind, and soul, filled by Supernal Light.
167. After a period of chanting that White Magic Enchantment while envisioning that Light within every part of you, envision radiating that Light into your environment while continuing the chant.
Commentary of Thoth on Precept Twenty-Six of Hermon
168. What is normally called ‘Light’ is suggestive of, but not as transcendent as, the ‘Spiritual Light’ that we call ‘Supernal Light’.
169. The enlightened have ‘the eyes to see’ THAT LIGHT!
170. They give it – ‘radiate it’ – by revealing it everywhere they look, and teaching others to do likewise.
171. You see, Spiritual Light actually need not ‘move’, but seems to move when you notice it where you previously had not.
172. When you ‘See The Light’, it reveals itself to be the basis of everything, everything that is Here and Now.
173. Normal ‘Light’ is the best symbol of ‘Spiritual Light’.
174. Envisioning ‘Spiritual Light’ radiating from you into your environment helps you ‘See The Light’ that, at the deepest level of reality, is always already everywhere.
175. This technique works; try it!
I strongly suggest you take Wizard Hermon’s advice and ‘try it’. Recall, also, that I previously promised to provide an example of my own taking Apollos’ advice to follow Yahshua’s advice in the following matter:
Yahshua said to me, “Apollos, study the solar illuminations of the ancients and of your contemporaries, but also compose your own illuminations and teach your students to do likewise.”
I, Wizard Apollos, encourage all Nasareans to act on that advice of our Lord.
I previously promised to share a solar illumination that I wrote. I said I would do so after having shared the above information from the Rees book and the Nasarean Emerald Tablet. That time has now arrived! ☺
What is a ‘Solar Illumination’? I think it must be any sort of writing, speaking, or other communicative art that ‘illuminates’ something related to the Sun or solar practices. The following is an illumination of the art of Solar Communion. I titled it, Day on Solar Communion.
Day on Solar Communion
I am going to illuminate a VERY POWERFUL way to perform the morning Communion with The Essene Tree of Life Root Force of Sun. Because this version of the Communon with the Sun involves performing it in a special location – most of you, unlike me, do not live on land that has a river running through it – it is intended as a very special, occasional experience for most. Also: Although we typically perform the Communion with the Sun – and chant the related Sound of Power – in the morning, because you may have to travel to find the purrrfect location to perform this occasional extra-special version, it is fine to do it around noon.
First, I will remind us all of the longer version and the shorter version of the Tree of Life Communion with the Sun given by Yahshua in the Megillah. In the Megillah, a list of ‘Longer’ Communions and a list of ‘Shorter Communions’ with all fourteen branches and root forces are given. In the case of the Communion with the Sun, the ‘shorter’ communion is only slightly shorter. With some of the other branch and root forces, the difference in length of the shorter and longer versions is more pronounced.
The Longer Version of the Communion with the Sun
106. “On the morning of the fourth day after Sabbath, commune with Malak ha Shemesh, the Angel of Sun.
107. Speak these words: ‘Angel of Sun, I will bathe in the Light of your fire!
108. From the base of my spine, to the crown of my head, let the Sun of Righteousness rise with healing in its rays!’”
The shorter Version of the Communion with the Sun
897. “On the morning of the fourth day after Sabbath, commune with the Tree of Life Root Force of Sun.
898. Inwardly, ask the Angel of Sun to guide you into greater communion with that force; for, lo: that is a chief purpose of that Chief Angel.
899. Then speak these words out loud: ‘I often sunbathe naked, in meditation, beneath the Seventh Heaven Within the Sun!’
Yahshua adds:
900. “If, in fact, you do not actually often sunbathe naked – a practice that I highly encourage – you may delete the word ‘naked’.”
In the following ‘ultimate, extra-special version’ of the Communion with the Sun, you are, indeed, to make an effort to find the purrrfect spot to actually be naked beneath the Sun.
A great way to perform the Communion with the Sun – along with the chanting of the related Sound of Power – is outdoors, in beautiful nature, where the air is relatively free of gasoline fumes, and where you can remove all your clothing and sunbathe a few minutes in conjunction with the experience. If circumstances do not permit full nudity, then expose as much skin to the sunlight as possible.
