A Peculiar People

CHAPTER 68

Yeshua teaches the Children of Light how to use many powerful herbs and minerals for healing and making potions. He also explains the consequences and benefits of how we dress, how we adorn ourselves, how long we wear our hair, and whether or not men have beards.

 1 And it came to pass that Yeshua remained among the Communities of Light for one moon and taught both his Apostles and all the Children of Light in the use of herbs and minerals.

 2 He explained the properties of 111 herbs and minerals and specifically how to use them with prudence for the healing of the body, to make potions, and for many other purposes.

 4 Many of the Children of Light were quite surprised to learn that plants and rocks that they walked by every day could be used as such powerful tools of light, when applied with understanding.

 5 But amongst the 111 herbs and minerals, which Yeshua taught to them that day, there were many that were rare and not to be found in the land of Galilee.

 6 To procure these uncommon plants and minerals, Yeshua charged Gurion of Ptolemais and Gimiel of Capharsalama to journey together to the north and south, and east and west, to obtain the items of which he taught that could not be found in Galilee or even Palestine.

 7 They were each given three gold coins and twenty of silver from the treasury of the communities to fulfill their callings and set out to do as Yeshua bid once he was finished with his teaching to the Children of Light. (Though they returned from time to time to the Communities of Light, ten moons passed before they had procured all that Yeshua had asked them to find.)

 8 Yeshua further instructed the Children of Light, concerning their dress and adornment, saying, “You have heard me say that it does not matter to Elohim how you choose to dress or adorn yourself or grow or cut your hair, save you do so with cleanliness and dignity, as is fitting of a temple of Elohim that you are.

 9 But you have also heard me say that it is both the inside and the outside of the cup that matters and not just one or the other. And though your choice of adornment is of no consequence to Elohim, it is of greater consequence to you than you have imagined.

 10 In the world, there are people who think that only the outside is important. They imagine that rich clothes make them like kings or that a beardless face shows that they are still young.

 11 Then there are those who do not care for the outside, and they often look and smell like a dung heap. They think only the deeper inner things of the spirit are important, so they disdain taking time to maintain the outside in cleanliness or beauty.

 12 But I say unto you unequivocally that a path that looks only at the outside or only at the inside is a path of little understanding in the Celestine Light. Verily, it is only a path that strives for the purity and cleanliness of both the inside and the outside that finds the greatest light.

 13 Therefore, take care to not be enticed by either a greater love for the inside or the outside, but to maintain both in a harmonious balance, for together they are your temple.

 14 When looking to the inside, see that you do not become overly pious. Do not think that in your devotions you are above another, but judge none and seek only to improve yourself. Others will emulate your example if they find it worthy.

 15 But when looking to the things of the outside, there are many more traps of which you must beware, for more than the inside, the outside calls to your vanities and entices you into the ways of the world.

 16 Not long ago, it was the fashion for both men and women to grease their hair and body with perfumed oil. Those who followed this fashion proclaimed the joy of covering the stink of their unwashed body by a perfume that attested to their personality and with heavy oil that gave them a gloss of sensuality and the slipperiness of a wet frog.

 17 And true enough, some women of Palestine would pass by veiled and covered from head to foot but of who it was that passed there was no doubt, for the heaviness of their distinctive perfume proclaimed them.

 18 The people of the world are like a flock of sheep who blindly follow the leader wherever they go. Therefore, when one who is admired or of elevated rank in society begins to apply perfumes and gloss themselves with oil, the rest of the sheep think that they must emulate this fashion that they too may be considered in a similar light of admiration.

 19 What of you, Children of Light? You are a divine priesthood, a peculiar people, a chosen generation, for you have a fullness of the Celestine Light of Elohim. Are you in the world but not of it, or have you followed after the fashions and styles of the world?

 20 Lest anyone is tempted to dress and adorn themselves in the ways of the world, let them ask themselves this question: Who am I trying to impress?

 21 For to dress and adorn as the world dresses and adorns in the passing moment of current fashion can only be meant to impress people of the world, as this has not been asked of you by Elohim.

 22 Then how is it that you can impress Elohim in the way that you dress and adorn yourself? Simply by honoring the creation and magnifying it.

 23 Consider that Elohim has already dressed and adorned you with the color of your skin, eyes, and hair, and the shape of your face and body.

 24 For most men, you have been given that as you mature, hair begins to grow on your face and for both men and women that the hair on your head does not cease to grow at any age, but does turn silver for many as the years pass.

 25 Therefore, consider that, for both men and women, your hair is one of the greatest adornments given to you by Elohim and a true reflection of your outward beauty if you care for that which you have been given.

 26 Does that mean that every man and woman should just let their hair grow unabated and unattended? Nay, it does not. To show love and honor for the outside of your temple, you must keep it clean and be creative with styles and adornment of both your hair and your beard, in ways of respect, even as a gardener weeds his garden and arranges it to best showcase the beauty of the flowers and herbs.

