Jesus is performing healing miracles through Torbi el Mekki in Morocco

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In a small village called Skhirat, 30km south of the Moroccan capital, Rabat, Torbi el Mekki is healing people with AIDS and cancer. Share International Magazine has confirmed that the miracles are genuine and that it is Jesus who is working through him. Pictures of Torbi el Mekki at work healing can be seen here, here and here.

He can cure any disease, and refuses to accept money from anyone. He simply shakes the hands of the pilgrims coming for cures, touches the water bottle or bag of sugar they have brought to be blessed, and dismisses them. "God gave me this talent so I have to use it. Even some doctors have come to see me and you will see cases of people who have been cured. There was a man with cancer that came all the way from France and now he is cured." At this point it is not known whether Torbi el Mekki has cured people with Morgellons Disease. Thousands make the journey to Skhirat every day to see Father Mekki. As well as performing healing miracles through people like Torbi el Mekki, Jesus is understood to be active in directing healing energies through physical artefacts such as The Den Bosch Madonna in The Netherlands. And in recent years many photographs of light blessings from Jesus have been recorded around the world.

Sources: BBC News (London, UK) 07.02.07 and Share International Magazine - April 2007 - Signs of the time section (down page).


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On the afternoon of the 20th March 2006, Jesus took the form of a hitchhiker and was given a lift in the car of TF, a resident of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He was driving from Tolmin to Ljubljana. Jesus had brown hair, a beard, shining pale blue eyes, and emanated a pleasant smell of burnt wood. During the conversation in the car, Jesus commented on the war in Iraq, saying that it was absurd that the USA was sending its children to die there for the sake of oil. He said that the main motivation for the Iraq war was to prevent a stockmarket crash. The manufactured conflict helped the USA war industry and in this way also the USA economy, which would otherwise collapse. Jesus said that the long-anticipated American economic collapse had been about to happen before the Iraq war.

TF, the driver, commented that the stockmarket system had changed the world into a global casino. Jesus agreed and said that the system is very unjust and that the lack of justice is the main problem in the world today. So many people work so hard and gain so little, while others can be immensely rich, without contributing anything to the community. He pointed out that this problem can only be solved by justice and sharing. According to Jesus, the world stockmarkets are due to crash soon, in spite of the efforts of a group of very skilful and intelligent men who have managed to keep them going with their political and business tricks.
Source: Share International Magazine (Letters to the editor) January/February 2007

The preceding story from Slovenia in March 2006 has a clear spiritual connection with another story recorded in Liverpool (UK) in February 2007. Crowds were drawn to the Liverpool Academy of Arts (UK) to view a statue that was emitting a strange paranormal energy. It was a steel and bronze depiction on fibreglass entitled the ‘Cleansing of the Temple’ (detail shown here). A larger and better image can be viewed by following the 'Cleansing of the Temple' link on this page here.

The artwork, by atheistic sculptor Brian Burgess, portrays an angry Jesus, brandishing a whip in his right hand and a broken chair in his left hand. He is about to drive the moneylenders from the Jerusalem Temple in the first century CE. There are dice, playing cards, coins, treasury notes and collection plates in the background. Two screaming capitalists with their hands in the air protest at Jesus' interference in their business.

Brian Burgess' image derives from biblical stories in the New Testament Gospels (Matthew 21:12-13, Mark 11:15-17, Luke 19:45-46 and John 2:15).

Visitors claim that the artwork has miraculous powers, is shooting sparks from its eyes in a directed manner, and is engendering trance or meditation states in some viewers who report experiencing a new and vital connection with God.

Sources: The Liverpool Daily Post (UK) 13.02.07 here and here.

Late note: Share International Magazine (March 2007), in its Signs section, has confirmed that this miracle was manifested by Maitreya, the World Teacher. Maitreya is known as "Christ" in church mythology. He used this particular statue to underline the symbolism of his work in encouraging humanity to turn away from gross materialism and towards a system of sharing and justice for all. Maitreya, who is now based in London (UK), works closely with Jesus, who is now based just outside Rome (Italy).

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Some miracle healing sites are genuine, but forgotten. Others are known locally, but remain unremarked further afield. This page deals with two of these quiet, powerful places; one in The Netherlands (Europe) and one in Ethiopia (Africa).

The two healing conduits are located in Christian churches. Both are high-energy sacred sites through which potent and positive spiritual energies are deliberately poured for the healing of mankind. They channel healing energies directly from the Ascended Master Jesus. Both places are as potent now as they have ever been. And some say that in the run-up to 2012, each of them is likely to become more powerful than ever before.


