|
EMILY DICKINSON
(Dec. 10,
1830 - May 15, 1886)
23
Emily Dickinson was a reclusive, unknown poet who
lived in the middle of the nineteenth century. She was
unpublished in her lifetime, preferring to wait for fame
posthumously. Sure of her own place in history to come, she
waited for the world to discover the beauty and wisdom of a
master craftsman. Unhappy with the world’s imprisoned word
meanings, she needed but a simple lexicon to fashion her new
gems, her crystals of reflected word, glistening in light and
color. Living only for beauty, and only for truth, she haunts
us today with eerily beautiful and mysterious poetry from deep
within her mind and soul.
All of the poems in this chapter are taken from
The Complete Poems of
Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas Johnson, 1st copyright 1890.
First we will look at Emily's prophecy of her
own death. This serves to establish her prophetic validity.
Emily Prophecies her own death
ED#24 There is a morn by men unseen –
1858 Whose maids upon remoter green
Keep their Seraphic
May –
And all day long, with dance and game,
And gambol I may never name –
Employ their holiday.
Here to light measure, move the feet
Which walk no more the village street –
Nor by the wood are found –
Here are the birds that sought the sun
When last year’s distaff idle hung
And summer’s brows were bound.
Ne’er saw I such a wondrous scene –
Ne’er such a ring on such a green –
As if the stars some summer night
Should swing their cups of Chrysolite –
And revel till the day –
Like thee to dance – like thee to sing –
People upon the mystic green –
I ask, each
May Morn.
I wait thy far, fantastic bells –
Announcing me in other dells –
Unto the different dawn!
This poem was written early in Emily’s career in 1858.
The "maids upon remoter green" are angelic transports
(seraphic) to the next world. Emily asks the seraphs "each new
May
morn" if they are ready to come
and take her so that she can join them and play with them "all
day long," with "dance and game." She asks these angels for
passage to the next world "remoter green" each and "every new
May morn" because
she knows she
is to die in May,
but doesn’t know what year.
E.D. #50 I haven’t told my garden yet –
1858 Lest that should conquer me.
I haven’t quite the strength now
To break it to the Bee –
I will not name it in the street
For shops would stare at me –
That one so shy – so ignorant
Should have the face to die.
The hillsides must now know it –
Where I have rambled so –
Nor tell the loving forests
The day that I shall go –
Nor lisp it at the table –
heedless by the way
Hint that within the Riddle
One will walk today –
In #50, Emily doesn’t tell her "garden," the "Bee," the
"hillsides," or the "forests" because the foreknowledge of her
death is a secret, but she foretells that
someone
"will walk in" or solve the
riddle someday. "The day that I shall go" is of course the day
of her death.
E.D. #160 Just lost, when I was saved!
1858 Just felt the world go by!
Just girt me for the onset with Eternity,
When breath blew back,
And on the other side
I heard recede the disappointed tide!
Therefore, as One returned, I feel
Odd secrets of
the line to tell!
Some Sailor, skirting foreign shores –
Some pale
Reporter, from the
awful doors
Before the
Seal!
Next time, to stay!
Next time, the things to see
By Ear unheard,
Unscrutinized
by Eye –
Next time, to tarry,
While the Ages steal –
Slow tramp the Centuries,
And the Cycles wheel!
Here, Emily goes to heaven, the place ‘where
ear has not heard
and
eye has not seen
what God has prepared
(New Test. KJV Bible)’ for His children, just as Enoch and
some other prophets have, to receive revelation about certain
aspects of future history. Since Emily has wanted to go and
stay in heaven, she is disappointed when she returns and feels
lost when almost
saved by being
returned from heaven after having been taken there. After
having received her revelation and returning she has
"odd secrets of the
line to tell!" She
is a terrified at what she has seen (see #443 regarding
Bomb)
and thus is a
"pale Reporter" of
the events she has witnessed before
the "Seal" of
Revelation. She
consoles herself because she knows that "next time" she goes
to heaven, she will have died and will be able to
"stay" for good, some
May
day.
E.D. #412 I read my sentence – steadily –
1862 Reviewed it with my eyes,
To see that I made no mistake
In its
extremest clause
–
The Date, and manner, of the shame –
And then the Pious form
That "God have mercy" on the Soul
The Jury voted Him –
I made my soul
familiar – with her extremity
–
That at the last, it should not be a novel Agony –
But she, and
Death, acquainted –
Meet tranquilly, as
friends
–
Salute, and pass, without a Hint –
And there, the Matter ends –
In #412, Emily "reads her sentence," which is her
death
sentence. She reads it over and
over to be sure of
"the Date and manner"
of her death which is seen as a "shame" to those of this life.
She turns the experience over in her mind to
"familiarize"
her soul with death, which is the most
"extreme"
of circumstances. She becomes
"acquainted"
or comfortable with the idea of dying and she continues on,
"tranquilly" turning to other things.
E.D. #443 I tie my Hat – I crease my Shawl –
1862 Life’s little duties do – precisely –
As the very least
Were infinite – to me –
I put new Blossoms in the Glass –
And throw the old – away –
I push a petal from my Gown
That anchored there – I weigh
The time ’twill be
till six o’clock
I have so much to do –
And yet – Existence – some way back –
Stopped – struck – my ticking – through –
We cannot put Ourself away
As a completed Man
Or Woman – When the
Errand’s
done
We came to Flesh – upon –
There may be – Miles on Miles of Nought –
Of Action – sicker far –
To simulate – is stinging work
To cover what we are
From Science – and from Surgery –
Too Telescopic Eyes
To bear on us unshaded –
For their – sake – not for Ours –
’Twould start
them –
We – could tremble –
But since we got a
Bomb –
And held it in our Bosom –
Nay – Hold it – it is calm –
Therefore – we do life’s labor –
Though life’s Reward – be done –
With
scrupulous exactness –
To hold our Senses – on –
In #443, Emily stands in front of a mirror exactly "tying
her hat" and "creasing her shawl" to distract herself from the
terror of her revelation and to keep busy because "life’s
Reward," her poetry and prophecy, are now completed. She
weighs the "time ’twill be
till six
o’clock" because
that will be the
hour of her
death for which
she will wait patiently, as her primary service to God "her
Errand"
which "she came to Flesh
upon" is complete. She understands that between
"errands"
there is a lot of waiting and occupying of oneself during
"Miles on Miles of Nought." She feels she has to pretend or
"simulate" to "cover what" she is because she knows that the
worldly and dissecting eyes of scientists and doctors
(surgery) would be startled and shaken (’Twould start them) by
the spiritual realities with which she has lived her life. And
she doesn’t want to disturb their restricted, overly skeptical
world view when that same world possesses "a
Bomb,"
nuclear implied, we can guess. (discussed later)
E.D. #1422 Summer has two Beginnings –
1877 Beginning once in June –
Beginning in October
Affectingly again –
Without, perhaps, the Riot
But graphicker for Grace –
As finer is a going
Than a remaining Face –
Departing then – forever –
Forever – until
May –
Forever is deciduous –
Except to those who
die
–
In #1422, Emily states that summer has two beginnings "once
in June" in the northern hemisphere and once in October in the
southern hemisphere. She then reflects that summer’s grace is
best appreciated in its leaving, rather than its coming. She
then switches gears to human life and death, and decides that
death is finer than her remaining errand-less life, she is
just "a remaining face" that endures until a
future May
takes her in death
forever to where there are no "deciduous" cycles of birth and
decay, just ever expanding realms of infinity.
E.D. #1737 Rearrange a "Wife’s" affection!
When they dislocate my Brain!
Amputate my freckled bosom!
Make me bearded like a man!
Blush, my spirit, in thy Fastness –
Blush, my
unacknowledged clay
–
Seven years of troth have taught thee
More than Wifehood ever may!
Love that never leaped its socket –
Trust entrenched in narrow pain –
Constancy thro’ fire – awarded –
Anguish – bare of anodyne!
