Matthew 13: 45-46

45 As well, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant who sought fine pearls. 

46 Who, when he found one pearl of great price, went off to dispose of whatsoever he possessed so to redeem it. 

REDEEM: Of  many definitions and connotations, these are most relevant here: 

gain or regain possession of (something) in exchange for payment; to exchange one thing for another

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Kyrie shares a recent vision featuring the pearl as a symbol of the Word and Logos, that which Jesus brought us and how what she calls the "effluvium" —personal and of  the world—has almost completely buried that Pearl.

There are many thorn bushes trying to choke out the Light, and the most effective are churches. Like the priests of the Temple in Jerusalem, church leaders insist only they can interpret Scripture. They insist on things Jesus never said and justify sins Jesus commanded us not to commit.  They make laws and rules that become the focus of those seeking the Lord, and instead the people hear only music, see only books and believe things made up by men that Jesus did not say or address or that He contradicted.

Denominations exist to support their own existence. We are all responsible for our own salvation, for knowing Him and what He said, for seeking Him in prayer and loving Him in acts of compassion and charity. 

Only we can choose to break free of the threats of a hell that never existed over sins He never cared about. Only we can let go of things material and choose Jesus Christ, so that we may become true followers of the Way of the Lord.

Go to a church for fellowship and bake sales. Go to Him for Truth and the path to the Presence of God.   

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A personal message from your host.

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"Some spiritual fathers are likely to be a hindrance and harm rather than a help to these souls that journey on this road. Such directors have neither understanding nor experience of these ways. ... Hence, it is arduous and difficult for a soul in these periods of the spiritual life when it cannot understand itself or find anyone else who understands it. It will happen to individuals that while they are being conducted by God along a sublime path of dark contemplation and aridity, in which they feel lost and filled with darknesses, trials, conflicts, and temptations, they will meet someone who, in the style of Job's comforters [Jb. 4:8-11], will proclaim that all of this is due to melancholia, depression, or temperament, or to some hidden wickedness, and that as a result God has forsaken them. Therefore the usual verdict is that these individuals must have lived an evil life since such trials afflict them." --St. John of the Cross

John doesn't pull any punches. He was born in 1542, but I've read more posts on Reddit that express this very belief in sad souls about themselves, than there were contemplatives that John directed.
We need him.

I'm Kyrie Dicentis and I teach contemplative prayer, also called the Prayer of Faith or the prayer of quiet. I fairly good at teaching it, but once a person starts down that path, once hey have had their first experience of the Divine, their life changes forever.

Their interior life. Exterior life, or as we say online IRL, doesn't. At least not right away. Contemplation is the trailhead and the path up the Light is long and arduous. But what can we do? Once you have known God, and that experiencing has revealed that you are really clueless about what God is, all you want is to be with Him. That's when we need spiritual direction.

KYRIE DICENTIS IS NOT NOW, NOR WILL EVER BE, A SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR.

But St. John of the Cross was a master and still is because he guides us even now. In this Episode, you will meet him.  He'll tell us how we wander off the Way. And in the next St. John episode, how to get back in the path. This I know:

God will never leave you and you are not evil or unforgiveable. You are His beautiful and beloved child.
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The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross  Includes The Ascent of Mount Carmel, The Dark Night, and more.  

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"Paul told us:  "charge them before God to stop disputing about words. This serves no useful purpose since it harms those who listen." 2 Timothy 2:14  

Note this post from the Christian Universalism forum on Reddit:

I'm confused because this word can mean both age and eternity...

~~RESPONSE:

"No, it can't mean both. Aion is the noun, it is used when you mean "an age" as in a period of time or, more commonly, a person's specific age or time of life. It can also mean "world."

"But "aionios is an adjective, that can mean without beginning, without end, or everlasting. 

~~LET'S TAKE PAUL SERIOUSLY:

Note that the arguments about the meaning of a word diverted the poster from Christ? For this reason,  IMO, delivering well-researched, prayerful New Testament discernment is possible and desirable, under controlled circumstances. One way to bring this back to Jesus:

"We need to stop focusing on the adjective Jesus used because it doesn't matter. Jesus never said the word "hell." He never said anyone would be endlessly tormented or even temporarily tormented.

"He explained in various ways the relationship between existence incarnate and existence in the Kingdom and how those are related, and said this is the way it has always been and always will be. 