For this extra-special, occasional version of the Sun Communion, let us add these additional specifics for an optimal experience: sit in a patch of sunlight near a rushing stream of water with vegetation and green trees nearby. I realize that many of you do not have regular access to the above conditions, but you are advised to seek out these conditions for at least an occasional powerful experience with the Tree of Life communions, in this case the one with the Sun. Also, as often as you can, at least find a nature spot far from car exhaust, even if it is without the extra plus of a rushing stream. Every so often, make the special sacred pilgrimage to a spot that has the whole ‘shebang’, even the running water.
Know this: Those who are most serious about the significance of being in daily harmony with the branches and roots of the Essene Tree of Life forces – the most dedicated Nasareans of the Essene Way – will flee any living conditions that prevent daily optimum communion. These most dedicated Nasareans of the Essene Way will create a plan of action that will enable them to live in an optimum location for harmony with the roots and branches of the Essene Tree of Life. Why? Because they know that harmony with these forces has less to do with chanting words – even wonderful and powerful words – than it does with the actual direct submersion in the optimum natural forces represented by the branches and roots.
At Essene Garden of Peace, I commune with the Angel of Sun in a very real way, nearly every day of the year. Many days of the year – I just did so today – I sit naked in a private, sunny spot by our rushing stream, surrounded by big trees and green vegetation, and chant the Communions and Sound of power for Sun. Between the recitation of the words of the Communion and the chanting of the Sound of Power, I bring to mind the Symbol of Contemplation and the Concept of Contemplation, each of which will be provided below.
As a serious (yet humorous ☺) initiate of Essene Yoga Fellowship, I realize that the Megillah’s teachings on the Temple of Light – the Seventh Heaven that exists in a spiritual dimension within the Body of the Sun – are true and profound. I have been there! It is real! Thus I take very seriously – and very joyously – my Solar Communion experiences! I find time for them, and I do what I can to make them extra-special as often as practical. In fact, what I am presenting to you as an ‘extra special’ experience that you should try to do now and then is, for me, typical. So, for me, rather than refer to what I am advocating as ‘extra special’, it is more accurate for me to simply call it ‘optimal’.
I have the optimal Solar Communion most days of the year.
When I perform the Communion and the Sound of power for the Sun in the above-described optimal conditions – in nature, naked in the sun, beside running water – here is what happens:
1) My SINCERE REVERENCE for the Sun, the Temple of Light and the Beings that reside therein, and the Nasarean Deities that created that Sun to serve Their Divine Purpose, acts as a MAGIC KEY that opens me to receive teachings that are encoded in the light of the Sun and to experience a loving, reciprocal relationship with the Cherubim of the Seventh Heaven, and to dive ever-deeper into the Solar Mysteries of the Lord and Lady.
2) My naked skin, exposed to twenty minutes or so of late morning sunlight begins to literally tingle with delight in response to the solar nutrition. I actually feel my electrical field being charged up, fed and empowered. I realize exactly what the Megillah means when it informs us that the Magdalene and her disciple Sita ATE A MEAL OF SUNLIGHT!
The ‘Magic Key’ described above is exactly that: a MAGIC KEY. You either really feel devoted to the Sun and the Seventh Heaven within it, or not. If you do, that unlocks a deeper dimension of experience.
The Communion and Sound of Power for the Sun can help us experience the Magic Key. That is what the Solar Communion Prayer and the Sound of Power for Sun are for: they are alchemical (‘spiritual alchemy’) formulas that, used correctly in the optimal conditions, open a special Solar Communion Door within us.