Burden – borne so far triumphant –
None suspect me of the
crown,
For I wear the "Thorns"
till Sunset –
Then – my Diadem put on.
Big my Secret
but it’s bandaged –
It will never get away
Till the Day its Weary Keeper
Leads it through the Grave to thee.
In #1737, Emily describes her loneliness and lack of human
recognition (‘unacknowledged clay’) during her life of
self-sacrifice in the flesh. Her
"errand"
is a lonely "burden borne so
far triumphant." "None suspect" her of her
"crown"
of chosen-ness to do God’s most
important work. Like the great Prophets of Old, the glorious
crown feels sometimes like Jesus’ painful crown, of
sacrificial "Thorns." Notice, Emily wears her
crown
of thorns till
sunset,
which will accompany
her death sometime in
May at 6 o’clock pm
as noted previously. Her
"secret" ministry is bandaged because it has caused a wound
that cannot be shown to anyone yet and so it is "bandaged" to
conceal itself. Her secret is "Big" and she vows to never let
it get away "until the Day its Weary Keeper," "leads it
through the Grave to" an unspecified "Thee," the reader, we
presume.
We will soon discuss some of her "Big" secrets hidden in
her poetry. The following quote is from her brother’s (Austin)
diary on the day of her death. Unaware of Emily’s "secrets,"
and her private poetry, Austin writes of Emily’s death:
May 15, 1886 "The
day was awful. She ceased to
breathe that terrible breathing just
before the
whistles sounded for six"
(Quote from Richard B. Sewell’s,
The Life of Emily Dickinson.)
One can be quite sure that the sun was setting when Emily
died at 6 p.m. on May 15, 1886. Note that Emily prophesied the
month and hour of her death in poems written nearly thirty
years (1858) prior to the event. This is a demonstration of
the validity of her prophetic revelations so that we know we
can trust her other specific revelations.
Emily’s Errand
Emily tells us in her poetry that she has a special
"errand"
to do. The following poems shed
some light on this concept.
E.D. #85 "They have not chosen me," he said,
1859 "But I have chosen them!"
Brave – Broken hearted statement –
|Uttered in Bethlehem!
I could not have told it,
But since Jesus dared –
Sovereign!
Know a Daisy
Thy dishonor shared!
From somewhere, Emily (Daisy) gets the information that
Jesus chose his life’s mission for himself, rather than having
it been chosen for him by somebody else. Emily says she "could
not have told" this truth, which applies to herself as well,
unless Jesus "dared" to say it first to lead the way. Chosen
and elect are nearly the same word meaning and throughout
scripture are symbolized by the wearing of a "crown" as it is
here in Emily’s circumstance as well. God’s royalty is nothing
like man’s royalty though, for the "greatest in the Kingdom of
heaven is servant of all" and it is "the meek who will inherit
the earth." Also note that Emily refers to Jesus as
Sovereign,
the very same unique
title that the
Urantia Book
uses.
E.D. #356 The Day that I was
crowned
1862 Was like the
other Days –
Until the Coronation came –
And then – ’t'was Otherwise –
As Carbon in the Coal
And Carbon in the Gem
Are One – and yet the former
Were dull for Diadem –
I rose, and all was plain –
But when the Day declined
Myself and It, in Majesty
Were equally – adorned –
The Grace that I – was
chose
–
To Me – surpassed the
Crown
That was the Witness
for the Grace –
’Twas even that ’t'was Mine –
Before going any further, lets examine the use of the word
"crown"
within scripture.
Gen. 49:26 The
blessing
of thy father have prevailed
above the
blessings of my
progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills:
shall be on the
head of Joseph, and on the
crown
of the head of him that was
separate
from his brethren. (Joseph separates and goes to Egypt ahead of
the rest of
his family the tribe of Jacob; see Genesis)
Levit. 8:9 And he (Moses) put the mitre upon his head; also
upon the mitre, even
upon did he put the golden plate, the
holy crown;
as the LORD commanded Moses.
Isa. 28:5
In that day shall
the LORD of hosts be for a
crown
of glory, and for a
diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people...(the
remnants)
Mark.15:17 And they clothed him with purple, and platted a
crown of
thorns,and put
it about his (Jesus’) head,
1Peter 5:4 And when the
chief Shepherd
shall appear, ye shall
receive a
crown of
glory that fadeth
not away. (The chief Shepherd Melchizedek crowns those who
elect to do
God’s will.)
Rev. 3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou
hast, that no man take
thy crown.
Rev. 6:2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that
sat on him had a bow; and
a crown
was given unto him: and
he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
(Melchizedek wears a
crown
and is called the
Elect One
on Enoch as well.)
Rev. 14:14 having on his head a
golden crown,
and in his hand a sharp
sickle. (Again,
Melchizedek the reaper of the harvest)
Wis. 5:16 Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom,
and a
beautiful crown from
the Lord’s hand: for with his right hand shall he cover them,
and with his arm shall he protect them.
The crown symbolizes those whom elect and choose God’s Way
as their own.
Royalty in the Kingdom of heaven translates into suffering and
persecution in the upside down world, the kingdom of men.
All who elect
God’s will must be servants of all.
Lets now return to the
discussion of
Emily’s Errand again.
In #356, Emily receives her
crown.
She has been chosen for
a task of great importance to the development of the kingdom
of heaven; on earth and in the heart. Her poetry teaches
about, and reveals in beauty, the kingdom of heaven within. In
addition, she carries some explicit information regarding
events of the latter days, but more about her
Errand
first:
E.D. #528 Mine – by the Right of the White Election!
1862 Mine – by the Royal Seal!
Mine – by the Sign in the Scarlet prison –
Bars – Cannot conceal!
Mine – here – in vision – and in Veto!
Mine – by the Grave’s Repeal –
Titled –Confirmed –
Delirious Charter!
Mine – long as Ages steal!
Here, Emily exults about her
"White Election"
to perform God’s
service. Emily was a
"contact
personality," as
defined in the Urantia Book, as would all the major prophets
and servants.
A contact personality
is a selected human being who
has more or less direct contact with the divine kingdom of
heaven and who is given a special task to complete.
E.D. #535 She’s happy, with a new Content –
1862 That feels to her – like Sacrament –
She’s busy – with an altered Care –
As just apprenticed to the Air –
She’s tearful – if she weep at all –
For blissful Causes – Most of all
That Heaven permit so meek as her –
To such a Fate – to Minister.
Emily is blissful because "Heaven" has permitted her to
minister to the "Fate" of all mankind.
E.D. #635 Then I – my
timid service
done –
1862 Tho’ service ’twas, of Love –
Take up my little Violin –
And further North – remove.
The last stanza of #635 (above) refers to her "service"
which was "timid" because of the lack of danger to herself, as
contrasted with others before her, most notably the Son of
Man, the apostles, and the Prohets many of whom gave up their
lives in service to God. "Further North" is heaven of course.
E.D. #842 Good to hide, and hear ’em hunt!
1864 Better, to be found,
If one care to, that is,
The Fox fits the Hound –
Good to know, and not tell,
Best, to know and tell,
Can one find the
rare Ear
–Not too dull
In #842, Emily again brings up the subject of her secrets
that wait for the "rare Ear, Not too dull" to unravel. Lets
now look at some
Urantia Book
concepts found in Emily Dickinson’s poems.
Urantia Book Concepts found in Emily Dickinson
Prayer and Worship
E.D. #564 My period had come for Prayer –
1862 No other Art – would do –
My tactics missed a rudiment –
Creator – Was it you?
God grows above – so those who pray
Horizons – must ascend –
And so I stepped upon the North
To see this Curious Friend –
His House was not – no sign had He –
By Chimney – nor by Door
Could I infer his Residence –
Vast Prairies of Air
Unbroken by a Settler –
Were all that I could see –
Infinitude – Had’st Thou no Face
That I might look on Thee?
