The Imprint of Eternity

By Philip John Keegan

This series of essays aims to clarify and enlighten the position of Jesus as the one unifier of all Spiritual Truth and religious beliefs.

 

Written over a period of some twelve years, The Imprint of Eternity - A Miracle of Grace sets out his clear and simple teachings and seeks to strip away the clouded obscurity so often introduced by man's invented religions. His message is and always was one of purity, calmness, peace and reconciliation, with above all, love for one another without judgement.

 

Inspired by Spiritual disclosures given over several years to an uncomprehending, uncomplicated child mind, shortly after the conclusion of the Second World War, for almost seventy years, the events remained asleep in the author's deep subconscious. Now they are being revealed. This is not an autobiography, but in many ways it is an intensely human tale, and indeed a timely one. 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Philip John Keegan
• Release date: Jul 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9780645199611

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FOREWORD

A series of eclectic essays, devoted to restoring the true meaning, message and purpose of Jesus, comprises the substance of this dissertation. Each composition is a reflection of deep, spiritual disclosures. All were given over several years, to an uncomprehending, uncomplicated child mind, shortly after the conclusion of World War Two. For almost seventy years, the events remained asleep in the deep sub-conscious. Today, into my octogenarian years, the why of these papers has been revealed.

Everything is written according to my understanding and beliefs. No religious foundation has any influence on this work. To my understanding, God is the only possible religion. There are no outrageous claims made here. My beliefs and opinions alone, are given. These form the backdrop to what is presented.

During this unfoldment, it is hoped one shall discover the real Jesus, and what his purpose was. Neither Bible nor church knows this one. However, he is the benchmark for the journey all men must make, if one would ascend from this ‘Adam dream of life’. This Teacher of all ages, first came for the lost sheep of Israel. Once again, through this dissertation, he is come for the lost sheep of the entire world!

Herein, is the story of the Master of all Masters. It is also about you and me. Everything following is of my own inner journey. The theses, are the fulfilment of its beginning and ending, now reconciled as one. Life between them, was merely the dream. Acceptance of the wonderful happenings, combined with an ever persistent ‘inner direction’ to relate those heady days of the 1940’s, has been obeyed. This is not an auto-biography, but in many ways, it is an intensely ‘human’ tale, and indeed a timely one. To fully appreciate this work, every single essay must be seen as an individual message pertinent to the reader only. Each one is dedicated to the one reading it, and should be seen as such.

All Bible references throughout the following text are referenced to the standard King James Version (KJV), also known as the King James Bible (KJB).

PART ONE

ONE

Until one knows the truth about himself, why he is here and what he came to do, his life on so called planet earth is mere existence. It has no more meaning than that of a mouse. One’s only purpose here in the valley of death, is to be freed from the trap of mortal belief. By understanding the life, message and purpose of Jesus, that trap can be sprung!

The sum total of Truth ever given to the world, was taught by this wondrous teacher. He was the sowing, the flowering, the reaping and the garnering of all spiritual knowledge. Indeed, the foundational Principle of Grace and Truth. Knowing what he came to say and why, one is freed from his endless travail through birth and death. Without ambiguity, Jesus revealed mankind as the manifested Spirit of God. And surely His highest Created Life! Regardless of what has been taught by ‘his’ so called church, this was the only message, and the only reason for bringing it. Without knowing this, one’s life here has no relevance.

Truth, as the Master’s life and journey to God, is actually Everyman’s, even unto the final act! All the greatest teachers and prophets throughout the ages, brought this Truth to their day. It was given by Moses as: ‘I AM THAT I AM’: Exodus 3:14: then repeated by Jesus as ‘I Am the way, the truth, and the life’: John 14:6. I, is the only Lord there is.

Spirit is the Truth of mankind, with the appearing form simply the tool. Everything is made quite clear in 1 Corinthians 6:19. Seen again as: ‘For I came down from heaven (Oneness) …’ John 6:38: and, ‘he that hath seen me hath seen the Father.’ John 14:9. Individual being, is That Father in living expression. The truth about Jesus, is the truth about mankind! Man is God’s creation. He is of His substance, made in His Image and for His purpose alone! Genesis 1:27. If one cannot realise Jesus taught this without the slightest ambiguity, then he cannot understand the teachings.