Here is some ‘Light from Day’ that I pray will light your way; consider this a Solar Illumination per the advice from Yahshua to Apollos, and from Apollos to us: I find it helpful to recite, repeatedly, the following words immediately after chanting the Communion and Sound of Power for Sun: ‘I am naked before thee, Great Light.’ You might give it a try! ☺)
As I chant the words, ‘I am naked before thee, Great Light’, I offer all that I am to the Great Light, including the subtle electrical recordings that make up the content of my mind: all the thoughts, words, and deeds, the good as well as the misdeeds. That is the deeper level of what is meant by the term ‘I am naked before thee’. Psychologically naked! The Cherubim tell me that this practice is called: SOLAR REFLECTION. When we reflect all that is within our electrical memories of our life on earth in the Great Mirror of the Temple of Light, FORGIVENESS is reflected back to our electrical bodies wherever needed and appropriate, which removes any feelings of guilt that may be blocking full communion with the Seventh Heaven.
But not only do we receive forgiveness when needed via Solar Reflection, we receive APPRECIATION for all the good work we have been doing, as well as HEAVENLY IDEAS for future good works.
When the magic key is turned by chanting a Sun Communion prayer (it need not be the same exact words every time but can be), followed by the Sound of Power, then the Reflection Words (‘I am naked before thee, Great Light’), and ANY SPONTANEOUS WORDS OR SOUNDS THAT WELL-UP WITHIN ME, I feel myself enter the Holy Presence of the Great Light of the Seventh Heaven in a powerful way. Then I say something like, “I offer myself to the service of the Lord and Lady and Their holy Cherubim of the Seventh Heaven. I am willing to do whatever You ask of me, Great Light. Fill me; use me; I am yours! I wish to be a true Lion of Zahyen in the service of the Lord Christ and the Lady Christ.”
Then I simply BE QUIET IN REVERENCE and RECEIVE. What do I receive? Solar nutrition for my electrical body, spiritual teachings, realizations, missions, ecstasy, and PROFOUND COMMUNION.
Note:Not every day in Oregon is sunny – we have a lot of rain. But I check the sky throughout the day and, when the sun breaks through the clouds, I go out and have my solar communion. On the cloudy days when the sun never appears, I go out and sense where the sun is behind the clouds and perform the ritual in clothing, letting my bare face receive some bit of sunlight even through the clouds.
I am always aware of where the sun is, all day, every day, and every time I go outside, I take a moment to greet it. I now often go directly into a deep Solar Communion just by glancing at the sun, due to the merit gained by years of the full practice described above.
I have provided the words of two versions of the Sun Communion above. The first version appears in Mattanah: Nasarean Book of Genesis. The second version appears in Yahshua’s Sermon on Essene Yoga. I will now provide the promised Symbol and Concept of Contemplation for the Sun. They are given in the chapter of the Megillah (Chapter Sixty-Two) that immediately follows the chapter on Essene Yoga (Sixty-One of Godspell).
After reciting the Sun Communion (either version provided or one of your own creation), then briefly consider the following Symbol and Concept of Contemplation for the Sun.
The Symbol for Contemplation of The Root of Sun is:
An illustration of a human in meditation sitting on green grass beneath the Sun, flowers of various colors around the meditator, a bird in the sky, nearby a tree with ripe fruits; the human, grass, flowers, bird and tree are each in an attitude of gratitude for the manifold gifts of the Sun. (The front cover of my book Sadhana: Essene Spiritual Practices is a full color, veryLUSH version of that symbolic illustration. The artist, Terese Nielsen, also provided within that book the following black and white version of that symbolic illustration. Note: Anytime that you actually perform my above-described ‘optimal version’ of the Sun Communion experience, you are actually being the symbol.)
Here is The Concept for Contemplation related to the Sun Communion:
314. “The Concept For Contemplation Of The Root Force Of Sun is: The Manifold Blessings Of The Sun In Relationship To Human Existence.
315. Since human existence depends also on a sun-blessed, living ecology consisting of various non-human life-forms that are likewise blessed by the Sun, let your contemplation include that awareness.
The Sound of Power for Sun
Having performed the Sun Communion Prayer in the above-described optimal location and then having contemplated the Symbol – or reflecting on the fact that, this time in this place, you are actually being that symbol – and having performed the Concept of Contemplation for the Sun, chant the following Sound of Power for the Sun:
Ahhh Shahhh
The ‘Ahhh’ is sounded for the first half of your long outbreath, the ‘Shahhh’ for the second half.
