Tuesday, September 26, 2006
THEODORE MEISNER AND HOLY SPIRIT MONASTERY
While I'm on the subject of channeling angels and the angelology of Fr. Francis (see below), another interesting aspect of Holy Spirit Monastery comes to mind. I blogged about Ted Meisner and his relationship with Holy Spirit Monastery before.
Meisner has his own Hermitage in the Marketplace dedicated to Sophia, the Holy Spirit. In that website you can read about the Sacred Heart. Let's look at a couple of paragraphs from Meisner's study:
The activation of your Sacred Heart is the final step in realizing our oneness with God and all beings. It is our primary function. Once realized, we will know that all thoughts are shared, and we will then joyfully lend our Self to the highest service of humanity. This cannot be achieved with the physical heart, and very little with the spiritual heart, our energy heart. Even while we are living in our spiritual heart we are still attached to the world that we have created in our imagination, the world of fear, which is and never has been the real world in the Heart and Mind of God. Our Lord wants us to know life in the upper heart, “the Sacred Heart.” It will not lead us astray. To arrive at our “sacred heart” we only need to make a shift in our perception, our awareness
We have seen pictures of the “Sacred Heart of Jesus” showing the physical heart with a Divine Flame above it. The Divine Flame is the actual Sacred Heart, while the lower portion is a symbolic representation of what is normally called the spiritual heart or the chakra heart. The Sacred Heart is often envisioned as a threefold flame, and each flame is symbolic of the attributes present in a person whose heart has opened fully. The first flame is blue, which is the color of empowerment or courage. The second is yellow, which is the color of wisdom. The third flame is pink, which is the color of unconditional love.
Now let's turn to James Twyman's "Sacred Heart Lessons" that I've blogged about before:
The activation of your Sacred Heart is the final step in realizing your oneness with all beings. This is, in fact, its primary function. Once realized, you will know that all thoughts are shared, and you will then joyfully lend your Self to the highest service of Humanity. This cannot be achieved with the lower heart, the subtle or second we have mentioned. It is still linked to the world you created in your imagination, but which has never been real in the Heart and Mind of God. Do you understand the difference? Until now you have chosen to live within this dream, and the function of the lower heart is to lead you away from one world into the next, the world of shadows and mists into pure Light. Once there, the upper, or Sacred Heart, becomes your guide. It will not lead you astray, for once it has opened then you will be free in a way that you cannot imagine now. Once you learn to live within the Sacred Heart we share, then you will realize that you stand beside me, and the world of dreams will be healed.
And,
Today's goal is to awaken, then initiate your Sacred Heart. Let's begin by identifying its position. You have perhaps seen pictures of the "Sacred Heart of Jesus" showing the physical heart with a Divine Flame above it. The Divine Flame is the actual Sacred Heart, while the lower portion is a symbolic representation of what is normally called the "Heart Chakra."
Notice anything? Neo-Cathar James Twyman and Ted Meisner seem to have been taking lessons from the same source.
Ted Meisner has a ministry to Hispanic immigrants. Would those be illegal immigrants, one wonders?
In any case, Meisner has an interesting past which you can read more about here. I've been told by one source that the case was settled out of court, but haven't located anything online to confirm that yet.
Meisner claims an association with Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Monastery.
La Ermita formally came into existence December 27, 1994 when its founder rededicated his life to Sophia, the Holy Spirit, before the Abbot of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Monastery and some members and friends. He is known as a hermit in the marketplace, a man who desires to integrate, well, the life of contemplative prayer with daily living in a world of work and problems.
(Hmmm. Gurdjieff's Fourth Way does something very similar. Well, anyway...)
I emailed Fr. Thomas Francis to see if this is true. He responded:
I am a personal friend of Ted's for over 20 some years. NO, he is NOT associated with this monastery in any formal way. He only came here to make his dedication, and I was one of those attending. All I know of his past was that he was a member of the Resurrection Fathers, a Polish community, and had been a missionary in Bolivia. I think he got in trouble with the Panzer government.
I wonder if Meisner also talks to his Holy Guardian Angel like Fr. Thomas Francis does?
In any case, he thinks the Holy Spirit--Sophia--is a woman--the Blessed Mother:
Mary, because of her Immaculate Conception, has become intimately one with Sophia, the Holy Spirit. Even though in this so-called ‘incarnation’ we have two persons and two natures (this is not the same as above), this union of Sophia with Mary was so perfect, so bonding that Mary and Sophia have become inseparable. They are one in love and functions. They both are birthing and nurturing. They both hold the same titles within the Church. Both are considered as giving birth to the Church, nurturing and forming it.
Scripture tells us that we are living in the age of Sophia, and the Church tells us that we are living in the age of Mary. Both are true, because both are the same. Both are preparing and working hard at preparing the Father’s children, their children, for the coming of their Son. Both are present in the world today, and Mary, who seems to be appearing all over the world at a rate unheard of in the history of the Church, is that visible presence of Sophia speaking to the world.
Considering that the Blessed Virgin is the spouse of the Holy Spirit, he has just made a lesbian of her. Not to mention that he has also called her God. Was that a gift from his Guardian Angel, one wonders?
What do you suppose his Hispanic immigrants are making of that?
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