Spiritual man of God’s creating, is God I Am: Holy Spirit-Mind. Mortal mind reversed everything ‘in the beginning’, and became body with mind. This analogy can be understood in Genesis 1 and 2. Its undoing is found herein. Try to understand, this reversal is nowhere more starkly witnessed, than in the Christian church’s regrettable ritual of the Eucharist! God, kneeling to mortal mind, celebrating the death of Truth!

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Without ambiguity, the truth that Creation is pure Spirit was the message of Jesus. This was also my understanding of life, after the mystical incidents. Several times before pubescent dawn, a great privilege was informing several grown-ups they were soul, all using bodies in this life. The appearing form, is simply one’s instrument, merely for experiencing his ‘supposed’ mortal sojourn. What is necessary for the support of this work, is included in anecdotal form from time to time.

Those boyhood occurrences, are claimed as indisputable proof of what they were for, and what is written herein. Every visual experience, left one in no doubt, the correlation and instigator of those happenings was the Spirit of God, the only Christ there is. These are now forging my beginning pathway to Truth, even at this wintertime of life. It truly is as written: ‘I and my Father are one.’ John 10:30. ‘My kingdom is not of this world:’ John 18:36. And doubtless, those teachings are the Law and cornerstone of Spiritual Truth. This is all one needs to know.

For seventy long years, the experiences lay lost and unremembered. In retrospect however, they led my walk up and on through adulthood. Only after reaching the early septuagenarian age did the stirrings of Truth really begin. The message given herein is the message Jesus brought. Immortal life it is called!

Man is Spirit! The Spirit of God is the Mind that was in Jesus. It is also the Mind of all men. Life has no meaning without God. Bereft of Truth, the only meaning of life is death: mortal ego’s one birthright! This world has never been more in need of that message. Mankind is at the nadir of spiritual percipience today, and without the Light of Spirit, shall remain in the darkness into which it has fallen.

Choosing to write this discourse, is without doubt, the most difficult decision of my life. In fact, the courage to write it is not mine! Those sublime events of boyhood, disclosed far more than a puerile, uncertain mind could accept. Thus, with the onset of pubescence, everything was put aside.

For those many long years, I walked the wasteland of mortal mind and its world, until this awakening began. And by Grace, all the pains, slings and arrows of those seventy years taught me what all men must one day know. It can only bring sorrow and death. Psalm 23 reveals this! Be sure this lesson is accepted.

After experiencing those years in the valley of shadows, it is the only sane conclusion one can come to. For in truth, that is its purpose! Believing this wilderness called life is something of itself, has sustenance, substance and safety, is to walk the quicksands of uncertainty and self-deceit. One cannot pin his hopes or future on this world. If he does, he must surely lose everything. That this is patently obvious, is totally overlooked by mortal mind!

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‘My kingdom is not of this world:’ John 18:36, solves life’s conundrum. This is the foundational truth of Jesus, and what he would have us know. It is the answer to guilt, fear and all sickness. It was also the proof in the mystical occurrences. Only the spiritually dead fail to understand the why of this human experience. For mortal man, life is going nowhere. Where can a nobody, dreaming man go? He doesn’t exist. Mortal man has no hope without Spirit as his goal of life. Hence, he will return again, and yet again, and maybe ten thousand times again, to find his Truth!

In this world death happens one way or another. For mortal man, it can be at any moment. Accept this immutable fact. If one doesn’t know Truth, he knows nothing at all. This world has no meaning, except it brings one’s short-term bread supply! However, ‘My kingdom’ is the doorway to eternal Life, and true abundance. Religion’s ideas of ‘My kingdom’, shall only be found in its church.

Allow Jesus to be of the lineage of Abraham, the manifested Spirit of God. It was of the enlightened, sufficient in every way for realising Truth today! One is here to accept his spiritual heritage. Cease forthwith from (being) man: Isaiah 2:22. The Spirit of God, or Christ, as it is known today, expresses as man. One is the Light of his own world. Every discourse reveals this gift of life. It was the Truth given the child, even though waiting seventy years to be realised again. Accept It now. It is your Rock of Salvation. Become again, the manifested presence of God!

