He had to meditate, to realize himself again. He had to discern and understand the environment and how it affects him, for instance, how the food he eats affects him, how people around him affect him, how the shows he watches affect him, how the books he reads affect him, the whole thing.

This is what we all have to do. We have to discern all the time how the environment affects our consciousness. Those things that disturb our consciousness and bring us down, we avoid, or at least we overcome. We come to a place where they don't affect us anymore.

There are two paths, the path of yoga and the path of tantra. The path of yoga is to avoid. It means discipline, to avoid it. You say, "I am not going to do these things because of the way they affect me." But the path of tantra is to go through it and see the triviality of it. You understand, "What good did this do me?" For instance, "Do I have to watch television for such a long time, or do I have to go through this desire that I have?" You come out of it and you say, "So what? That didn't satisfy me. That wasn't it. It was not permanent, it was temporary."

Of course, greater than going through the desire is going through the desire and your wants in your meditation. "I have such a desire, why can I not control this desire that I have?" Then you meditate on it and you go through it step by step. You come out of it and you say, "So what? Why should I go and spend all my energy and time for this desire, and at the end what am I going to gain? Nothing. It is even going to destroy me, my family, or my environment, or anything that I have."

That is another kind of tantric meditation, that you go through your desires in your meditation, and then you come out of them and say, "No, I don't want this. I'll just drop that desire."

So the First Begotten Son meditated, and understood, because The Grace of God was with him. Remember, there was chaos and God said, "Let there be light." That light was really the Spirit of God projected to the chaos, to the darkness, to the universe. "And The Word became flesh." The Word assumed a body, assumed flesh, and he came to the flesh to experience the flesh. Because God was in Pure Consciousness, He didn't know how the flesh felt.

He had to come to the flesh to go through the process and say, "Yes, this is how the flesh feels. This is how the universe feels. This is how humanity feels." Then little by little he understood. And because The Grace of God was with him, he progressed very fast through the flesh, and he realized through his meditation how the environment affected him, and how things affected him.

Because a desire arose in God, because that was the Will of God in the beginning which said, "Let there be light." For what? He said, "Let there be light," so he could help the rest of the universe also reach Pure Consciousness and go back to God. So that desire was in him also.

As he was meditating he realized, "I have to create more people to realize this wonderful thing that I have realized myself." He started reaching out to other consciousnesses. As he reached out more to the other consciousnesses, the other consciousnesses started to progress a little bit, and started to understand what he was talking about.

Of course, it was very hard. It took many years to do that. But he tried. He just kept saying the same thing over, and over, and over, and eventually he reached a few. Some people said, "Hey, this consciousness has something to tell us. Let's listen to what he says."

Anyway he started to attract some consciousnesses around himself who started to see what he was talking about. When they progressed, he was happy. When they didn't progress, he became unhappy, etc. But at the same time he realized how important a proper environment is for spiritual progress.

That's when he realized the communities were so important. As he was doing that, he realized the community cannot be established if everyone says, "What is in it for me only," being self-centered, being selfish. "I can get out of it as much as I want, I don't care what everyone else wants or needs."

So sacrifice, not being self-centered, being other-centered, being God-centered, becomes important. That is the third seal. The third seal is really the symbol of sacrifice. What did Christ teach? He sacrificed, didn't he? He sacrificed everything. He sacrificed even his life. He went all the way to the cross. For whom?

He didn't have to do that, did he? He didn't have to. He could have just said, "No, I'm not going to do that." Actually, he tried in the garden of Gethsemane. He said to God, "Can you take this cup from me?" But he immediately realized, "Oh no, I can't do that."

That is what the prophecy said, that it was going to happen. That is what he had to do. He had to go through it. He went all the way to the cross and was crucified. He brought the third seal, sacrifice, in the Eternal Divine Path.

So really the third seal is the symbol of sacrifice, not being self-centered, not being selfish. What did we say sacrifice is?

Comment: To give up all for the ideal?

Maitreya: That's a good one. What does sacrifice means?

Comments: To be humble.

Maitreya: We can see all these things are related to sacrifice. Of course, sacrifice is something we do in the community, and the community also gives us back other privileges, other wonderful things that, compared to what the community can give to us, our little sacrifice is not that much.