The Silence condescended –
Creation stopped – for Me –
But awed beyond my errand –
I worshipped –
did not "pray’ –
In #564, Emily "ascends" into God’s "vast prairies" of
"infinitude" to pray, but "awed beyond her errand" she leaves
her personal concerns behind and instead worships God in
silent inner communion. The distinction between prayer and
worship is very clear here.
Prayer
asks for something conceived of
in the mind.
Worship transcends
mind, has no requests, and opens into the infinitude of God’s
Joy. This distinction between prayer and worship is an
Urantia Book
concept that I have not
seen elsewhere, other than Emily.
Despite her status, as symbolized by her
crown,
Emily
constantly worries if she’s good enough
to do her task and live up to
God’s trust in her.
E.D. #751 My Worthiness is all my Doubt –
1863 His Merit – all my fear –
Contrasting which, my quality
Do lowlier – appear –
Lest I should insufficient prove
For His beloved Need –
The Chiefest Apprehension
Upon my thronging Mind –
Emily questions her worthiness throughout her poetry.
Poverty to Emily is living without the experience of God, the
kingdom of heaven within, and not lack of material wealth. She
tells us that without this
unsurpassable
experience,
"being is beggary." (Poem #119)
Emily had some unusual encounters during her life, which she
discloses in her poetry, knowing that her real experiences
would be taken figuratively, rather than literally, as they
truly are.
Consider her poems related to angels:
Angels
E.D. #17 Baffled for just a day or two –
1858 Embarrassed – not afraid –
Encounter in my garden
An unexpected
Maid.
She beckons, and the
woods start –
She nods, and all begin –
Surely, such a
country
I was never in!
Emily "encounters" an "unexpected Maid," perhaps an angel,
in her garden. Baffled and embarrassed at first, she tells us
that this is a very unusual "country that she was never in
before."
E.D.#248 Why – do they
shut Me out
of Heaven?
1861 Did I sing – too loud?
But – I can say a little "Minor"
Timid as a Bird!
Wouldn’t the
Angels try me –
Just – once – more –
Just – see – if I troubled them –
But don’t – shut the door!
Oh, if I – were the Gentleman
In the "White Robe" –
And they – were the little Hand – that knocked –
Could – I – forbid?
Emily’s glimpse of "Heaven" is all too short. The "angels"
and the "Gentleman in the white robe" (? Ancient of Days)
leave her behind to complete her mission and live out her
life. Emily remembers this real event with real bitterness and
feels as if she has been shut out of the place she most wants
to be.
E.D. #256 If I’m lost – now
1861 That I was found –
Shall still my
transport be –
That once – on me – those Jasper Gates
Blazed open – suddenly –
That in my awkward – gazing – face –
The Angels
– softly peered –
And touched me with their fleeces,
Almost as if they cared –
I’m banished – now – you know it –
How foreign that can be –
You’ll know – Sir – when the Savior’s face
Turns so – away from you –
Emily again bitterly speaks about being left behind from
heaven where "angels peered" into her "gazing face." Notice
the word "transport" used in conjunction with angels again.
This association occurs repeatedly throughout her poetry and
brings to mind the "transport seraphim" of the
Urantia Book
who are angels used for
the transport of non-physical beings such as an immortal soul
following death.
E.D. #298 Alone, I cannot be –
1861 For Hosts
– do visit me –
Recordless Company –
Who baffle Key –
They have no Robes, nor Names –
No Almanacs – nor climes –
But general Homes
Like Gnomes –
Their Coming, may be known
By Couriers
within –
Their going – is not
–
For they’re never gone –
Emily is aware of "Hosts," which are angels, that visit
her, and which are known by "courier’s within."
The Urantia Book
tells us that the angels
lead us by "inner urges" and that the thought adjuster
(indwelling spirit) guides us through the inner, intuitive
mode opened up by faith and the wholehearted desire to follow
God’s will. Emily knows she is never alone despite outward
appearances.
E.D. #374 I went to Heaven –
1862 ’Twas a small Town –
Lit – with a Ruby –
Lathed – with Down –
Stiller – than the fields
At the full Dew –
Beautiful – as Pictures –
No Man drew.
People – like the Moth –
Of Mechlin – frames –
Duties – of Gossamer –
And Eider – names –
Almost – contented –
I – could be –
’Mong such unique
Society –
Again, one can take this "going to heaven" literally or
figuratively. Too many prophets have described this same
experience in the same way as Emily not to give pause,
especially in light of Emily’s successful prophecy of her own
death and her deeply insightful poetry about the inner
workings of the kingdom of heaven; not to mention her accurate
prophecies of nuclear weapons still to be examined.
E.D. #1096 These Strangers, in a foreign World,
1866 Protection asked of me –
Befriend them, lest yourself in Heaven
Be found a Refugee –
Emily protects the "strangers" by keeping their existence
secret, although none would believe her anyway.
E.D. #1360 I sued the News – yet feared – the News
1876 That such a Realm could be –
"The House not made with Hands" it was –
Thrown open wide to me –
That such a "realm could be" will upset and overthrow the
mind set of many people on this backward and darkened world.
Light too strong blinds us, whereas lower intensities
illuminate the darkness.
E.D. #2 There is
another sky,
1850 Ever serene and
fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;
Never mind faded forests, Austin, (her brother)
Never mind silent fields –
Here
is a little forest,
Whose leaf is
ever green;
Here
is a brighter garden,
Where not a frost has been;
In its unfading flowers
I hear the bright bee hum;
Prithee, my brother,
Into my garden come!
The "other sky," "other sunshine," and "other forest,"
where flowers
never fade is the
eternal and very real Kingdom of heaven of course.
Let’s now look at a few more "transport" poems before moving
ahead to Emily’s specific prophesied events. First some
information from the
Urantia Book
about a certain type of
angel called:
UB p. 430
The Transporters.
All groups of ministering spirits have their transport
corps, angelic
orders dedicated to the ministry of transporting
those
personalities (non-physical) who are unable, of themselves, to
journey
from one sphere to another.
UB p. 438 there are a large number of such seraphim
stationed on Urantia (Earth) (not
visible to human eyes of course)
Now, for the "transport" poems:
Angelic Transport
E.D. # 984 ’Tis Anguish grander than Delight
1865 ’Tis Resurrection Pain –
The meeting Bands of smitten Face
We questioned to, again.
’Tis Transport
wild as thrills the
Graves
When Cerements let go
And Creatures
clad in Miracle
Go up by Two and
Two.
This poem #984, explicitly speaks about "resurrection" when
"Transport" from graves (cerements) by "Creatures clad in
Miracle, Go up by Two and Two." This poem is describing
angelic transport upon mortal death.
"Creatures clad in
Miracle" are angels.
E.D. #1483 The
Robin
is a
Gabriel
1879 In humble
circumstances –
His Dress denotes him socially,
Of Transport’s
Working Classes –
He has the punctuality
Of the New England Farmer –
The same oblique integrity,
A Vista vastly warmer –
Translating, Emily tells us that the word Robin is used to
denote an angel, like Gabriel, except that Gabriel is a
high-level archangel unlike Emily’s Robin, which is a plain,
lowly, working class angel of a lower order that are known as
"transport seraphim" (see UB quote above) in the
Urantia Book
and are used to
transport non-physical beings from one planet or system to
another. Birds
are used by Emily as
code words to describe different types of non-material beings.
The Urantia
Book and Emily
Dickinson mutually reinforce each other’s validity. Emily
wrote a hundred years prior to the publication of
The Urantia Book
in 1955. These parallel
concepts require explanation.
Other concepts found in the
Urantia Book
such as the thought
adjuster, the indwelling spirit within (discussed previously),
the Apostles’ error, transport seraphim, spiritual growth,
individual will and many others are generously scattered among
her work. This is because the source of both the Urantia Book
and Emily’s experiences are the same; namely the divine world
of the Kingdom of heaven.