Man is conscious energy. He holds every thought and belief necessary for his journey through purgatory. Realising this, is the precursor to Ascension. God within and God without is not a fable! It is the absolute re-reversal of this world’s confused beliefs which govern our lives. The reality of the revelations is not in any wise forgotten. It is the reason for this manuscript, and has become my life’s purpose. Every short discourse tells individual awareness the meaning of the events, and its intended message. May this work be to you, the incredible blessing it surely is to me.

TWO

My boyhood throughout the 1940’s is the substance of this manuscript. To 1952, what was an existence beyond most present-day people’s imagining, forged my beginnings. Life was maligned in every way. Irrespective of that, the home events are included, simply because family life is the prelude to this work. Hence, some background is essential. One needs to understand the spiritual essence of what is presented herein. A very brief cameo must suffice. Although the focus is the truth of Jesus and his mission, certain aspects need some enlargement. There is no attempt at a storyline, the works purpose is restoring man to God. Thus, what is said about Jesus can be accepted with total confidence.

Few happy memories of home life crown my recall. Our shelter was tiny, old and inadequate. It was built mid-eighteenth century, and the smallest in a group of four. Its condition can only be guessed. Malnutrition was our daily bread, and certainly our fare. TB of the ankle bones, with serious infection and the loss of all her teeth, took my lovely sister from me just over a year after the Second World War concluded. At least, sparing her from further suffering. She was nine years old.

Although but two years older, Christine had cared for me to that point. Father went to war, and Mother changed homes. Their story was not a happy one. Amy worked long hours in the factory as part of war service; hence we were alone, cold and hungry most of the time. Throughout those years, we experienced everything children should not. My dear beloved was punished by degenerate sexual abuse from around age five, up to her leaving. It was part of my experience too.

However, with the sanatorium being some eighty miles away, poverty and logistics kept us apart. Violation’s subsequent legacy, ruled her life and behaviour throughout the quarantine years. Because of this, my dear one was committed to the ‘care’ of a home for ‘wayward, therefore guilty’ girls, until sixteen. After release from some three or so years of ‘indoctrination’, my dear sibling was tragically forgotten. Thereafter, to be a prisoner of guilt, fear and shame, until sweet release in the form of cancer at sixty-seven.

Her leaving, heralded the rigorous beginnings of my remaining boyhood. To this day, I have no idea how I survived those ensuing years without her. And we know how long a year is for a child! That traumatic first night, and its following years, set the pattern for my life’s unfolding.

After the ambulance bell had faded, I was alone for the first time. Seven years old, my world was shattered, and that was just the beginning! The post-war years were worse by far! Being left to face the following years with, but most often without the most infamous Amy, was no broad and easy road. Undeniably, it was severe, harrowing and deeply painful. However, divine Grace revealed the grief had purpose.

For some four years during those troubled times, the ad hoc spiritual events blessed my punitive, difficult life. As said, although this essay is not about the mortal experience, it makes known, whatever pain one’s childhood brings to the ‘darker glades’ of this world’s trials, all can be healed!

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However, everything given from those days remained asleep in the past. It was rarely thought about for obvious reasons. But now and again, the wondering as to why life had been so emotionally destructive, and in so many ways came to me. Rejection, loveless poverty, hunger and lack, on through the profane and repugnant were experienced. Those days, the welfare of children was not a consideration. Such agencies were unknown. Internal family and home politics were the business of the protagonists, and nothing to do with outside forces, regardless.

Being poor and in want was common, and never of real concern to anyone. As it should be, all lives were a personal responsibility. Today is no different, despite most think otherwise. The walk through this world is one’s own, and every soul shall most certainly need to experience this doubtless fact! Although no outside support existed then, and dependency was out of the question, nothing can change this. Life can be but lived by the one living it. He chose it, and alone he must reap it. Redemption is not another’s obligation. We need no deliverance. Well spoken words and religious knowledge, are the ‘barren fig tree’ with no fruitage there!

The journey home is one’s own; everything depends on that. One’s burden is his to bear. Carry it with pain or joy, the decision is yours my friends. Jesus knew this, that’s what the crucifixion story is for! And the Nativity! Life here, cannot be real for some! God alone Is. Therein is blessed assurance. How one will rejoice, when he will accept himself as his one source of happiness or sorrow! Each is his own saviour, and nemesis. Nothing can divert the pilgrim from the ‘strait gate and narrow way’. Indeed, the walk, way and gate, are narrow, and few they are that find them. See Matthew 7:14. But all shall find them. If not this time, then next. Again, it is one’s call!

