Category: Spiritual Learning

Chapter 1

Paradigm

Although many have read the forgoing eight books on the subject the LINE which is the conscience, it still takes lots of meditation on the new found knowledge to cause the paradigm shift we have need of to lead successful lives in Christ.

The word ‘paradigm’ comes from the Greek. It was originally a scientific term, and is more commonly used today to mean ‘a model, theory, perception, assumption, or frame of reference’. In the more general sense, it’s the way we “see” the world; not in terms of our visual sense of sight, but in terms of perceiving, understanding, and interpreting.

Because we are created as the old creation and have to grow into being the new creation it is necessary that our frame of reference of the past life, out of Christ, be renewed.

Except for the Ten Commandments that are written on our hearts we have no other frame of reference when born into the earth.   Everything we are today is because of the way we were taught. Some of this teaching goes on without the help of others. When you burnt your hand for the first time, that knowledge went in to the bank of knowledge of things you must not do, automatically. This is for self preservation. To be prepared for the ordeals of life however is another matter. The instructions we receive from teachers will form our frame of reference. This may or may not be correct for they might not have been taught correctly no matter how pure their intention. 

The fundamentals of success are things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity and modesty.

In a materialistic society the above is discarded for the empty wasteland of self. Self-denial is not in their vocabulary except if it is to exalt self.

The Christian walk should be as 1 Peter describes, in my own words; If you are a slave and are treated unjustly, and you bear this ill treatment with patience for the sake of your conscience then God is pleased with you.

J.F.B. on patience: “Endurance. “The word of My endurance” is My Gospel word, which teaches patient endurance in expectation of my coming (Rev 1:9). My endurance is the endurance which I require, and which I practice. Christ Himself now endures, patiently waiting until the usurper be cast out, and all “His enemies be made His footstool.” So, too, His Church, for the joy before her of sharing His coming kingdom, endures patiently. Hence, in Rev 3:11, follows, “Behold, I come quickly.””

As we read and are led by the Holy Spirit to understand the word of God these preformed paradigms will be changed if we are willing to be patient. Forming, this time a solid foundation from which to move in faith in all areas of our lives with great God given authority. The power of the transformed mind being under His control, as we learn to die to our will and except His will. We are to become His Kingdom His power His glory.

Rom 12:2:  “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

This renewing of the mind goes on continually if we are willing to have the mind dealt with. In a Christian’s case we are striving to have the mind of Christ. All of this has been explained many times in the previous books.

This book is aimed at cementing the new found knowledge onto the knowledge of the rock of ages through bringing about a paradigm shift that will annihilate the previous old creation thinking.

Ps 51:10:  “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” (spirit right— literally, “constant,” “firm,” not yielding to temptation.)

Ps 66:18:  “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:”

Ps 69:32:  “The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.”

Ps 112:7:  “He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.”

Ps 119:10:  “With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.”

The Ten Commandments are written in Exodus 20. We received the knowledge of the commandments written in our hearts very much the same way Mosses received the original laws written on stone. By the observance of these original laws the heart would be strong and impregnable as a fortress on the rock. Moses is said to be an educated and humble man who breaks the commandments at the sight of the people worshiping an idol. By this act we see that he lost control and places the idol of self back on his own throne. He took it personally. Going back to God he wanted another set of laws for he had broken the first in a fit of rage. This time however he had to carve them by hand, a slow painstaking process. In this same way these laws have to be re-chiseled into our hearts as we seek the Kingdom of God. We Know the laws, but break them and then have to rediscover the Ten Commandments and the fact that they are Holy and given by a Holy God. We know these laws. This book however will take us into the area of identifying how we break the spiritual Ten Commandments.

Chapter 2

THE GARDEN

 Although we have a thorough understanding of what sin is it seems that we will have to delve deeper into the heart for there are many who are still struggling to see in the garden. For this reason I am writing on the subject of the heart. The heart is the most delicate instrument and also the most tender and fragile instrument in the universe. It is the conscience, which must be kept free from sin. Each of us has the same conscience and it functions with the Ten Commandments. If you love God and do not keep his commandments you are a liar. (1 John 2)

He says in this verses that he gives us no knew commandment but to uphold the original commandment. Furthermore all of the word is for the perfection of the saints

1 Jn 2:5:  “But whoso keepeth his word; in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.” 

Bengel:  “Love and obedience. There is a gradation: 1Joh 2:3, “know Him”; 1Joh 2:5, “we are in Him”; 1Joh 2:6, “abideth in Him”; respectively, knowledge, fellowship, abiding constancy.“

Our steadfast prayer should be to be fulfilled with God. Whenever we long for some person it could be that there is a part of us which needs to be fulfilled. The longing should not be toward people but to be fulfilled with God. We cannot expect people to fill the gap in us; they are not capable of fulfilling the heart, THE HEART BELONGS TO GOD. Remember you gave your heart to God! Our study should be to keep the heart free from sin of any kind by the guidance of the Holy Spirit who lives in the heart. However the presence of the Holy Spirit departs the moment sin enters, perhaps in the form of worry. This is when David would beg God to not let His Spirit depart from him. We are to keep the heart, as was the original commandment to Adam Keep the garden! The garden, heart and conscience are therefore the subject of the Bible. The heart needs to be fulfilled with the knowledge and love of God. When we give our hearts to God we long to read the Bible, we long to be fulfilled with the word of God. Unfortunately we come into contact with others who are trying to understand the Word with their intellect and not the Spirit. They cause the pure fountain of the Word of God to become the bitter waters of Marah. All the arguments of different doctrines lead us into the wilderness away from the original knowing we had within us concerning the truth, for the Spirit lives inside us and will guide us to all truth. Rom 8:14:  “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”

In order to be Spirit led we have to abide by the first law.

Deut 6:5:  “And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”

To love God is the greatest of all commandments, for the simple reason that when we keep His commandments we are His dwelling place in us. We are the tabernacle of God. Naturally God cannot live in a sinful heart, for this reason when we give our hearts to God He forgives our sins, and His Spirit comes and lives in us. After this we are to keep the heart free from sin with all diligents for out of it flows the issues of life. (Prov 4:23) Paul however says that there is no good thing in us, in other words we still have to overcome our lower fleshly nature in Christ.

Notice how Paul puts it in the following verses:

Rom 7:19-23:  “For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.  For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.”

This warring that is going on is the flesh that constantly trying to take back the throne of the mind, but Paul teaches us to take thoughts captive and to die to them daily. We die in Christ and then rise in Christ to take authority as Christ would have, in the earth. However, the heart must be sinless and free from the flesh. The reason why many struggle to see in the garden is simply sin in some form. You might say that you have died and understand atonement but there might be an unknown sin which you are not aware of. (Lev 4) For this reason I recommend that the communion should also enhance the unknown sin as the sinner of old, placed his hand on the head of the lamb to be slain, we also place our sin on the lamb that was slain once and for all. Imagine the crucified Christ, then go and place the unknown sin on His head and receive forgiveness. In this way we understand that Paul wants Christ to be crucified in us. (1Co 2:2) This is our only hope and the cross becomes our center! In this way the heart becomes holy and sanctified and like the imagination of a child. As the child is able to imagine, so will you. As we die to sin even to the unknown sin we die and rise on the life side of the cross. We have entered in because of the cross and blood. The study of the character and love of God will only increase in such a heart. To understand our Father in heaven should be our ultimate quest. We grow ever nearer to God as we are willing to be sanctified. It might be preconceived ideas of right and wrong that cause error in the heart. Perhaps you thought: “well this person is not using this thing and has no need of it and for this reason I will use it and bring Glory to God by creating something useful with it.”  It sounds logical but it is theft in the eyes of God. If we disregard the commandments and precepts of God we do not love the Lord our God with all our heart, which is the first and greatest of all the commandments. If the heart is soft enough it will pick up that the Spirit is not approving. If we obey, all will be well but if not the Spirit departs. After this the heart begins to harden and we can no longer pick up movement in the Spirit, let alone see. It might be just a little pride or obstinacy. You might be thinking; “No Lord, forget it, I will not ask for forgiveness on this subject, I was right.” Our goal should be to die to self; our horizon should be humility, “Thy will be done not mine”. Our horizon should be discipline and self control. God placed us in this world to overcome the evil one –in us; in Christ. Keep the garden; do not allow the flesh to rule. Take thoughts captive and hold them to the light of God’s word. If the heart is pure the blessing will not depart. Please understand that good things will not simply come to you because the heart is pure. We still need to live by faith, more on this in the next chapter.

