The PURE TRUTH Restored
Vol. 2, No. 9
"Science
Fact... The Radiant Face of Moses"
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too often, modern know-it-not scientific types will declare
certain scriptural facts to be myth, fancies or fallacies,
especially those that seem incredible and "far-fetched," or
not indicating what we today call common "reality."
Sometimes a fact or possibility based
on the best available evidence will surface that throws out
all the speculation about the supposed fictional aspects of
scripture, revealing it is often actually modern
"scientific" beliefs contrary to scripture that are, in
fact, fictitious, wrong or misleading.
Glowing
Faces
One such feature linking the oldest
with the interim and even the latest scriptures -- all
describing a similar circumstance and condition in nearly
identical terms -- is the accounts of faces and bodies that
shine or glow with radiant light.
This is, of course, utter nonsense to
most of those who have never seen or experienced such a
thing, who believe they accept and admit only what is
supported by hard and plentiful evidence.
However, many things are denounced, by
so-called "mainstream" science, as hoaxes or delusions,
simply because they are rarely or never seen in our
time.
At the same time, many commonplace
things, such as memory, pain, consciousness, sleep and
dreams are not easily explained in traditional terms, yet
they are accepted because they are too commonplace to be
denied (to paraphrase orthopedic surgeon and pioneering
researcher of bioelectromagnetism and regeneration, Robert
O. Becker, from his seminal book The Body Electric,
1985, p. 265).
In the Exodus account of Moses' and the
Yasraelites' departure from Egypt, we read what at first
appears to be an "impossible" circumstance. We read
that:
"29.
When Moses came down from Mount
Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands,
he was not aware that his face was
radiant because he had spoken with
Yahveh.
"30. When Aaron and
all the Yasraelites saw Moses, his face was
radiant, and they were afraid to come near
him. 31. But
Moses called to them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the
community came back to him, and he spoke to
them.
"32. Afterward all
the Yasraelites came near him, and he gave them all the
commands Yahveh had given him on Mount Sinai.
33. When Moses finished
speaking to them, he put a veil over his
face.
"34. But whenever he
entered Yahveh's presence to speak with Him, he removed
the veil until he came out. And when he came out
and told the Yasraelites what he had been commanded,
35. they saw that
his face was radiant.
Then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he
went in to speak with Yahveh" (Exodus
34:29-35).
New
and Old Testament Corroboration
This account was referenced
uncritically by the Apostle Paul, in his second letter to
the Corinthian congregants, in which he reveals that this
radiance gradually faded, as a reflection of Creator
Yahveh's glory:
"13.
We are not like Moses, who put a
veil over his face to keep the Yasraelites from staring
at it while the radiance was
fading away.... 17.
Now Yahveh
is the Spirit, and where the
Spirit of the Sovereign is, there is freedom.
18. And we, who with
unveiled faces all reflect Yahveh's glory, are being
transformed into His likeness with ever-increasing glory,
which comes from Yahveh, who
is the Spirit" (II
Corinthians 3:13, 17-18).
The prophet Daniel, in a dream-vision,
saw what Paul was describing in a limited fashion, fully and
openly, as related in his written account of this
experience:
"9. As I looked,
thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took
His seat. His clothing was as white as snow; the
hair of His head was white like wool. His throne
was flaming with fire
[lightning?],
and its wheels were all ablaze.
"10.
A river of fire was flowing,
coming out from before Him. Thousands upon
thousands attended Him; ten thousand times ten thousand
[100 million]
stood before Him. The
court was seated, and the books were opened"
(Daniel 7:9-10).
In a much later vision account, much
like Daniel's, the disciple/Apostle Yahvhanan ("John")
described a very similar scene:
"2. At once I was in
the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven
with someone sitting on it. 3.
And the One who sat there had
the appearance of jasper and carnelian. A rainbow,
resembling an emerald, encircled the
throne....
"5. From the throne
came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of
thunder. Before the throne, seven lamps were
blazing. These are the seven Spirits of Yahveh.