The Den Bosch Madonna in The Netherlands
In The Netherlands, close to the border with Belgium, is the city of Den Bosch ('s-Hertogenbosch), Noord Brabant. It is an old Dutch walled town which was the birthplace of the artist Hieronymus Bosch. The thirteenth century Roman Catholic Cathedral of St John, is currently under extensive repair due to the erosion of its external masonry by acid rain. But inside there is an undamaged artefact of extraordinary miraculous power. It is called The Den Bosch Madonna and is a small wooden statue of the Madonna and child which dates back to the 12th or 13th century.

According to legend, when two labourers in the 13th century were instructed to throw the statue in the fire they found it was too heavy to lift. After the bishop decided that the statue's temporary unnatural weight must be a miracle, the Den Bosch Madonna was credited with many miraculous healings of people over the course of the next two or three centuries who came to the statue to pray. These miracles were recorded in a book which is still on display in the cathedral. The wall of the chapel where the statue is located is covered with small silver representations of limbs as tokens of gratitude to the Madonna.

The Den Bosch Madonna has been energised by the Ascended Master Jesus for centuries. In earlier Western incarnations as he was known as Jesus of Nazareth and as Apollonius of Tyana. It was Jesus, working from the spiritual planes, who prevented the removal and destruction of the artefact in the thirteenth century. And it was Jesus who was responsible for all the miraculous healings which have taken place around the artefact over the centuries. These healings are expected to increase in number and in potency over the next few years.

But if you go to see the Den Bosch Madonna, be certain to take a camera with you. Some of the energy-miracles which happen around it are only revealed on photographs. And in certain situations of need and faith, a photograph of a miracle-mediating artefact - or a photograph of the church in which it is housed - can be just as efficacious as the artefact itself.

More Den Bosch Madonna pictures are here, here and here. And further pictures of the Cathedral of St John in Den Bosch can be seen here, here, here, here and here.

Source: Share International Magazine downpage here (January/February 2007).


The Entoto Mariam Church in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, it is not a statue which is the conduit of healing energies from Jesus; it is the local water used in a church. The Entoto Mariam Church is an octagonal Ethiopian Orthodox Church, also known as the Entoto Maryam Church or as the Church N’toto Maria. Situated on the dry, round top of Entoto Mountain in the hilly outskirts of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, the Entoto Mariam Church is close to a well-visited panoramic viewing point. A picture of the church seen from a distance is here. And a closer shot is here.

In November 1889, Menelik II, the founder of modern Ethiopia who had defeated Italian invaders at the battle of Adwa, was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in this church. Menelik set up his new Ethiopian national capital, Addis Ababa, close by. Behind the church compound stands the Emperor’s palace. At the entrance of the church is a museum, housing a number of artefacts and clothes belonging to the Emperors and Empresses of Ethiopia. In the church compound there is a mausoleum enclosing the marble tomb of Emperor Menelik II, with his wife Taitu and their daughter Zawditu. But to visiting Western eyes, the whole site seems strangely neglected and remote. The modern city of Addis Ababa is now a bumpy taxi ride away, lower down the hill.

The Entoto Mariam Church is regularly full to overflowing with visitors and worshippers seeking healing. Most of them walk to the church on foot from the city centre. The Ascended Master Jesus has, for years, magnetised the water in the church with powerful healing energies.

More pictures of the Entoto Mariam Church in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, can be found here, here, here, here, here and here.

Source: Share International Magazine downpage here (October 2009).


Biographical note about the Ascended Master Jesus
The Ascended Master commonly known in the West as Jesus is also known on the spiritual planes (the inner planes) as Sananda. In his Palestinian incarnation (24BC – 9AD) he was known locally as Joshua Ben Pandira. He was an active Essene mystic in a progressive Jewish tradition of the time. Modern Western culture refers to him as Jesus of Nazareth. In 16AD he took another physical incarnation known to history as Apollonius of Tyana. A few centuries later, working from the spiritual planes, he gave the Prophet Muhammad the original text of The Holy Qur'an and taught the Prophet during his night journeys to the Holy Land. On the 13th April 1952, speaking to a meditation group in Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA), Jesus said: "And soon will come the time when the light which I pour forth to individuals in response to their calls to me can be easily photographed, even by that mechanical perfection to which you have attained thus far." Several examples of these photographs have been linked from a separate page here. Jesus is currently very active in Morocco working through a local miracle healer called Torbi el Mekki. More about Ascended Masters and the Higher Evolution can be found here.