To have a mind garden should be natural to all God’s children. We are created in the image of God who creates with His imagination. Everything man could possibly imagine in the Spirit has already been created in the physical. For instance, the tales of King Author and his magical sword that lives in a city on a hill called Camelot was a story a person conceived in his spirit and told as a story for the entertainment of listeners. The sword is the two edged sword of Heb 4:12 it is the word of God which helps God’s children become kings in the spirit. Camelot with her high towers and walls of defense compare with Matthew 6 where Jesus calls His church a city on a hill. Below in the dark valley live the dark evil forces that want to posses the city on the hill. As in many fairy tales we see how the once joyful place filled with laughter, flowers and water becomes dark, dirty oppressive, and tear-filled. This is exactly the two different mind sets any person on earth can have. The challenge is to live in the above by self-control and discipline and not allow the darkness any rule in the thought life.

Physical fountains, waterfalls and gardens compare to the language the Bible uses in the book of Songs for instance. The character of God and that which has for each of His children, who will grow into kingship, is overflowing abundance of understanding of the love of God. Imagine being fulfilled with the nature of the same creator who creates flowers and sunsets and stars with His thoughts and words.

At rebirth we all experience a little of the miraculous when we give our hearts to God. The heart is gradually filled with the wonder of prayer and a craving to read the Bible. We pour our hearts out before God and feel more spiritual than others. We talk of God all the time, we pray and receive miracles. However this closeness to God soon disappears. Many Christians tell me that they would do anything if only that wonderful original feeling could come back again. I can think of two reasons why that feeling will never come back again. Firstly, God wants to train us to live beyond feeling –in the spirit, and not feeling. Feeling will lie to us and lead us back into pride. Remember we have given our hearts to God and must not give it to pride. The second reason is that God will lead us out of the rule of emotions into the realm of the Spirit. We will learn to discern whether we are ruled by the flesh or the Spirit. This deception of the below forces which are within, as Paul describes will go on as long as we live and will keep the Christians mind in utter chaos if the rules are not obeyed. The first rule is to love the Lord our God with all our hearts—and not allow the emotional self any space in the heart which is the dwelling of God. We are not to allow the rule of fear or worry or any lower emotion. It’s of great importance that the Christian learn to discern between emotional rule and that of the Spirit. We can never trust the inner voices. It may sound like a revelation from God but it could be the voices of other gods of self. My pride, what about me or the poor I… In order to have a personal garden we have to go through the wildernesses of life in order to have personal revelation on whether we are fleshly or spiritual. It takes time to learn which spirit is ruling in our hearts. We gave our hearts to God but were not taught to keep the heart, the garden or conscience. The heart must become soft and pure, but only under the guidance of the Gardener, which is the Christ Spirit. As we obey the still small voice spiritual growth commences. As we disobey, the Spirit distances himself from us. It takes time to firstly be saved from the rule of emotions, and then to be saved from the hurt full past that was pushed down into the crevices of the subconscious. We were not taught to take problems to the cross, we forgave and forgot, but it is still inside, and not crucified to the cross under the direction of the Gardener. We have a dark side that needs to be faced and dealt with at the cross. The sub conscious is too complex to be cleared by humans; it must be dealt with by its Creator, and the one who died to save us of its devastating effects on the nervous system. The suppressed hurts of the past does cause a hard heart, out of which comes all illnesses, chaos and accident. The heart, all of the heart must become the house of God.  I wish this process could have happened faster but no use trying to hurry the Lord. The story of the Israelite’s who died in the wilderness is the story of many dear Christians who never learned to die to self. Until we learn to trust the Lord with all our hearts we will never have a garden mind. The heart must be blood sprinkled so it can be the mercy seat where the voice of God is heard, between the wings of the Seraphim which really is the spirit. The mercy seat is the conscience.

We have to learn to use physical things to understand the spiritual. Another example would be the rock of ages hymn sung by many. “Rock of Ages cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee. Let the water and the blood, From Thy river side which flowed, be of sin the double cure, save me from its guilt and power”; The rock of ages is Jesus Christ that was slain and the water and the blood that came from His side is the river, is for the sin of all mankind. This particularly refers to the rock Moses was to speak to, but struck and out flowed water out of a rock in the middle of the wilderness. Madam Goyuon tells in one of her books how to use a physical thing to experience the garden. She recommends that one should imagine going to a small harbor where a small rowing boat is tied to the pier. Now climb down into the boat, loosen the rope, and use the oars to push yourself away from the pier and row calmly out of the harbor. Once outside the harbor go hoist the little sail and experience the gentle wind rushing the boat through the water. As an ex sailor this helps me a lot, for nothing can compare to the sense of calm and freedom of sailing away. As I did as she described, I hoisted the sail, and when I turned to go to the rudder of the boat, Jesus was sitting there. I asked what I must do. He said “do nothing”, but I call coil the rope I said.  He said “come sit with me”. Together we became one as we sailed the oceans of the blood washed heart. I have written on the subject of the garden in the book called the Garden. I used the scriptures out of all of the Bible and twelve paintings to cover this area. The mainspring is the heart that must be cleansed. It is a daily process of dying to self, but remember to not stay at the cross. Go to the cross with all the problems and sins you are aware of while eating the bread, and then drink the blood, and rise in Christ. A Christian should rise and take authority over all situations in Christ. Say how thing are going to be today. (Mark 11: 23), speak to the mountain; prophesy over the problem as faith rises in your heart. We only have faith if the heart is pure. There is no point to quoting Bible verses and calling good things if the heart is not pure. If one uses these techniques it will result in soul power. It must not be by might or power it must come out of the spirit. There must be an awareness that God is in this thing that we believe for. There must be no doubt. This thing that you believe for must be seen clearly as if it has already appeared in the physical until it does come in the physical, it takes discipline and determination. If your mind keeps wondering, if the eye is not single it cannot bring forth the things you believe for. You have to stay focused and remain in praise and thanksgiving all the time. However, the main spring is the state of the heart.

I always go to my beach garden in the morning for the sea shows me the state of my conscience. When I enter in and see the sea is calm I wait there until the sun rises and experience the painted skies with the Lord. Here I read the Bible and wait for inspiration and guidance for the day. If nothing comes, that’s fine for I have the peace that all is well. When the sea is stormy I know there is sin in my life in the form of impatiens or worry. In this way I have learned to take thoughts captive and die to them so the heart can be blood washed and sanctified. One morning the fog was covering my sea and bus stop shelters were in my way, I could not see the ocean. This was a result of me being involved in a project for too long. I was tired and I was losing contact with the Lord of the heart garden.

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FOREWORD

 F.B. Meyer:  “Their obedience: As soon as they understood the words they heard, they began to put them into practice. No wonder there was joy, for in the keeping of God’s commandments there is great reward. It was during the Feast of Tabernacles that our Lord spoke of the Holy Spirit entering the heart to remove its thirst, and to pour forth as rivers to a dying world (John 7:37-39). We cannot do much apart from the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Only through Him can we be right with God; only through Him can we be really glad; only through Him can we pass on joy and comfort to others.”

Although I have been a Christian for many years I have always had this one little sad corner in my heart and I always wanted the Lord to fill it. With the knowledge of this book a feast of tabernacles came to my heart

“How much more shall the Blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” Heb 9:14.

The greatest spirituality a Christian need to achieve is to always be aware of the state of the personal conscience. It should be like walking on a crystal sea right into the morning sun.

(Our burdens are the trespasses against the conscience.)

Allot of the drawings that you will find in all our books we give thanks to the Strong’s concordance, Strong was also criticized for his work because he was not fluent in Greek and I know that there is a school of thought who rejects his work. I do hope however, that the many proofs that I have received from God in the form of drawings prove themselves over and over again. I also hope it will strengthen those who use this concordance, for I believe Strong was Spirit led.

Strong’s Concordance was created by J. Strong (1822 – 1894) he was an American Methodist biblical scholar and educator, Professor of Exegetical Theology.  He did not construct it by himself but with the help of more than a hundred colleagues.  