6. Also,
before the throne was a sea of glass, clear as
crystal" (Revelation 4:2-3, 5-6).
Following this, in the fifth chapter of
Revelation and elsewhere, are similar accounts of scrolls or
books being opened (cf. Revelation
5:1-5, 20:11-15).
The same volcanic river is also
described as a lake of fire near the throne of judgment,
described in Revelation
20:10, 14-15, and before that in Daniel
7:11, and also in Revelation
19:20, and again in Revelation
21:8.
Remarkable
Similarities
We read an interesting allusion to the
Ancient of Days seated upon the throne, and to the Savior,
who is also called "the Lamb" by the Apostle/prophet
Yahvhanan, that is interesting in light of the revelation
concerning radiated light:
"22. I did not see a
temple in the city, because Sovereign Yahveh of hosts and
the Lamb are its temple. 23.
The city does not need the sun
or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of
Yahveh gives it light, and
the Lamb is its lamp.
24. The nations will
walk in its light.... 25.
On no day will its gates ever be
shut, for there will be no night there"
(Revelation 21:22-25).
This directly relates back to the
first description of the Lamb, found in this same prophetic
book, in which we learn:
"12.
I turned to see the voice that
was speaking to me. And when I turned, I saw seven
golden lampstands, 13.
and among the lampstands was
someone 'like a Son of Man,' dressed in a robe reaching
down to His feet and with a golden sash around His
chest.
"14. His hair and
head were white like wool, as white as snow, and
His eyes were like blazing
fire. 15.
His feet were like bronze
glowing in a furnace, and His
voice was like the sound of rushing waters.
16.
...His face was
like the sun shining in its
brilliance" (Revelation
1:12-16).
And the similarities between this
remarkable account and another, earlier, vision described by
the prophet Daniel -- over six centuries previously -- are
striking. There, in the scriptural book recounting
Daniel's amazing experience, we read:
"4.
On the twenty-fourth day of the
first new-cycle
["month"], as
I was standing on the bank of the great river, the
Tigris, 5. I looked
up, and there before me was a man dressed in linen, with
a belt of the finest gold around His waist.
"6. His body was like
chrysolite, His face like
lightning, His eyes like
flaming torches, His arms and legs
like the gleam of burnished
bronze, and His voice like the sound of a
multitude" (Daniel 10:4-6).
A
Frighteningly Identical Experience
In an even earlier, or possibly even
contemporary, account the prophet Yazkiel ("Ezekiel")
described, using very similar language and terminology, a
nearly identical encounter with the very same being, as
follows:
"4.
I looked, and I saw a windstorm
coming out of the north -- an immense cloud with flashing
lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The
center of the fire looked like glowing metal,
5. and in the fire
was what looked like four living creatures....
"7. Their legs were
straight, their feet were like those of a calf and
gleamed like burnished bronze.... 13.
The appearance of the living
creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches.
Fire moved back and forth among the creatures, it
was bright and lightning flashed out of it.
14. The creatures
sped back and forth like flashes of
lightning.
"15. As I looked at
the living creatures, I saw a wheel
[circular object, UFO]
on the ground beside each
creature with its four faces [aspects,
sides].
16. This was the
appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled
like chrysolite, and all four looked
alike....
"22. Spread out above
the heads of the living creatures was what looked like an
expanse, sparkling like ice, and awesome....
24. When the
creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings, like
the roar of rushing waters, like the voice of the
Almighty, like the tumult of an army. When they
stood still they lowered their wings.
"25. Then there came
a voice from above the expanse over their heads as they
stood with lowered wings. 26.
Above the expanse over their
heads was what looked like a throne of sapphire, and high
above on the throne was a figure like that of a
man.
"27. I saw that from
what appeared to be His waist up He looked like glowing
metal, as if full of fire, and brilliant light surrounded
Him. 28. Like
the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day,
so was the radiance around Him.
"29. This was the
appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahveh.