Community can give us our physiological and safety needs, the two basic needs of humans, which they need even to start meditating. If you don't have your physiological and safety needs taken care of, how can you sit and meditate? After that it gives companionship, belongingness, it gives all other things that, if you read Maslow or psychology, they talk about those things that are the basic needs of humans.

It provides all those things, and besides those benefits it provides an environment where you can sit and meditate, not being afraid of other things in the environment that affect you. So community gives a lot of privileges and asks very little.

The First Begotten Son went through this process and he eventually, of course, reached Pure Consciousness. He went back to where God said, "Let there be light." The light became flesh, went through the Eternal Divine Path, came back to Him, and Pure Consciousness became light. "And God saw the light, and the light was good," because He knew that the Eternal Divine Path was good and the process was good.

The First Begotten Son reached a point where he made it. So God looked at it and said, "It was good." That became light and the rest of the universe became darkness. That's what the day and the night means in the first verses of Genesis.

He came back as a human, in the fleshly body, and he became Adam. Actually, if you look at the meaning of Adam in Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian, it means perfect, perfection. If someone in those languages said to you, "You're really an Adam," it means you are really perfect, you are a very mature person. That's what Adam really means.

Adam was a perfect man, a perfect person, a perfect being. He was also male and female. Of course, God created more than one Adam. He created many humans. But the First Begotten Son as Adam came to humanity and became their first teacher.

The first teacher of humanity was Adam, and he taught them the Eternal Divine Path, the Mystical Paths and community. Actually, if you look at any religion, they talked about the community. You don't see any religion that doesn't talk about community.

Every religion, even Buddha himself, talked about Sangha and dharma. Sangha means community. Dharma means the innate nature of the person in that community.

So if you have a community where everyone follows their innate nature, or dharma, that community becomes what? That community becomes a Community of Light, because every person knows what they are good at and they utilize their abilities in the setting of that community.

None of us have the same abilities. Each of us have different abilities. As each ability manifests itself in the body, after awhile we have so many resources and so many wonderful things we can accomplish together because everyone can do a part of it.

Of course, there is a misconception, or a problem, that we sometimes want everyone to be like us. If they are not like us, we feel a little uncomfortable. But as we meditate and realize this wonderful higher level of looking at things, we can accept in every one of us the part that is wonderful. Then the parts that are not exactly compatible with us, we can just cope with them. We don't have to reject them.

Actually, neither attachment nor rejection is good. Attraction or repulsion both come from the lower nature. If you are too attracted or too repulsed about a thing, it is opposite, it is not the middle path. It is not with the realization of a realized person who neither becomes too attracted nor too repulsed. If you are too attracted to anything very fast, you still have things to work on. If you are too repulsed by things, you still have things to work on.

So we each have abilities and we have to recognize that, realize that, and love one another, as God loves us. God doesn't say love one another. He says, "Love one another as I love you." You see, there are different kinds of love. God loves us with compassion.

Compassion is a kind of corrective love. It just doesn't say, like everyone, "I love you." That love of God is different. He loves you with compassion, with corrective love. He can see your beauty. He can also see those parts that can be improved. He loves those parts that are beautiful and He works with those parts that are not so wonderful.

That is the kind of love He is talking about. He is not saying it like a lot of people who throw around the word "love" very casually. God's love would be on a much higher level.

But when did the Eternal Divine Path, when did His teaching really start historically and scripturally? It started after Adam came and taught humans. Later on humans fell. That's the story in the Bible again, that Adam and Eve ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Later on, of course, Adam was split into male and female, and eventually they fell. They became more and more fleshly bodies. Their ethereal bodies became more fleshly bodies.

In the beginning we didn't have these physical bodies, we were mostly ether. The humans were directly connected to the Spirit. We were more and more spirit. But as we fell from following what we were told, we became more and more flesh. Eventually we became absolutely flesh, at the time of Noah.

Then this teaching had to be given to the human in a new way. That is when Noah became the first human teacher. When Noah started teaching them about this new teaching, he also taught the same thing, the Eternal Divine Path. Of course, he had to put a new way of rituals into it.