A short biography of Ron Van Zyl

This book was written by an artist who gave his life to God at the age of five and saw heaven for a moment. From that day he was conscious of the difference between a heavenly and earthly life but had no one to guide him into these truths. The traditional teachings children received at that time were of no value in his quest to find that place again. He recalls the calm of the heavenly place which he saw and it was as if he received the message, that to be calm in all situations is what God requires. Unfortunately, the environment he grew up in was not acquainted with self control.

After six years as a sailor in the South African Navy he established himself as a road side artist close to his family in the Eastern Transvaal on the tourist route, which today is called ‘the Panorama route’.  Conversations with tourists whilst on holidays, always led to the subject about God. Questions like, why do so many good people die? What was the reason for wars, cancer and the uncertainties in life? Thus it came about that the author set himself the goal of finding the answers to these questions. 

He created the 15 meter rock sculpture depicting HELL on the one side of the rocks face and lots of other works for tourist attraction, not knowing that all this would eventually be part of the answer to all the questions he was seeking. There after he met Yvonne and married. The two of them set about living an experimental life in faith without outside interference and preconceived religions and traditions.

Ron had nothing but he built a house for his wife with his own hands out of indigenous rock.  He made sculptures and she played house while learning to cook, which would come in handy later when they built the guesthouse at the SHOE. In the meantime they had no water or electricity. Nevertheless they were content. The year was 1975, and together they learnt life’s lessons. After a few years of living there they had to break down their home. They rebuilt it on land a farmer gave them in a nearby area. This time they actually had water and electricity. Together they built a wooden house and also a roadside store out of which they sold Ron’s sculptures and curios. Here Yvonne patiently listened to the problems people shared and offered advice out of their personally acquired experiences during a time when financial crisis’s were setting into SA.

While sitting outside one night he saw a cave in a vision that he had. It was so real that it felt as if he was personally walking through a cave that explained the spiritual world. He saw people moving through the rooms which were lit with many colored lights. They would walk in with a frown and walk out with a crown. It never occurred to him that he could create such a fantasy for they did not own any property and no sure income.

Their children Aldo and Michel were born into these unique circumstances and in 1990 the family bought the property where they built the SHOE and guesthouse.  When all was in place and there was no debt, Ron felt that he was released to dig and build the cave. The only problem was that he was so tired after all the building and construction of the cave, together with his carving to provide for his family. He was by this time going through the actions of creating without being personally involved, which turned out to be the door through which the Holy Spirit would create a work of art which no person at that time understood. The size of the cave rooms depended on finances. To Ron’s disappointment, the rooms were large enough for only twelve people at a time. The children were still young but helped as they could and three and a half years later they had build and completed seven underground rooms with what their own physical powers allowed.

Aldo at the age of thirteen guided the first group of people into the cave over an Easter weekend. People cried and others were upset because it was not possible to satisfy everybody. The Van Zyl family suffered much criticism. However, much praise also greeted them and this was the encouraging factor.  At first there was confusion as people would unload their burdens and bring their problems to the Shoe Cave.  The family worked hard for they were alone. There were never people who understood their criteria and mission from God. For this reason it was impossible to get help even if there was enough money to afford help. Eventually they decided to try and sell the place. They believed that anyone could tell the story that they thought was in the cave. They were so convinced of this move that the children left their parents for jobs in England and Johannesburg for they were sure the place would sell, but it did not. After the children experienced life outside, they came back. Shortly after this Ron painted the first painting and God revealed “THE LINE”. A spiritual division between the two spiritual Kingdoms! This revelation led to the cave and the work done in it by the Holy Spirit to be understood for the first time. This also led to masses of revelation which eventually earned Ron a Doctor’s degree in divinity. The children also followed with pastoral degrees and the ministry is evolving and becoming a Bible school.  The family was trained by the Holy Spirit and also rewarded by the Holy Spirit. With personal revelation throughout the years of abuse, slander and judgment by the public, in the midst of this they stood their ground for the Kingdom of God. Together they have a vast store of information on every doctrine, theology, religion, tradition, every person’s philosophy and mythology that could be dreamt of. They are open to the public and will talk to anyone earnestly looking for solutions.    

This book is written as a summary of all the information received up to date, but for deeper insight you need to read all seven of the books that were written in the way revelation was imparted to the family. These books will give you the only shortcuts there are to sanctification, spiritual awareness and it will lead you into the Kingdom of God. This is the great commission— Mat 6:33  “But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” (KJV)

CHAPTER 1

THE PAINTING

Part 1  –  The Line by Michell

It was amazing and a life changing experience to grow into this painting with my family.  We guided in the cave for 6 years before this painting came and when it did it changed our entire tour.  The sculptures and paintings never change but as we grow in the Spirit so we understand more. We are actually the ones who learn the most here. We are three guides in total and all three of us have developed our own unique ministry.  I, myself like to keep things as simple as possible so that even a child can understand.  So I am asking the reader to accept what we say in this book with your spirit, and allow the Holy Spirit to reveal to you. Just as He has and still is revealing to us. The first thing we learnt was that the Bible was written for children and being intellectual about it won’t get you anywhere.  After my Dad painted this painting we learnt that there is a picture language in the Bible and without it we couldn’t understand the Bible.  As you can see the centre on the painting is Jesus, the cross and the mountain (A).  This mountain is called Mount Zion.  Mount Zion is a spiritual mountain. It represents the hard times of life.  If life could be compared to climbing a mountain we would all agree that we are aiming for the top. We want to become kings of the mountain.  I asked the Lord once, “Why is it that He doesn’t place us at the bottom of the mountain so we can immediately start to climb”?  He answered “We should all choose if we want to climb this mountain”. Once again it is a matter of choice.

We started studying the Psalms.  Psalm 1 says that we are trees planted by streams of water.  This is the tree with the water pool at number E on the left of the painting. Just above it you see the hand of God in the cloud.  We come from God, and through his hand we are born into the world.  The cloud represents the water with which we were surrounded in the womb.  Through God’s hand we are born into this world and we start off at the Psalm 1 tree.

Ps 1: 3:  “And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”

I remember that Psalm 1 was one of the Psalms we used way back when I was still a youngster. I also remember that we never really understood the meaning of it, until we started learning about the picture language of the Bible.  God taught us that the tree represents us, and the water is the Word of God. When we are rooted and grounded in his Word (water) the hard times (A-mountains) would come but we would continue to bear fruit in season.  The Psalm made sense for the first time.  Then the Holy Spirit started leading us through the Psalms and revealed Psalm 2 to us:

Ps 2:6 -9:  “Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the degree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

In my own words the Psalm says that we will become kings of mount Zion (M) and we shall rule over the earthly things (G). We all understand that God wants us to rule and become kings of the mountain but we are still at the Psalm 1 tree.  We think that the desert (I) will be a shortcut to the mountain but in fact we get lost in the desert.  We asked the Lord “Why is the desert such a hard place”?  He answered, “Because I doesn’t really want you in the desert”. That is why it is a hard and terrible place but He never leaves us and you can see the hand of God (J) once again in the cloud above the desert.  This time there is thunder and lightning underneath the hand. At the bottom of the painting on the left are examples of things that happen to us in the desert.  At the letter (H) you see a deep waterfall. There are two main types of people being described by this painting. The first type is the ones who are always looking for the truth. They would call themselves ‘the seekers’. They use to camp out by the Psalm 1 tree. They tried to understand the Word of God but couldn’t, and so they went in search of other truths.  At the deep waterfall they found ‘deep truths’ when they started studying other religions and eastern philosophies.  The other type is the ones who stay in the materialistic world (G).  They are the ones who try to be good and go to church, hoping that they too will understand the Word of God. They spend their time accumulating earthly things but with these earthly things the roaring lion comes along and causes terrible problems.  Sometimes these problems get too much and like the guy in the painting would run to the pub each night hoping that he would at least sleep peacefully. In the end he lost his head. (Bottom left)