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Turkey murders another Armenian

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Ogun Samast, a seventeen-year-old Turkish youth, has confessed to the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink (53). Ogun Samast was identified by his father from CCTV footage. He killed Hrant Dink with a shotgun outside his Sisli (Istanbul) office on Friday 19th January 2007.

Between 1915 and 1917, during the final days of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish forces were responsible for the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians. As Christians, the Armenians were viewed as infidels by the tribal Muslim majority. The genocide was an organised campaign of state-sponsored ethnic cleansing and mass extermination.

The current Turkish government is trying to hush up this war crime as it attempts to qualify for entry to The European Union. Genocide denial is a mainline political policy in modern Turkey. Hrant Dink challenged this in Agos, the bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly newspaper which he edited. In Turkey it is against the law to talk openly about The Armenian Genocide.

In his last newspaper column before his death, Dink said that he had received numerous death threats against him. He was given no security protection by the Turkish authorities despite his complaints.

Notwithstanding public pronouncements to the contrary, the Turkish Government is privately very pleased to see Hrant Dink dead.

Because of the increasing influence of the online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia, as a source of reliable non-partisan information, it has come to the attention of the Turkish authorities. The Wikipedia page on The Armenian Genocide here has had to be locked. There are suggestions that Turkish Government disinformation agents have been making attempts to edit the emphasis of the Wikipedia page and subvert its content.

Speaking in Diyarbakir (Eastern Anatolia, Turkey) on the 21st January 2007, Sevket Kazan, the Deputy Leader of the Saadet Party of Turkey, argued that the CIA and Mossad planned and organised the murder of Hrant Dink. “Boys were used in the Trabazon and Sisli attacks and murders, but the real murderers are the CIA and Mossad …. Hrant Dink is a victim of an assassination. The priest murder in Trabazon and the Dink Murder, both were committed by boys under 18 years old... The CIA and Mossad are behind all these murders, yet they use domestic tools for the crimes. Their main aim is to destabilise Turkey." Sevket Kazan's mention of Trabazon was a back-reference to The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoon row. On Sunday 5th February 2006, a Roman Catholic priest, Father Andrea Santoro (60) was shot in the back as he knelt to pray in his church in Trabazon (Turkey). His murderer was a sixteen-year-old boy.

Sources: The Guardian (London, UK) 20.01.07, BBC News (London, UK) 21.01.07, The Independent (London, UK) 20.01.07 and the Turkish Weekly (Ankara, Turkey) 21.01.07. See also: "Ultimate Crime, Ultimate Challenge" by Vartan Oskanian, The Zoryan Institute, Armeniapedia and Panarmenian.net.

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A long slow lunch
With like-minded friends
In misty mid-winter
At the Queens Head Inn
In Icklesham,
East Sussex,
Is a required tonic
Before strolling wistfully
Over the Brede valley downland
To the ancient medieval hill towns
Of Winchelsea and Rye.

This is Old England
At its best.

There are ghosts hereabouts
And the memories of ghosts.

Creep into
The thirteenth century
Rib-vaulted cellar
Beneath The New Inn
In Winchelsea
And listen,
But do not extinguish your candle
And do not go there after dark:
The smugglers will have you still.

The liquid treasure
Of Gascony
Still lubricates life
On the other side.

And then on
Past lonely Camber Castle
To Rye
And The Mermaid Inn
Rebuilt in 1420.

Those who remember
Still talk in the tea shops
About what happened here
In 1377
And spit, politely,
At the French.

In this part of the world,
It is only the present
Which seems unreal.


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Traditional school carol service

Things got off to a bad start
During the procession
Down the nave isle
Of the old medieval church.

The Head Teacher
Dropped dead.

Because he was dressed
As Father Christmas,
And had a pair of plastic
Reindeer horns
Sellotaped to his zimmer frame,
Everyone thought
He was messing about.

But it was a real
And gigantic
Heart attack,
Brought on
By the intolerable stress
Of the previous night's
Governors' meeting
And the challenging fit
Of his bright red trousers.

The Vicar,
Fully vested
As the Sugarplum Fairy
(He was an Anglo-Catholic),
Surveyed the untimely sacrifice
And insisted
That the show should go on:
That is what Jesus would have wanted.

So the rapidly cooling body
Of the Head Teacher
Was discreetly removed
To a chest deepfreeze
In the vestry,
And the procession continued.

What happened next
Was harder to explain.

The vicar was turned into stone.

