Frenkie visits a mosque (part 1, because of the length of the blog it has been published in two parts)

A niece of mine has good contacts because of her work on a school with the Imam of the mosque on the Wagenstraat in The Hague. We were welcome for a prayer service.

The mosque is located in a former synagogue, which was used by the Jewish community in The Hague. Until 1975 it was still used as a synagogue, but because the community had been decimated by the war, it had to be closed. In 1981 it was used as a mosque by the Turkish community.

Upon arrival we are immediately welcomed by believers who did not know that we would come, the Imam is not there yet. They offer us tea or water. Everybody is so friendly and welcoming, we feel welcome and are greeted by everyone even though we are clearly two strangers in their midst. The Imam also welcomes us nicely and my niece can sit next to me in the mosque, although the stay for women is upstairs. So you can see everything, said the imam. That was a  nice gesture for her.

We enter and I am immediately touched by the incredible silence and power that prevails there. I know that's because people have been praying there since 1842. The silence, the peace, the refined energy of devotion, literally I feel that here is a gateway to heaven. From the blogs I know that here too there is a temple of energy and a transformation house of energy at the service of many people. It is very nice to be there, and even though we know nothing about the rituals of the Muslims, we sit quietly on a bench in the back and let everything come up as it goes. It's a grace to sit there.

The service starts with a number of Surahs from Ali-Imran, one of the chapters of the Qur'an, we later understand from the Imam, who answers our questions after the "service".  Furthermore, the imam also reads some verses and I found them later on in my Dutch Qur'an, and it reads: "Only in Your hand is the good. And Thou hast power over all things. " (End of verse 27).

I personally find the singing of the Surahs in that typical Arabic timbre overwhelming. It feels so primal, ancient, eternal almost, so magical, so relaxing and what I experienced the most was an all-intoxicating energy that came to me and said: "There is only one God and that is Allah. Only one God, nothing else, the rest is superstition, is secondary, does not matter. Turn only to God, there is nothing else to wish for, to feel, to experience."

I was completely captivated by it. Especially because it was a beautiful male voice and the beautiful atmosphere in this centuries-old house of prayer, the devotion, the silence of the people present, all this made me think at a certain moment:

"I could be a Muslim"   ,

Now the first part of my God's answer, when I asked:  will You comment on this, please?

I like to do so. Now it has come about, after the visits to Protestant services and a Hindu temple. 

You felt welcome, even though you were clearly strange. You have experienced the hospitality of the "eastern" world, in this case the Turkish one, and it is true, sincere and fully expressed. This is what one wants and this is what one can do. Wonderful feature of these peoples. And know that one could never, never, never forget the inner civilization not to act on this.

This House of Prayer has indeed been in function as a place of devotion for longer than the mosque when it was still a synagogue. And the spiritual temple has only grown since then, because the devotion, the love for YHWH/God, the humility, the setting aside of the ego, the prayer, the willingness to let go of everything and to focus on God/YHWH/Allah have continued. From synagogue to mosque. Is that ecumenical or what? After all, God does not practice religion. This is what you have felt and experienced, my son, and it is still truthfully a house of God and a gateway to heaven. How could one not feel this if one is receptive? One is automatically taken into the spiritual energy of heaven.

Singing the Surahs touched you and so you have experienced an energy of centuries and a power and impact of 1500 years of devotion and surrender within Islam. Of course, you were immediately and completely touched by it. Do this more often my son because the power of the sung Surah's and the healing effect of this on your body and mind are available.

But also for the mosques applies, empty mosques and full shopping streets. What a waste of the grace of God and the spiritual world available to the people and ignored by the people except those who come.

And know that these energies also reach out beyond the mosque itself. The neighbourhood around it, the city of The Hague, even an entire region benefit from the spread of this mercy of Allah/God for the people.  

My blessings to you all

No 535

Every choice and every action contribute to your spiritual home

The pursuit of the ideal—the striving to be Godlike—is a continuous effort before death and after. The life after death is no different in the essentials than the mortal existence. Everything we do in this life which is good contributes directly to the enhancement of the future life.

Treatise103 section 5 (page 1134)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   My God, may I ask You. I was thinking about life and realized we actually choose all day long, for the small or the big, for the healthy or the unhealthy, for the good or the bad, for the loveless or the loving. And actually so to speak everything is really important and has big consequences. And at the same time, there should be no stress and tension and pressure and a sacred must, because then we become rigid fundamentalists. And then I also came across this quote from the Urantia book, which confirms that everything is really very important.  How do we reconcile all this?

Would You like to  comment on this? 

 It's a paradox, My son, and I like to comment on this. Especially since nowadays more than before people have come to believe that everything must be possible, so to speak the sacred individualism while at the same time everything has consequences, as We know.  How do you reconcile that all, and what is Our perspective from the spiritual world?  Here it  comes

First of all Our perspective because that determines your perspective, in the end. 

We view everything with great love, great patience and a lot of compassion. It is true that everything has permanently great consequences, and that you must always suffer the consequences of your actions, sooner or later. Even if you do so in the deepest secret, hidden in your own home, or in your inner self.  

