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What Else Did Jesus Teach? ~ Lent Meditation 4 for 2026


Is it Possible for Energetic Entity Spirits to Affect Humanity Today?

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12

This post comes from October 7, 2025

Look at what happened in 325 CE when the Council of Nicaea took place, soon after the war between the Roman Empire against the Persian Empire, waged by Roman Emperor Julian. He wanted to revert to paganism yet needed to solidify the people. The Council of Laodicea declared Christian beliefs in the Creed, with only 30 like-minded bishops from six of the Latin-speaking regions of the Western world. There were 1,800 bishops at that time.

Who decided not to include the once Sacred Scriptures found at Nag Hammadi, Egypt from the scriptures that would become our current bible?

Most of the exclusion came at the hands of certain bishops, popes, anti-popes, and the Roman Emperors Julian and Jovian in the fourth century CE as the Christian religion was in the throes of becoming, or remaining, the official religion of the not so holy Roman Empire.

It is said that, before a pivotal battle, Emperor Constantine saw a cross in the sky and took it to mean if he converted to Christianity, he would win the battle. So, he did. (Such a wonderful reason for turning to the peaceful teachings of Christ). In 324 CE, he named the Christian religion, which had up until then, to one degree or another, been a reason for persecution by the government, to be the official religion of Rome. His successor, Julian, didn’t feel the same way. He wanted to return to the old order of pagan gods and Christian persecution.

At the Council of Laodicea, Julian and the bishops who were invited decided that, among other things, any stories of women being of prominence in the religion would be squashed, as would stories of fallen angels taking on human qualities and walking the earth. Other things discarded were the stories of the multiple “gods” who ruled the earth in early times, or their several re-incarnations. Most of what was found in The Nag Hammadi Scriptures and some of what was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls was left out.

What was going on in the Christian religion at that time?

Let’s see, there was Pope Liberius who was exiled by the emperor who then installed Felix II in 355 CE. Felix II was one of the anti-popes. The Council of Laodicea was held in 363 CE and 364 CE to establish what stories would be told in the Christian religion. The emperor Julian died in 363 CE. Then the leadership of the Roman Empire suffered some very quick successions, and between 363 CE and 366 CE there were four different Roman emperors, some ruling simultaneously.

When Felix II died in 366 CE, the Christian people elected Ursinus to be pope. At the time, however, the people’s choice also had to be run by the emperor for his ratification, and Damasus, who also wanted to be pope, and who had supported the high-born followers of Felix II the anti-pope, hired a bunch of thugs to massacre the followers of Ursinus.

Ursinus was exiled and Damasus became pope. Strangely, Ursinus (the people’s choice) was called the anti-pope. Damasus, (obviously the emperor’s choice,) was now the pope. He decided to solidify the findings of the Council of Laodicea that had been held during the Papacy of Felix II the anti-pope while Liberius (the real pope) was in exile. Those findings decided which books would be entered as the official bible of the Christian religion. Human error became the “word of God.”

Suffice it to say that at that time the scriptures were massaged to closely mirror the patriarchal society of Rome keeping in line with the inequality of gender judgments of the Christian, orthodox, and political religions.

It was the Catholic bishops attending the Council of Laodicea who unified theology, agreeing to ban the writings of the words of Jesus held within the bosom of books termed Apocryphal today. I would like to point out that it is no accident that politics and religion combined in that effort to spread the Roman Empire all over the world.

Have you ever noticed the Roman Catholic Church in just about every city in the world?

Jesus AND science follow the Eternal Universal Law of Nature within the accepted Laws of Thermodynamics, which I repeat here for emphasis since most religions trip on this part. Most religions teach that God always was, always will be, and always remains the same.

Religion’s understanding can only hold true IF religion’s comprehension allows for the fact that Eternal Universal Life Force Energy experiences and learns in and through you and me in the vast experiment of the Creation within eternity, thereby becoming part and parcel with all of it, animate and seemingly inanimate. This changes with each lived experience.

If religion’s “God” already knew the experience of Love and Wisdom, along with the effects of lack of Love and Wisdom within all the angels, fallen angels, humanity, and every other creation of which we are barely cognizant, there would be no reason for this ghastly experiment of life.

The reason we are here is not merely for some cosmic game of win or lose. It’s as if we need to be shaken by our shoulders, metaphysically speaking, to shake off the cobwebs of indoctrination of the eons of time, to finally understand that the Light that animates your life and my life, is Eternal Universal Life Force Energy experiencing Itself. This knowledge matters. If we do not come to grips with this reality now, we commit ourselves to other lifetimes until we do. Re-member, infinity is infinite. Yes, I spelled remember as re-member.

Why?

To re-member is to re-connect us to the bigger whole of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy.