All of this is what happens in the desert.  We only mentioned two examples here but we have all experienced some kind of desert before.  Eventually we realize that we shouldn’t be in the desert we should be climbing the mountain!  We fall off the cliffs and start to climb the mountain from the bottom (K).  For instance we would go to church but then we would meet all these demons, they live in churches too! Here in the picture above you see (1) judgment, (2) accusation and (3) sickness. These things keep us from climbing the mountain, but eventually we do get past the first stage and we get to the halfway mark (L).  This seems to look like a prison or jail.  When I asked my father about it he said it represents the Pentecostal and Charismatic church.  I didn’t grow up in a church. Living out here far away from towns and cities; I had no idea what he was talking about.  When I prayed about it I was told that it was like the church service that I liked to watch on TV.  So I went back to the TV and this time watched my favourite church service, the whole time thinking to myself; what would make this a prison? When the service was over the Holy Spirit asked me if I would physically go to that church and why?  My answer was, “Yes I like the music”. I know this sounds funny to others but my personal reason for going to church would be for the music.  I ended up in my room with the same music in my CD player and I was worshipping God.   By the third song I was standing in worship and suddenly saw myself on top of a high mountain and the cross was there with me. (M) After discussing this with my father he pointed out that the mountain in the painting is not only Zion but it also represents Golgotha because of the cross standing on it.  The word ‘Golgotha’ means ‘the skull’.  With this in mind my dad said, “Imagine the cross is standing on a skull”. Now I say, “The blood is atonement for the soul.” He said it a few times because I couldn’t understand it.  Eventually he said to me that the blood of Jesus is for the forgiveness of the mind of man! The blood of Jesus fell on the skull to bring forgiveness to the mind of man. (Lev 17:11)

We ended up making a study of the word ‘soul’.  A guy once said his soul is in his big toe. Very few people understand what it is.  The complete study can be found in book 2, The Short Sword, in the series The Line, written prior to this book.  The study comes down to this:  The second time the word ‘soul’ is used in the Bible is when God blew breath into Adam and Adam became a living soul. (Gen2:7) This word ‘soul’ is translated by the Strong’s, Hebrew and Greek dictionary as will, intellect, emotion, lust and animal.” This sounds terrible.

Then the word ‘breath’ of God is translated among other things such as: “spirit and soul.”

We made the conclusion that God blew into Adam the ability to be spiritual minded and to be soulish. In other words, God blew into me, life. This life gives my mind the ability to hear the voice of God and to be like God, dwelling in his presence and He in me. With this very same mind I can think dark thoughts and have evil imaginations.  This is the reason why the soul (mind) of man needs to be forgiven.  To be blunt; if you are soulish, your mind is dark, but if you are spiritual your mind is focused on God. This is actually what Jesus came to do on the cross. He came to save you and me from dark thoughts.

We only learnt this much later on. At the time I asked my dad what happened that I was able to stand on top of the mountain when I was in worship?  He explained that if we focus our entire mind on Jesus and awe  Him (look only to Him), we become a king of the mountain.  Just like in Hebrews 12:22-26:  “But ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,  To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,  And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.”(KJ)

The only thing we knew at that stage was that if I wanted to be a king of the mountain I had to focus my mind on Jesus.  This would make me a king. It was not difficult to be a king. It was difficult to stay a king all day long for we can’t keep our minds on Jesus all day long.  An hour after my quiet time in the morning I would be off and about fighting with my brother. Going to church helps us in the sense that it brings us into the presence of God. In other words it makes us a king of the mountain because we are all focused on God while we are in church. After the service we return to our normal lives down at the bottom of the mountain.   We started realizing that God was calling us higher.  He wants us to become holy as He is holy.  He wants our minds to belong to him as well as our thoughts.  I remember someone once said that we can’t say what we want but we can think what we want! In this case God is saying I sent my Son to die for your mind so that your mind can be a holy place which belongs to Me! (Amen & Selah!!) 

The problem was that we knew we were supposed to keep our minds on Jesus but we had no idea how to do it. I became frustrated because I knew I was spending more time at the bottom of the mountain than what I was at the top. One morning I threw a tantrum at the cross.  I said to God that I intended on staying here at the cross in worship until he showed me how to stay a king all day. Hours later Jesus came and picked me up off the floor, where I was begging him to do something, at the foot of the cross. He took me and hooked me onto the cross so that I was hanging on it just as He did.  As I said before I didn’t know anything about the soul yet. Jesus just told me that He is the way the truth and the door to the Father, and told me that if I wanted to live at the top I had to give him my mind, and that He would keep it safe for me.  As I surrendered to Him on the cross, giving him my mind, I became like that breath of God and I passed through the cross like a breath into the chest of Christ.

The next moment I was standing in front of the throne of God (N) looking like this man (O) wearing the armour in the painting.  We once thought we knew what the armour (Eph 6) meant. We had to learn that we put Jesus on, every piece represents Jesus. We are now in Him, and we look like him, that is what the armour is for.   Jesus started washing me with His blood which was dripping from the cross above me.  There I was standing right in front of the throne of God and actually God looks at us through the armour and the blood with which we are washed. He doesn’t even see us as we see ourselves, He sees us as His son.  We look like Jesus to Him.  The next moment the Holy Spirit represented by the long hair of Father, came and sat around my hips like the belt of Truth.  He said that He was going to lead me and teach me what righteousness (breastplate) means. I was just about to start complaining about not wanting to learn a lesson right now…when suddenly my mind started wondering off and thoughts of what I was going to do later that day entered into my mind.  Thoughts of what I would cook for lunch, thoughts of yesterday and the movie that I saw the previous night, when the Holy Spirit very gently reminded me that I was now back at the bottom of the mountain.  Thinking to myself how impossible this is to keep my mind, I asked the Spirit what I should do now.  He replied that I should return to my previous state.  I then started to fill my mind with God and His wonders, the next moment I was back in my position in front of the throne.  Amazed at this, I asked the Spirit how this was possible.  The Holy Spirit led me into a study of righteousness.  During the study I found out that the word ‘righteousness’ means ‘to stand right in front of God’.  He taught me that because I entered in through the cross-door. I was forgiven and able to stand right in front of God all day long and that nothing could keep me away from this position.  I entered into Christ and that makes me the righteousness of Christ.  Righteousness means that even if I did allow my mind to wonder off into darkness, I could come back just as easily and continue as if I never left. This way I am able to be a king all day long, but tomorrow morning I make sure that I enter in correctly, through the cross again.

At that stage my dad told us that he had dreamt about the horizontal sword of the angel on the far right side of the painting.  We studied the sword but couldn’t see anything.  Eventually we noticed that the sword of the angel on the right of the painting and the cross beam of the cross makes an exact straight line if it were to connect them.  As you can see in the picture, here it seems like the painting is now divided into half.  All the heavenly images are at the top and all the earthly dark images are at the bottom. That next day we woke up with: Heb 4:12:  “For the Word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing apart of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

There is a division between the Kingdom of Light (heaven) and the Kingdom of Darkness (earth). This division divides between soul and spirit! We wanted to know where this division came from. We could understand that there should be a division because in Genesis it says that God made the light and the dark then divided it from each other and it was good.  Then after reading Hebrew 9 we understood that the blood of animals was sprinkled for cleansing. Just like that Jesus entered into the heavenly (spiritual) un-seen tabernacle. There He sprinkled His blood for the forgiveness of all man’s souls. This line that you see in this small picture is the blood of Jesus.

Now we can get some perspective. In other words when we wake up in the morning we wake up at the foot of the mountain. We are naturally dark, we are flesh.  The word ‘flesh’ means ‘dark inner nature’. The thing is we try to be good and holy. We immediately start to pray when we wake up but we are mostly praying about the problem. Our minds are dark! We are thinking about the problem while we are in the problem.  We have no power down here at the foot of the mountain. We are not in Christ and we have not died or risen yet.  Therefore what we should do when we wake up in the morning is to fill our minds with Christ.  Personally I like to worship him and think about how wondrous He is. By doing this I am climbing the mountain and when my mind is completely focused on Jesus, I become a king of the mountain.  I have just conquered the mountain. I have just conquered my own self and pride, therefore I am mount Zion.  Do yourself a favor and go read through Psalms, you will see that God loves Zion, He abides in Zion and His habitat is Zion.

In order to stay a king today I must enter into the cross-door.  I can only do so by dying the same death Jesus died. I will then rise in Him and live the same life he lives.  I go and hang on the cross and put my head there where Jesus’ head would have been.  I also crucify all my problems here, as well as the things that caused me to look down the previous day. As I surrender all the problems and my whole mind to God there on the cross, the blood of Jesus comes and sits under my chin, the blood of Jesus now seals my mind from the below, dark world.  My mind becomes a Holy Place in which God comes and lives.  The whole right side of the painting of the throne now resides in my mind.  If we look at the picture of the first painting, the size of one’s mind there on the cross is only tiny. The whole top part of the painting fits into my mind that is because it is as big as we can imagine!  We are His image and were created in His likeness.  Yes, we are allowed to imagine all of heaven in our mind. We are now the Kingdom of God. It is amazing to see how all this new knowledge about the line, has changed the way we think and do things. 