This was achieved
By a petrifying force
Of considerable potency
Emanating from the direction
Of the Lady Chapel.

When an Anglo-Catholic vicar,
Dressed as the Sugarplum Fairy,
Is turned into stone,
In the middle of a procession
Down the nave isle
Of a Christmas carol service church
With a packed congregation,
And the organ roaring,
The effect is not inconsiderable.

As in life, so in death:
He could not be shifted.

Elephant chains were procured,
Royal Engineers' lifting gear
Was deployed,
But the stone statue
Of the vicar
Was unmoved and unmoving.

So the procession
Had to squeeze past him
As if nothing
Had happened.

You can still see
The stone statue there today.

Sir Nikolas Pevsner
Describes it as
An eccentric piece,
Well-executed in the
Arts-and-Crafts fashion,
Displaying
Skilfully rendered drapery,
But unfortunately located.

The procession reached the sanctuary
Without further difficulty,
Except that one of Hannibal's elephants
Was sick on the communion rail
And his trunk fell off.

Worse things happened
During the Second Punic War.

The church now
Subsided into respectful silence
For the solo singing
Of the first verse of
Once in Royal David's City.

The familiar words
Piped out into
The candlelit church:

Once in royal David's city
Stood a lowly cattle shed,
Where a mother laid her baby
In an egg box, not a bed:
Mary was that mother mild,
Donald Duck her little child.


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Yoda senses a disturbance
in The Force.
On Planet Earth
another animal
has been needlessly
butchered
for human food.

***

Yoda has taught
many young Jedis
in his time,
but he knows that
teaching is not something
you do to pupils;
teaching is something you are.

***

Yoda is aware that
7.6 million British women
own more than sixteen
pairs of shoes each,
yet still The Force remains strong
within him.

***
Yoda thinks that astrology
will be better understood
on Planet Earth
when human science becomes
a little more mature.

***

Yoda trusts his own anger;
he has a second cup of tea
with Saruman the White.

***

Gungans are not
intellectuals.
Yoda knows this
but stays positive.

***

On Christmas Eve,
when Yoda encounters
a fresh slice of
hot buttered toast,
his light sabre glows blue.
But he does not eat it.
Even a Jedi Master
cannot easily digest
a light sabre.

***

In The Adam and Eve pub,
in Bishopgate, Norwich (UK),
Yoda, Albus Dumbledore
and Gandalf the Grey
occasionally enjoy a game
of three-sided chess.
But they take care
to leave the pawns untouched.
***

The thing about Yoda
is that
Yoda doesn't blog.

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Yoda doesn't eat chocolate;
he wills the chocolate
to be eaten by others.

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Yoda understands himself;
he knows about
the internal architecture
of being.

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Yoda is everywhere;
he is everywhere
all at once,
except you don't notice.

***

Think quantum transdimensionality
and you think Yoda.
But you don't touch Yoda
with your thought;
Yoda touches you with his.

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Yoda's ears are chimerical;
they look as if
they're listening.
But actually
his ears
are looking.
They are looking elsewhere.


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Kristianne Wych
Had a very conventional
Western upbringing:
Bratz,
School uniform,
W.I.T.C.H.,
Project on the Victorians,
21st Century Goddess,
iPod,
Harry Potter,
Detention for too much makeup,
Phillip Pullman,
Bliss mag,
Finger vibe,
Right-on evanjelly church,
Furry handcuffs,
Shouty gurl bandz,
Twilight,
Equitation,
Yoga,
Detention for no bra,
Diary of Anne Frank,
Gay PHSE,
Webcam,
Ballet,
Detention for flashing teapot lids,
David Copperfield,
Shopping,
Gated for tongue stud,
Dangers of fast food,
Day trip to Calais,
Coral pink toenails,
William Blake,
Gurly sleepovers,
Alton Towers,
Nail bars,
Netball Club,
Two detentions for tongue
In Matty Smith's ear,
Yay!
No surrender,
It was only one tongue
And one ear,
Romeo and Juliet,
Pret sandwiches,
Sunday Telegraph,
Gated for torn jeans with no knickers,
RSPB,
Horse and Hound,
Young Farmers Christmas collection,
Gated for mobile phone bill
Half the size of Daddy Bear's
Annual bonus,
Astroturf,
SocNets,
Alcopops for breakfast
And
Pink Teddy Bear with attitude.

It was an entirely conventional
Western upbringing.

So it was something
Of a shock
For the wrinklies
In her life
To learn that,
At the age of fourteen,
Kristianne Wych
Had decided to become
A Christian witch.

