Discovering the True Spiritual Path of Oahspe Part II.
The Highest Light of Oahspe Chapter One §4. What are Good Works?
(12) The Father’s Kingdom on Earth
Native America Community Utopia
Imagine you are in heaven. Imagine you now are living a life of bliss where every moment is sublime. Imagine you now feel incredible oneness with thousands of wonderful persons, many you have known your entire life, but others for just a short time. Yet you still feel like you have known one another your entire life due to the magical harmony and oneness of purpose you feel you share together. Imagine every day you wake up and expect to be more fulfilled in your vocational work, artistic recreational activities, and socializing than the day before. And all these blessings of the heavens keep making eternal life better and better day by day.
If you can imagine even a fraction of this kind of daily life of miracles, then you will understand why so many have sought heaven on earth — that is, the utopian societies. Such dream communities are founded on a spiritual path one with nature and the universe that reflects the best humanity can discover and contribute.
Where do we sign up, right?
The essence of the plea for a heavenly realm on earth is contained in the prayer Our Father:
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
(Matthew 6:9-13)*3212111
Perhaps many simply see establishing a utopia as “pie in the sky” which may theoretical exist but in reality is impossible. Thus this section of the Our Father is more of a nicety not to be dwelt upon nor seen as possible.
Yet, having been raised as Catholic Christian, how many other Christians have also felt holy exultation in praying these words? How very close we felt to God Almighty as we prayed them? It is true that there were also times as I prayed the rosary with such prayers that my repetitions of the same prayer hundreds of time reduced it to mental push ups.
I admit I never had a clue as a Christian as how to bring about such a community. The Church of Christ sees heaven as the only place where such can be achieved, where God the Father rules all with unlimited power and glory. Sure, there in heaven, heaven can be and only there.
Yet those words in the prayer remain and prayer ideals can matter. For many what matters most of all is belonging to a spiritual community, where we all work and pray together for a common goal. It may not be heaven as in perfection but still a better way of life for
all to know you have the spiritual support of your fellow members. No one wants to be alone.
To be sure, heaven and salvation are the goal of all on the spiritual path. That is why the establishment of God’s Kingdom on Earth would naturally be tremendously positive in the eyes of the world. Why wait to die? Why must we all go slogging onward in sin and error and alienation when we can experience heavenly happiness and fulfillment and oneness in the here and now as mortals part and parcel of a utopian community?
At any rate, Oahspe emphasizes that prayer can be meaningless
without actions of service to back them up. How many of us look at working to help the poor and distressed as someone else’s duty? How many of us feel we have neither the time nor the money to use to help another? How many of us feel uncomfortable at the thought of being a volunteer working with those in pain or in being outcasts? So we just reject the whole idea of good works.
Yet we keep saying Our Father prayers! And Oahspe makes one of its greatest impactful points in stating that there will come a day in this world where mortals dwell together seemingly as the angels in in great peace and harmony. However, the way to this narrow and hard!
God said: I have heard thy prayer, O man: Thy kingdom come on earth, as it is in heaven.
Hast thou considered thy words?
And art thou prepared for it? Hast thou fulfilled the commandments? And lovest thou thy neighbor as thyself? And hast thou done unto the least, as thou desirest thy Creator to do unto thee? Now, behold, Jehovih hath sent me, thy God, to answer thy prayer. Art thou willing to sacrifice thy time and money and self-interest for sake of Jehovih's kingdom? (Judgment 22:1-13) *6
Truly many religionists do not look at prayer as a first steps to helping others or saving the world in some manner. Instead they unconsciously look at prayer as a means to bypass real sacrifice and real work meant to improve the lives of individuals and if this is not too ambitious—the entire world.
And yet many of the “hard-core” Oahspe Faithists would have nothing to do with service even though that is its central theme. They are much the same as any common Christian or Islamicist.
Making personal sacrifices for the good of others is just too much for them to attempt. Instead, they seek to just read that holy book, pray some prayers and chat with those in their group about how fortunate
and destined you are all to have been “saved.” So many current churches, temples and lodges of Oahspe also profess this very thing and look askance on workers of good works who “love others as themselves.”
Regarding “Jehovih’s Kingdom,” John Newbrough and his immediate followers kept their eye on this prize more faithfully.
Newbrough’s
Shalam of New Mexico was a sincere and full attempt to establish such a community. You could argue that he and they succeeded for a decade or two.
I would not however, given how the community actually played out. For despite having millions of dollars to create such a “heavenly kingdom,” the Shalam community never became self-sufficient, never convinced its members that they were engaged in building a spiritual group that was worth working towards, and never raised a single child to become a Faithist who would in term work to establish more “Shalams.” The stirring events leading up the foundation of Shalam until its abandonment will be covered in Part VII.
This apparent failure is not a condemnation of Oahspe but rather a case of Newbrough ignoring the core principles of Oahspe while professing to be the prophet to lead the world to the “promised land.”
And even if Newbrough ultimately failed as many have, this does not make founding a utopia an impossible goal, only one that has seldom been achieved for good reasons that are apparent upon examination.