The problems that have tripped up societies in history throughout the world when politics and religion are combined, are the same problems occurring globally today. It would be wise to pay attention, so we do not invite cataclysms into our lives and the planet, as if we did not know any better.

Turning a blind eye to Truth because of underlying religious and political undertones masking and giving permission to violent behaviors as justification for religious beliefs, wreak havoc on a civil society seeking the betterment of humanity, on one hand, while simultaneously causing the chaos they blame on others, on the other hand. Here is another example of doublethink of George Orwell’s 1984, holding two opposite ideas in your mind and believing both.

We see this playing out on the world’s stage today. We are smarter than this, but only if we allow ourselves to see what the problem is, not play the blame game with payback ramifications. It is time to mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually mature into the Life of the Eternal Universal Life Force Spirit/Soul Energy which we truly are.

IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM can be found at: https://LindaHourihan.com.

Why Love For Most of Humanity is Growing Cold


“Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold …” New International Version, shared online at Bible Hub.

What does “the love of many will grow cold” mean?

Definition and Key Scripture

“Matthew 24:12 states, “Because of the multiplication of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.” This phrase appears in the midst of Jesus’ prophetic teaching about the last days and the challenges His followers would face. It points to a decline in genuine love-both love for God and love for others-that will characterize the spiritual climate of a world increasingly filled with sin and rebellion against God.

Context of Matthew 24

“In Matthew 24 (often referred to as the Olivet Discourse), Jesus addresses His disciples’ questions concerning the destruction of the Temple, the signs of His coming, and the end of the age. Within this discourse, He warns about false messiahs (Matthew 24:4-5), wars and rumors of wars (24:6-7), famines and earthquakes (24:7), persecution of believers (24:9), and increased lawlessness (24:12). These signs are interwoven, culminating in a call to endurance and vigilance.

“By specifying that “the love of most will grow cold,” Jesus underscores that amidst rampant sin and deception, many people’s devotion and compassion-once fervent-will wane. This represents not merely external hostility but an internal decline in commitment to God’s ways.”

Before you can ridicule, ignore, or hate God, first comes the cooling of the heart, the ignoring of the ordinary care of human beings, and the plight of humanity disadvantaged by the heartless lack of concern of others.

Notice the “they’ll die anyway” banters of the greedy ignorant among us. They tell on themselves in their egotistical race to the supposed top of the pigpen trough of endless desire of your personal power, fame (your reputation), and fortune (the keys to your cash). No matter how much you hand over to them, it will never be enough.

Once you dismiss the Source of your Spirit/Soul’s power and hand it over to the bottomless pit of greedy hands, minds, and voices, you begin to lose your Spirit and Soul, which is your sense of the Gift of your Life. You lose your identity as the Child of God that you are, which they deny both that you are, and that to which you are entitled.

They do not seek to follow God. They seek to make a big show of saying they follow God. But you can tell them by their fruits.

After “God,” (also known as the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy of the Spirit/Soul within every human being), is dismissed as a trivial thing among greedy and arrogant humanity, it is an easier leap to their next dysfunctional step of taking from you to give to themselves, all with twisted and perverted justifications, of course.

The cure for wickedness is practicing virtue, as explained in TRANSITIONING INTO THE AGE OF AQUARIUS, subtitled, AN ENLIGHTENING JOURNEY. I am a finalist for the 2025 International Impact AUTHOR OF THE YEAR writing competition.

I first began teaching how the practice of virtues can save humanity at a time such as this back in 1999 when I published the 7-lesson book, The Virtue of Virtues.

https://www.iuniverse.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/809142-the-virtue-of-virtues

What originally began as a 7-week lesson for 6th grade religious education students, turned into a 7-lesson plan for parents to teach their children in the privacy and comfort of their homes.

Parents asked me to write this book since they also realized that there was more for their 6th grade children to learn than how to put their condoms on and what gels to use. Morality appeared to be missing, in their and my opinion.

As a former newspaper reporter for 20 years, in each chapter, I used the 6 reporter questions that make a good story: what, why, how, when, who, where. Each of the 7 lessons includes these sections: What? is a present time story. Why? ask students 3 questions. How? asks students to explain what was read in this lesson. When? is an Old Testament story. Who? draws in students to be included. Where? gives students the opportunity to give examples of where these virtues could be applied in their everyday life. Each lesson concludes with 6 additional optional activities.

For us adults, the signs of the times today call for the natural remedy of teaching and practicing the lost art of Virtues: faith, hope, love, prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.

Once the virtues are practiced, the fruits of turning the tide from wickedness to virtue will bless all societies in the world with charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, endurance, mildness, faith, modesty, restraint, and chastity. This is what will heal the world.

Virtues are a morality solution to an immoral world which only seeks self-glorification, greedy gain at all costs (as if that is a good thing), and egotistical self-service.

Whatever you focus on grows.

What are you focusing on?

God Bless Everyone Everywhere