Prov 23:7:  “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:”

This word ‘heart’ used in this text above has the Strong’s number of H5315, and other than the fact that it means almost the same as the word ‘living soul’ in Genesis, it also means ‘mind’.  The ‘heart’ God refers to and the ‘heart’ we speak of are two different things.  The whole study on this subject “The heart” can be found in the 5^th book: A Room with a View. This heart the Bible speaks of refers to the centre of our minds.  This is also the most important place, for it is suppose to belong to God. The very first commandment says we should love the Lord our God with our whole mind and our whole heart. It is also this very first command that we fail to obey for our hearts belong to our pets, family, friends and money.  When any of these things depart from our lives we are heartbroken.

We need a complete new mind!  Therefore it is essential for us to die to all these things daily. Then rise in Christ and rule over them. When I enter in through the cross I have the boldness to stand in front of the throne of God because I know that the blood of Jesus has washed me and sealed me from all the darkness below, I am righteous, I am crowned with loving kindness and I am protected.  While I am standing here in front of the throne we use Psalm 103.  When we read the Word here in this protected position, the Word finds entrance into us and our souls are quickened. We understand the Word of God.  When we speak the Word of God here in this position of authority and righteousness our Angels will do everything we command them to do.  The last verse of Psalm 103 says that the Angels listen to the voice of God’s Word. I look like Christ when I am standing here and therefore I sound like him too!  I give my Angels charge over myself to protect me and I declare that I am an overcomer.  When I do this, they go and make my enemies a footstool for my feet.  This causes every knee to bow (R) and every tongue to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.  This changes our whole perception because if I try to fight the enemy I allow them into my mind. Therefore it is not my job to fight the enemy but it is my job to stand in authority, righteous in front of God and rule by looking like Christ and abiding in Him.  Some people would ask, “But what about the sword which is part of the armour of God?”  The sword resembles the knowledge that I have of the Word of God.  The more my knowledge the longer my sword will become.  No, the sword is not for fighting, the sword is for dividing.   The sword of the Spirit will help me to divide between soul and spirit, to know when I’m looking down and when I’m looking up.  

As we were learning these things we would try and come to the throne daily.  One day I stood there in front of the throne, and as I spoke the Word of God, my angels started running off into all directions.  I saw how they brought down the strongholds and suddenly I thought to myself: “But what am I suppose to do now?”  As I turned to Jesus with this question, He answered that I should come and sit with Him, just like the child in the painting.  He said that He missed me and wanted to spend time with me.  I realized just how selfish we really are.  We run into the throne room of God, give our orders for the day and go on with our day. In the meantime Jesus longs for a relationship with us.  He made us in His image and therefore only we can be His friends. He longs to make us like Him and to have fellowship with Him. Here Jesus taught us how to love.  We were reminded that love is the biggest and yet the most important principle of this entire truth of the cross.

Here on His lap we discuss with Jesus the day that lies ahead and we become totally calm about all the tasks we must go and do. After giving the day to Jesus, we go and do the things in calmness and we experience how everything goes according to plan. Here I sit with Jesus and share with Him my heart.  (You know what the ‘heart’ means now.) Here I would sit with Him and He would ask me what the desire of my heart is, because He wishes to give me all the desires of my heart. How would you know what God’s desire is or His will for you? Since we have learnt how to enter into this fellowship through the cross we have entered into a deeper and higher will of God for our lives.  We simply sit here and imagine.  At first we will imagine how we drive that amazing car, but later that will become less important and we would start to imagine how we help other people.  Now that is the will of God for your life.  It is also here on His lap where we learn how to hear the voice of God.  We came across a book written by Madam Guyon – In this book she suggests that one should go sit quietly by yourself and read the scriptures back to yourself as if God is saying it to you. By doing this we learn to recognize the voice of God and later on we won’t need to use this method. You will be able to hear His voice because you have grown to know the character of God.  We always read books or listen to sermons of people who had an encounter with God, and then we wish we could have that too. Unfortunately we tend to walk around with a dark conscience and even when we do come into the presence of God we feel that we are not worthy of Him and we have a dirty conscience for we lack the knowledge of the blood of Jesus.   Now we can all have these encounters with God.  These people who we hear of or who’s books we read, they humbled themselves to God in such a way that He allowed them to enter into this place above the line, and they saw God. Now we have the knowledge of the cross and we understand that it is the cross and the blood of Jesus that saves us from our dark nature, so that we too can dwell with Him above in His presence.

One day I came to sit with Jesus and even after been to the cross with this problem I had, I still felt like I needed to do something about it. I started talking to Jesus about this person who is giving me a hard time and it was like He was turning His face away from me.  I immediately stopped and asked Him what I did wrong.  He said that we should not bring the problem into this Holy Place above the line.  The cross is where we leave the problems when we come to Him we should come in faith.  Faith is to see that which is not as if it is. In other words, I am to sit with Him and then together with Him I will imagine how this person walks up here with the Holy Spirit blowing over him and how his entire attitude changes.  We will see how he loves the people around him. How he reacts towards them and me with kindness. We see the end result as to how we want this person to be.  A week later that very same person came to me and apologised for his behaviour. The same thing with the things we need.  We will see it up here with Jesus.  Personally I like to imagine a pond of water here. I have big trees and beautiful gardens with plants and flowers I have never seen before.  As a family we refer to this place as the ‘Garden’. Remember it is as big as you can imagine!  This is also the same place to which Jesus referred when he told the parables.  Each parable started with, “The Kingdom of God is as…” a sower who planted in the different soils. The good soil refers to this place above.  Whatever we sow in the good ground we will get a hundred fold in return on earth. This place is the vineyard he spoke of and can be compared to a mustard seed.  When Mary saw Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane after his resurrection she called him the gardener.  He is the Gardener of this Garden place, it is under the shadow of God’s wing.  It is called the Kingdom of God and has many other names.  All these names can be found in the fifth book, ‘A Room with a View’. What we can see up here in the Kingdom of God is what we will have down there on the earth.  As we think so will our lives be (Pro 23:7).  We should seek first the Kingdom of God and the rest shall be added.  Whatever this person in the painting see’s and speaks up here, flows into him like streams of living water, then flows out of his belly and fills the earth (bottom right corner) with God’s glory.

This knowledge of the line has changed my life!  I remember how I use to get up in the morning determined to be like Jesus and make a difference in the world.  Just to be overpowered by my own emotions and dark thoughts at the end of the day. I also had ‘blue Mondays’ just like anybody else and I made no difference at all. I use to feel defeated and lousy. How is it possible that I call myself a Christian but my life is no different from any other person’s life? The answer is: before I had no knowledge of the blood of Jesus and I didn’t know that the blood seals my mind so that the darkness from below cannot enter into my mind. Now I understand what the blood of Jesus does for me and I make sure that I die to self and my own pride on the cross, so that I can rise up in Christ and rule over the darkness below. The Holy Spirit will help me to divide between soul and spirit and continually call me back up and remind me to look to Jesus.

One of the biggest mistakes we made was to run past the cross straight to Jesus. The time we spent with Him was so wonderful that we couldn’t wait to get to the Garden. These experiences in the Garden just became hard work again. If we don’t die to self we won’t be able to adhere to the leading of the Spirit and our own will, will come in again.  The things we do now will be Ishmaels.  (Not God’s will but mine)

The cross is not a quick fix. It is a way of life – a new mind set.  If we don’t use the cross we will end up praying, imagining and doing all the things we do down there at the foot of the mountain.  Our prayers will be prayed in our own will. It won’t have power or authority.  Only a clean conscience can pray the prayer of faith.

Now Ron will explain the painting and also show you how this line runs all the way through the cave.

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INTRODUCTION

Because I have to make an immensely controversial statement in this book it is necessary to present the before going conclusions, in the form of a summary of the past six books.

I do not expect that anyone who has not read the six previous books will understand this summery. It is however necessary to go over all the events that took place in order to once again see the hand of God in revealing knowledge of the glory of the Lord without us being aware of it.

In the first painting, the “line” was revealed to us in a miraculous way. The “line” divided the “flesh” from the “spirit” and this is accounted for in the book ‘The Line’. We were taught by the Spirit of the Lord about highs and lows, above and beneath. Jesus said to Nicodemus “you must be born from above” (Joh 3:3).