He started the burnt offering. God smelled the sweet savour, and He was very pleased and said, "OK, I'm not going to destroy you any more. Anytime I see the rainbow I will remember that."

He didn't have to destroy the human any more because the humans were so powerless now. They didn't have any telepathic abilities. They didn't have those powers that they could move things around. Even if some humans wanted to show a little of spiritual powers, everyone says, "Oh, this person is great. We have to follow him."

Probably before the humans received their physical bodies, they were more powerful than any human ever was, or is, in this age. They were powerful. And they fell. They had all the powers. Actually they could extract the life form and use it for rejuvenation and everything that they needed.

But what happened to them? God said, "I am not going to cope with this human anymore." They were powerful. So again, we shouldn't look for the powers because power doesn't mean realization, a higher level of consciousness.

He destroyed them. He said, "No, I don't want this kind of human. They have to go."

Then He created us with our third eyes closed, and it became the pineal gland. Actually if you look at the pineal gland, it looks very much like an eye.

So our third eyes were closed. We know a lot of people whose eyes are not open. They can't see anything spiritual. He closed it up because we weren't ready for the spiritual power or ability.

If He gives us a little power, we go crazy [laughing]. We say, "Wow, I can see the future. I can see the angels. I can read other's minds, etc."

They go crazy. They start an organization, become a spiritual teacher and have a lot of followers. But they had just a glimpse of the truth.

So Noah really was the first spiritual teacher of the humanoid, or the Homo sapiens, which were created as us. He started a new teaching. At this time the humans were also split into five different kinds, Shudras, Ksattriyans, Vaeshyaes, Viprans, and of course, Brahmins, which we won't go into detail of what they are now.

But God had a wonderful Plan in mind when He created these new humans. This wonderful Plan started when he choose Abram (Abraham). He told Abram (Abraham), "Leave your country, leave your family, and go to a new land that I will show you."

This time He didn't tell me that. I just ended up in a new country, a new nation, a new place. He told me to do His work after I came to the new country. But there is a similarity that we can see there. He left his country and went to a new nation, a new country, and a new way of life.

When God told him to do that, Abram (Abraham) was a submissive man to the Will of God. He said, "Fine, I will do that." The moment he accepted that, God gave him a blessing, that, "This blessing is going to be upon Abram (Abraham) and his children."

Question: How did Abraham receive this Will of God, in his mind? How is the way he received this order to go and find another land?

Maitreya: You mean did God come to him as a person, or did He come in a revelation? Most probably It came from a revelation. He felt something that he had to do and he felt it was the Will of God, because he was so close to God that he could feel His Will.

The Voice of God is very, very soft, very hard to hear. Even when you hear it you are not sure. You don't know from where it came. Did it come from back, front, up, down, right, left, or where? It is almost not there, but at the same time it is there. But there is a conviction that comes with it. So when it talks about God told him to do something, probably he heard such a voice that he had to do this.

Also we can see something of the Will of God in our situation. When we come to a block, when everything is blocked to us, then we have to seek a new way, another outlet. Eventually if we seek, fast and pray, God is going to reveal to us the way to go. Probably that is what happened to Abram (Abraham) also.

So because Abram (Abraham) left his family and obeyed God, God blessed him. That is how we also can receive the blessing of God. We have to listen to Him. What does He want us to do?

The Goal Of The Life Is To Be(come) Divine. What does it mean to be(come) Divine? A Divine person is absolutely in tune with the Will of God. Absolutely! When you are absolutely in tune with the Will of God, then you and He are one. Your will and His Will are one. That is how you can become a Divine person.

The more you glorify God, the more you will be glorified. The more you glorify yourself, the more you will be humbled. That's the Law. That's why Abram (Abraham) is known as the submissive one, the one who was completely surrendered and submissive to the Will of God.

God even said, "Take your child and sacrifice him for Me." Abraham said, "OK, fine, if that is Your Will I will do that." So you can see how submissive he was, compared to our submission to the Will of God. Of course, that doesn't mean that he is going to ask everyone to do that. But that shows how submissive Abraham was.

