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“The Deep, Hidden Power of Amen”
Amen is one of the most well-known mantras in the world.
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It is used not only by the world’s 2 billion Christians – both Catholic and Protestant – , it is also widely heard in popular culture (“Amen to that”, “Can I get an Amen?”, “Amen, Brother”, etc…)
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But, what does Amen mean?
Why do we use it at all?
And… where did it come from?
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In the Christian Faith, Amen is used in prayers, meditations and rituals. Normally, at the end of a spiritual practice. For example, at the end of a prayer.
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In Islam, Amen or Amin is also used – at the beginning of one of its prayers.
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The reason we find Amen in Christianity is because it is known that Jesus Christ repeated it so often during his teachings.
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In The Gospels, many witnesses testify to how they heard him use it often and piously. It would spontaneously cross his lips.
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But, We can see his abundant use of it ourselves… as we find it throughout his teachings.
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Because of his profusive use of this mantra, our churches adopted it into their own practices and rituals.
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But, what is the deep, hidden power of Amen?
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When we search for its meaning, our priests, bishops and pastors tend to give us a variety of simple answers: “It means So be it”… “What it means is Verily”… “Truly”… “God”… “The Holy Spirit”… even “Jesus Christ”.
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But, what did Jesus Christ himself define this mantra to mean? What did it signify to him?
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What did he think it meant when he repeated it so lovingly?
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To Christians, it is a word coming from “The Son of God”, a spiritual Master. So, one thing we can assume is that… to him… Amen had to have had encapsulated a meaning that was Universal, Divine, Dynamic – as well as Eternal, Abundant, Joyous and Transcendent.
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None of today’s common definitions for it, like “Verily” or “So be it”, incorporate these cosmic elements.
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When we analyze “The Lord’s Prayer”, for example, we see that he did not use Amen to mean God nor did it mean his own name.
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When he was referring to God, he used “Father”, “Thy”, “Thine, “Thou” or even “King of Kings”. When he referred to himself, he said so with “Me” or “I”.
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Some people interpret Amen to mean “The Holy Spirit”. “Holy Spirit” as a definition of this mantra comes closest.
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However, if you think of the Holy spirit as something akin to a dead relative watching you or following you around from within the afterworld… that that too is neither a Universal nor Divine definition of Amen.
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When we examine all of his prayers and how he taught us to compose our own, “Amen” always has a unique definition of its own. It seems to have had its own significant purpose. Its own dynamic role to play.
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As Christians, how can we analyze everything else about his life, his blessings, his prayers and his miracles… without studying the deeper meanings and effects of this mantra?
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Amen encapsulated a transcendent, Divine and Universal thought into one word. It awakened a cosmic idea that amplified a teaching or prayer that The Master Christ had given to his disciples and to The World.
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However, more than 2000 years after his Life, when most of the today’s 2 billion Christians say Amen in their prayers and rituals, it is not with the dynamic idea that The Master Christ embodied. Often, it is not even with the thought of “So Be It” or “Verily” in their thinking.
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Sadly, the most common thought we have as we say “Amen” is… “The End”.
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We end our prayers with Amen and we think “The End” as we say it.
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In church, we read a passage in the Bible and end it with “Amen” and most of us think “The End…next”.
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And then, outside of our churches and basiliques, We ignorantly joke with it… defile it… and even employ it when we need confirmation.
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Sadly… We often forget that this is an empowered mantra that we are using.
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It can even be argued that the power of Amen is the source of Christianity… our worship with it is why it has spread to the more than 40,000 various denominations and churches worldwide.
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Should we question its power, we would only need to look at the life of The Master Christ himself to examine how he used it so profusely in his prayers, healings, rituals and blessings.
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Again, as Christians… How can we believe that he is The Son of God and then examine everything else about him… except for this word?
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What did it mean? What did it symbolize? What did it awaken?
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In The Bible, When we read John 1:1, it says “God became The Word… and then The Word became The Universe”.
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It does not say “God became The Universe”. It mentions a clear and defined middle step between Divine Consciousness and physical matter.
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Some will argue that “The Word” written in this passage means The Bible…. But, it probably does not.
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It does not say “God became the WordS”…. It says “God became The Word”.
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A word carries thought, intelligence, energy and information.
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When God became The Word, it had to have carried these characteristics as well.
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The Holy Bible is a collection of divinely inspired stories, lessons and parables. The oldest Bible is 1700 years old. There are many different words within each one.
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However, The Word between Divine Consciousness and physical matter… The word that created this entire Universe… is altogether different.
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John 1:1 describes an event that occurred 14 Billion years ago.
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It gets us to think about the first sound to emerge from The Field of Pure Potentiality. The first creation of God that went on to form everything we see and know here in our Universe.
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“Om” and “AUM” are also two well-know world mantras.
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What Amen symbolizes is different than what both Om and AUM symbolize. There is a subtle difference between all three.
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Amen reminds us of the first sound to emerge from the field of pure potentiality.
Om symbolizes the one universal vibration resonating in every atom within and around us.
And AUM takes our thoughts into three levels of being. The consciousness – the subconscious and the superconscious.
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In my books, you will learn how you can use all three as one in your meditations, prayers and affirmations.
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For a moment, think of yourself as an ancient mystic.
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Someone who is contemplating the world around us, our universe and how Life might have all began.
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As you do this, I am going to ask you two questions….
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To start… Ask yourself…. “What was the first thing God created?”.
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What did you say?…
The Sun?
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The Earth?
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The Stars?