 27 Some of you have adopted the styles of the Romans and Greeks wherein men remove the hair from their face, with the pain of such action to ever remind them that they are taking away that which Elohim has given.

 28 Likewise, some cut the hair of their head very short, even to the point of bareness such as with slaves, for thus do some of the Romans, and it is the fashion, is it not?

 29 And the fashion today among Roman and Greek women is to remove all hair from the face and body except a shoulder crop on the head and then to draw on fake eyebrows to replace the real ones that were ripped out. Even many men are emulating this torturous style that requires plucking, burning, and caustic herbs.

 30 I am not here to reproach you. In truth, it is important for you to be pleased with your own appearance, and what you choose to do with your body hair is of little consequence to me or our Mother and Father in Heaven.

 31 Keep it or remove it as it makes you happy, as its main purpose is to alert you when bugs alight on your skin and to hold your scent. But the hair of your head and beard is another matter.

 32 If you remove your beard or cut off the hair of your head or if a woman shortens her hair substantially so it no longer falls at least below the blades of her shoulders, consider why you are making that choice and if in doing so you are showing the greatest honor to your creator and to the most glorious temple you have been given.

 33 If you are not doing it because it is the current fashion and are not doing it out of disrespect to Elohim, who created you and gave you hair that desires to grow long, but only because that choice of appearance makes you most humbly proud of who you are as a son or daughter of God, then Elohim will not look upon you with disfavor and neither should anyone else.

 34 I just ask for you to consider thoughtfully and prayerfully how you choose to create your appearance and how you adorn your body, and in this, I would give you some thoughts to ponder upon.

 35 Let us first consider the hair of your head. If never cut, for many it would be down below their waist and even to their knees before they died. So there is practicality in trimming it from time to time. But how much is a goodly amount and how much is excessive to the point that perhaps you are dishonoring Elohim the creator or injuring yourself in ways that you are unaware?

 36 I tell you with words of soberness that there is far more to this than the honoring of the creator.

 37 Remember the story of mighty Samson and how it was his hair that gave him strength? The Roman men cut their hair very short, and they think it makes them more fearsome and less like women who tend to have longer hair, but verily, I say unto you it is the opposite of what they suppose.

 38 Your hair is your crown; even for those men may who lose some of their hair as they age. Elohim would not have created you with endlessly growing hair unless there was a very important reason for it. And that reason is that your hair is a special reservoir of your Celestine power and mystical gifts as Children of Light.

 39 It is for this cause that women, more than men, more often exhibit the special gifts of the Children of Light, for it is they who tend to allow their hair to grow long and by that hold much power unto them, waiting to be called upon in time of need.

 40 Though men and women, who are Children of Light, may be of equal faith and love, the women will more often be able to manifest their mystical gifts because their long unblemished hair helps them to call upon their greatest potential and succeed where men fail.

 41 Of this, you have a great testimony in my wife Miriam. Many of you have witnessed, and others have heard of her great feats utilizing the sacred power of Celestine Light. Many assume it is because she has been so long with me, and there is truth in this. But no less is it because like Samson, she has never cut her hair, save to trim the ends. Nor has she ever poisoned it with caustic dyes or dyes of incongruent color or with suffocating or perfumed oils. And like Samson, her lustrous hair is a reservoir of power that has served her well.

 42 Nevertheless, it is among men, few though they are, that more often the greatest power in the gifts of the Children of Light can be seen, for they have the advantage of being able to grow hair not only from their head, but also from their face, perhaps a compensation for the hair they often lose on their head as they age.

 43 Let us now consider the coverings of poison that have been in fashion to put upon the hair. Of what use is a torch if it is covered? And of what use is a reservoir of power, even long hair, if it is suffocated beneath a heavy perfumed oil or altered from its natural color with an indigo or henna dye, changing it from the perfect form and color Elohim created just for you to maximize your ability to harmonize with your essence and call up the power of Celestine Light?

 44 Yet in the world both men and women cut their hair. Men remove the hair from their face; both use dyes to change their natural color or cover their hairs of silver and heavy oils to gloss them. Why? All this in the pursuit of false youthfulness that is more truly realized by good food and a brisk and physical life?

 45 And why does a man or woman that is married, as all are at a youthful age, have the need to look younger than they are? Will their husband or wife love them any less because they look their age? Are they afraid that their mate will look for someone younger if they do not look younger themselves? Or are they playing with fire and with adulterous thoughts trying to catch the attention of someone who is not their husband or wife?

 46 Even as Elohim created man and woman with hair that always grows, so too were they made that in their latter years for many, their hair may become tinged with silver and even all white. Again, other than from a vain desire to appear younger than their true years, why would a man or woman seek to counter that which Elohim has given to mark the span of years and maintain a harmony with your knowledge and experiences?