Because Abram (Abraham) followed the Will of God, God blessed him. When you obey God, the blessing becomes an unconditional blessing. That is why God said, "Forever this blessing is going to be upon you, that all nations are going to be blessed by you. Whoever blesses you will be blessed," and all that, which has been given him in the Bible.

Also, later on, God came to Abram and said, "You are no longer going to be called Abram. You are going to be called Abraham." Abram actually means A-bram. "Bram" means Brahmin. Brahmin means a person who is in tune with God, or who is a spiritual teacher.

If you look in the Bible, actually you can find a lot of Sanskrit words. Like Shiva, there is a name in the Bible of Shiva and that is Sanskrit. And Brahmin, Abram and many other words you can find that are very much related to that.

So Abram means he is not a Brahmin. "A" in Sanskrit makes things negative. Like "vidya" means knowledge, and "avidya" means the opposite, ignorance. Brahmin means a Brahmin. A-Braham means not a Brahmin.

Although they considered him not a Brahmin, God choose him. So God doesn't look at the human titles that people give one another. He looks at our hearts. If our hearts are great He says, "Yeah, that heart is wonderful, I love it. He is a Brahmin." So although his name said he was not a Brahmin, he was accepted as a spiritual teacher.

But also Abram means the father of one nation. Then He changed his name from Abram to Abraham, the father of many nations. And He repeated the same promises to Abraham. That time He didn't say one nation, he said, "You're going to be the father of many nations."

When his name was Abram, God said that only one nation would come out of him, and their numbers were going to be the number of the stars and the dust of the ground. They cannot be counted and many territories were going to be theirs, etc. But this time, when He changed his name to Abraham, He said, "Many nations are going to come out of you." Because now he is the father of many nations. We can see how this relates to the way things happened later on.

Then as we said, He also gave the same promises to Abram. He gave promises to Abram and then He repeated the same promises to Abraham. Now what were the promises He gave to Abram and Abraham? There were two promises that He gave to each of them.

This is very important. This story is so important that if Christians and Jews understood it, they would open themselves to the rest of our teaching, because this is from the Bible, absolutely from the Bible, from their book, from their Scriptures.

It shows how God already said that there would be two Messiahs from Abram and Abraham. If that is true, and Abram (Abraham) is the father of the Hebrews, Christians and Moslems, then these three religions have no choice but to accept that. It is so important that the prophecies be understood, how God has been unfolding this wonderful story.

There are two promises that He gave to each of them: to Abram and to Abraham. The first promise was the scepter, the promise of the scepter. What is the scepter? The scepter is the symbol of kingship. Kings usually carry a scepter.

This scepter came from God, so it is a spiritual kingship, or it is the sign of the Messiah. He gave the promise of the scepter, or spiritual kingship, and also the birthright. The birthright is the territorial, or material blessing.

These two promises were given both to Abram and to Abraham. So there are two promises. Can anyone tell me what they are?

Answer: The scepter and the birthright.

Maitreya: What is the scepter?

Answer: Spiritual kingship.

Maitreya: That's right. And the birthright?

Answer: Territorial blessing.

Maitreya: Good. So there are two promises given to Abram, the father of one nation, and to Abraham, the father of many nations. The scepter is the kingship, or the spiritual blessing, and the birthright is the material blessing.

Now the blessing he gave to Abram is for his child. Who was the child of Abram?

Answer: Ishmael.

Maitreya: This child was from Hagar and Abram. Actually Abram was from Ur. Ur is in the south of -- that's not a good country to mention right now. Wasn't it south of Iraq? In the United States they are pretty bad guys right now.

But he was from Ur in the south of Iraq. Actually, that part of the country was a nation that was under the influence of the Persian Empire. The Persian Empire, as you know, is now called Iran, and Iran really means the Land of Aryans.

Actually, the Aryans were from North Europe. When their land became less and less usable, they started immigrating toward Russia, India, and Iran or Persia.

If you look at the Indian people in Asia, the northern Indians are much whiter than the southern Indians because the continent of India was actually a part of Africa. It moved from Africa and eventually it went underneath the continent of Asia, pushed it up, and the Himalayas and all those mountains formed.

So the Indian people were pretty dark-skinned people. When you see the southern Indians, they are very dark people, and the northern Indians are much whiter. That is because the Aryan Race, which was the white race, came from Europe, and came to Persia and India and mixed with the natives. The native teaching was mostly related to the Shiva teaching, and the Aryan teaching was different.