When I saw it, I fell face down, and I heard the voice of
someone speaking..." (Ezekiel 1:4-5, 7, 13-16,
24-28).
Falling face down, often in a dead
faint, in the face of such an apparently awesome and
frightening sight, was not an uncommon response by these
prophets:
"While He was speaking to me, I was in
[fell into] a
deep sleep, with my face to the ground
[fainted]. Then
He touched me and raised me to my feet"
(Daniel 8:18).
"7.
I, Daniel, was the only one who
saw the vision; the men with me did not see it, but such
terror overwhelmed them that they fled and hid
themselves. 8.
So I was left alone, gazing at
this great vision; I had no strength left, my face turned
deathly pale and I was helpless. 9.
Then I heard Him speaking, and
as I listened to Him, I fell into a deep sleep, my face
to the ground [he
fainted].
"10. A hand touched
me and set me trembling on my hands and knees.
11. ...I stood up
trembling" (Daniel 10:7-10, 11).
"15. While he was
saying this to me I bowed with my face toward the ground
and was speechless. 16.
Then the one who looked like a
man touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and began to
speak. I said to the one standing before me, 'I am
overcome with anguish because of the vision, my
Sovereign, and I am helpless.
"17. 'How can I, your
servant, talk with you, my Sovereign? My strength
is gone and I can hardly breathe.'
"18. Again the one
who looked like a man touched me and gave me strength.
19. 'Do not be
afraid, oh man highly esteemed,' He said. 'Peace!
Be strong now, be strong.'
"When He
spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, 'Speak, my
Sovereign, since you have given me strength'"
(Daniel 10:15-19).
Likewise:
"When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as though
dead [collapsed in a dead
faint]. Then He
placed His right hand on me and said: 'Do not be
afraid...'" (Revelation 1:17).
Science
Fallacy or Fact?
What is the likelihood of a human
being's skin shining or glowing with radiance from within?
Is there any sound scientific basis for this, that
explains how such a thing can exist, and has actually
happened historically?
Yes, believe it or not, there is a
very sound reason and explanation for this remarkable
property and occurrence, even if the exact mechanism or
means by which it can exist is at present unknown to us.
Perhaps without realizing it, since he
tends to believe in the mistaken dogma of evolution
concerning the alleged origin of life on earth, as most
scientists do these days, author and researcher Robert O.
Becker, in his investigations into electromagnetism and the
foundation of life, as set forth in his astounding and
thought-provoking book, The Body Electric,
observed:
"We found no evidence that
the Kirlian image was related to the living state.
Nor did we find that it could serve as a 'screen' on
which might be reflected some invisible field or aura,
another possibility that had been suggested.
"This is
not to say that the aura occasionally perceived by some
people around other organisms is imaginary. Things
that appear so often in folklore often turn out to have a
basis in fact. However, the body's magnetic field
is far too weak to account for it. Our biofields,
even if they were many times stronger, couldn't possibly
emit light, but an appropriately sensitive magnetic
detector in the brain, if it had nerve connections to the
visual cortex, might 'see' the magnetic field, in a
manner of speaking. In a similar way astronauts in
space 'see' Cerenkov radiation -- flashes of light that
have been traced to the passage of high-energy cosmic
rays through the retina.
"On the
other hand, the aura could literally be a form of light,
perhaps at frequencies invisible to all but a few of us.
The discovery of light-emitting diodes is still
fairly recent [circa
1985]. As you will
recall, we found that bone happens to have such
properties. The point of that experiment was its
evidence that bone contains semiconduction PN junction
diodes. There may well be other diodes in living
things. The relationship between the
nerve endings and the skin is an interesting one in this
context. The skin-nerve interface
-- the closest normal equivalent to the neuroepidermal
junction that triggers regeneration
[the regrowth of entire limbs in some species,
and even of severed fingertips in very young
children] -- may well be a
diode. If so, the proper level of
current could cause emission of light from the
skin" (Becker and Selden,
The Body Electric, pp. 267-68; emphasis
added).