With Christine gone, fearful events began creating incredible distress at night, undermining any feelings of security. Never knowing when they would happen, was an extra burden of anxiety. Being alone and defenceless every night, was agony, but oh my soul, when they began, deep and dreadful fear became a permanent companion. It was a cross of anguish. As with the exalted happenings, they lasted several years, were intermittent, and certainly ad hoc. The feared and terrible ‘blobs of blackness’, forming their awful, amorphous shapes around me, were doubtless reflecting my subjugated, innermost unease.

If ever those days come to mind, the echoes of disquiet are felt, and I wonder how the boy did it. Albeit there was no alternative, he survived the trauma. Oh, could it be said, unscathed. He lived a lifetime of worthlessness, fear and insecurity, all the offspring of his guilt.

What was revealed through the mystical happenings, was far more real than this world. They kept me safe. Through the darkest nights I was borne. Although childhood bequeathed many long years of anguished ‘night’, and of course of my own will, they were survived. Such agony witnessed of Mother, the pain of life for all three of us, and all that beset us, cannot be told. Life at number 47 is another story.

Yet all was a part of the ‘greatest show on earth’, one’s own life. Nevertheless, the ‘Everlasting Arms’, even though unseen, were ever around me, as they are for all. Deuteronomy 33:27. Remember always, no one’s path can be walked by another.

All men must emulate the life of Jesus! One’s burden is his! And in full! It was not for Christine to know this time. But indeed, my dear sibling had been such consolation and sweet contentment through those inchoate years. Our joint experience served its purpose. This indubitably was only to be my saviour and foundation today.

The solace brought to both by our friendship, which I feel even today, is recalled with absolute love and gratitude. Could I but write of our times together. Indeed, the Love of God was our shared happiness. The perfect help-meet and in the fullest sense of that word, especially from the old Hebrew, was revealed as my sister. We were one in every way. And of course it is still so. Love is it.

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Today, as the octogenarian years unfold, the effects of the traumatic home life which dominated my adult walk through life have waned. Total freedom from the emotional enslavement as Amy’s captive son, has been won! Yet, treasure can ever be found in all life’s discords! The jewel of that mortal torment, was the major secular lesson. It has ramifications for the multitude of souls suffering belated childhood distress today.

These expositions can be real pearls of wisdom, pointing to another way. Regardless of my lack in psychological expertise, I know beyond doubt, guilt or unworthiness, with all its countless offshoots, is the ubiquitous emotion of mortality. It is always learned through childhood. Guilt dominates, controlling all emergent feelings, thence setting the pattern of emotional immaturity’s disquiet, eventually controlling one’s adult life. It was enormous throughout my life, and it destroyed Christine’s.

Amy’s disavowal of her children had huge emotional repercussions. Guilt sickens the body. It binds the heart and blinds the eye, causing all suffering. As it ascended in my wounded soul, it awarded me its offspring worthlessness, which of course, is the fear of not being good enough. Most men know this to some degree.

The root cause of all mind disorders, and so-called ‘modern’ emotive plagues, such as Asperger’s Syndrome, ADHD, autism, the bi-polar epidemic with learning difficulties of every kind, can be put on guilt’s doorstep. Though not trained in psychological verse, this is written with total certitude. Above all else, guilt is behind one’s inability to respect and love himself. It is the greatest enemy of self-acceptance. Without love for self, one can never know love for another. Guilt and fear were my bosom companions for more than seventy years.

Nevertheless, fear and guilt can be gifts too! Lose the belief of being the body, lose all guilt. Lose all guilt, lose all fear, and gain immortal life! Then the endless journey is over, and freedom from the dream of death is won. The way to freedom, is written throughout this manual. It is why I call the Bible my Book of Life. Try to realise, everything seen and used here is the gift of Spirit. One then understands everything, from this premise.

Genesis to Revelation, is the journey of one’s life! As is the life of Jesus. He is us and we are he. Oneself is the Truth of life. Accept this. Indeed, it is difficult at first. But with diligence and perseverance, the understanding there is no body to heal, care about, grow old and die will no longer be a theory, but one’s Truth. Outside this world of mayhem, there is only Heaven. Coming ‘down from Heaven’, has but one meaning. Only here, is the Gate of Truth leading to Heaven’s Door opened, to welcome Home God’s returning Son!