Having just concluded my ‘Solar Illumination’ called ‘Day on Solar Communion’, I invite you to compose one or more Solar Illuminations of your own! That is what Yahshua advised Apollos to do, and it is what Apollos advised us to do. Your turn! ☺
I am going to end this article by sharing two experiential solar-related practices. The first one is a teaching from the Megillah given by a Nasarean Lion of Zahyen named Yishar. He was called ‘The Silent Lion’. You are about to learn why. I will then end the article with an experiential solar practice given by Yahshua which, I predict, some of you will find rather embarrassing to even read about, let alone actually practice it!
The directions to the first of our two experiential, solar-related practices are given within the excerpt.
The Lord and Lady and Their Companions Visit Yishar the Silent Lion
90. Yishar, indeed, was a ‘Shining One’.
91. His countenance glowed and around his head was a halo of goodness that could be seen with spiritual eyes.
92. He was also a ‘Silent One’ for lo: when he had lived in Jerusalem, Herod had ordered soldiers to cut out his tongue.
93. His crime?
94. After Herod had ordered that a boy who had stolen an apple from a soldier have his hand cut off, Yishar had asked Herod to please choose a milder punishment.
95. When Herod refused, Yishar offered to let Herod chop off his hand instead of the hand of the boy.
96. Herod said, “You did not steal, so I will not take your hand.
97. But because you offend me by your speech, I will take your tongue.
98. Even so, instead of take the whole hand off the boy, I will take but one finger.
99. Say one more word and I will remove his head and yours.”
100. After that experience, Yishar came to live on the east side of the Jordan River, and his home was a ‘Lion’s Den’ where students of Zahyen came for training.101. We spent an entire day with Yishar, ‘the Silent Lion’.
102. In Silence he taught us to perform what he called ‘Zahyen Moving Meditations’.
103. He stood in front of us, outdoors beneath the sun.
104. Each time he demonstrated a Zahyen Moving Meditation, we then joined him in practicing the movement.
105. I, Sarah-Jahleel, will describe just one of those movements here; others are taught within our Mystery School.106. The following example of a Zahyen Moving Meditation is called: ‘Prayer Position, Solar Veneration Position, Return to Prayer Position, and Cupped Hands of Receptivity Position in Sequence.’
107. The reason the name is so lengthy is that it accurately names in order the four individual parts that together form one fourfold sequence of movements.
108. Step One: Standing, place your hands in front of your chest in ‘Prayer Position’ and hold that for a minimum of one complete breath.
109.Step Two: Separating the hands as you raise your hands to perform Standing Solar Veneration Pose – your head, shoulders, and upper back arch backwards with arms and hands outstretched over your head; when you reach the comfortable, safe limit of that movement hold the final position for one complete breath and then return to ‘Standing Prayer Position’ – the same position as Step One – which now is named Step Three.
110.Step Three: Having returned to ‘Standing Prayer Position’, hold that for a minimum of one complete breath and then move into Step Four.
111. Step Four: Having held Step Three for a minimum of one complete breath, let the hands separate and move downward until your arms are straight down alongside each leg with the palms and fingers cupped and facing upward in the ‘Cupped Hands of Receptivity’ position.
112. After holding Step Four for a minimum of one complete breath in an attitude of spiritual receptivity, you have completed One Repetition; you may repeat as many cycles of this fourfold sequence as you like.
The final experiential solar practice that I will share with you, like the one above also includes the instructions within the text. Although I joke about this one because, after all, it involves aiming your behind toward the Sun so that solar rays can enter your… um… ‘dark cave’ (Yahshua’s words), I can attest to the fact that it not only makes rationale sense that it would be good for us, but it actually feels like it is empowering an area of the body that does not typically get exposed to sunlight. I emphasize, however, the importance of performing this practice for a very brief period, perhaps a minute or two, for the very reason that the tissues there are not used to getting much sunlight.
