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The Lord of the Rings and Golden Fleece Project!

By Dr Joshua David Stone

In the story of Jason and the Argonauts Jason had to go on a journey to find the Golden Fleece. He had to fight many battles much like Hercules did in the story of the 12 Labors of Hercules! The Golden Fleece is a lamb skin made of gold. Whoever owned the Golden Fleece brought peace and prosperity to the land they lived in. The lamb of course is a symbol of the Christ. I am not using the term Christ here in a Christian sense, but rather in an omniversal sense. The color gold is the color of the Christ. So the combination of the lamb and the gold is the highest expression of the Realized Christ. To find and realize the Golden Fleece is to realize one’s 22 levels of initiation and light body, and become a fully realized integrated Ascended Master and hence become a living Christ / Buddha / Krishna / Mohammed / Moses and God. To find one’s Golden Fleece one must first follow the Golden Path. One must transform one’s inner child into the Golden Child. One hence must learn to see with Golden Eyes. One must think only Golden Thoughts and create only Golden Emotions. One must transform their seven chakras into Seven Golden Coins and Seven Golden Candlesticks. One must transform their physical body into a Golden Body that has the hue of Golden Blood. One must follow a teaching like the I AM University that offers the highest level Spiritual/psychological and physical/earthly gold as its golden curriculum. Last but not least as my good friend Sai Baba likes to say with a little addition from my humble self, everyone must find and realize the "Golden Arrow of the Christ." For as Sai Baba said, "AUM is the arrow and Brahma (God) is the target." We only realize God if we are able to find and shoot our "Golden Arrow" into the center of Brahma (God)!

It is not enough just to become a lamb or sheep, one must become a Golden Lamb of God! The purpose of this project is to encourage you to go on the journey that Jason and the Argonauts went on, or that Hercules or Thesis in the Illiad and the Odyssey went on. Each labor or battle you face is a Spiritual test given to you by your Mighty I AM Presence and Superconscious Mind to test your Spiritual growth, and to see if you are truly ready to take another initiation and another expansion in your Spiritual leadership and Global Service Work. So do not run away from or be in fear of the Spiritual battles you must face, but rather welcome them and embrace them. Everyone on Earth must follow this Golden Path and face their dragons and Spiritual tests. In the Star Wars Trilogy Luke Skywalker had to face Darth Vader! In the Dune science fiction novel the protagonist had to drink the Water of Life to become the Quitzar Haderack. This was the term given to the most Spiritually realized being on the planet, which is another symbol for becoming a Planetary Christ and Mighty I AM Presence at the 22nd level of initiation. In the story of Gulliver’s Travels the protagonist had to go on this journey and face the little people (both symbolically and literally), and then face the giant people. He had to face the yahoos, who were the beings who were run by the lower self. Then he had to deal with the people floating off the world who were over identified with heavenly energies. Sound familiar? Then finally he met the horse beings who were the most Spiritually evolved race which finally led him back to the completion of his journey.

Carl Jung spoke of this in his writings about the importance of taking and understanding one’s journey. For it is this golden journey that leads you to the Golden Christ.

Peter Pan took the same journey to discover again his inner child and happy thought. We all must find our happy thought. There is only one thought that can bring you the Blue Bird of True Happiness and that is the Thought of God. All thoughts must stem from this thought and if this is not the case it will lead only to suffering and false gods / idol worship and alternative lovers which means you are putting creation before the Creator! It is okay to enjoy creation, however, you must put the Creator first, for the Blue Bird of Happiness cannot be found any other place.

Once we find our Happy Thought, then we can find our happy thoughts which is embodied in the Spiritual / Christ / Buddha / Krishna / Mohammed / Moses / God Consciousness. So like Peter Pan go on this Golden Journey and find your Happy Thought and Thoughts! It is only then that true integration can take place for as the Universal Mind said through Edgar Cayce, “It is the mind that leads to the Christ!”

In the modern story of Earth Sea we each must find the threefold Spear of the Christ. The original spear of Christ was broken into three parts. These three parts are the Spiritual, consciousness and psychological, and physical/earthly. To become a realized Golden Christ these three parts must be united and integrated. We all must go on the Golden Journey to achieve this.

