I also taken a year to garner some distance from what were some difficult times while in Jerusalem. A large part of my spiritual self is closely aligned with traditional Christian figures, Jesus or Yeshua, John the Beloved, Mary Magdalene, Mother Mary, etc. Even as a child I was often transported into a mystical reverie when in a church or other holy place. I never pursued a Christian church going life as that kind of religious expression never was my cup of tea. That disposition coupled with my rebellious nature has made it seem more like these Christian Beings chose to visit me much more than I went looking for them. Needless to say, my form of Christianity (if you could can call me one) is no where near main stream and not even anywhere near Liberal Christianity, Wu-Wu Christianity is more like it. So when I realized I had been guided to join a Bible-Thumping, Rapture-Awaiting, Apocalyptical, Christian-Zionist, Fundamentalist Church in the Middle East I was a bit uncertain. As it worked out I was to be a guest house volunteer for 6 months in exchange for room and board within the compound of the only Protestant church, Christ Church in the Old City of Jerusalem. I had trepidations, but I knew I could handle it…. till I was emerged and up to my eye balls in dirty dishes, mops, prayer meetings, and loneliness.
Christ Church, Old City Jerusalem
Christ Church - Part 1
Christ Church has a fascinating history. It sits on a piece of property on the highest elevation within the walled Old City and had once been the site of Herod's palace. The property was acquired in the early 1800's by a British socially elite group of highly political and connected evangelicals called The London Jews Society (LJS) now called CMJ or Christian Ministry to the Jews. LJS's mandate went hand in hand with British national objectives to establish a religiously Protestant and militarily British outpost in the Middle East to offset French, Ottoman/Muslim and Eastern Orthodox Christian superiority in the region. LJS was successful and the compound served as the British Consulate to the outbreak of the First World War. An interesting side note is that Jerusalem in the 1800's was part of the Ottoman-Turk Empire and much to LJS's frustration Christian churches were not allowed to be built on Muslim land. Hence the church was quasi-illegally built under the loop-hole of it being labeled a hospital chapel. Christ Church is proud of their history and have a museum within the compound called The Heritage Center. Another interesting tid-bit is that in the dining room are numerous historical photographs, the largest photo of one person being of Baron Edmond Rothschild… an interesting and revealing tie for a Fundamentalist Church.
My Journey Part - 1
I travel back to the time just prior to my departure to Jerusalem. I had left home, career and gone through all my savings, yet knew my pilgrimage was not over and had no idea when if ever it would be. I was living in Santa Fe, New Mexico and doing what ever "odd" jobs (pun intended) I could to scrape money together. I was baby sitting and taking care of the elderly, I joked with my friends that they better not get too close to me or I just might diaper them! When I wasn't working my Wu-Wu life continued to thrive and I was psychically visited by a new group of Beings who introduced themselves as Earth Priests. They claimed to live under the surface of the earth and said they were responsible for guarding an energetic grid and tunnel network associated with Gaia's ascension. They more specifically referred to themselves as the guardians of the local beneath Jerusalem. Their intention in contacting me was to prepare my energetic field for the work I was to do there. What work, I did not know, and it has taken me over a year to fully comprehend some of what I was doing during those first 6 months of 2012.
While I was raised Episcopalian (an version of Anglicanism), and had a profound psychic connection to Jesus (or Yeshua as I called him), I really had no idea of the theology of the specific Anglican group I was to be a member of. I have spent my adult life in and around New York City and the closest I had gotten to hard-line fundamentalism were militant vegans. My colleagues at Christ Church were preparing for the Rapture. As standard routine we attended daily charismatic prayer meetings and were asked to share our personal testimonials as to how we met Jesus. (I wanted to ask if channeling Mary Magdalene held me in good stead, but decided against it.) I don't mean to be too cynical but my private incredulousness, (and to be fair most people would view my Wu-Wu life with more than a bit of incredulousness) was often what kept me going during the day.
The dirty dishes piled up with amazing speed in the dining room at Christ Church. More frusterating still nothing much spiritually exciting was taking place... I mean there were the events I blogged about but all in all, not many psychic fireworks, had I come all this way for some seriously chapped hands? By the time I was two months in I was lonely and more than a little irritable. Often during my daily break I would walk down the lane and out the Zion Gate onto Mount Zion. Here I was introduced to the Hagia Maria Sion Abbey of the Virgin Mary.