For myself, I was very enthusiastic upon reading the professedly prophetic section of Oahspe entitled “Jehovih’s Kingdom on Earth.” For here was a plan of how to redeem the world which while would extraordinarily difficult to achieve, it did sound possible to begin so long as its participants were true to the core principles of Oahspe. Additionally, the very unique premise of a modern day utopia meant to save our world from war and hell was and is simply more proof that the message of Oahspe is one all the world can benefit from.
In my twenties, I was fully intent on working to start a community. At the time, in my own mind, I felt all that was necessary was to meet others interested in the same goal. However, each time I met a different Faithist group, I realized no one had any inclination to do that. So I resigned myself to just enjoying being in an Oahspe group for some supportive fellowship. We read spiritual passages; we meditated; we had visions; we discussed spiritual truths; we had picnics together.
If one were to reread the Faithist communications and publications of the time, there was a continual discussion of how to begin a Faithist utopia. The general conclusion, however, was that such would not be possible for another generation, due to the lack of financial backing and the lack of practical skills required for communal living. There was also debate about where to start the community. Most wanted this to be near their current home yet we all lived hundreds and thousands of miles apart.
At that time, I was not really aware of any utopian communities that had been attempted by other religions and spiritual groups.
It was
just a future dream which for all practical purposes, none could do more than talk about it.
However, further research for this book has revealed to me that literally thousands of such utopian communities had been attempted a century or less prior to Oahspe’s channeling in the United States alone—each successful and enduring to various degrees. Some of the more well-known communities include: the Shakers, the Amish, the Mennonites, and the Quakers.
Hundreds of such communities, Christian Bible-based for the most part, exist to this day. They are communities dedicated to living according to specific spiritual principles, being self-sufficient and
separate from the sinful world beyond, and are raising children to perpetuate their communities into the far future. Therefore, Oahspe’s proponent of their vision of a utopian was not so original unless you consider their other core principles of spiritualism and vegetarianism. And as the spiritualism age took root, other utopias pre-Shalam and post-Shalam also included these two principles as a laudatory means to live one’s life.
A Modern Amish Family*393939382
A Modern Mennonite Community*393939383
Some Last Surviving Shakers*393939384
A brief history of utopian communities founded in the United States will be summarized in Part VII, Shalam: The Father’s Kingdom on Earth, Chapter 1: New Age Community Origins.
In any event, building a utopian society anywhere in the world is nothing less than daunting and seemingly impossible. The commitment to developing the necessary skills, financial-backing and harmonious hard-working individuals for such a “good work” approaches the extraordinary level. Nevertheless, it should also NOT be the conclusion that if one cannot found “Shalam,” then one is justified in ignoring performing any good works.
A better, more realistic viewpoint might be that any leaders and members who would be successful at utopia-building, would also have decades of solid good works experience.
My conclusion is that if anyone can work hard enough in volunteer service for a decade or two, they will receive the inspiration on how to begin the community, if this is what they truly desire.
In recent years it would seem that we all may be forced to build our own utopian communities with the coming of The Great Reset. This possibility would take place when the world fell into a state of apocalypse. In this case, the destruction of our society would
necessitate the building of a new one, hopefully one which would be based on more spiritual new age principles.
Since this is the near future of the current state of the world in 2021, we all might as well start pondering how we can form viable, sustainable, spiritually-based communes since we all are about to lose our civilization by wicked design of the elite malevolent rich.
Those who have been paying attention, will notice that worldwide poverty and oppression is simultaneously occurring around the world.
For the unfortunate truth is that the current satanic-masonic fascist multinational corporate gangsters of the world want to crash all economic / energy systems as well as any vestige of spiritual morality by whatever means possible (abortion, widespread legal and illegal drug addiction, LGBT supremacy, child sexualization, medical toxic vaccine tyranny, concentration-reeducation camps, national borders collapse, illegal immigration tidal waves, criminal gang rule, 1984 technocratic enslavement, … ). This is all being carried out by evil intentions, by the plethora of current individual-crushing international tyrannical dictates. All of the destructive acts by our world leaders are being whitewashed by the corrupt MSM.
As such, many will have never heard of our governments’ betrayal of their citizens due to the synchronized poisonous cesspool of lies and misinformation being broadcast and of the true nature of various medical pandemics and lockdowns due to news suppression.
For proof of such, see the current devolving living conditions in Australia, Canada, USA, and western Europe.
The cyclical era of
survival of the fittest, where only the wisest, and the most virtuous have a chance — has returned to planet Earth once more. How many will die in the chaos? This depends on how well the world resists the deceptions of the fascist climate change hoax as well as the medical pandemic chokehold where martial-style law is being set up to wreck all.
Let us hope and pray rather that evil will evil mar so that peace, prosperity and liberty are in the near future for our world.
So yes! Community building — planning and development, have never been more relevant! For instance, such civilization village seeds sprouting may determine whether you or I will be alive several years from now.