There are hundreds of modern day inspiring books, stories and movies that depict this Golden Journey that every soul must embrace. Through taking this journey Luke Skywalker became a Jedi Knight which is the symbol for becoming an Ascended Master. Darth Vader was transformed from the serpent path and dark side of the Force into the Light. One only becomes a 22nd degree initiate and master when they integrate the master Yoda who was in the Star Wars Trilogy the premier Jedi Knight. Master Yoda so eloquently taught the nature of the Force when he said, “Give up your anger and fear and do not be seduced by the dark side of the Force!” This is most excellent advice to all souls on the Spiritual path, for only when negative ego duality is transcended can the Force or God be realized.

In the story of the Lord of the Rings Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins had to go through their journey to be allowed at the end of the Trilogy to go to White Shores, which is the home of the Great White Brotherhood and Sisterhood and as such of course is a symbol for Heaven and the home of the Ascended Masters and Celestial Hosts. Gandalf the Grey became in the Trilogy of the Lord of the Rings, Gandalf the White. We all are going on a journey with the Ring of Darkness which we must all destroy in the Fires of Mordor. Just as the Star Wars Trilogy is a modern day myth showing the story of the journey of becoming a Jedi Knight and Ascended Master and dedicating one’s life to Planetary World Service, the Lord of the Rings is a similar modern day myth. Bilbo Baggins had to fight the dragon in the Hobbit, just as each of us must battle the “Dweller on the Threshold” and our own personal demons, or orcs or goblins.

In the Lord of the Rings Aragon had to go through his journey to become the next “King of the Race of Men!” The term king here is a symbol of the Christ. We must all become the King and Queen of men and women by becoming a fully realized Planetary Christ and Integrated Ascended Master. When I use the term King or Queen I am using it in the sense of how my good friend Lord Maitreya uses it when he says, “A true leader serves. A true servant leads!” This was seen in the last book or film when Aragorn was crowned King and he and the entire audience in attendance bowed before the four small hobbits in humbleness and humility!

We each must transcend our Gollum nature which is a symbol of the lower self. In the second book or film The Two Towers at the end of the story when the Great Battle was going on Gandalf and the Riders of Rohan appeared in the East as Gandalf had prophesized. As they began to charge down the mountain to save the day from the attacking orcs, the captain of the Riders of Rohan exhorted his troops and said, “To the King” as they charge down the mountain. This is what we must all say as we charge down the mountain to do Spiritual battle with our orc nature, for by saying “To the King” we are really saying, “To the Christ” for we all must win our own personal battle of Armageddon to become a Planetary Christ!

We all must embrace our elf nature which is likened to the angelic line of evolution. We all must embrace our dwarf nature which is aligned with our Elohim nature. We all must be aligned with the Race of Men which is the human line of evolution which is moving towards becoming Integrated Ascended Masters.

We each must embrace our Sam Gamgee nature which is symbolic of loyalty and devotion to God, the Spiritual path, and our friends. We each must wield the Sword of Aragorn which is much like the Sword of Lord Michael which means we must own our personal power, self mastery, self discipline, and be a Spiritual warrior in life! Women on the Spiritual path like Erowyn must become “Shield Maidens of Rohan!” We each like the elves in The Two Towers must honor old alliances and give up our lives to save and serve the Earth and the people and sentient beings of the Earth. We must honor and sanctify the Earth Mother, Lady Gaia, and all she represents or nature will turn on those who do not as was seen when the tree ents attacked the evil sorcerer Sauron. In the third book and film Frodo and Pippin destroy the Ring of Power in the Fires of Mordor and save the world, which shows that even the littlest can save the world! Let that be a lesson to us all! We must each charge into life’s battles and welcome adversity as did King Theodin in the “Last Ride of King Theodin” at the end of the book and film The Two Towers. We each must develop the healing powers on all levels of Lord Elrond. We each must become “Riders of Rohan.” The horse is a symbol of freedom. The Riders of Rohan were the horse riders. So they were symbols of the Race of Humans that rode for freedom. We each must strive to become free in an integrated full spectrum prism consciousness sense. By this I mean you must become free Spiritually, free in our consciousness, mentally, emotionally, in terms of addictions and bad habits, free of lower self desire, free of negative ego, free of subconscious mind slavery, free of inner child victimization, free of physical body victimization, free financially, free from physical slavery, free in our relationships and free in relationship to the outer earthly world! It is only then that we can become true “Riders of Rohan!” It is only then that women can become true “Shield Maidens of the Christ,” and become not only Christs, but also Christesses, for it is not enough just to become the Christ, we also must each integrate our Christess nature!