Comment: I've been to India and didn't know why the people in the south of India were blacker. I thought it was because the sun was stronger [all laughing].

Maitreya: So they came and they mixed with the natives. They came to Persia, and they actually settled mostly in Persia and in southern Iraq. Eventually they became the Persian Empire. They took over the Assyrians, and that's where Abram (Abraham) came from.

Then he later married Hagar. Hagar was an Egyptian, and she was black. The Egyptian people were black people. That's why the Arabs are darker in skin because Hagar was a dark-skinned person. The children of Hagar were a cross between Abram and the black people.

The child of Hagar and Abram was Ishmael. And the first blessings given from God were for the children of Abram, not Abraham, but Abram, the father of one nation.

What is that nation now? Who are the children of Ishmael? They are all the Arab people.

Comment: It would be nice to have a video and see all that.

Maitreya: Yes, that would be very nice. That's one of the wonderful things about the Mission, you can make so many movies and so many things about what we teach here. There is so much potential.

You can write children's books. You can create movies and things that repeat themselves more and more to humanity, until eventually they start getting this vision and idea, "Yeah, God has already said He was going to send His seals with different religions, and all religions have come from Him and they are unified."

It is not, the Mystical Paths are separate from Judaism, Judaism is separate from Christianity, Christianity is separate from Islam, Islam is separate from the Baha'is. That's why we have such a wonderful thing going on here. That's why sometimes you see I'm a little frustrated, because I see such a potential in this, and then we just go on with the small little details and mundanity in our lives. And we are so burdened with the mundane questions, that I just feel, "So what? You can just drop those, and get on with this."

Yes it is, it is a wonderful thing.

We can see that even Abraham didn't understand what God was talking about, because later on when God said, "I am going to give you a child by the name of Isaac," Abraham said, "Can't this blessing be upon Ishmael?" He didn't believe he would have another child because he was ninety-nine years old and his wife was ninety years old [laughing]. He said, "What are you talking about, I can't have a child. It's too late for me." So he said, "God can you give that blessing also to Ishmael? I know that I'm not going to have another child."

But God said, "No, I'm going to give you a child." Even though Abraham didn't understand it, God said, "I already blessed Ishmael." In the Bible it shows that when He gave the first promises to Abram, they were for Ishmael. Then later on he said, "Now your name is Abraham, your wife's name is no longer Sarai, it is Sarah, and I'm going to give you a child who you will name Isaac, and this blessing is now for Isaac."

So we can see that there were two promises for two children. As we said, one child was the first child of Abram, and he was Ishmael.

We can also find this in the Koran. The same thing was revealed to Prophet Muhammad that, "We will make a nation out of you and a Messenger will come out of thee." Exactly the same promise, isn't it, that he's going to be a nation?

Actually after I wrote down this revelation about the two sons of Abram (Abraham), I found this in the Koran. After I wrote this down, later on, one day I was reading the Koran and I said, "Hey, look, it's even in the Koran."

That is exactly what it says, "A nation is going to come out of you and a Prophet will guide them." Again what? The nation is the material blessing and the Prophet is the Messiah, or the spiritual blessing or the scepter.

We can see that even the Koran confirms that God has already promised Ishmael that such things were going to come to him. So the blessing which was given to Abram was for Ishmael and his children.

Now we will see what the birthright is that was given to the children of Ishmael, or the Arabs. The Arabs are a nation, aren't they? They are from Saudi Arabia to Jordan, to part of Israel, Egypt, all of North Africa, all the way to Spain.

Spain was under the influence of the Arabs for 250 years. So there is a lot of Arab blood in the Spanish people. Even if you look at the culture of the Spanish people, it is very much Arabic, even some of their names.

In New Mexico we are very close to the Spanish people. They have the names, Hussain or Mansor. These are all Arabic names. The style of their houses and the adobe they make, that is very Arabic. And then their language has the same tune of the Arabic language.

Also because of the concept that you can have as many wives as you want in the Arab cultures, it made it very possible that their blood just fused into the other nations because anywhere they went they married many wives, and they had a lot of children.