During tours through the cave, on the subject of the Line, we were excited to see how sick people could be healed by looking up. By having the natural mind, changed into the Christ mind. We also learned that it must be at least two who agree concerning any matter (Matt 18:19).

We learnt about “looking up” and began to discern about when we were looking down. In this way families began to find out how to help each other to look up, by loving each other and learning to tell each other about dreams they wanted to achieve. Things that were hidden in our deep recesses were beginning to submerge as we told each other intimate details of un-achieved dreams and needs. It became a family matter to look up together, and see how the Lord provided when these basic principles were applied. At the same time it glorified the Lord as we learnt about disciplining the mind to look at the solution and not the problem. To “overcome the enemy by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimonies” (Rev 12:11). The reason why the church does not walk in victory is because the last part of this verse was not understood and applied… “And they loved not their lives unto the death”. We have to partake of the dying process, which will be explained in this book.

The first painting helped many people for it explained that the horizontal beam of the cross, which divided the painting into two halves established that the LINE is, the blood of Christ. We learnt that the above state of mind could only be held through the work of the cross and the blood. We learnt that this above state of mind where one can be safe, in a fenced estate, is the garden and is the dimension lost by Adam. We understood that to live in this above state we needed to have the mind of Christ. Also we realized that our minds would have to be transformed by disciplining ourselves to look up. The horizontal beam of the cross explained that, the garden (above) which have been lost by the first Adam has been once again made accessible by the last Adam. If man would understand Calvary he can once again live in the presence of God.  

Next we found out that the “line” was already drawn inside the cave, that was created by the artist and his family, without their knowledge six years before the line was discovered. We found that the line was inside the cave and ran true throughout all the rooms, dividing flesh from spirit.

The artist and author of these books built the cave under inspiration of the Holy Spirit. I was so overworked that I was physically dying. Because of this physical state, I was usable by the Spirit, and the cave was built as a monument of dividing flesh and spirit, because this important message of Romans 6 is hardly preached (Figure 1).

As the knowledge of the “line” increased by applying it to the Bible, much of the Bible that could previously not be understood, was suddenly clear. This resulted in many paintings and the two books ‘The Garden’ and the ‘Short Sword’. These studies went on to prove that the Bible is not only prophetically, archaeologically and historically correct, but that it is spiritually correct. By drawing the human form onto the plan of the tabernacle it was found, that we are the tabernacle of God, exactly as the Bible says. (Figure 2) (1 Cor 6:19).

In this way it was possible to see that the fenced garden that was lost, is the Holy of Holies. We also see that we are as a three story temple where we grow out of the outer court into the Holy place and then into the above, where the presence of God is in the Holy of Holies. Also this compares well with the three stories of Noah’s ark. To understand even more of this truth we have to start at the Genesis creation. In the beginning, it was ‘dark’ (wicked, sorrow, ignorant, (Strong)), and when God said “Light” it translates as ‘morning sun, happiness and lightning’. (Figure 3)

This brought about the Genesis sketches, where it is proven that when God created the earth, he was saying how our spiritual growth would be created out of chaotic darkness, in to the seventh day lifestyle, in the rest.

Furthermore it showed the reason for the thorn crown. Adam was fenced, Job was hedged and lost it, but Jesus wore the thorn hedge to bring us into the sheepfold. (Figure 4)

It is into this height we enter into via the Christ mind to become kings of the Kingdom of God. During the revelation of these childlike drawings, it was revealed that we can see, as we look into the face, where each Christian is in the mountain of the Lord. This mountain shape in the face is called the A-zone by beauticians and is where the age lines are located which are to be painted out. (Figure 5) Paint however cannot hide the spirit that is ruling in a person. The shape of this mountain is used in the movie industry by Paramount pictures for instance, and is a snow-capped mountain. After the mountain is shown, little stars appear and then settle in the shape that is drawn here in Figure 6. This symbolizes that it is in the mountain heights where the imagination soars like an eagle. Other movie industries draw castles, sometimes on the mountain, and then almost as if in an afterthought the morning sun shape appears to finish the logo off, and place it in the mind. Moses fetched the commandments of the law in the mountain, Abraham sacrificed his son in the mountain, Jesus preached His first sermon on the mount, was transformed on the mount… etc.

The difference between the pyramids and the Mountain of the Lord is possible to be understood because of the comparison between the pyramids and the mountain of the Lord. The pyramid structure represents the rigid laws of the world structure. (Figure 7)  Loan your money, pay back with interest or else lose all your possessions. But the mountain of the Lord (Figure 8) represents the holy presence of God which is where Zion is, which is above. We are a city on a hill, and when the sun rises over the mountains, it is a daily reminder that Jesus was a ‘crack of dawn’ person. This was also the time the resurrection took place. Joy comes in the morning and too many scriptures to mention is proof of this except for this knee buckling scripture:

Song 6:10:  “Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?”

When Pharaoh drowned in the Red Sea, the sun came up.

Mar 16:2:  “And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.”

The shape of the mind is the shape of the morning sun, and should always be as holy as compared to the rising of the sun. Lots of stuff became very easy to understand and there are too numerous to mention. The important thing we need to remember is that when one draws the cross onto the forehead of a person the centre appears where Goliath was slayed, Hindus wear the spot and the Jews the square box.

(Figure 9)

Nursery rhymes and stories began to fit into these drawings as for example, Jack and the beanstalk. The giant was living above, and it was slayed into the below. Notice where the wealth was!

In this case the upright of the cross is the beanstalk and the cross beam the ‘above’ that was lost by Adam, to the flesh, or giants, and conquered by Christ. After which He poured out His soul for the sin of mankind. Much more of these in the books ‘The Short Sword’ and ‘Room with a View’.

The next miraculous thing that happened was that the artist had to start painting by inspiration, which resulted in paintings that proved that all of scripture speak of the above and below in different ways. The artist painted things he was not aware of, like for instance, the spiritual sea. He started to learn that all people are like a sea of emotions, also that it is the language of the Bible. For instance the ‘beast’ or ‘dragon’ or ‘whore’ is on the sea.

As the reader may have noticed we are finding that physical things reveal the spiritual. In the sixth book, we realize that we are a sea of emotions which reaches to the neck (Is 30:28).

The Bible speaks of the sea as the flood, in the days of Noah.   Noah was saved from the flood, in a sealed ark, to the tops of the mountains. This compares to the statement Jesus made concerning the flood: “the house must be build on the rock” (mountain or above) so it can withstand the flood. The flood is also the emotional storms of ‘Life’. This word “life” is the one we have to lay down or deny (Luke 9:23) and is translated as ‘animal’ and is carnality. Each one of us have the sea of emotions inside us, it comes from below into the above. We are as a rock in the ocean, continually bombarded by the storms of life. Sometimes calm, but open to the mood changes of the mighty deep. We are all in the same boat on the sea. Horror stories are made up of slimy things that come out of the deep sea, jaws is in the sea, and so are the wrecks of our past, which lay at the bottom of the sea. Not one of these sea creatures are mentioned at the throne of God, but Baal is the fish god. I will leave it to the imagination of the reader to find out which of the major religions still wear the fish shape hat during ceremonies. The point is that we are a sea of emotions, which want to rule in the above, or mind of a person.

The word emotion is not used in the Bible but it is the FLESH. To explain the mysteries of the flesh Jesus never spoke directly of the spiritual and fleshly, but left it to mankind to find the Kingdom of God, by searching earnestly, as if for a treasure of great value.

(Figure 10).

By first speaking to the physical storm and calming it, He then goes across the lake onto a mountain, where Legion is living among the graves with a thousand demons ruling him. Although He calmed a physical storm it was showing the spiritual work He loves to do in all of us, and teach us about this. After this he calmed the spiritual sea in the mad, naked man of Gadara’s mind. Notice where the demons were – they were in the mountain. Compare this to the holy mountain of the Lord in Is 14:13 and Eze 28. The demons were in the man and caused storms at will, while he lived among the graves. The man was naked as Adam became, which compares to our spiritual state. We are naked to the comings and goings of the sea of emotions. We did not know how to do anything about it. As in the nursery rhyme of Itsie-bitsie- spider. I believe it must have been a mother who was telling a child, that some days the mind would be calm but other days, stormy, and we can’t do anything about it. But this is not true, for this is what the cross was designed to do. When there is no life in the mountain, there is death, which is carnality. After this, Jesus allowed the demons to enter the swine, which went back into the sea.