But the consequences are just, the laws of God are simple and the hints of God to do the right endlessly and the patience of God as you goof, in a thousand times and endlessly.  So in a way, namely Our way, everything is fine, even if it's not fine. This sentence is very important, My son, 

everything is fine, even if it is not fine.

Because the consequences, the corrections, the perspectives and the correct course of action are already embedded in the failure to act properly. Unconditionally and accurately.   

And now your perspective.

So everything you do always has great consequences, because there is no sparrow falling off the roof and God will know of it. Everything you do is extremely important. It is literally a permanent building of your spiritual home. You are contributing constantly to your spiritual dwelling with all your thoughts, all your feelings and all your actions.

And if you come to realize that you can create a ruin, but also a spiritual palace, why contribute even longer to a ruin? What is the point of destroying life by your own actions, making life ugly, planning your own future suffering. Why would you still do so? 

I like to mention the remark of a married woman who mused about possible infidelity because she ran into a nice other man. She spoke the winged words: "When I consider what an anguish I call over my loved ones and myself when I go into this possible infidelity, I recline and realize that I am not in favour of it and do not want to do so”.  

And that would be a nice approach for all of you, if you deal with this paradox. Do you want to accept the consequences of your pernicious actions for the environment and for yourself? And if that's what you want and you are doing the pernicious thing, then it's fine as well. Not immediately, but it'll be fine later on, after some suffering. And that’s an euphemism.

My blessings to you all

No 491

The temple of prayer

Recently I was praying in my room. The candles were lit, the incense was burning and there were vases of fresh roses near relics and portraits. And suddenly I got the feeling that I was in a spiritual temple and I experienced a great sense of holiness and devotion.
 

Would You like to comment on this?

I love to.

It helps you to come into the sphere of holiness and worship by using incense and candles and portraits and relics, that is your Catholic background.
But know that a spiritual temple is being built up, or if it is already existing reinforced, for every person on earth who prays.

A Protestant with only a cross, a Muslim with only a word in Arabic on the wall of his living room, a Hindu for an image of Shiva, a Zen Buddhist in an empty white room, a Jew who is while swaying reading the Torah, a New Age adept who meditates on his spiritual teacher, all come into the same situation as you, even if everyone is experiencing something different and is giving different words to it.

As soon as a man prays, the spiritual world is building around this person a spiritual temple of unprecedented beauty. And the more often a person prays, on the more regular basis he is doing this, the longer and more intensely he prays, the bigger and more powerful the temple will be.

And the temple is indeed a fact in the spiritual world. It is a powerful transformer for spreading spiritual energy. This energy flows through this praying man to the environment of this person and of course to whom or  what he is praying for. I mention it consciously in this order, because that is reality.

A praying man is a blessing for his environment and an instrument for the spiritual world to reach the earth with healing, inspiring or uplifting energy. If men knew how wonderful the environment becomes when one prays, how beneficial its effect is and how fruitful for the cooperation between the spiritual world and the evolutionary earth, one would certainly pray more.

 
My blessings to you all

No 421

A spiritual chapel is built in a Bulgarian orthodox mass

I visit the Bulgarian Orthodox Church "Archangels Michael and Gabriel in The Hague."
A friend of mine is having her icons blessed, which she painted for herself. *. Students of her painting class have displayed together over 40 icons, the one even more beautiful than the other.

We're early, and four hours later, we are leaving!

I've been too busy the past week, and I am having too many appointments this weekend. I'm a little bit tired and not very focused. And I am not at all into this endless religious stuff, not yet.

But gradually I get more and more impressed by the appearance of the church, the atmosphere, the beautiful icons throughout the whole church. I read somewhere "As the truth of faith is revealed to the ears, so she reveals herself to the eye via the icon" (Holy Basil, a church father from the 4th century). All those images and icons do have such a strong appearance!

The wonderful casual and unpretentious attitude of the pretty young priest making jokes in between and not performing holy-like at all, but in fact being very humble, is very special.

There is a lot of singing, by a small choir of men and women, and the priest for himself is doing a lot of singing as well.
And it seems as if the power of this little church is gradually growing.
Would You like to comment on what is happening spiritually?

What you have experienced is the building of a powerful spiritual chapel, touching all those present and in the wide surroundings with the energy of humility, devotion and trust. And know that the number of spiritual beings in the chapel, allowed to quench themselves, is many times bigger!

Because these churchgoers together are taking the time and because there was much singing, and because the priest was extensively taking the time to perform a large number of rituals, the spiritual world is able to continuously build the spiritual chapel.

After all, the more time and attention one spends, the more likely God has the possibility to reach you. And the rituals and all the stuff and all the walking and the opening and closing of the doors and curtains separating the altar from the people, alas, that’s what churchgoers need, We don’t. It's okay with Us. It is all about the time and attention and the dedication and the surrender of the people who call Us.

In this Bulgarian Orthodox Church, one allows one selves the time for it.

Isn’t this necessary for everything?
Does a good conversation not request time?
Should one not take extendedly the time for a big job as well?
Requires a subtle job not time and attention and concentration as well?