That's why you can see the Spanish people have a lot of Arab blood in them. You can almost say the Spanish people are Arabs. Even their temperament, their music, and their culture is pretty Arabic. So you can say that even South America has kind of been given to the Arabs because most of South America is Spanish.

Actually, pretty soon the United States is going to be 50-50%. That is, 50% of the population will be Spanish (or other related races).

You can see that Europeans, white Americans and probably the Canadians are all the children of Isaac. New Mexico is a kind of meeting place, and the Mission is right in between these two nations. That's another interesting point that just came to me a couple of weeks ago.

Comment: At what level do the teachings of the Bible and the teachings of Shiva merge?

Maitreya: I wasn't relating the Bible to Shiva's teaching. I was just saying that there are a lot of Sanskrit names that we can find in the Bible. But I'm sure that if you meditate on that, there is some relationship with every aspect of all teachings. There is some truth behind it.

Shiva was the teacher of tantra meditation. He was a tantric meditator. Actually they depict him as a person who was sitting in the middle of the grave.

Shiva was always depicted as a person who sat on the grave where the people are buried, where the bodies are put. Does she know about the teaching of Shiva? [She knows the picture] He had snakes and skulls, etc. That is the symbol of the emptiness of life, all death. The moment we are born, we start dying. So destruction is a part of life. Shiva was teaching that really everything in this life is emptiness.

The most important thing is to realize Self, or Spirit, or Soul. That's the only thing that is permanent. Everything else is temporary. That is the path of tantra. You go through the experience, you come out of it and you realize, "That was empty." As long as you are enjoying life you think that is it, that is the most wonderful thing in your life. But after you go through the enjoyment, at the end of it you see that, that wasn't it either.

Always life and death are present in every aspect of our lives. So we can probably relate that to what the Bible says, that God is the most important thing in our lives.

So as we saw, the first promise was with Abram and his first child. Then God came and promised Sarai a son. Sarai was barren, as you know. The Bible said she couldn't have a child.

But God came to them and said, "I'm going to give you a son." Sarai didn't believe it. She even giggled. She said, "What is He talking about? I am ninety years old and my husband is ninety-nine years old. Abraham is too old and I am too old. We can't have any children." And as we said Abraham asked, "Can this blessing be for Ishmael?" God said, "I've already blessed Ishmael."

But God fulfills His promises. He said He was going to do it and He did it. That's another confirmation. That's another strength for us in the Mission.

Sometimes it feels like no one wants to listen to our Message. People are caught in their own little lives, and those little lives are more important than this Message, this wonderful truth that has come to us. Then we sit back and say, "Am I wrong? What am I doing here? Why is it not happening? I have been trying to get this Message going for how long, since 1977? It's thirteen years since this Message is here and I'm trying to get it out. And it is not catching on. What is going on here? Is God with me or is God not with me? Is all this wrong that I'm doing?"

Then you remember how you received it and you feel, "That sounded right the way I received it. I was guided to receive this, etc." Eventually you conclude, this is a good teaching, this is a wonderful Message.

So the conclusion is that either humanity is not ready for it, or the way we present it is not right. Eventually, however, we come to this conclusion, "But God always fulfills His promises." He said His Kingdom will come on earth.

When we tell some people, "We're going to bring the Kingdom Of Heaven On Earth," they usually say, "Good luck." They are right. It is a pretty tough thing to do.

Just listen to the radio. There is so much going on even in Canada right now. They are trying to pass that new constitution and every province is having trouble with it. They are arguing back and forth, etc. I say, "How can we unify all these people together?"

But you can look at this and say, "Well, God said He is going to do it, and He did it before." God said He is going to bring His Kingdom on Earth and He will do it.

So that is our strength, isn't it? If we realize that God promised something and He fulfilled it no matter how bad it looks, you just hang onto that promise and say, "God said that He is going to do it so I'm going to hang onto that no matter how bad it looks out there."

Question: It's too bad we don't know when [all laughing]. That's for sure I believe that is going to arrive.

Maitreya: Good. But when? That's what we don't know because the future belongs to God.

