What is the true purpose of Christmas ?

Gather together your scriptures and parables that Jesus supposed to have said that you have heard as a child or read as a adult that you like , read them all and decide which ones to use on your personal investigation (no more than 20) pick your bits and pieces that you remember put them on printer paper or write them by hand.. next fold this paper in half the long way and keep it in your holy book that you are using

Use your list to keep you focus on your bits and pieces to get more understanding and use the blank side to write notes and write words to look up in the dictionary as you go .. start by finding the pieces you picked and don't be afraid to dog-ear pages to go back for later reading and also underline in pencil things you like ..leave this book you picked with a long piece of paper inside (waiting ) leave it around where you will see it everyday all year round as a reminder to go deeper.. By Christmas time we have let the world take us away to the point we have forgotten what is so essential to us.. that is why Christmas time is a great reminder to gather these pieces and go through them pick the ones you want to understand more and come the New Year you will be ready to start a personal study on knowing a man name Jesus how he knocked and what he taught..

These are the bits and pieces that I have always wanted to understand like the parable about the Sower and the one about the mustard seed I put all these together to better understand them we do not need to understand the whole book just take the pieces you picked and go deeper with them and let it grow .

" Ask, and it shall be given you Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened...Luke11:9

..Then said Jesus If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free... John 8:31-32

On that day Jesus going out of the house sat beside the sea; the crowd gathering by him was so large that embarking he sat in a boat on the sea, and all the people stood on the beach.

He taught them many things in parables, and he said to them in his teaching, "Listen. The sower went out to sow his seed.In his sowing some fell along the way and were trampled under, and the birds of heaven came and ate them up.

"Others fell on rocky ground where they did not have much earth, and immediately they sprang up because of not having depth of earth; when the sun rose, they were scorched; and because of not having roots they dried up.

"Others fell in the middle of the thorns,and the thorns came up and choked them; and they gave no fruit. "Others fell into the good earth and gave fruit; coming up and growing they produced thirty, sixty, and a hundred.Let the one who has ears to hear hear."

When he was alone,the ones around him with the twelve asked him about the parable. "He said, "To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the sovereignty of God, but to those outside all things are in parables, because looking they do not see and listening they do not hear nor understand. Fulfilled in them is the prophetic saying of Isaiah:

In listening you will hear and not understand, and watching you will look and not see.For fattened is the heart of this people,and they hardly heard with their ears, and they closed their eyes;lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with the heart and turn around,and I would cure them.

"But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For amen, I tell you that many prophets and just people wished to see what you see and did not see it, and to hear what you hear and did not hear it.Therefore you shall hear the parable of the sower."The sower sows the word of God. The ones along the way, when they hear the word and do not understand, the devil comes and snatches away what was sown in their hearts, lest believing they may be saved.

"What was sown on the rocky ground, when they hear the word, they immediately accept it with joy; yet they have no root in themselves but are temporary; when oppression or persecution occurs because of the word they immediately are offended.

"What was sown into the thorns, these are the ones hearing the word,and worries of the age and the deception of wealth and desires for the pleasures of life come in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful and does not mature.

"What was sown on the beautiful earth, these are the ones hearing the word in a beautiful and good heart,and understanding they hold on to it and bear fruit with patience,some thirty, others sixty, and others a hundred.

The sower sows the word The seeds falling on the road represent those who hear the word but dismiss it.
The seeds falling on the rocks represent those who hear the word, but only accept it shallowly.The seeds falling on thorns represent those who hear the word, and take it to heart, but allow worldly concerns, such as money, to choke it.The seeds falling on good soil represents those who hear the word, and truly understand it, causing it to bear fruit

The disciples said to Jesus,"Tell us what the Reign of Heaven is like." He said to them, It is like a mustard seed, the smallest of all seeds.But when it falls on tilled soil, it produces a large plant and becomes shelter for birds of the sky."MK 4:30-32

#1. You have heard where Christ said, "Endure unto the end and you shall be saved." Be willing to endure the onslaughts of false beliefs as they rise up in protest against your decision to live in the here and now. Go to the very end of them and you will find eternal life.