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None of these answers could be the first divine creation. They don’t go deep enough because they are all made from material. Although beautiful, unique and divine, The Earth, Sun and Stars are all way down the line in the manifestation chain.
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But, deeper than all of them or anything else in our Universe, there are subtler realms that created The Earth, The Sun and The Stars — Namely, Light and Sound.
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Light generates energy and Sound generates vibration.
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They are the building blocks to everything we are and experience with the five senses.
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Light and Sound combine to create an atom’s vitality, warm, magnetism and electricity.
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So, when we ask ourselves what was the first thing to emerge from the field of unlimited, divinely intelligent, abundant pure consciousness… That first creation had to be either Light or Sound.
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But, one of them had to come first.
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The second question is…. “So, what was it? Was it Light or Sound that cam first?”
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By closing our eyes, we can easily block out Light.
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However, Sound is arguably impossible to block out. At any time, we can close our eyes and identify at least three different sounds.
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At the very least, we can hear our own breathing and heart beat.
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Here on Earth, Sound travels through air…
But, Even out in the vacuum of Space, Astronauts and space ships have recorded sounds on The Moon, Jupiter and Saturn.
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Mystics might have asked themselves these same two questions – “What was the first thing God created?… and Was it Light or Sound?”.
John 1:1 is a mystical passage.
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The same passage could have been found in Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam or Taoism.
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Mystics often use a simple word to provoke divine thought.
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One example my books discuss is the word “Mother” in Taoism. There are many divine meanings we can attach to this one word.
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As for John 1:1 where it says “God became The Word and The Word became The Universe”. “The Word” can be taken to represent not only a spoken word, but also sound, thought, knowledge, abundance, intelligence, faith, Divinity and Universal power.
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Sound is deeper than Light.
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Sound can produce Light. But Light can not produce Sound. (Sonoluminescence).
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Today’s Scientists have done several experiments with sound showing that it can levitate objects, boil water and heal diseases.
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Even the well-known biblical passage in Genesis says “And God said ‘Let there be Light’” implies that there was a word before the existence of Light.
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We don’t know exactly what “Amen” meant to The Master Christ when he used it so often in his teachings – Nor do we know what he was thinking when he said it. Unlike in Islam, Taoism, Judaism, Buddhism or Hinduism, we have no direct definition of this mantra.
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We only know that it gives us immense Joy when WE say it.
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However… What we can assume about this mantra from how the Master Christ used it is that, to him, it surely symbolized Dynamic Power.
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It held Light, Knowledge, Universal Consciousness and a tremendous amount of healing effects.
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When we use it in our prayers with these definitions in our thoughts, this one word becomes Eternal and Divinely Cosmic. We add a, creative force into our meditations and affirmations.
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Through this mantra, we recognize an active, present and inexhaustible force we see being revealed when we see a flower blossom…
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The Earth revolving……..… And The Seasons change.
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We see Amen is within and around us.
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We see its abundance in our dinner plate, as we pray with gratitude before we eat.
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And we begin to understand why the atmosphere instantly changes when we sing it.
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And then… when we think of Amen as meaning “The Holy Spirit”, it is because we know that that spirit is holy for it was the first creation in this Universe we live in.
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Like a stem cell or “The Big Bang”…. Everything else was born from it.
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Recognizing it as the first creation to emerge from the Universal Mind, makes our body resonate at a higher vibration.
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When we see Amen as the oldest, first and most subtle tool of The Universe, we ourselves become more able to manifest abundance in our lives.
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It becomes a tool to heighten our own vibration and resonate deeper with our Truest and most loving Self.
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There is no written record that 2000 years ago The Master Christ thought that Amen represented the first sound. Nor that Amen is the bridge between Universal Consciousness and physical matter. Between Universal Consciousness and Life.
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But, What we do know and can testify to is how our lives transform when WE think of it in this universal way.
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There is much more to Amen than “So be it” or even its definition as the primordial sound.
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It is a mantra that helps magnify the solar aspects of who we are.
It opens a pathway for a symbolic connection with Divine Consciousness and Self-Realization.
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My books discuss all five world mantras – Tao, Allah, Amen, Om and AUM. Amen is unique, in that it is the one that unites our lunar, feminine aspects with our solar, masculine attributes.
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In other words, Amen is the mantra that unites the lunar mantras Tao and Allah with The Solar Mantras Om and AUM.
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These five mantras can combine to create “The Phoenix Sequence”.
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In my books, you will also discover “The Clock of The Twelve Paired Mantras”.
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It is a method of how we can examine 12 ways to awaken our Transcendent, Lunar attributes with our Divine, Solar Aspects to create an Inner Eclipse.
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Every Paired Mantra is dynamic and can lead our thoughts to unlimited transcendence within.
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Paired Mantras help bring Light into ourselves… into our communities… and into our World.
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Check out some of these books: “The Two Paths to God” is available online and in bookstores. It explores how each of us can use mantras to unite our lunar side and solar side into one path.
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My audio book presents the Phoenix Sequence and how it can help expand our thoughts and how to use meditation to travel to new depths of our own inner consciousness. There are mantra and meditation exercises contained inside… even some we can do with water and trees.
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“Awaken Your Inner Phoenix” is also available in print on Amazon – both in English and French.
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And lastly, “The Phoenix Within” is an expanded edition of “Awaken your Inner Phoenix”, but has a chapter dedicated to the African American Community. It theorizes how Lunar and Solar Light might have been brought to America 400 years ago and how they are genetically expressing themselves today… But, more importantly, how we can all tap into this unlimited source now.
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