You will recognize a portion of the following excerpt. In fact, this excerpt includes several solar practices that we have already studied. But this time I am including the… um… embarrassing part (funny that the word ‘embarrass’ includes two key words related to the following practice: ‘bare’ and… well, the last three letters of the word embarrass! Yes, this solar practice involves baring your posterior to the sun, and I am going to let Yahshua explain the details! In regard to the ‘dark cave’, use your imagination! So, though you will revisit several of our previously studied solar practices in the following excerpt, the one that we are zeroing in on was not previously shared and is called ‘The Dark Cave is Blessed by Sunlight’. I think it is appropriate that I saved this solar practice for the END! ☺
541. “8. Yihud im Shemesh [Union with Sun] is called Sun Yoga.
542. The various practices related to Essene Sun Yoga are all performed within the context of Nasarean Cosmology, a cosmology that thinks very highly of the Sun.
543. According to Nasarean Cosmology, the Sun is the visible representation of Supernal Light – the Light of YHWH – and is the home of The Seventh Heaven of this chain of worlds.
544. The Megillah reveals that The Seventh Heaven within the Sun has within it a Crown Chakra that is the Highest Crown Chakra of this chain of worlds.
545. A ‘chain of worlds’ are those worlds linked by the fact that they share a Sun as their common point of origin and their common point of eventual return, as well as sharing it as their common Central Lighthouse, their chief source of Living Light, the Fire of Life, Shemesh.
546. “I tell you truly, within the Sun, indeed, is the Highest Crown Chakra of this chain of worlds, and that Crown serves also as the doorway out of this chain of worlds into the next highest chain of the ascending spiral and beyond, just as your own Crown Chakra also serves as the doorway out of your body.
547. But also know this: Just as you have a Crown Chakra but also have other chakras, so it is with the Sun.
548. The Sun has an outer body, intermediate bodies, and a Spiritual Body as does man, and, like man, all of those bodies are interpenetrated by the Seven Major Chakras of Essene Yoga and also countless other chakras that we call ‘Additional Chakras’.
549. Thus the Sun itself has its own Seven Major Chakras and countless ‘Additional Chakras’, a chakra, really, simply being a spiral; big spirals get named and noticed, but there are countless small and subtle spirals as well.550. “Our Sun is an extension of the First Sun that emerged from Still Zero and is related to every star of the heavens just as all humans are one family.
551. In Nasarean Cosmology, our Sun is believed to be a star that is closer to our world than the others, and all stars are ambassadors of YHWH.
552. Unlike the common belief of this age, Nasarean Cosmology affirms that our Sun is the center that the planets of this chain circle around, and that many other stars are circled by other world-chains; but that is a mystery studied by Great Nasarean Wizards.
553. However, one need not be a Great Wizard to perceive that our Sun enables life – including our own life – to exist and flourish in this world and, therefore, deserves our sincere reverence and appreciation and heartfelt love expressed in acts such as the various practices of Essene Sun Yoga.
554. Before describing a few of those practices, I will read to you from the Nasarean Book of Enoch section of The Holy Megillah about the significance of our Sun.”
555. Yahshua opened The Holy Megillah to the Nasarean Book of Enoch and read aloud….
597. Yahshua closed the Megillah and said, “Later in The Book of Enoch, it is made clear to Enoch that humanity must choose between the heliocentric ‘Blessed Future’ or that of the dark future based on false power and false suns.
598. One that would learn to practice Essene Sun Yoga does well to begin by contemplating his or her personal relationship to the various bodies of our Sun including its Spiritual Body and, in the light of the excerpt from the Book of Enoch, to dedicate oneself to help bring about the heliocentric ‘Blessed Future’ and thus help prevent the dark future as one way to serve YHWH.
599. Another good initial practice of Essene Sun Yoga is to apply Jnana Yoga/Wisdom Yoga to it by studying everything written in the Megillah about the Sun.
600. One of My favorite practices of Essene Sun Yoga is to do the Hatha Yoga asana called Salutation to the Sun outdoors in the sunlight.