Know this, and then shall you understand the majesty of Psalm 118:22-23. This is the antidote to worthlessness. Individual man, is the sole cause and substance of everything in his life. It was the teaching of my childhood, and why all men are equal Sons of God. Realising one cannot be a body of flesh and blood, is the only reason why he cannot be unworthy! Thence, he cannot need absolution from any ‘appointed’ cleric, to absolve his sins! Only a human being cannot be ‘good enough’ or even ever satisfied with himself. And there is no such animal!

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Unworthiness is a crippling burden; incredibly difficult to overcome without Truth. This is how the church’s power was established. Believing reality is this material world, peopled by bodies of the flesh, is the one and only cause of mankind’s misery. Yet, all has to be endured. One alone is his destiny! As it is for all, I know it was my choice. There are no exceptions to Matthew 6:5. Everyone has his reward! Scripture can truly be one’s personal messenger. It is simply from You, to you! Truth, is to know nothing in human life has reality. Rejoice in this. Be exceedingly glad it is so, for Heaven is your destiny! We are Spirit, purity is our expression. Nothing can harm us. We are forever, and now is the moment for one to accept that. Oh then, how he laughs at death: even looks forward to it. And that, is a priceless gift!

THREE

Less than four hundred years after the revelation of Jesus, his sacred Truth was used to forge the false Christian religion and its church. Centuries before the Constantinian charade was established, the Master had declared every man to be the Spirit of God. No man is different to him, except by conscious awareness. He said he did nothing of himself, clearly revealing to his followers it was the Father Spirit within him did the works: ‘If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.’ John 5:30-3. That same Father, was extended to include all men. Those false witnesses most certainly overlooked this.

Forming its new religion, based on the understanding of power and authority being ordained in spiritual law, as in Judaic traditions; government and control were established. This enhanced the emperor’s authority and influence. All was achieved by manipulation of invented historical data, which it made true. Being a Jew and accepted as the messiah, Jesus was ideal, when devising the scheme.

Claiming Paul’s understanding of the Master, the perjurers used it in the Arian consubstantiality debates. They were but a smokescreen! Rome had one agenda then! Paul’s letters had made it possible for the new entity to use the ‘messianic’ teachings, thereby enabling its desire to control and separate. No other reason was behind the conspiracy. Paul had preached Jesus as the messenger and spiritual authority of God, and there was no hint at undermining the Old Testament tradition. Jesus clearly proclaimed Mosaic Law. It is in fact the Way.

During his life, the Master was a fervent teacher of that Law! However, Jesus the servant of man was lost in the forming of the church’s contrived beginnings. Declaring it was initiated during Pauline days in Jerusalem, was a subtle, selfish invention, and a grave offence against Truth. Neither Jesus, Paul, evangelist, disciple, nor teacher, knew anything about a Christian church, or its separation from Mosaic traditions.

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Without doubt, changes to Bible texts were made and so convincingly, religion’s world has accepted them. The work was cleverly done! The Book of Revelation was not untouched. Those unillumined mortal minds, knew nothing about Truth as expounded by Jesus. How could they know anything about him after more than three centuries? Power and control, were the game’s names. Consequently, the Constantinian production curtailed the spiritual authority of Jerusalem. Moving it to Rome undermined the true mission of the Master. Establishing its ideas of a new Jesus, and then forming its most awful empire, Roman Christianity’s church was deviously devised.

Church litany, removes any doubts about the nature of control sought when forming the new regime. Its structure confirms so much! The obvious conspiracy to debilitate the message of love and forgiveness by stealing the mission for mortal glory alone, must be revealed. For too long, this blatant perversion of Heaven’s message, has been issuing from godless edifices raised up as tributes to man, and its own ideas of Truth! Conscious awareness of the Spirit of God, must be accepted as the only possible way to redemption, as in the Mosaic tradition. Without this, nothing can stem the tide of infamy. The message of Life and Truth given by Jesus must be restored. And surely it is so, since he was the Word of God! And please be aware, that Word did not found the first Christian church in Jerusalem, two thousand years ago!

Mosaic Law is really Mysticism. I Am That I Am is Oneness with God. This cannot ever be understood by church doctrine. That religious sect exists apart and for itself, totally believing it is the one true messenger,