God also is very flexible. He accomplishes things He says He will do but He always has a reserve, a way to do it. He chooses people who will bring this. He gives the Message and expects them to do things for Him. But if they fail He usually has some others reserved to do it, some back-up for it.

Well, a case in point is when the Quebecians got in touch with us, a gentlemen by the name of Jean was the first person who got in touch with us. But he didn't do it. Six months later, Raymond from nowhere [all laughing] called the Mission. He wanted to come and visit us. I said, "Fine, come." We had never been in touch with him, or sent him any material or anything.

Comment: It's not impossible that God could say to us how many times it happened. He could relate how many times the Communities of Light are going to be created on earth. He could do that?

Maitreya: Well, when I started the Mission I thought it was going to happen in a year, personally. I thought, "What do they want? Do they want unification of all religions? It is here, isn't it? All religions are unified. Do they want to bring the Kingdom Of Heaven On Earth? How it's done is here."

I thought anyone who heard this Message would say, "Yeah, that's it. Let's get on with it." Then instead they wanted to be healed. They wanted to receive money. They wanted to know the future. Who is their lover? Who is the best person for them to marry? Miracles, signs.....

Comment: And a lot of information...

Maitreya: Does he look good? Does he have good hair? Why does he walk? Why does he talk? Why does he sleep?

What has all of that to do with the Mission and the Message? You see, those are all completely irrelevant.

We have to just trust that it is going to happen. When is it going to happen? The sooner we get on with the work and do it, the sooner it is going to happen. The more we doubt it, the more we stay in our little lives and resist it, the more it's going to wait.

So in a sense a part of the fulfillment of the prophecies is upon us, how we respond to Him. It's a two way street. God reaches to us and we reach to Him. It's not a one way street.

As I said, you don't know what the human can do to God. If you think God can do things to us, you don't know what you can do to God. You can make Him very, very happy, or very, very sad.

Do you want to accelerate the timing? This is the way to do it. You have to really see the vision, see the wonderful thing that we are representing here to humanity, and do it as fast as possible.

Anyway, let's get on with the lecture again. The promise given to Abraham was then passed to Isaac. From Isaac it passed to Jacob. At the time of the death of Jacob, Jacob separated the blessings. He gave the blessing of the scepter to Judah, and the blessing of the birthright He gave to Joseph.

So from now on, because we are going to explain the third seal, we're going to continue with the blessings given to the children of Isaac. Next year, when we go into the fourth seal, we are going to continue with the blessings given to the children of Ishmael. But from now on we're going to go on and just say what happened to the Children of Israel and how the third seal was evolved.

The blessing was divided and given to Judah and Joseph. The scepter, the kingship, was given to the tribe of Judah. If you look at the kings coming to the Hebrews after the judges, except for the first king, Saul, whom the Hebrews chose (not God) and was not from the tribe of Judah, the rest of them (whom God chose) were all from the tribe of Judah. He promised that the kingship was going to stay with them forever, at least for the next era. King David, Solomon and all his children came from the tribe of Judah.

Actually, there is a story that eventually one of the blood relatives of King David moved and went to England, and that the kings and queens in England actually are still related to King David.

If they believed in reincarnation, they would have known that the kingship could stay with them even if they were not blood related. But some stories push it a little further and make it that the kings of England are related to King David.

Anyway, later on the Children of Israel were divided into two nations: the House of Israel, the northern kingdom (ten tribes of Israel) which is called the House of Israel, and the children of Judah (the southern kingdom) which are the tribe of Judah, Benjamin and the Levites with them.

The first time you hear the word "Jews" in the Bible is in II Kings chapter 16. They were in war with the Children of Israel, the northern kingdom. Then, of course, the House of Israel was conquered. Many people don't know what happened to them, the ten tribes of Israel. They just completely vanished for a lot of people. Of course, as we explained in the book Children of Abram (Abraham), All Prophecies Are Fulfilled in THOTH, they left the northern kingdom, scattered northward and eventually ended up in Europe, and some of them stayed in Europe and some came to the United States.

But the Jews, of course, were also taken away. They were conquered and carried away. Eventually they ended up in the Persian Empire, and Cyrus sent them back. He gave them enough resources to build their temple, and the Jewish people started flourishing back to their land. Eventually, of course, they were demolished after the Islamic conquest of the Holy Land.