In fact, there is also some anecdotal
evidence of this hidden reality in the otherwise mysterious
and, thankfully, fairly rare occurrence known as human self-
or auto-combustion, in which a lethal, but curiously not
intense, fire erupts from within the hapless victims of this
malady -- due to an unknown cause -- that forces their body
to erupt into flames and almost instantly be consumed and
incinerated by an inner fire unlike any other known to
modern science.
Eyewitnesses have actually seen this
happen, such as the young 19-year-old woman, who
self-incinerated on a dance floor of a London discotheque on
an October evening in the late 1950s, whose dance partner --
his hands bandaged from attempted to beat out the flames
that engulfed her -- later testified at the inquest:
"'I saw no one smoking on the dance floor. There
were no candles on the tables, and I did not see her
dress catch fire from anything. I know it sounds
incredible, but it appeared to me that the flames burst
outward, as if they originated within her body.'
Other witnesses agreed with him, and the mystified
coroner's verdict was eventually 'death by misadventure,
caused by a fire of unknown origin.'"
"Electrical engineers have pointed out that no known form
of electrostatic discharge could possibly have such an
effect. The fate of the old woman in her cottage,
and that of the truck driver, are also in flat
contradiction of natural law; both bodies were utterly
consumed by fire, yet their inflammable
[or flammable]
surroundings were completely undamaged by the flames that
engulfed them" (Strange Stories, Amazing
Facts, Reader's Digest Association, 1976, 1977, pp.
387-88, 389).
Spontaneous combustion, as it is
commonly called, can even be tame enough to only cause smoke
to erupt from skin pores, as witnessed by one married
couple, the male of which twice came perilously close to
combusting (as reported by the couple themselves, on a
televised program investigating such strange phenomenon a
few years back).
When you realize that all the cells of
our bodies store oxygen, and that hydrogen, like oxygen --
both of which are derived from common water and the
atmosphere around us -- is also a basic building block of
life (just as our bodies are composed of better than
three-fourths water), and that hydrogen occurs naturally in
all organic compounds, it is little wonder that hardly any
remains are found of most victims of S.C., since both oxygen
and hydrogen in their gaseous form can be highly combustible
(and when combined, create a massive explosion the result of
which creates water, which is made of two parts hydrogen and
one part oxygen).
Considering Becker's discoveries
relating to the neural and cellular bioelectrical,
biomagnetic and nuclear nature of microwave impulses that
make thoughts, feelings and conscious life as we know it
possible -- not to mention static electrical discharges --
perhaps the real wonder is that there aren't many more
incidents of spontaneous combustion than there are.
Losing
the War for Verity
Harold Saxton Burr, a member of the faculty
of the Yale University School of Medicine for forty-three years,
teaching anatomy and neuro-anatomy, stated, based on the results of
experiments conducted by himself and other contemporary medical
researchers:
"[I]t
soon became clear that every living system possesses an electrical
field of great complexity.... The electrical phenomena
associated with the field must be considered to be a primary attribute
of Nature, a cause of the arrangement of all the component parts in
Nature, not only living but also non-living systems. In other
words...the Field is basic with the necessary power and directional
properties to determine the processes inherent in the growth and
development of any living system.
"The field is primary and from it stem all the myriads of consequences which are to be seen in Nature....
"Energy...is a
basic requirement, indifferent to the direction in which it flows.
It is important, therefore, to realize that in the development
of growth and development of the organism there are forces in addition
to the undirected properties of chemical changes, factors which give
direction to the flow of energy.
"It cannot be
denied that morphogenesis is directed. This is true of the whole
organism and also of its constituent parts. Moreover, the very
direction of development implies a necessary relationship between the
units of which the system is composed, a relationship which imparts to
the organism that quality which makes the whole greater than the sum of
its parts." (Blueprint for Immortality: The Electric Patterns of Life, 1972, pp. 43-44, 58; emphasis added).