Bethink thee, O man, of the magnitude of Thy Father's kingdoms
and His places in the firmament. Save I take thee, O man, into the heavens above, you cannot comprehend the places thereof. (Jehovih 6:3) *6
Surely living successfully as one in a community is the closest any of us may get the chance to experience “heaven.” Naturally, the actual heavens whose members were beings who have been alive for hundreds and thousands of years, would exceed any mortal utopia by a factor of many thousands in terms of light and love and beauty. In such a place, the commonplace would be miraculous as to depth of meaningful life and happiness. In fact, it is recommended in Oahspe to attempt imagine or envision the real wonders of the heavens whenever we may. Ultimately, we must become as the angels in terms of self-control, selflessness and the virtues.
For this reason, O man, I declare unto thee that the Father's Kingdom is now being founded on the earth, and the mortal manifestation thereof is near at hand. It shall appear as a spontaneous light, permeating the souls of thousands of people; and they shall come forth, establishing Jehovih in truth and fullness! (Judgment 25:15-16) *6
This may explain why during the 18th century that tens of thousands of mortals engaged in founding The Father’s Kingdom on Earth,
albeit Christian and not so much new age spiritualism, although as the years went on, this became more and more the case.
The
wisdom in this passage is that no one should see this idealized state of life that we call “The Father’s Kingdom” as being localized in a certain area of the wilderness or the desert or even a particular spiritual path such as Christianity or Faithism. The “True Kingdom” is also within us, a reflection of our spiritual progress. It is also beyond us and extends to every good person, family, realm on earth, within its heavenly spheres and with the cosmic heavenly worlds far beyond Earth without end.
And they shall become an organic body in communities of tens and twenties and hundreds and thousands. But they shall have no leaders, only their Creator; but be organic, for sake of good works. But they shall not go about preaching for sinners to go to repentance. Nor preaching for charity to the poor. But they shall go themselves about gathering up sinners, and the poor and helpless and orphans; and bring them into comfortable homes, teaching them how to live, to be a glory unto Me and My kingdoms. (Judgment 1:41-45) *6
What a remarkable vision of giving lifesaving service unto the needy of the world, of our nation, and of our local communities! Surely each time one of us spares a few hours a week unto helping the lost, the lonely, and the forsaken, the world does move closer to becoming a heaven on earth, if only for the individuals involved concerning service created and service receive.
I am sufficient unto Mine own creations. And to as many as separate themselves from the dominion of the Beast, making these covenants unto Me, have I given the foundation of My kingdom on earth. And all such shall be My chosen: By their covenants and by their works shall they be known henceforth on the earth as Mine, and shall be called Faithists. But to as many as will not make those covenants, have I given the numbers of the Beast, and they shall be called Uzians, signifying destroyers. And these shall be henceforth the two kinds of people on earth, Faithists and Uzians. (Oahspe 1:18-21) *6
Serious words with a straight to the point message! Notice the term “dominion of the Beast.” Notice the tone of voice of the current leaders of the world in 2021, local, state, and federal! They answer to no one and anyone who questions their destruction of small
businesses, jobs, and school curriculum is considered a “terrorist.” Camps are already being constructed for those who won’t obey their dangerous and stupid edicts. Movement and Activity Control passports and 24/7 electronic surveillance are in the plans to achieve that “dominion” and being “numbered by the beast.”
Also in that passage, notice the emphasis on “good works.” For those who truly serve the Creator are those who serve the poor, sick, alienated, and distressed. Once again, the basis for The Father’s Kingdom on Earth is one with a service-good-works foundation.
Use thy judgment, O man. Since the time of the ancients till now, the only progress towards the Father's kingdom hath been through sacrifice. What less canst thou expect?
If thou
sellest what thou hast, and givest to the poor, behold thy neighbors will imprison thee for a madman.
If thou abnegate
thyself and labor for others, they will persecute thee, and revile thee.
If thou shouldst profess to love thy neighbor as thyself,
they would mock at thee.
Therefore, I declare unto thee, O man,
in the land of Uz the Father's kingdom can not be.
But thou
shalt go hence; and, behold, I will go with thee, and with thy neighbor, and show thee how to build, even as a kingdom in heaven. (Judgment 22:14-20)*6
Once again notice the admonition to leave the politically corrupt cities run by fascists, gangsters and globalists. Also notice that anyone who labors for those who are oppressed or poor, are likely to be attacked, banned or censored, on social media as well as at their occupation. Thus at some point, our current society that devolving into a dystopia will be great encouragement to get out of it permanently. That is, since the vast majority of the population won’t be allowed to raise their children in their own way, work without being vaccinated regularly, or even to protest or express their opinion on the social medias, many will find our devolving society to have become UNLIVEABLE! And so they will seek to live independent of it in their own self-created communities.
Be that as it may, let us each and every one of us strive to live and work as the angels above—achieving service in helping those in need.
For now is the time when all good angels will work to achieve the Will of God on earth and in the heavens (and in the hells for that matter). For now is the time when we should do our best to join together for the establishment and protection of a community based on individual rights, and the pursuit of happiness and service for our family, friends, and neighbors.
Let us then ever lean forward to working as one to begin the construction of good places to live harmoniously, where peace, freedom, truth and justice shall reign.
If we can do so, there is an
excellent chance that all involved will save our world, will save and unfold the very best qualities of civilization and of the spiritual new age path.