The conscience – The Line, is holding true as we find the Line to be the surface of the sea where Jesus walked on. This is the Line on which the sun rises and is where we wear a crown or cap. The line is thus above the eyes and becomes the subject of the Bible in many different ways. It can be drawn as the circle  inside the head and compares to the circle of the horizon, above which is the “air”. (Figure 11) Above the line is the ‘above’ thought life in Christ, and below is the emotions, intellect, will and feelings. This is also the subconscious, for in the sea lay all the wrecks of the past which Jesus wants to save us from.

When the sun rises in the morning, our Lord is asking how is your mind today, did you manage to keep it, or did the below come above again? Adam can you keep your mind?

No person on earth can keep the mind, therefore, come to the cross.(Figure 12)

As we take thoughts captive daily we are honest with ourselves and allow the two edged sword to divide between spirit and flesh. We can at this stage identify what sin is! Sin is when the below comes above. When we have sinned, we go to the cross to crucify the sin, in Christ, and be saved from the effects of what sinful thoughts had on the condition of the heart or conscience. We go to the cross daily, to die in Christ and then rise in Christ. In this way our thought life is being dealt with to be transformed into the mind of Christ. As we are willing to die to the flesh, the effects the past has had on us will also be dealt with by Jesus, who is our Gardener. He will save us from the torment of the past that destroys us daily, and make us free. This is achieved by having a relationship with our Lord, who prepares us to go to the Father by the cross and blood.

The conscience must become clear, holy and compare to a pool of clear water after the rain. Clear and tranquil and reflecting the rain clouds and rainbow after the rain. If the tiniest leaf should fall onto the surface of the conscience, we should immediately be aware of it in order to discern between flesh and Spirit.

These studies were done in the sixth book ‘The Spiritual Sea’. Incredibly, the preachers of old, also spoke this language of parallels and this author found comfort in their work, which proved that he was not alone in his thinking.

F B Meyer:

“There is the mighty ocean of power all around us, but for some reason we cannot tap it. It is like the electric current, which refuses to help us unless we have instruments precisely adapted to transmit the driving-power. Faith is absolutely necessary for the conveyance of God’s power to meet the need and sin and sorrow of the world.”

The word ‘ocean’ is used in a spiritual sense, and should really have been the word “air”, for electricity is in the lightning, in the “air”. The word ‘lightning’ is a descriptive Hebrew translation for ‘light’. When God said: “let there be light” (Gen 1:3) it is also where the power is. When we give our hearts to God, light comes, and our sins are forgiven because of the work of the cross. We are now in the “air” in Christ and the POWER surrounds us, the heart is blood washed and in contact with the heart of God. Because our sins have been forgiven and the heart is pure we have faith. BUT! We lose this exalted position in Christ, when we become fleshly or carnal again.  If we do not guard the heart we become naked, naked to the sea.

Read the piece by Meyer again and you will see that he was thinking that faith alone can bring the vast ocean of power. But there can only be faith if the heart is pure. The subject of the Bible is the heart that must be kept. The word ‘keep’, is translated as ‘guard’.

Gen 2:15:  “…and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.”

Pro 4:23:  “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”

THE GARDEN AND SIN

This brings us to the garden which I believe is the heart, for the following reasons.

Physically we compare to the spiritual tree of Psalm 1. The tree is referring to a human being as a tree that is planted by waters, and will bring forth fruit, if it meditates the scriptures. The water is the word of God. We realize there are trees, but we are as a tree.

When I sketch a tree into the brain of a person, it looks like a tall tree. There are many scriptures to prove this. When we draw the leaves and branches of the tree into the brain it is a drawing of the basic nervous system. When we add all the nerves that are spread throughout the body, leading from out of the spinal cord, it looks like a tree with lots of roots. (Figure 13) Out of the brain comes the commands that are relayed by nerves to every part of the body.

I do not find it strange that the Egyptians believed the brain was to cool the blood down, for they were carnal in their thinking. The Hebrew people on the other hand were spiritual in their thoughts. Abraham for instance was looking for a city.

Heb 11:10:  “For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.”

Abraham was a man of faith. The God kind of faith can only come if the conscience is kept clear. He walked in a thought life that was above, while yet on earth. The Egyptians on the other hand were bringing the below into their above. Yet they were completely convinced that their Gods were superior to the Hebrew God, as many still think today.

Gen 26:5:  “Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

 Because he did this, God could bless him.

Gen 26:4:  “And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed…”

The seed of Abraham became carnal in their thinking because of their slave mentality.

The thought life of man is where God makes himself a dwelling, if the commandments are kept. Because the conscience is clear, he is capable of imagining, and bringing the good things, God has in mind for all mankind to earth. (Let thy will be done…)

When the thought life becomes fleshly the tops of the brain tree dies to the things of God as a physical tree would have died. The tree leaves die, where it is supposed to breathe the God “air”, and becomes perches for spiders and vultures. In this way principalities and powers of darkness lives in our high places, and cause strongholds. The thought life is fearful and full of carnality. When the tree no longer fully belongs to God the conscience is seared and nervous conditions take over in the thought life. Where there used to be rest and calm, reassurance that God is providing, the person becomes agitated, loses assertiveness, and all kinds of ailments appear. The blessing has departed and the curse has taken its place.

The curse is not because of a witches brew, it is the result of turning away from God and His law. The commission to Abraham was:

Gen 17:9:  “And God said to Abraham, As for you, you shall therefore keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.”

This word ‘keep’ is the same word (H8104) as Adam was told to keep the garden.

Gen 4:9:  “Cain replied “am I my brother’s keeper?””

As Christians we are to help each other keep the heart.

Gen 17:10:  “This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your posterity after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.”

To be physically circumcised was to cut the flesh, as we spiritually cut the flesh at the cross for the circumcision of the heart. In Gen 18:19 we find that if this covenant was kept, they would be blessed. Each time the blessing departed from Israel after this covenant, it was because they did not keep the heart. We give the heart to God at regeneration and are to keep it free from the flesh. It is however a full time occupation to keep the heart, as we can see in the following verse:

Gen 31:24:  “Then God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”

When we have been offended, as I am sure Laban must have been at this time, we must also consider the offence of Jacob at the same time. They both felt hurt, and this is when we lash out and offend and take offence, become emotional, and loose God’s blessings. This is why Laban was warned in the dream to say nothing, for he was in danger of losing God’s blessings, at the same time causing irreparable offence to Jacob. We say things hastily without getting counsel from God, and in this way loose the blessing. God requires a calm, peaceful, holy dwelling to live inside us. To take offence or cause offence is to block the blessing out.(Figure 14)

Pro 4:23:  “Keep (guard) thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”

We are to guard the heart for all things pertaining to life, flow forth from the heart.

Ps 119:2:  “Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.”

Once one has given the heart to God and learnt to guard it, blessings flow continually. FB Meyer explains this process in the following way:

 “Salvation has three stages. It begins with deliverance from the penalty of the past. Our sins are blotted out. The penalty is remitted or turned to benediction. (Blessings) Then we are saved lower down. The process of purification goes deeper and deeper into our nature. Finally, our body is renewed through the resurrection – grace of Christ. And surely there is a sense in which the grace of Christ will ever sink deeper, giving us a profounder realization and participation in the things that will open before us in the eternal progress.”

It is an ongoing process, we are naturally created in carnality, and I will prove it. If we ask any psychiatrist or brain scientist, where emotions live, they will tell you it is in the hypothalamus. Bible dictionaries say:  “the seat of emotions is the heart”. The center of man is the heart, but we are naturally fleshly and proud.(Figure 15).  We are naturally slaves to emotions as Israel was slaves to Pharaoh.

We are saved from slavery if we partake of the flesh of the Lamb, and if the blood is sprinkled, we will pass safely, on dry land through the “Red Sea”, to be prepared in the wilderness, to live in the Promised Land. This also entails the three-step process Meyer mentions above. As he says: “Then we are saved lower down, the process of sanctification goes deeper”. The word ‘flesh’ that is used here is the lower emotional condition of man. The flesh is death (Rom 8:6).

