Friday, September 15, 2006
REV. KEITH CAMPBELL
has answered my questions in his blog, for which I thank him, and of course has generated comments and more questions.
1. What are the seven spirits of God?
2. Do the three bases of the menorah have the same symbolic meaning as the three candlestands in a Masonic Lodge?
3. How does Jesus Christ fit into the Shema Israel?
4. In re your description of the resonators of the power of the ritual, is this what is meant by vibrations?
5. Do you ever actually hear a voice or voices at your liturgy, or is everything that takes place interior?
6. Is the nacham a ritual of Judaism from the Kabbalah or from the time of Christ?
7. Your understanding of the nature of sacraments is actually much better than the understanding a lot of Catholics hold, though it is the same understanding that is taught in our catechism.
8. According to Gershom Scholem, I believe Merkabah mysticism was being taught at the time Christ walked the earth. Kabbalah, however, is from the Middle Ages. The Roman Catholic Church condemned the mysticism borrowed from the Kabbalah.
9. Are ascended masters what Catholics call saints?
10. What is the difference between theurgy and magic?
11. I have downloaded and printed Dr. Keizer's book on Wandering Bishops. In there he refers to C. W. Leadbeater as a saint. I'm sure you know that he had some difficulties with a young boy, or with several young boys, depending upon the source of reference. Yet Dr. Keizer has labeled Leadbeater a saint in the book. While it is true that we have had bad popes, we have not canonized them.
12. Have many Catholics joined the Home Temple Movement? Have former Catholic priests joined the Home Temple Movement?