ADDITIONALLY:

There are dens of antiChrist vipers out there who make derailing God's Truth their lifework.  MAKE NO MISTAKE, THIS IS A WAR AGAINST CHIRST AND THE LOGOS, hence the name of the series.

If we don't "contend" how do we fight? I once read a stat that said for every poster there are 8 lurkers. We can answer the poster, but know our responses in faith are for the lurkers.

COMING UP IN EPISODE ONE:

~~Paul did not say ALL the writings of the modern (or any) Canon of Scripture were "God breathed." Kyrie tells us what he actually said and why it's illogical and dangerous to believe the claim. 

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Paul did not say ALL SCRIPTURE is "God Breathed." In this episode Kyrie reveals what the verse does say and how the antiChrists are using it to destroy the Gospel and relegate Jesus to "Just another guy in the Bible."

If the claims are based on John's Gospel, saying that "everything was made through Him" and so Jesus, as Second Person of the Trinity,  wrote all the books of the Bible, then He also wrote all the books banned from the Bible. He wrote the Egyptian Book of the Dead. He wrote the I Ching. 

If anything said by anyone in the collection of scrolls the Hebrews s considered relevant to their religion and culture are equally true as anything Jesus says in Scripture, why did the Protestants ignore Jesus writings and toss out 8 books and several additional writings from what the call the "Bible?" 

HERE ISTHE CLASSIC KJV TRANSNLATION OF 2 Tim 3:16

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.

HERE IS WHAT THE LETTER ACTUALLY SAID:

Paul is giving Timothy instructions for taking over Paul's ministry and place as an Apostle, he has been referring to his own writings all through the letter, as here:

2:1-2

3:14-16 ; 4:1-2

Part of Paul's writings were not inspired as he said, himself. Of those that were, not all were suitable for general audience preaching, as we understand from "inspired by God and also..."

Kyrie explains what makes this so dangerous.

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For from the greatness and the beauty of created things, their Original Author, by analogy, is seen. Wisdom 13:5

BUBBLES.  I have a post for the episode image here.

The simple topic is our connectedness to God. The subtext is Universalism - all shall be reconciled to Him. Let's listen to Saint Isaac:   

"This is the mystery: that all creation by means of One, has been brought near to God in a mystery; then it is transmitted to all; thus all is united to Him...This action was performed for all of creation; there will, indeed, be a time when no part will fall short of the whole." Saint Isaac the Syrian, 7th century.

So much of what we are given in our moments of connection is lost when we try to express the inexpressible in language. Much is also lost when we translate from one language to another. But this last thought was repeated by Julian centuries later.

From Saint Isaac we learn the simplicity of Our Lord's most profound teachings, that works in any language:

"As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God; as a fountain that flows abundantly is not dammed by a handful of earth, so the compassion of the Creator is not overcome by the wickedness of the creatures... "

How arrogant do we have to be to believe we can alter God? That we can make Divine Love, not loving? Our real problem is, we can say we believe but mostly we don't believe God is in us. And that we are as much God as the Incarnate Jesus if we follow Him.

Here's a link to a You Tube video about how bubbles hang together and just how thin but strong that barrier is.

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NOTE: 2:45 I DID "WORK WITHOUT A SCRIPT" and so need to deconfuse the cabin story. I was 7 years old. There was no artificial light outside the cabin. I sat next to a closed window in the kitchen at night - not "in the dark" - under the bright bulb. I'lll probably re-record that part. Sorry for the confusion.

Jesus came to tell us the Way Things Work. But some things He chose not to say, then. Now, having preached the Gospel to the whole world, all can be said.

Thomas Aquinas, born 1225-27, was a theologian and “Doctor of the Catholic Church.” Aquinas wrote:

Nothing should be denied the blessed that belongs to the perfection of their beatitude…Wherefore in order that the happiness of the saints may be more delightful to them and that they may render more copious thanks to God for it, they are allowed to see perfectly the sufferings of the damned.

Hard to imagine anything more antiChrist than this declaration.  Yet, whose writings have formed the basis of all Western Christian Church dogma. Thomism, not Christ.

Aquinas had a Divine experience - a vision. He said to his secretary "Everything I have written is as straw." He repudiated all  8 million-plus  words he'd written on all things Christian. He never wrote another word as long as he lived. 