To be saved is not the problem; it is the wilderness that lay ahead. During the initial regeneration, lots of miracles and things happen, but when we go to the wilderness, those miracles are forgotten in the heat of the day. Even though God is still providing for us in the wilderness, by providing all we need. We still have shoes, clothes, shelter and food, but we allow fleshly worries and arrogance to convince us that God is not providing, while He actually is cutting the flesh and providing at the same time. However the requirement for God’s provision is faith. Only a pure heart generates faith. If the fleshly doubts enter, the conscience sears and the blessing departs. We are no better than those who criticized God during the wilderness ordeal.  We were also wandering around in the wilderness because we were in the flesh, while thinking we were above and open to the blessings. Naming and claiming, speaking God’s Word in the face of apparent defeat, yet the blessings did not abide. We find little bits of revelation and we soar for a while and then back into the wilderness. The mainspring is the heart, keep the heart! This is the only way to avoid the prolonged wilderness times. I remember a man who was sent from China to tell me that the Lord wishes that I prosper even as my soul prospers. The man looked past me and he said “you come out of the deep dry wilderness, but I don’t know why”.

My prayer is that the reader will understand why we spend so much time in the wilderness and not in the blessing. If it seems to you as if I keep saying the same thing over and over, it is because of my experience with groups in the cave. They nod their heads at all the right places and promise me they do understand, but they failed. This knowledge sounds easy, but it is hard to do. We naturally want to avoid the straight and narrow and then walk around the mountain one more time. By simply observing the parallels that are drawn throughout the Bible we can see that our spiritual growth, out of the fleshly into the spiritual, is the subject of the Bible.

Although we are saved by our Lord, He still has to deal with the way we thought before being saved. Because of our old thought life we still think carnally, and die in the wilderness, as that wilderness generation did. This death is the death of the conscience, the conscience is non life giving. It means that the Spirit through whom everything was created cannot bring forth life, for the flesh is ruling. This life is the power we have to change the atom through our thought life. Not only in our bodies but everything that surrounds us. The difference between the rich and the poor is the way they think. The slave mentality caused their death, even as Christians die today of every kind of sickness imaginable. I know what I’m talking about, for I was there in Egypt, I was saved as they were, but almost died in the wilderness. There was no one to help me. I heard that everybody thought they were Caleb and Joshua’s generation, but they were as fleshly as I was. I was taught that the law is a curse, and everything is grace, but I was still dying. I simply could not find out how to turn things around, until I found out that the “line” is the conscience. The man from Galilee walked on my stormy sea and He saved me! Then He taught me how not to sin.

After this He started dealing with the ship wrecks, most embarrassing moments and disappointments so I could heal. I needed healing, for the past was brewing up a great chaos up inside my deep and was beginning to kill me. He saved me, healed me, redeemed me and crowned me with loving kindness and tender mercies (Ps 103). Notice the three step process.

If we would meditate the word of God constantly, we will be able to teach our children the difference between flesh and spirit by example. These are the generations that will inherit the Promised Land.

THE HEART IS ALSO ZION

The place where children play is the imagination, it is where toys become real things, and children partake of the magical in their thoughts. The rainbow becomes the physical comparison to the mind that flies and goes into a different dimension without drugs. If only we could live this way always, if only we could “keep” our minds constantly. Well, this is the subject of the Bible. The imagination is where we receive inspiration to be creative in our particular field. Some religions are so busy being religious that the imagination is allowed no freedom. All creative abilities come out of the imagination. The outcome of the creative force in us will depend on what is in the imagination. What force is ruling in the citadel, is it from below or above? To be able to discern whether the heart is fleshly or spiritual is the constant quest of the believer. When the principles of the cross is applied; when we have died to self daily, and raised in Christ we are able to discern. When we are in the flesh, principalities, powers and rulers of darkness are ruling, and the decisions we make will end in chaos.

Col 2:10:  “And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power…”

If you have died with Him, now joined in Spirit to Him, we are to abide in him!

This is where the heart is circumcised (Col 2:11) and the heart is God’s dwelling, not that of the flesh.

This is the only way to find out whether thoughts or inspiration, that come to us, are from God or not. This is what is meant by, “the Devil appears as an angel of light”. In actual fact the inspiration came out of hell and will lead us on another useless circle through the wilderness. We have to deal with the “flesh” at the cross.

Jesse Penn Lewis : “The ‘flesh’ cannot be taken into Him. It must be cast of.  ‘For with Him you were buried in your baptism (into death) wherein you were also made partakers of His resurrection, through the faith wrought in you by God, who raised Him from the dead.

The severing work of the cross takes place as we abide in Him; the cutting of the ‘flesh’, even the casting off, of the whole body of the flesh takes place as we abide in Him. This circumcision is not done by human hands, for it is wrought by the Holy Ghost as the believer consents….It is the Spirit of God who baptizes us into Christ and gives the believer the power to cast off all the  “body of the flesh” and to carry this out in detail.”

It takes time to deal with the flesh, even under the guidance of the Gardener, some situations will seem as if they come out of hell, which is exactly where they come from, but it is for the sanctification of the saints. All work together for good, for the fires are melting and moulding us into pure gold, so that we may live according to God in the Spirit.

2 Cor 5:17:  “Whosoever, then, is in Christ, is a new creation; his old being has passed away, and behold, all has become new.”

We are going into the sphere of Christ, we leave outside the “old”. It is the Christ-mind we are being transformed into. We can discern by the Spirit, and live in the Spirit, no more mistakes; whatever happens to us, is from God.

Bad things do happen to Christians who are partaking of the “cutting”, for it is God’s way of dealing with the old creation and bringing us to the cross with preconceived religions and traditions. Most of us, simply will not listen to good advice, and have to spend time in the wilderness to learn, to hear the still small voice. This is the immature child who learns by chastisement.

2 Cor 5:1:  “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”

2 Cor 5:2:  “For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven.”

The kingdom of God belongs to children, and we are to seek the kingdom, then all will be added. In this same way Abraham was seeking for a city that God was the builder and architect of. This city is the “high’ city, the one Gal 4:25 speaks of as Jerusalem above.  Jerusalem below is slavery, carnal, but Jerusalem above is free.

Heb 12:22:  “But ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels…”

This city is the “highway”; it is where we are seated “above”, in Christ.  Joined to the risen One to be lifted up in the spirit, “far above all”, in Christ, however deeply it may have been “down”, under the bondage of the flesh, or mingled with the “life” of the old nature of the soul; “we are seated with Him in the heavens”. It helps me to imagine the glorious cloud formations and sunrise colours over the sea, it brings this above spiritual state of mind into perspective. The sea creatures that were previously only in the imaginations of artists are being found thousands of meters below in the deep. In the same way we are also discovering how we were ruled by the deep within. Compare this picture to the burst of light and splendour at sunrise (Figure 16).

Mal 4:2; (Ps 37:6 NIV):  “The one is below, the other above.”

The line between these two dimensions is the horizontal beam of the cross. “Finally…let your hearts be strengthened in the Lord, and the conquering power of His might…”

The cross beam is also representing the conscience or heart – “let your hearts be strengthened in the Lord…”  We are to “keep” the heart—but did not! Out of the deep the beast came and rules on our sea. The Lord Christ, Paul said in chapter one, is above the principalities and powers. He is not under them, and the believer is also seated with Him, “far above”. Now let us be strengthened in the Lord, be confident, be sure, know for certain the position of victory, and be strong in the conquering power of His might. If the reader can grasp who he is in Christ, he will live constantly in the victory of the cross. But to stay above is a lifelong task of constant self discipline, self control and study of who we are in Christ. The moment we think we have arrived, we fall short again.  For this reason, “put on the whole armour of God that you are able to stand”. But you were seated a moment ago! Yes, you cannot fight external foes if you have a conflict within! You must be ‘sitting down’ inside!

If you lose your inward peace, you are at the mercy of the devil.

To have the inner calm we must understand the armour, by placing the state of the conscience first. We go to the cross to have the conscience dealt with. We need the ‘pure heart’ in order that God may put us in our right place. When sins have been dealt with at the cross and the blood is sprinkled, we have died and risen in Christ, we are above in thanks giving, praise and worship and can ‘enter into’ the presence of our Father. When the conscience is clear, we are saved (helmet) we are the righteousness of God (breastplate) and so on …lastly the shield is biggest of all, and is Faith.

When the conscience is clear we have faith! We can go pray the prayer of faith! Because we have died, and then risen in Christ, we are in Christ.

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