She left her
Right-on evanjelly church,
Where she was regarded as
Promising conversion material,
Saying that she liked Jesus,
But disliked church
Because it was sucky
And predictable
And boring
And had creepy priests.

And church caused problems
Like torture
And the Crusades
And the Inquisition
And slavery
And the suppression of boobs on bishops
And obsessions
With gay books
Like the Bible.

And church was full of
Silly, competitive,
Fighty boyzstuff
To do with violent beliefs
And dodgy salvation fantasies.

But she liked Jesus,
She said,
Because Jesus
Was a halfway decent
Magician
Who could
Heal serious stuff,
And conjure thousands
Of packed lunches
Out of thin air
On trips to the mountains,
And could shut up
The wind and the waves
Like a good teacher,
And could raise lazy fatties
From the dead,
And go completely sulky
When questioned
By religious prats
And give the temple capitalists
A good whipping.

Plus an additional recommendation
Was that Jesus had
A gurl-friendly
Pastoral policy
And got his rocks off
With Mary Maggadolly.

So Kristianne Wych
Became a Christian witch;
Not a bad,
Black,
Pervy, negative witch
Like those Slytherin sluts;
A good,
Positive,
Spunky,
Fit, white witch
Like Hermione Grainger
And Ginny Weasley.

Christian Wicca,
She reckoned,
Was more use to Jesus
Than dead boring
Church stuffy stuff,
And in Wicca
There's more opportunity
For gurl power to do good.
And Wicca
Is better for the planet
Than church
And Jesus spent a lot of time
Outdoors
Doing shaman-type things.

And with Wicca
She could get outdoors too,
Out into the fresh air
Under the clouds
Away from the bibles
And cobwebs
And prayer books
And dusty antique superstitions,
And feel her bare feet
On the wet grass,
And spend time
Beside streams
In the hills,
And listen to the rustle
Of lonely woods,
And pay attention
To the milky moon
And make friends
With the stars
And talk to the rabbits
And nature spirits
And listen to the earth
Breathing green.

And she could get to do
Real Harry Potter trix
On the astral plane,
And help people properly
While they were asleep,
And get better and better
At meditation
And invocation
And affirmation
Which was really powerful stuff,
And teach boys
To love properly,
And get hot
And tantric
And juicy
And melty
With Matty Smith,
Which was what Matty Smith
Needed most
But didn't know it yet.

And that is how
Kristianne Wych,
The Christian witch,
Got into
Christian Wicca.


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Top end spirituality

People interested in top end intuitive spirituality of an aesthetic kind have often been drawn to the exploratory and equivocal signifiers of poets like Rumi (1207-1273) and Rilke (1875-1926).

It is encouraging to note, therefore, that a paperback edition of Don Paterson's 2005 translation of Rilke's 55 sonnets to Orpheus has recently been published. (Sonnets to Orpheus by Don Paterson; Faber and Faber; ISBN 0571222692; £8.99 from Amazon).

Originally written rapidly in a few days and published in 1923, Rilke described his Orpheus sonnets as "perhaps the most mysterious - in the way they arrived and entrusted themselves to me - the most enigmatic dictation I have ever received. The whole first part was taken down in a single breathless act of obedience, between the 2nd and 5th of February 1922, without one word being in doubt or having to be changed."

Writing in The New Statesman (London, UK), Don Paterson explains the difficulty he encountered with his new translation of Rilke: "Translating a complex, visionary poem leaves you with two choices. Either you translate something you don't understand in German into something you understand even less in English, or you make a single reading of it, knowing that this denies many others. In translating Rilke's Sonnets, I took the latter course, which is to say I made a travesty of sorts - as any single interpretation must be. The one thing a poet must avoid, however, is pretending that both the meaning and the music of the original poem can be carried into the new language. Because a poem works on the heretical principle that sound and sense are the same thing, a poem is locked for ever in its original form. The poem's effect, which is all there is of it, can no more be 'translated' than can a piece of music. Yet we are compelled to seek some new incarnation for foreign poems in our own language."

Don Paterson's 2005 translation has been widely applauded. Writing in The Guardian newspaper (London, UK), Mark Doty says: "Paterson gives the sonnets, perhaps for the first time in English, a true sense of an inhabited skin, a pulsing body responding to the life of the senses." And Doty quotes a 1920 letter of Rilke where the poet observes: "Ultimately there is only one poet, that infinite one who makes himself felt, here and there through the ages, in a mind that can surrender to him."

Other useful reviews of Paterson's Orpheus in the British press can be found here, and here.


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