Yet, those 8 million were embraced by the Roman Church and Aquinas was exalted as Doctor of the Church and Julian of Norwich was sealed into a cell. Visionaries have been repressed, accused, attacked and executed.

Kyrie believes that last is unlikely to happen to her. Though she did say,

"Pray for us, I'm working without a script!  This information is couched in symbols as we have no capacity to fully apprehend it. But in three visions I was shown The Way Things Work.  (Things being the Universe of Time and Eternity.) 

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Kyrie freaked herself out... and is tired of talking about herself in 3rd person....

I had two crises that overlapped: I really have not shared my visions much before, then I did just throw them out there for anyone to hear. AND, I found out—even though I have done essentially zero promotion—people are actually downloading and listening to these.

It felt a lot safer when I thought no one would until I found a way to do a bit of promotion. Not a lot, because I think the audience of the Elect is pretty small, but it would be sort of official in my mind. A Launch as it were. But then Buzzsprout sent me an email with the number of downloads in the subject line.

Uh-oh.

To be sure in podcast terms the numbers are small but still... so I did a mini-retreat and finally took my hands off the damned controls and let Him take care of it. (Like I said, a hard lesson for me to learn.)

Episode 0 here is about that a bit, but more about the process I/we visionaries experience. It's about not believing just because someone (me/they) says something, and giving you a way to validate things you have heard or read that fit for you.

Next: The Universe as Bubbles and being stuck on God. 

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DISCLAIMER: This conversation was generated by uploading three chapters of a book I wrote about twenty years ago to Google's test program NotebookLM. I edited the result and posted it because, well, mostly because of medical issues with my speaking ability I'm not going into, but I also thought it did a good job of presenting the material. Yes, I used AI. I think that makes me a double heretic now.  On with the intro...
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What's beyond Universalism? A conversation about what it means beyond that there is no such thing as the hell we've been taught about. What more does that mean?

This conversation covers 3 chapters from The Elephant Chronicles—a book too scholarly for bookstores and too vernacular for journals—that were gathered and posted as a PDF. 
 
This is way better than listening to me. 

Kyrie

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▶ In June (today is June 29th, 2025) I finished rebranding this podcast to reflect the mission I am engaged in, in service to the Lord. I know, sounds really serious and formal and preachy. I'm using the same image on these episodes because I think it reflects my true personality. 

THE HERETIC CHRISTIAN SERIES will be Christian Op Ed, the editorial opinions of your host. And I'm going to get in everybody's face, pretty much. Below the line is the original description of this episode. I didn't change it.

⏩ But this part is the description of the upcoming series by the same name. I'm actually thinking of calling it: The Heretic Christian—Whip of Cords. 

I'll have to find a picture.

I am an ordained minister, tho' I will always be RCC, whether they like it or not, and Galilean's Gospel Podcast is my personal ministry, the internet is my service territory. That's a personal thing for me, but I thought I would mention it once. It doesn't make me anything, but I am more educated in these topics than the random person on the street. 

These episodes are about  the things I believe lead people away from the Lord. 

I shall endeavor to not yell into the microphone. 

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"...measure these experiences according to the worship they accrue to God and the profit to your fellow Christians..." Julian of Norwich


This podcast calls to anyone who longs to know and be oned with the  unfathomable Love and Light that we call God.

When books and church and rote prayers are just not enough, when you long for Him, to be with Him, or if you've had an extraordinary experience and have found no one else to accept understand, possibly including we, ourselves, the Elect need to find and support each other.

INSIDE:

• What exactly was and is, now, "heresy?"
• Why Jesus was and is still, the major heretic of all time.
•  Who am I to talk about this, anyway?

Taking the last first: I am Kyrie Dicentis, contemplative, visionary, mystic prophet, professional writer, newbie podcaster, Elect, universalist, with backgrounds in science, law, and miracles. 

If Espousing notions contrary to dogma is heresy, then I am a heretic. If relating what has been given to me by God is gnosis, then I am a gnostic.

But if I am embracing the Word and following the commands of Jesus Christ, then I am simply His follower, a Christian. What I know is:

~We have God in us, as we are in God.
~All will be saved and oned with God.
~Jesus is with us all to the end -- to Parousia.

TEXT Kyrie here.

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