Revealed religion is
unified because it comes from a common source
– the divine world. Here are a
few more
Urantia Book related
poems about the Thought Adjuster which is the name given to
the indwelling spirit of man that is given us by God. The
Thought Adjuster is a
fragment of infinity
bestowed by God upon
all men and women. Since God puts a
spiritual piece
of himself inside each
human being, He is our
spiritual Father
and we are his
spiritual sons and
daughters. This is
exactly analogous to the biologic father and mother who give a
biologic-genetic piece
of themselves to their
biologic children.
This spirit
fragment is the foundation for the living spiritual connection
between God and man.
God is in us and we are in Him.
By nature of this
living spiritual
connection, God
"becomes what we are, to make us what He is."
Each of us are a
potentially part of the divine circuit of energy which pours
forth from God, out through his sons and daughters, and into
the lives they lead and the people they touch.
And what goes out from the
Source of love, returns in the end through praise,
transforming our hearts and our minds in the process. This new
heart and new mind lies dormant within every man and every
woman, awaiting the day they wholeheartedly choose and desire
to be led by God from within.
When the self yields
sovereignty to the spirit, the process of new inner growth
begins. Most importantly, it is our will that decides and
chooses between: self or other, anger or forgiveness, hate or
love. The will is the ultimate determining factor in all of
man’s existence.
Next:
The human will
E.D. #803 The Distance was between Us
That is not of Mile or Main –
The Will it is
that situates –
Equator – never can
–
Absolute love requires absolute freedom. God must wait at
the door of the Kingdom of heaven within until we knock and
truly desire to enter. When we seek Him with our
whole
heart and our
whole
mind and our
whole
soul there is nothing that can
stop the circuit closing between man and God.
His divine energy
(love) pours over, around, and through us, filling our cup;
hollowed out with suffering; but now hallowed with overflowing
joy.
Spiritual Joy
E.D. #383 Exhilaration –
is within –
1st of 3 stanzas
There can No Outer Wine
So royally intoxicate
As that diviner Brand.
E.D. #756 A perfect – paralyzing Bliss – …
lines 7,9,10, I knew no more of Want – or Cold –
11,12 Phantasms both become
For this new Value in the Soul –
Supremest
Earthly Sum –
E.D. #1640 Take all away from me, but leave
Ecstasy,
And I am richer then
than all my Fellow Men –
Will it become me to dwell so wealthily
When at my very Door are
those possessing
more,
In abject poverty –
E.D. #362 It struck me – every Day –
The lightning
was as new
As if The Cloud that
instant slit
And let the
Fire through –
It burned Me
– in the Night –
It Blistered
to My Dream –
It sickened fresh upon my sight –
With every Morn that came –
I thought that 5 turns – was brief –
The Maddest – quickest by –
But Nature lost the Date of This –
And left it in the Sky.
Emily speaks above about
the pinnacle of all
human experience –
the experience of divine ecstasy upon the ‘anointment with the
spirit’ by God. God ‘puts His spirit upon’ His servants and
prophets in order to ‘put understanding in their hearts and
minds.’ (see Isaiah 42:1, Behold my servant...) This
annointment empowers His servants to carry out their appointed
tasks. Emily calls this anointment of the spirit her
coronation during which she receives her
crown.
This ties in with the crown
worn by those who elect God’s will discussed elsewhere.
Our magazines decry
physical ecstasy, but that is a poor beggar compared to
spiritual joy. The
Urantia Book
tells us further
about personal spiritual experience:
UB p. 1621
Worship is salvation
for the pleasure – seeking
generation
UB p. 1641
Worship is a
transforming
experience whereby the
finite gradually
approaches and ultimately attains the presence of the Infinite
UB p. 1616
Worship is the act
of the son’s personal communion with the divine Father
Without the indwelling spirit/Thought Adjuster there would
be no spiritual connection between man and God because:
UB p. 2094
only the spirit –
indwelt mind can realize the divine presence and seek to
attain a fuller experience in and with this foretaste
divinity.
And unless we think that communion and worship gives joy to
man only:
UB p. 305 What a Fruition of the external plan and purpose
of God that
the
intelligent love of the creature child should give
full
satisfaction to the
infinite love of the Creator Father.
(To understand this, we need only remember the joy that we
receive from
the love of our physical children. God is first and foremost a
loving Parent.)
And finally we have:
UB p. 303 Worship is the
highest privilege
and
first duty
of all created
intelligences.
UB p. 998 When the worship urge is admonished and direct by
wisdom…it
begins to develop into the phenomenon of
real
religion.
First hand spiritual experience is what we lack and what we
need most of all. It
is onlyas far away as was Kansas in the Wizard of Oz; just as
far as our hearts desire. "Ask and you shall receive." "Search
and you shall find." "Behold, all things are becoming new."
The spirit fragment or Thought Adjuster acts as a guide
showing us "the way" if we only so desire. The mind which
chooses becomes progressively attuned to God’s will or way,
which is the way of
truth,
the way of
beauty,
and the way of
goodness:
each in all and all in each – fused in the triune experience
of living joy. Our minds are
adjusted,
by right of our desire, to connect the dots between what we
are and what God would have us to become. And our Father
encourages our spiritual striving; saying,
"Become perfect, even
as I Am perfect."
Perfect not in mind, thought, or deed but perfect in love; our
lives a fount of blessings to all those we meet. St. Francis
said it best, "Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace."
In Emily’s poems she makes analogies between the outer and
inner states to talk about the inner, spiritual world – "the
Kingdom of heaven within." And so, darkness is absence of
light for our physical eyes, as well as the absence of
understanding from our minds, and the absence of joy for our
souls. She speaks from three levels of reality all at once,
creating confusion unless we separate her meanings out on the
levels of physical, mental, and spiritual as we are so well
taught by the
Urantia Book. .Now
we will examine Emily’s poems about the indwelling spirit
given to man by God and referred to as the thought adjuster in
the Urantia
Book.
Thought Adjuster
E.D. #45 There’s something quieter than sleep
1858 Within this
inner room!
It wears a sprig upon its breast –
And will not tell its name.
E.D. #419 We grow accustomed to the Dark –
1862 When Light is put away –
As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp
To witness her Goodbye –
A Moment – We uncertain step
For newness of the night –
Then – fit our Vision to the Dark –
And meet the Road – erect –
And so of Larger – Darknesses –
Those Evenings
of the Brain –
When not a Moon disclose a sign –
Or Star – come out –
within
–
The Bravest – grope a little –
And sometimes hit a Tree
Directly in the Forehead –
But as they learn to see –
Either the Darkness alters –
Or something
in the sight
Adjusts itself to Midnight –
And Life steps almost straight.
Poem #45 describes something that is "quieter than sleep"
within the inner room of consciousness that "will not tell its
name" because the thought adjuster is that silent, "little
voice
within." We have all
had the repeated experience of listening or not listening to
that "little voice within" which is always accurate. It is
always accurate because it is the spirit fragment from God
Himself. The real goal of human existence is learning to
hear and follow that voice as
much as we are possibly able.
We stop listening when we don’t
want to comply with the guidance, therefore we assert our will
over His and lose the connection. Other times we are afraid of
repercussions (which there will surely be) that we don’t want
to face. Faith or trust in God is always the answer. Soon we
see, if we give it a chance, that all things do work to the
good for
those who love and follow God.
This way is the
true way
and is the entire sum of God’s
religion; the message of Jesus, the Kingdom of heaven within.
Man’s religions are best evaluated by the extent that they
connect the real person to the real God: the God of truth, the
God of beauty, the God of goodness, and the God of love. This
God has been progressively revealed to the minds and hearts of
man through Melchizedek, Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, the
Prophets, and most recently Jesus of Nazareth. This is a
progressive,
evolutionary process
that does not stop and sit
still. Progressive revelation has been, is, and will forever
be an ongoing
process; as the
Infinite becomes progressively grasped by the finite. We
are not meant to put the truths
given us into a hole in the ground to keep it safe and
untouched. Like the
wise servant of the parable,
we are expected to make
gain from what we are given.