Actually most of the Jews that are known now are the people from Khazar. It was a kingdom in the northwest of Iran, very close to the Caspian Sea. They were the people who called themselves Jews because the people in the west and north were Christians, and the people in the west and south were Moslems. They didn't want to be influenced by either culture. They called themselves Jews because they wanted to be different, unique. They wanted to become a buffer between these two so they wouldn't fight with one another.

Then they became Russian Jews, went to Europe and scattered throughout other parts of the world. Now most of the Jews we know are from that part of the world.

So the birthright blessing was given to the Children of Israel. As we explained, they left and went to the north, to Europe and to the United States. Their territory is from north or from Israel, north of Israel, to Europe and to the United States. So these are the Children of Israel.

And the promise of the blessing or the kingship or the Messiah was Esa. Esa came from the children of Judah, and that is exactly what Israel told them, that Judah is going to have the scepter and the scepter is going to be with them until the Shiloh comes.

What does Shiloh mean? It means Messiah. That means that when the Messiah comes that kingdom is going to be taken away from them. See again, if we understand the prophecy, God gave promises to Abram and then gave promises to Abraham. Then those promises that were given to Abraham will come to the Children of Israel. Israel divided the two promises, the birthright was given to the children of Joseph and the scepter to the children of Judah.

The Messiah came from the Jews, or Judah. The birthright came from the children of Joseph. Actually, if you read The Book Of Mormon, it talks about how the Children of Israel left Israel, came to Europe and eventually ended up in the United States.

Of course, all of them were killed by the American Indians. All these things have been written in the gold plates that Joseph Smith found. The people he talked about who came out of Israel and went to Europe, were the children of Joseph. He said in The Book Of Mormon that they were the children of Joseph. We can see that Israel gave the birthright, or the material blessing, to the children of Joseph, and they are the ones who came to Europe and eventually to the United States.

Of course, the children of Joseph were Manasseh and Ephraim. Actually, Ephraim is an Egyptian form of the name Abraham: Ephraim and Abraham, see how close they sound? The younger was preferred over the older.

Then England became a very powerful nation. It became so powerful that "the sun never sets in its territory." That is what was said, "We are so big that the sun never sets in our territory," because they had so many territories all over the world.

Now then the younger one is the United States, which also became powerful. Although it is younger, it became the most powerful nation we have ever had in history. So they are actually considered (people in the west, just the United States and Canada and this area that is the most prosperous in the world) to be the children of Ephraim, who was younger. And the people in England are the children of Manasseh.

We saw the Arabs also became like the stars. We can see that both promises God gave to Abram and Abraham are fulfilled.

See, we have to go beyond our national interests, etc. We have to see how God works.

If I was interested in my own national interest, I wouldn't be sitting here and talking about Jews and/or Christians and praising them, because where I was born, the people are Moslems, and Moslems are supposed to be against the Jews. That is the norm. If you are a Moslem, you shouldn't be praising anything about the Jewish and Christian people.

But we have to go beyond our national interests. We have to become God-conscious. We have to look at how God looks at the things. We shouldn't get upset when we are talking about these things, if it relates to other nations, or their prosperity, or their strength that came from God.

But it is finished now. With the coming of this new revelation, this old era is finished now. God fulfilled all His promises that have been given to every nation. Now everyone is equal. Everyone is in the same level in God's eye.

That blessing is finished. God made all these prophecies to show humanity that when He promises something, He fulfills it. That is what we have to understand from these prophecies, that He exists. Believe me, 99% of humans don't believe God exists. They really don't believe God exists.

So this event has been given to us to strengthen our faith. If we really believe God exists, that is going to strengthen us in all levels of our lives.

That's why these truths are taught here. Not that, "What nation is greater than another nation, who's more prosperous, who receives more blessing, who doesn't receive the blessing, and who is better than the other person?" Those are ego trips.

We have to go beyond ego trips. We have to realize that this all has been given by God to make us realize that God exists. If we just receive this out of our teaching, we have received a lot. And if we can make others also realize that, they have received a lot.

So I'm going to stop this lecture here. We will continue this tomorrow.