601. I love to raise My arms to the Morning Sun in a devotional attitude toward The Seventh Heaven and the Living Light that sustains our Light Body.”
602. Yahshua then demonstrated both the Simple Salutation to the Sun and the Full Salutation to the Sun.
603. After having demonstrated the Salutation to the Sun, Yahshua continued his remarks on Essene Sun Yoga.
604. The Lord said, “In that excerpt from Enoch it was stated that ‘the people were enlightened by the encoded wisdom in the rays of the spiritual Sun, which are hidden within the glorious beams of light from the physical Sun.’
605. In the light of that verse, one can clearly see that an important practice of Essene Sun Yoga is to expose oneself to the ‘glorious beams of light from the physical Sun.’
606. This act of literal union with the Sun by exposure of your skin to its rays feeds you in ways that you know not.607. “Most mornings, Miriam and I follow our Hatha Yoga and Morning Service with a time of sunbathing that We consider a key practice of Sun Yoga.
608. This Daily Sun Bath is typically later in the morning than ‘First Sun’ – ‘First Sun’ being our first exposure to sunlight on a given day no matter how brief – and is of longer duration, though not so long as to cause a burn.
609. My favorite way to perform Silent Meditation is flat on My back on a blanket beneath the Sun, naked.
610. It is when performing that type of Sun Yoga – Sunbathing Combined With Silent Meditation – that I most notice ‘the encoded wisdom in the rays of the spiritual Sun, which are hidden within the glorious beams of light from the physical Sun’ just referred to in that excerpt from The Nasarean Book of Enoch.
611. When sunny – even in winter sun – I sunbathe naked, provided I can find a place to lay My blanket without shocking other people!”612. The assembly laughed, and Yahshua continued: “If the weather is freezing, I might skip sunbathing.
613. Not many days per year do I skip at least a bit of sunbathing!
614. On cloudy days, I get what sun I can, sensing the location of the sun behind the clouds, knowing that at least some rays are reaching My skin.
615. Miriam is the same; We are both dedicated Sun Yogis!
616. Yet another reason that We are perfect for one another!”617. Yahshua and Miriam each smiled, and then Yahshua continued speaking.
618. “At the risk of being mocked, I also admit that I deliberately expose My genitals and anus to the sunlight because I sense that, in moderation, it is an essential factor in My wellness.
619. I deliberately bend over while on My knees and do a yoga posture wherein My chest is upon the ground with My hind section raised to the sunlight.
620. I call this posture The Dark Cave is Blessed by Sunlight.
621. The sunlight need only barely penetrate into that cave to bring the blessing of light because those solar vibrations will move along the walls of the canal to bless the deeper regions.
622. Consider that posture to be a recommended practice of Essene Sun Yoga!
623. But find a private place to practice it!624. “Just by reciting, with sincere reverence, the Communion – ‘Words of Union’ (Daberim Ha Yihud) – for the Sun, one is practicing a form of Sun Yoga.
625. It is best to do this outside, in the Sun.
626. Though that Communion is typically spoken on the morning of the fourth day after Sabbath, you can also perform it as an act of Sun Yoga on any other day you like.
627. The following extra-short version of the Sun Communion is one you can try.
628. Facing the Sun, as naked as practical, say these words out loud: ‘Holy Sun, I bathe in your Fire of Life.’
629. Feel free to compose your own words of Solar Communion, and to vary your words from time to time, as you like.
630. I do.
631. I also have several favorites of each root and branch communion – including the Solar Communion – that I return to again and again.632. “One more example of Essene Sun Yoga is called Centering With The Sun.
633. Whenever you want to feel more centered, simply center yourself with the Sun by orienting your own crown chakra to the crown chakra of the Sun.
634. This is best done outside beneath the Sun.
635. The Sun is always centered in the ultimate center that is Yah.
636. When you center yourself with the Sun, you simultaneously experience being centered in Yah.”
The last five verses above are some of the most important words you will ever read; ACT ON THEM! ☺
In fact, those last five verses are so significant that they have caused the last word of this last chapter to be a capped and bolded: WOW! ☺