If we are not growing on the
vine, then we are dying on the vine. There is no standing
still in the Kingdom of heaven
–
if we do not bear the
fruits of the spirit, then we are not of the spirit. We can
not praise God with our lips but leave Him out of our lives if
we do not act
on what we know.
Some fruits of the spirit are love, wisdom, forbearance,
faithfulness, loyalty, perseverance, and humility.
Poem #419 contrasts the outer world of vision adjusting to
darkness to the inner spiritual world of darkness where
consciousness "gropes" to find the inner leading of the
indwelling thought adjuster, which makes "life step almost
straight" when
we allow ourselves
to be guided by it. The word adjust and adjusted is used in
this same context several other times in Emily’s poetry and
suggests a knowledge of the thought adjuster’s function that
is consistent with the teachings of the
Urantia Book
once again.
UB p. 76 The indwelling Father fragment adjusts the human
mind to progressively divine attitudes.
E.D. #532 From the belief that Somewhere –
1862 Within
the Clutch of Thought –
There dwells one other
Creature
Of Heavenly Love –
forgot
–
Above, only the third stanza of five is given. What
"creature" of "Heavenly Love" is within our "Clutch of
Thought?" The thought adjuster of course. The "creature" is
forgotten because spiritual truths have been lost and covered
up on our world.
E.D. #670 One need not be a Chamber – to be Haunted –
1863 One need not be a House –
The Brain has Corridors – surpassing
Material Place –
Far safer, of a Midnight Meeting
External Ghost
Than its
interior Confronting
–
That Cooler
Host.
Far safer, through an Abbey gallop,
The Stones a’chase –
Than unarmed, one’s other-self encounter –
In lonesome Place –
Ourself behind ourself, concealed –
Should startle most –
Assassin
hid in our Apartment
Be Horror’s least.
The Body – borrows a Revolver –
He bolts the Door –
O’erlooking a
superior spectre –
Or More –
Here the spirit within is compared with the notion of an
outside spirit or ghost. The "brain" or mind houses a
"superior spectre" or "Cooler Host," the divine spirit within,
which the unsuspecting material self startles at, upon its
discovery within consciousness. This divine "Host" within is
an "assassin" because the material self must die to itself
to obtain values of
the divine self. The
material self
willingly subordinates
its previously central
position, in essence laying down its life to allow for a new
life in the spirit of God’s transforming grace. We "let go" to
"let Him in." But by losing the dominance of the material
self we gain our life
in the spirit and the choosing mind has
finally
found its Way to
eternity. This
paradox has been perfectly expressed, long ago, by the Son of
man, Master of men: "He that loveth his life shall lose it;
and he that would give his life for this gospel shall gain
it." "Except as a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die,
it bringeth forth no fruit."
Comically in #670, the "Body" or material self tries to
lock out the spiritual self within by "bolting a door" while
being overwatched, unobserved by the spiritual self, the
"superior spectre" that dwells within and not on the outside.
I’m afraid there is no locking this ghost out.
E.D. #911 Too little way the House must lie
1864 From every Human Heart
That holds in undisputed Lease
A white
inhabitant –
E.D. #1286 I thought that nature was enough
1873 Till Human nature came
But that the other did absorb
As Parallax a Flame –
Of Human nature just aware
There added the Divine
Brief struggle
for capacity
The power to contain
In #911, the "white inhabitant" is the thought adjuster who
has been bestowed, with an undisputed lease from the Maker.
In #2386, human and divine (thought adjuster) nature
struggle for sovereignty of the self. Unquestionably, Emily
has a clear understanding of the function, origin, and destiny
of the "divine Host within," "the white inhabitant," the
"Creature of Heavenly Love," "within the clutch of thought,"
of "Heavenly Love – forgot." Next we turn to:
The apostles’ error
E.D. #1681 Speech is one symptom of Affection
And Silence
one –
The perfectest
communication
Is heard of none –
Exists and its
indorsement
Is had within
–
Behold,
said the Apostle,
Yet had not seen!
The above poem fits in nicely with:
John 10:1 I Assure you, most solemnly I tell you, he who
does not enter by
the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way is a
thief and a robber.
John 10:2 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of
the sheep.
John 10:6 Jesus used these parable with them,
but they did not
understand
what He was talking
about.
Emily starts this poem #1681 discussing the kingdom of
heaven within, with reference to "the perfectest
communication" within between the thought adjuster and the
human self. This communication "exists and is had within" our
being. The Apostle says "Behold" although he had not grasped
the reality
of "the kingdom of
heaven" within. Therefore he inaugurates a new message
about
the risen Christ. How could
Emily have grasped this in the nineteenth century? And now,
the Urantia
Book tells us that
the errors of
the Apostles must be
corrected. Who is prepared to do this? Who is capable of doing
this? Who has personally experienced the meaning of the
kingdom of heaven, as well as understood the nature of the
Apostle’s error?
Apostle’s Error
UB p. 2059 These men (the apostles) had been trained and
instructed that the
gospel which they
should
preach was
the fatherhood of God
and the
sonship of man, but
at just this moment of spiritual ecstasy and
personal triumph, the best tidings, the greatest news, these
men
could think of was the fact of the risen Master. And so they
went
forth, endowed with power from on high, preaching glad tidings
to
the people -- even salvation through Jesus -- but
they
unintentionally stumbled into the error of substituting some
of the
facts associated with the gospel for the gospel message
itself.
The gospel of the kingdom is: the fact of the fatherhood of
God, coupled with the resultant truth of the
sonship-brotherhood
of men.
Next, The
Urantia Book states:
The Refinement of Man
UB p. 100 The universe of your origin is being
forged
out between the
anvil of
justice and the
hammer of
suffering; but those
who
wield the hammer are the children of mercy, the spirit
offspring of the Infinite Spirit.
Emily Dickinson writes:
E.D. #365 Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?
1862 Then crouch within the door –
Red – is the Fire’s common tint –
But when the vivid Ore
Has vanquished Flame’s conditions,|
It quivers from the
Forge
Without a color, but
the light
Of unannointed Blaze.
Least Village has its Blacksmith
Whose Anvil’s
even ring
Stands symbol for the
finer Forge
That soundless tugs
–
within –
Refining these
impatient Ores
With Hammer,
and with Blaze
Until the Designated Light
Repudiate the
Forge –
There could be no more beautiful expression about the
process of inner molding and refining that we undergo during
our lives. Our Father, numbers the hairs on our head – and
searches through ceaseless night for the first light of new
consciousness – a son for his Father.
Next, consider the following
poem:
The Zones of Paradise
E.D. # 871 The Sun and Moon must make their haste –
1864 The Stars express around
For in the
Zones of Paradise
The Lord alone is
burned –
His Eye, it is the East and West –
The North and South when He
Do concentrate His Countenance
Like Glow Worms, flee away –
Oh Poor and Far –
Oh Hindered Eye
That hunted for the Day –
The Lord a Candle entertains
Entirely for Thee –
Those familiar with the
Urantia Book
will immediately note
the expression
"Zones of Paradise."
This is the exact
terminology used in
The Urantia Book and
found nowhere else as
far as I am aware. Is this just a coincidence or perhaps
something more? The quotes below about Paradise tell us that:
UB p. 120 The Holy Area, the outlying or residential region
is divided into
seven
concentric zones…these
seven zones are often designated "the Father’s Paradise
mansions."
UB p. 122 …in the central portion of nether Paradise, is
the unknown and unrevealed
Zone of
Infinity.
These are but a few references, among many more, regarding
the zones of Paradise in the Urantia Book. Again, Emily and
The Urantia
Book match up
because they both have the same source of revelation, the
Kingdom of heaven itself.