Science as a whole, on the other hand, has stumbled
badly and cannot seem to arise from its ignorant,
self-imposed evolutionary deceit and conceit to see a world,
and a solar system, and the entire universe and even all of
creation -- things unseen as well as seen -- are in
perpetual motion, motivated by an unseen force of
electrifying potential, much greater than anything we could
possibly imagine.
Pockmarked surfaces of the moon,
Venus, and even comets and asteroids, evidence an electrical
arcing of vast, extra-planetary scope, and our sun -- in
fact, every star that exists in the heavens -- consists not
of burning gasses somehow able to combust in the total vacuum
of space (real science fiction), but of massive electrical
storms billions of times more powerful than the force of
gravity, fed from a hidden but pervasive source of power
exterior to those globes of near-endless radiant energy.
There is an originator of all these
things, an "electrified" being who exists in an entirely
different, unseen yet very real, plane of existence -- in the
realm we call "spirit" -- of an alternate universe that is, in
fact, the enduring foundation or matrix upon which all
physical matter is built and owes its continued existence
from one moment to the next.
Without this endless source of energy,
constantly in motion, always intelligently creating, sustaining and
maintaining what we call physical matter, and life itself,
through the steadfast laws that govern even chemical reactions
(among other laws that regulate standards for moral conduct,
for instance), nothing we know would or could exist.
Most scientists have utterly failed to
recognize the evidence before their faces, because they have
been too preoccupied with matters of far more mundane, and
of far less important, transitory "significance" (in their
own limited view), attempting to snag credit for
"discoveries" that, more often than not, are mere flawed
imaginations devoid of any provable truth.
The
Shocking Truth About Scientific Research
Some scientists are not above robbing
the pioneers of previously unknown principles, techniques or
concepts, and taking the credit for these while trashing the
reputations of the actual original discoverers.
As Robert Becker noted, based on his
own experiences, referring to "science as a whole," he said:
"It's a ponderous
beast, making enormous changes
in the way we live but agonizingly slow to change its own
habits and viewpoints when they become outmoded"
(The Body Electric, Postscript: "Political Science,"
p. 330; emphasis added).
As he went on to wryly observe:
"Many a genius has been destroyed
by people of lesser talent defending the status quo."
And admitting: "...that
scientists as a group are at least as subject to human
failings as people in other walks of life,"
Becker and co-author Gary Selden sagely remarked:
"It has been like this throughout
the history of science. Many, perhaps even most, of
its practitioners have been greedy, power-hungry,
prestige-seeking, dogmatic, pompous asses, not above
political chicanery and outright lying, cheating and
stealing" (ibid., p. 331).
After citing several abundant and
notable historical examples of this, Becker quotes the then
chairman of psychiatry at the University of Kansas, about
the failure of educational organizations too closely tied to
the government, and now too controlled by grant and
endowment apron strings to be trusted as independent voices
of reason or insight:
"Donald Goodwin . . . has even put it in the form of a
law of exasperation: 'If it's trivial, you can probably
study it. If it's important, you probably
can't'" (ibid., p. 333).
Then, noting the warlike battle for
dominance of ideas, in which mediocrity, charlatanism, and
outright fraud have often seemed to win decisive battles in
this "enlightened" age, Becker adds:
"Sometime during or after the battle, it generally
becomes obvious that the iconoclast was right. The
counterattack then shifts toward historical revision.
Establishment members publish papers claiming the
new ideas for themselves and omitting all references to
the true originator. The heretic's name is
remembered only in connection with a condescending
catchphrase, while his or her own research programs, if
any remain, are defunded and the staff dispersed.
The facts of the case eventually emerge, but only at
immense toll on the innovator's time and
energy.
"To those
who haven't tried to run a lab, these may seem like harsh
words, unbelievable, even paranoid. Nevertheless,
these tactics are commonplace, and I've had personal
experience with each and every one of them"
(ibid., pp. 334-35).
Likewise, this author has also had
personal experience with the selfsame carnal activities in
the "marketplace" of religious ideas, understanding and
revelations.
