The Rod of Iron, Pt.4
from my TEACHING book- 'The TEACHING of the Lost Sacred Word, or the 7th Power*: (*even the Logos or Christ-consciousness which lies dormant and unfulfilled within you.")' (1989), Chap.7,Ref.1:
from pp.251-252
of 'Gnosis' Vol.1 (of 2) by Werner Foerster (1969/transl. from German 1972 HB) Oxford Univ. Press
I might add that the 7th Power is the 1st Power. Most interesting is that once you have obtained the "rod of iron", it leads to the "fruit" as Nephi & Lehi have shared.
But, if you do not receive proper instructions concerning IT, then you are left with the "experimenting" as Alma expounded on.
I might add in ending that practically every religion or culture on this planet, has some clue or mention of this NAME/WORD/SOUND/VIBRATION/Rod of Iron. If you seek, you will find.
In the Edgar Cayce Readings, there is the notation of "As to times,. as to seasons, as to places, ALONE is it given to those who have "Named the NAME" -- and who bear the mark of those of His calling and His election in their Bodies. To them it shall be given. " ECR # 3976-15 (1-19-1934).
Curry, in "The Endowment" booklet I shared some snips from, shared that the Endowment would come amidst calamity. I'm trying to find that little portion, but it is eluding me. Hmm, it is in Question 4 (Q-4). Here it is ...
"Yes, a time of calamity must come and is near at hand. Men think they have arranged ways that shall guarantee their security, regardless of their worthiness in the sight of the Lord. Those ways will fail. Men think now they are so wise there will be no more panics or depressions or times of mass unemployment or great want. In this they know not the future. The present abundant streams of prosperity shall dry up. Conditions shall change, for like the backward swing of a giant pendulum it shall swing farther back than ever before. Already the world is filled with troubles and problems whose solution defy the wisdom of your great statesman. War and disintegrating forces set in motion by the emissaries of Satan shall increasingly add to the perplexities of men in these latter days. Power now in the hands of man to destroy cities will be used. Cities and strongholds will be thrown down, even as shown to the prophets of ancient America. By all these things shall the heart of the world be humbled and the hearts of the people of the church as well. By these things shall you understand that it is only as you lean very heavily on the arm of the Lord's power that His great work can be done. Always there has been a great trial before a spiritual blessing. And thus must it be now. Men in general must learn obedience by what they suffer."
If that's the case, we have arrived. The comet of Nostradamus, St. Hildegarde of Bingen, Mother Shipton, Jeane Dixon, Josep Terelya, aka the Blue Star Kachina of the Hopi, is due in the Spring of 2029. But the "Night of the Bleeding Stars" of Stalking Wolf/Grandfather will occur 1 year prior to its impact.
What is the Iron Rod?
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Re: What is the Iron Rod?
Hmm, it did put lines over the bottom of the research brief quote, so that explains what happened the other day. That was the culprit.
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Re: What is the Iron Rod?
this post without quoting Lynn to see if it removes the lines.
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Lynn, Thank you for the compilation in regards to the Word..
I find it valuable.
Below, I copied/pasted various excerpts from your posts above to accent certain portions for those that it may benefit.
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-Joseph Smith referred to IT as "The Grand KEY WORD of the Endowment".
-It is also referred to as the LOGOS (Divine Word) or GOSPEL (from "God Spell" meaning Divine Name). Alma suggests an experiment, which means once you have some sort of guideline or teaching of IT, then you must work to resolve or solve IT. There is a certain Gnostic quote which assists in understanding this angle.
-Only out of this great school and the endowment to which it ministers and leads can there come power to fully envision and to establish Zion. Only out of it can come the great works to be done that shall usher in the world's Golden Age, the Millennium.
-In other words, it is as Alma explains- "experimenting with IT"
-Characteristic #10- "... He will warn His servants they must never use this great power selfishly, to any short-sighted, humanly conceived ends, but always to the glory of the One Most High and always for the ultimate good of the sons and daughters of men. ... ".
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My comments on the above:
As men, we cannot comprehend what is truly beneficial because we do not have wisdom . We may exercise wisdom for our daily lives in short term duties, but we have absolutely no idea of the future affects of our actions.
In this, the work is to let God do the works through us and is the only method by which the Word can be exercised in wisdom. To Let is the mystery. "Let there be light and there was light." He didn't command creation, he let it come to be.
Christ understood the foregoing in saying :
10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
There is only one wisdom and that is God's wisdom because he understands fully the purpose of our lives ....and we... do not. We cannot see the future nor the affect our actions cause toward the spiritual growth of ourselves and others. We are here for spiritual growth and to remember God. Nothing else. Our wisdom goes to near 0 in understanding the mystery of spiritual growth, the means of remembering and the power of remembering. The veil need not be.
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Lynn, Thank you for the compilation in regards to the Word..
I find it valuable.
Below, I copied/pasted various excerpts from your posts above to accent certain portions for those that it may benefit.
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-Joseph Smith referred to IT as "The Grand KEY WORD of the Endowment".
-It is also referred to as the LOGOS (Divine Word) or GOSPEL (from "God Spell" meaning Divine Name). Alma suggests an experiment, which means once you have some sort of guideline or teaching of IT, then you must work to resolve or solve IT. There is a certain Gnostic quote which assists in understanding this angle.
-Only out of this great school and the endowment to which it ministers and leads can there come power to fully envision and to establish Zion. Only out of it can come the great works to be done that shall usher in the world's Golden Age, the Millennium.
-In other words, it is as Alma explains- "experimenting with IT"
-Characteristic #10- "... He will warn His servants they must never use this great power selfishly, to any short-sighted, humanly conceived ends, but always to the glory of the One Most High and always for the ultimate good of the sons and daughters of men. ... ".
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My comments on the above:
As men, we cannot comprehend what is truly beneficial because we do not have wisdom . We may exercise wisdom for our daily lives in short term duties, but we have absolutely no idea of the future affects of our actions.
In this, the work is to let God do the works through us and is the only method by which the Word can be exercised in wisdom. To Let is the mystery. "Let there be light and there was light." He didn't command creation, he let it come to be.
Christ understood the foregoing in saying :
10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
There is only one wisdom and that is God's wisdom because he understands fully the purpose of our lives ....and we... do not. We cannot see the future nor the affect our actions cause toward the spiritual growth of ourselves and others. We are here for spiritual growth and to remember God. Nothing else. Our wisdom goes to near 0 in understanding the mystery of spiritual growth, the means of remembering and the power of remembering. The veil need not be.
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Lynn
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Re: What is the Iron Rod?
The other day, in Yahweh Part 2, I had a quote from Werner Foerster's 'Gnosis' at which point, lines were not on my end, but after posting they showed up in my post once available on the Forum. I wondered if it might be that I was over a certain amount of KB of text. So I played with it some but never completely cleared it up. When I posted the Rod of Iron, it started having lines from the quote on Foerster once again, so I broke it down into 4 parts, with the 3rd basically the snip from Foerster. The two bottom lines had the line drawn thru the text. I played with it once then left it as it was.