Next, we move on to a more disturbing subject. A subject
which was unknown to anyone in the nineteenth century because
it had not yet been discovered. But, by now that should not
really surprise us. We have already seen in our recent
discussion of poem #443, that Emily is upset that she has to
"do life’s labor," with scrupulous exactness, just to hold her
"senses on" because otherwise:
The Nuclear Bomb
E.D. #443 ’T'would start them –
1862,2 stanzas We – could tremble –
only But since we got a
Bomb –
And held it in our
Bosom –
Nay – Hold it – it is calm –
Therefore – we do life’s labor –
Though life’s Reward – be done –
With
scrupulous exactness –
To hold our Senses – on –
This "Bomb" is
The Bomb,
first used about ten years
before the
Urantia Book was
published, at the end of the Second World War, close to the
time the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. Further in evidence we
have:
E.D. #591 To interrupt His Yellow Plan
1862 The Sun does not allow
Caprices of the Atmosphere –
And even when the Snow
Heaves Balls of Specks, like a Vicious Boy
Directly in His Eye –
Does not so much as turn His Head
Busy with Majesty –
’Tis His to stimulate the Earth –
And magnetize the Sea –
And bind Astronomy, in place,
Yet Any passing by
Would deem ourselves – the busier
As the Minutest Bee
That rides –
emits a Thunder –
A Bomb – to justify
–
Here Emily starts out by discussing the majestic power of
the sun compared to the mundane, relatively powerless events
that occur on the earth. She then takes the position of an
outside observer (of both the Sun and the earth) whose eye is
caught by our (earth) on which people are "busy Bees"
making something that
rides, emits a Thunder, and has a Bomb.
The bomb unfortunately is the
"justification" or reason for being of this clearly
described missile with its
payload. The Sun is
used to suggest the nuclear forces that are at work in both
the sun and the Bomb. The sun and the Bomb are both powered by
nuclear fusion reactions. The Bomb passage is unexpected and
sudden in appearance within the poem, just as the Bomb itself
is sudden and unexpected when it is detonated over people. The
capitlization of Bomb suggets that this is no ordinary
explosive device.
E.D. #600 It troubled me as once I was –
1862 For I was once a Child –
Concluding how an
Atom
– fell –
And yet the Heavens – held –
Emily is troubled when she is first shown how an "Atom"
(bomb) falls and explodes. She finds it difficult to
understand how the "Heavens held" in the face of its awesome
power.
E.D. #1128 These are the Nights that Beetles love-
1868 From Eminence remote
Drives
ponderous perpendicular
His figure intimate
The terror
of the Children
The merriment
of men
Depositing his Thunder
He hoists abroad
again –
A Bomb
upon the Ceiling
Is an improving thing –
It keeps the nerves progressive
Conjecture flourishing –
Too dear the Summer evening
Without discreet alarm
Supplied by Entomology
With its
remaining charm –
Emily, in #1128, paints a visual picture of "merry men"
depositing "Bombs" which explode with "Thunder." The pilot
"hoists abroad again" his airplane after "depositing his
thunder" to return home and to avoid the effects of the blast.
Again, such a possibility "keeps the nerves progressive"
wondering (Conjecture flourishing)
when
it will happen, knowing that
there will be
no "discrete alarm" to warn us
during the Summer evening which
is otherwise placid and "dear." In the first part, the event
takes place during a summer night "that beetles love" when a
bomb
is dropped "from
Eminence remote" high in the sky. The
bomb
proceeds
directly down
to its target, falling
"perpendicular" to the horizontal flight of the plane. Also
note that only a small
portion of nature’s
(entomology) charms
remains, verifying
the catastrophic
nature of this event.
E.D. #1172
The Clouds their Backs together laid
1870 The North begun
to push
The Forests galloped till they fell
The Lightning played like mice
The Thunder crumbled like a stuff
How good to be in Tombs
Where Nature’s
Temper cannot reach
Nor missile
ever comes
Here in #1172, is in evidence signs of both
"Nature’s Temper"
(storms and other
natural events) and
man’s temper
(missiles). Remember the
biblical references to "dense clouds" at the time of
Messiah/Melchizedek’s arrival. These dense couds in #1172
appropriately have "their Backs together" and could be the
result of tectonic activity, volcanism, or nuclear "missiles"
exploding. "Thunder" could be produced from natural events
such as volcanism, tectonic activity, and storms as well as by
man’s "missiles," nuclear we assume. Emily is happy "to be in
a Tomb" by the time of these future events because "Nature’s
Temper" and man’s "missiles" cannot "reach" her there. Perhaps
the recent spat of severe weather events are examples of
Nature’s Temper, stirred up by the global irritant-mankind run
amok. Perhaps nature can act like an immune system for the
earth, ridding itself of destructive and invasive life forms.
If so, we should look for an increase in such events as the
age heads for it’s ending, where iniquity reaches full
fruition at the very time that it is to be "cut off" and
vanquished forever.
We’ve looked at Emily’s contribution to the nuclear prophecy.
Now lets examine the scriptural evidence regarding this topic.
Mark 13:25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the
powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
Rev 6:13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even
as a fig tree casteth her
untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Rev 8:10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a
great star from heaven, burning
as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the
rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
Rev 8:11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and
the third part of the
waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters,
because they were made bitter.
Chernobyl translates to Wormwood according to many.
4Ezra 9:19 But now those who have been created in this
world…have become corrupt
in their ways.
4Ezra 9:20 So I (the Lord) considered the world, and,
behold, there was peril because
of the devices
that were come into
it.
Since the invention of the atomic bomb our world has been
in great peril due to these devices, eventhough we have become
gradually immune to the threat of their existence.
4Ezra 15:35 They shall smite one upon another, and
they shall smite down
a great
multitude of stars upon the earth,
even their own star; and blood shall be
from the sword unto the belly.
4Ezra 15:40 The
great and mighty
clouds shall be
puffed up full of wrath, and the star,
that they may make all the earth afraid, and them that dwell
therein; and
they shall pour out over every high and
eminent
place an
horrible star.
4Ezra 15:43 And they shall go steadfastly unto Babylon, and
make her afraid.
4Ezra 15:44 They shall come to her (Babylon), and besiege
her, the star and all wrath
shall they pour out upon her: then shall the dust and smoke go
up unto the
heaven, and
all they that be about her shall bewail her.
These scripture quotes are uncannily accurate descriptions.
A star is used here to symbolize a nuclear bomb because both
use nuclear energy for their function. Emily uses this same
analogy, except she uses our specific star the Sun as her
symbol for nuclear power. Notice the exact and accurate
description of an exploding nuclear weapons: "They are poured
out over every high and
eminent
place, dust and smoke go up
into heaven,
great and mighty clouds
shall be puffed up in wrath,
powers in heaven are shaken, they make the earth afraid." The
word eminence is also used by Emily just above in her nuclear
bomb poem. Also, again note the
prominent clouds
noted as a result of
these nuclear events. Are all these similar descriptions from
various sources just a
coincidence?
Man has never made a
weapon that he did not subsequently use. Our world is
being run by power mad, spiritually bereft human beings of the
lowest caliber.
Nuclear warheads are proliferating everywhere, especially
China and Russia. There are thousands of bombs, enough to
destroy the earth many times over. We go to bed every night
with half of these weapons in the hand of an alcoholic and the
other half in the hands of his counterpart of different
description, across the sea.
And so,
we must put our
faith in God
not man. It’s very
easy to see why God will have to step in, with Melchizedek on
the white horse leading the way, to prevent the destruction of
the planet and its people. Mt. 24:22 reads: ‘For the
elect’s sake
those days shall be shortened, otherwise there should be no
flesh saved.’
Next,consider the following
poem:
E.D. #243 I’ve known a Heaven, like a Tent –
1861 To wrap its shining Yards –
Pluck up its stakes, and disappear –
Without the sound of Boards
Or Rip of Nail – Or Carpenter –
But just the miles of Stare –
That signalize a Show’s Retreat –
In North America –
No Trace – no Figment of the Thing
That dazzled, Yesterday,
No Ring – no Marvel –
Men, and Feats –
Dissolved as utterly –
As Bird’s far Navigation
Discloses just a Hue –
A plash of Oars, a Gaiety –
Then swallowed up, of View.