Hagia Maria Sion Abbey of the
Virgin Mary
Underground Crypt dedicated to the Feminine
Under the main church is a stunning crypt built in homage to the feminine. In an environment as energetically hard as Israel, this crypt was a welcome refuge. Within this underground sanctuary I found a side niche that had for me the strongest energy I had experienced in Jerusalem. It became clear to me that the mosaic above the niche's altar contained a psychic portal through which the Ascended Master Melchizedek moved. Melchezidek often visited me there and and when I found myself alone in the crypt I would channel him.
Side Niche in the Crypt
Christ Church - Part - 2
The theology at Christ Church is eschatological and can best be summed up thus:
1-The forming of the State of Israel and the subsequent "ingathering" of Jews is understood to be a prerequisite for the Second Coming of Jesus.
2-Their belief that because of the Jews' rejection of Jesus, Jewish sovereignty over the promised earthly kingdom of Jerusalem and Palestine was postponed from the time of Christ's first coming until prior to or just after his Second Coming when most or all Jews will embrace him.
3- There will be a "rapture" of the Gentile church followed by a "great tribulation" of seven (or three-and-a-half) years' duration during which Antichrist will arise and Armageddon will occur.
4- Then Jesus will return visibly to earth and re-establish the nation of Israel.
5- The Jewish temple will be rebuilt in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount, possibly in place of the Muslim Dome of the Rock.
6- Christ and the people of Israel will reign in Jerusalem for a thousand years, followed by a "Last Judgement" and and a new heaven and new earth….
I said, "Wowzers!"… pretty heady stuff, it took me awhile to get my head around all of this, but it was absolutely fascinating. The most significant part of what I just laid out is held in number 5- Christ Church's belief that the Jewish temple will be rebuilt in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount, possibly in place of the Muslim Dome of the Rock. As the site of Mohammad's ascension to heaven, The Dome of the Rock is a holy, holy place in Islam second only to Mecca. I found myself wondering what were Christ Church's intentions?
My journey Part - 2
During this musing there was no abatement in the pile of dirty dishes in the dining room. I continued to get more depressed and irritable as I awaited "something Wu-Wu" to happen that would make sense as to why I had been called to this fundamentalist enclave. I was being somewhat spiritually nourished by a repeated visits to the crypt and a number of other power spots in the Old City. One of theses locals in the center on the Old City was on a roof top where the four quadrants of the Old City meet; Armenian, Christian, Muslim and Jewish. From this perch I had a visual line of site in a roughly due east direction of the three pinnacles of The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, The Dome of The Rock and just outside the Old Cities walls on the Mount of Olives the gold gilded turrets of The Church of Mary Magdalene.
Looking West - From the Mount of Olives; The Dome of the Rock with the Church of the Holy Sepulcher behind it
Looking East from the roof top - The Dome of the Rock with The Church of Mary Magdalene behind it
During these visits to the roof top I was repeatedly asked psychically to energetically connect these three spires.
As the weeks went by I became acquainted with my fellow volunteers and with the staff at Christ Church. From them I began to understand the ways Christ Church planned to participate in "The End Times". I learned that early on during construction on the compound a Herodian Tunnel had been discovered beneath the property, where the tunnel leads and what state it is in is a closely held secret by Christ Church. In their keen interest in discovering more about the underground tunnel system considerable amount of money had been spent in the procurement and transportation to the Heritage Center of various large models built in the early 1800's by the premier architect of the time Conrad Schick and others. The knowledge that is not made public is that the tunnel leads directly to The Temple Mount. In light of "The End Times" scenario as understood by Christ Church the significance of such a tunnel is huge.
Temple Mount Model with removable sections showing the underground systems below
In addition to these discoveries I was also beginning to have some understanding of the dullness and heaviness I was experiencing. I dawned on me that I was truly living the Middle East… I was, like so many other souls dependent upon for basic food and shelter and living within a fundamentalist religious sub-group. I dare not speak my own thoughts, my own truth, my own feelings for I would surely be asked to leave and rightfully so. The only difference between me and the other many souls in this predicament was that I had chosen to be where I was. I finally realized I was meant to struggle through this particular kind of isolation for the work I had come to do could not be done in the role of spiritual tourist but needed to be done from within the spiritual/emotional/political structure of Jerusalem itself.