I had some of these (after I
approached the perpetrator and offered to share the results
of my research, and at that time a decade of teaching the
discovery, solely by myself) -- which were revealed through
direct inspiration and diligent research efforts at great
cost and expense -- appropriated without attribution, and my
name vilified and my reputation trashed, at the same time my
conclusions were presented as their own "discovery," and the
credit given to others.
(The time was the late '80s, the
thief's name was W.F. Dankenbring, and the subject was the
proper identification of Manasseh -- the "great nation" --
with Great Britain, and of Ephraim -- "the company," or
uniting, "of nations," or states -- with the
United States; and its spawn, the United Nations -- which I
have taught since the late '70s, without contradiction or
any scriptural "proofs" to the contrary, from other
religious researchers, evangelists, pastors or ministers
I've shared my research with over the years.)
After giving many of his own
considerable personal examples and experiences, some of
which are humorous and entertaining, in his often creative
attempts to work around the obstacles thrown in his path by
his own opponents, Becker concluded:
"I've taken the trouble to recount my experience in
detail for two reasons. Obviously, I want to tell
people about it because it makes me furious. More
important, I want the general public to know that science
isn't run the way they read about it in the newspapers
and magazines [or hear about it on the
broadcast media, or see in the
movies]. I want lay
people to understand that they cannot automatically
accept scientists' pronouncements at face value, for too
often they're self-serving and misleading. I want
our citizens, nonscientists as well as investigators, to
work to change the way research is administered.
The way it's currently funded and evaluated,
we're learning more and more about less and
less, and science is becoming our enemy instead of our
friend" (ibid., p. 347; emphasis
and parenthetical comment added).
When you get right down to it, in
fact, we are all becoming our own worst enemies, for this is
also how government institutions, religions and centers of
learning in every field are becoming, or have already
become; corrupted by these same forces of mediocrity, error
and misconstrued, misattributed and often entirely mistaken
"knowledge."
A
Stranger World Than We Presently Know
There are, in fact, stranger things in
our world that are dreamt of in the paradigm of modern
scientific philosophy, to paraphrase Shakespeare (who very
well may not have been the author of the works attributed to
his name).
Reality, to us primitives, often seems
miraculous, and we are often prone to worshipping the
terrestrial dominant forces that wield some of the hidden
laws of creation -- often concealed by those who wish to
gain and maintain dominance over the gullible masses -- that
to the uninitiated appear impossible, but for alleged
superhuman powers, intellect or supposed wisdom.
On the other hand, the world as a
whole tends to turn its back on the all-encompassing reality
of creation as evidence of an all-knowing, forever-living,
intelligent originator, author and sustainer of all that
exists, in heaven (the furthest, vast reaches of "outer"
space) as well as upon the earth.
Once we awake to the true nature of
this reality, the fact that a person's face really can shine
with radiant light becomes much less mystical, and far more
understandable.
Understanding, however -- if it isn't
combined with respectful reverence for the Creative Being
behind all of creation -- can cause us to discount the
miraculous, truly awesome, incredibly amazing, even
stupefying, stunning and astounding source of all power,
energy, and even life.
It is never wise to think more highly
of ourselves than we ought, or to believe we are the epitome
of all knowledge, understanding, wisdom or sagacity,
discerning and gifted, but without acknowledging the Supreme
originator and author of all true insight, understanding and
prudent but uncommon sense.
What might seem like science fiction
today will one day be commonly accepted as known fact, while
the many myths of modern science will crumble, disintegrate
and, finally, be forgotten entirely, in the face of a more
perfect understanding of such things as presently seem
mythological to most modern skeptics and cynics.
In that new, better and perfect world
that is coming -- unlike and superior to every fictional
utopia to date, dreamed up by secular scientists -- the fact
that some beings (and even rare humans) can and do radiate
and glow with a light of internal, as well as external,
origin will no longer seem so far-fetched, fanciful,
delusional or illusory.
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