This poem has puzzled me for several years, but I think I
can see it now. Ernest Moyer, a Urantia Book reader, provided
the key insight on this poem. The
Dead Sea Scrolls
speak about exile and
captivity for "God’s people" during the the messianic end of
the age period forthcoming. We also know that the end of this
age will be like the very beginning, when Moses led the
proto-Israelites out of Egypt, under the leadership of
Melchizedek (the Lord), to the promised land of Canaan.
This same type of
exodus process will happen anew in North America and other
countries, the ones who listen to God and his servant will be
lead into safety, and then ultimately back to Canaan for
reunion with the Judah (Jewish) remnant, forming a new united
Israel once again, as it was in the beginning.
Perhaps #243 is about leaving
the North American continent. The phrase
"In North America"
sticks out like a
sore thumb and has no necessity or reason to be in the poem
other than to focus attention on itself in relation to the
sudden exodus otherwise being described. The
gaiety and things
that dazzle of our
present culture will be like a tent taken up and gone from
sight--overnight. Speculation? Yes, because there are not many
other instances in sacred scripture, other than the Dead Sea
Scrolls that discuss this issue of exodus. Next, we will
examine another specific event which Emily brings to our
attention.
Pole Shift
E.D. #378 I saw no Way – The Heavens were stitched –
1862 I felt the Columns close –
The Earth
reversed her
Hemispheres –
I touched the Universe –
And back it slid – and I alone –
A speck upon a Ball –
Went out upon Circumference –
Beyond the Dip of Bell –
E.D. #70 What once was "Heaven"
1859 Is "Zenith" now –
Where I proposed to go
When Time’s brief masquerade was done
Is mapped and charted too.
What if the
poles should frisk about
And stand upon their heads!
I hope I’m ready for
"the worst" –
Whatever prank betides!
Perhaps the
"Kingdom of Heaven’s"
changed –
I hope the "Children" there
Won’t be "new fashioned" when I come –
And laugh at me – and stare –
I hope the
Father in the skies
Will lift his little
girl –
Old fashioned – naughty – everything –
Over the stile of "Pearl."
E.D. #415 Sunset at Night – is natural –
1862 But
Sunset on the Dawn
Reverses Nature
– Master –
So Midnight’s – due – at Noon.
Eclipses be – predicted –
And Sciences bows them in –
But do one face us suddenly –
Jehovah’s Watch – is wrong.
The "Earth reverses her Hemispheres," "the poles frisking
about and standing on their heads," and "Sunset on the Dawn"
all indicate a 180 degree pole shift, with the sun rising in
the west and setting in the east. The sun setting in the east
is referred to as "Sunset on the Dawn." This amounts to
literally
turning the upside down world
upright.
Notice #415, that Emily converses with "Master." Just as
Melchizedek was the collaborator of the Old Testament
prophets, the Son of Man may have
collaborated
with John in Revelation
and Emily in the mid-nineteenth century. The "Master" is
addressed on several occasions in Emily’s poems. Also, a whole
series of Emily’s letters were discovered, addressed to
"Master," but never mailed. This is the favorite name by which
Jesus is called, by the apostles in the
Urantia Book.
This may indicate that
Emily’s unconsummated, secret love affair, described in her
letters and poems,
may have been an
"affair made in heaven," literally.
Consider again poem #85:
The Master
E.D. #85 "They have not chosen me," he said,
1859 "But I have chosen them!"
Brave – Broken hearted statement –
Uttered in Bethlehem!
I could not have told it,
But since Jesus dared –
Sovereign!
Know a Daisy
Thy dishonor shared!
Notice that Emily addresses Jesus as Sovereign; the same
title used in
The Urantia Book to
designate his proper title after his bestowal mission on earth
was completed. Jesus is "Sovereign of Nebadon" on pages 1238,
367, and 2057 of
The Urantia Book.
Where else has Jesus ever been addressed as Sovereign?
Next, consider this touching poem:
E.D. #964 "Unto Me?" I do not know you –
1864 Where may be your House?
"I am Jesus – Late of Judea –
Now – of Paradise" –
Wagons – have you – to convey me?
This is far
from Thence –
"Arms of Mine – sufficient Phaeton –
Trust Omnipotence" –
I am spotted – "I am Pardon" –
I am small – "The Least
Is esteemed in Heaven the Chiefest –
Occupy my House" –
Emily does not use quotation marks very often and when she
uses them they mean that these are not her words, but are in
fact another’s words, which in this case are Jesus’ words.
Poem #964 is a conversation between Emily (plain text) and
Jesus (quoted text). Jesus says, "come unto Me," and Emily
playfully wants to know where He lives and how He will arrange
for her to travel such a large distance (across space, time,
and dimension). Emily says she is unworthy and "spotted"
(physically by freckles and spiritually by flaws and
failures). But Jesus, true to form tells Emily that all that
is needed is divine love (Arms of Mine, sufficient Phaeton)
and forgiveness (Pardon), which traverse all space and all
time in the realities of Kingdom of heaven within. Emily has a
reason for every word, every punctuation mark, every capital
letter, and every hyphen. Returning to pole shift we have:
E.D. #1569
The Clock strikes one that just struck two –
1883 Some schism in
the Sum –
A Vagabond for Genesis
Has wrecked the Pendulum –
The clock moving backward, symbolizes the sun moving
backward from west to east after the pole shift, inversion. If
the spin axis of the earth would flip over 180 degrees, the
earth would revolve clockwise instead of counterclockwise as
it presently does. The sun would then appear to stand still
and then begin to move backwards, from west to east – thus the
apparent running backwards in time as indicated by "The Clock
strikes one after two."
Rev 6:12 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and
behold,
there was a great earthquake; and the sun became
black as sackcloth and the full moon became like
blood and the stars fell from the sky to the earth as
the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a
gale, the sky vanished like a scroll that is rolled up.
Above, the great earthquake is the large-scale tectonic
activity that takes place during a possible pole shift and
upon the entrance of Melchizedek. The blackening of the sun
and redness of the moon is possibly caused by clouds of
volcanic ash that would accompany such an event. The "sky
rolling up like a scroll" could be the sky disappearing from
view below, while dense, volcanic clouds lying back to back
form above. The stars falling to the earth could be nuclear
explosions or the appearance of the night sky as the earth
wobbles away from night into day during its axis shift.
E.D. #1419 It was a quiet seeming Day –
1877 There was no harm in earth or sky –
Till with the closing sun
There strayed an accidental Red
A Strolling Hue, one would have said
To westward of the Town –
But when the
Earth began to jar
And Houses vanished with a roar
And Human Nature hid
We comprehended by the Awe
As those that Dissolution saw
The Poppy in the Cloud
I don’t know what the Poppy in the Cloud refers to, but
otherwise the event described above appears to affect the
whole earth, which "begins to jar?" Isaiah describes this
event that occurs when "the Lord" (Melchizedek) returns:
Isaiah 24:29 For sluices are opened on high,
and earth’s
foundations tremble.
The earth is breaking,
breaking;
The earth is crumbling,
crumbling.
The earth is tottering,
tottering;
The earth is
swaying like a
drunkard;
It is rocking
to and fro like a
hut…
Isaiah 24:21
In that day, the
Lord will punish
The host of heaven in heaven
And the Kings of the earth on earth.
That this is the messianic time period is indicated by "the
Lord" returning to punish the high and mighty ones, those
elite leaders of prior discussions. Large-scale motion of the
earth is certainly described here, but it is not that well
fleshed out. As outrageous as a pole shift sounds, there
is very good evidence from the past to suggest that prior
pole-shifts have occurred.
Far greater minds than mine
(including Einstein) have considered such possibilities. We
are a young species and are an even younger civilization when
compared to the vast stretches of geologic time that has gone
before us. An honest reading of prophecy brings these unusual
considerations before us to ponder. If we reject them, it
should be on the basis of sound science and careful inquiry. I
will now present some facts that bear on the subject of pole
shifting. The following quotes will be taken from
Pole Shift,
by John White, which is
a good general survey of the topic published in 1980.