 47 Please understand clearly that retaining your natural hair color at every age supports the harmony of your essence and facilitates the calling forth of your Celestine powers.

 48 Only when your hair color results from disease or poor health is this not true. Then it is another issue that must be first addressed, not with dyes, but with healing and wholeness.

 49 In truth, most people who become silver-haired do so years prematurely because of their incorrect diet. Instead of eating foods filled with life, they eat foods full of death. Because of this, their hair turns silver before its time, and they die many years before their time.

 50 If without vanity and with harmony, you simply do not desire silver hair, then eat the herbs and foods I have told you, and for most, your hair will retain its natural color until the day you die and return to its former glory if the silver has already appeared.

 51 But for some, even with all this, silver hair will still arrive. If it does, realize it offers you greater power if you embrace it because it is has been given to you by Elohim to most purely harmonize with your essence.

 52 If your diet does not maintain the color of your hair of youth and for your self-esteem you still cringe to see the silver, then cover it only with gentle natural herbs and only in your natural color; else, you create a significant disharmony in your aura that cannot be overcome in ways other than returning your hair to its natural color.

 53 “I have spoken at length about hair, which to many would seem a trivial subject, inconsequential to spirituality. But among you, the Children of Light, I hope you now understand that the condition of the hair of your head is of great consequence, for it is one of your most important reservoirs of power and you will never be able to become master Adepts of all the secrets of Celestine Light that could be yours if you cut and treat your hair and beards as poorly as do the people of the world.

 54 How is it that hair is such a reservoir? Verily, it is the record keeper of the aeon of every experience of your life. Your hair grows about the width of a fingernail each moon, more if it is very healthy from a good diet and not being attacked with heavy oils and caustic dyes.

 55 That fingernail of growth has aurically stored all of the experiences, both good and bad, that you have had during that moon. Those experiences remain an energy within you, no less powerful than when you experienced them.

 56 Your mind may remember the events, but your hair remembers the energy, if it has not been poisoned by heavy perfumed oils or caustic or incongruent dyes.

 57 Whether your experiences were good or bad is irrelevant once you understand the secrets of how to use the aeon stored in your hair and harness it to help empower your special gifts.

 58 Even anger has a beneficial power if it is righteous, and even that which hurt you in the past can be called upon and aided by the energy stored in your hair, to help you in the present.

 59 There are several things which contribute to your ability to use your gifts. Chief among these are faith and love, but also important are knowledge, courage, self-confidence, tools that magnify and focus, and a reservoir of power in your temple to call upon. A wise Child of Light will seek after all of these things.

 60 Now I would also speak to you somewhat about your adornment and dress. Be not gaudy such as harlots of the world, but neither absent of adornment such as the zealots.

 61 Would you build a temple to Elohim out of stone and then put no further adornments upon it to beautify it and make it special and unique? No, instead you would build it of the finest stone and then enhance its appearance with gold and gems and fine woods and carvings placed with elegance and dignity.

 62 All throughout the temple you built to Elohim, you would inscribe the sacred symbols of power, unknown to the world but given to the Children of Light.

 63 As you would do this for a temple of stone built to Elohim, should you do any less with the temple that you are, which Elohim has created for your glory and exaltation? In no way should you appear like the people of the world in your clothing and adornment. I tell you plainly that you should not look like them. Again, I speak not of gaudiness or extravagance or garishness, but of color, quality, uniqueness, and style.

 64 Adorn yourselves not with copper or silver, for their usefulness in calling the Celestine Light is not so great, but only with gold, even if it is only threads woven into your garments, for this is the metal through which the powers of the Celestine Light easily flow.

 65 In the stones that you choose to wear in your rings and pendants and other adornments, abandon the glass trinkets of the world and choose only those stones of power which I have taught you, that you may always have near-at-hand tools to aid you in the use of your special gifts of the Celestine Light.

 66 If you fashion jewelry of gold, let it contain some of the secret symbols of power. Others may be intrigued by them, but only a true Child of Light steeped in knowledge will know their meaning and how to use them.

 67 In your clothing, please do not wear drab colors like the people of the world, for the colors of their clothes are a reflection of their conformity to the fashion of the day or to the poor state of their spirit.

 68 Rather, choose to wear bright and cheerful colors, even if only accents upon a predominance of white, that you will draw to you aeons of the same. In this, be not gaudy, for you are not court entertainers, but in all things show the class of Celestines, for more noble than kings and queens you are.”

 69 Then Yeshua begin to teach the Children of Light many of the secrets of which he had spoken that they knew not, including further enlightenment upon sacred symbols, and how to use tools of focus and gold and gemstones and the formulas for many healing elixirs and potions of power.

 70 These things cannot be written, but only spoken of in secret among the Children of Light, for Yeshua commanded those of the light not to cast their pearls before swine or reveal the sacred mysteries of Elohim to the world, which could comprehend their divine purposes not at all.

 71 As he has spoken, so shall it forever be.