#2. "My yoke is easy, my burden is light." VH commented on this today, saying how the spiritual life and a mind guided by heaven is free-flowing, easy and always enjoyable.

#3. Christ said, "What I do, you also can do." He wasn't talking about healing the lame and raising the dead. People always think that doing what Christ did means doing these things so that the world marvels at them. It means being in the same state that Christ lived in. This you can do!

#4. If you die to everything false IN YOU, you will be born again. Then you will know exactly what Christ meant when he said, "I can of myself do nothing, but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works."

#5. "Lo, I am with you always." This is a fact from the New Testament that you will know. No matter what happens to you, no matter where you are or what you are doing, you can turn immediately to this statement and know it is a fact. You can do more than know the words, you can live it. "Lo, I am with you always."

#6 Think of the "parting of the Red Sea" given in the Bible. True salvation is to be right in the middle of the Red Sea, knowing there is nothing you can do, and letting the Spirit of Truth suddenly break through. You ALLOW Intelligence enter the confusion.

#7 VH gave a special exercise tonight. He said that it is a quote from a sacred book that sums up everything we must do. That quote is: THY WILL BE DONE. Work with this, VH continued. Let it become your overall, dominating desire. No matter what situation you are in, want the spiritual Will to be your own.

#8 In the Bible it says, "Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain who build it." If you collapse to the old, the new will be constructed in its place.

#9 Christ made a marvelous statement, so penetrating and so insightful, as all true statements are. Christ said, "He who has hears to him, let him hear." Now what Christ was speaking of is spiritual hearing. We must develop our spiritual hearing. Christ understood the Higher World. He knew that you must be willing to HEAR spiritual power as it comes to you.

#10 Love the Creator, not the creation. God created the house. He caused the trees to grow. God, the Creator, is Eternal. You use the creation and it is right that you do. But love the Creator, the Eternal -- not the creation.
Vernon Howard*

Jesus would go from town to town teaching.. and the water wells was a good place where women would come everyday for water and he would talk to them about his father not in the sky but the kingdom of God is WITHIN he said to anyone who would listen to him.. these women would take him home and feed him with food and Jesus would feed them with his words he loved women and had alot of women followers and many men of course because Jesus respected them both..

...*Certified Organically Grown; all other herbs are wildcrafted with care

Then they came, each of them
that perhaps I will never meet in person.
With their burden of pain and suffering
And their desire for health.
Their suffering was real in my soul.
I knew what they needed
For they were no different than myself..
Martha Volchok-

"A sincere student of the higher life came across a book of truth

His first reading aroused apprehension, for the book challenged his false assumptions.

The second reading aroused interest, for something hard in him was beginning to melt.

The third reading aroused inspiration, for he knew he found a pure guide.

The fourth reading aroused self-transformation. For printed truth blended with inner truth. That is how it goes

Q: I am aware that we must make personal efforts, but I am not sure as to what they are.

A: Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. (Jesus)

Q: Then it is correct to say that all wisdom is really self-wisdom?

A: The kingdom of heaven is within. (Jesus)

Q: What good results can be expected from self-awakening?

A: You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free (Jesus)

Q: Life gives us so many things to do, it is wise to place first things first. What is the correct order of procedure for life in general?

A: Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. (Jesus)

Q: Only recently have I become aware of the tremendous value of self-responsibility, which has awakened new energies. How does esotericism teach this virtue?

A: Physician, heal thyself. (Jesus)

Q: We need courage beyond ourselves.

A: Let not your heart be troubled. (Jesus)

Q: Am I correct in thinking that the purpose of this thought is to help us to value what is truly valuable?

A: What is a man advantaged if he gain the whole world and lose himself? (Jesus)

Q: What kind of person can receive these powers of understanding?

A: He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. (Jesus)

Q: I am increasingly aware of the error of compromising with what is truly right for me. What esoteric principle covers this?

A: No man can serve two masters. (Jesus)

Q: So by daring to stand, a man actually learns to stand?

A: I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. (Jesus)