More than 170 polarity changes or field reversals (in the
magnetic field) have occurred during the past 80 million
years. (Pg. 9)
The cause of our planet’s magnetic field is not yet
understood and the relationship between the spin axis and the
magnetic axis is also not understood. The magnetic field may
be influenced by the earth’s metal containing core. This core
may rotate within the earth causing changes in the magnetic
field direction. Magnetic field changes could cause difficulty
in the ability of birds to navigate. Also, magnetic compasses
would be affected. The magnetic field also shields the planet
from solar and cosmic radiation. This could disrupt weather
systems and cause damage to life forms on earth as well as
satellite communications in space.
Over the past 2500 years the magnetic field has decreased
by fifty percent. JM. Harwood & S.C.R. Malin predicted
in Nature
(12 February 1976) that
the next reversal of the
planet’s magnetic pole will occur about AD 2030. (Pg. 9-10)
Again, it is not known if this has any relevance to the
spin axis.
It is a fact that entire species of simple creatures have
become
extinct in the past in correlation with magnetic field
reversals. (Pg. 10)
In June 1977…a perfectly preserved frozen mammoth was
discovered in a remote province of northeastern Siberia…
Unchewed grass and buttercups were in its mouth and
undigested vegetation in its stomach indicated death in late
to mid summer. (Pg. 17-19)
The lack of
any decomposition
of the mammoth in the midst of summer suggests a sudden large
drop in temperature, that some have construed to be due to a
pole shift. The grass and buttercups attest to a
sudden summer time
freezing event. But
all the facts have not fit this explanation neatly.
Continuing:
The Greek philosopher Plato, in His Timaeus …records
the words of an Egyptian priest to Solon, grandfather of
Socrates:
‘O Solon, O Solon, you Hellenes are but
children…There have been
many
destructions
of mankind arising out of many causes…There
once dwelt in your land (Greece)…The
fairest
and noblest race of men that ever lived
of which
you are a seed or remnant.
Note here that this comment about the fairest race agrees
with the
Urantia Book’s
statements regarding the offspring of Adamson that lived on
the island of Crete.
UB p. 895 The group which finally settled in Greece
consisted of
three hundred and seventy five of the
selected and superior
people comprising the end of the second civilization of
Adamsonites. These later sons of Adamson carried the then
most valuable strains of the emerging white races. They were
of a high
intellectual order
and,
physically regarded, the most
beautiful of men since the days of the first Eden.
That there have been advanced, "lost civilizations" that
have come before us is supported by a great number of facts.
For instance, ancient maps have been found going back over
5000 years that record very accurately detailed geography and
topography of now glacier covered land in Greenland and
Antarctica. These maps have been compared to modern maps
obtained through seismic sounding and have been found to be in
"astounding agreement." John White tells us:
…they (the ancient map makers) must have had a very
competent and far-flung
hydrographic organization, because you cannot map as large a
continent as Antarctica…by any single individual or small
group of
explorers. It means an
aggregation of
skilled scientists
who are familiar
with astronomy as well as the methods required for topographic
surveying…They had a record of
every
mountain range in Canada and
Alaska, which the Army map service did
not
have at that time…Antarctica
was discovered in 1818, and was not fully mapped until 1920.
Consider some more evidence for this ancient advanced lost
civilization from John White’s
Pole Shift:
The British Museum sent some of the tools from Egypt
to a metallurgist and were astounded to find that they
were using
powdered metallurgy,
the process which has
made our atom bomb possible.
So, 5000 years ago, the
Egyptians were using the same process we thought we
had just discovered…
I wonder what type of technologic and scientific knowledge
the Caligastia one hundred were able to transmit through their
nodite culture, which then in turn resulted in the Sumerian
civilization, and then influenced Egyptian civilization. I
have also read that a unique type of green glass is formed
from sand exposed to an atomic blast. Such glass has been
excavated in the Middle East region during archeological
research. Also:
‘Richard Wingate, notes in his recent book,
Lost Outpost
of Atlantis:
The very
old Indian Mahaharata text
mentions an iron
tipped thunderbolt which was sent against an enemy city.
It exploded, according to the account, with the light of
ten thousand suns, and had the destructive force of ten
thousand hurricanes…and an umbrella shaped cloud rose
to the sky.
Survivors of the conflagration were instructed to wash
themselves and rinse their armor. Hair fell from the victim’s
heads’…(John White, Pole Shift)
And so, as we digest these remarkable facts regarding lost
and ancient civilization, we canspeculate about what may have
caused their demise. Was it nuclear war, pole shift, weather
catastrophe, or some other cause or causes?
Let’s return to further evidence for a previous pole shift.
From a chapter on Immanuel Velikovsky, John White, in
Pole Shift
quotes Velikovsky’s
work:
"The
winter is come summer,
the
months are reversed,
and the hours disordered,"
states an
Egyptian papyrus.
In China, the emperor
sent scholars to the four corners
to relocate north, east, west, and south…the earth was
enshrouded in an
envelope of clouds
(probably due to
volcanic activity) – the Shadow of Death, of the
Nordic
scriptures (Pg. 118 Pole
Shift).
Also note that Judaic scripture also speaks about dark
clouds covering the earth at the time of arrival of the Lord
(Messiah), as does Emily Dickinson in poem 1172 above. Quite a
diverse set of similar descriptions. Is it a coincidence or
not? Also from Pole Shift:
The Greek historian
Herodotus
relates his conversations with
Egyptian
priests of the fifth century B.C.
"four times
in this period (that
Egypt was
a kingdom) the
sun rose contrary to his wont."
Several
Egyptian papyri tell
of "the earth
turned upside down…"
Virtually
all peoples
record this in
their myths and legends. (Pg. 122)
Of this reversal of the movement of the sun, Plato adds,
"there is at that
time great destruction of animals in general and only a small
part of the
human race survives." (Velikovsky quotes from Plato’s dialogue
"The
Statesman," in his Politicus.)
Worlds in Collision,
by Immanuel Velikovsky presents
evidence
from historical
documents, celestial
charts,
calendars, sundials
and
water clocks,
classical and sacred
literature
from the east and the
west, mythology
and
epics
of the northern races, and the
oral
traditions of
primitive peoples from Lapland to the South Seas. (Pg.
124, Pole Shift,
John White)
And so we see that
there is a
large amount of historical and other evidence
suggesting that shifting of the
poles has occurred in the relatively recent past. However, the
mechanism of this is still not understood, so that pole shift
cannot yet be predicted.
Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, and many other "prophets" also
predict a pole shift. One popular notion believes that a
planetary, lunar, and solar alignment will cause shifting of
the poles on 5/5/2000. The incremental gravity caused by this
alignment is, however, minuscule, compared to the unchanging,
massive gravitational effect of the sun. Therefore, this
scenario is highly unlikely in my estimation and, of course,
did not happen..
4Ezra was
probably written around 100 A.D. and has this to say about the
climax of the messianic period:
4Ezra But if the Most High grants that you live, you shall
see it (the world)
thrown into confusion after the
third period;
and the sun
shall suddenly
shine forth at night,
and
the moon during the
day. Blood shall
drip from
wood, and the stone shall utter its voice; the peoples shall
be troubled, and
the stars shall fall.
These signs in the sun, moon, and stars are all explicable
by a shifting of the poles. This is what some prophets say
will happen, but personally I have a hard time believing or
even imagining it. Nevertheless, the evidence speaks for
itself and the prophecy is widely supported in scripture.
As only proper, we will finish this chapter with Emily’s
own words as she pondered the scenes of future events as they
moved across her field of vision.
E.D. #345 Funny—to be a century –
And see the People—going by –
I—should die of the Oddity –
but then – I’m not so staid – as He –
He keeps His
Secrets safely –
very –
Were He to tell – extremely sorry
This Bashful Globe of Ours would be –
So dainty of Publicity –
Inspired Living Books |
Said the Master
►
◄
Jesus Christ
|
|
|
|