And that's what you are experiencing.

You are too tired and bring a lot of worrying and worldly problems with you, but even you have to surrender at some point. Everything is thoroughly and completely washed away and you too can physically and emotionally experience what God and Its helpers can do for mankind on earth.

And the atmosphere of the Orthodox Christian churches testifies like those in the Islamic mosques a great devotion and humility. That’s what God really likes.
The Bulgarian church in the Netherlands is blessed.
All the even recently painted icons are blessed.

My blessings to you all

 See http://www.bgorthodoxekerk.nl/

* The icon displayed in this blog is painted by a female friend. It’s showing Mary Magdalene         and the archangels Michael and Gabriel.

Nr. 307

When a person meditates regularly, a spiritual chapel is built

My God, may I ask You?
I notice there is a special atmosphere in every place where people are coming together with a spiritual intention, from churches to former shop premises for a small Muslim group. Am I right?

My son, that's right.

Someone starts regularly praying or meditating, so for example every week, and does this so consequently, and in the same place, even just in his easy chair.
Immediately, the spiritual world is building a chapel over there, an energetic construction, an opening to the spiritual world, a Gestalt, a spiritual structure, a connection between heaven and earth.
This is done by the spiritual world with joy, with the addition of spiritual energy, with gratitude. Even for one person One is performing this all.

And I want to add two aspects:

• The more people get involved here, the more the spiritual “minister” in such a meeting is more pure, the more the people are working on this sincerely, the more one is doing this regularly or frequently, the better the spiritual chapel, built over there, is bigger and more powerful. This is a favour, a grace, a law from God.
• And every human being who is (re)visiting this place, will feel this, will experience this,  will be supported in his focus on the spiritual. Each human being will be helped in this place, to pray or meditate more focusedly  and more powerfully. And someone who is energetically sensitive, will realize this consciously.

This is so, because one has arrived at a place where an opening is created to the spiritual world.

My blessings to you all

Nr. 274

a Catholic church and what is happening there

I visit a Catholic service. Other places of worship will be described in other blogs in due course.
Sitting in the Catholic chapel of R. I ask God what  is happening exactly.

You see about 40 people. Their guardian angels and their souls of course are present as well. That makes 80 spiritual beings.
For each person in a chapel or church service about 3 angels are present, in general, to assist in the spirit every prayer and every song. This support by angels shows respect for the higher beings present as Christ and His Mother and the saints invoked. Their angelic voices contribute to the strength and beauty of the prayers and hymns, rising to heaven . So this 40 churchgoers are accompanied by 120 angels.
In addition, a number of angels is present, contributing to the organization and structure of the spiritual chapel. The chapel you see is dwarfed by the beauty, character and beauty of its spiritual counterpart. In this spiritual chapel the full support of the whole affairs of the chapel on earth is realized.

A number of angels is present supporting the actual coming of Jesus Christ and Mary and the invoked saints. Mary, the Mother, always accompanies the sanctification and worship of Jesus Christ and contributes to the blessing of the congregation and the blessing of all others present in the mind. For the spiritual chapel attracts deceased persons, still earthbound and pulling oneselves up by the spiritual atmosphere.
In a Catholic service Mary and the saints are more manifest present than in a Protestant, but where Christ is honored, the mother is always present.

In a Protestant church Mary and the saints keep Themselves a low profile, out of respect for the Protestant morality.
The number of angels supporting a service varies from the size of the church from 20 to hundreds of angels. So totally, in this chapel about 250 spiritual beings are present.
During the consecration the bread and wine are uplifted from material to spiritual level, so they attain literally the energy level of Christ. They are now His Body and Blood. The blessing of this for anyone who receives the wafer and wine are unmatched in the world, they are of high quality and impact and a catharsis for the whole human personality.
Simultaneously, the whole surroundings are blessed, for the offered energy radiates outward forcefully for the service in the chapel or church house is actually a transformer kiosk.

Throughout the "descent of Christ" in the bread and wine, Mary, the Mother, is very personally and really present and asks God to bless everyone. She recommends to God in particular personalities, who are the squandering, lost and at drift ones (which are called sinners, but We in the spirit do not like this word). She correctly is the Mother, the Godddess, the female God, cherishing the lost souls. We rather say the "squandering personalities on earth and in the spirit."

The souls, associated with these personalities, are not lost, but connected and committed.

In this mass you were deeply moved by My explanation. Your tears were tears of happiness, excitement, gratitude and amazement: you as a simple being, experiencing this.
Your tears are tears of reverence for Jesus for His love for you and for Mary for her compassion to all. They are also tears for Me for My justice and goodness. Every tear has been offered to Me by your guardian angel as a real pearl. All spiritual beings are witness of this event and are all excited to see an earthly man, bowing before his Creator.

One considers this spiritual reverence as if experiencing a spiritual feast. It is in their eyes of larger caliber than when a king would marry a queen.
Tears of joy of an earthly creature for the love of His God are still a miracle in Our eyes.

We expect more miracles to come and expect it to happen to more people to come.
Be blessed, My Son. We All embrace you with love.

My blessings to you all

Nr. 27