The understanding of the cause of the lethargy allowed some shifts in my thought process. I at last remembered the visitations in Santa Fe by the Beings who called themselves Earth Priests and their specific role as guardians of the tunnels and grid systems beneath Jerusalem….Ahhh, Ummm, Oops, I had forgotten about them.
It was after this revelation that a fellow Wu-Wu compadre showed up for a weeks stay in the guest house at Christ Church. She coincidentally had been called to energetically connect all the churches in the Old City. At last, I made a friend in whom I could reveal my own understanding of Christ Church, the Earth Priests and the tunnel. It was early April and as the Universe would have it that week was Passover. Christ Church was having a large Christian version of the traditional Jewish Seder meal for all staff and guests. I was on the kitchen crew that evening and as fate would have it when it came time to all sit down for dinner the staff table was full. A guest at the head table saw my plight and motioned for me to sit at the other end of the table, directly across from the head reverend who would be performing the Seder. My friend sat in the exact same position at the table next to me. It was clear that this energetic alignment was no coincidence. I understood that during the Seder when all guests and staff were involved in religious ceremony I was to excuse myself, return to the kitchen, grab a flashlight and approach the barred entrance to the tunnel. What I would do there I did not know.
All went as I had envisioned and as I approached the entrance to the tunnel I began to move into an altered state. My body began to shake as I felt like something deep from within that was about to be released. I allowed myself to vocalize this sensation and the most amazing tones began to issue forth from my shaking body. These sounds penetrated deep into the tunnel, for how long I do not know. When whatever force was using my body to sound these tones was complete I returned to my shaky senses and returned to the dining room as the Passover Seder meal was finished.
My Journey Part - 3
My Israeli visa expired in early June and April was coming to a close. I still had no idea of where I would be heading next. I had no plan what so ever and as much as I had come to trust the process I was in I was beginning to feel more than a little panicky. As much as I had placed my entire life in the hands of this process I still often wondered if any of this malarkey was real… where was the guidance I needed to foresee my next phase and place of residence? I as I am known to do from time to time in meditation I fumed at the Beings who had been guiding my pilgrimage. I actually was in a quite a spiritual crisis, terrified that I had given up so much for what, chapped hands? What was any of this for anyway? What was I doing here? It was while in this vulnerable state at my spot in Hagia Maria Sion Abbey of the Virgin Mary underground crypt while ranting at and pleading with Jesus and Melchizedek that I noticed something.
On the altar before me sat a golden tabernacle which had been there during all my meditations, what I had never noticed was that here was writing at the base of it. This distraction from my trauma allowed me to take in just what it said, "Jues sacerdos in aeternum secundum ordinem Melchisedech" which is Latin for "Jesus a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedeck". Okay, I felt a little better.
My Journey Part - 4
A number of weeks later (and quite another story) I found myself back in Manhattan where this pilgrimage all started. I wanted to write this piece because a connection dawned on me that I been working with the Earth Priests to open up under and above the Old City of Jerusalem a series energetic systems originating from the Melchizedek portal in the underground crypt dedicated to the sacred feminine outside the Old Cities walls on Mount Zion to an underground tunnel on the site of the Herod's Palace which became the British Consulate. This system then connects via the tunnel at Christ Church to the Temple Mount. Upon reaching the Temple Mount the pathway connects to the linkages I had made from the four quadrants roof top site, energetically connecting to The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, The Temple Mount and out of the Old City walls to rejoin the sacred feminine at The Church of Mary Magdalene on the Mount of Olives.
Gaia is ascending and we are a part of her. We are joined by numerous other Beings during this time of planetary awakening. Part of our work is to open up closed, dark, constricted energy fields around the planet facilitating and easing the release of the fear grids that have held rigid paradigms of strife in powerful spiritual epicenters like Jerusalem. Not only are we learning how to work with these energies, we becoming aware that it is precisely our 3rd dimensional selves that master these energies thus transformming our 3rd dimensional reality into an ascended state.
